Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - World Cup Boosts U.S. Image Abroad, Democrats’ Socialist Shift, & Father Robert Sirico on the Church’s Fight Against Communism

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill talks about the success of hosting the World Cup for the United States. Bill argues that recent comments from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Zohran Mamdani (D) suggest they support a communist system. According to a recent poll, do Americans believe socialism or capitalism is the better economic system? Father Robert Sirico, President Emeritus of the Acton Institute, discusses why Pope Pius XII excommunicated Catholics involved in the communist movement. The latest accusation against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Final Thought: Why do people like soccer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the Nose Bend News for Tuesday, July 7, 2006. Stand up for your country. So my life is hard. Right now I'm talking to you, but in my ear, there is an echo, okay, that they can't seem to fix. Here's the earpiece. So what I'm saying to you, I get fed back into my brain, which may collapse at any time. So if you see me collapse, you know my brain is gone. Now, I expect that we were going to have technical problems because we moved the studio east on Long Island, but that doesn't make it any easier. So I just wanted you to know, I think we'll get through the show,

but I'm not entirely sure whether we're going to get through the program. Now, I predicted this. I told everybody was going to happen, everybody nodded, and it happened anyway. So what would you do? I can't fire people. That's not right. I can yell at them, but go what?

All right. So for the text, please continue to try to get the echo out of my ear. And for you watching all around the world, we will proceed. So the World Cup is a big success for America. And I don't really care about soccer. I was a football, baseball, and hockey player growing up, and soccer guys are around, but, you know, they kick the ball, they run after the ball, they kick the ball, it takes three hours to score two goals. I, you know, but I'm looking at this from a point of view of PR, American public relations.

It's huge, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. Okay, so in Mexico, they had a game. It's Canada, USA, Mexico, and they have games. And in Mexico, 40 people were arrested. Cops are in the hospital, 64 tons of garbage left behind the stadium. The usual Mexican cows. Sorry, it's the truth. It's got the highest homicide rate in the Western Hemisphere, and it's not going to get any better,

because the president is a communist. I mean, this is just it. And there's no order, and the cartels control the country, and everybody knows it. But anyway, you contrast that to Kansas City or to Dallas last night where the USA team got whacked. And I knew that was going to happen. I should have put money on it.

But we're hockey, we're NFL, we're baseball, we're not soccer. And it wasn't even a close game. And I, you know, I was rooting for my country, but in the first five minutes, it was not going to turn out well. And it didn't. But anyway, time after time after time,

game after game after game, everybody's a good time. And there's no rioting and there's no people in jail like you got in UK and France, and none of that. People went to the game, paid a lot of money going to game, okay? And they behaved, generally speaking, in the United States. And that went out all over the world,

but the press, of course, wouldn't acknowledge it because they don't like us, all right? and but everybody saw it. And in fact, some of the people living abroad who came here to watch the games were ecstatic about being in America. Roll the tape. I fall in love with this country

and this was so emotional. I even cried in the stadium. Americans are not rude. Germans are not rude. If we are together, we can achieve great sense. Your thoughts so far, first impressions. First impression, amazing, love the place, amazing, great people. We've had such opening arms and we've been so welcomed into the city of Boston

that it's hard to sit there and think Americans are bad because every single person I've met that's American has been unbelievable. They've been so welcoming, they've been so supporter of Scotland. So the police have been very, very good. They've been standing back, letting the people, people enjoy themselves instead, if you go to Italy, if you go to Spain, the police cause a bit of trouble. But here, they've just like everybody enjoy themselves. The police have been really kind, really helpful. If you look confused, they'll ask you, is everything okay? Well, it's a tribute to us.

It's a tribute to we are a welcoming country. And the police had a fabulous job everywhere in all the American venues, they were beyond impressive. There were some people who tried, but they didn't get anywhere to disrupt the World Cup. So this goes against our image abroad, where we're onerous and we're horrible and all of this. And that is the reason that the World Cup is so important. because it's not true in the first place. We are a very generous nation. We give more money to help people than any other people on Earth,

per capita, and we never get the credit that we observe. Now, the World Cup started on June 11th, and that it ends July 19th in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. and I like, I kind of like the Norwegians. With the big guy with the drum, and they're going row, row. And then President Trump has a racket by going to Turkey and say, no, we need Greenland back. Can't we do that next week? We had goodwill all over the place.

