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Cheney's Crumble - August 17th, Hour 2
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It does reduce inflation.
40% of inflation is fueled by fossil fuels.
No new taxes on families making more than, excuse me, no new taxes on families making less than $400,000 or under.
The inflation data in July was 0.0, 0.0.
So we are seeing inflation decrease.
People have every single day.
Inflation is like a theoretical word that economists use.
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He says he's simple, claims he's a simple man, self-proclaimed simple man.
We think a little bit more complicated than that, but that means all things Bill O'Reilly, now 15 weeks and running his latest bestseller, Killing the Killers, on the New York Times list.
Mr. O'Reilly, I got to start with something today.
You ready?
I'm ready.
It's not a cupcake interview, okay?
But hell has frozen over.
And I'm going to tell you why.
Because I read an article about you today, and it was actually favorable.
They said a lot of nice things about you.
And it was on Breitbart.
And I just started bursting out laughing.
You've been in media, I don't know, close to 100 years, and I don't think you've ever had a good article in your life.
No, I think they're feeling sorry for me now.
David Meg was a reporter, and he's a very honest reporter.
And I don't do a lot of interviews, as you don't, because we both know that, you know, most of the time they're looking to cheap shot you.
So why bother, right?
But I knew Andrew Breitbart, as you did, before he passed away.
I thought he was an honest man.
His website is widely viewed by traditional people.
David has done excellent reporting, in my opinion, particularly on Antifa and the far left violence.
So I did it.
But I have to say one thing.
I hope your audience goes to Breitbart and reads it.
We have it posted on billoreilly.com as well.
But the gist of the article is that the left tried to cancel me.
Certainly true.
And that didn't work.
But they left out one of the reasons that it didn't work.
And that's because of you, Hannity.
And I'm not kissing your butt.
Because you took a risk a few years ago, putting me on your radio show every week.
You didn't have to do that.
There's nothing in it for you.
And that sent a signal that what happened to me wasn't right, wasn't fair, and we were going to move ahead.
Now, if you had not done that, Glenn Beck did it too.
I would have been stranded on an island.
I don't believe in canceling people, Bill.
You know, at the end of the day, Americans, they have the ultimate power.
They get to decide what to watch and what to listen to.
I can't force people to listen.
I got to put on a good radio show.
I can't force people to watch.
I got to do a good TV show.
You sent a signal.
And I want to talk about your TV show just in a minute.
But the people always have the last word.
They had the last word on Liz Cheney.
Yesterday, as both of us knew, she was going to get waxed, and she did, almost 40 points.
She lost by in Wyoming.
And Wyoming's the regular folks.
This isn't like some ideological, crazy place.
But they understood that what Liz Cheney did wasn't just hating Donald Trump.
See, that's how the dishonest, secular, progressive media portrayed it.
That's not what it was.
You have a certain, certainly have a right to disagree with Donald Trump.
And you're not going to get canceled by the right if you do that.
But if you ally yourself with Nancy Pelosi, as Cheney did, if she becomes your chief benefactor, that is a bridge too far to use a cliche for Republicans and conservatives.
And that's what Liz Cheney did, and that's why she got waxed.
You know, I can certainly understand that she doesn't like Donald Trump.
I can certainly understand criticism about January 6th, although they selectively edited out, many of you will peacefully, patriotically march to the Capitol so your voices will be heard.
I find that an interesting omission in all of their hearings.
Certainly they omitted other things, and it was a one-sided committee.
I mean, we all know that.
Every single person voted to impeach Trump.
So that's fine.
I mean, that's Washington.
That's the swamp.
That's the sewer.
Here's what I don't understand about her in this sense.
And, you know, I just don't really care one way or the other.
You know, she's an adult.
She made her own decisions.
But she's aligned herself, Bill, with the very people that called her father a murderer.
The same party that accused her father of war crimes.
The same party that accused her father of being a crook.
And more importantly than that, if she claims she's a conservative and she even gives 90% of the time, whatever I voted with Donald Trump, then you're enabling the advancement of radical socialism and climate alarmist cultism.
And that is destroying the poor middle-class people on fixed incomes.
And she bears responsibility for that.
And that seems to have never factored into her thinking.
And I don't understand that part of it.
Because it was all emotion.
It's like Megan McCain.
So Trump went after Dick Cheney, as, you know, Trump does.
