Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday March 6th, 2018. Take your country back.
Please forgive the allergies, this is what happens, I go down to Florida, a beautiful weekend and to get revenge on me: the allergies. See a lot of flowers, a lot of foliage, right there. Holly is running around the house going, who's that. Because my voice is so different. All right.
I got a lot to tell you about today. How about the tariff? That's about as exciting as you can get, isn't it? Let's talk about that tariff. Not going to bore you. It's another story that President Trump throws out there to be provocative, provocative. In the end, yeah, he's going to slap some duties on some steel makers abroad and some aluminum makers, not going to be 25 and 10 percent it be a little bit, but he wants to send a message like, you have a crazy deal with us trade deal we're not going to honor it, we're going to change it. But he's not going to let it influence the economy or employment. So I'm listening to cable and talk radio and I'm going what? Number one it's boring, tariffs are boring. All right. Number two, nobody knows what's going to happen. But I can tell you this if the stock market thought that these tariffs were going to harm the economy it would be down a thousand points. That's your indicator. Everybody knows there's a lot of bluster.
All right. Same thing to do with North Korea. Did you hear the story about North Korea now wants to talk to South Korea? Did you hear that? OK. So, Trump pounds North Korea, the little fat guy, we're going to blow him up. All right well the little fat guys sitting there going you know this guy is crazy, Trump nuts, that's not Barack Obama. So maybe I'll talk to people, maybe I won't be so irresponsible. That's what happens. Trump throws this stuff out, he wants to scare Mexico, scare China. Is China going to be scared by the way? Mexico is another thing. You know, we can we can really hurt that country should we want to. So anyway, that's the tariff. Don't worry about it. If he gets out of control I'll tell you.
And how about Sam Nunberg? OK. There's Sam. Keep it up there for a couple of minutes. So Sam he worked for the Trump campaign in 2015. He was a friend of Roger Stone who was a Trump confidant for a little while. So, Sam goes on all the cable shows yesterday and says I'm not going to answer the subpoena by Robert Mueller. I'm not, I'm not, I'm going to rip it up on Bloomberg. Now, Sam looked like he was gassed and an anchor for CNN goes, are you drunk? I smell alcohol in you. Oh no I'm not drunk. OK. Is this story important? No, it's not important. I don't even think Trump knows Sam Nunberg. All and if he does, it’s like he's not hanging with him or he didn't. 2015, a year before all of this craziness started. So, Sam wanted to be famous. Sam, he wanted to be famous, he went on all of the cable shows and they couldn't get him fast enough. Now, would I have put him on The Factor if I were doing that today? I thought about that today. You know, would I have put him on? My instinct is yes because he's so crazy and maybe I'll get him to give me some information that's worthy, but you're really exploiting some guy who doesn't have control of himself and we don't like do that. So, I can't say for certain whether I would have put him on. I never would put him on had he gone on all the other shows, because we never did that. Our dictum was you come and talk to me, and if you're going to be on six other shows we don't want you. And that's just competitive because then if you're on six other shows, you already know what he's going to say. He's already rehearsed. So that's another big story, that's not a big story, has no presence. If Sam Nunberg goes to jail because he won't show up to Mueller’s grand jury, does anybody care? Hands please. Anybody raise bail for him? No. OK.
Our Judicial Watch, that's the watchdog group that files these Freedom of Information requests wanting to know what the government will tell us. So it's a little complicated. I'm not going to get into it too much. because I have Monica Crowley onboard to talk about the media and I want to get to that.
But Judicial Watch has noticed that a Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr, O-H-R, was deeply involved in the phony dossier story. There's Bruce. All right. So because we can't find out any information from the Justice Department, about Bruce Ohr, or why he was involved with this dossier and what he did, Justice Department won't tell us. So Judicial Watch files a FOIA, it'll take a year. All right.
