That only means one thing on this radio program, and that is all things simple man Bill O'Reilly.
All things BillO'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
You know, I'm worn out because I have to provide so much wisdom to the nation that it's enervating, you know, so I'm trying to get back on my feet here.
You do know how pompous and arrogant that sounds.
I have to.
I must.
I'm going to.
I mean, you are a voice of reason, often, not always, and a voice of common sense, often.
You're very intelligent and smart, but don't you think you've taken a little too far there, Mr. O'Reilly?
Maybe you feel in your oats a little this, you know, that warm weather kicking in now?
It was a jest, Hannity.
A jest.
Is that word of the day?
Jest.
All right, I'm going to take you down a different road today.
I want to play two comments for you.
One is from your old friend, Jane Fonda, who blames white men for climate change and wants all white men put in jail.
And Sonny Houston over at that hit news show, that hard-hitting news show, The View on ABC, blaming white women for supporting Donald Trump.
I'm going to play these for you.
There would be no climate crisis if there was no racism.
There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy.
It's a mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way.
You know, white men are the things that really matter, and then everything else with nature at the bottom, sacrifice zones, right?
It is a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop.
We have to arrest and jail those men.
They're all men running the oil companies and the gas companies and the plastic refineries.
We have to make them stop.
This is really serious.
I think that women, white women in particular...
Well, let's hold on.
Let's do it one at a time because this is too good to, you know, not sink our teeth into.
She says we got about seven or eight years to cut ourselves in half of what we use for fossil fuels and then goes on to bring in the issue of race and then blaming men.
It's a tragedy we have to absolutely stop.
We have to arrest and jail those men.
They're all men.
Bill, did you know that?
Did you ever have any idea that you're responsible?
I'm responsible for this.
All I know, Hannity.
Here it comes.
I were married to Ted Turner.
I would hate men too.
Oh, ouch.
Ouch.
You don't like Ted Turner, I could tell.
I mean, he's a little bombastic.
So Ms. Fonda once signed a book for me, by the way, with a heart.
Oh, I have that.
It's got to be worth something on eBay.
I don't know.
Do you think she was like flirting with you or what?
I don't know.
I mean, you know, she signed the book and we had a nice conversation.
But look, Jane Fonda is in the business of getting attention.
So everybody has to understand that.
She's not going for a PhD in political science or environmental studies anytime soon.
Plus, she's 110 years old.
So I'm more amused by it than anything else.
And there are white men that I'd like to see in jail, Hannity.
Come on, you too.
What?
You mean you want to see me in jail or people that are in jail?
First person that comes to mind is Joe and Hunter.
But, you know, I don't think you're at the top of the list.
I'll say it to you that way, Mr. O'Reilly.
All right.
Now let's go to the view.
Sonny Hoston, one of the co-hosts of that hard-hitting news show.
White women want to protect this patriarchy because it benefits them while discussing Republican women who continue to support Donald Trump and then added that they will fall in line with what their husbands are doing in the discussion.
I think that women, white women in particular, want to protect this patriarchy here because it's to their benefit.
They want to make sure their husbands do well.
They want to make sure their sons do well.
They want to make sure their children do well.
I would say that's kind of universal for any parent.
They want to make sure that they do well.
And most of the women of these studies are married white women, and they do fall in line with what their husbands are doing and how their husbands are voting.
Now, I think that's a little bit of a broad sweeping generalization.
Let me play it for you.
I think that women, white women in particular, want to protect this patriarchy here because it's to their benefit.
They want to make sure that their husbands do well.
They want to make sure that their sons do well.
They want to make sure that their children do well.
And they want to make sure that they do well.
Most of the women in some of these studies are married white women, and they do fall in line with what their husbands are doing, what their husband is.
Bill O'Reilly, I think that is an insulting comment towards women.
Am I wrong?
No, you're not wrong, but The View is a program that has approximately 2 million viewers a day.
100% of them are left or far-left people, so they play to their crew.
Sonny Austin, little-known fun fact, started her career working for me.
No way.
Yeah, at Fox News Channel.
I don't remember her being there.
Was she there?
She was an assistant, and I went to a little gathering, Christmas gathering in December, and she was there and came up to me and said, thank you so much for treating me well and training me to be on television.
And then on The View a few weeks ago, she actually said that, you know, O'Reilly tells the truth as he sees it, but there's no subterfuge.
So I have a hard time, you know, basically criticizing her, but I know what they all do on The View.
And this is a shame because it didn't used to be that way.
You play to your choir, and that's what she's doing.
Now, it's absurd on its face.
Most American women voters voted against Donald Trump.
And that's, you know, the exit polling shows that.