And he went after Senator McCain.
And that was one of the classic O'Reilly Trump interviews.
If people want to go back and take a look at that, that's a classic.
But anyway, what Liz Cheney running Bill Gold Riley classics like Johnny Carson reruns 50 years from now.
All right, go ahead.
I'm ready to go on Aunt TV.
You got to put the Barney Frank in there interviewing there for sure.
Absolutely.
The barn burner.
What Liz Cheney does not understand now.
She says she might run for president, but it's ridiculous.
Is that she lost her constituency and credibility when she piled up with Nancy Pelosi?
Once Nancy Pelosi ripped up the State of the Union address sitting behind President Trump, it was over.
And you cannot ally yourself with a person like that.
And that's why Liz Cheney's political career is over.
You will see her, Hannity, on CNN.
I can almost guarantee it as a contributor.
As a contributor.
Right.
Let me say something that may surprise you.
I think it will surprise you.
I think the Republicans, all of these predictions about this being a wave election, there's certainly the possibility that that can unfold and that will happen.
Knowing that Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans in the House are going to put together their version of a contract with America or promises to America, I love that idea because that holds them accountable.
And both you and I know they go to Washington with the best of intentions and they often change and become people that we don't recognize.
So I like the idea of that.
I hope Mitch McConnell adopts it in the Senate.
Here's where my worries of concern are: I think the left has made some headway in advancing a narrative that is false that abortion is going to be illegal in America.
We have an artificial reduction in the price of gasoline.
It's still two bucks more than when Donald Trump was president.
And just because it's down a little bit from its all-time high of $5 plus a gallon, some people feel, oh, okay, maybe it's getting better.
It's only temporary, especially when you're tapping into the strategic petroleum reserves and people aren't driving as much.
And then you look at, for example, the amount of money that Democratic candidates have been pulling in, especially for the Senate.
And I look at every state that is up this year.
You've got Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, you have Wisconsin, you have Ohio, you have Missouri, you have Nevada, you have Arizona, Colorado, and Washington State, and of course, Alaska.
And all of those, for the most part, are bellwether states.
Republicans would have to run the table.
And I think that the Democrats have outmaneuvered Republicans in terms of fundraising on a massive scale.
And Republicans seem to not recognize the clear danger that that represents to them.
Listen, money matters.
I was watching your TV show last night, and Newt Gingrich pops up, the former speaker of the House approaching 80 years old.
And he makes a simple point that I want, why didn't I think of that?
And why didn't the Republican Party think of that?
He was talking about the IRS now being able to hire, what, 890 new agents?
87,000.
They're more than doubling the IRS personnel.
Kingrish looks into the camera and he says to you, would it be better if we had 87,000 more agents on the southern border?
He specifically mentioned Arizona and Mark Kelly.
Why do we need an army of auditors to terrorize the American people when tax receipts are the highest they've ever been in the history of this republic by far?
Why do we need that?
And you have millions of foreign nationals pouring in here.
That simplicity is what can turn the midterm election around for Republicans.
Don't get lost in the weeds.
You have five situations.
That's all you need.
Five.
And make it as simple as that over and over and over.
Okay, let's see if we can agree on the five.
One is the economy.
One is, and we have record high inflation.
Two is energy independence.
Three is securing our borders.
Four is law and order and safety and security in every town, every city.
And five would be five would be teach kids in school reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers, and leave the woke stuff to moms and dads or after-school programs.
But you have to get it down more than that.
The five are.
Biden and the Democrats are ruining the economy, and you are feeling it every day.
Foreign nationals are streaming into the United States unattended, causing social problems everywhere.
Violent crime is killing thousands of poor people in urban centers.
America is now buying oil overseas.
Villains are controlling the oil.
We don't have to do that.
And the final one is two words, parental rights.
Basically, you know, you just said it differently, Bill, but we agree on everyone.
The economy, securing the border, crime, well, education, energy independence, and you're right, parental rights.
That's it.
Right.
But you've got to simplify it.
Once you go on more than two sentences, then the people who don't pay attention.
All right, we continue with All Things Simple Man, All Things Simple Man at BillOReilly.com.
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Bill, here's the question I have.
You and I, we both kind of grew up, we have very similar backgrounds.
This is so obvious, so basic, so fundamental, regardless if I add a few more words than you do.
