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| All content taken from The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. Each weeknight by 6 PM EST a preview of that evening's show will be posted and then updated with additional information the following weekday by noon EST.
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Guests:Juan Williams & Mary Katharine Ham
"It's really a shame that some Americans can not allow the families of the Santa Barbara victims to grieve without politics. There is a time and place to make political points, but you don't do it on the backs of innocent people who were killed in a rampage. Six Americans were murdered by Elliot Rodger last Friday, obviously a heartbreaking situation. As Talking Points has stated, there is no way to stop mass murder. Even in countries like Norway, which is very peaceful and has little gun intrusion, a psycho murdered 77 human beings a few years ago. But for some reason, crazy ideologues feel they need to exploit these situations. Brittney Cooper, who teaches at Rutgers University in New Jersey, declared that 'white male privilege kills.' And Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center blames the killings on Internet sites where frustrated men vent about women. The harsh truth is that we're living in a world where more and more people are becoming mentally ill. The reason is alienation, families falling apart, pervasive technology that numbs human feelings, and a culture that too often celebrates violence. This has nothing to do with racism or bias against women, it has to do with individuals who are so sick that they want to destroy other people as well as themselves. Sometimes those people can be helped, sometimes they can't. No matter what society does, there will always be mass murder."
The Factor invited reaction from Mary Katharine Ham and Juan Williams. "I'm going to call you out tonight, Bill," Williams said, "because I know you as a guy who will object to Beyoncé and her sexual lyrics. We live in a pornographic culture in Hollywood and music, and we can't close our eyes and say that's not what caused this. That's like walking around with blinders, pretending there is not a real danger in a distorted and dysfunctional culture. We can't protect our children in this country!" Ham criticized those pundits who consistently try to capitalize on a tragedy. "You can have a discussion about the coarsening of culture without jumping on a political hobby horse that you are always talking about. The left is particularly good at doing this. The thread most common in these mass murders seems to be mental illness, which runs up against freedom." The Factor made a clear distinction between pernicious cultural influences and cause-and-effect, saying, "The culture of entertainment does affect people, but it doesn't directly cause murder or pregnancy." |
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Guests:Francisco Hernandez Raoul Lowery Contreras
As reported previously, Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi has been in a Mexican jail after making a wrong turn and mistakenly entering that country with guns in his vehicle. The Factor issued this proclamation: "This is completely bogus, the sergeant simply made a mistake. So we will now apply some pressure on the Mexican government. We would like you to go to BillOReilly.com and sign a petition that we will send to the Mexican ambassador in Washington." Immigration lawyer Francisco Hernandez and columnist Raoul Lowery-Contreras reacted to the situation. "I think what happened," Lowery-Contreras said, "is that this got out of local control. Usually when there's an incident like this at the border, the local Mexicans will work it out and march the American up to the border and turn him over." But Hernandez actually implied that Sgt. Tahmooressi may be guilty. "We should do whatever it takes to get him back, but he is one of many Americans in prison based on very strict gun laws in Mexico. You don't cross into Mexico with three guns by mistake." |
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Guest:James Rosen
The State Department is apologizing for inadvertently promoting the work of a man who turned out to be a jihadist. Fox News correspondent James Rosen elaborated on the story. "The State Department has a counter-terrorism bureau," he reported, "and a fairly junior person in the bureau tweeted out a link to a website that appeared to show a group of Islamic clerics condemning the kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram. But the link took people to the official website of Sheik Abdallah Bin Bayyah, a Sunni cleric who has praised Hamas, called for eternal conflict with Israel, and endorsed a fatwa that equated the killing of U.S. troops in Iraq with the religious duty of Muslims." |
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Guest:Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
Speaking at West Point Wednesday, President Obama asserted, "By most measures, America has never been stronger relative to the rest of the world." Fox News strategic analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters evaluated the president's speech. "It was an absolute exercise in self-adoration," Peters stated. "America is perceived as weaker because of Obama's lack of leadership - when you are weakly led, you are weaker. In Iraq, he threw away the advantage we gained in blood, and in Afghanistan, you don't tell the Taliban we'll be gone in two years. The most shameless part of the speech was his claim that American leadership has provided success in Ukraine. Ukraine is bloodier than ever." |
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Guest:Dennis Miller
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is being blasted for saying that he would avoid young black men in hoodies and young white men covered with tattoos. Dennis Miller weighed in on the issue. "I would turn the national conversation on race over to Mark Cuban and Stephen A. Smith," Miller said, "because I think they have some cojones. Stephen A. Smith is about to hear the name 'Uncle Tom' more frequently than Tom Cruise at a Fourth of July Scientology picnic, but good for him for having the courage to step up. I admire both these guys, they are actually trying to have the conversation. It's about time we had someone candid about this." Turning to politics, Miller urged Republicans to start playing much dirtier. "We're getting our ass handed to us like somebody who just got outpatient liposuction surgery. We've got to get the jump on these guys, we have to be more clever than they are." |
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Guest:Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters spent part of the holiday weekend roaming the beach, questioning young people about American history. Back in the studio, Watters lamented that most of the college kids were totally flummoxed by simple questions about World War II, the Civil War, and even George Washington. "I went out and looked for girls who are attractive," he confessed, "and I looked for your average guys at the beach. No one was intoxicated, these are normal, average college kids. One of the girls answered four out of five, but other people were in trouble." |
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| Bill's next book, "Killing Patton," looks at the final months of World War II in Europe and the strange death of legendary General George Patton. It's free to those of you who sign up for, or extend, a premium membership here on BillOReilly.com. |
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Tim Forrest, Davenport, IA: "O'Reilly, you are exactly right on criminology, and Kirsten Powers is wrong. She continues to deny the facts about crime, expecting the audience to buy into liberal wishful thinking."
Richard Saliba, Dallas, TX: "I have been an inner-city police officer for eight years. Liberals like Kirsten believe they can have both low incarceration rates and low crime. That's fiction." |
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