Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 27, 2026

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

President Trump heads to Camp David with his cabinet, chaos at the detention center, JD Vance praises the Pope, the most patriotic places in America, and the richest counties in the country. Plus, the Message of the Day, suicidal empathy in the west. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Wednesday, May 27th, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. President Trump and the cabinet headed to Camp David. Chaos at the detention center. J.D. Vance praises the Pope. A new survey lists the most patriotic places in America

and economists rank the richest counties in the country. It's all coming up. We'll be here with your message of the day about suicidal empathy. But first, the president convening a rare cabinet meeting at Camp David as negotiations with Iran enter a critical phase. Earlier this week, the U.S. military launched defensive strikes against the Iranian Navy, drones, and small boats operating in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran called the strikes, quote, a clear violation of the current ceasefire between the two nations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says a potential nuclear deal could be reached within days.

Worth noting that before this trip to Camp David, the president finished his six-month physical at Walter Reed Medical Center. He said everything checked out perfectly. Left-wing activists and a few Democrat politicians tried to come to the rescue of illegal immigrant detainees at a New Jersey detention center creating a bunch of chaos. The governor of New Jersey was there as well as Senator Andy Kim, a couple of the lawmakers. This is about a hunger strike that was organized by inmates inside this facility. The leftists claim that the detainees are living in inhumane condition. One funny moment, two Hispanic people walked out of the ice facility, and the protesters all started cheering them, only to be told that these two Hispanic people who walked out work there.

Vice President J.D. Vance, praising Pope Leo's recent comments about the dangers of artificial intelligence, Vance said, quote, what I read of it sounds very profound and the sort of thing that you would expect in hope from a leader of the church. The thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles, does. does. Business insider ranking the most patriotic places in America after this Memorial Day weekend. The towns are judged by number of veterans, voting engagement, and pro-American museums or monuments. The top five, Jacksonville, Florida, Portland, Maine, Annapolis, Maryland, Colorado, and the most patriotic place in America, Norfolk, Virginia. Dead last on this list. Newark, New Jersey. Newark, your guys are last in so many things. What's going on?

A report from U.S. News and World Report lists the wealthiest counties in the country. Places are ranked by income, home value, property taxes, and total assets. The top 10 include Nassau County, New York, Marin County, California, Arlington, Virginia, just outside D.C., Santa Clara, California, the wealthiest zip code. Loudoun County, Virginia. Median household earns $150,000 a year. The poorest county in America, Wheeler County, Georgia, average income $21,000. I'll be back with your message of the day. about suicidal empathy next.

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Mike Slater, filling in for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for your O'Reilly update message of the day. I was talking to Dr. Gad said the other day about his new book, Suicidal Empathy. The thesis is very simple. Empathy is a fine thing, but you can have too little of it, or too much of it. Aristotle wrote about this thousands of years ago. All these different virtues you can have, but you can have a deficit or an excess. Courage, for example.

If you have a deficit of, so courage is good, you can have a deficit of courage, you're a coward. But you can also have too much, in which case you're too rash. You would charge into battle recklessly, and that doesn't do any good for anyone either. So you've got to have the right balance. This idea from Aristotle makes a lot of sense, but it applies with empathy as well. too little of it and you're a psychopath, but too much of it, and you're a woke woman who supports opening up our borders to every third world or in the world until you don't have a country anymore, for example. And people with suicidal empathy, they can take it to extremes you can't even conceive

up. There is a woke 23-year-old woman who is harassed by a black man in the New York City subway. Her and her friends were attacked. She did not press charges because she did not want to be a part of, in her own words, I did not. not want to put another black man in jail. A few days later, that same person pushed an elderly man down the stairs of the subway and killed him. She said she regrets not pressing charges when she had the opportunity, but she did not want to be seen as racist.

How could she do this? Because in her world, empathy is the greatest virtue, and you can't have too much of it. And look how much empathy she has. It's just that she had empathy for it. for the wrong person. She had empathy for this criminal and not for the victims of his crime, including herself. And she still thinks she's a good person because she wasn't complicit in the oppression of marginalized peoples. I'll give you another example of how too much empathy, suicidal empathy can make people do crazy things. There was a Disney cruise docked in San Diego.

