Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, February 17, 2021

Episode Date: February 17, 2021

Joe Biden speaks at a town hall event in Milwaukee, Donald Trump unloads on Senator Mitch McConnell, Bill Gates says Americans should eat ‘synthetic beef’ to fight global warming, domestic air travel at the lowest level since 1984, a new study shows 4 in 10 adults consider themselves “workaholics.” Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, how did Joe Biden perform at last night's CNN town hall? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here Wednesday, February 17th, 2021. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. Joe Biden answers questions at a town hall in Milwaukee. Donald Trump on loads on Senator Mitch McConnell. Bill Gates says Americans should eat synthetic beef to fight global warming. Domestic air travel at the lowest level since 1984. The new study shows four and ten adults consider themselves workaholics. Also ahead, I will analyze President Biden's town hall last night. But first, Mr. Biden appearing in Milwaukee on an event sponsored by CNN. Mr. Biden taking questions from socially distanced audience members on issues, including his $2 trillion plan to defeat COVID, the economic recovery, and very, very slightly his predecessor

Donald Trump. I will have more analysis later. The hard news in the town hall was that President Biden believes there will be 600 million doses of COVID vaccine available in July. That was the headline. Speaking of Donald Trump, the 45th president releasing a scathing letter targeting Senator McConnell, writing quote, Mitch is a Dow or sullen unsmiling political hack. And if Republican senators are going to stay with him. They will not win again, unquote. The senator voted to acquit Donald Trump at his trial because of the Constitution, but later directly blamed Mr. Trump for the Capitol Hill insurrection. Billionaire Bill Gates, surging residents in rich countries like the USA to consume

100% artificial cow products to combat climate change. The Microsoft founder instructing world governments to impose new regulations to promote fake meat and cheese that could, quote, shift consumer demands in middle-income nations, whatever that means. I don't know. Just a question. Do you think this climate change stuff is totally out of control now? Could be. Traffic on U.S. Airlines dropped 60% last year due to the pandemic, lowest level since 1984. New study says four in 10 adults. Simply cannot stop working. The overzealous employees spend more than 15 hours a week focused on the job outside normal business hours. 75% check emails over the weekend. 30% refused to ditch their smartphones even while dining and sleeping. In a moment,

But how did President Biden do answering questions last night? Right back with it. 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 savings with physical gold and silver. Tharu, the only dealer I trust, American Hartford gold. And you can do this.

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friendly. He looked empathetic. He was fairly clear, but boy, he's a rambling man trying to make a living and doing the best he can as the song once went. So the headline, as I said in the hard news portion of this broadcast was that by the end of July, the president promises everybody will have access to the vaccine in America. Well, let's hope that's true. I'm not a guy here. If he says it's going to happen, okay, I'll take it to the bank. I won't cash the check, but I'll believe him for now. Now, I selected three sound bites. I'm going to quote the president, and then I'll discuss what it means. So first of all, Mr. Biden said, quote, the nation is not divided. You go out there, take a look and talk to people. You have

fringes on both ends, but it's not nearly as divided as we make it out to be, and we can bring it together. That is a fantasy. That is not true. The United States of America is as divided as it's been since the Civil War, worse than the Vietnam era, because the progressive movement of which Mr. Biden is apart wants to take the country apart. The progressives do not like America. They want to start over, and this is a social civil war. That is the truth. The second sound bite, Mr. Biden says, quote, number one, don't defund the police. We have to put more money into police work. So we have legitimate community policing, and we're in a situation where we can change the legislation.

No one should go to jail for a drug offense. No one should go to jail for the use of a drug. They should go to drug rehabilitation, unquote. Now, this is the usual progressive stuff that gets us nowhere and allows drug criminals to terrorize cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. I agree. If there's a drug user, smoking pot, or even addicted to hard drugs, and they don't sell the drug and they're not committing crimes, I wouldn't put them in jail. It's a waste of time. but the fantasy that you're going to put somebody in drug rehab and that person's going to clean it up

is ridiculous. Many, perhaps most drug addicted people do not want to kick the habit. This is the usual empty rhetoric. Final sound button. Joe Biden, quote, that is the greatest threat to terror in America, domestic terror. And so I would make sure that my Justice Department and my civil rights division is focused heavily on those various folks, and I would make sure that we, in fact, focus on how to deal with the rise of white supremacy. So again, it's white supremacy. Doesn't mention Antifa, doesn't mention the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation just this week. Black Lives Matter protesters attacked the cops and a news photographer in New York City. Not a word. Never a word.

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found throughout the southwestern USA. If you are bitten and go untreated, the mortality rate is higher than 30%. Other species to definitely avoid, cut mouth, copperhead, coral snake. Watch out for that coral snake. It's rare, but if it bites you, you're in trouble. Fortunately, the widespread access to emergency medical supplies we have means that very few snake bites are fatal in this country. In 2020, more than 7,000 people were bitten by poisonous snakes in America, but only five died. Worldwide, India is the country with the most snake deaths. Stats say 50,000 people die every year from snake bite in India. Neighboring Pakistan comes in at a distant second, 8,000 fatalities per year.

The planet's deadliest snake? The black Mamba. That can be found in the rainforests of Central Africa, a place you do not want to go. A single bite from the Mamba, lethal to 95% of human beings within 20 minutes if you don't get treated. However, despite their scary reputation, Snakes in general are responsible for the same amount of deaths across the planet as domesticated dogs. While obviously not poisonous, a bite from man's best friend kills thousands from rabies. And here's something else you might not know. The planet's deadliest creature to human beings is the mosquito. More than one million people die each year from diseases transmitted by that pest.

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