Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, January 3, 2023

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

Terror in Times Square, Congress moves to ban TikTok, A weight-loss pill could become the best-selling drug of all time, and action Fans flock to see the new Avatar sequel. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, Joe Biden's incompetence is harming the working class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Hey, thanks, Bill. It is Tuesday, January 3rd. Say with me, 2023. It's the first time I said that out loud. Here's what's happening today in America.

Terror in Times Square. Congress moves to ban TikTok. A weight loss pill could become the best-selling drug of all time. and action fans flocked to see the new Avatar sequel. Wait till you find out how much money they made their first week. The first eight to start the new year with a story like this, but in Times Square, 10, 11 p.m. on New Year's Eve night, a 19-year-old man approached a police officer outside of a security checkpoint,

came up behind an officer and attempted to strike him over the head with a machete. He then did strike two other officers in the head. One officer shot him in the shoulder. All the police officers were taken to the hospital. They're in stable condition. the suspect is still alive. Sources say the 19-year-old became fixated with radical Islamic ideology in just the weeks before the attack. Republican congressman Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin is on a crusade to ban TikTok.

He sponsored a bill to ban the Chinese-owned app. He says TikTok is digital fentanyl. He says there are two reasons why. First, quote, it's highly addictive and destructive. And we're seeing troubling data about the corrosive impact of constant social media. use, particularly on young men and women here in America. He said it's also digital fentanyl in the sense that it goes back to the Chinese Communist Party. The omnibus bill had a section in there to ban TikTok from all government devices.

A new weight loss drug could become the best-selling drug of all time. If the FDA approves the drug, which is called terseptide, have you heard of this? Have you ever heard of terseptide? You will. The FDA is expected to approve that Bank of America estimates that Lilly, which is the pharmaceutical company based out of Indianapolis, could make $48 billion a year. 48 billion, just for a perspective, the drug that makes the most money every year in America is Humera.

It's an arthritis drug. They make $20 billion. And they're thinking this one could make $48 billion. They say that patients lose about 22% of their body weight, an average of 52 pounds. Avatar, the sequel, The Way of Water, sequel to the 2009 original, has a global gross of $1.38 billion. That is actually, although that sounds like a lot, that's the breaking point for the movie actually making any money.

So $1.38 billion and they haven't made a dime yet. But surely they will. The first avatar was the number one movie in America for seven weeks. Coming up next, Bill O'Reilly will be here with his message of the day. Can Joe Biden solve anything? Bill is 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, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Time now for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. It is the first official workday of the new year, 2003. And American workers are really up against it because President Biden is suspect when it comes to problem.

How about the border? Two years. That problem's getting worse. How about inflation? All Americans are paying far more for almost everything than they did before Biden took office. How about a looming recession? We don't know yet what the economic climate will be this year, but already layoffs are occurring in the financial industry and the high-tech industry. How about economic pressure on the less affluent? It is reported that most Americans now live paycheck to paycheck. That means if you get laid off, if you get sick, you're in big trouble. All of this can be stemmed back to poor leadership. problems are not being solved by Joe Biden. In fact, Mr. Biden has spent more time away from the White House

in his first two years than any other president in history. He's in Delaware. He's in Martha's Vineyard. He's in the American Virgin Islands. He's living large. But the American worker is not living large. And I'm going to keep an eye on this. closely this new year. 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. And you can reach me easily. Bill at Bill o'Reilly. com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town, if you wish to opine. Let's go to Bob in Orlando, Florida. Bill, now that is becoming clear, the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop for nearly a year before the 2020 presidential election and likely knew what was on it, including evidence the Biden family was influenced peddling. The question I have is, why would the FBI want to protect and elect a corrupt president? I think the answer to the question, Bob, and it's a good one, is that the FBI hated Donald Trump. And you can see it time and time and time again. And they put, the Bureau did, it's hatred of Trump above ethics, morals, the law. That's my reading, and we'll see how it

bears out when Congress begins investigating this in January. Lee Pier, South Dakota, you're right, O'Reilly, times have changed, went to the market today, led us five bucks a pound, read a headline the paper that more and more people are living below the poverty line, yet they keep voting in the same people that are causing this. Well, my message to them, live with it, you voted for it. Literally, I think that we have to take responsibility for our votes. Barbara, Durham, North Carolina. Bill, you ask, why do people keep voting against their interest? Because they don't believe anything will change. That's a little cynical, Barbara, but there's something to it. It's more, look, if I'm getting entitlements from the government, I'm not going to interrupt this train.

That's what this is all about. So people with lower incomes overwhelmingly vote for Democratic candidates. In a moment, something you might not know. 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 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. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 55 years ago today, a Dallas nightclub owner who killed the assassin of John F. Kennedy died himself in a local hospital. Here is the story of Jack Ruby. Jacob Rubinstein was born in Chicago, 1911, the son of Polish immigrants. He never graduated high school, spent years working odd jobs. During World War II, Ruby served in the Army as an aircraft mechanic. By the late 1940s, he moved to Dallas, opened a string of nightclubs and illegal gambling halls.

Throughout his shady career, Jack Ruby made connections with both the mob and members of local law enforcement in Dallas. On November 24, 1963, two days after Kennedy's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters before being transferred to a security. secure prison. A crowd gathered to watch the departure. At 1120 a.m., Oswald walked into the room. Ruby, wearing a dark suit in gray fedora, shot the assassin in the stomach with a colt revolver. Oswald was taken to Parkland Hospital where he died in surgery. Ruby charged with murder. He later claimed he killed Oswald, so Jackie Kennedy would not have to return to Dallas for a murder trial. In March, 1964, a Texas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of murder, sentenced him to death. Three years later, however, a court reversed that decision because of

so-called improper testimony. Before the second trial was to take place, Jack Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital the same place where Kennedy and Oswald died with pneumonia. on January 3rd, 1967, he passed away at the age of 55 from a blood clot. And here's something else you might not know. The hat worn by Jack Ruby while he was shooting Oswald was recently sold at a Dallas auction. In 2009, a collector paid $60,000 for that hat. Back after this. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast,

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