Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Pope Weighs in on Immigration and the Presidential Election, But is He Wrong About Abortion? Randall Smith on the Catholic Vote, & the Media's Violent Rhetoric Hypocrisy

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, September 17th, 2024, stand up for your country. So what are you doing seven weeks from today? Voting, I hope so. A lot of early ballot stuff, absentee stuff, all of that, but I'll be voting on Election Day, and it's in seven weeks. So many, many things are going to happen in the next seven weeks. People go, oh, who's going to win the election?

I don't know. So if I knew I'd fly over to London and put a ton of money on whoever it would be, but I don't know. I do know this, that both candidates could absolutely emerge victorious at this point. And Trump is very close in the polls. If you really analyze the poll, to take a look. I mean, not far away anywhere in the national or the swing states. And then the window closes on the debates, for example. Doesn't seem like either side really wants another debate. I suggest that the former president might do that as Ronald Reagan did in 1984 after he got beat by Mondale. He came back on the second debate just one week before the vote and waxed Mondale and then Reagan won overwhelmingly in the electoral college and in a popular vote. But I get in a

feeling that that debate thing is not going to happen. I could be wrong on that. It's a guess. The talking points tonight is about groups voting, which is going to be crucial. So let's run it down. Key blocks of people are being wooed by both candidates. So let's see, Black Americans first. According to an NPR, PBS poll, Kamala Harris has 74%, Donald Trump, 24%, Donald Trump, 24%. right now as it stands. That's higher than usual for the Republican ticket. I don't know how reliable the NPR poll is. I don't think I would be that confident in it. Then you have

Hispanics Americans, Latinos, Harris 47, Trump 51, Trump beating her. Now, if that holds, Trump will win. Okay, if the Hispanic-American vote. goes to Trump. The Republicans, Trump wins. That's how important it is. And it's a larger vote than the African-American vote. What about Catholics? There are almost 39 million American Catholics that voted in 2020. That's huge, a huge number. Okay? 50% according to the Associated Press backed Trump. Forty-nine backed Biden. again, was in 2020. Okay, so that Catholic vote is very important, and I don't know how Kamala Harris

even approaches Catholic Americans with her cheerleading for abortion, and I don't care what you say. That's what she has done throughout our whole political career. No restrictions, any time, anywhere, for any reason. how do you appeal to Catholics, where that is unacceptable in that religion? Now, if you are a Catholic, you've got to know that, okay? If you don't know it, you might want to go across the street to the Lutheran Church or Methodist because this is in stone, this is dogma, that human life begins at conception, not going to change.

so enter pope francis who i believe is a good man i wrote a message of the day on bill o'reilly com this morning and i hope you read the message every morning you don't have to be a member of anything let's go to bill o'reilly dot com punch it up there's a message so on a flight back from singapore to rome uh the pope chatted with some journalists and uh he made some remarks about the u.s presidential vote in the context of abortion and illegal migration. Roll it. Expelling migrants, not giving them the possibility of working, not welcoming migrants is a sin. It is grave. On abortion, science says that in the first month after conception, all the organs of a human

being are already there. All of them. Performing an abortion is killing a human being. Okay. So that's where the Pope stands. Now remember, the Pope is free to give an opinion on anything he wants. That's even church doctrine, but not dogma. There's a difference. It's a little complicated the theology, but dogma is in stone. Jesus is God. Dogma. Don't eat meat on Fridays when I was growing up. That's doctrine. That can change. Now when a Pope speaks on dogma, he's infallible. That's what Catholics believe. But doctrine, he's fallible. Okay. So I write my message. I'm a quote from it. It's demonstrable that unregulated immigration leads to social disorder and many harmful unintended consequences as governments are overwhelmed.

