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Aug. 4, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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Bill O'Reilly and The Biden COVID Failures
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All right, he claims he's a simple man, not simple man by Leonard Skinnard, but I argue he's anything but simple, maybe one of the most complicated people uh that we we have on the program.
Uh we welcome back, of course, Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Um Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
You know, I'm the same Hannity, which is a tragedy for everyone.
Um by the way, you know, a hundred thousand weeks at like number one.
Uh although Levin knocked you off.
I think you're at ten weeks.
Uh you know what?
That's true.
And I got Levin on the No Spin News tonight on BillO'Reilly.com.
Well, that's awesome, really.
Yeah, so I'm gonna, you know, uh I got uh a few things to say to Levin for knocking me out of the number one spot.
And here's the are you basically saying he's gonna get a non co uh uh this is not gonna be a cupcake interview for for Levin.
Well, I'm gonna have to give him a warning that some of the mob guys and killing the mob actually like the fact that we were number one, and he better watch himself here.
Uh you know, it's actually uh what people need to understand is I don't care if it's you or Mark or me or anybody, if a conservative makes it to number one on the New York Times, that means you probably had to outsell whatever liberal book is on the market by at least fifty or a hundred thousand more copies.
Am I wrong?
No, uh you have to really uh have overwhelming numbers to uh get up that list.
And because it's not based on what most of the other bestseller lists are, the Nielsen tally, which is uh a reporting tally.
The New York City, by the way, that's actual books sold, but it doesn't represent every book store.
It's uh I think about sixty-five, seventy percent last year.
It doesn't go into Costco and Walmart.
Which it should because a big big uh bookstore.
Oh my gosh, they're great.
I but don't you love those stores?
Do you let me ask Bill O'Reilly simple man this question.
I love to shop at Walmart.
I love to shop at Target.
I love to shop at Costco's.
I don't know why people make fun of people that shop there.
I meet the nicest people, and you get everything you want when I had no money in my life.
I used to even get furniture there.
That's why I bought my furniture, Bill.
So let me get this straight, Hannity.
Um getting cornflakes bulk at Costco.
Is that is that what I'm Okay, I don't eat I don't eat I prefer Frosty Flakes, uh Tony the Tiger.
Um, but to be honest, I can't eat it because I'll blow up like a balloon.
Uh but it's one of my favorite cereals of all time.
But I go shopping every single solitary week.
Yes, I do.
My I do my own shopping.
Do you know I I uh have a nice woman does that for me.
Um because I'm I'm very frightened to go into uh grocery.
What do you mean you're very frightened to go into it?
Oh I don't know what I'm buying.
Uh and there's so many.
So you're like you're like George Bush Sr.
Have you ever used the scan uh the the scanned in other words?
Have you ever scanned your own groceries at a grocery store?
I don't believe I have, but maybe maybe you are not a simple man.
No, I go to 7 Eleven because it's more expensive, but it's simple.
Well, it's safer in 7 Eleven for you, is that it?
Meanwhile, you're like six foot ten tall.
I mean, it's not like people can't recognize you.
No, but there's only four aisles in 7-Eleven, and there's 52 in the other place, and I'm And you can protect yourself in four aisles, but not 30 aisles.
Is that what you're telling me?
Um I don't I I hate even transitioning into serious topic, but it's this real.
Let me play probably one of the dumbest human beings on the first face of the earth.
It's the uh mayor of the city of New York.
Uh my n my name affectionate name for him is Comrade Bill de Blasio.
Listen to what he says.
Unless we want freedom taken away, we need a vaccine mandate.
I'm like, huh?
You just contradicted yourself.
Listen.
Right now, we have to fight COVID like never before.
The Delta variant has changed the game.
Unless we want to run the risk of going back to restrictions and having our freedom taken away and people losing their jobs again, it's really clear what we have to do.
People have to get vaccinated.
And we had a long period where it was voluntary, there was incentives, it was compassionate and kind.
But now it's time to get a little blunter about the fact that everyone needs to get vaccinated for the good of their family, their community, their country.
And a lot of people, I think, are close to that point, but they needed a little more of a push.
So here's a clear message.
We're saying you want to go and enjoy great restaurants.
Amen.
You want to go to movie theaters, uh go to the gym?
That's great.
We want all that.
You gotta get vaccinated.
Do you want to work in those places?
You gotta get vaccinated for the good and the health of everyone around you as well.
I have four specific questions that I'm gonna give you the floor.
What about people with rare medical conditions whose doctors say you really can't get this vaccine?
