Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 6, 2020

Episode Date: May 6, 2020

The United Kingdom now the epicenter of Europe’s Coronavirus outbreak, fast food Chain Wendy’s runs-out of beef, consumer debt hits a new record, California re-opens some beaches after weekend protests, Disney profits down 91-PERCENT since New Year’s Day. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, Trump, Lincoln, and the press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here, Wednesday, May 6th, 2020. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Here's what's happening today in America. Great Britain now the epicenter of Europe's pandemic. Fast food chain Wendy short on beef. Consumer debt hits a new record. California reopened some beaches after weekend protests. Disney profits down 91%. Also ahead. Abling. Lincoln, Donald Trump, and the press. But first, the United Kingdom surpassing Italy's death toll, becoming the new epicenter of the virus outbreak in Europe. More than 30,000 have died in Britain since early March. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the only world leader hospitalized with the disease, saying the country will gradually reopen for business later this month. Wendy's

restaurants, removing burgers from the menu in some places as the chain runs out of beef. Executives confirming the reduced shipping schedule with some stores selling out of popular items earlier than expected. There are more than 6,700 Wendy's restaurants across North America, and its slogan used to be, where's the beef? Consumer debt, hitting a new record, more than $14 trillion. The previous high was $12 trillion during the 2008 financial crisis. American households now owe thousands in credit card payments, mortgages, student loans, car bills, on and off. More than 30 million jobs have already disappeared in the USA in the past six weeks. That's an incredible number that could rise to 40 million.

California Governor Newsom caving into pressure. He will allow at least two beaches in Orange County south of L.A. to reopen as temperatures out there approach 90 degrees. People can now legally hit the sand in Laguna despite the statewide shutdown. Newsom saying he plans to open other segments of the economy by June and he had better as thousands of protesters are angry in California. Disney taking a massive hit due to the virus, profits at the House of Mouse, down 91% since the first of the year, company enduring big losses from its film studios, merchandise, cruise lines, and theme parks. Disney plans on reopening the rides and hotels in Florida and California this month, but at 50% capacity. In a moment, Abe Lincoln, Donald Trump, and the press.

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Diciously attacked by the press of his day, the media now is worse on him. Donald Trump. Is that true? As you may know, I wrote a book called Killing Lincoln. And years later, I also wrote a book called the United States of Trump. In each, I discuss how the press treated both presidents. In December, I had dinner with President Trump, and we discussed the question face to face. Here's my verdict. Here's what I told him. President Lincoln was more vilified, but President Trump gets more hatred because of the electronic media and the Internet. Abraham Lincoln was targeted by newspapers. That was the only press, vehicle back in the 1860s. Many papers supported the South, and many editors did not want to fight

the Civil War. After Donald Trump said that on Sunday, CNN, a Trump hating operation, brought in a historian named Doris Kearns Goodwin to discuss Mr. Trump's statement that he is more low than Abraham Lincoln was. Now, Ms. Goodwin has written a book, a bestseller, on President Lincoln. And she said, as CNN wanted her to say, that no, no, no, no, no, Abraham Lincoln, he didn't really despise the press like Donald Trump does, and he kind of just let it all go by. Well, that's not true. I don't know whether Ms. Goodwin is taking it out of context. I don't know her. But as a historian, I'm sitting there going, that's not even close. Abraham Lincoln shut down a number of newspapers and actually put a few editors

in prison for writing things he didn't like. Lincoln, facing the toughest situation this country has ever faced, much worse than the pandemic, did not want the press. opposing the Civil War. And when editors told their readers not to sign up for the Union Army, as some of them in New York City did, Lincoln took action against the press, violating the Constitution, by the way. Abraham Lincoln knew that the press was his enemy by and large. And President Trump knows that today. What is different is that in the Civil War days, the newspaper editors were basically pandering to a certain segment, but the industry was not nearly as colossal as it is today, the media industry. The hate Trump movement makes millions and

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are vowing to extend the lockdown. Predictably, folks not earning a paycheck aren't happy that politicians are still getting paid while they are sitting at home. So people across the country are taking to the streets, saying it's time to get back to business. Some residents in California rebelling against Governor Newsom after he deployed police to shut down the beaches

during a 90-degree heat wave out there. Here in New York, citizens on Long Island shut down traffic on major roadways. One barber even offered free haircuts on the back of a parked truck outside his shop. The cops quickly shut that down. In Michigan, hundreds of protesters ignoring Governor Whitmer's state of emergency order, some carrying guns and storming the statehouse. Lawmakers, at least a few of them, wore bulletproof vests during those demonstrations. And I have to say, guns are not needed during protests and actually hurt the cause.

Folks in Florida calling the stay-at-home orders tyranny. Virginia demonstrators shutting down the capital in Richmond. Arizona, two sheriffs, saying they will not enforce any lockdown measures anymore than there's privacy. Florida police departments are considering the use of drones that can take your temperature from 300 feet in the air. other agencies around the country proposing digital surveillance, and here's something else you might not know. The backlash against the shutdown has sparked a resurgent of the familiar

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