While Pope Francis understands whether Pope Francis understands that, I don't know. But Christian doctrine is built on justice, which requires lawful discipline. Render to Caesar, which is a quote from Jesus in the New Testament. So what is the fallout from the Pope's remarks? Will it help Donald Trump? Because he's obviously not as bullish on abortion as Kamala Harris. However, Sir Trump wants a regulated border and would deport on documented Margaret's. I don't think he can do that en masse, as he says, and we have gone over that.

but that's his intention. Now, I believe that abortion trumps, I'm sorry, the migrant situation. Because there are two sides for Catholics of the migrant situation. The social disorder, and there's no question that that is in play, versus the compassion that the Pope always stands for, and that's why I admire Pope Francis, because he is a kind man. 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.

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I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand-new-new-post-new podcast, Podforce 1. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, lawmakers and even the President of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce 1 with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. I've seen him up for come, you know, I'm not his pal, but I've been around it. Very kind man, but he's a liberation theologian. And he knows that the poor are abused worldwide, but sometimes, you know, you just can't let everybody run around everywhere.

You can't. I don't know, again, whether the Pope knows that. And that's a memo. So I want another point of view on this. Joining us on from Houston, Texas. Texas is Dr. Randall Smith. He is a professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. So first of all, my analysis, did I make any mistakes as far as you know? No, I mean, essentially, I mean, people might have described dogma and doctrines somewhat differently, but you've essentially, it seems to me, gotten the distinction right. Some things are infallible or what's sometimes called irreformable teaching. and other things don't have that.

They can be serious teachings, need to be taken seriously, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're infallible. Now, the Pope can give his opinion on politics. There's nothing standing in the way of him doing that, but he doesn't seem to understand, and I've followed him, the downside of mass migration.

Even though in Italy, it's a huge problem, as it is throughout Europe, with one exception, Malta, which just doesn't permit it. So with the Pope, would you say he's being naive, avoiding the unintended consequences of mass migration? Well, that may be, but to be fair, a little bit fair to the Pope, the question he was asked by the reporter was, with the U.S. elections coming up, what advice would you give a Catholic voter

faced with a candidate who supports ending a pregnancy didn't say abortion or killing a child and another who wants to deport 11 million migrants didn't say illegal immigrants, didn't talk about me. And so that's the question you're faced with and the Pope said, well, abortion is murder, don't be wrong about that. And then of course he said everybody should be kind

to migrants, et cetera, et cetera. So which both are true. No, but he was stronger on the migrant front. He said it was a sin. And he has in the past. So the question doctor comes down to is Pope Francis naive? Does he not know, all right, the evil that can happen when you have unregulated migration? And all you have to do is point to the gangs coming up from Venezuela, El Salvador, other people, Americans being murdered, rape, terrorized, whole communities and disarray, fiscal collapses everywhere. I mean, the list is endless. And Francis does not seem to be

dialed into that, or am I wrong? No, I think you're right. I mean, again, it's unfortunate when he does these little, you know, pressers on the airplane, it doesn't give him a chance to be more detailed. He's got to know. He has to at this point. how volatile the situation is. Now, he uses the word lesser of two evils, all right? And in my message of the day, which we sent to you, I use myself as an example, okay? Because Cardinal Dolan came to me years ago, a few years ago,

and asked me to finance homes for migrants. And I did. But I didn't ask whether they were undocumented or not because that wasn't the subject. Subject was helping the poor, which I'm compelled to do as a Catholic. I didn't get into the politics of it. But my job as a commentator is to make sure that Americans understand abortion is far different than opposing unregulated migration, which I do. I don't think I'm committing a sin by asking,

the U.S. federal government to enforce immigration law. I don't think I'm committing a sin by doing that. Do you think the Pope would say that I am? Well, I don't know whether the Pope would say that, but he would not be in accord with I think with Catholic teaching if he said that, right? Again, there are honest people of goodwill who can disagree about what to do about the immigration issue, but on the abortion issue where you're quite right, it's contrary to the natural law and the divine law, and you'd have to say it's, as the Pope does, it's murder. So if you want to read that statement of his about the lesser of two evils, he would be clearly saying, as you just did, that you would have to preempt, make abortion, the preeminent

issue of the two. It's much more defined than the other. So 49% of American Catholics, and I was surprised by the number, 39 million, a big number. that voted in 2020. But 49% of those voted for the Democrats, Joe Biden. And Joe Biden doesn't want any restrictions on abortion either. I mean, you never, ever come up. And as you know, some bishops have denied the president communion. They believe he's aiding and abetting abortion.