What about the Cleveland Clinic prestigious uh medical institution saying if you had COVID, you don't need any vaccine following the science?
What about medical privacy and what about doctor-patient confidentiality?
All those things matter to me.
Thoughts.
Well, number one, what the Blasio is doing is racist.
Did you know that?
33% is only in New York City.
When you break down demographically, 33% of African Americans are vaccinated, which is a small number, which means two-thirds of African Americans in New York City would have every door closed to them.
Yes, you can't go inside.
And the number is 69% in the Bronx.
Wow.
So does Comrade de Blasio know he's a racist?
By the way, he he well, that's you I know what you're doing.
You're you're using uh the woke left definition of systemic racism, but the the the uh you know, one thing, the one false charge that has been out there is that conservatives are creating vaccine hesitancy.
Well, there's 30 percent of them that won't take it.
I think you have to be fair and say that.
The 30 percent of uh the far right uh doesn't trust the government, and uh they're libertarians anyway, they don't want to be told what to do, so they're not gonna take it.
Um but uh African Americans have the lowest ethnic vax rate in the country, and in New York, that is exacerbated by the fact that a lot of them live in very crowded situations in neighborhoods where there are tenements and they're on top of one another, and that spreads COVID.
So I know why de Blasio is doing what he's doing.
I unfortunately believe this is gonna catch on all over the United States.
So in a state like Texas, you're not gonna have a state mandate, but certainly Houston and Dallas are going to follow what New York City is doing, and so you have to have a vaccination passport of some kind to show if you want to uh come into a restaurant or go to a movie.
It sounds like you may support it.
Am I wrong?
I don't support it in the sense that I think you make a very good point about uh there are people who cannot medically take the vaccine, and there are people who are um uh shielded against it because they've already had COVID.
So what the uh municipalities must do is allow those documents to go into the application for the app.
So you get you how this is done is you you apply you uh uh you show a vaccination card, or your physician says uh the person has said COVID, that has to be taken into consideration.
It comes to the case.
So all medical privacy then goes out the window, patient doctor confidentiality goes out the window, uh, and these are the same group of of radical left-wing new Green Deal socialist democrats uh that don't want a voter ID card uh bill.
Does that make sense?
No, of course it doesn't make sense.
But if you're looking at a public health crisis, which COVID is, then you have to go all the way back to polio.
That's the best comparison.
So the federal government of the United States did not mandate that all Americans had to have a polio vaccine.
And remember, in the 1950s, I mean that was crippling people all over the place.
FDR had polio.
Sure.
Okay.
But what happened there was all fifty states, there weren't fifty back then, but all fifty states passed their own law that you have to be vaccinated against polio.
In order to attend public school today, a child has to get vaccinated against measles.
So I understand and support the public health shield.
And I I do it reluctantly because you're right.
I mean, who wants their um personal medical record to be known by Bill de Blasio?
No one.
But if it's just uh, you know, if it's just a situation where you have to make a decision to protect yourself and your fellow citizens, I think you do it.
All right, quick break, we'll come back.
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I I am not willing to give up my medical privacy or my doctor patient confidentiality.
I'm not.
I'm just not willing to do it.
Now, one thing that has not been discussed, and by the way, this is just one of what uh, you know, the the millionth and one reason why you know we're idiots for staying in New York State, period.
Um one thing that I have been highlighting that very few people seem to focus on at all is now that we have these breakthrough cases, um, I really do want an investigation into Provincetown, and I'll acknowledge that is an anomaly as of now, and I hope it doesn't reduplicate itself, where seventy-four percent of five hundred people testing positive had been fully vaccinated.
Uh, we know what happened with Lindsey Graham, and one of my best friends was diagnosed, and he was fully vaccinated this Saturday.
Um, but there are therapeutics like Regeneron, which they uh it seems the medical community has underutilized all throughout since since they developed this.
Remember Donald Trump got one of the first infusions, and he said it it changed him instantly.
It he almost called it a cure that day because he felt so much better within a very short period of time.
Um I think that's gonna be the way to go down the road.
Um marketing drugs like that to mitigate the effects of COVID.
Um there is a ten percent chance if you get Moderna or Pfizer that you'll get COVID.
Now, I don't know whether you know Province Town Massachusetts.
Okay, so you know it's a party town.
Big time.
Bill, everywhere you hang out's a party town.
I actually did a I'll talk about this some other time, but when I was at CBS News, I did an amazing story about Province Town.
That is a really big party town, province town, and I don't think it is reflective of the rest of Massachusetts or the country.
It could be wrong.
