Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Trump & Buttigieg Visit Ohio Train Derailment, Andrea Mitchell Apologizes, CNN's Controversial Charles Barkley Interest, & More

Episode Date: February 24, 2023

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former President Trump make separate trips to East Palestine, Ohio. Bill breaks them down and explains the media's reaction NBC News' Andrea Mitchell is forced to apologize for lying about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis The head of CNN is looking to hire basketball legend Charles Barkley to host a show, angering his workers The No Spin News reports on happiness This Day in History: The siege of the Alamo begins Final Thought: Busy week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News Thursday, February 23, 2003, stand up for your country. Well, President Biden is off today. Came back last night from Poland and Ukraine, so he's taking it easy. But tomorrow he will return to ignore vexing problems, which is what he does pretty much every day. He just, well, board is fine. Don't worry about it. Inflation ain't that. But today's off. But Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, is not off. He was forced to go to East Palestine, Ohio to look at the toxic train wreck fallout. There's Pete. So he had to to go. I didn't really want to go since it took them, what, three weeks to get there. I mean,

come on. And that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. You know, this is about politics, certainly, because Trump went yesterday, and I'm going to bring that in. It is about politics, let's be honest. But it's also about reassurance that if you have a position of power, as Buttigieg does, you have to go and try to help your fellow citizens. And Buttigieg said, nah, it's not going. Now, once Trump announced that he was going to visit Ohio and go to the town, and he brought water and he bought everybody McDonald's, whatever he did, that put pressure on the Biden administration.

So they ordered Buttigieg to go when they should have ordered Buttigieg to go three weeks ago. Okay, but they didn't because Biden, he's not engaged. So anyway, Trump shows up yesterday, and that was an interesting media thing I'll get to in a moment. And Buddha Judge shows up this morning. I butted their sound bites together. Go. To the people of East Palestine and to the nearby communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, we have told you loud and clear you are not forgotten. You are not forgotten.

We stand with you. We pray for you, and we will stay with you in your fight to help answer. the accountability that you deserve will have that accountability. It'll all be out there very clearly. We've laid out a set of actions that DOT is taken, some of which we're already underway, others which we're adding to the agenda, a set of things that the railroad industry needs to do, including better informing communities when hazmat is coming to them, something I've talked to the governor about and strongly agree with him on, and including steps to take care of their workers and their system. and things that we need Congress in order to work on.

But what about the folks, Pete? What are you doing for them? You're going to bring FEMA in? Are they going to get money to relocate? What are you doing? Are you testing? You're going to bring the environmental people in to see what the danger, the possible danger may be?

This is all bureaucratic blather. All right. And Trump was all right. I mean, Trump doesn't have any power anymore to do anything. Now, here's the interesting part. When Trump gave his speech live, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News didn't cover it. Now, eight years ago, that would have been unheard of.

Trump was on TV every hour on the hour because every time it went on, the ratings went up. Four years ago, they probably would have covered the president, Trump, at the time, making that kind of a thing. But now they don't. And it's particularly interesting that FNC, which made a four. fortune from Donald Trump, they didn't cover his live remarks. Now, they all reported on it later, and it's all right. I'm not, if I were the news president of those agencies, I would have taken 10 minutes of Trump's speech live. I wouldn't have taken the whole thing, but 10 minutes I think you can dip in. There wasn't outside of the Ukraine thing, which we got a lot of coverage

on. You had 10 minutes to spare for that. But the reason, and I wrote this in the message of the day on bill o'reilly.com we urge you to go there every morning you don't have to be a member of anything you just go to the website bill o'reilly dot com you can read the message of the day the reason is the corporate media now all of them 100% doesn't want trump around they don't want them to be president again they don't want any part of don't trump who he has no corporate media allies today he did have fox news that's gone okay so When you're in that situation, Trump has got to get the stuff out himself, which he's doing a decent job of. I don't know, you know, what the future there lies, but he's doing, he gets what he wants out there.

