Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 16, 2022

Episode Date: December 16, 2022

Republicans target Big Tech for ‘misinformation,’ AOC’s climate-change documentary bombs at the box office, Nearly half of young adults suffer from a mental disorder, a new report ranks the fastest growing cities in the USA. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, listeners sound off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here, Friday, December 16th, 2022. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening this week in America. Republicans target big tech for, quote, misinformation. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's climate change movie bombs. Nearly half of young adults suffer from a mental disorder. New report ranks the fastest growing system. cities in America. Also I had the message of the day update. Listeners, sound off. But first,

House Republicans demanding information and records from big tech companies for allegedly colluding with the Biden campaign during the 2020 election. Representative Jim Jordan, the next chair of the Judiciary Committee, unveiling probes into Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. Data released by Elon Musk shows the companies routinely met with the FBI and Department of Justice to discuss suppressing information that might damage Joe Biden. A climate change documentary from Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez tanking during its opening weekend. The project called To the End was filmed over the last four years. Despite debuting on 120 movie screens across country, the documentary earned less than $10,000.

That's almost impossible. That's $80 per theater. By comparison, Al Gore's 2006 Global Warming Documentary made $24 million and won an Academy Award. A survey from Harmony Health Care finds nearly half of young Americans suffer for. from a mental disorder. 42% of people under the age of 25 have been clinically diagnosed with depression, insomnia, anorexia, hyperactivity,

or attention deficit disorder. A third attend therapy sessions once a month. One in 10 members of Gen Z take anti-anxiety medication. CNBC listing the fastest growing cities in the USA. Here they are. Salt Lake City. Denver, Dallas, Charlotte, North Carolina, number one fastest growing town, Austin, Texas. In 1990, just 200,000 people lived in Austin now more than a million.

The city's losing the most residents, New York and San Francisco. In a moment, update listeners have their say right back. 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 size, 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever

you get your podcast. Time now for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. Listeners, sound off. If you would like to participate, we do this each Friday. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. That's where we live, by the way. It's where the TV shows are. It's where the column, the message of the day, on and on and on. Bill O'Reilly.com. And you have to include your name in town if you wish to opine. So I know you're a real person. Peter in Wichita, Kansas. Legal question, O'Reilly, can President Biden's respect marriage law be used to force acceptance of other kinds of non-traditional marriages like polygamy? No. The Respect Marriage Act specifically states its same-sex marriage or interracial marriage.

Okay? So that's what passed Congress. That's what Biden signed into law, and you can't extend from that legally. Eric Des Moines, Iowa. Is it possible that Putin offered either Paul Wellen or Brittany Griner for the Russian arms merchant to the Biden administration who decided that by choosing Griner, the president would gain more political advantage with his leftist woke base? Now, I've gone over this, Eric, about 10 times. And I'm going to do it one more time for you because I like you. I have talked to many people in the federal government and the state department. There was no way Putin was going to give up. Paul Welland, the ex-marine from Michigan, who was serving a four-year sentence in a Russian prison. He wasn't on the table. It wasn't even considered.

So I know people believe what they want to believe. But the truth is, it was Brittany Griner. for the Russian arms dealer or nothing. That is the truth. Jack, Portsmouth, New Hampshire in Nicetown, it's impossible for conservatives to break through the liberal media stranglehole, plus Hollywood and academia. No use even trying anymore.

As such hopes and fantasies are futile. You are correct, Jack, that particularly the entertainment, industry and the corrupt corporate news people are never going to give conservative traditional Americans a fair cut, ever. Not going to happen. Nor will Hollywood, nor will most teachers in American colleges. However, conservatives have talk radio, and that's a big force. They have the Fox News Channel, which has gone more conservative. since I left, and they have many, many sites on the Internet, so it is not a blackout.

Brian, Boston, Massachusetts, I somewhat believe the poll that says most Americans do not want Joe Biden or Donald Trump to run in 24. I voted for Trump twice. I would never vote for him again. That is a prevailing wisdom right now, Brian. Donald Trump has lost some power. But the polls now don't mean a thing. A year from now, they will.

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Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might, not know. Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced new legislation to ban one of the most popular iPhone apps in the country. The platform is used by more than one billion people worldwide. It is also run by the Chinese Communist Party. Here is the story of TikTok.

Launched in September 2016. The network is used to share videos shorter than 15 seconds. It is the most downloaded app for people under the age of 14. The company behind the software is a Beijing startup called Bight Dance. According to Chinese law, the business is legally required to provide the Communist Party with personal data from all TikTok users, including Americans. The platform has 80 million subscribers in the USA alone. That means officials in Beijing have access to the personal data of all of those people, including bank accounts, credit cards, web browser histories, personal, messages, emails, and phone calls.

Several countries, including India and Bangladesh, have already banned TikTok. Texas Governor Abbott has forbidden the app from being installed on the phone lines of state employees. during the 2020 presidential election, the Biden campaign ordered the removal of TikTok from all devices. Florida Senator Marco Rubio now moving to eliminate the platform entirely in the USA, said the Republican quote, the federal government has yet to take a single meaningful action to protect American users from the threat of TikTok. There is no more time to waste on meaningless negotiations with a CCP, that's Beijing Communist, company. It is time to ban Beijing-controlled TikTok for good, unquote, from Rubio.

And here's something else you might not know. If banned TikTok will not be the first app prohibited by the feds, Washington currently operates a black list of 500 separate software agencies, including applications with ties to Russia, Syria, Al-Qaeda, neo-Nazis, KKK, and eco-terrorists. Back 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, lawmakers, 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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