But at this point, if you even if you get Moderna, I mean Lindsay Graham is a great example.
He got the vax, but he did get COVID.
I have apparently he went to a a party in close quarters, but he said it was just basically a sinus infection, which what the vax does.
It doesn't a hundred percent protect you, but if you get COVID, then it's very, very how do you feel about bringing back mask mandates?
How do you feel?
I'm not that now now you got me in my wheel zone, Hannity.
Now you I'm not wearing a GD mask.
I'm not.
I'm not wearing it.
Okay.
I I find your transformation here.
Now all of a sudden the mask is your tipping point.
I I'll take the mask over.
I got I'll get the vax passport, um, I'll get it.
All right.
I got the vaccination, I'm a whole person, but I I'm not wearing a mask.
Um that is that is not happening here.
And if the if the uh my priest tells me I gotta wear a mask to go to mass, I'll stand outside in the parking lot and praying by himself.
I am not doing it.
That is so funny.
I mean, I I I can't believe you'd be open to the passport, but not open to wearing a mask.
I'm not because I remember bothered me.
Your problem is is you're six foot ten and you can't not be recognized.
You know, I'm just six foot tall, and you know, I can blend in better than you.
But one other big problem with me in the mask.
Yeah.
I'm so good looking.
Why do I Oh good grief?
Oh, geez.
Stop.
I mean, just stop while you're ahead.
It looks pretty good, Hattie.
Give me a stop it.
How about vaccine mandates?
Do you support that?
No, that's unconstitutional.
Agreed.
But if you but just like I said with polio vaccine, the states have a right to pass that if you want to go to school or you want to use a state facility, you have to be vaccinated.
They have a right to do it.
You have a right to do that.
If they're gonna if they're going to force people and they make the decision not to do it, they have to accommodate kids with school and at least offer at-home learning uh options for them.
You have to uh offer the uh at home.
I'm doing a big investigation.
I hope it's done by Monday on the No Spin News on Bill O'Reilly.com about American children and COVID.
Because we have we can't get a straight story out of the CDC, which drives me blank and nuts.
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I there are a lot of interesting angles to the Olympics, which I'm really not watching, and I'm not interested in large part because of what's happening in every other professional sport, and that is politics being inserted into the game.
But I gotta say something.
There was a moment where the US wrestler, uh, women's wrestling team, Tamara Mensa stock is her name, was asked a question by a reporter.
She won gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
And anyway, she uh anyway, she was asked, Well, how do you how does it feel to represent your country like this?
And this is what she said.
Question for you.
That American flag around your shoulders looks pretty good.
How does that feel to represent your country like this?
It feels amazing.
I love representing the US.
I freaking love living there.
I love it, and I'm so happy I get to represent you and hey.
Like I just leave it in his hands, and I pray that all the practice that the hell that my freaking coach is pays off.
And every single time it does.
What does this mean for the popularity of the sport and for all the young girls out there that are gonna see you and feel inspiration?
It means that they see someone like themselves on that podium, someone like Helen on that podium, showing them just because you're a female, it doesn't mean you can't accomplish the biggest of goals, and the being Olympic champ is one of the hardest things I have ever done in my entire life.
One of the hardest things I've ever done in my life.
I I I w that was the only thing so far that really grabbed my attention and my interest in the Olympic games in Tokyo.
And uh I don't I was I was so happy for her to be a top athlete in any sport.
Um I I I know from personal experience.
My kids were you know both both athletes and all their friends were, and they all work so hard.
I mean, it's so competitive.
It it's the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat and and getting up every day and training and practicing.
It's you you sacrifice so much of your life to to get there.
And I heard that and just it was sort of like when the Islanders started it and then Tampa Bay followed up with it, you know, in the Stanley Cup semifinals and finals where they were st the crowd took over the singing of the national anthem.
And I keep saying you're taking the most unifying moment of a shared passion for a sport, a shared passion for for a home team, or in the case of the Olympics, a home country.
When you see that people, you know, are making a statement that no, I'm proud of this country.
I'm proud to represent this country.
proud to to sing loudly and proudly and unapologetically our anthem like me might remember oh can you see by the dawn's early light
Who are surprisingly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, It grew through the night that our land was still there.
Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, the love of the brave.
Thank you.
I mean, it's it's just that doesn't give you goosebumps.
I don't know what will.
She'll play it every day, I guess.
And I'm not I'm into I was so into the Stanley Cup playoffs this year.
I I would DVR every single game and watch every single game and love every second of I've always loved hockey.
I played hockey as a kid.
And it was the only one of my friends not to lose my teeth.