So that blows that right out of the water.
And then I would be interested to hear why what the difference is between white women who are married and black women who are married.
Don't they both want to protect their husbands because of many reasons?
Love, economic security, guidance for their children.
Don't they both?
Is there a difference between being a black wife and a white wife?
I've never seen it.
Have you?
I think that human beings generally want to succeed regardless of race.
I think God created every man, woman, and child and put talent in every man, woman, and child.
And unfortunately, we are not nurturing that God-given talent because we don't give kids in so many states and cities and towns a quality education.
Let me take this woke issue to another level here.
You see what's happening with, well, first of all, we see what happened with Bud Light.
We see what happened with Miller Light.
We now see what's happening with Target.
And now their diversity chief has doubled down, demanding white women get to work against America's systemic racism target.
Now, by the way, Bud Light is risking losing their number one status as their sales have plunged another 26% this week.
Target losses swelled to 12.4 billion shares at the lowest since 2020 and going down quickly.
We see now Kohl's has followed in suit.
There is a rising tide against even Chick-fil-A, believe it or not, because of their, quote, inclusiveness policies that they have adopted.
And so many other companies.
Now, if I'm a CEO of a company, Bill, I think I am going to stay out of politics.
Controversial, cultural issues.
You used to be the cultural warrior, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm staying out of it because I want us anybody that wants to come to my store is going to be treated better than they expect.
I want to underpromise and overperform.
You know, I just have to go back to what you said about God giving everybody talent, and remember you said that about...
Yes, about 30 seconds ago.
Well, what happened to Joy Behar?
Now.
By the way, that reminds me of Trump in the debate when I think it was our former colleague Megan Kelly asking the question about women.
And he goes, no, that was only Rosie O'Donnell.
That was pretty quick on his feet.
He's an exception to the rule.
But look, this culture war is important because of the ferocious backlash against woke.
That's the big story.
So I don't buy the Chick-fil-A thing.
I mean, if Chick-fil-A wants to appoint an executive to monitor how the company goes about hiring people, as long as it doesn't discriminate against anybody, I don't have a problem with that.
I'm going to buy my chicken nuggets.
Chick-fil-A is a good place on the whole.
Wait a minute, you get chicken nuggets at Chick-fil-A?
Nuggets with a little sauce.
That's what I get.
Okay.
I'm a meager eater, but they're good.
But you've got to wait online because Chick-fil-A is so popular.
I know, it's so popular.
All right, keep going.
Okay, Kohl's and Target.
Ridiculous.
I mean, they are depending on working class people.
Here's a bulletin.
George Clooney does not shop at Target.
Okay.
You don't need the Hollywood crew.
So if you want to stock up on some gear that gay people might like, all right, I don't have a real problem with that, but get it out.
You know, put it among all things.
But they're putting it in children's lines.
That's where the anger seems to come.
Like, for example, gender identity education, you know, they're targeting, you know, I think it's age inappropriate.
Even kids in first, second, and third grade.
I don't even think kids in eighth, ninth, and tenth grade ought to be studying that.
First of all, the kids can't do reading, writing, math, science, and history in computers.
So they're failing our kids.
And if they really feel compelled that sex education, gender identity education, CRT is that important, why don't they send the curriculum to every parent and say, if you want to opt your kids into an after-school program that deals with these issues, maybe you're uncomfortable talking about them with your children, we will offer it.
Here's what we will be teaching.
That's very good, Hannity.
And I'll tell you what.
When I taught high school way back in the dark ages.
Oh, God help those students.
My gosh.
I taught a course called Contemporary Problems.
And it was an elective only for seniors at the high school in Opalaca, Florida.
Okay?
Why do I think you are a hard-ass teacher and a hard-ass grader?
I was the original Mr. Cotter.
Plenty of sweat hogs in my class.
But anyway, it was an elective, and I had a syllabus for the course.
And we did get into issues like birth control and things like that.
They were seniors.
They were 18 years old.
But there was no agenda.
It was here is society.
Here's what the medical science is.
And that kind of a presentation.
And then the kids would discuss it.
Very healthy class.
In fact, I taught high school for two years, and I caught this class my first year.
And then the second year, when I came back, I taught it again, and they had 125 kids sign up.
I could only take 45.
Now, let me ask you a question.
Were you a tough grader?
Yes, but I wasn't unfair in the sense that I knew there were some kids who had tremendous disadvantages.
Bad parents, abusive parents sometimes.
And I would grade them on a curve, which may not have been fair, but I took into account effort.
Effort was big in my classroom.
But yeah, there were no cupcake grades given out by me.