We've identified where the differences are between the two parties.
And this is what every candidate running for office should be focused on.
But they're also going to need the money.
And this is where Democrats, I think, have outmaneuvered Republicans.
They are raising.
If you look at these Senate races in particular, they are outraising Republicans 10, 15, 20 to 1.
Now, money matters because those ads that people are going to be inundated with from now until Election Day, those ads mean something.
They do work.
Otherwise, they wouldn't spend the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on them.
But that's the structure of our country.
The political action committees run by Hollywood, the George Soroses of the world, all of these people, mega, mega billionaires, okay, are pumping money into these races.
Republicans do not have that structure.
It does not exist.
So it's not the folks giving the left the money.
It's the corrupt, you know, David Jeffens of the world.
And there's nothing anybody can do about that.
So the candidates themselves, look at New York, Zelda versus Hochul, right?
Well, in order to beat Hochul here in the state that's two to one Democrat registered voters, Zelda's going to have to run a populist campaign because Hochul's going to have far more money than Zelda.
He's going to have to get out and bust his butt and go to every county and scream bloody murder about the corruption that is in Albany.
Every state has got to do that.
It's possible, but all the New Yorkers that likely would have been willing to change the independent thinking of New Yorkers, they've all left, Bill.
And it makes it twice as hard as it might have been a decade ago.
He can still win because the working people of New York are getting slaughtered.
Slaughtered.
Slaughtered.
Anyway, a lot of them are Democrats.
All things simple man, Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
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We appreciate it.
It's always fun.
Thanks for having me.
Quick break right back.
Your calls on the other side.
straight ahead.
Hear what everyone really thinks
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, such a visceral reaction we've been getting as it relates to Liz Cheney losing badly in Wyoming yesterday.
I don't even have that reaction.
She has decided to align herself with the most radical Democratic climate alarmist cultist socialist in the country.
And she thinks that she's doing God's will and she's on a mission to stop Donald Trump at all costs.
So I've, you know, okay, we figured it out.
It's not a big secret.
We expected what happened last night.
We told you that was going to happen.
There was no ambiguity.
There was no suspense to the race or the results last night.
Anyway, Foxnews.com actually went out to Wyoming asking voters there the question if Liz Cheney should run for president.
Listen to these answers.
I don't think I would support her in a presidential run.
No, please, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I wouldn't support her as a dog catcher.
I think she should do whatever she's built best for herself and for the nation.
No, I think she should just go back to Virginia and forget, get another job.
She's redoing her resume today.
Like a good Democrat, it looks like.
I don't see her getting a whole lot of support from Republicans.
And by virtue of the fact she's trying to get Democrats to vote for her, and she's been pushing a lot of Democratic stuff.
Yeah, she should just go ahead and change parties.
Why lie about who you are?
Now, the people of Wyoming are not extremists.
They're not radical.
And this is the problem is that, you know, some people in the Washington swamp get so immersed in their own world.
And I would say she's a victim of this, and she's allowed herself to do this, that she thinks that her views transcend the views of all of those voters.
What did she lose?
By 37%?
Yeah, over 30%.
You know, I mean, that is a massacre in politics.
And then very, you know, she goes out there.
I could have easily won if I would have sold my soul is basically what she was saying.
Well, Republicans don't feel that way, nor do they like being accused of having sold their soul.
Or maybe she could have done something for Wyoming.
She was a little busy or preoccupied, rather.
Well, I mean, she's supposed to represent the state.
You're right.
And I think that with all of this, there's no sense of proportionality.
That word used to get used a lot when Bill Clinton was being impeached.
Where's your sense of proportionality in all of this?
And there is, it sort of reminds me of like how Adam Schiff is.
Adam Schiff has been involved in the Russia hoax.
He's been involved in the impeachments of Donald Trump.
He's involved in the January 6th mess.
And it's just like this guy wakes up every single solitary day raging on how he can stop Donald Trump, but he's not serving his constituents.
You know, the American people are a pretty fair-minded group of people, and they've made up their mind on Donald Trump in this sense.
They loved his policies.
They love that he fought for them.
They love that he kept his promises.
And yeah, they know he's a fighter.
But when he's fighting for them, they love it.
When he's fighting against bureaucrats that have done everything in their power to bring him down, they're getting sick and tired of it.