I lost those when I when I fell off a roof three stories on my face.
But there's a forty plus percent drop in viewership at the Olympics.
Do you think it's connected to these political statements that people are making?
I mean, people they're not going to sporting events to get lectured on politics.
I can tell you that's just a fact.
And I'll tell you who's gonna end up getting hurt are the athletes, because they're not gonna get the big salaries that they thought they might get when you know they were working so hard to get to these high positions.
Linda, I couldn't buy did you see in Norway I think they call volleyball handball there, but it's really I think it's really volleyball.
Anyway, that team decided they didn't want to wear bikini bottoms, which I guess is the standard uniform of volleyball players.
I guess it's beach volleyball, but and they just decided to wear regular old shorts.
And that created a controversy.
They were getting in trouble for wearing sh I'm like, what century are these people living in?
That was one.
Not only that, but they're fine, they were fined.
I know.
I mean, it's just insane.
I'm like what does the outfit they're wearing have to do with their ability to play the sport?
I'm not one to talk about sports, but I'm just saying.
By the way, that's true.
You're not one to talk about sports, but fashion, you know, I think you can weigh in on uh pretty Yeah, but I'm just like not for nothing.
Listen, I look how about they wear whatever the hell they want.
But bikinis Are like, you know, it's for the pool, it's for the beach when you're lounging.
It's not like something, it's not active wear.
You know, like exactly.
I'm sorry.
There's a lot of aspects of bikinis that are not the most comfortable thing in the world.
So I'm just saying the last place I ever want to be is sitting on a beach.
I don't know how people are.
I seriously thought you were just gonna say the last place I ever want to be is wearing a bikini.
You know, it's like how do people sit on a beach all day?
All day.
I know people, friends of mine can sit on the beach all day.
Yeah.
And I'm like, um, are you already first of all?
I I'll get sunburned in ten minutes anyway, and it's gonna hurt, and I don't feel like it.
I'm just I'm not uh I have no appetite for it anymore.
No, I hear you.
It's very it's that's a special thing.
I I'm coming out of my skin in five minutes, and I know I should be enjoying God's majesty, and I can I I can do that for a period of time, and and the waves sound beautiful and it's nice.
I gotta be honest, I really like the beach at night.
Like I love to go to the beach at sunset when everybody else is gone home, and you walk along the beach.
I took my my little guy.
I took my little guy to the beach last week just for a day, and it's I just I laughed because I was like, oh my god, I'm raising a mini me.
Because we were on the beach in the morning, got there very early, 8 30, 9 o'clock in the morning.
Nobody's there, we're doing our sand castles.
For about an hour, he looks at me, he goes, So how long are we doing this, Mom?
And I just looked at him and I was like, Oh, you are my you are my child.
He's like, aren't there other things to do?
We've built the castles, we saw the water, and uh are we ready?
And I was like, Yes, baby, we're ready.
And I just laughed because I was like, you know, he's five, and he thinks this, you know, it's just classic.
All right, quick break.
We'll uh come back more of our little discussion here.
We'll also get to your calls on promise in the next hour.
And uh, is it possible that Andrew Cuomo is facing criminal prosecution?
Our legal team weighs in next as we continue.
All right, as we uh continue our little discussion here about the Olympics and others, other things.
We I mentioned this yesterday on radio and TV about so this tennis pro, she's so talented, she's so gifted.
Uh Naomi Osaka.
And sh I figured I forgot it was Wimbledon, wherever it was, she she pulled out of the tournament, and she had great anxiety about being forced to do press conferences, which I guess is part of the players' contract, and they have to do a press conference.
I mean, people were so harsh against her.
And I'm like, I think she's 23.
She's very young, just like, you know, by the way, I couldn't even stand on a balance beam.
Could you imagine doing like backflips and twists and turns and I don't know.
I mean, these gymnasts just dazzle me with their athleticism.
And Simone Biles, you know, was struggling.
And I'm and I'm reading these comments of everybody, and I'm like, you know, first of all, you know, all these jackasses, armchair quarterbacks, um, you know, stuffing their face with popcorn at home with an opinion on everything.
They they seem to have no understanding of the amount of of their own lives they've dedicated to be the best at their sports.
And that did they not consider at all that there might be something that they don't know about that has caused them great anxiety that they can't do it.
You know, I know for one fact uh I read that Simone Biles aunt died.
Um that can shake anybody to uh their core.
Um what if she's so close to her end and and it just devastated her?
How am I have you not been devastated at the loss of loss of a loved one?
