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Bill O'Reilly - October 18th, Hour 2
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All right, Leonard Skinner, it's Simple Man.
That could only mean one thing on this radio program.
All things self-proclaimed simple man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
I'm ultra busy because I'm promoting killing the witches all over the place.
Here's something interesting your audience might not know.
Mark Levin, you know Mark, right?
No, Mark.
Love Mark.
Okay.
He's got a big best-selling book out.
Huge.
And it's the Democrat America.
Right.
And it's selling a lot of copies.
He can't get on any network at all, ever.
Either can I.
And when I did do the networks for my previous killing books, I brought big ratings.
All of them.
The Today Show, Good Morning America, the Late Night People.
So I had my staff do a trace.
There has not been one independent or conservative author on any of the network shows, including Sunday Morning, which does a big thing every Sunday.
None.
Zero.
Complete concrete wall.
It's amazing.
And this is all of the, you know, Disney, Comcast, CBS, all of them.
Let me then, it dovetails right into my first question.
And it's about congressional members, and it's about universities, and it's about the media.
So this hospital gets hit in Gaza.
Right.
And the rush to judgment, predictable rush to judgment, was to blame Israel.
Congresswoman Tlaib, quote, Israel just bombed the Baptist hospital, killing 500 Palestinians, doctors, children, patients, just like that.
She then tagged Biden's social media account, added, this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire and de-escalate.
Now, she is not the only one.
Congresswoman Omar bombing a hospital, among the gravest of war crimes, the IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war.
It's horrific.
Representative Summer Lee, Pennsylvania.
There's no moral ambiguity.
Bombing a hospital is reprehensible and a war crime.
Many have courageously spoke out about the importance of adhering to international law, even in response to heinous acts.
This is why.
Again, blaming Israel.
But it wasn't just members of Congress.
CBS sounded out of peace.
Hamas propagandists, disguised as breaking news.
Breaking news, Gaza officials say hundreds of people were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a hospital.
Right.
Okay, and Bill, I can keep going.
Sure.
Well, let me jump in here, Hannity.
Number one, any member of the House who put out a definitive declarative sentence that said Israel is responsible for the bombing of that hospital should have to go in front of the House Ethics Committee.
That's number one.
Because you can't have a public statement like that unless it's backed up by a fact.
And it is because it's in dispute.
And the evidence is tilting toward a terrorist rocket that misfired and hit that hospital.
That's where the evidence is tilting.
If the evidence bears out and the Israelis say, look, we have the shit.
Well, the evidence was released today, Bill, and it seemed pretty overwhelming.
Okay, but let's really be.
Bill, they got an audio recording.
We've got videotaped evidence.
This case is closed.
All right.
Listen, let's be restrained.
The biggest piece of evidence I saw is that the ordinance was recovered and it does not have Israeli markings on it.
Okay?
So let's assume that it was a terrorist rocket.
So the House immediately has to bring these people up on ethics charges.
Then what do you do with the media?
What do you do with CBS News when they put out the report?
Breaking news.
Gaza officials say hundreds of people killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in Gaza City.
What about ABC, their initial tweet, breaking at least 500 people killed in a strike targeted at an Arab hospital in the middle of Gaza?
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the hospital served as a shelter, et cetera, et cetera.
Then it goes to the account of CNN, the headline for their APRET.
Palestinian Health Ministry says 200 to 300 people may have been killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza.
Then another CNN tweet reads exactly the same way.
Hundreds killed in Israeli strike on Gaza Hospital, according to Palestinian officials.
They had no information, Bill.
And it goes further.
MSDNC, they went right along with the Palestinian Health Ministry.
In other words, Hamas.
And the AP at one time literally shacked up with Hamas.
They sided with the propaganda and the lies.
Breaking.
The Gaza Health Ministry says 500 people killed in an explosion that they are saying was caused by the Israeli airstrike.
That was not true.
Okay, so Hannity, what do all of the organizations you just cited have in common?
They're left-wing media people.
Close.
They're progressives.
Same thing.
No, there's a little bit of a difference.
If you're a progressive, part of that ideology is Israel is a fascist country.
You cannot be a progressive.
You can be a liberal and support Israel.
You can't.
You cannot be a progressive and support Israel.
So right now, what we're seeing is that the corporate media in America is run predominantly by progressive people who don't like Israel.
Now, they're never going to say that because the cancel culture, ironically, is coming back at them.
So I wrote about the canceled culture, which is a new witch hunt and killing the witches, that it's now reversing itself, coming back at these people who are condemning Israel and applauding Hamas.
Isn't that interesting?
So the folks have already exacted their revenge on the corporate media.