It was you got to do the work and you have to have a mastery of the subject because I taught history and English along with the elective.
And I lament, and you brought it up earlier, the disintegration of the public school systems in the United States.
Not everywhere.
Okay, some districts are good.
Well, I mean, you know, we live in upper-income, upper-middle-class areas of Long Island, both of us.
Not where we grew up in Long Island.
And those schools that have more money tend to do better.
That's true, but it's the skill level of the teachers and the discipline imposed by the principal that matters most.
And the tragedy of it is that children graduate from high school and they don't know anything about their country.
Sad.
How it works.
They don't know what the deuce is going on.
They don't know what opportunities exist.
You know what my kids learned in high school, American history?
One in junior year, one in senior year.
Up to that point, you learned every other country's history but our own.
Yeah, and that's why I wrote the killing books.
And, you know, those.
You want to kill off the educational system.
Yeah.
You read those books, all 12 of them, and it's going to be a 13th in September, which is the horror of Salem, Massachusetts.
Killing Hannity's next on the list.
Yeah, but you know, I still haven't figured out a way to dispatch you.
I have this from Edgar Allan Poe on rid of you.
Oh, man, that's cold.
It is.
I'm just nothing but nice to you.
And this is what I get back.
I can't believe it.
It's nice when you call me a phony, arrogant guy in the beginning of the game.
I didn't say that.
Oh, I was just messing with you.
All right.
All things, Bill O'Reilly, at the simplemanbilloreilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, we always love having you.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Having in Sean, appreciate it.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, it's always fun with Bill.
I just like to throw him topics he's not expecting.
We tell him one topic, and I always bring up a different one.
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James in California is a liberal.
James, how are you?
Oh, fine yourself, Sean.
What's going on?
Well, first I want to say that I love your show.
Thank you.
And I think you made me a better American as well as a more determined Democrat.
So you're a Democrat.
How did I make you a better American?
I didn't make you a Democrat.
I'm trying my hardest to prevent that illness from taking place.
Yeah, well, I started out as an independent.
And my wife, who was a conservative and still is, she said, you know, you should listen to Sean Hannity and some of the other mega radio shows to try to get another opinion and a different input.
And I started to.
And as I said before, it just made me believe more in America.
And as I said, made me a more determined Democrat to make sure that America stays a democracy.
So you still consider yourself a Democrat?
Oh, definitely.
All right, let me ask you a question.
So I assume then in 2024 your plans are as of now to vote for Joe Biden?
Yeah, so far it counts on who they, yeah, well, I don't like DeSantis.
All right, so, but if you had to vote today in whatever Republican is out there on the Republican side, Trump, DeSantis, whoever, versus Biden, you're going to vote for Biden?
That's correct.
Okay, now I have some important questions for you, okay?
And I'm going to let you take your time and answer them.
I'm not going to interrupt you.
Okay.
Name me three things that Joe Biden has done that you believe has made the country a better place that has improved the lives of the American people.
Well, I do like the Green New Deal.
My biggest concern, I feel more threatened, democracy and what I believe what's good for Americans.
So you like Green New Deal socialism, which is that the government guarantees a government wage, government healthy job, pre-K, student loan forgiveness, government-run health care, government retirement, government-guaranteed healthy food.
You think the government's capable of doing all of that?
Or you believe in those promises?
Yes.
Now I have a question, another follow-up question.
Okay?
Okay.
All right.
Now, remember when Obama and Biden were selling Obamacare?
Remember what they said?
You get to keep your doctor, keep your plan, and the average family will save close to $2,500 a year.
Do you remember that mantra?
Yes.
Well, we have tens of millions of Americans that lost their doctors.
Tens of millions lost their plans.
The average American now is paying on average over 200% more per premium than they were paying before Obamacare.
And fully, nearly 50%, it's over 40% of America has only one Obamacare exchange option.
Now, Are you going to trust the people that made those false promises and broke them?
I'll give you another example.
They're the same people that said that they're going to put the Social Security Retirement Fund in a lockbox.
They squandered it, and it's now headed towards insolvency.
Same with Medicare.
How would you grade our nation's school system?
Because I'd give it a big fat F. Tell me what government does right that gives you so much confidence that all these promises are going to be fulfilled.
Well, my wife, Obamacare, saved my wife's life.
She had regular medical insurance.
She used up her limits.
They kicked her out.
And if it wasn't for Obamacare, because she has seven specialists now working on her, and she died two weeks ago, and they brought her back.
Oh, no.
Oh, okay.
She's alive.
Thank God.
I'm glad.
But so, okay, so Obamacare worked for you, but it didn't work for most.
The promises they made were never fulfilled.