By the way, people's number one fear is speaking publicly, uh, Katie.
Sorry.
Um that that that is most people's biggest fear.
I I and I know because I've coached people on how to do it.
But when they tell me, I how do you do this?
And I said I have to give a presentation and I don't know what to do and how to say it, and well, where do I put my hands and all you know, people get very heady about it?
And I have I've spent a lot of time trying to, you know, coach people how to relax.
Um just little techniques that you can use to just slow down and calm yourself down and and focus on the material that you're presenting and don't get caught in you know thoughts creating anxiety anxious feelings and more those feelings create more thoughts and your mind is spinning, and then all of a sudden you're nauseous, I mean you're ready to throw up.
And I just thought, does anybody really know what's going on in either one of These young women's lives.
Do we have any idea what maybe maybe something happened?
And that we don't know about.
And I just found a lot of the comments harsh.
Now, do I want people to ever quit?
No.
Do I want people to fight through fear and adversity?
Always.
But maybe is this something that's so so traumatizing in their life that you don't know about?
Yeah, that's a possibility.
And in both cases, these are young women, and we're expecting them to be perfect and problem-free.
And and rather than showing an ounce of compassion, people were unmerciful to them.
Did you notice that?
I find that we're in a very strange place in our society, which is that um we're very quick to judge.
And then the second that the judgment is faced on yourself or somebody you care about or something, then it's like, oh, you're too judgy.
And I'm like, you know, I just think everybody just needs to mind their business for a little while and and stop being so concerned about other people and maybe hear the whole story.
You know, it's the whole idea of like the old you know, cliche of you know, walk a mile in my shoes.
You have no idea what happened in that person's day.
Even when someone would say in your life, yeah, if people knew your personal story or aspects of it, they would be stunned.
They would understand why I don't like sports.
They would say yes.
That would be a good idea.
They would understand why you curse a lot, but that's a whole different story.
Listen, I'm doing, you know, I don't curse in front of my son, so that's an improvement right there, you know.
No, that's an improvement.
But see, there's one point you're missing, if I may, which is that these girls, they're not even reacting to what has happened, they are reacting to the anxiety and the anticipation of what might happen because they're young and they have grown, they have grown up with social media.
So if you've like, for example, like you know, social media for a lot of us happened when we were in our teenage years, right?
Or in our 20s.
A lot of these girls, this is all they know.
Like my son already knows what Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, iPhone, iPad, Kindle, you know, this is their world.
They're at school.
So you give him you give your six-year-old son access to the city.
I do not.
I do not.
Okay.
But school does you don't give you don't give your own boss access to his own accounts.
That's great.
Listen, I'm telling you, you should you're gonna thank me for that one day.
No, I already do.
I mean, it's it's a it's you're not missing anything, trust me.
You know, but this is what they're growing up with.
You know, my son goes into school, they give him an iPad or a Chromebook, and he's sitting there and he's navigating around this thing, and I'm like, oh my God.
I'm like, can we go back to pencil and paper?
Because now they have access to YouTube.
Now they have access to ABC Mouse, which is a good program, don't get me wrong.
But they're learning how to navigate around.
And once they get on YouTube and these other places, then they can look at other things.
And I'm like, I even the YouTube kids, it's it's filled with disgustingness.
I'm like, you it's a it's crazy.
And now these girls are doing things that could affect their futures, their careers, and they're being judged by an entire world of online, you know, warriors who think that they know better than them.
Like, I mean, which is insanity.
The last thing I can guarantee you, if you dedicated, you know, over a decade of your life trading hours every day and sacrificing really your childhood to get to be a top athlete, Olympic athlete, tennis player, or any individual sport for that matter, any sport for that matter.
And the last thing they they would want is to have anything interfere with their dream and their goal.
Totally right.
It's devastating for them.
And I'm just thinking this there's gotta be an underlying reason that we don't know about here.
And you know, calling people quitters and all sorts of horrific judgments.
And I'm thinking, what do you know about their personal life?
You know nothing about their life.
You know nothing about what might be the underlying cause of all of this.
And the funny thing is, even when they do have all the facts in front of them and it's plain as day, if it doesn't fit their narrative, they say nothing.
It's easy to attack these girls.
We gotta take a break here.
When we come back, top of the hour, we're gonna look at the legal issues that uh Governor Andrew Cuomo is is facing now that the AG of New York said, yeah, these actions were criminal on a state and a federal level.
Albany prosecutors now uh has an open investigation into this.
Uh, we'll talk to Greg Jarrett and uh David Schoen about it.
We'll continue.
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