And there's a president going, now we have to have to have. Greenland. Okay. Next week. I just can't help himself. He just can't help himself. And this was

the height of capitalism. This whole World Cup thing. So the estimate is the United States will take in $620 million. And everybody, all the teams, $41 billion.

And that's a lot of money. So everybody, prospered. The image of the USA is good. And it was a big win. And I hope it stays that way. We still have a couple of weeks here. And that's a memo. Now, the communists who are, you know, they're causing trouble. And this took me by surprise. I have to, I have to be honest. I did not expect this. I did not expect an emerging communist movement in this country. Socialism, yeah, but not hardcore.

Seas your property, communism. Okay. So they don't like the World Cup at all because there's money. It's the oligarchs. Own the teams. So here's the godfather of communism in the USA. Senator Bernie Sanders. Go.

I believe that it may just be possible that this country, is on the verge of the political revolution we have fought for for such a long time. Now, I do not have a crystal ball to tell you what will happen next, but last night and the last several months have given me hope and optimism, and I hope it does the same for you. We need a party that is prepared to take on the greed and ideology of the oligarchs who now control the economic, media, and political life of our nation, and we need to create an economy and a government that works for all of us, and not just the few.

We need a Democratic Party that opens its doors to new people, new energy, and new ideas. And that's the open border policy. Now, Sanders is quoting Mao Zetong. So if you read my book Confronting Evil, you know Mao, the communist leader of China. It's the worst mass murderer on earth ever. That's who Sanders likes. Likes them. Yeah, we need somebody who's prepared to take on the greed and ideology of oligarchs. That's what Stalin did.

All right. That's what Mao did. That's what Fidel did. Okay, if you're wealthy and they consider, you an oligarch, all right, they're going to take your stuff. They're going to come after you. This is what communism is. The government controls what we the people do. So if you get wealthy with AI or you get wealthy with high tech or whatever, no, you're not entitled to that. Bernie Sanders is going to take it away from you. This is really, really bad. Okay. So the

second in command, or really, it goes this way. It goes Bernie Sanders, top communist, Zahamandani, second communist, because of his father, traced his family lineage back, and you'll see that Mamdani's father was a hardcore communist. And then you have AOC, and these people who don't know much, they're just kind of along for the ride. Well, here's what Mandani said on July 3rd. One day, before the independent celebration. He was sitting behind the deaths of George Washington, the deaths that Washington used when he was in charge of the government in New York. That was the first step. What New York, Philly, D.C. Roll it.

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And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious view. Okay, so that's Karl Marx. The workers are getting screwed. We got to rise up, kill the czar, behead him, kill his whole family, which is what happened. Okay, and then the power to the people, the people, well, but the people don't run it.

I mean, take it from me, I was in China. this time last year, and people don't run anything there, do with their toll. But this is the pitch. I mean, it's just amazing how many New York, I was born in the upper west side of New York City. And to see this in the nation's largest city? To have Carl Marx running this show? I never in a million years thought that would happen. New York has always been a vibrant.

You can make it. This is where you come to to be successful. And the government allows that success. Not anymore. Not anymore. All right. Now the media is in on this. Whereas they don't condemn the communist movement.

Well, I do. They don't. Because they are injecting a race card into it all. One of the worst is the view you know the problems they're having with the federal government. Okay? Here's Sunny Hosten. And I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my 10th year on the show. And I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community. And I suddenly feel unsafe because there is a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag. And they equate,

being an American or an American flag with white supremacy. And that should never be the symbol of white supremacy. I don't know anybody who does it. I mean, the woman lives in a totally different world, totally different country than I live in. But I don't know anybody who uses the American flag as a symbol of white supremacy. And I know thousands of people.

