Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 15, 2023

Episode Date: December 15, 2023

Congress passes the NDAA, Biden staffers call for a ceasefire in Israel, Hamas attacks foiled in Europe, and a fertility clinic nightmare. Plus, Bill’s Message of the Day, Hunter Biden’s defiance of a congressional subpoena. 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 is Friday, December 15th, 2020. Here's this happening today in America, the NDAA. More bridges shut down, terrorist attack thwarted, and DNA test gone wrong. It's all coming up.

Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, Congress passed a $866 billion defense bill. the NDAA National Defense Authorization Act. It includes an extension of Section 702 of the FISA court. So here's the very short of this. The FISA court allows intel agencies to collect data on foreigners overseas. Well, you can't do that against Americans. The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unwarranted searches and seizures.

But this doesn't extend to foreigners. The problem is, in the process of collecting information on foreigners, information is often collected on American citizens as well and there's been many abuses of using that information and there's many Republicans and Democrats who want to reform this and require a warrant to get this information on Americans but no queers for Palestine shut down the Manhattan Bridge on Monday now if you're confused about queers for Palestine

because if someone's LGBTQ in Gaza they'd be killed don't think about it too hard just consider them different fingers on the same fist. Well, these same type of people just shut down the 10 freeway in the middle of Los Angeles as well, police arrested 75 people, but not before thousands of lives were disrupted. Who knows if ambulances needed to get through? But it's not just random people in New York or L.A. dozens of Biden administration staffers went for a vigil in the front of the White House calling for a ceasefire. They wore masks and sunglasses to conceal their identities, White House staffers.

Danish intel agencies say they have exposed Hamas infrastructure in Europe. They say a terrorist attack was foiled. German authorities arrested three members of Hamas in Berlin. They had a weapons cache where arms were kept in a state of readiness against Jewish institutions in Europe. And Danish authorities arrested three suspects as well. No word yet enough there's a link between the two. You got to be careful with these DNA tests. You may not like the results.

A couple sought help from a boss. fertility doctor, 40 years ago. And it turns out he secretly used his own sperm. The doctor was a former Harvard med school professor and the mom was told that the sperm was going to come from a med school student who resembled her husband who you do not know. Turns out it was his. They discovered this one. The daughter, now 40 years old, took a 23 and me DNA test. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith, the Great Pill Riley, with your message 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 that's why i protected my

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On this Friday, so now the House Committee is investigating the Biden family finances have a formalized inquiry secured by a majority vote. That means that failure to cooperate with oversight and judiciary can incur subsistency. criminal penalties, including jail time. Hello, Hunter Biden, who brazenly defied a congressional subpoena on Wednesday. Now, Trump guy, Steve Bannon, did the same thing. The FBI arrested him. The Justice Department prosecuted. Bannon is appealing his four-month prison sentence. Same thing happened to another Trump person, Peter Navarro, who's appealing as well. So, Attorney General Merrick Garland will have to charge the hunter monster, correct? How can Garland dodge that? Well, if there's a way, old Merrick will find it. But there is a good chance that Hunter will

wind up in a court of law. What a colossal embarrassment for the United States. The son of a sitting president disrespecting Congress, apparently with his father's approval. Joe Biden knew that his son was not going to honor the subpoena. Finally, not one House Democrat voted to explore exactly how. Tens of millions found its way to the Biden family. Not one. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it.

You can reach me. Bill at bill o'Reilly.com. at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. All right, let's go to the mail. Lina, concierge member, I hope. Biden's entire presidency has been staged and choreographed and giving questions and answers as he became president. He's told which journalist to pick and a few nervy journalists can punch through, but not many. That's kind of accurate, I would say. I would. David, concierge member, I'm glad, Bill, you mentioned News Nation today. They appear to be the only network that attempts anything near.

fair recitation of the day's events. I'm enjoying my experience at News Nation. Done last night with Cuomo. You guys should check it out. I'm on Monday with Leland Vedert, X-Fox Guy, and Wednesday with Cuomo. Eddie Garcia, Douglasville, Georgia, no doubt the media's bias against the former president, that would be Trump. Where is Bob Woodward's book excoriating Joe Biden? That's an interesting question. Woodward couldn't write a book like that because he's the executive editor of the Washington Post. He's some editor there. He couldn't write a book about Biden's failures, and then he wouldn't get invited to any parties in D.C. Michael Ravard Mentone, Alabama. Mr. O., can you please tell us what President James Buchanan could have done

to prevent a civil war? I will tell you in the book confronting the presidents, which will come out next September, but briefly, the South was defying the federal government violently, and Buchanan sat there and did nothing. Federal troops were in Fort Sumter, South Carolina, okay? They needed food and ammo. Buchanan wouldn't send it. The Confederate rebels who were leading this secession movement saw the weakness emboldened it. Lincoln came in. War was a fate of complete. Be counting the worst president of all time.

In a moment, something you might not know. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune 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. 84 years ago today, the most financially successful film of all time premiered in Atlanta. The plot features Georgia natives. Scarlett O'Hara and her life during the Civil War. Here is the story of Gone with the Wind. Red, Red! Red!

If you go, where shall I go? What shall I do? Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. In 1926, author Margaret Mitchell quit her job as a reporter to recover from a broken ankle. While convalescing, she used a second-hand typewriter to craft a novel called Gone with the Wind. It was published in June 1936. Wind was a sensation in Georgia and sold millions all over the USA. One year later, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize.

Then she sold the rights to MGM Studios for $50,000. Gone with the Wind debuted on December 5th. 15th, 1939, adjusted for inflation, it remains the biggest box office hit of all time. Total ticket sales, $3.4 billion. Wind won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Supporting Actress, and Screenplay. Despite the accolades, Gone with the Win is not very popular these days. canceled culture has come for Scarlett and her crew. HBO banished the film in 2020 because the network believed it glorifies slavery.

And here's something else you might not know. Gone with the Wind was the first major film to premiere outside of Hollywood or New York City. To match its setting, MGM released the movie in Georgia, Atlanta. The governor of Georgia declared the event an official holiday, parades, It's were thrown, locals wore top hats and Confederate uniforms. In total, one million people showed up to celebrate Gone with the Wind. But because of segregation, the film's black cast members were not allowed to attend the premiere. Awful.

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