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Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News - February 26, 2026
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Bill O'Reilly
Foreign. The US Hockey gold is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Right before we started to tape this, in late afternoon, it was announced that the US Women's hockey team won. The gold is not going to appear at the State of the Union. They were invited by President Trump. Members of the men's team will appear. Not all of them, because there's all kinds of logistical. Because the NHL starts midweek back up. But this is an interesting story because there's a huge culture difference between women's sports and men's sports in America, and that's the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. It goes beyond that, of course. We are a divided nation, deeply divided, and the political hatred is growing, all right? And it's spurred by President Trump's presence, no matter what he does. All right? It's spurred by immigration, ice, all of that. And the third is the economy. So some people are having trouble keeping up. Okay? So when you get all those elements swirling around, then you have a divided country, which is what we have. So you get two gold medal winners. The men's hockey team and the women's hockey team. The men's team, very respectful and patriotic. The women's team, not so much. Sorry, ladies. It's not as bad as a women's soccer team, which was anti American, in my opinion, but, you know, it's a different culture. Okay, let's run it down for you with some facts to back it up. It's always nice, right? So after the USA defeated Canada on Sunday, the Hughes brothers, these guys are amazing. One of whom won the game with a goal in overtime, said this go. This is all. This is all about our country right now. I love the usa. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA Hockey brotherhood is so strong and we had so much support from expensive players. I'm so proud to be American today. I love the US and it's the greatest country in the world. So happy to represent it here with these guys. And that's really special. All right, so that's Jack and Quinn Hughes. And you gotta, you know, when I'm watching it, I got up early, 8am to watch it. I. I was proud. I. You know, I just said, you guys did what you had to do. And the reason that the USA won was because of Conor Holaback. The goalie plays at a Winnipeg Jacks, but he's from Commerce, Michigan. He blocked 41 and 42 shots. I mean, without him, Canada would have won. Canada was getting more shots on goal and had the Better of the play. But the USA would not give up, and so they deserve their win. The only controversy that we can see was when Cash Patel, a director of the FBI, showed up in the locker room after the game to hoist a beer with the boys. Okay, now, I'm not offended by this. And there was a reason that Mr. Patel was there. The FBI provided some security expertise to the Italian government during the entire Olympics. It wasn't like Patel just flew over for the game. He's the head of the bureau, and the bureau was working with the Italians to make sure nothing happened, and nothing did happen. This is miraculous. So if Patel wants to go in and have a good time with the boys after the game, I don't have any problem with that. But, of course, others do. Roll the tape. His spokesperson says he was in Milan on official business. Well, aren't there more officially pressing business matters to be dealt with here in the States? That maybe he could have done a better job than showing up in Milan on the private jet? He showed up for American athletes security. He showed up at the end of the Olympics. And so I think generally in law enforcement, when there's an issue, you show
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Buck Sexton
up at the beginning so that you can prepare security.
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Bill O'Reilly
He was chugging beer. You're not playing. You're not. You know, and he's behaving like he's like a member of Animal House. Please. You know, number one, I don't think Ms. Goldberg even knew that the FBI was assisting the Italian government and the other ones. So you show up at. Not at the. I don't know why Disney. I just don't know why, you know, but it's never going to change over there. So on the Internet, which we ignore, because they're haters. They're serious haters. These are seriously damaged people. I have to point out the Huffington Post is the worst. This hate, hates the country, hates the United States. In Canada, there was mild criticism. Go look. I'll just say, number one, I certainly echo everyone's sentiment feeling today and how this stinks. It's a tough one. Canada deserved to win this game. They outplayed the U.S. so what? You know, I mean, come on, accept it gracefully. All right. I wrote a message of the day. It's on billoriley.com it's about nationalism. And there is a good part of nationalism and a bad part. And the final point I want to make before we get to our guest, Stephen A. Smith, is that you are looking at a situation that is far more important than a sport. So our country. I don't know if it's ever going to come together again. I don't. Not in my lifetime. I don't think it will. I think this vision is there to stay between the red states and the blue states and the women's team and the men's team. And under a constitution perfectly, you know, there's no demand that we're in lockstep. But it makes me sad. It does. And that's a memo. All right. Joining us from Miami, where he's hiding out from the snow is Stephen A. Smith, who is the premier sportscaster in America, whether you like him or not. He is. And he's the author of Straight Shooter, a Memoir of Second Chances, of First Takes that's still in circulation. His book. Where am I going wrong here, Stephen?