And I do too. It's wrong to make judgments. I understand that. But politically, I think he's aiding. and abetting abortion. My Catholic friends who support Biden, and I know many of them, I just look at them,

I go, how can you do this? They have no answer, doctor. I have never gotten a cogent answer from a Catholic who voted for Joe Biden about that subject. Have you? No. No, and I've written about this several times.

The same sort of thing. I mean, I hate to be the person who agrees with you completely, but the point is I've written repeatedly that if you were living in jury, Germany, for example, in 1936, the issue would be what they're doing to the Jews and tax policy or, you know, personalities would not enter into it. You would have to vote against people who are doing certain things to Jews. And if you lived in the United States during the time of Jim Crow or during the time of slavery, whatever your other policies might be, you would have had to vote against slavery.

And we're in that situation. I just think people don't take it seriously that, as the Pope says, you're terminating a human life. This is killing a human life. I think there's something else in play for the Catholic vote. Most Catholics don't go to mass anymore. The polls show that. It's about maybe a quarter, a 10-weekly mass. And there are many American Catholics baptized in the faith

who have no idea what the faith says. None. And they don't care. We call them secular Catholics. I think that's probably. the dominant group right now in the American Catholic Church. Would I be wrong? Well, I don't know in the church as a whole, but you're undoubtedly right.

So that, for example, when surveys of this sort are done of people who have been to mass, right, in the last week or the last two weeks, the results tend to be very different, right? Then you see a large, I mean, well, I large support for Trump, but, I mean, a tremendous vote the other way for people who are pro-life candidates. So a lot of people check themselves in the box as Catholic, but don't really go to Mass or don't really believe in the church's teaching. They just sort of think it's like, well, I was born Jewish and now I'm Jewish, and it's not quite that way, but many people sort of think that way. We might call them ethnically Catholic, if such a term existed. I think that's what's going on here, and they don't really even understand. Final question. When you have any discussion like this about religion, the church and state thing comes in. So I go to Mass every Sunday because I can't get behind and atoning. If I get behind and atoning, I'm through.

Because I have to keep current in that. But I never hear, and I travel widely, ever. A priest having a discussion like you. I are having right now, ever. They never apply the theology to the election or to what's going on. Now, I understand you can't endorse a candidate. You'll violate your tax-free status if you do that. I mean, it happens all the time in other religions, but it doesn't happen very much. The priests are frightened now, generally speaking, to make any kind of relevance to today what's happening. Again, am I wrong on that? Well, there I have to, I hate to disagree with you, you know. Sorry, you can disagree with me.

That's why you have y'all. There are I, yeah. I have heard any number of homilies, actually, about the evils of abortion. Nobody has said, oh, so vote for this candidate. But then a lot of people in the congregation said he was being political. I don't think those priests were being political. I actually knew a priest up at Notre Dame who said, I just read today that Joe Biden has never heard a homily against abortion.

And he said, well, here's one. And he gave one, right? I actually have heard a good number of homilies against abortion. You got to send me the address to the churches because I have never heard it address. I hear, yeah, let's get out there and rally for life and all that. But I never hear it applied to a reality. And you remember in Notre Dame when they invited Barack Obama to get the honor. you know, because Obama was a big abortion guy, too.