I don't know one. Now, the Democratic Socialists, which is, you know, the con name, They just should be honest and call themselves the Communist Party. They say on the 4th of July that their membership is now 120,000, the biggest membership they've ever had in the United States, and that the peak before this was in 1912, 113,000. Now they're at 120 and growing. So this is not a lot.

That's not a lot of people. but they are powerful and they're wealthy. And if you discard them, you do it at your own risk. Recent poll, UGov, okay, June 26, 29th, 1,600 adults, which is a better economic system? Socialism, 19%, capitalism, 44, not sure, 37%. That is a troubling number because Americans don't know what socialism communist is. They don't know.

So 37% go, I don't know. Second question, Democrats, what's a better economic system? Socialism 34%, capitalism, 22, not sure, 43. It's a big not sure. You have favorable, unfavorable opinion of socialism. Favorable 32, unfavorable 39. That's close. Not sure, 29.

Democrats. Favorable toward socialism, 58%. Unfavorable 11, not sure, 31. So the Democratic Party is now morphed into a communist enabling organization. I'm not a party guy. You guys have been watching me for years, decades. I think there are just as many loons in the Republican Party as there are in a Democratic Party. But now, the threat to us comes from Democrat Party.

Keep that in mind. Midterms coming up. Here's an interesting piece of history. Pope Pius X.12 was running the Vatican for 19. years. And he was in World War II. And he's a fascinating man. He put out a decree that any Roman Catholic that subscribes to communism, that joins, promotes, any of that is excommunicated. That means they can't receive the sacraments. That's heavy. Okay? And he did that because of post-World War II, you had the Cold War.

You had Stalin taken over all these countries and enslaving them in Europe. And Popeius X.12 said, no, you can't be a part of it, or you can't be a part of the Catholic Church. That was very interesting. Very few people know that happen. Okay. So why? Why did he excommunicate Catholics who were involved with the communist movement? Joining us now from Missouri, Father Robert Ocerico, who is the President Emeritus, the Acton Institute, and he's a scholar, but more importantly, his brother played Pauly Walnuts on the Sopranos. How about that?

How about that? Okay? And I'm sure you're proud of your brother. He's an excellent actor. I was very proud of him, yes. That's some family there, father. It's amazing. It's amazing.

I grew up with Polly Walnuts, and I know all these lines. All right, why did, and I don't know whether that's still in effect. Is it still in effect if you're a Roman Catholic, that if you, embrace the communist movement, you are excommunicated? Is that still there? Yes. I mean, the communism is a materialistic, atheistic ideology. By definition, you would excommunicate your own self from faith, from the Catholic Church. The problem is it comes in various forms, with rationalizations and things like that. But we see what communism has done. I want to go back to something you said. It was a very important point you made. You said that people are not sure

if they support socialism or not. The truth of the matter is that a lot of people are not sure if they support capitalism or not, because they don't understand what that is either. They see it as greed. They see it as power, racism, as you already demonstrated through the popular media. And I think what is incumbent upon us is to engage precisely that group that you identified who don't understand, who don't know, and help them to come to know both what socialism is and is not, because the essential claim of socialism is a moral claim. It pretends to be about brotherhood and fraternity and things like that. But also to help people understand that capitalism is more about human freedom, human action that's reciprocal. The cultural things that we saw from these Europeans

describing commonplace things in American life really come from a commercial culture. A commercial culture is a culture that's predicated on reciprocity. I need a bottle of water. Well, I have a bottle of water. I need some money. And you exchange. You become valuable to each other. In a communist system, which has class struggle, you have division, the antithesis of fraternity, of community. Communism is false because it doesn't promote community. It doesn't promote the social well-being, the social good. And parts of capitalism don't do this either. So we have a cultural problem on our hands and a moral problem.

Right. Well, you know, greed has always been a part of human nature, which I think is what you. you're talking about with capitalism. And obviously, the people are greedy and they don't care about other people that are amassing far beyond what they need to live a life of luxury or whatever they want to live. But I always go back to this with not only the Catholic Church, but Protestants as well. And Jews forget it. Communists hate Jews. Cross the board, hate them.