But Bruce's wife, Nellie, Nellie Ohr, there's Nellie, hi Nellie how you doing? She was working for the outfit that put out this smear. Haha the plot thickens. Right? So Bruce is in the Justice Department pretty high position. Nellie is actively working for this smear people, Fusion's CPS. So we need to know what this is all about. So good for Judicial Watch. But again, it takes a long time, I might have them on later this week, maybe I'll have to see but again that's a story that there's got some worthiness but it's not going to be resolved any time soon.
Media Research Center, very conservative group. All right. They watch the nightly news on ABC, CBS and NBC. So, they say the first two months of this year, comments by the anchors, reporters, interview subjects about Donald Trump were 91 percent negative on all three networks. All right that's the average, 9 percent positive. And so they extrapolate, word of the day, extrapolate, OK, that because this is so crazy because there have been good things in the first two months of the year like the economy and ISIS and things like that, that they are on a hunt against Donald Trump, which is true, I told you it's a coup, it's a media coup. All right so they have the data. And it doesn't change in the morning, you have three morning shows CBS, NBC, ABC and that's the big profit center not the 22-minute nightly news. Big profit center is in the morning. I can't think of any anchors in the morning like Donald Trump. Not one. I'm sure it would be the same. Cable news, you got two cable networks that hate Trump- CNN, MSNBC and one cable news network the likes him- Fox. So it would be a little bit more balanced.
OK. So when you have 91 percent negative that's sounds like me, my coverage for the 20 years plus I was on Fox, about 91 percent negative. If I ever got somebody saying anything good about me, I was, asked what? What?
Because the game is this: If you say something good about Trump or O'Reilly or Hannity or somebody like that, then your friends shun you and the office people won't talk to you and somebody will glue your desk drawer or soap your car windows. That's what it is. It's like a frat house. It's like walking into a frat house going 'Hey I don't think you guys should be drinking beer.' What do you think the reaction is going to be? All right.
So, we all know this but the stats are out today. Now, there's a new start up Internet service called News Guard Technologies run by Steven Brill, we'll have him here on Thursday there's Steve. Now, he promises to expose fake news on his Website. So, he's going to, he's going to review 75,000 news and information sites. That's how many there are out there, every day and tell us who's lying. That's pretty good. I like that. All right. And I hope he reviews BillOReilly.com. We never lie or distort or spit.
But do the networks care about this? They do care because the Internet is now taking more and more audience away. You know I follow ratings pretty closely and you can see people the amount of people watching it going like this 4 percent of Americans who had cable pulled the plug in just November and December of last year 4 percent in two months. So we don't want to pay $220 bucks for cable because you don't watch the stupid channels anyway, go through them. You watch that channel? You watch the Alaskan guys out there chasing the bear, do you really? You can watch it on the Internet, there's a bear and an Alaskan guy chasing them on the Internet, what do you need cable for? So, you watch that guy reeling in the tuna. I mean how many times can you see the tuna come in the boat. All right. And they do the tuna like eight hours straight dried tuna, small tuna.
So people going I'm not going to pay 200 bucks a month, we're going to go to the Internet where you know this is a subscription service but it's 50 bucks. Come on. I can't even afford ties anymore. You know we give it to you because we like you.
All right, let's bring in Monica Crowley. I think I've said far too much today. So you're not surprised 91 percent negative right?
"No, not at all in fact I want to know where the 9 percent favorable coverage is coming from, apart from me. I'm surprised it's that high.
Lester Holt, Lester Holt.
"He's fair."
Lester Holt of all of them is the fairest and I'm sure that all the nine percent is from Lester.
"And I'm sure he hears about it from his peer group."
You know it's tough because Lester been there for a while. But when you see this kind of and I call it a coup, by the way do you believe that. Do you believe that the press is actively trying to overthrow the President of the United States?
"I do. And when you talk about the business model, I actually disagree with you. I don't think they care all that much they care about their bottom line but they're so ideologically entrenched and their hatred for Donald Trump runs deeper and stronger than their hatred for any other Republican president. That, that I think, pardon the pun, trumps everything else."
OK. But here's why you're wrong, I'm going to prove it right now. Alright, watch Monica's face now, here we go. Academy Awards, OK. Didn't mention Trump. You know why?
"Go ahead."
Because the producers told him not to.