So the hate Trump media, which is now all of it, you know, pretty much, they go immediately and say, what aboutism? I hate this, by the way. So you don't deal with the problem, you put that aside. But what about this? Roll the tape. And by the way, where was that guy when there were disasters, when there were trained disasters, when he was president of the United States? Exactly. I never saw him out.

I never saw him out. Where was he? Why didn't he decide to go here? Well, he did go through a paper tell us of people at one point. Those are two of the dumbest people on television. maybe they have native intelligence, but they're so lazy. All you had to do is what my staff did, and it took them about 10 minutes. How many trained arrelemans, serious ones, were there during the Trump administration? The answer is there were three. None of them toxic. Okay, 2017, Washington

State, DuPont, three killed, 62 injured in a trained arrelement. Why would a president? doesn't go to that no reason okay same year 2017 Brooklyn train crash 103 injured again local story all right and 2018 South Carolina train collision two killed 116 but they were accidents where people were killed but there wasn't toxic waste there wasn't water pollution there wasn't an environmental disaster there weren't people not knowing where to live these were why would no president won't go to those i mean that's those are local stories even though it's horrendous what was a president going to do but here you have an ongoing toxic environmental problem it's a much bigger story so those people

this is NBC News by the way so NBC News basically sets up a satellite news operation MSNBC which doesn't care about anything other than bashing Republicans and conservatives. That's what they're in business to do. They have no other agenda, no other purpose. Again, Ms. Brzynski and Mr. Scarborough could have easily said to their staff, find out how many derailments there were if Trump went and why he didn't. Well, I just told you. And I don't think there's any American that would say, well, a president should have gone there.

No, there's no reason to. If there is a problem that lingers, that may involve tens of thousands of people, as this one in East Palestine, then you go. Or you send people to judge three weeks later. It's so crazy. It really, it really is. Because Biden's philosophy basically is if he's just look away, ignore it. That's the governance we have. We have record-breaking debt in this country.

So what? So what? Hundreds of thousands of people dying from narcotics overdoses. And, you know, people don't believe me. You're partisan O'Reilly, you're this, you're that. I can back up everything I say. You know that. That's why you're here.

Okay, so Buttigieg goes. He gives a bureaucratic speech. He didn't show any empathy for the people in Ohio affected by this. So, I don't know. You make the call. All right, NBC, let's continue our reporting on Andrea Mitchell. Now, I am proud of this. So on Monday, actually, February 17th, all right, she said that Governor DeSantis in Florida, didn't want to teach the kids about slavery, will it take? What does Governor Ron DeSantis not know about black history and the black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida schoolchildren? Well, he didn't say that.

So I was, and again, my staff did a search, the only one on television, the only one who called out Andrew Amman. Mitchell. No one else. Even on the conservative networks. I'm going, what's happening here? Now, the Washington Examiner did write a story about it, criticizing Mitchell. So NBC panicked, and boy, they're in trouble over there. And they forced Mitchell to issue an apology, I guess. Roll the tape. In my interview last Friday with Vice President Harris, I was imprecise in summarizing Governor DeSantis' position about teaching slavery in schools.

Governor DeSantis is not opposed to teaching the fact of slavery in schools, but he has opposed the teaching of an African-American studies curriculum as well as the use of some authors and source materials that historians and teachers say makes it all but impossible for students to understand the broader historic and political context behind slavery and its aftermath in the years since. No, this is gibberish. Word of the day gibberish. So DeSantis, his people, tweeted back, quote, once again, Andrea Mitchell is imprecise in her description because she relies on unnamed historians and teachers. Florida statute requires the teaching of slavery and its aftermath. We just know that queer studies has nothing to do with Jim Crow, unquote. Okay, and that's true. I mean, look, if you're going to teach African American studies, you can't bring in activists. You've got to bring in historians because the activists are going to tell the kids the white people are bad and the slaves are responsible for the economic success of America today. And what happened back then dominated our whole country and the slaves are responsible for what the United States of America has become economically.

