Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, November 18, 2020

Episode Date: November 18, 2020

President Trump loses a legal battle in Pennsylvania... The Pentagon removes thousands of troops from the Middle East... Philadelphia shuts down to slow the plague... Florida stays open despite the spike... The lockdown now affecting our memories...  Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, why covering Joe Biden is no easy task. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. Wednesday, November 18th, 2020. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. President Trump loses a legal battle in Pennsylvania. The Pentagon removing thousands of troops from the Middle East. Philadelphia is shutting down to slow the plague. Florida staying open. Lockdown now affecting our memories. Also ahead, covering Joe Biden. It's not easy. But first, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling against the Trump campaign's efforts to overturn the vote in that state, the five to two vote by the Supreme Court rejected the president's claims that Republicans were barred from witnessing the count

in Philadelphia. The court warned it would be unconstitutional to dismiss legal ballots because of slight procedural irregularities, the court's words. There is still one more big case to decide in Pennsylvania that could wind up in the Supreme Court. President Trump ordering the Department of Defense to pull 2,500 soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan by January 15. U.S. troops have been stationed in Afghanistan since October 2001, and the drawdown is controversial. because Islamic terrorism still exists in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Philadelphia banning all indoor gatherings as COVID surges across the country. The mayor's office prohibiting folks from getting together, visiting each other's homes or dining in restaurants.

The governor also urging all residents to wear masks in their own homes. Wow. neighboring New Jersey now limiting the maximum number of Thanksgiving guests to 10 people or less. Unlike to Northeast Florida sticking to his plan to avoid restrictions, Governor DeSantis allowing bars, restaurants, gyms, and theme parks to operate at full capacity. Local governments in Florida are permitted to impose their own lockdown should they choose to do so. Researchers at the University of California say the national shutdown is having an effect on everybody's memory. Scientists believe high stress, isolation, and disrupted work schedules are making folks forget daily events.

20% of those surveyed are unable to recall what day it is. What day is it? In a moment, Joe Biden, not an easy. easy guy to cover. Right back with that. 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. Tharu, 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.

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Coordinate what? Exactly what does Joe Biden want to do? I don't know. Mr. Biden unraised, quote, especially at those moments when this campaign was at its lowest end, the African-American community stood up again for me. You've always had my bad. back, and I'll have yours, unquote. But how? What will Joe Biden as president do to improve race relations? We don't know. Mr. Biden on foreign policy, quote, when I'm speaking to foreign leaders, I'm telling them, America is going to be back. We're going to be back in the game, unquote. What game? What does that actually mean? Impossible to say. Joe Biden on unity, quote, America, I'm honored that you have chosen me to lead our great country. The work ahead of us

will be hard, but I promise you this. I will be a president for all Americans, whether you voted for me or not. Now is the time to heal, unquote. Great, heal. Nice. But again, heal from what? Obviously, he's implying that Donald Trump hurt us, but 73 million Americans voted for him. Are they going to heal? Heal from what? So we don't know what Joe Biden is going to do. We don't know how he sees. the country, how he sees the world. We don't know anything. That's the truth. Now, Mr. Biden is hiring a lot of former Obama people. That's a hint. Also a lot of corporate people. And that surprised me. But no radicals thus far. Honest journalists, and I like to think I am one, should try to be fair to Joe Biden. platitudes don't get us anywhere and are impossible to put into any kind of reasonable

context. Joe Biden won because more people voted for him than Donald Trump. My analysis is he didn't win because 77 million Americans liked him. He won because 77 million Americans liked him, he won because 77 million Americans did not like Donald Trump. I could be wrong. But again, going forward, it is not going to be easy to cover Joe Biden because he rarely says anything specific. I'm Bill O'Reilly and I approved that message by actually writing it. Please consider my new book, Killing Crazy Horse, still on the bestseller list after 10 weeks. I think you'll like it. In a moment, something you might not know.

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 sides, especially on the topics of the mainstream media, 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. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 42 years ago today, a thousand Americans gathered in a remote jungle village in South America, members of the group had just shot and killed. a visiting U.S. congressman. Then the people were herded and forced to drink poison-laced fruit punch.

In less than an hour, 909 people were dead in the biggest mass suicide in history. This is the story of the Jonestown Massacre. Beginning in the 1950s, preacher Jim Jones established the people's temple, a Christian sect focused on racial equality and socialist principles like the elimination of private property. Soon, Jones relocated the church to San Francisco. The group was popular among local hippies, the poor, thousands of African Americans in the Bay area. A few months later, Jim Jones was accused of fraud embezzlement, sexual assault, and the abuse of children. So he fled the country. The paranoid preacher invited his followers to join him in starting a new life in French Guyana. The congregation was promised paradise.

Instead, they found hard labor and propaganda. Many were ordered to work 18-hour days in the hot sun, listening to Jones' rambling sermons on loudspeakers, even while they slept. They were also forced to surrender their passports. After numerous complaints for family members in San Francisco, California Congressman Leo Ryan organized a visit to Jonestown in Guyana. The next day, church members were begging the congressman to take them back to America. Ryan was then attacked with a knife and ultimately shot to death, along with three members of his party.

Back in the village, Jim Jones ordered everyone to gather in the main pavilion and commit what he termed a, quote, revolutionary act of suicide. nurses concocted a blend of cyanide, sedatives, and flavored Kool-Aid. More than 900 people were dead within 45 minutes. And here's something else you might not know. Some members of the people's temple managed to survive. Thirty-six people escaped the jungle. They hid among the bodies before being rescued by Guyanese authorities. Back after this.

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