Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 12, 2024

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Trump named Time’s Person of the Year, FBI Director Cris Wray to step down, drone swarms in New Jersey, and no more food stamps for junk food. Plus, the Message of the Day, On the proposed January 6th pardons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update, sponsored by Tax Network USA. America's number one choice for tax resolution. Please go to TNUSA.com slash bill or call 800-245-6-0-0. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, December 12th, 2024. Here's this happening today in America.

time person of the year. End of an error. Drone swarms and no more stamps for trash. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, Donald Trump is the time person of the year. He was also named time person of the year back in 2016. The headline then was the president of the divided states of America. The last four winners were Joe Biden and Kamala in 2020. 2021, Elon Musk. In 2020, Zelensky. And last year, Taylor Swift. Trump celebrated by ringing the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The FBI director, Chris Ray, said he is stepping down from leading the FBI.

Donald Trump was going to fire him anyway. He already named Cash Patel to be his replacement. But Ray said after weeks of careful thought, I've decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration and then step down. You didn't need to think about it that carefully. You were very much going to be fired. Iowa Republican Senator Truck Grassley said in a letter to Ray that he expressed a vote of no confidence in Ray and his deputy director.

The incoming FBI director Cash Patel has said the FBI has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless dramatic measures are taken. A swarm of drones off the coast of New Jersey was still know where they're from. Congressman Chris Smith has urged federal officials to authorize military actions, calling the drones a very serious threat. More than 50 drones have been spotted. A Coast Guard ship was trailed by between 12 and 30 of them while out at sea. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas sent a letter to Trump

and the heads of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture calling for the end of junk food, being able to participate in food stamps. Snap, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, is a $113 billion federal program. Unfortunately, this nutrition assistance program is undermining the health of millions of Americans on the taxpayers' dime by encouraging families to eat highly processed unhealthy junk food. In fact, soda, unhealthy snacks, candy, and dessert account for nearly 23% of all SNAP purchases. She cited a study by the incoming head of National Institute of Health, Batacharya, who said removing sugary foods and snacks from the SNAP program would prevent obesity in 140,000 children and type 2 diabetes in a quarter of a million adults. I'm Mike Slater for the podcast, Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day.

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Two weeks of anticipation for Christmas is appropriate, I think. these people who start playing jingle bell rock right after Halloween are demented. Now, I'm a big Karen Carpenter fan, but Carrie Underwood also does an outstanding job on the Christmas tunes, Johnny Mathis as well. I know old school, but I'm not feeling the Bad Bunny Yule Tide album, if you know what I mean. There are some rules for the season in my house. classic decorations, handwritten cards, generous charitable giving, tasty snacks, and Christmas Eve Mass. Done with forethought, Christmas time can be magical to use a word made popular by Drew Barrymore. But failure to plan, very risky.

Crowds in traffic overwhelm, gifts get sold out, invited guests misbehave, Think it through. Avoid chaos. Here's my list. Watch a Charlie Brown Christmas. Avoid the dopey song a holly golly Christmas. Order a big ham for dinner, backed up with scallop potatoes and fresh green beans, blueberry pie for dessert.

And one more thing. Give folks some unexpected gifts. An elderly person in your neighborhood? A poor child? someone battling illness. Make a list. Check it twice. That's what Christmas is all about.

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. We got Norman Mangol, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

O'Reilly, when do you think Joe Biden will pardon other family members. Last day in office. Biden took so much heat for Hunter that it's the last day that Jim will get his and maybe others, I don't know, but then it's goodbye, Joe Biden, see you. And that's when the partons usually come down, the last day. So these guys don't have to take a lot of heat. They're gone. Phil Coco, Middle Town, Connecticut. Bill, thanks for answering the question about Mike Pompeo. We saw so much of J.D. Vance before the election, now he's out of sight, what's happening with him. Two things. He's being used to lobby Republican senators to confirm President Trump's

nominees, cabinet nominees. Vance is right in the middle of that. And you're not going to see that because those are mostly private meeting. And he was down looking in North Carolina at the FEMA situation, all that. So what was going to happen with, I think, with J.D. Vance, is that he'll be a troubleshooter. So his boss, Donald Trump, will say, look, J.D., you go here, you see him, come back and report. Think that's what it's going to be. And then there's a very good chance that one vexing problem will be assigned to him, like Kamala. Remember, Kamala was the root causes of the board?

She hated that, by the way. And Vance will get something that he likes. in a moment, something you might not know. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to turn into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home,

New episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 47 years ago today, millions of Americans flock to theaters to see a film described by the New York Times as the most important cultural movie of the decade. The plot featured an Italian-American worker. in a paint store and his rough crew. They lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Saturday Night Fever had arrived. Here is the story. In 1976, New York Magazine published an article called the Tribal Rights of the New Saturday Night. Story claimed to be true, but it was actually

a work of fiction. The rights to the magazine piece, however, were immediately sold to Paramount pictures. On December 12th, 1977, Saturday Night Fever starring 23-year-old John Travolta opened in theaters nationwide. It featured a new musical trend. Disco. Well, the soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever Remains one of the biggest selling albums of all time. The movie with a $3 million budget went on to make $250 million at the box office and ignited dance clubs all across the USA. Disco dominated pop culture for the next six years.

Between 1977 and 83, dance albums generated $10 billion. Nine of the top 10 singles in America were disco songs. Biggest acts in the country, cool in the gang, BG's Donna Summer. So, what killed the biggest dance craze ever? Well, it was AIDS and crack cocaine. Beginning in the late 1980s, drug violence in American cities, fueled by, crack kept a lot of people home on Saturday night and some police departments actually close gay discos to slow the spread of HIV by 1990 the music business

had moved on rap moved in not as good as disco in my opinion but I am old back after this power politics and the people behind the headlines I'm Moran 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, lawmakers, newsmakers and even the president of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode.

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