Now, if you're seven, you're sitting there, you don't know. So that's the activist position, the 1609 project. It's ridiculous. I can't wait for you guys to read my upcoming book, Killing the Witches, because we get into this, all right, on how the young America, like we take you on the Mayflower, developed without any doubt. I mean, there's no doubt. We have, our research is so crisp here.

But anyway, I know what happened. And I know that the activists are being ridiculous. And I know that Andrea Mitchell believes the activists. the activist and wants them in the classrooms. And I know that NBC News has no problem with Andrea Mitchell or any of this. And that's why I say they're the worst. Let's be honest, they're all bad now. You're not going to get the truth from any of them. You're not. And if you don't know that, there's nothing I can say. But NBC is the worst. And I feel bad for my pal, Lester Holt, who I worked with at WCBS TV in New York.

on the local front. Lester was a hell of a reporter. He was good. And I don't think he's responsible for the direction NBC News. In fact, I know he's not. That's management, Comcast, Philadelphia-based. But Lester has to sit there and listen to this. And essentially, Lester Holt is an honest man, in my opinion, and I know him. Now, the others over there, I'm not going to mention, and Andrew Mitchell is way out. there, way out there. But I know Lester. And he, you know, he's got one of the most powerful positions in the world. And if it were me, could I walk away from that? I would, but it would be very, very hard to do that. I don't blame him for staying. CNN. So this is a very poorly sourced story in the sense that there are no names attached to it. I don't know whether it's true or not,

but it's interestingly placed. So apparently the new boss over there, Chris Likt, who used to produce the Stephen Colbert show. So put shoes in some kind of context. He wants to hire Charles Barkley, the bomb thrower NBA analyst. And Barkley is. is a bomb throw. I mean, he never know what he's going to say. Very entertaining guy, in my opinion, smart guy. Not always accurate, okay, but he's a guy that you would pay attention to. He wants to give Charles a new show, okay? And the zealots at CNN, the far left zealants, don't want that. The people actually work there, okay? But there's no names on this. But they apparently, are rebelling against hiring Charles Barkley.

Okay? Same thing's happening at the New York Times. So they're reporters and people, they're rebelling against the management if the management doesn't tow a far left line. Okay. Chris Lick, CNN would be smart to hire Charles Barkley. That might get them some ratings because they're about to fall under 500,000. households a night.

We do more than that. I mean, when you count up all of our distribution on radio and television, we do more than that. CNN is cratering to the extent that they've got to do something. They're losing money, not overall, but their profits are like this. And who do they go? You're going to put Wolf Blitzer in there, Jake Tapper? I mean, these people are, they're not going to get your ratings, okay? Let me be charitable.

Barclay, you throw him in. You'd have to put on someone with him. You'd have to put on a quasi-newsperson with him, all right, to direct traffic and make sure that didn't go off the rails entirely. But Barclay would stir it up, and he would get eyeballs, which CNN desperately needs. I don't know whether that's going to happen. have no inside information. Oh, I know that they'd like to, CNN would like to get Gail King, who's a morning person on CBS to do a show. I don't think Ms. King could do a daily show. In addition

to what she does at CBS, maybe she could do a weekly. NPR. So the national public radio is all over. America, thousand stations. It used to be, it got a lot of government money. It doesn't any longer. Gets a little bit, but not a lot. So it sells ads. and it sells stuff, you know, bags and shirts like I do. And it's got a big reach, okay? So a thousand radio stations carry it. That's more than carry me. And they're going to lay off 10% of every, of all of their people.

At least 100 people are going to get fired at NPR because of the erosion of advertising dollars. Now, why is that happening? because nobody trusts NPR. How could you trust them? Yeah, they didn't like Trump, and every day that's what you got, but it's their far left. They're never not far left.