What kind of controversy that caused? Doctor, we really appreciate the discussion. Thank you very much for helping it out today. And I ended my message of the day by saying, everybody asking, who would you like to interview that you haven't? Pope Francis. You know, I don't know if you'd like me, but, and I would be very respectful, but I would,

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All right, that's what he did. Donald Trump is in Flint, Michigan for a rally this evening. Harris is in Philadelphia, being interviewed by the National Association of Black Journalists. Remember when Trump went in there and he was attacked right off the bat? I don't think the Vice President's going to get that kind of reception. We will play a little bit of that tomorrow for you. You know, you know what it is. I don't have to belabor this.

Media madness. And, you know, I may be overdoing this. And if I am, please write me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. Look, my audience is very sophisticated and knowledgeable. You wouldn't be here if you weren't. You'd be watching some other dopey cable thing

where you learn nothing and all they do is what aboutism and spout these nonsensical things. But here, we are very incisive and analytical in what we do. So just by the fact that you are listening and watching, you know a lot. So what is happening now is that the corporate media is concerned that Donald Trump may win.

And that's from the very beginning. But now, after two assassination attempts, it's getting to be very intense in NBC, ABC, ABC, CBS, CNN in those corridors, very intense. Now, I told you yesterday that Lester Holt, the NBC Nightly News Anchorman, gave an introduction to the, I, Florida shooting situation. Remember, the Secret Service shot at the would-be assassin. And he was getting hammered. Holt was getting hammered by conservatives, but I said, I wanted to look into it more and see what the whole thing was, the arc. So let's do that now. Here's what Mr. Holt said. Go. Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself.

Mr. Trump, his running mate, J.D. Vance, continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town. Okay, it's a selective lead, but it's not wrong. Okay, he walked the line. He didn't mention the rhetoric on the other side, but you really couldn't in that context. All right. So fierce rhetoric is accurate. But on the left, on the Democratic side, it's worse, in my opinion, than what Trump and Vance are doing.

And Lester didn't say that, but he was introducing, all right, a story about Trump and a possible motivating a situation. So I'm going to give, I'm not going to condemn Lester for that. I would have written it differently, but I don't think he went out with ill intent. But his fellow NBC news person, Joe Scarborough, who specializes in ill intent, said this, go. You know, Donald Trump telling people in his audience to beat the hell out of any protesters or people they disagree with and he will pay for their legal funds. The amount of violent rhetoric coming from one side really is unprecedented in modern American politics. And it's got sharp and sitting here listening to it.

One side. Is it Violin Ra, one side, not the other side. That's a lie. And I will prove it right now. Go. It is language that is meant to divide us. It is language that I think people have rightly found similar to the language of Hitler. It is well known that he admires dictators, wants to be a dictator

on day one. According to himself, it is well known that he said of Putin, that he can do whatever the hell he wants and go into Ukraine. All right, false statements across the board by the vice president, no surprise, dictator on day one was when Trump was talking about executive orders, that he was going to straighten out some things that Biden did by executive orders. And he didn't say I want to be a dictator. He said on day one, I'm going to override all of Biden's executive orders by writing my own. So I'll be a dictator on day one. Okay. Harris knows that. I don't know if she's smart enough to process it, but she knows it. And the second one is that Putin can do whatever he wants. That was in the context of NATO has to pay its share of protective fees. Because if they don't,

The United States can't pick up the whole tab, and then Putin's going to be able to do what he wants. So when you have the Democratic side and their candidate coming on using the word Hitler and then distorting the whole thing, that's pretty fierce rhetoric. Is it not? So I don't want to upset the people at MSNBC by actually reporting the people. the truth because they don't care about the truth. All right, it's all about the paycheck. Pay me, I'll say whatever you want. Just pay me.