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Stephen A. Smith
Well, I would say to you, let me first applaud you on where I think you're going. Right. I do believe that, you know, I don't have any problem whatsoever with the FBI director being in the locker room celebrating with the Team usa. He's the FBI, United States of America. His rooting interest clearly is undeniable. And we've seen plenty of elected officials at sporting events rooting on Team usa. What's wrong with him being there? I see no issue with that whatsoever. And even though I have a great relationship and I love me some Whoopi Goldberg, she's a friend. I've known her for many, many years. And I respect those on the View, even though we may disagree from time to time. I just think that they were off with what they were complaining about when it came to Cash Patel being there, being present, et cetera, et cetera. Where I would disagree with you is when you talk about Disney, because I would remind you, Bill O'Reilly, I've been working for ESPN for over 20 years. I work for Disney. And they certainly don't control what I say. And I certainly have opinions that are far different from them. So I would say to you, specify the view as opposed to specifying Disney, because I work for it, too, and they don't have any influence over what I say.
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Bill O'Reilly
Let me rebut, because I'm. I didn't know you were going to bring this up. And it's an interesting topic.
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Stephen A. Smith
Sure.
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Bill O'Reilly
Disney puts on a propaganda show every day, a left wing propaganda show every day. You don't do that. You do sports.
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Stephen A. Smith
I don't.
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Bill O'Reilly
ESPN does sports. Now, in the globe of sports, you got a lot of different opinions. You got Steve Kerr out in.
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Stephen A. Smith
Sure.
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Bill O'Reilly
Golden State Popovich but you got conservative guys with Disney under the banner of news, which of course it isn't. The View is not news. All right? Throws a left wing propaganda show on, that does not book one conservative guest the whole year of 2025. You think that's okay?
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Stephen A. Smith
I don't think it's okay. I don't think they think it's okay. And I think that's why they've made efforts to correct it now. You might have.
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Bill O'Reilly
What efforts? Whatever.
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Stephen A. Smith
I'm just saying you've seen, you've seen conservatives coming on. I didn't know I was here to talk about that. But I won't run from it. I will tell you that. I think you've seen. They know that it's a problem that needed to be addressed. And as a result, it's in the process of being addressed. Because I think you see more conservatives coming on that show.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now.
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Stephen A. Smith
You've been, you've been on the show in the past. Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of them. I forgot. Who else?
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Bill O'Reilly
The only reason she was on there was to bash Trump. She could never get on there until she started to bash Trump. Then they want.
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Stephen A. Smith
Well, but then you also have. Well, they would tell you they. I don't know this because I'm not a part of that show, but they would tell you that Republicans have been invited and they've been reluctant. That's what they would say. That's what they would say. I don't know that to be true, Bill, and neither do you. Stop that. You don't know that to be true.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yeah, I know.
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Stephen A. Smith
I know my show on many occasions. They don't turn me down. You know, I'm out of.
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Bill O'Reilly
You're not conservative.
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Stephen A. Smith
Then Republicans turn me down. Well, liberals and Republicans turn me down. So, I mean, I get where you're coming from.
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Bill O'Reilly
It's a propaganda thing that's shoved down the throat and it's okay if they would have a counter to it, but they don't.