They're always far left. And there's only a finite amount of people that are in that category. That's why MSNBC and CNN have never succeeded in the ratings. I mean, they pump up Maddow, but Mattow gets maybe two, five, $2,0.5? I mean, she's not lights out. Okay? It's never been, ever. There just aren't that

many progressives in the country. So NPR is laying off a lot of people. They don't make any money over there anyway, so I feel sorry for them. Nikki Haley, everyone. Okay. This is an analysis that is important, I believe. She is running for president, and I applaud her for running for president. Okay. Morning console poll. Morning consult is iffy. 2,500 potential Republican voters. Okay. Um, the question, would you vote for the following if the 24 Republican primary were held today? Donald Trump 50%, Ron DeSantis, 30%. my pen six, Nikki Haley, six. So Nikki Haley, since she has announced last week, has gained 3% in the poll.

Not a disaster because nobody knows Nikki Haley, unless you live in South Carolina, where she was the governor. Now, when she ran, I said, all right, but you're going to have to show me something. because the problem that Ms. Haley has is not that she's passed her prime, as Don Lemon apparently believes. It's not. She's not passed her prime. She has no outstanding achievements. Now, what do I mean by that? She ran the state of South Carolina fairly well, and that's a good achievement. She was the U.N. secretary for the U.S.A., U.N. ambassador, okay? But what did she do? there? I don't know. I can't tell you. One thing she did. And I don't live in South Carolina, so I can't tell you one thing she did in South Carolina. She has no outstanding achievements that come to mind. And this is the business that I'm in. So the regular folks living in

Montana and New Mexico, Mickey Haley, like this. So she has got to convince Republican voters that she's better than Trump, who's got a lot of. accomplishments for four years at president and desantis who has run florida very well and took down the woke disney corporation right desantis took it down now talk about an achievement you may not agree with it but that's power so haley's up against those two guys i'm sorry but i i don't see how on is earth. She could beat either one of them. My analysis of Nikki Haley. Now, I'm on the Cid and Friends show on WABC radio today this morning, as I always end Thursday mornings. And you should listen if you get a chance. You can listen to WABC radio anywhere in a world. And it's

easy. Even I can figure it out. It's punch up WABC radio live. And boom, you can hear it. Okay. So I'm out with Sid Rosenberg, okay? Sid is number one in the morning, and Sid gives me a lot of credit for that happening. I'm not so sure that's accurate. I think Sid has done it largely by himself. Anyway, the subject comes to Trump versus DeSantis, rule of tape.

But we are setting up, especially with Trump's visit yesterday, if this guy really does jump in now, once his police tour is done, What a behemoth battle between Donnie and Ronnie coming up, yes? Donny and Ronnie. Yeah. I like that. Weren't they a group in, that was Paul and Paula, I'm sorry. Hey, Paul.

Donnie and Ronnie. Yeah? Okay. It would be, it would be a political event. Okay, it would be something. Yeah. If they go head to head, it's not going to be boring, right? so I still don't know

I can't really advance the story after I talk with the former president in three weeks I might be able to give a little bit more insight because I mean I know Donald Trump's running and he's not going to drop out

well he's going to be in DeSantis looks like he's running and Sid referred to the police tour he's going to the major cities to say look you got to impose law and order here all right it's out of control

So it looks like he's running, and if you put them against one another, now you would have in a debate, Nikki Haley on the stage, and there's another high-tech guy running. I don't know much about him. I'm looking at him, but he doesn't have a chance. And there'll be a few other people that jump in. I don't think Mike Pence is going to jump in because he knows he can't win. But there be a few governors, I think that might. But anyway, I figured you'd like that clip.

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If you feel like happiness is a truth Because I'm happy Let alone if you know what happiness is you a hell i'm happy clap alone if you feel like that's what you want to do all right giant hit for feral williams so in england um at the university of central lancashire um a woman um a researcher named lorry dothwaite walsh came up with four things that human beings can do to be happy and i figure that pass them on first First, move your body. Be active. Don't just sit or sleep or nap. Now, napping makes me happy,

but I understand I got to get out there and move it. Okay. Two, prioritize connections. This is, you know, dopey speak to have friends. Keep up with your friends and family. That's important. That's called socialization. Okay. Three, practice gratitude. That's a big one. that you don't really hear about. If somebody does you a kindness, not only do you send them a written thank you, either in an envelope or in an email or a text, but you go out of your way to try to do something for them.

