Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 8, 2022

Episode Date: December 8, 2022

WNBA star exchanged for "Merchant of Death", Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, Russia pulls-back forces in southern Ukraine, a new survey ranks the rudest states in the USA. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, Biden's gun control address. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here Thursday, December 8th, 2022. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Here's what's happening across our nation. U.S. basketball star Brittany Griner released by Putin. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. Russia pulls back more forces in southern Ukraine. New survey ranks the rudest. States in the USA. Also ahead, President Biden gives another speech on guns. But first,

radical representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC. Under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the panel publishing a statement confirming the pro, but did not release any other details. The far-left Democrat received multiple ethics complaints last year when she was given free tickets to New York City Swanky Met Gala, said Ms. Cortez, at the time, it is my civic duty to oversee the city's cultural institutions for the public. Of course, especially if it's free. Women's basketball player Brittany Griner arrested last February for taking marijuana into Russia. Well, she was tried, convicted to 13 years in a horrible Russian prison, but now today she's been released in a swap. So all of this is because of Putin. He could have released Britney Greiner the day after

she was taken into custody. What she did was nothing. But Putin, of course, wanted to give the USA a hard time. So now, Victor the Merchant of Death Bout, a Russian arms dealer, is being traded for Brittany Greiner who should be home in a few hours. I would have made the deal. I feel very sorry for Ms. Griner, even though smuggling marijuana into totalitarian country is not smart. Putin withdrawing more forces. from southern Ukraine, and that situation continues to go south on him. It will be interesting to see what happens next year. New Pole, published by U.Gov, ranks the rootest states in the nation.

Here they are. New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Uh-oh. We're all states near me. Friendliest people? The Dakota is Montana, Vermont, Maine, and Hawaii. Mahalo. In a moment. President Biden on guns. Right back.

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I even hate to tell you about this story because it just bothers me so much, but I have to do it. So President Biden spoke at a vigil honoring victims of gun violence Wednesday night. The event took place 10 years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School, massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The National Vigil for all victims of gun violence was held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington, and Biden was the keynote. So, here is his main point. Go. Together, we've made some important progress. The most significant gun law passed in 30 years, but still not enough. still not enough.

Even as our work continues to limit the number of bullets can be in a cartridge, the type of weapons that can be purchased and sold, the attempt to ban assault weapons, a whole range of things that are just common sense. Now, with all due respect to the families who have lost, loved ones to bullets. And millions of Americans have died from gunfire in this country's history, millions. President Biden has no clue as to how to solve this issue. So year after year after year, we see Americans shot dead in the streets. The overwhelming number of perpetrators are criminals,

gangsters, drug gang bangers. Loan gunmen are very, very rare. Those are the facts. Yet Biden and the left go after the gun owner, the individual trying to protect

him or herself by saying, well, we don't want you to have guns. Well, if we don't have guns, we're the people, who's going to protect us? The cops, they're not. Police aid, are after the fact. They're not proactive. After your shot, they show up. Now, the Founding Fathers knew all this because they were brilliant men. And they knew that in England, the people there

didn't have any self-protection. The king could do whatever the king wanted to do to them, and they could not fight back. So they built into the Constitution, the Second Amendment, that Americans could protect themselves not only against tyrannical government, but criminals, Native Americans at the time, there were fierce wars, and big animals as the colonists pushed West. Now, ARs, A.Ks, yeah, if our president, you've got to jump through hoops to get them. You've got to go through training sessions, all of that, and the government has to know who has the heavy arms. I think that's public safety. I think that's logical. But the real solution to this? If you carry a gun in the commission of a crime, you go into federal court.

All gun crimes, federal crimes. Take it out of the local jurisdictions like New York City, which will not even prosecute gun criminals. And you're convicted of a crime with a gun, mandatory 10 years. That would solve a lot of the gun mayhem. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it if you'd like more honest news analysis. Bill O'Reilly.com has it. Killing the Legends, great Christmas gift. In a moment, something you might not know. 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, newsmen,

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. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. Christmas is celebrated by 2.2 billion people. all over the world. Even Antarctica has Christmas celebrations. But some people are actually banned

from even acknowledging the holiday. And then it's happening in more than a dozen countries. Here are a few. Afghanistan, where honoring the birth of Christ, can get you killed. According to the Taliban, there are officially zero Christians living in the country. Westerners are forbidden from celebrating Christmas, even in private. and if you do, you will be harshly punished. Next, Somalia, with the government issues a declaration each year, labeling Christmas a, quote, public threat to the Muslim faith.

Any religious practice not affiliated with Islam is forbidden in Somalia and punished. Christmas in Cuba, a little more complicated. Fidel Castro abolished the holiday back in 1959, but citizens celebrated anyway. In 1998, the Marxist government declared December 25th a non-religious day of leisure. Workers can take a 24-hour break, but without pay in Cuba. In North Korea, any religious observation will get you thrown into a prison camp. The situation is so volatile citizens in South Korea that live near the demilitarized zone

are prohibited from displaying Christmas decorations from their homes. or businesses, because the South Koreans fear the North Koreans might launch a military strike. Over to China. Following a communist crackdown on all public displays of religion, the Chinese are now using traditional secular ways to secretly celebrate the birth of Jesus. Many hang decorative lanterns on windowsills. Some exchange Chinese New Year cards with covert Christian messages. And here's something else you might not know. for a short time Christmas was banned in England during a civil war that lasted from 1653 to 1658 Oliver Cromwell served as Lord Protector of the British Isles well the strict

Puritan Cromwell believed anyone who wanted Christmas was a Catholic spy under his rule folks caught celebrating on December 25th would spend the next few Christmases in the Tower of London. Back after this. 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,

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