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Stephen A. Smith
Okay, that's fine. And I can agree with that. But isn't it true, Bill? And you would know this better than me because of the year, the decades you've been in television, finding great candidates
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Stephen A. Smith
You see it everywhere now, like whether CNN, MSNBC, Fox News. Everybody has their own arm. Everybody has their own tilt. We've seen that before. We've been seeing it a lot. So we can't deny it's not about one show. It's not even about one entity. It's about the business itself, which is something that we've lamented. One of the things that I've said, and I've said this publicly, so I can say it to you again about late night. Late night's got an issue. Do you know what would have resolved the issue from day one? Your comedians. What's the number one things comedians say? Nobody is safe. Everybody is open to be parodied, ridiculed, et cetera, et cetera. And there seemed to be this concerted effort aimed at one individual who happens to be our second. Our president, who's in his second term, more considerably, excessively more than anybody else. Had they went after everybody, we wouldn't have these problems.
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Bill O'Reilly
And they ruined themselves. They ruined.
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Stephen A. Smith
So I agree with you.
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Bill O'Reilly
So did snl. All right, let's get to the women's men's thing.
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Stephen A. Smith
Sure.
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Bill O'Reilly
So there's a different culture, I believe. Okay. In the locker rooms of both. Would I be wrong in saying that?
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Stephen A. Smith
Yeah, but, but, but, but maybe not for the reasons you're thinking. I think that a lot of times with, with, with the guys, for example, you're going out there and you're fixated on your performance, but you're not necessarily as connected to the issues in an intimate and more emotional manner than some of the ladies are. And the ladies are smart as a whip. They pay attention to a lot of the issues. They're mindful, they're cognizant, and most importantly, they seem to be a bit more unafraid to speak out about various issues. Well, like you brought up in your monologue when you talked about immigration. It could be immigration. It could be the state of Israel.
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Bill O'Reilly
Wouldn't it have been better, though, for the coach of the women's team just to say, I'm letting the ladies decide for themselves rather than issue statement.
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Stephen A. Smith
But. But we don't know that. That, that's not.
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Bill O'Reilly
No, no. They, they issued a statement. The women's hockey team said, we're not showing up for the State of the Union even though we're invited by the president.
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Stephen A. Smith
Yeah, but what I'm saying to you is that the coach wasn't speaking for them. I mean, they let it be known. That's how they feel collectively.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay. And they don't run the asylum. All the coach had to do is say, if there are any dissenters who would like to go to the State of the Union, you're free to go. They wanted to embarrass Trump. That's what they wanted to do.
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Stephen A. Smith
No, no, no, no, no, no. I disagree with you that. It's not about wanting to embarrass him. It's about emphatically disagreeing with them and letting it be known that's a problem. Well, listen, you think everybody on that
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Bill O'Reilly
women's team disagrees with Trump? You don't think he's one person who likes the president?
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Stephen A. Smith
I think it's. Listen, I think it's entirely possible that, collectively speaking, a lot of them, if not all of them, don't like him. But you're missing the point.
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Bill O'Reilly
Why?
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Stephen A. Smith
And I'm going to get at you about this, Bill O'Reilly, again, policy aside, how many times have you and I go back and forth about the optics and how things are done? Everybody's not in the weeds the way that you are about. Look at the details that you provided. Look at. When you were talking about Cash Patel, you literally gave us information about what he was there for, what his work entailed prior to the celebration upon Team USA winning the gold medal. You'd be surprised, you know, how many people didn't know that. But they come to the no spent zone and then they find it out. There's a lot of things that, you know, the fact of the matter is, is that far more often than not, people are not going by that. They're going about how things look. They're going about. They're catching stuff on a surface level as it pertains to how he chooses to do things. We all know that if you open the borders and you let over 12 million people in here illegally and what have you, that things have to be done. They know that. But in the same breath, how you go about addressing the issue, the sensitivity that you verbalize and you express all of those things play.
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Bill O'Reilly
I don't, I don't. You yourself have said. I don't mind.
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Stephen A. Smith
You yourself have said you didn't like the way he did things, sometimes the way he does it. And that's what people are meant.
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Bill O'Reilly
But here's where you're making your mistake, and I'll give you the last word. I don't mind the dissent. Okay? But the men's hockey team honored the country. They didn't honor Trump, but they were respectful when they got the invitation. Some of them will go and some of them would. Okay, but the women's team was. Was not respectful to the office of the presidency.