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Terms apply. They don't want anything above them. They don't want anything that has a moral claim on the human heart that goes beyond the Politburo, beyond the ideology of class warfare and redistribution of the wealth. The threat of Christianity in particular to communism is that Christianity lives with the communists claim to want. That is fraternity. That is looking for the well-being of other people. Many of the communists have, in particular, Marx and Engels said that early socialism existed in the New Testament. And what they're identifying is that people had things in common, where there

was need, people helped those who were in need. And what the communist don't get what the socialist don't get is that that was the result of a conversion of a heart, a love of other people. Winston Churchill put it very well. You may know this quote because you've written so many books on history. Winston Churchill once said that the communism of the early church said all that is mine is yours. The communism today says all that is yours is mine. That's right. This really points to the flaw. Right. Now, there is a split in the Catholic Church.

You have the liberation theology movement, which is based out of South and Central America, where horrendous living conditions are driving good people, religious missionaries, to try to help the poor, while at the same time they're looking up. and there's an oligarch or whatever you want to call them with everything. And that liberation theology can sometimes morph into a communist situation. Where am I wrong? No, I think you're quite right. In fact, the early liberation theologians explicitly utilized Marx's socialist analysis of society

and used biblical imagery and stories to talk about. class warfare and liberation from Egypt, that kind of thing, and then apply it to today. And I think you're right to have sympathy with those who combine a certain ignorance of what a free economy is all about with burning passion and concern for the poor. This becomes volatile. And what liberation theology in effect attempted to do is to baptize Karl Marx, to make Karl Marx as though he was the epitome of what it means to create a good and truly social society. But that's really a radical point of view, and I wonder how much it's embraced.

I don't think Francis and Leo went that far, but certainly Leo is tottering around that area. I just tell you a little story. So you know Cardinal Dolan, right? Yes, yes. Missouri guy. So he came to me one time and he wanted to buy a block full of row houses in Brooklyn. And, you know, a charming guy, he is and, you know, that kind of thing. And I know him.

And he said, look, you need to help me buy this stuff. And I gave him a substantial amount of money to buy. to buy the row houses, which he did, I assume. Okay? I didn't get a lot of thanks for that, but I'll get my thanks later, I hope. And if I don't, this is going to be held to pay, pardon them. I'll mention it to him. All right, okay.

So anyway, my only dictum to the cardinal to Dolan was, don't cause social disorder. All right? I know these people need to be housed. I don't expect you to go around looking at their passports. I don't expect that. But if you see people coming in that are nefarious, they got tattoos from head to toe,

you know, you're going to have to make some decisions about who's getting and O'Reilly's block full of row houses, because I don't want social disorder, which is what massive migration leads to, if I can only get Pope Leo's attention. So you can do more harm by allowing an open border, unsupervised people, than you do being charitable and doing what Jesus commanded.

You know, to the least of those, you have a responsibility to help. And I believe that. So the story I'm telling you was that there was a conflict there. I don't know how Dolan worked it out. I didn't check it. As I said, it was the right thing for me to do. I'm an old altar boy. He played on my Irish Catholic upbringing of what he knows so much.

That's why he's a cardinal. Right, and I'm glad I did it. But when I hear Leo, and to some extent Francis going, hey, let them all in, I'm going, no, that's not what Jesus wanted. He did not want social disorder. He wanted harmony. Of course he did. Of course it would. Can I push back a little bit on the Leo remarks?

I have a different perception of Leo. Leo served as a bishop in Peru for 20 years. Now, I don't know if you know, but Peru was the nation that gave us the founder of liberation theology, Gustavo Gutierrez, who is a priest. Here we go. Someone's already claiming this is our year. Someone else said that last year, too. A round of James and ginger and lime arrives at a table. Smooth enough for kickoff, smooth enough for extra time. New friends pulling up a stool.

