Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, February 2, 2022

Episode Date: February 2, 2022

New polling shows Joe Biden failing in Florida, the national debt passes $30-trillion-dollars for the first time, studies show Covid lockdowns had little effect on saving lives, s report ranks the dirtiest cities in the country. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, Whoopi Goldberg suspended from ABC's The View. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here, Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. Whoopi Goldberg suspended from the view. New polling shows President Biden failing in Florida. The national debt passes $30 trillion. Studies show COVID lockdowns had little effect on saving lives. ahead, why did Disney turn on Whoopi Goldberg? But first, she is now suspended for saying the Holocaust

was not a racial action. ABC Disney announced last night that Ms. Goldberg will be off the view for two weeks. The corporation is very woke, as you may know, and they didn't want to do this, it took them 36 hours. But because of public pressure, they had to suspend Ms. Goldburn. Now, I will analyze this in a fair way and tell you the inside story coming up. A new poll from USA Today shows Joe Biden failing in the Sunshine State. 39% there approve of the president's job performance, 53 percent disapproved. The survey shows Mr. Biden losing ground to both Donald Trump and Governor DeSantis in Florida should they both run for president. Mr. Biden also trailing Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical contest. Ms. Clinton would beat Biden 4643. America's national debt

passing $30 trillion for the first time. The figure surging $7 trillion since COVID arrived in early 2020. President Biden's initial spending to slow the contagion has now topped two trillion. That's double Ronald Reagan's entire federal budget back in 1981. Even without the virus, the federal government typically adds $900 billion to the debt every year. A study from Johns Hopkins University says COVID lockdowns had little effect in saving lives. Shut down orders lower the contagion's death rate by just 0.2% compared to places that remained open. Say the researchers, quote, we find no evidence that lockdown, school closures, border closures, and limited gatherings had a noticeable effect on COVID mortality, unquote. In a moment, Whoopi Goldberg.

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and that's 866-326-5576 or text bill to 998899. Time now for the O'Reilly Update message of the day, as reported, ABC Disney has suspended Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks. There's an old Sam Cook song. Don't know much about history that directly applies to Ms. Goldberg. On Monday, She told the people that watch the view, a primarily left-wing audience, that the Holocaust was not a racial action, but one of, quote, man's inhumanity to man, unquote. Well, yeah, the Holocaust had plenty of inhumanity, but it was absolutely a racial situation. Ms. Goldberg apparently believed on Monday that since Germans and Jews are mostly white,

race was not involved. Of course, that's fallacious. That's ridiculous. So here's the background. In the 1920s and 30s, Adolf Hitler and his thugs created a master race scenario and presented it to the German people who were suffering during the Great Depression.

Hitler labeled his master race Aryans. Well, in addition to that, he then went on a campaign to become the dictator of Germany using grievance as his main thrust. The German people were very, victims, and he, Adolf Hitler, was going to correct that. And who was victimizing the German people? Jews, along with communists and a few other minorities. But it was primarily Jews. Now, six million innocent civilians were slaughtered by the Nazi party in concentration camps.

That's the Holocaust. Whoopi Goldberg should have known all of this. And I am going to send her my book, Killing the SS, which you should read if you don't know it. So on Tuesday, under enormous pressure, Whoopi Goldberg apologized on the view. She was still there. But late last night, Disney said,

uh-oh, we better do something. And they suspended her, 36 hours after her ridiculous remark. If Whoopi Goldberg had been a conservative woman, she would have been fired on the spot by Disney. But because Disney leans to the left, they didn't know what to do about their view star. Now, that program, as created by Barbara,

Walters was a fun exposition every day. Now, it is a cauldron of hate, and I know that firsthand. But Miss Goldberg herself is not a hater. She simply doesn't know very much, and neither do the other panelists. They are ignorant of what is going on. Therefore, the show is a farce. but Whoopi Goldberg is not anti-Semitic. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it for more honest news analysis. Please visit Bill O'Reilly.com. 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, 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, 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. It is officially Groundhog Day in America, a bizarre tradition that dates back 135 years. Here is the story. Groundhog Day has its roots in an ancient Christian festival. In early February, free candles were distributed at churches across Ireland to help families light their homes for the remainder of winter. believe they could foresee the future based on how the candles burned. Germans expanded the concept

by selecting an animal, the lowly hedgehog, as a means of predicting the arrival of spring. After landing in North America, Bavarian settlers continued the tradition. Hedgehogs, though, were hard to find, but groundhogs were all over the place in Pennsylvania. The reclusive animal typically goes into hibernation each fall, then emerges from its borough when warm weather returns. In 1887, a Pennsylvania newspaper editor conjured up a tail to entice tourists to the region. He claimed that Phil, a local groundhog, was America's only true weather forecasting animal. On February 2nd, Phil made his first public appearance to hundreds of spectators. After emerging from his hole, the rodent saw its shadow, and that informed the town, it must

endure another six weeks of winter. The holiday then became widely celebrated throughout the 20th century before losing some momentum by the end of the 1980s. However, in 1993, Bill Murray starred in a movie called Groundhog Day and it became a smash hit. revitalizing Phil and the tradition. The concept took on a new meaning in pop culture, signifying something that repeats over and over. Today, Groundhog Day is celebrated throughout Canada and America. Other weather predicting rodents, including Dunkirk Dave in New York, Buckeye Chuck in Ohio, and General Beauregard Lee in Georgia. Uh-oh, a Confederate. And here's something else you might not know. The groundhogs have a terrible

record when it comes to actually predicting the weather. According to Farmer's Almanac, the rodents have a 39% success rate. Back after this. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to turn 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.

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