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Stephen A. Smith
First thing, first thing, let me say this. I completely agree with you about the importance of respecting the office. I don't want that to get lost in our back and forth. Respect. The office is incredibly, incredibly important. You're right. But, Bill, you have to respect what you know better than most. This is America. And in America, it's not just about freedom of speech. It's not just about freedom of expression. It's the freedom to feel the way that you want to feel. We don't like. You may not like how somebody has gone about doing things, but it is their right to do it. And I know you're not questioning their right to do it. You know they have a right to do it. What I'm saying to you is that if you believe that a person that's serving as our commander in chief is classless, he's devoid of decorum. You wish he would act better, and he really has riled you up and really, really turned you off. And you have an opportunity to express yourself in a fashion where you're engaging in what you would deem to be reciprocation, that might be what's behind it all. I'm not saying I don't believe that
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Bill O'Reilly
every woman on that team feels that way.
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Stephen A. Smith
I'm not. Okay, that's what I'm saying. But how, but, but what I'm trying to say to you, whether it's 12, 15 or 20 people, it's entirely plausible that they could feel that way.
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Bill O'Reilly
And you're right. And let them express it as individuals. But don't use the team.
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Stephen A. Smith
But you don't know what I'm saying to you. As a guy covering sports, you don't know that they were prohibited from doing that. You don't know if they made the decision to have a voice speak for the collective body as opposed to them wanting to speak individually. Some of them, all of them may have preferred it this way.
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Bill O'Reilly
If that were the case, the team did not announce it, which would be very unusual.
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Stephen A. Smith
And I would say to you, I would say to you that in covering sports, when a team comes to that conclusion, more often than not, trust me, those players made the decision and deferred to them. I've been covering sports for 30 years. A lot of times, players behind the team. Players hide behind the team a lot.
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Bill O'Reilly
I think they really do, Bill.
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Stephen A. Smith
They really do. They hide behind the team a lot. Seriously.
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Bill O'Reilly
Absolutely correct. All right, Stephen A. Thanks for the lively debate. We really appreciate it. We'll see you soon. No problem. All right. Joining us now from Miami, same place Doug, was, because these guys are not tough enough to take the weather in the Northeast. Shone and Buck Sexton, who has a book out Manufacturing Delusion, how the Left Uses Brainwashing Indoctrination Propaganda against you. You know, he is on the radio with the Clay and Buck program, which I do occasionally. So, Sexton, where am I going wrong? Where's shown going wrong? What are we missing here?
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Buck Sexton
Missing with what? I mean, I think that the Democrats are completely insane. I think that Jimmy Kimmel and what they're presenting to the American people is an alternative reality, dare I say a delusion. I mean, you mentioned my book. And Bill, one thing I've learned from doing the research of this is that the problem is fitting in all the delusions. The problem is getting all of the unreality onto the page that we're forced to live in day in and day out. But I didn't just want to make this a screed about what's going on today, although certainly we get into in the book, I get into the transgender madness, the BLM madness, Covid. Obviously, it's not a Covid book, but there's some reflection on the craziness that happened during COVID But I wanted to go back to some of the people who are the honestly, the biggest experts of the last hundred years in the fields of psychiatry, of coercion, of psychological operations. And look at how do people in totalitarian states, where this really became something of an evil art form, how do they seize minds? And what I kept coming into, Bill, was even the great experts, people like Joost Meerloo, who was a Dutch American psychiatrist who was fighting against the Nazis, then joined the Dutch army in exile during World War II and was doing psychological operations for the British. He said, look, I've studied the Nazis, I've debriefed the worst of some of the worst of the ss. How they control minds involves a lot of force, a lot of violence. But there are pathways that are similar to even Western countries and the left and the totalitarian impulse. And I think people need to understand that. So I unpack some of those tactics and get into some of the realities of how mass mind control can be achieved without bayonets up against everybody's throat. And that's something that we're certainly seeing in this country.