It doesn't have to be right away, but practice gratitude. Very important. People remember that. And fine, spending time with pets. Now I'm not so sure about this. I got a pet. Everybody knows Holly the Tara Dog. pterodog, the marketing arm of Bill O'Reilly.com, the most spoiled dog in a world, I don't know, I walk the terra dog a lot.

The tarot dog needs exercise and so do why. So we're out there. And the tarot dog has a nice life. And I like the tarot dog. The tarot dog was originally a gift for my son who wanted a corgi. Little did I know that if you buy a corgi, you have to buy the biggest vacuum cleaner on the face of the earth because the corgi sheds so much i mean it looks like yeti is in my house okay but anyway the a pet will enhance your life i don't know about goldfish but

holly is certainly a plus in the o'reilly home now uh smart asset a financial technology company list the 25 happiest places in america you want to know what they are i think you you do okay happiest place in america the happiest number one sunny vale california all right that's on the peninsula i believe uh arlington virginia because people have federal jobs for life there second bellevue washington outside of seattle fremont california fresno texas frisco texas i i lived in richardson right below plano nice place to live roseville california san oz Santa Clarita, Irvine, Huntington Beach, California, all California because of the weather. Madison, Wisconsin, Alexandria, Virginia, right next to Arlington.

Then I got San Francisco in there. Now, this means that something went wrong here. That's not a happy place. I'm sorry. And neither is Seattle. They're not happy. Boise, Indiana, Idaho. Boise is a happy place.

Hayward, Honolulu, Raleigh, Austin, Glendale. Virginia Beach, Fort Collins, Anchorage, Santa Rosa. Okay, so those are the happiest places. Now, it's based upon three things. Personal finance, all of those places are affluent. People have money. You have to have money to buy a home there. Two, well-being.

I don't know what that means. I don't know what wellness is. I don't know. I got it put in a, but, you know, it's Ron's Delhi and Wellness Center. I don't know what wellness. And quality of life, again, they. quality of life. I mean, it means I guess you're doing the right thing or whatever. But I thought you'd like to know that. I agree with a lot of those towns, not all of that.

How about an unhappy place, St. Louis, Missouri. So, the DA there, Kim Gardner, far left Soros person, fired today. Fired by the Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Fired her. Why? Because St. Louis has the highest homicide. rate in the USA. Can you believe that? The highest per capita. Seventy homicides per 100,000 people. But what really set it off was there was a guy last weekend who had violated his bail conditions time after time after time. Gardner wouldn't put him in jail even after the violations, And he crashed into a teenage volleyball player and hurt, I don't know whether it's a him or her,

the volleyball player, but hurt the teenager. And that was it for Andrew Bailey. She's fired. Now, she's going to play the race card, I guarantee it. But I would have fired her long before this. Enough with these district attorneys who will not enforce the law. Smart life.

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I'm putting on my history teacher hat because a lot about the Alamo is false and fiction. Mexico was dominating Texas in 1836, all right? And Texas wanted to be independent. It didn't want to be part of the United States necessarily. it wanted to be its own republic, the lone star. That's why they had the flag today. But Mexico said, no. So there was a fight.

Okay? So about 200 Texans, they called them Texians back then, T-E-X-I-N-S. They showed up in San Antonio at a mission, Catholic mission, called the Alamo. And Santa Ana, the general in charge of that area, the Mexican general, had about 5,000. troops at his disposal and said to the Texians, you get out of here, we're going to kill you. Well, Texians stayed, led by Davy Crockett, okay, and William Travis, and James Bowie. All right. Disney did a big thing on it. John Wayne did a movie on it, all of that. Anyway, the fight was about five days. All of the Texians were killed. The only survivor,

and this, I did not know this, was a woman named Susanna Dickinson. and her newborn baby this dixon was the wife of captain dickinson who was killed okay so that was 187 years ago today that started february 23rd in april 21st sam houston caught up to santa anna and wiped him out defeated him captured him that was the end of mexico and texas it didn't take long so february march april two months because the texas militia was so angry about this slaughter this massacre at the alamo that they just boom like that the battle of san jacinto and for those of you living in texas that is the history of your state all right got a good mail segment and a final thought that will help your life i believe we'll be right back hey it's sean spicer from the sean spicer show