This is like a week or so ago. Border Patrol arrested 28 staffers on the Disney Cruise as a part of a child porn operation. 26 of these people were from the Philippines. So the local news in San Diego interviews a woman who was on the cruise who was driving away and she saw these people getting arrested. She took a video of it. And she was describing the scene for the news.

And I assumed as she was describing the scene that she was for this? Like for the arresting of pedophiles? That was just the assumption I had. Silly me? The story ends with her contacting the local San Diego immigrant rights group. Union del Barrio.

From their website, it says, we have dedicated ourselves to struggle on behalf of La Rasa, living within the current borders of the United States. These people, by the way, were from the Philippines. They're not even of the race that La Rasa is even talking about. So they go and they have a protest at the cruise ship. Disney, protect your workers from wrongful detention.

Lady, they're holding signs. They're pedophiles. On a kid's cruise ship. One sign said defend Filipino seafarers. Lady, lady, pedophiles. Now what more can you say to them? I mean, you couldn't come up with a more obvious scenario that you'd think everyone would agree with, but they'll never, they can't, they just don't care.

They have, well, TDS, of course, they also have suicidal empathy. Wacky Kathy Griffin, she retweeted some news story about, this. And it said, ice agents raided a Disney cruise ship where it abducted multiple staff members. And even now that we know they were pedophiles, the woke, even here,

will come to their defense. That is suicidal empathy. I'm Mike Slater, filling for Bill O'Reilly. Something you might not know. Next. The 2006 Chevrolet Equinox awarded the most dependable compact SUV in the U.S. by J.D. Power. It is designed for your everyday. And with available all-wheel

drive you can handle your to-do list with total confidence. Start your bill at Chevrolet.ca. Details at J.D.Power.com. Mike Slater, filling her for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. Los Angeles is disgusting. 15 years ago, I went to the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame for the first time. It was a cesspool then. It is 15 years worse today. Looks like a third world encampment down the entire street. Right in front of the Dolby Theater. That's where they have the Oscars. Of course, they cleared out. when all the celebrities come to town. And this is why Spencer Pratt is running for mayor.

That hypocrisy, where the celebrities are living in one pristine Los Angeles and everyone else is living in squalor, that's got to stop. His latest ad campaign is he goes around with a stencil and a pressure washer and cleans the grime off the sidewalks. And when they remove the stencil, it says, imagine if all the streets were this clean. So if Mayor Bass wants to remove these ads, they have to go and actually clean the sidewalks.

It's brilliant. This campaign also has substance, a seven-point plan to end homelessness versus Karen Bass and that other woman who say we just need to stay the course. Everything's fine. Every sane person in L.A. knows it's not fine. By sane, I mean normal person

walks on the sidewalks. Drew Carey, for instance, not one of those people. Drew Carey said, anyone who votes for or endorses Spencer Prattfall for mayor of L.A. needs to get their head out of their blank. I understand being angry or unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and not some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass.

Blank this guy already. I love this. This is great. We need more Drew Carey's to step up and talk about how the current path is great and everything's fine. Drew Carey lives in an enormous 12,000 square foot house. $34 million, way up on the hills. He has this infinity pool and the living room, the entire walls, all this glass window

overlooking with a perfect view of the Los Angeles skyline. But when you're living this far away from the city of Los Angeles, you're not looking at the city. You're looking at the idea of Los Angeles. Because from this far away, you can't see the filth of it all. You just can't quite see it from your third. $34 million house. I think there's a massive silent Spencer Pratt vote out there like there was for Trump back in 2015.

People can't admit it out loud. But people who realize that I don't want to live in squalor anymore. I don't want to live in fear. I want L.A. to be nice again. Even if maybe it means being a little mean to the criminals and drug addicts. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. More coming up. I'm Mike Slater.

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