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Number Two Bestseller
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| Jesse Waters of Fox News, of The Five and of Waters World, is with me. | |
| His book was just published two days ago, How I Saved the World. | |
| And it's a wonderful book, and it's needed some lightness as well. | |
| I mean, it's a lot of thought in it, but it's the lightness with which he carries it out that is worthy. | |
| I know you know this. | |
| I mean, I assume you know this. | |
| How do you explain it? | |
| It'll be fun to get your answer. | |
| It is the second best-selling book in the United States of America of all types on Amazon. | |
| You know who's beating me? | |
| I saw earlier today Reese Witherspoon's book club recommendation is beating me. | |
| Now, Dennis, I have no beef with Reese. | |
| She seems like a very fine woman. | |
| But if you are not a fan of Hollywood, go out and buy my book, How I Saved the World, so we can defeat Reese. | |
| And that is nothing personal, Reese, but this book is much more important than that book. | |
| And I say that without any bias. | |
| My book, believe it or not, Bible commentary, five volumes, third volume is coming out this year. | |
| When the first volume came out, It was number two in the country. | |
| Oh, nice. | |
| Really nice for, I mean, considering the subject. | |
| But I'm only mentioning this because number one, because that's the thing we're most interested in, right? | |
| If you're number two, gee, what's number one? | |
| And clearly, you had the same curiosity. | |
| Mine was a, I think it was a fictional story about a gay frog. | |
| Well, isn't that poetic? | |
| Yes, right. | |
| Bible Commentary 2, K-Frog 1. So right now, I think Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Mob is number one in the New York Times bestseller list. | |
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Would Debate Any Of These Guys
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| So if I, this Sunday, am able to knock off Bill, my guy, that would bring this thing full circle. | |
| So if you want to see that happen, go to Amazon and make it happen for us. | |
| I don't follow the New York Times bestseller list. | |
| I think it's fraudulent. | |
| So I don't like Amazon for a thousand reasons, but I do believe that their data are accurate on book sales. | |
| Well, Dennis, if I am not number one on the Times list, then I would agree with you. | |
| It is fraudulent. | |
| But if I am number one, totally legit. | |
| I love you for that. | |
| That is such an honest answer. | |
| So a final question. | |
| You had mentioned about meaning, and that is the whole thing, and we're so in sync on that. | |
| So what gives your life meaning? | |
| Well, I happen to be at a job that I love, and I'm so grateful for that opportunity because I know that not everybody in the country has that. | |
| A lot of people go and punch the clock. | |
| It's nine to five, and they have a bad boss, and it's just a paycheck. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I got fired from about five jobs before I landed at Fox. | |
| I got fired as a waiter. | |
| I got fired as a bellman. | |
| I got fired in the financial services industry. | |
| Apparently, you have to have a basic grasp of arithmetic to handle millions of dollars of other people's money. | |
| I landed at Fox. | |
| I was actually before Fox at the Pataki re-election campaign, Republican here in New York, and we had a returning general candidate who was running against Eliot Spitzer, who was the original Love Gov. | |
| Remember, he was Mr. Black Sox, and I was in charge of opposition research, and apparently I had forgotten and not noticed that he was sleeping with every single prostitute up and down the East Coast. | |
| Many jobs I had had before Fox, I finally got there, and it stuck. | |
| So I love talking about what I believe in. | |
| I love talking about this country. | |
| I'm a people person, so I also hit the streets and talk to the folks and hear what they have to say and then communicate that energy on air from the studio. | |
| And I just care so much about this country that I don't want to see it hurt. | |
| I want to see it continue to thrive. | |
| And that's why I'm in the arena of ideas. | |
| We've got to debate this and persuade people. | |
| And I love persuading people with words, but also with humor. | |
| And also with ridicule. | |
| Because it's a very powerful and potent item. | |
| And you remember Jon Stewart Dennis used to just totally ridicule Republicans for that run he had. | |
| And it was so effective that Republicans were running scared. | |
| But when you're a conservative with a sense of humor, Democrats don't like that. | |
| They police humor because they understand the power of ridicule, and they're experts. | |
| And if you shatter their credibility, that can really hurt their control. | |
| And it also humanizes the conservatives and makes them likable. | |
| Democrats don't want us to be likable. | |
| They want to dehumanize us because it's easier to destroy someone who's subhuman, and that's why. | |
| They try to cancel us because they don't think we deserve to be able to put food on our table to feed our family. | |
| So this is the action that I'm involved in, and I love it, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. | |
| Nice. | |
| I have one more. | |
| I said I had one more. | |
| I have one more after my one more. | |
| I have a feeling I know your answer, so I'm not asking it for your answer, but for a follow-up. | |
| Would you debate Chris Cuomo? | |
| I would. | |
| I wouldn't know what I'd get out of it, because I'm not going to change his mind, so it would just be kind of a prize fight. | |
| But if the price is right... | |
| Well, the reason I asked it is, I would debate any of these guys, but my belief is... | |
| None of them would debate us. | |
| Right. | |
| That's the point that I was driving at. | |
| That they are afraid to debate us, but it is not reciprocal. | |
| The reason for that is because we're on with the facts. | |
| And they're not. | |
| The facts are not on their side. | |
| So they're not used to having guests come on their show and defend their ideas with facts. | |
| But that's what we do here at Fox. | |
| That's what you do on the radio and on your podcast. | |
| And that's why people come to people like us, because they want to know the reason behind why they feel the way they do. | |
| And it makes them feel secure in their belief system that their beliefs are based on reality. | |
| And it's very hard to argue with someone that has a reality that backs them up, because, you know... | |
| You can say pretty much anything you want. | |
| You can say Republicans are defunding the police. | |
| You can say there's not a crime wave. | |
| You can say all these things, but if no one's calling you out, then it's just a lie, and it's easy, and it's an easy lie, and they get away with easy, cheap lies on the other side, and that does a great disservice to the country. | |
| All right, everybody, let's move the book to number one, How I Saved the World. | |
| Jesse Waters. | |
| It's great to talk to you, Jesse. | |
| You're the best, Dennis. | |
| Thank you, and I love your audience. | |
| Thank you. | |
| All right. | |