Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 28, 2022

Episode Date: December 28, 2022

A man in Michigan is sentenced for plotting to kidnap the Governor, Walmart closes more stores because of violent crime, Canada expands its assisted-suicide program, a new survey ranks the rudest states in the USA. Plus, the Message of the Day, the unraveling of Congressman-elect George Santos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, I'm Mike Slater, host of the podcast Politics by Faith, filling in for the great Bill O'Reilly. It's Wednesday, December 28th, 2022. You're listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. A man in Michigan is sentenced for plotting to kidnap the governor. Walmart closes more stores because of violent crime. Canada expands its assisted suicide program, wait until you find out what they call it. And a new survey ranks the rudest states in America.

Also coming up, the message of the day. But first, a federal judge in Michigan sentencing a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer to 16 years in prison. Prosecutors claim Adam Fox was the leader of a scheme to abduct Whitmer from her summer home in 2020. A jury convicted Fox in an accomplice in August on charges of kidnapping, conspiracy, and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. Walmart CEO, Doug McMillan, confirming the company will likely raise prices and close stores because of crime, said the CEO, quote, theft is a major issue right now.

If local law enforcement doesn't correct this, prices will be higher and more stores will close. It's not local, well, it's not like local police or the problem. It's the local prosecutors who refuse to prosecute this. Walmart already shuttering locations in San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, and Seattle, overstate. safety threats to employees. Other chains closing stores include Target, Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, and Rite Aid pharmacies. Canada radically expanding access to medically assisted suicide. This is the ultimate slippery slope situation. Starting in March, people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness will be able to use the government's death program. Canada is now one of

six countries in the world where a person suffering from mental problems, but it's not near their natural death can get a doctor to help them die. When this was first pitched to the people of Canada, it was this is someone who's an extreme excruciating pain in the final days of their life. And it has to be approved by multiple doctors that this is the end of their life. Nope.

Now it's just anyone who feels like it. Amazing. A new poll published by UGov ranks the rudest states in the nation. Places are judged by overall. politeness, courtesy towards strangers and willingness to help others, the worst states can be found in the northeast, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, the friendliest people in the U.S. live in the Dakotas, Montana, Vermont, Maine, and number one, Hawaii. The message of the day about one of our great serial liars in America. Next.

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You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, this is Mike Slater, host of the podcast, Politics, by faith filling for the great Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly update message of the day. Have you been following the unraveling of congressman-elect George Santos? This is beautiful. He's 34, a Republican, just won his first congressional race, New York's third district.

So it's part of Queens and Long Island. Took it from a Democrat. Great. Turns out he's a serial liar. And he's admitted it, sort of. He claimed he owns 13 rental properties in New York. He owns none. He claimed he went to NYU.

He did not. He said he was a seasoned Wall Street financier and investor and said he worked for Citigroup in Goldman Sachs. He did not. Do we need to go on? He said four of his employees were killed in the Pulse Orlando nightclub shooting in 2016. That did not happen. Now here's what's so fascinating about liars. When they get caught, they're just not repentant at all.

They just never give up. Bill Clinton perfected this technique in the political world. It's a four-step process. You're accused of something, and you just, first step, deny, deny, deny. Second step, when it becomes undeniable, you show no shame, no remorse whatsoever, not a hint of weakness, as they see it. Third step, blame it on a political witch hunt. It's all this is. It's a political witch hunt.

And the fourth thing, when finally, everyone is turned against you. because it's all so undeniable. You just say, you know what, it's time to move on. It's time we all move past this because we have important work to do. Now, if you're a Democrat, that works every time. George Santos, it's a Republican, so it probably won't. But he's on step two. The first was denied, deny, deny, he did that.

Step two is to show no remorse, no shame. And he's doing that beautifully. He said, I'm not going to make excuses for this. But, which means there's an excuse coming. a lot of people overstate in their resumes or twist a little bit. I'm not saying I'm not guilty of that. Wait a second. I'm not saying I'm not guilty.

I don't know what that means. But everyone lies. So my lies are okay because everyone does it. And I love his excuses. His excuses are fantastic. He said he worked for Goldman Sachs on Wall Street. But what he meant was he worked for a company who did business with Goldman Sachs. So he didn't work for Goldman Sachs.

He worked for Goldman Sachs. Do you see the difference? It's your mistake for not understanding what he actually meant. The employees who were killed in the Orlando shooting, they were not his employees. They were people who were going to be working for a company that he was going to start in Orlando. Wow.

Now that means. But the best of all, he said his grandparents survived the Holocaust. That's not true. Some Jewish group said, you're not Jewish. So he came back and said, well, I never. claimed to be Jewish. I claimed that I was Jew-ish. I never said I was Jewish. I was Jewish. Like, you know, I was Jew-like. It's what I meant. Fantastic. Oh, these lies, they're fun to watch. But no one's better than our current president who said he was a star football player who graduated

top of his class, turned down an offer at the Naval Academy, and went on to become a truck driver, and was then arrested at civil rights marches and meeting Nelson Mandela. And he also met the inventor of insulin, even though he died before Biden was born. Pretty good for a man who came from a family of coal miners. None of that's true. But that's just who these politicians are. You can call them fibbers, embellishers. I prefer liars.

Can we please stop trusting them with anything important anymore? Something you might not know. Coming up next. 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, 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,

to Divine every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Hey, I'm Mike Slater, host of the podcast Politics by Faith filling for the great Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. Title 42, the Supreme Court just ruled to keep Title 42 enacted. This is against what the Biden administration wants. So people are talking about title 42 like oh well of course you know about title 42 the governor of california is talking about uh what is going to be like to live in a post 42 world a post 42 what world no no one what are you talking stop acting like this has always been a thing that i oh like everyone knows title 42 trump enacted title 42 in 2020 to keep illegal immigrants out because they might have

COVID and spread it to americans so people think trump created title 42 now it's been in the president's toolbox since 1984. This is whenever the U.S. Surgeon General determines that there is a communicable disease in another country, then the president can prohibit people from that country. Congress, there was 1944. Congress did something similar in 1892 during a cholera epidemic. And again, in 1929 to ban people coming from China and the Philippines during a meningitis outbreak. And then they enacted it in more broad law in 1944 and Trump used it here in 2020. So here's deal. If you believe that COVID is still a problem, I don't, but if you do, in California, we're still in a state of emergency because of COVID. In California, Boston schools are thinking

about bringing masks back for all kids for two weeks after Christmas break. So the COVID freak out people are still freaking out. And those are the same people who apparently see no problem with letting in more illegal immigrants who have COVID, right? And we were told this whole time that COVID affects poor brown people the most. That's what we're told. So, which other immigrants would, who are and would gravitate towards and spread more to those most vulnerable Americans. So why do you, person who supports open borders, why do you hate the vulnerable so

much? Why do you want them to get COVID so badly? I am entirely over COVID, but if you still think there should be a state of emergency, then why would you also think we should bring in more? legal immigrants without at least testing them and seeing if they truly qualify for asylum, which about 0% of them do. So the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 to keep Title 42 enacted until both sides can figure out the legal implications of what they want to do. Elections have consequences and very few people, if they really knew what was going on at our border and how

this affected our country would support this. Title 42 or not. More coming up. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the world's politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. thank you bill for letting me fill in and thank you for listening politics by faith is my podcast we'll see you there and we'll see you here tomorrow