Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, July 31, 2020

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

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Bill O'Reilly here, Friday, July 31st, last day of the month, 2020. You're listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. Professional sports slowly returning to the country after months of chaos. Teams and fans still trying to figure out how to bring back the games without spreading COVID. So here's how things are shaping up. First Major League Baseball, well, made it a week before the virus hit the Miami Marlins. At least 14 tested positive for the contagion, forcing the Yankees, Orioles, and Phillies to postpone games with the Marlins.

Officials introducing new rules to speed up the games, the baseball games, like placing a runner at second base, an extra inning so it doesn't go on and on and on. Now to the NFL. Football set to kick off September 10th in Kansas City. At least six players on the New England Patriots are refusing to play, and they have that right. The League and the Union agreed that anyone considered high risk for COVID can sit out the season while still earning $350,000 for the season. Basketball returned this week, 22 teams competing in the so-called bubble. the NBA relocating all athletes and staffed to Disney World in Orlando, where everyone is isolated in hotels on the property. No fans are allowed to watch the games. They'll be on TV, of course, and that's what this is all about, TV revenue. But players from other teams can watch the games

because they've been bubbledized. Hockey returns August 1st tomorrow. The NHL suspended its season nearly 150 days ago, 24-team postseason tournament will determine who heads to the Stanley Cup playoffs. The league is holding the competition in two cities, Toronto and Edmonton, Canada. The empty arenas will actually make the sport more interesting for viewers at home. The NHL is doubling the number of cameras typically used to create new angles for the fans. Again, TV revenue. Americans definitely ready to focus on something other than COVID in politics, more than four million folks tuned to baseball's opening night, shattering the previous record.

Sports is a good diversion, a worthy thing for America. We need it in a moment. Listeners, sound off. We're 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 through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax advantage, gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401k, tax and penalty-free.

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Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Just shoot off a note, and I could read your letter. Let's go to Kathleen, San Antonio, Texas. Clearly, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is delusional when he said the riots in Portland, Oregon are a, quote, myth. Well, you'd be talking about Congressman Jerry Nadler from New York, and Mr. Nadler is not delusional, he is just a fanatical, and I mean that literally, partisan. So Nadler knows, and all the members of the Democratic Party know, that violent protests are not

helping the Dems. They're not going to help Joe Biden win the presidency. So the issue is to downplay them. Now, Nadler, of course, takes it to the extreme by calling it a myth. Well, we have eyes, Congressman. We can see. Let's go to Judy in Jackson, New Jersey. I think Attorney General Barr, the hearing, was an attempt to discredit him. the reason is, if he is defamed, then the Durham report might not mean as much. Well, you're on to something, Judy. The Durham report is the investigation by the Justice Department about Russian collusion and the phony FBI warrants. And it's going to be embarrassing to the Democratic Party and to the media. Going to really embarrass the media. Now, the word is that the Justice Department

will release some of its findings and may be indictments because there were laws broken before Labor Day. But you never know about these things because it is the Durham report, a direct attack on the swamp, and the FBI is part of the swamp. Joe in Las Vegas, Nevada, the president should call out Joe Biden in public to sit down for interviews with people like you, Bill. If he cannot answer tough questions, how can he run a country? Well, a lot of politicians Joe dodge tough interviews. I don't expect Joe Biden to sit down with me or anybody who would challenge him. He's already turned down Chris Wallace. Biden basically is coasting and he's staying away from any confrontations. He's in his house. You know, he's a COVID risk guy. So I don't blame him.

but he could do virtual interviews from his basement, but he's not going to do it unless he has to. The real telltale here are the three debates. So a lot of people say, well, Biden's not going to show up. He has to show up. I think he'd lose the election if he didn't show up. But Donald Trump's got to be disciplined in those debates, but they are going to be very important. Tim is in Charlotte, North Carolina. I must disagree with you, Bill, on support for BLM signs, banners, et cetera, the Black Lives Matter Organization and the slogan, for the most part, are based on a false narrative. I'm not going to buy into the false narrative on Black Lives Matter and protesting police brutality toward people of color. I think those protests are valid. But the Black Lives Matter organization,

you're absolutely right, Tim, is a Marxist outfit that wants to overthrow the United States of America. I'm Bill O'Reilly, and I approve that message by actually putting it together. Please go to Bill O'Reilly.com for honest coverage and join our Stand Up for America campaign. In a moment, 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. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the world's politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show.

Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. In 1966, the Beatles were the most popular band in America. The Fab Four already had 12 number one hits here, and more than 30 tunes in the top 10. Of course, they were from England. That all changed with just one sentence. In March of 66, John Lennon told a London reporter, quote, we're more popular than Jesus now. Lenin also said, quote, Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and I'll be proved right, unquote. He was wrong.

Now, fans in America, at least some of them, erupted at the blasphemy. When the Beatles hit the road that summer, 1966, protests followed them everywhere, particularly in the deep south. In Alabama, radio stations refused to play Beatle songs. Local disc jockeys Doug Layton and Tommy Charles initiated the statewide beetle boycott. People publicly burn their records, posters, concert tickets, in town squares. prominent preacher in Birmingham labeled Lennon the, quote, devil incarnate, saying no true Christian should listen to Satan's music. Lenin himself eventually issued multiple apologies, quote, in reference to England, we meant more to kids than Jesus did or religion at that time.

I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact. And it's more true for England than here, meaning the USA, unquote. John Lennon's comments even prompted death threats and forced the band to conceal their travel schedule as they toured the USA. And here's something else you might not know. The fallout from Lennon's interview was so bad that the band never toured again. According to their manager, the group was deeply scarred from their experience in Alabama. The Beatles' final show of the 66 U.S.A. tour was in San Francisco, and it was the last time the Beatles ever took the stage for a live concert anywhere. The group would release five more records before breaking up three years later. Back after this.

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