The promises to put in a lockbox Social Security monies, they were squandered.
Do you think our educational system is doing a good job?
Because overall, I'd give them an F. What would you give our educational system?
Well, education is mostly local.
It's not federal.
I'm asking you, though, they spend a lot of money federally on education.
How would you rate, on a scale of, you know, A through F, what would you give our educational system generally in this country?
Well, all I can say is reference to my family.
I've had my.
So everything's good for you.
All right, you're happy with your education.
How would you rate law in order with the Democrats that want to defund, dismantle the police and want no bail laws?
How do you think that's working out?
Well, in reference to no bail, basically for poor people, that has been a road to prison because they usually can't afford to have bail.
All bail is, it says you will show up at your trial date.
It doesn't stop anything in reference to the crime.
So if you're a criminal and you have the money, you can get out of jail.
But if you're working poor and you don't have the money, you have to spend time in jail.
My very good friend of mine.
It's made him a rich man.
I'm going to give you my thoughts on where we differ and why I would never vote for Joe Biden.
Joe Biden failed us on the border.
Would you agree with that?
Well, yes.
Just these are yes or no questions.
Would you agree?
He's been a failure in terms of border security.
Is that fair?
Well, our border has been a mess ever since I've been.
No, under Donald Trump, we didn't have anywhere near open borders like this.
Not even close.
But we also had three years of COVID, and people weren't coming to the border.
Now.
No, they were coming with COVID.
We had kids in overcrowded cages in Texas during COVID.
Look, do you think defunding the police has worked out well?
Just give me yes or no's.
No, I'm not for defunding the police.
You are for it.
No, I'm not.
Oh, you're not?
Okay, so you agree with me on that?
Do you agree with me it was stupid to give up energy independence?
We still are on the road to energy independence.
No, we're not.
We gave it up.
We're importing oil from OPEC and now Venezuela and even Iran under Joe Biden.
You think that is good for our national security?
I don't.
Oh, I agree.
It would be not.
It was true.
It would be not for our.
Do you think we should have a president that if China sends a spy balloon over our nation, a spy on us, should have acted sooner and there should have been major consequences to China?
Do you agree that Putin taking out one of our satellites should have paid a penalty and neither one did?
Is that piece-through strength to you or is that weakness?
To me, it's weakness.
To me, it's what's the reality of today's world.
No, is that weakness?
Should there have been consequences for their actions?
Yeah, yes, I would say so.
So Joe Biden did the wrong thing.
There were no consequences at all.
Last question.
Do you think Joe Biden and his family and Hunter benefited from all these foreign business deals?
And does that bother you?
Well, it bothers me in reference to Hunter.
I can't say that Joe Biden has benefited.
Why do you think Joe Biden leveraged a billion dollars to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor who it turns out was investigating his son and the company that was paying him millions, even though he admitted he had no experience?
Why do you think Joe was involved in that?
Well, because President Obama, as well as the EU, had all agreed that that prosecutor had to be fired because of his corruption.
And Joe Biden did not have the authority without the equipment of the government, the American government, to say what he said.
So he was not a unilateral decision on his part.
Listen, it's very interesting to me because no matter what happens, there's nothing that I can do to convince you.
There's no amount of pain.
The American people now, two-thirds of the country are living paycheck to paycheck.
Many people are now paying their bills with credit cards or tapping into their pensions.
It's the worst economy in 40 years, the worst inflation in 40 years.
We have energy prices again skyrocketing because we don't produce domestically the energy here in this country like we should have, which is good for national security and high-paying career jobs in the energy sector.
And open borders and all of this in a healthcare system that is a mess and none of those promises fulfilled.
But somehow you put your confidence in government.
I can't convince you otherwise, but it's stunning to me that we have such a different philosophy.
I hope you keep listening.
I hope eventually that my common sense will penetrate.
I appreciate you being out there, and I'll give you the last word.
Well, as I said before, my biggest fear is the white nationalism that is building up in this country.
The white nationalism, by the way, you do know that I find those people repugnant, right?
Well, yes, I agree.
You do know that there's no conservative that I'd be friends with that believe that crap.
Racism.
Well, I mean, it's the same thing, isn't it?
White nationalism rooted in racism?
No.
Well, I think in many ways it is.
I mean, that's a part.
That's the part.
Listen, I believe that God created every man, woman, and child.
You've listened to me long enough to know that.
Well, I'm a Christian.
I'm a Christian.
All right, we believe in Jesus.
There we go.
We found agreement.
And on that happy note, I've got to let you go.
Thank you for your time.
God bless you and your family.
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When we come back, Senator Rand Paul has an alternative budget he's putting forth in the Senate.