Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, March 18, 2023

Episode Date: March 18, 2023

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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the weekend edition of the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. Kamala Harris struggles to explain what she does all day. A supermarket in New York City uses facial recognition to crack down on crime. A majority of voters view both parties unfavorably.

And a new study reveals how bad this. the Americans are addicted to our smartphones. Also coming up, the message of the day we'll talk about how many kids in America can't read. But first, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with comedian Stephen Colbert this week where she struggled to explain her job, what her roles and responsibilities are.

The VP said, quote, well, I have the great privilege of serving with Joe Biden, who is the president of the United States, and was vice president. Thank you, Kamala. Harris was named the border czar by Joe Biden in March 2021. Of course, since then, illegal crossings have reached a record high. A fairway supermarket in Upper Manhattan is turning to facial recognition software to stop criminals.

The grocery store is collecting customers' eyescans, images, and voices with video cameras. Anyone caught stealing is immediately. reported to the police and entered into a database. Retail theft in New York City is up 200% in some neighborhoods compared to 2019. Violent crime, of course, up 50% and they're all related as all the broken windows approach to crime. This facial recognition software, it's a thing now. Madison Square Garden denied entrance of someone who worked at a law firm who was suing the owners of Madison Square Garden. She wasn't on the case. She just worked at the the same law firm. How did they even know? So get ready. A new poll from Gallup showing a majority

of voters hold a negative view of both political parties. Fifty-five percent disapprove of Democrats, and that figure rises slightly 56 percent for the Republicans. Historically, Americans have been more positive towards the Democratic Party than the GOP. Since 2009, the average favorable rating for the liberal politicians has been about 45 percent, compared with 40 percent for conservatives. A study published by Fox News showing the typical American checks their smartphones. How many times a day do you think? How many times do you check your phone? On average, 96 times a day.

That's once every 10 minutes. Of course, it's even higher for teenagers. The poll also shows 80% sleep with our devices less than two feet from our heads. That's really probably not good for us. The typical adult is now awakened twice each night by notifications from your phone. You know, you can put it on mute at least at night. The message of the day, coming up next. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines.

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Hey, Mike Slater, filling up for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. One of my great political frustrations is that we live in a society where what I'm going to tell you now is except On a micro scale, on an individual level, it's sad because these people have no hope to live a flourishing life. And on a macro scale, it's bad because our country can't survive with so many illiterate people. There are 53 schools across the state of Illinois where not a single student can do math at grade level. And there are 30 schools across the state of Illinois where not a single student can read at grade level, not one. Imagine going inside one of these buildings.

What is this place like where not one student can read? It must be just pure chaos, pure anarchy. How can a teacher do anything? The teachers must be absolutely demoralized. Because it's not like the school is full of students who really want to learn, but just can't figure it out. It's full of hundreds of kids who couldn't give a rip. How do you teach kids who don't care at all? How do you teach kids who actively resist learning? It's impossible. Now, you may say, oh, Slater, it's the money. These schools are not being given enough money. Damn. How much money do you think these schools get every single year? No, seriously, take a guess. How much money do you think these schools get per student? Take a guess. I got the answer right here.

These schools range from $17,000 per student to $56,000. thousand dollars that's plenty of money a video went viral recently of students at carmel high school outside indianapolis and the students are standing outside of different parts of the school saying this is our natatorium and this is our library and this is our cafeteria and this is our theater and it's massive at one point a kid says oh and here's our planetarium what and people are saying oh well that's what you get when you live in a nice area with a lot of money of course rich people will have a nice school. If only the inner city schools had that much money, then they too could have wonderful facilities and be successful and read. They could know how to read. If only they had more money.

Wrong. You know how much money is spent per student at Carmel High School? Remember, in these Illinois schools, it was between $17,000 and $56,000 per student. This Carmel High School, $9,600 a student. The public high schools in Indianapolis down the street, they spent $7,000. They spent $7,000.5,000. They spent $6,000 per student more than that with horrific results. There is zero correlation, no correlation between the amount of money spent on education and academic results. Nothing. We got to get this out of people's brains that if you just spend more money, then the kids

will be smarter. No amount of money will help a kid who doesn't want to learn. But it's not the kids' fault. They don't know any different. it's the parents who don't care if their kids can read or not. What is that? At the Carmel High School, 71% of students are proficient in math, 89% are proficient in reading,

which, by the way, that's nothing to write home about either. But in Indianapolis, only 6% and 26% are proficient in math and reading. It's parents, it's culture. And we've had failing public schools long enough that there's been generations of failure. And we keep doing this. What do you think is going to happen? You think a couple generations from now,

they're going to suddenly care about reading the Iliad and the Odyssey. We think we keep going down this road and there's going to be this huge massive educational renaissance in our country? No way. Not if we keep doing the same thing over and over. And I'm genuinely concerned and I'm asking you, do you think our country can survive this? More coming up. 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 worlds of 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. Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. So I live in San Diego, and for as long as I've lived here, we've always been in a drought. In some cities, they have city employees who drive around a check and make sure you're not watering your plants on the wrong day or watering them at the wrong time.

Heaven forbid you, wash your car. The thing is, we live in a desert, at least here in Southern California, and the only way we have any water is because in the 50s and the 60s, we built a ton of water storage and an irrigation system to move water from where the water is to where the people are. And it worked great. And then the environmentalist took over and said, no, no more. We're not going to harm the planet anymore.

We're not going to build any more water storage. In fact, we are going to remove water storage. And then there's another drought. And they say, oh, global warming. What's that global warming? It's a man-made water shortage. Build a dam. I've been saying this for about a decade.

But this year, people may wake up to it. Because this year, we've had these things called atmospheric rivers. I've never heard of these in my entire life. It just means it rains a lot. So the first three of these things we had, we got headlines like this from Vox. Why California's atmospheric rivers can't break the megadrought? Washington Post, atmospheric rivers won't end California's drought.

We're like, what do you mean? How could it not? Bloomberg, California's deluge is still far too little to end the drought's grip. What? Drought means not enough water, and we have a ton of water. We have twice as much snowpack as average, 12 feet of snow in Tahoe. And you tell me it's not enough? But now people in California see that our leaders, instead of capturing this record amount of water, are dumping it into the ocean.

Why? Because the reservoirs are too full. They're overflowing. It was just a couple months ago when all we saw were pictures of reservoirs lower than ever. We were told about the five bodies that we found Lake Mead outside of Vegas bodies dumped, but we discovered them because the water level dropped so low. But now the reservoirs are too full, so we've got to dump it into the ocean. The last dam we built in California was 43 years ago.

Progressives don't want to do what's best for people. They want to do what's best for the planet. And no matter where you live, and no matter what happens, Not enough rain or record amounts of rain. Even if they make up things like atmospheric rivers, it doesn't matter. It's always bad because Mother Earth is mad at you for not agreeing with them. More coming up. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast.

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You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith Filner for Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow. Have a great day. Thank you.