That's why you see now massive fundraising for Donald Trump in light of the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
That's why you're seeing record poll numbers for Donald Trump because people see this now for what it is.
And it's been building a long time.
And that Washington can't stand him because more than any one president in my lifetime, the one thing that really irks them is he has really taken on this bureaucracy, this deep state that we call it.
The idea that you have FBI agents in 2016, oh, please tell me he's not going to be president.
Please tell me that that's the truth.
No, he's not going to, we'll stop him.
How does an FBI agent have the power to stop the will of the American people?
I didn't see Liz Cheney commenting about that ever.
I don't remember ever being out there saying what they did with that dirty dossier and lying to a FISA court is a danger to our republic and our constitution.
So the standards are being applied inconsistently.
And people see that hypocrisy too.
It has less to do with Liz Cheney as much as it does this mindset that Republicans, people that say they're conservative, would be willing to embrace the most radical and extreme policies that are killing this country,
hurting the poor, the middle class, people on fixed income, allowing open borders, eliminating energy independence, sucking up to hostile regimes for the lifeblood of our economy, the disaster in Afghanistan.
None of it makes sense.
As I mentioned earlier, she's aligned herself with the very people.
And this is the thing that every Republican needs to understand.
Whoever the Republican candidate ever is going to be running for president, they're going to smear, slander, besmirch, attack unrelentingly, and try to destroy and get as much collateral damage around that person as possible.
That's what they always do.
They've done it to Reagan.
They did it to Bush 1.
They did it to Bush 2.
They do it to every Republican.
And they have the aid and assistance of the media mob that goes along with every socialist, leftist agenda item.
And maybe in their minds, they think we conservatives.
They think we're dumb.
They think we are radical.
Most of us now, if we show up at school board meetings, need to be investigated as domestic terrorists.
If you have any criticism, valid criticism, you're inciting violence, even though conservatives, one of their signature issues is their love and reverence for law and order and people that protect and serve in law enforcement.
And that includes the FBI and that includes the local police departments.
We're not the ones calling for defund dismantle and no bail laws.
We want law and order.
You know, just because there are few bad apples in every organization, including Congress and the U.S. Senate, just for the record, doesn't mean that the overwhelming majority of people are not good people that are called to do this in their life.
But that's just the means of trying to silence opposition voices.
All right, we'll go to Wyoming, and we have Ken standing by.
Ken, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Yes.
Thank you.
Thank you for taking my call.
Very excited today.
Yesterday was probably one of the most important votes I think I've probably ever cast to get rid of Liz Cheney.
She never belonged here to begin with.
The last two years, she's been just so obsessed with Donald Trump, she hasn't even done anything for us.
She ignored us.
She didn't even campaign here this year, except for one time in Jackson with her elite friends where she has her house.
The only thing she did this year was actually made things worse was besides the Trump committee was she voted for H.R. 7910 on our Second Amendment to hit those.
So yesterday was she lost by a landslide in all but two counties.
And it was just great to see the people of Wyoming get rid of her.
Unfortunately, people were voting for her six years ago.
I believe just simply because of name recognition.
And she's gone now.
And hopefully Hegeman can go in there and do some good for the people of Wyoming and for the country.
So I just wanted to say that.
It was a great day to vote yesterday.
And I think it's great for our democracy to get rid of Liz Cheney.
It's interesting.
Over 80% of House Republicans that voted to impeach Trump, they're not going to be returning to Congress.
I think the people in this country have reacted and responded.
You know, the Ukraine impeachment is a good case in point.
By the way, thank you, Ken, for the call.
You know, we have a real quid pro quo on tape.
Nobody pays attention to it.
You have real issues involving the Espionage Act and foreign actors getting top secret classified information off Hillary's server and then her deleting 33,000 emails and wiping the server clean with bleach pit and having people that work for her bust up her devices with hammers and removing SIM cards and all this other nonsense.
Nothing happens.
They've had Hunter Biden's laptop for two years.
We know it implicates Hunter and Joe.
What have they done there?
Nothing.
There's no raid.
There's no pre-dawn raid.
There's no fake news CNN cameras.
There's no frogmen.
There's no people in tactical gear, guns drawn, you know, ever going after a Democrat.
The people that lied on the FISA applications four times, even being warned about it all being false, saying that they verified it to be true, nothing happens to them.
This is a very dangerous time if you believe in our Constitution.