"The producers at ABC told them back off the politics back off, back off. It's hurting us in the ratings. It's hurting our bottom line. That's right and it's hurting us with Middle America. However, if you watch the telecast as I did, Bill, you would see that Jimmy Kimmel couldn't help himself. There was a slam there on Vice President Pence."
Yeah, but it was minuscule. I mean Kimmel could have gone all night. But your thesis is they don't care. My thesis is they do care.
"I would make a distinction."
No, but the money. Look they have to give back. Give backs, ladies and gentlemen are when you promise a certain rating to an advertiser. All right we're going to have 25 million people watching the Academy Awards. We're only at 17. So, the advertisers go 'Hey I paid for 25 million. You gave me 17, you got to give back. All right, so ABC has got to give them free commercials. That's what's in play.
"Right. So, they had some control over Jimmy Kimmel and told him to back off, we don't want to lose middle America. A lot of the damage is already done over the previous decade. What they couldn't control were the celebrities who won. And a lot of them got up and started pontificating about various issues."
But it wasn't nearly as bad as it was last year.
Not as bad but I think so much of the damage is done where middle America which drives a lot of this profit write for these networks, they are done watching this kind of nonsense."
Yeah, I didn't watch it. I'm Mr. middle America, I didn't watch. I wouldn't watch it, because I don't want to be insulted by smug P.C. nitwits. I mean look if in my real life when I walk down a street of a smug PC nitwit comes over I just go hey get out of my face, I'm leaving. And I walk away. So why would I watch a smug PC nitwit on TV? I'm not being condescending by the way I'm not. I know these people. I know them. You know a lot of them too.
"Yeah and you know, here's the thing for an audience tuning in it is boring. You're talking about tuna. It's boring and predictable. If anybody in Hollywood really wanted to be punk rock, Bill they'd support Donald Trump, because it would be so counterintuitive to the lemon kind of groupthink that the Hollywood community has that the academic community has, that the news media has."
But who's going to hire them? Who's going to hire them? Nobody is going to hire them.
"Right. This is the enforcement of the peer group, right? They self-police."
I mean look at this guy Ryan Seacrest what he went through. All right nobody knows what he did. Nobody. And then he's a pariah, and he and they use him as a piñata.
"I feel badly for him, I do."
All of these people know, they know.
"And then go on the red carpet and they shunned him.".
They know what he did. It's like they know because they have, STP, ESP. I don't, they're all Karnac. All right. They're all Karnac the Magnificent. So it was it's so nasty, isn't that nasty?
"It is because everybody is passing judgment without the clear facts. And this guy had actually been through an investigation gotten cleared does what he does best which is red carpet and he was shunned and, and frankly I was watching this thinking I was cheering on the celebrities that went over toward him.".
Donald Sutherland, he's a radical guy and he showed up, I like that.
"Allison Janney, who was happy to be there. And you know look we've gotten to a point in the culture and in the politics where one of the big drivers against Donald Trump in addition to the fact they hate him personally, they think he's a gush vulgarian, they hate his politics, they hate his personal wealth. They hate that he's not one of them. But the fact, Bill that he is beating them at their own game, that he refuses to be turned into you know a pariah kind of character. Which they have thrown everything at him."
You don't know that yet, you don't know yet whether he's going to prevail. You don't. It's still precarious. That's why there's still, one of these things in the survey, I want to point out was, that I want to get the exact stat here. The Russian coverage. All right. Far and away what's been new, in the two months nothing, nothing there's nothing new. All right. And they cover it like 50 percent more than the next story which is immigration policy. So 204 minutes on the three. And because they want people to believe that Trump did something with Putin to get fixed election, that's what they want.
"And if you go out of New York, Washington, Los Angeles. There's no one who cares. No one care."
No one cares!
"They want to know what's happening with their taxes, they want to know what the state of the economy and what it means for them and their families. That's it and they're still supportive of Donald Trump. So you're right."
Some of them are, but he's got to be a little more shrewd in positioning things like the tariff. Monica Crowley everybody, now we have a little commercial. All right so you can get off the set with dignity. All right.