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I saw his remarkable uplifting speech on Newsmax. Fox would not show it. They showed Tim Scott's speech instead. So I don't mind I'm showing Senator Scott's speech because I'd like to get to know Senator Scott a little bit better. But I think they could have dipped in and out of it. Absolutely. But they don't want Trump. anymore. They don't. Susan Emmett, West Bloomfield, Michigan. I was a hardcore Trump supporter,

but he is less disciplined now. He has an outstanding record to run on, but he rarely talks about his accomplishments. He's obsessed with DeSantis. Thank you always, O'Reilly, for telling the truth, even though it's sometimes hard to hear. Well, you are welcome, Susan, and I, you know, I'm going to talk about DeSantis with President Trump when I see him. David withheld Madison, Wisconsin. I consider myself a liberal Democrat. I heard your comments regarding media that all of them are in it for the money. I appreciate your honesty in reporting the facts and that it costs you sometimes premium members.

I've lost faith in both political parties and it's worse for the news media. Well, keep the faith a little bit, David, because we go in cycles here in this country. We're in a down cycle now. and I can't tell you when we can come out of that down cycle, but I believe we will. Anthony DeCarlo, Merrick, New York, on Long Island, where I am. The Ukraine war has been concerned. There seems to be no effort toward a diplomatic solution.

If you follow the money, the military complex is making billions of dollars. That's true. Somebody's got to make the weapons and the ammunition. But this is not a conspiracy, and there is no negotiating with a guy like Putin who doesn't want to know. negotiate, does he? Now, if Putin said, look, let's talk about it, believe me, there'd be a negotiation, and Zelensky couldn't do anything about it. Matt Gengola, Mesa, Arizona, Sean Hannity had Marjorie Taylor Green on his program. She's suggesting a national divorce.

According to Congresswoman Green, we need to separate red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. How do you feel about that, O'Reilly? I don't feel about it at all. I mean, I think she's an interesting guest. You know, I know why Sean had her on, but it's fantasy. You know, states not going to do. Once you sign up for the Constitution, you're in. There's no out. You're here.

Okay, that's it. South tried to succeed. No. So all of this is just fantasy, and I don't do that. I don't have time to do any of that. Kathleen, how did Obama not get 12 million plus votes from the minority community like Biden? Because the votes weren't for Biden, they were against Trump. I don't know why you guys don't understand this.

Okay? So it wasn't that the minority communities in the major cities were voting for Biden. They were voting against Trump because he was demonized in those communities. and they came out in droves, pardon the cliché. Sarah Shaver, thank you for speaking about repentance and forgiveness, O'Reilly. It's not spoken about enough, even in churches, in my opinion. So for you to speak on these critical topics on your worldwide platform gives me hope for society. Look, all I can tell you is what I do, okay?

And now I had a lot of questions about what I'm giving up for Lent, okay? And I'm not giving up anything, but I am doing something. Every day I'm doing an random act of kindness, going out of my way. You know, if I try to be a kind person anyway, but now I'm looking. I'm investigating to try to do kindness every day. So I got to do 40. Some days I don't find one, but I got to do 40 of them because 40 days of Lent. So 40 random acts of kindness helping people out.

That's my Lenton thing. It's better than giving up Hagenas, which I've cut back drastically on because of the sugar, but I still love it. Charles, Pope Francis Gay President Biden to pass on the abortion question. We don't know that. The Pope talked to Biden in person. private. Now, Joe Biden has not been sanctioned because the Catholic Church doesn't want to get into politics. But we don't know for Pope Francis what he did, and it's not fair to make that accusation. Okay, if you go to Bill O'Reilly.com, you can go to our store and sign up for Team

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