All right, update on the Florida situation. Suspect was in the area for 12 hours. According to the FBI, they know this by cell phone data. It's charged with two firearm offenses. He will be charged. charged with a capital crime down the road. Bail is set for September 23rd. He will not get it. Okay, they'll hold him. He's a flight risk. So he's, this guy will never be out. His life is over. Okay, just like the guy in Butler, Pennsylvania is dead. This guy's never going to be out of

confinement. And then it's, all right, he's a nut. He's a nut. That's it. And that's what. is common with all the other presidential assassins and attempted, because we documented in confronting the presidents. Seven, four fatalities. I didn't do the two Trump shootings situations because the book was in publication. I couldn't. But seven and four fatalities. The commonality is the people who did it were all loons. And I mean that seriously. Mentally ill. And so was this guy. The Secret Service chief said something interesting that they didn't sweep the full perimeter of the golf course where the guy was hiding because Trump's golf outing was unscheduled. And that makes sense. As Trump said, I want to play some golf and let's go. So the service didn't have time to do

that security perimeter. Makes sense to me. Okay, why he was there, the would-be assassin, for 12 hours, I don't know. That's the key to this whole case. How did he know Trump was going to ever show up there within, you know, a week or two weeks? That's a key, and we are watching that very, very closely. All right, nobody cares about this story, but it's dead. desperately important. So we have a $35 trillion debt now. And the U.S. government reports

to service that debt, we pay $1 trillion this country a year on interest payments. So how the government can run up a $35 trillion debt is sells bonds, sells government securities. I have some. You buy it, the government pays an interest rate to you. Well, that's at a trillion dollar level. Unsustainable. Can't continue to do it. But have you heard anything about that from Trump or Harris? No.

Neither of them, I believe, would take this on. Colorado, used to live there, loved it. Denver, a totally different place. when I was there in the late 70s. And it was probably, I could live in Colorado. Back then, I don't know now, but it's a really beautiful place. So Denver is a sanctuary city. And they have a colossal amount of foreign nationals pouring into primarily Denver,

about 50,000. Okay, city can't handle it. And a lot of those migrants then go to the suburbs. So you know about the Aurora, Colorado. The Venezuelan violent gangs have gone in there, causal contact trouble. So a number of communities, Castle Rock South of Denver, Aurora Parker, Colorado out on the eastern flank, they're considering suing the city of Denver. There's already two lawsuits, Douglas County and El Paso County have sued the state because

it's a sanctuary state. Now, the villains here are the governor, Democratic governor, Pallis, P-O-L-I-S. and the very liberal mayor of Denver, Mike Johnson. See, when I was there, Colorado was a traditional state, including Denver. Boulder was always crazy left. That's where the University of Colorado is. But Denver and Colorado are pretty traditional. Okay.

Now, it's all the big metro center, Denver, dominates the whole state, is very liberal. But now the lawsuits are starting to flow, because you can't, do the sanctuary city thing. So Sweden, one of the most liberal countries on earth, got 10.5 million citizens. About 300,000 refugees, they call them there, reported to Sweden. Sweden's only got one major city, Stockholm. And that's where most of them are. And they overrun the city. So now Sweden says, we will pay about $34,000 if you are a migrant to go home. It's according to Newsmax. It starts in 2006, so I don't think it's ever going to get there, but it's on the books. Now, most of the undocumented or refugees, whatever you want to call them, are from Syria,

Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran, Iraq. Okay, so they're Middle Eastern in the troubled places, and they go to Sweden. I don't know how they get the climate there. You're going from a warm climate to a very cold climate, but that's another story. But Sweden can't handle it. Can't, because Sweden doesn't have any money. All the money is sent on cradle the grave entitlements, and they can't tax anymore because they're up 70, 80 percent.

Taxing their people, it's a tradeoff. People say, okay, these are Swedish. Swedish people. You pay for everything. School, preschool, college, all health, retirement, everything, and you can take all my money that I earn. That's what they do. Okay. Can't do that now. They don't have any money left over it to get the 300,000 migrants in some kind of decent shape. So that's Sweden. Okay, smart life. Now you'll remember, and this is a key to life. So we'll go over it again. you need three things to keep yourself safe a good doctor that means you can get the doctor on the phone a good lawyer that means somebody who will look out for you rather than bill you $800 an hour for

everything and finally a good financial advisor you need those three doctor lawyer financial advisor If you don't have them, search, look. The best way to do it is to ask friends and family who they use, but you have to have a personal relationship with them. Now, doctors are the most important because if you get sick, you want somebody who's going to care about you. And there's a couple of tips. You go to the doctor's office.