Thank you, Bill, always a pleasure.
All right. So let's roll the tape and I'll be back in 30 seconds.
"I think I was surprised most of all at how crazy the King of England, George the third really was. That was the most. Interesting thing that I came across. Second, was how flamboyant Benjamin Franklin was. And how he conducted his social life. It's amazing. And that's not taught in school. Finally, George Washington's character Washington's a hero, there's no doubt about it but he had a real dark side that again. Not taught in school. So we tell you what these men were really like. Killing England on sale now.
All right, Killing England, you'll like it. I hope you read it.
Federal Judge has ruled in favor of Donald Trump ending the DACA program. OK, so that for many Americans, Trump supporters is a good thing. All right. Because the President has that kind of power. Remember that Barack Obama executive order, legalized the DACA's, the young immigrants brought here by their parents. And President Trump said look I want a deal, if I don't get a deal. We're going to pull that out. We're not going to have the legalization anymore.
So put up on the screen, this is what the judge said. This is fascinating. Judge Roger Titus of the U.S. District Court for Maryland. All right. He says, "this court doesn't like the outcome of this case but is constrained by its constitutional limited role to the result that it has reached, hopefully Congress and the President will finally get their job done." Judge Titus goes on to say, "an overwhelming percentage of Americans support protections for dreamers. Yet it is not the providence of the judiciary to provide legislative or executive actions when those entrusted with those responsibilities failed to act.".
OK so the Judge rules the right way, President Trump has the power to rescind the DACA amnesty but by saying the court does not like the outcome of this case, that's a political statement. All right with all due respect to Judge Titus, you did make the right ruling based on the constitution but you also injected your personal opinion into it, which you're not supposed to do. So you don't like the way the Dreamer thing is being held, is being handled. OK, as a private citizen, as a federal judge, you shouldn't be and that shouldn't be in your ruling whether you like it, the court doesn't like it. So what? Court doesn't like it, that's you, that's nobody else that's you judge, don't do that. But at least Titus ruled in my opinion, according to Constitution. The other activist judges they couldn't care less about the Constitution. I don't like it, it gets thrown out. How often do we see that?
Finally, Chicago homicides are down 30 percent. First two months of this year from last year. OK. Chicago's out of control. We all know that 370 people have been shot so far this year two months, 82 dead. Last year 540 were shot 108 Dead. So, the cops say that they have new technology and they have more cops down on the, in the neighborhoods that are real problems with the gangs. And they're reinvigorating community policing efforts. Well, they should've done that a long time ago, it's still appalling. But we hammer Chicago like crazy so the fair thing to do is report it, right?
Now, you have 17 dead in Parkland, in Broward County 17 kids. You have thousands dead in Chicago, lots of kids, lots of kids. Yet the outcry from Florid, dwarfs anything in Chicago. I'm going to tell you why in a letter segment, because we have a letter asking why. Very, very interesting. OK.
Let's get to those letters.
This is Norman, on the message boards.
"Bill, another excellent podcast last night. I enjoy getting information from you, much better than any news media, I can't figure out what's going on with Robert Mueller's investigation. Why is it that we only see President Trump and others that have worked or are working with him investigated?"
See nobody knows. And what you're getting Norman is leaks and leaks and you can assume that who is ever leaking in the Mueller camp is going to leak only bad stuff about Trump. You can assume that. The papers don't want to hear leaks that are good for Trump. In fact, they won't even print them. I know that to be true. So the leaks that come out of Mueller and Mueller should be really teed off that's happening, are all anti Trump leaks. We don't know, what is investigating, who he's investigated or anything like that. All right. Looks like he's out of the scope of just Russia, looks like he's in other areas but we don't know. We'll find out soon.
Murray Anaqua. Monroe, Washington.
"Please come in and Senator McCain forwarding the fake dossier on Trump to the FBI exactly what part did he play?