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Bill O'Reilly
But it happens on both sides. There are right wing kooks, too, but the left has, has perfected it here with the tremendous help of the corporate media, which if you watched the State of the Union, and I always do this, I whipped on CNN as soon as it was over, okay? So I know what Fox is going to say. And then they already started on Epstein, already started. Boom. They couldn't, they didn't have any kind of defense against Trump's speech because it was effective. So they right away try to divert. And that's one of the things in your book, and I did read your book, to create delusion in people's minds, you've got to first sweep reality away. Yes, real life has. Right. Real life has to leave the building. And that's much easier in totalitarian, as you just said, than in a free country. So I don't think that's ever going to happen here on a mass level, mass delusion. But when you saw last night the traps that the Republican Party laid for the Democrats, I was stunned. The Democrats weren't prepared for those traps. How did you see it?
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Buck Sexton
Well, no, I think, Bill, that the Democrats got what they deserved and got what needed to be said when Trump just called them out for being crazy. I mean, this party, and I think there's a number of reasons why it has gone in this direction. But you mentioned the corporate media control they had. And most notably until Elon's purchase of X and the breakthrough of the second Trump administration of social media in a whole range of ways, the stranglehold they had over information online, I think created a left that was increasingly authoritarian. And I would, if I could push back just a little bit on we won't have mass delusion in America. I mean, I would argue that the shutting down of schools and the double masking while you were sitting at your chair, but not while you were, or rather you're getting up to go to the bathroom at the restaurant, but not while you were sitting in your chair and getting six shots. And the genuflection of I'm so happy I got Covid, but I'm vaccinated. All these things. I mean, that, that was a mass delusion that we were going through.
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Bill O'Reilly
But remember, that wasn't a, that wasn't a partisan delusion that Donald Trump was president and that Fauci, who's a villain in your book, worked for Trump. So it wasn't that. It was just one party pushing it. The whole federal government kind of coalesced around these erroneous things. And many of them were the social distancing, the mask, which didn't provide any protection. But now you've got a radical movement in this country that controls the Democratic Party. I don't see that spreading much more than it has. Go ahead.
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Buck Sexton
So let me give you an example of where I think it spreads. And to be clear, now, we could talk about, well, what's a mass delusion? I mean, when we're saying mass, are we talking about 80% of the country? Are we talking about 10 million people or a million people or even a few hundred thousand people who believe something and then can have enormous effect on the rest of the country? An example of this would be the transgender madness. Now we could say, OK, well, is that really a mass delusion? Because only 20% of the country, based on a lot of the polls, really buys into this stuff. But a manufacturing delusion I get into. Well, hold on a second. It's not just the people in the mass, it's also the institutions, right? It's the old seizing of the telegraph office paradigm. It's who's parroting this stuff in the media, who has something that I talk about in the book and manufacturing delusion, the fire hose of falsehood at their disposal, who can just inundate, can flood the zone with those lies. So even if you don't have the numbers, I mean, Bill, as you know, the Bolsheviks were never the majority in Russia.
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Bill O'Reilly
Neither were actually a
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Buck Sexton
faction among.
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Bill O'Reilly
Right, right, you were. And one of the fascinating things about your book Buck is that Buck did work for the CIA and he went to these places and he saw the delusion that was growing. But in America, we don't have. You either see it my way or you're going to get the hell beat out of you by the SA thugs. That's not happening here. But I don't want to argue that. What I want to argue is my, I think the Democratic Party is almost destroying itself at this point. Put Trump and the Republicans aside. Just concentrate on what's happening within the Democratic Party, the party of jfk, okay, who is really the last true Democrat. And Carter was. And Carter had no idea what he was. All right, Barack Obama was pretty left. Kennedy was not close to being Barack Obama. But now the radicals control the Democratic Party, which I think is going to lead to the demise of that party. But I don't know if it's going to happen in November. Last word, Bill.
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Buck Sexton
In Manufacturing Delusion, I get into a couple of the tactics that are essential to both. Not just a totalitarian society. When they have the gulags and they have the, the truncheons and, and the thugs, but can be used in a propagandistic way to control people in a society like our own. And it's confusion and degradation. And when you see those down, those are two traits, two very important things that experts have identified. When you see the way that Democrats try to confuse issues as well as confuse their followers to degrade people by lying to their faces or forcing them to be a part of a lie, a whole range of issues, this is sort of a self reinforcing cycle where they can't self correct. And I think that's what you're identifying. You say what happened to the party of jfk? It keeps getting worse because their strategies rely on lying to people, on living by lies.