They keep you waiting more than 45 minutes. They don't respect you. I will not wait, but I'm me, so they know that. But if you walk in and you're sitting there 45 minutes after your appointment time, they're disrespecting you. You want to find another doctor. Okay. Number two, if it's money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money.

That's all you hear from the front desk. I know you got to fill out 85,000 forms. I get it. Okay? I do it before. So I asked for the forms, we sent to me, I fill them out, so they're already done. but if that's all you're hearing is money out of there because there are two times of doctors those who care about people and those who just want to make money unfortunately the latter

category is rising and they say oh i got so many loans and i go okay nobody nobody is disputing you should make a good living but if that's your primary thing no and i ran into uh this a couple years ago and I had a search around and I had a booted three or four doctors that were treating my son and me for various things and I just said this is ridiculous but now I got a good dermatologist I got a good internist I got a good general practitioner but I had to research it smart life do not ignore this find those three individuals root as cities in America ready so this is based on lack of awareness in public. That's people who just run into you because they're on their phone and they don't say excuse me. All right. Noisiness where they're yelling and they had the

music blaring and all of that and rudeness to service staff like waiters and things like that. That's the three criteria. Preply is an online that does these kind of surveys. P-R-E-P-L-Y, Preply. Here are the rudest cities in America. Ready? Miami, Florida, number one. Philadelphia, two. Tampa, surprised by Tampa. Three. Louisville, Kentucky, shocking. That's Southern hospitality. Come on. Oakland, California. I got it. You don't want to go there. Boston. Now, that's New England crustiness. I love Boston. I never had a problem there. But I understand the New England is a little crusty. Memphis, Tennessee. Vegas. Wow. Long Beach, California, North Carolina. The rootest cities. Here are the least rude. Omaha, Nebraska. Every time I go to

Omaha, people are so nice. Minneapolis, San Diego, Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Missouri, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, San Jose, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Oklahoma City. Most in the Midwest. Notice that. Midwest, nice. It's true. Okay, this day in history, 57 years ago, the door, Remember that rock group, went on Ed Sullivan. Now, before they were to appear, and it was a live show Sunday night, Sullivan was huge. Okay, this was in 1967, September 17th. The producer says, you cannot say, he said this to the doors, girl, we couldn't get much higher because of the drug implication. You have to change that line.

And the door said, okay, we'll change it. here's what happened go yeah marston just wouldn't change it just wouldn't change it so so Sullivan they wouldn't put him on ever again but it really didn't matter the door sold a hundred million albums worldwide, a hundred millions. Jim Morrison died four years later. Drugs and alcohol, Paris, France found him in a bathtub dead. And that is the story 57 years ago today. Back with a final thought in a moment. Okay, so final thought, confirming the president's going great. We hope we are number one on the New York Times. We've outsold by far, other nonfiction book in the last 10 days. So we should open at number one, but who knows?

On Amazon, where many, many Americans buy their books, there is a review by Constantinos Scarros. He is the founder of the Society of Presidential Historians in Academia. This is a big guy, is what he says. Confronting the president's is historically accurate, eminently, engaging, refreshingly objective, highly entertaining. Far too many, scholarly history books are written to preserve the historical record. That's important, but consequently they contain painstakingly dry and excruciating, boring detail. This book is chocked full of information that's easy to digest so the readers' eyes can easily glide from page to page. Well, Mr. Scarros, thank you very much from your perch as a presidential historian.

That's what we set out to do. And the reviews are going to do. Good. I'm very pleased with the reaction to confronting the president. If you read the book, you will be very smart. If you know urchins ages 13 to 25 and they're interested in their country, give them confronting the presidents. They'll learn more than they learned in any classroom. okay all right that is it for us this evening i'm bill o'reilly we'll see you again tomorrow