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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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"President Obama is taking his cause to the public that there should be tighter restrictions on who is allowed to buy firearms. Mr. Obama is sincere in his quest for more safety but he is missing the big picture. According to the latest FBI stats, slightly more than 8,000 people were victims of firearm murders in 2014. There were 118,000 robberies and almost 150,000 aggravated assaults involving guns. The population of the USA is 330 million, so you can see there is not a gun-crime epidemic and the vast majority of these heinous crimes are committed by hardcore criminals, not civilian shooters. There are more than 300-million firearms on the streets, so there will be a thriving black market for guns no matter what kind of registration laws are passed. Talking Points understands public safety and reasonable gun registration laws should be on the books. But perspective is important and restricting law abiding Americans from acquiring guns is obviously unconstitutional. Again, the gun-violence problem primarily lies with criminals, so where is the federal law that mandates strict prison time for anyone using a gun in the commission of a crime? Where is that law, Mr. President? Talking Points has said it before - anyone convicted of a gun-related crime should get 10 years in prison on top of what they get for the crime. That would send a meaningful message. Terrorists are not going to submit themselves to background checks, neither are dangerous felons or insane people. On the other side, the NRA and gun owners should be reasonable. The FBI should background check anyone buying a firearm in the USA, that makes sense. Registration is not going to solve much, but with zero tolerance toward gun-crime, things might change quickly. Think about it, Mr. President."
The Factor invited reaction from Democratic strategist Nomiki Konst and liberal professor David Goodfriend. "Thank you for saying that background checks make sense," Goodfriend began. "There is evidence that when background checks are increased gun deaths go down, and when background checks are decreased gun deaths go up. How many innocent lives are enough?" Konst lashed out at Congress for resisting most gun restrictions. "Congress has been blind to the gun epidemic - we are in the fifth day of the year and there has already been more than 120 gun-related deaths. Congress is owned by the gun manufacturers." But The Factor reminded his guests that most proposed gun control laws would be symbolic: "Illinois and Chicago gun laws are very stringent, yet gun crimes are off the charts. Gun registration is not going to stop massacres like those in Charleston and San Bernardino." |
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| Donald Trump continues to attract massive crowds and remains far ahead of his Republican rivals. FNC analyst Karl Rove scrutinized Trump's enduring appeal. "He can win the nomination," Rove conceded. "He leads nationally with 35% of the vote, but the question is how much of the rest of the electorate will be available to him. There will be a winnowing process after New Hampshire and there will only be three or four or five candidates left by early March. If the race shrinks down to two or three, there will be a consolidation of the non-Trump vote and there is a good chance that he will not be the nominee." |
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| After some recent wild weather swings across the country, The Factor welcomed meteorologist Michael Schlacter of 'Weather 2000.' "There is an intense drought in California," Schlacter said, "and a lot of areas are 2 to 5 feet below normal rainfall. So the current rain may be the proverbial drop in the bucket." Schlacter theorized that the present weather chaos can be attributed to El Nino, not long-term global warming. "El Nino is a warming of the equatorial Pacific waters, which triggers atmospheric responses. This happens ever several years." Finally, Schlachter predicted a "volatile, harsh, cold, and stormy" winter in the Northeast. |
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| New York City has decreed that transgendered people must be addressed as the gender of their choice. The Factor asked Katie Pavlich and Kennedy to opine. "If you address someone by a pronoun they don't want," Kennedy said, "and if you do it willfully, you could be fined $145,000. If you force a woman who wants to become a man to wear a dress, you could be fined up to $250,000!" Pavlich criticized New York's Human Rights Commission for promulgating the new rules. "Employers also have rights and we there has to be some kind of due process in this, both for the employer and for the employee. That goes for any kind of discrimination in the workplace." The Factor added, "We all agree that transgendered people should be protected, but New York City is out of control." |
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| Bill Cosby has been charged with sexual assault in Pennsylvania and faces a long jail term if convicted. Legal analysts Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lis Wiehl laid out how they would defend Cosby. "The first thing I would do," Wiehl said, "is to get the allegations from these other women excluded so the jury doesn't hear that. Under the rules of evidence, you can not bring in prior bad acts to prove that he did something." Guilfoyle agreed that the scores of other allegations against Cosby will probably not be included in the prosecution's case. "If you can persuade the judge that Cosby has a certain pattern, the evidence can come in. However, I agree with Lis that it would be considered highly prejudicial and it would be excluded." The Factor concluded, "This is no slam dunk, Cosby could get off." |
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| Students at a Michigan college have assembled a tongue-in-cheek list of words that should never be used. Among them - 'manspreading,' 'stakeholder,' and 'problematic.' The Factor asked Greg Gutfeld and Bernard McGuirk to weigh in. "They left off 'tongue-in-cheek,'" Gutfeld pointed out. "I hate the term 'tongue-in-cheek.' And they also left out 'caution!'" McGuirk tried to shoehorn as many tired clichés as possible into his response. "When I first saw this story I thought it was problematic, but let me walk that back. I'm not against the evolution of the language and using slang, it's all good at the end of the day." The boys also opined on the Utah man who started a website where white people can meet one another. "How hard is it to meet white people in Utah?" McGuirk pondered. "White people meet at hockey games, ski resorts, tanning salons, and Bernie Sanders rallies." Gutfeld quipped, "I am O-KKK with this." |
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Chuck Stankovsky, Madison, WI: "Bill, you kept pressuring Donald Trump for specifics about the Middle East. This is wrong. He's a strong negotiator who should not give anything away."
Joe Schober, Caspar, WY: "O'Reilly, are you trying to mentor Trump?"
Earnest Harper, Boise, ID: "Bill, you are giving Trump too much face time, and you attacked everything Rubio said."
Tom Nichols, Keller, TX: "I watched you trying to coach Rubio." |
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| Don't forget to thank anyone who gave you a gift over the Christmas holidays, even if it's food that you did not exactly relish. |
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