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Bill O'Reilly
And their goals are much different. Their goals are tear down traditional America. Whereas Kennedy was not close to that. All right, Buck, the book is Manufacturing Delusion. Get it anywhere. We really appreciate it. Buck, thanks for having me on your radio program as well and we'll talk anytime. Bill.
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Buck Sexton
Thank you,
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Bill O'Reilly
Robert. Dinero. Now this is a little bit more serious. So he's unhinged. Everybody knows that emotionally he just can't accept that Donald Trump is President of the United States. He goes on with Nicole Wallace on Ms. And Ms. Wallace is not, I don't know what she's doing there. Not a journalist, doesn't care to be. She used to be worked for Bush the Younger. Now she's an ardent far leftist. So De Niro goes on and another unhinged interview and says this go. Yeah, it's up to the people. You start hearing it all over now. You're damn right. It's about the people. The people got like Vietnam. You got to get out there and protest the no kings coming. It's got to be not 7, 8, 9 million. It's got to be way, way more than that.
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Stephen A. Smith
What do you think it is about
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Bill O'Reilly
peaceful protests that drives Trump out of his mind.
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Stephen A. Smith
He's so triggered when people are out
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Bill O'Reilly
there peacefully protesting against him. Who care? He's an idiot. He said, we got to get rid of him.
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Stephen A. Smith
Yeah.
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Bill O'Reilly
He's going to ruin the country. Everything that this country has worked for represents. He is ruining it, and it's right before your eyes. Now, he said the words, we got to get rid of him three times. Any interviewer other than Nicole Wallace would have said, what do you mean by that? He's elected. 77 million people voted for him. What's we got to get rid of him? Are you talking about impeachment? What are you talking about? Of course, Nicole Wallace doesn't do that. So I'm watching this, and I'm the head of the Secret Service. USC, US code 871. It is a crime to threaten not only the President of the United States, but the Vice President and everybody else in succession. That'd be the speaker of the House on down. The reason our law is there because on the day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, his Secretary of War, Stanton, his Secretary of State, all were designated for assassination. Didn't happen. Stanton got hurt. But across the board. And then it was. They said, oh, it is a crime to even threaten any of those people. And with Donald Trump and the assassination attempts, this goes way up. Okay, so I'm a Secret Service director, and I'm seeing this three times. We got to get rid of him. I got agents pulling De Niro in for a Q and A, and he better have a lawyer. Now, you could charge him based upon his answers to the interrogation. If he takes the Fifth. I refuse to answer on the grounds you could charge him, and if he were convicted, he'd get five years in prison under this code. But I make an example of this guy De Niro, and I wouldn't do it for vindictive or politics. I wouldn't do that. But enough's enough on the threats. We gotta get rid of him. What are you talking about? It's a serious situation. Unlike the Gavin Newsom thing, which is ridiculous. This isn't. Now, I understand as I set it up, that De Niro is emotionally distraught. I got it. I don't care what he says, but I think he's threatening the President, though I hope the Secret Service pull him in for an intensive interrogation. Now, if you believe I'm wrong, I want to hear from you. Bill@Billoriley.com Bill@Billoriley.com Name in town and on a newsome thing Too smart life. This is an important smart life for everybody. So as you know, we have a concierge membership on billorilly.com and if you join and you have a problem, you can directly send an email to me and I will try to help you. And I have a staff full time that does this. Inevitably we get a lot of people, many senior citizen, who are in situations they cannot handle. For example, I got a letter this week from a 78 year old woman whose husband dies and she believes she's going to lose her house because her life insurance payments are being denied. Okay. Now, each state is different as far as senior citizens are concerned. Her state, California, very robust protections against anybody abusing senior citizens. So our advice to her was you have to hire an attorney to tell you what your options are against this insurance