Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 31, 2023

Episode Date: August 31, 2023

Hurricane Idalia hits Florida, another health scare for Mitch McConnell, credit delinquencies are up, and where’s the beef? Plus, the Message of the Day, should Trump change media tactics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It's Thursday. Best day of the week, August 31st, 2021, 23. Here's what's happening today in America. Idalia hits Florida.

Mitch McConnell is not well. Credit delinquencies up and where's the beef? It's all coming up. Then Bill will be here with your message of the day. Adalia, 125 mile power wins when it hit landfall. Fastest winds since 1896 to hit that region of Florida. First made landfall yesterday 8 a.m. 8 foot storm surge in some parts.

Tampa Bay had four and a half feet of storm surge. Now the storm's moving into Georgia and the Carolinas. Almost 400,000 customers without power in Florida. The Tampa Bay Airport reopened incoming flights yesterday afternoon. That's impressive. And departing flights opened up this morning. A 100-year-old oak tree in front of the. governor's mansion split in half. Now this surge may have been a bit higher than it normally would have

been if it weren't for the super moon. The moon was 18,000 miles closer than normal, which is 5% closer, which means the pull on the tide was 5% stronger. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, appeared to have another stroke or some sort of episode when talking to reporters. He froze for 30 seconds standing there looking into the distance. This is the second time this has happened in the last month in public in front of cameras. He's 81. It's horrible to watch. Him and Diane Feinstein. Enough already. People who love him need to step in. The number of delinquencies on consumer loans, credit cards, and auto loans have all reached their highest point in 10 years hovering about 4 to 5%. The peak was 2008 at 10%. So we still got a ways to go. But

not a good sign credit card debt topped a trillion dollars for the first time ever and there are 70 million more credit card accounts now than there was in 2019 70 million more by now pay later has increased 40% just the first two months of the year more and more people using that service for things like groceries and the fed says they're probably going to raise rates again this year a new study finds that only 12% of Americans eat half of the nation's beef on any given day. I don't see how that could possibly be true. But the whole point of the study is about how bad meat production is for the planet and therefore how much trouble you, you part of that 12%, how much you're hurting the planet.

They say the beef industry produces 10 times more emissions than chicken and over 50 times more than beans. Is that going to get you to stop? I'm Mike Slater, the great Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold.

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to 998899. Again, that's 866, 326-5576-5576, or text bill to 998899. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On this Thursday, just about eight years ago, Megan Kelly launched a verbal rocket at Donald Trump during the first Republican campaign debate of the 2016 cycle. The subject was Mr. Trump's disparaging comments about selected women. That confrontation changed the dynamic between the media and Donald Trump.

Up until then, the press actively pursued the businessman because he was good for business. But any media honeymoon quickly disappeared. It was inevitable, as the American Press Corps is overwhelmingly liberal in its belief system. It has been that way since the Vietnam War. Donald Trump has never run as a standard conservative, but he was aggressively going after Hillary Clinton. So the press threw in with the Clinton campaign and created Russian collusion. Today, the former president has few media allies, as you know, but it really doesn't matter. His presence is so overwhelming, almost all negative information about him is rejected by his supporters,

even as it is embraced by his detractors. Very few Americans are agnostic on Trump. So we might want to change media tactics a bit. Right now, I don't even know the name of Trump's spokesperson, but the candidate might consider having him or her fight some of his ongoing battles, which can drain any human being. Save the big stuff for the Don. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me.

Bill at Bill o'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town, if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. Henry A. Nert, East Strasbourg, Pennsylvania on the Jersey border. Bill is James Comer, or can he, subpoenaed Joe Biden's bank records. If Hunter was paying Joe half his salary, then the bank records should show that.

It's not going to turn up in Joe Biden's bank records. I believe that it was services provided to him. Bills paid by Hunter and Jim's corporations. Big bills. I could be wrong. This is what I'm hearing, but it's enough evidence out there. Ridge, Round Rock, Texas, Bill, what did Romania get for their payments to Hunter Biden? Recently, a photo of Joe Biden sitting on the beach with a Romanian government official,

never heard any follow-up on this. That's because it didn't happen, Barry. So, on August 13th, Joe Biden was on the beach in Delaware with a man named Mark Gittgenstein, Mark Gittgenstein, American. He was the ambassador. to Romania under President Obama. Now, what they were talking about, I don't know. But let's be accurate in our reputage about President Biden. Nancy Brenfleck, Prescott, Arizona, I do not trust anything about Kamala Harris. I'd really been worried if something happened to Biden that she would be in there as president.

She couldn't be any worse than Biden. and if Biden can't fulfill his first term, Kamala will take over, but she's not going to be able to do anything. House will block anything she tries to do. She writes executive orders who immediately got challenged in the federal courts. So I wouldn't worry about that.

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notorious killer. Here is the story of Jack the Ripper. In Victorian England, London's East End was a busy slum with more than one million residents. Many women worked as prostitutes. On August 31st, 1888, police discovered Nichols remains in a small alley. On September 8th, the killer claimed his second victim, Annie Chapman. And on September 30th, two more women were murdered on the same night. Scott Lignard believed the pattern was the work of one man. His method, the attacker hired prostitutes, lured them onto a secluded street, then slit their throats. As the women bled to death, he disemboweled them with the same

six-inch blade. On November 7th, after a month of silence, the killer took his fifth and last victim, Irish-born Mary Kelly. Of all the corpses, Kelly's was the most mutilated. The Times of London labeled the killings, the autumn of blood. As quickly as the murderers, as the murderers, spree began, the Ripper vanished. In 1892, with no leads and no more homicides, the Ripper's file was formally closed. And here's something else you might not know. Without modern technology like DNA, forensics, or even fingerprints, hundreds of names have been put forward as possible Ripper suspects. The list includes members of the British Royal family. Others believe the murders were the work of a satanic cult. The true identity of Jack

the Ripper will never be known, but his legend lives on. In a 2016 poll from the BBC, Londoners ranked Jack the Ripper as the worst Britain of all time. Back to after this. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors,

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