I'll tell you that.
Let's say hi to Brian in Ohio.
Brian, you're next on the Sean Hannity Show.
How are you?
Hi, Sean.
How are you today?
It's a personal talk.
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
Hey, I just wanted to point out briefly that somebody needs to get the numbers on all the people that have either died or been victims of crime ever since the Biden administration has taken over.
Like the 500-plus people that have died at the border, women and children being raped at the border, thousands of people dying from fentanyl because of the border.
And then you have all the escalated crime in all the major cities because of the politics of the Democrats and the Biden administration.
I don't think you can come up with a definitive number, but we've covered all of those issues regularly, pointing out that all of those deaths are happening.
We know we're losing about 300 people a week addicted to opioids, and then they're dying, as is often the case, because the drugs they buy are laced with fentanyl.
All that fentanyl is coming across the border, our southern border, 90% of it, 90% of the heroin comes across the border.
The fentanyl is often being shipped in from China.
Joe Biden just takes a lecture from the Chinese president.
That's another thing they're doing.
Yeah, they were, the Democrats were trying to say Donald Trump's policy was inhumane down at the border, you know, about the whipping from the border agents on the horses, which was a joke.
But there's been a lot more tragedy and death and murder since the Bidens have dug it over with the open border situation.
There's no doubt about it.
It's 100% on target.
More of the numbers, the actual numbers that need to be pointed out more so the American people know.
The more, you know, the whole scope.
It's a good idea.
I don't think I can get an exact number because there just isn't one that would exist, but your point is well taken.
We know what's happening.
That's why this election is so important.
People have got to pay attention.
All right, quick break.
We're right back to our phones, 800-941-SHAWN, as we continue.
Let's get back to our busy phones.
Mark, Texas, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
I'm retired after 20 years of the Federal Service, of which I spent time with the IRS both as a revenue agent who's an auditor and a special agent who is a criminal investigator.
And I just wanted to comment, I was listening to yesterday, about there's a huge difference, and there's a confusion that's come out just over and over and over on the news, different news networks, about hiring agents with guns to enforce the tax law.
And that's just a misconception.
I just wanted to clarify, if I could, the huge difference between a revenue agent who goes out and does an audit and a criminal investigator, a special agent who happens to work for the IRS, but is a law enforcement official.
And it just, I think it should be hard.
It's interesting, though.
I mean, we got 87,000 new IRS agents, more than double what we have now as part of this idiotic bill.
The IRS arsenal, we looked it up.
They have 4,600 guns, 3,282 pistols, 621 shotguns, 539 rifles, 15 fully automatic weapons, four revolvers, and they're the one that put up the job listing, you know, requesting.
You know, so one has to ask: when did the IRS become the law enforcement arm of our government?
Because that was happening.
I did not have any knowledge of that until I saw that ad.
Yeah, I know.
And again, there's a history here with the IRS.
It goes all the way back to Al Capone.
After the FBI could not convict Al Capone for racketeering or murder, IRS convicted him of tax evasion.
So IRS goes way, way, way back as a law enforcement agency, if you will.
It's a very, very small division inside the IRS.
When I was there, before it became the Criminal Investigation Division, they called it the Intelligence Division, the IRS Intelligence Division.
And it changed back in the 80s about to the criminal investigation division.
Anyway, the 87,000 employees are not going to all be agents.
It's one of the points I wanted to make is that if you hire 87,000, if you go to the IRS data that's available publicly and download it and look at their statistics for last year.
I just gave you a list of all the firearms they have, and they're the ones that put up the job opening.
They're the ones that mention this part.
Most people didn't know it.
Let me ask you, real quick, because I don't have any time.
What percentage of people that make under $400,000 usually end up getting audited?
The percentage will not change.
The percentage, let me see, the percentage stops.
Because Syracuse University, let me help you out.
Said if you make $25,000 or less, you're five times more likely to get audited.
Than whom?
Than people that make over $400,000 a year.
Well, the highest generation and income for the IRS, and it's an income generating agency, is people that make over $5 million.
And there's something called an additional tax per audit hours.
So if you put someone on to examine General Motors, they will generate more income for the government than if you put someone to audit a person making $20,000.
They're also going after the people that they think are hiding income, and that would be people that run their own painting business on the side or contractors or waiters and waitresses.
I appreciate the call.
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