company. Remember, insurance companies are regulated by each state. An attorney has to, you can, at 78 years old do this. You've got to bring in somebody and it's going to cost you a little money, but not a lot. And that person, that attorney will lay out what your options are. And not only that, we@billorilly.com will talk to the lawyer. With your permission, we'll talk to him or her, whoever you decide to hire, okay. To make sure you are being protected. That's the service we offer. About 60% of the time. We don't hear back from the concierge members when we give them advice. Send us the name and contact number of the person abusing you. Whether it's in a corporation, a small business, whatever it may be, send it to us so that we can track it. And if you have to hire an attorney, which this woman absolutely does, we'll, we'll talk to the person and make sure the attorney isn't hosing you. 60% of the time. People just don't do it. And the reason they don't do it is because they think we have some kind of magic wand here. Now, we're powerful and we resolve most of the problems that come our way. We resolve them, but we don't have a magic wand. You have to go into, often into the legal area to protect yourself. So this, to me, I, I am so surprised. The old adage is the Lord helps those who help themselves. Smart life. You got us to working for you, but you have to do the legwork, some of it yourself. Mexico. So they gun down the biggest cartel leader over the weekend. His name was Nemesio Cervantes, known as Elimencho. So they kill him 59 years old. And the Mexican armed forces got him. So the cartels immediately counterattack and they burn down Puerto Vallarta, which is the fourth largest tourist town in Mexico. Shows you how powerful the cartels are. Now, the reason they got El Mencho was the CIA. The American CIA pinpointed him to the Mexican authorities and say, you get them or we'll get them. That's what happened. So Sheinbaum, the president, Mexico will have to get them. She didn't want to get him because this means war with the cartels. She doesn't want it. Now, remember this guy, El Mencho? He was in charge of an outfit that was just smuggling droves of fentanyl and heroin and cocaine in here. National security threat all day long. So right now, 62 people, and that's probably a way low estimate, have been killed in this. We are watching it very closely. Smart life, money, mistakes. I've been on this because, yes, cost of living is up. There's no doubt about it. From pre Covid to now, substantially up. And wages are up, too. Mortgage rates are down, gas prices are down. So it's an ebb and a flow. But if you're wasting money, you're getting hammered. So an outfit called Credit Karma did a study and a thousand adults. Here's what we waste money on. Impulse buying leads the league. Okay, so you walk in and you're never go grocery shopping when you're hungry. Never. Because you'll buy stuff you don't need. And then the same thing in every store. They have little stuff at the count. Yeah, I get that. I get no discipline. Keep to the list. All right, so not saving enough money. 38% Americans that were surveyed imposed buying. 28 credit card debt. 21 not caring enough about money. They don't pay attention, so it fritters away. Not saving for retirement. 14. That's a low number. I thought it'd be higher than that. Overspending due to pressure from friends or a partner. Some people just love to spend money. I'm the opposite. My father was very parsimonious. Word of the day. And I'll spend it if it's worth it, and I'll give it up, but I'd rather give it away than spend it on myself. Okay. I indulge my children, not to any crazy extent they have to work, but I'd rather give the money away. But anyway, look, yeah, watch the money. Take it seriously. Smart life. Mandami needed or needs if you want to come to New York Snow shovelers. So you get 19 bucks an hour shovel and snow, New York City. Problem is you got to have an id. So Mandami doesn't want any ID to vote. But New York City, if you wanted shop shoveling snow at 90 bucks an hour, you got to show an ID. I love this. And Mandami's awards a long standing requirement. You could banish it in a second, you hypocrite. So, New York City, final thought, just a brief one. Savannah Guthrie is offering a million dollars for information about her mother. This heartbreaking story been going on since January 31st. Nobody knows where the woman is. And now her daughter, Savannah, who I know a little bit, is offering a million bucks. And I wish it was something I could do, you know, I really do. I know the story's been over covered to some. Some degree, but. You know, it's mom, that's. That's what it is. So if anybody is listening to me that knows anything about it, please. FBI first call. Thank you for watching and listening to the no spin news. We'll see you again tomorrow.