Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 7, 2024

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

Trump silenced, Columbia cancels graduation, Americans are more anxious than ever before, and a new survey ranks the rudest states in the USA. Plus, the Message of the Day, why Americans distrust the national media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update, sponsored by Tax Network USA. America's number one choice for tax resolution. Please go to TNUSA.com slash bill or call 800-245-6-0-0. This is Josh Hammer, host of the America on Trial podcast. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. Trump silenced.

Columbia cancels graduation. Americans are more anxious than ever before. A new survey ranks the rudest states in the USA. Also ahead, Bill's message of the day, but first. A judge in Manhattan fined Donald Trump and threatened to throw him in prison for violating his gag order, said the judge, quote, Mr. Trump, you have to understand that I truly don't want to throw you in jail.

As much as I do not want to impose a jail sanction, I want you to understand that I will if it's necessary. The Republican presidential nominee can now be fined $1,000 for each violation. More on this in today's episode of America on trial with Josh Hammer. Columbia University cancels its main commencement ceremony. The event was scheduled for May 15th, but administrators axed the graduation over fears. of anti-Israel protests. Instead, Colombia is offering small-scale celebrations in some designated locations.

Pro-Hamas Anarchy is continuing to reign supreme on the American University campus, very much including our so-called most prestigious universities such as Columbia. A survey from the American Psychological Association finds 87% of Americans' experience significant anxiety every single day. Biggest sources of stress include financial troubles, health, and the ongoing wars in Israel and Ukraine. Nine and ten parents say the recent news

cycle has damaged their children's development. Doctors blame the national angst on a constant stream of global crises since the pandemic hit in 2020. A new poll published by YouGov ranks the rudest states in the nation. Places are judged by overall politeness, courtesy towards strangers, and willingness to help others. The worst states? Well, those can be found in the Northeast, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The friendliest people in the U.S.? Well, they're in South Dakota, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont, and number one, Hawaii. Thanks for listening. I'm Josh Hammer, host of the America on trial with Josh Hammer podcast. Bill O'Reilly's message of the day up next.

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about how the USA will be damaged, perhaps forever, if voters put Donald Trump back into the White House. It was the usual. Trump continues to peddle a phony assessment of the 2020 vote, and he encouraged the riot on January 6th. Okay, Carl's entitled to his analysis, as Disney is paying him handsibly for it. But we've all heard Carl's opinion in some form every day for three and a half years. Doesn't a guy have anything else? Doesn't seem like it.

Mr. Carl, a graduate of the ultra-liberal Vassar College, is making a guy. big money off Trump. His last book was an all-out attack on the former president, and Carl's loathing guarantees him job security at ABC News. Just curious, but I can't find any John Carl analysis of Mark Zuckerberg pumping hundreds of millions of unexplained dollars into a few crucial voting districts in 2020. Is John Carl aware, disinterested? Frightened to engage? I don't know. What I do know is that Donald Trump believes there was election fraud, and he's not going to stop with that, even if it hurts him, which it does. But maybe we should all move ahead to a comparison of governance between Biden and Trump.

If you fact find on that, it will become very clear who is the better president. it. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at Bill o'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Okay, let's go to the mail. We got David concierge member. And if you become a concierge member, you can get any of my books or the not woke mug. I mean, this is a fabulous deal here. I don't know how long we can keep this up, by the way. David says, Bill, so glad you were explain the very small numbers of both students at these demonstrations on college campuses. As you said, the vast majority of students and the public at large want nothing to do with the narrative

voice upon us by the fanatics. Okay, that's true. Nothing like Vietnam, not even close. Wayne, a concierge member. It's not weak leadership in America. The White House doesn't want. find out who's funding the protest because they know it's all their supporters no wait the fanatical progressive leftists who hate israel don't like biden because biden sends arms and money to is that of mine todd worth comac new york hey bill i think your judgment regarding governor gnome killing a dog is clouded by your love for animals. I believe you're making more of this than it is. Shooting a violent dog is killing livestock is not an issue.

I think most of Americans are disagreeing with you, Todd. Governor Oams is in major trouble. So, and it's not, I'm not making more of it. I'm just reporting what happened and saying if I, well, my dog and was eating chickens and biting me, I put her down too, but I do it in a more humane way. 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,

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Here is the story of the so-called man nobody knew. Born in 1920, Minnesota, Colby served in the Army during World War II. Throughout the 1950s, he worked as a CIA operative in Western Europe. He was then appointed station chief of Saigon and pretty much ran that war. While in Asia, Colby played a major role in executing America's fight, including Operation Phoenix, which wiped out the Viet Cong. He was then appointed director of the CIA in 1973 by President Nixon. Kobe returned to private life three years later.

For the next decade, the former spy was named in numerous hearings as having personal knowledge of top secret and potentially illegal CIA operations. The list included assassination plots, drug smuggling, and mind control experiments. On April 27, 1996, Colby left his Riverside home in Maryland for a canoe paddle. The empty canoe was discovered the next day. Colby had vanished. His body was found on May 6, floating face down in the water. Now, conspiracy theories immediately sprang up. Some believe Kobe was killed by the CIA itself to prevent further testimony.

Others blame his demise on Cuban consular. communists, Russian agents, even extraterrestrials. According to the coroner, Colby simply died by drowning in hypothermia, which may have been caused by a heart attack. Colby's son, Carl, released a documentary on his father's disappearance in 2011 called The Man Nobody Knew. He believes his father committed suicide. And here's something else you might not know.

After his tumultuous tenure as the head of the CIA, President Gerald Ford wanted to replace Colby with a more sensitive and sensible guy. Ford's choice to lead the agency, George H.W. Bush. Back after this. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all size, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day.

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