Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, July 17, 2020

Episode Date: July 17, 2020

On this Friday edition of The O'Reilly Update, cancel culture in America and Listeners Sound Off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here Friday, July 17th, 2020. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. As you may have heard, Goya Foods finds itself the latest target of the cancel culture, the far-left mob calling for a boycott against the company after its CEO praised President Trump during a meeting at the White House. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former presidential candidate Julian Castro, urging Americans to ditch Goya, hurting, of course, the 4,000 workers at its New Jersey factory. Goya, not the only enemy of the haters, cancel culture going after the woke Broadway show Hamilton, a backlash brewed on social media after Disney aired Hamilton over the 4th of July weekend.

According to critics, the show, which features a pre-referred. predominantly minority cast, failed to adequately address Alexander Hamilton's relationship with slavery. She'll creator Lynn Manuel Miranda apologizing on Twitter saying, quote, all the criticisms are valid. I fit as much as I can in two and a half hours. I did my best. But Miranda is now going to do a sequel to address Hamilton and slavery, I guess, or something.

Also, television program Cops gone after decades on the air because of its, quote, outdated depiction of law enforcement officers in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis. Other victims of the Blacklist include an editor at the New York Times, his own staff demanded he be fired simply for publishing an op-ed written by a Republican. Musicians also bowing to organizations like Black Lives Matter, country groups Dixie Chicks and Lady Antebellum, changing their names after activists pointed out their connection to the South. Can't have any connection to the South. Even liberal Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling getting pounded for saying that gender is based on biology, not.

Not identity. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. One user responded, quote, you are literally killing trans people with your hate. Everyone's scared of the totalitarian left. Corporate America surrendering to it. This is a recipe, as they say, for disaster. In a moment, listeners, sound off. Right back. 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. Theroux, the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold.

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If you don't fill out the form, there's going to be a hassle, Peter. If you fill out the form, so what? Okay? They're not going to track you down. They won't even, they being the New York City authorities, they won't even put people who commit violent crimes. They wouldn't even arrest them. Then I'm not going to bother you.

So my advice is just fill it out. I know it's hard. You don't want to be hassled, particularly because you're going to get married, you want to keep everything smooth. Lisa Chapel Hill, North Carolina, do you think, Bill, it's smart to post something on Facebook that exposes the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation, such as the people who run it are Marxists, and the money that goes to them is unaccounted for? Is there a risk? Yes, Lisa, there is a risk. So I wouldn't do it. Let me handle this, all right? Our stuff goes out on Facebook.

Facebook and Instagram, whatever. It's all over the place. So if you are a regular person and you put something on Twitter that's controversial, they're going to come back and try to hurt you. Same thing on Instagram and Facebook. So I know you want to express yourself, but you have to weigh, is it worth it? Doug in Massapequa, New York on Long Island. Bill, you suggested that the folks could write letters to the chairman of media corporations expressing displeasure. with the hate culture tolerated by their organizations. I think a far more effective approach would be to address letters to the head of the corporation's compensation committee.

Maybe that's true, Doug. But when Disney is paying the salary of somebody like Joy Behar who just hates people, I mean, I think that maybe the CEO should get 10,000 letters saying, why are you doing that? I don't want to boycott her or have her lose her job, but if there were somebody on the Disney ABC network that was hating liberal people, believe me, they would not have a job. So why is Behar and others allowed to do it? Tomas, Lakewood, Washington, if Durham fails to complete his investigation by January and Trump loses the election, can the new president terminate the Durham and

investigation before he brings any indictments. Durham doesn't bring the indictment. That has to come from the Attorney General, Barr at this point. If Trump loses, Barr is out. A new attorney general is in, and basically there aren't going to be an indictments, Tomas. So you're absolutely right. If Trump loses, you can say goodbye to all of that stuff. It will be over. I'm Bill O'Reilly and I approve that message by actually putting it together for more news analysis and we do an honest job. Please go to bill o'Reilly.com and participate in our stand-up for your country program. Right back with something you might not know. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays.

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