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Bill O'Reilly, here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the News with Mike Slater.
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Thank you, Bill. It is Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Donald Trump mobilizes the National Guard to save one of our cities. A new poll finds the nation more divided than ever before. Families flee progressive cities and a majority of young Americans resent the rich. It's all coming up. Then I will be here with your message of the day. We'll talk about the latest update with the whole cracker barrel fiasco. But first, Donald Trump doubling down on his plan to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. Despite the pledge, the president refused to offer any timeline as to when the crackdown would begin. Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker called the measure a blatant violation of states rights. The governor said there is no emergency that requires the use of the National Guard. Chicago currently has some of the worst crime rates in America. CNN had a great fact check yesterday. They said Trump claimed in a post that after one week, there's no crime. And murder in D.C. not true. Crime levels have declined during the federal takeover, but hundreds of crimes now have occurred. So first it was there's no crime in this city. And now it's things are still awful in this city. A new Gallup poll finds Americans bitterly divided over politics. According to the poll, 40% of the public approves of Donald Trump's performance, 43% disapprove, 93% of Republicans support the president. See a lot of unity there. And only 1% of Democrats think he's doing a good job. Man TDS. For comparison, 8% of Democrats backed George W. Bush in 2004 during the height of the war in Iraq. Americans continue to flee the country's biggest cities. Data from the US Census Bureau finds another 25,000 people left New York City last year, 15,000 ditched LA, 10,000 left Chicago. Biggest factors for the exodus, high crime, cost of living, quality of life. Most popular destinations for families relocating this year, Florida, Tennessee and Texas. I will reiterate again, just population shifts over the last few years. The 2030 census for the 2032 redistricting. Even if Democrats won all the Rust Belt states and all the swing states, they still would not win enough Electoral College votes to win the presidency. And that doesn't even include redoing the census without including illegal aliens. Something else the president wants to do. A majority of young Americans resent the rich. A study from the CATO Institute finds 52% of adults under the age of 39 believe the rich amassed their fortunes by exploiting poor people. For comparison, 85% of seniors believe that successful citizens earn their money through hard work and determination. Seven in 10 members of Gen Z say they prefer socialist political candidates over capitalists. We'll be back with a message of the day and then something you might not know.
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Mike Slater filling for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update, Message of the day. And we have a Cracker Barrel update here. The president has weighed in. The president said Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response, the ultimate poll, and manage the company better than ever before that they got a billion dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right. Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity. Have a major news conference today. Make Cracker Barrel a winner again. Their new chief marketing officer, Sarah Moore said the change was about bringing fresh energy to Cracker Barrel. I got a couple points on this. First, in the marketing world, by the way, Cracker. Cracker Barrel hired three marketing companies to make this big, fresh change. They're based out of Brooklyn, San Francisco and Canada. Now, most marketing people are young, female, progressive, not religious and childless. In other words, they have no connection with conservatives, religious people, grandparents or patriots or anyone who values tradition. Their only focus is on innovation. No tradition. Which is why on my show we talk all the time about rejecting modernity and embracing tradition. But if you're a marketing executive, you're all about change. You're all about making more, making things fresh and new. That's not what Cracker Barrel's about. The whole point of Cracker Barrel is to be like the olden days you can't make that fresh and new. So what should they have done instead? Well, Michael Thomas said, if I were made the Cracker Barrel CEO, I would have done things like Fiddle Players on Friday nights, men in plaid and women in long skirts get a free baked potato with every meal. Families with three or more kids with both parents get a 20 discount. American history nights with quizzes and prizes. Instant sensation on brand. Great publicity. This wasn't hard. Stop with the modernists in thick rimmed glasses with left wing agendas. How about if grandparents come in with grandkids 20% off? How about all the items in the general store made in America? You get the idea. We're just brainstorming here. But all these ideas start with what is our brand? And work from there. The women who took over Cracker Barrel instead said, how can we make this brand different? More accurately, what the woke women in charge said was, how can I make this brand more like me? Just like woke women destroyed Star wars and Indiana Jones and Marvel, Variety magazine just the other day wrote an article about how Disney is trying to find new stories and new franchises that can appeal to young men. It's like, oh, you fools. You spent $4 billion on Star Wars. You spent $4 billion on Marvel. You had the most popular male franchises ever, and then you handed them over to woke women to try and spin them to find a female market that never existed and you destroyed them. And now they're like, oh, we can't appeal to young men anymore. Well, woke women destroyed Cracker Barrel as well, which leads me to my final point. Cracker Barrel was already lost. Sometimes it takes time for people to notice. In my experience, the quality of the food has gone down over the last couple years. Years ago, during Black Lives Matter and everything, they got all into Black Lives Matter. They got all into the pride stuff. They talked about bringing pride to the front porch. They've been woke for a while. They're also 14% of them owned by BlackRock and a bunch of other big companies like that. So for about five years now, they've been this massive corporation, soulless fast food chain hiding behind its legacy, hiding behind its brand, hiding behind Uncle Herschel. And now their logo finally matches who they really are. There is a sort of justice in that. So in a weird way, I like the visual changes to Cracker Barrel because Cracker Barrel's brand sold out a long time ago. It's about time people see clearly who they really are. Something you might not know coming up next.
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Mike Slater filling for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. It is now okay to challenge election results. Election go to Minnesota to prove this true. A couple weeks ago we talked about how this Somali fella, State Senator Omar Fatah, won the basically Democratic Party endorsement. They call it DFL in Minnesota, but Democratic Party over their current mayor. Well, the Democratic Party just rescinded Omar's endorsement. My goodness, why? Quote, A party committee found major flaws in the electronic voting system used at the summer convention. The committee ruled that the first and second ballots were compromised due to broken formulas in a tabulation spreadsheet, unsecured access and miscounts that dropped a qualifying candidate. What? What? My goodness. Voter fraud miscalculations. I've been told that's impossible. The committee found there was clear evidence that the endorsement of State Senator Omar Fatah for mayor was facilitated by the use of a flawed electronic voting system, which they say led to a substantial undercount on the first ballot. Also, an Excel spreadsheet used to tabulate votes had several broken formulas. The spreadsheet was unsecured and accessed by the non members of the credentials committee, including by campaigns, among other problems. The current, current mayor came out and said, don't take my word for it. It was a process rife with errors and misconduct. Hundreds of people didn't get counted out of hundreds of total votes. An entire ward where nobody knew who the ward delegates were and that the data itself was given to other campaigns. So they took back poor Omar's endorsement. My goodness, look at what the left did when we asked questions. Look at what they did to Rudy Giuliani, America's mayor, how they treated him because he defended President Trump. Keep all this in mind when someone on the left is appalled that you dare ask questions about mail in ballots and counting votes after Election Day and electronic voting machines in general. Trump last week said he wants to lead a movement to end mail in ballots, which of course, is a noble effort. And when we say, yeah, we should get rid of mail in ballots, people are like, oh, how dare you? Elections are always secure. Well, not in Minnesota. Watermarked paper ballots where machines are only used to count. That's it. Why does one political party in this country not want that more?
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