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Please play responsibly. And Leo was there for 20 years. He had a lot of opportunity to identify with all of those socialist movements that were extant during his time in Peru. You find no traces of that. In fact, there is one book that he wrote an introduction to on Catholic social teaching. It would have been the perfect opportunity to identify with socialism, and he doesn't do it.

I think you have a very different kettle of fish in Pope Leo than you had in Pope Francis. Okay, but the... Don't give him to the left. That's what I'm saying. Don't give Leo to the left. The problem with Pope Leo, is the message, not the messenger, but the message isn't getting out there. It's like a feud with Trump and all this, and that shouldn't be. Fascinating. Fascinating, Father, thank you

for taking the time. It's great to be with your bill. Say hello to your brother and tell him that if he needs a loan or anything, I'm here to give it to him. Well, maybe his brother, the priest, will come to you for that, or a donation even better. My brother, by the way, died four years ago. Oh, I'm sorry. He passed. No, no, that's okay. In fact, this week, maybe even today. I think it were fourth, maybe it's tomorrow. The fourth anniversary of his death. Such an indelible actor. They all were. I'm friends with Sharipa, but he has some great stories. Thanks again, Father. We'll catch you up with you again soon, I hope. God bless. I'd like that. Take care.

Okay, so Donald Trump's on anchor, I mentioned briefly that he brought up Greenland. Look, NATO is now pledging all kinds of money and munitions to fight Putin, and Trump got what is most important. All right, he got it. President never going to give him credit, but he got it. This Greenland thing, it's not worth it at this point. Take the win. my humble opinion

Graham Platner Maine this was insane from the very beginning it's about a million voters in Maine okay it's gone from a conservative state to a liberal state big time

and now Platner got the nomination to run for Senate on the Democratic Party it's a bad guy he's a bad guy that's it bad guy you Mainers and you should know it. So now there's another accusation against him. And I looked into it. Looks legit.

You know, a lot of these are bogus accusations. A lot of them. This doesn't not look like bogus. Yes, the woman says she was raped by him, didn't go to the cops, didn't go to the hospital, okay, didn't do it. But dumped him. And there are other, uh, except, evaluating circumstances like therapy and things like that. So Platner's gone. He's out. He's not going to run. That means Republicans will probably take that seat with Susan Collins again.

But you Mainers, I love Maine. I don't know what you're doing up there. Back with a final thought in a moment. So final thought of the day, as I told you up top in the talking points memo, I'm not a big soccer guy. But one of the things that amuses me is these guys are on the ground every 30 seconds. They're holding their knee and this. They're writhing in pain. It's like, are you guys in the NFL or what?

It's a soccer game. You got short pants on. But they hit the ground. They're rolling around and this and out. And they go out. They're all they run out. Okay. And I'm going, all right.

This guy might be heard. We'd get him a stretcher. No, no. One minute later, there's a guy chugging down the street. What a recovery. You think they're faking it a little bit out there? I think so. But every two seconds in these games, they're on the floor writhing a rest.

Like a five-year-old. I don't go, what is this? Okay? They can't be hurt that bad. When they're running down the sideline, two minutes later, did you pick up on this? I mean, it would be, it's like, okay, it's not the L.A. Rams versus the Miami Dolphins out there. It's Belgium versus the USA, and they're, you know, nice, nifty cleats and all that. But that's, and I'm going, shouldn't it be a penalty for that?

faking it, and it stops the game. It stops the momentum of the game, the broadcast, because they got to let them writhe around. Maybe they're doing it for that. Maybe they're doing it to get on TV. I don't know, but I'm going, is it that rough? I played soccer a little bit. It wasn't that rough.

Football is a lot rougher, so was ice hockey. You don't see ice hockey players writhing around the ice every two seconds. So anyway, it's my beef. I understand. And the subtleties of the game probably elude me. And yeah, you can get kicked in the ankle. Okay.

People are kicking. So you might get kicked. But that doesn't mean you have to rile around. Give him there. Get up. That is the final thought of the day. No flopping around. Thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News.

I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.