That's just a salacious rumor. I don't believe Senator McCain had anything to do with the dossier. There's no evidence, none. It's just gossip. I'm sure Murray, you got it on the Internet. Now there was a report that maybe, could of. Oh, we think one of his aides might have done it but there's no evidence. It's just garbage. You've got to see attribution. You know rumors are everywhere.
Larry Nethercut. Oklahoma City.
"I know you're not a conspiracy guy, Bill but it seems painfully obvious Jeff Sessions endeared himself to President Trump and accepted the Attorney General position to be an obstructionist.".
Not obvious to me, Larry. I think Attorney General Sessions whole life was being a politician and a prosecutor. But the politician part overwhelmed when he was a younger man, the prosecution part he's far too cautious. He's always going like this which way is the wind how's it going to affect me. That's what you see. You know I know I don't think Sessions signed on to get Trump, I mean that's out of the realm of possibility.
Louise B. Fairport, New York.
"This question is not necessarily put forward to your podcast...
But I'm going to use it anyway, if you don't mind, Louisa.
"As taxpayers what voice who we have in the Robert Mueller investigation?
None. And you don't have a voice in any other criminal investigation unless you're part of it. You know criminal investigations and civil investigations are launched and taxpayers don't have anything to do with it, unless they're directly involved.
Karen Killinger-Humes. Titusville, Pennsylvania.
"I was surprised majority Americans don't trust Trump. I was never Trumper in the primary but even though he's brash, and tweets far too much most of what he's doing is OK with me. I never thought Washington was such a swamp. I think the election brought this to the forefront.".
No doubt, Karen. No doubt.
Harry Gill. Riverside. California.
"Excuse my choleric disposition..."
Choleric was the word of the day yesterday.
"With regard to the Oscars it is viewed worldwide, many people from other countries follow our movies and Hollywood culture. Therefore, I'm skeptical that a decrease in viewership in America would be enough to pummel the producers."
Look the American ratings set the ad rates for ABC. That's all you need to know, not people in Taiwan, here. And yet again ratings are down, big time.
Jess Lily, on the message board.
"I took advantage of your deal Old School and Killing Jesus in paperback. Sent it to my mom for an early Mother's Day gift."
Way to go, Jess.
"Here's my question, is the school shooting in Broward County, the school shooting in Broward County was tragic but why doesn't the media cover the violence in Chicago the same way covers things like this.".
So, that's what I was promoting Jess's question. The violence in Chicago is largely in the shadows. It's gang violence done by minorities. Media didn't have any access to it. All right. It happens, middle of the night, drive by shootings. No media there. It's all after the fact. In a school shooting everybody's there, helicopters are there, live shots. I mean and it's dramatic. Seventeen dead. All right. I think it was 13 kids four adults, like that. So it's the drama that drives it. And there is the minority aspect, minority crime in America, shamefully is not covered at the same level as white crime. That's the truth.
Lorenz Waller. St. Louis.
"Just finished Killing Lincoln, the fourth of the books, of your books that I've read. I had no idea to the extent to which Lincoln was so unpopular, the most hated man in America. Reading this book has helped me understand the present state of Donald Trump's popularity because the liberal left, Hollywood and the media, our President might easily be called the most hated man in America."
Now, that's true. Lincoln was hated because he was a wartime president. So the south hated him and a lot of people in the North didn't want the war, so they hated him. Trump it's more personality driven, right now. So, he's so flamboyant, so over the top that a lot of people object to it.
Andrew Burey. Arlington Heights, Illinois.
"Mr. O'Reilly, I've read all of your books and I think you're great. I'm reading your last book Killing England and having a hard time finishing it. Something is bothering me that something is the omission of two important heroes named Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski. They were both foreign generals who helped the United States achieve freedom."
Very good, Andrew. You know we have the Kosciuszko Bridge here in New York and Pulaski, both of them were heroes but I couldn't get everybody in, it is 300 pages and we were concentrating on Jefferson, Washington and Franklin and their achievements. What they did in the Revolutionary War is off the chart. So I couldn't get everybody. I got some of the minor players Benedict Arnold, he isn't really a minor player but I had to show the British side too, so he couldn't get everybody. But you're right they are heroes and deserve exposition.
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