The CBS Evening News now averages about $5 million a night.
When I did the factor, I was doing close to that.
And all of the other network news operations have declined dramatically in the number of people watching because the folks in America know the fix is in.
And they don't want to be force-fed this progressive garbage, this woke crap, which is what the left-wing corporate media is doing.
So you're never going to get an honest cut.
But here's the seriousness of the situation.
People believe what they want to believe.
That's my basic tenet.
All right.
People believe what they want to believe.
Very few persuadables anymore.
But around the world, this takes root because in most countries, you don't have any kind of free.
You don't have a Hannity radio program or a TV program.
You don't have that.
You have government-run media that's going to tell the Muslims, hey, Israel blew up a hospital and killed 500 Muslims.
And they're not going to hear anything else.
That's all they're going to hear.
So that lights the fuse of violence all over the world.
And that's where we are now.
It'll be foolish to speculate, as some irresponsible people are doing, that this Israel-Hamas war is going to lead to X, Y, and Z.
That would be foolish and irresponsible to do this.
No one knows.
But you can accurately predict more violence based upon misinformation being fed to people.
And we are getting right into that in America now.
The misinformation is more than accurate information.
And people are finding it very difficult to find out what's true and what isn't true.
And that is such a serious problem.
I can't even tell you.
So a story about me this week came out.
I was doing my job, Bill, and I had a total of three sources that I spoke to over the weekend.
These are the top sources.
You know, I work sources.
You know the job I do.
And I got a list that they had put together of the people that weren't going to be supporting Jim Jordan.
Is this accurate?
It was the first question.
Secondly, in the middle of war breaking out in the Middle East, war in Europe, budget issues unfinished, open borders.
Can you explain why?
Okay.
What is your plan to open the people's house?
And under any circumstances, would you work with the Democrats, Hakeem Jeffries, to pick the next speaker?
Now, does that seem like those seem like important questions so I can inform my radio and TV audience what's going on behind the scenes?
I never called any of them.
People are saying that that's a pressure campaign or lobbying.
I wasn't lobbying.
I talked to three sources, friends, people I know that gave me act, by the way, they gave me accurate information.
And I just asked to find out if it's true and what their plans are.
That to me seems responsible.
Is that irresponsible to you?
Is that lobbying to you?
Is that a pressure campaign to you?
That happened, don't you?
What's that?
You know why that happened, don't you?
Why?
Because the progressive left is 33% of viewers for MSNBC have left since Hamas attacked Israel.
That's catastrophic.
CNN, which in the beginning made an arrangement, I understand, with Israel to support Israel.
And therefore, I was given access, more access than Fox.
And Fox has done a pretty good job on the ground out there.
But CNN had more access because they made a deal and said, we're going to take your side.
So CNN basically stayed in the middle, but Fox surged in the numbers.
All right, in the ratings, people rejected MSNBC's coverage.
CNN didn't get much traction.
They went to Fox News.
Okay, so you're at 9 o'clock on Fox News.
Therefore, the progressives have tried to got to make you a story, just like they did to me and to others.
You have to become the story.
You're corrupt.
You're doing X, Y, and Z to detract from the real story that FNC is doing a pretty good job covering Israel and MSNBC is imploding.
That's why it happened.
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You know, at the end of the day, Bill, it's important people get accurate information.
But here's the saddest thing.
And I said this right after this attack.
Watch how quickly people will forget.
And I've been saying this almost every day.
I know you probably have heard me say it, that if you account for the population of Israel and the 1,400 now confirmed dead, and I'm not even talking about the hostages, and then you extrapolate that out, compare the U.S. population, it would be the equivalent of about 38,000 Americans killed in a single day.
That's how big this attack was for this little country.
Sure.
And we lost 2,977 people on 9-11.
We lost over 2,000 at Pearl Harbor.
Listen, any fair-minded person knows how heinous this was.
But again, people believe what they want to believe.
If they want to hate Israel, they're going to hate Israel.
It doesn't matter how many stats Sean Hannity gives them.
I wrote a book called Killing the Killers.
And that book is about how the United States, after 9-11, tracked down and destroyed Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and most of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran.
Step by step, which president did what, how the Intel services did it, and had to be done.
It's the same thing now.
There is no two-state solution.
Biden saying that shows Biden has no idea what's going on over there.
You don't have a two-state solution because you don't have two states.
You only have Israel.
Hamas is not a state.
It's a terror group whose philosophy is we want to kill Jews.
And that's Iran's philosophy.
So I was in a neighboring town, Sedrot is what it's called.
Linda says it better than me.
How do you say the town we were in at the time?
This was during a flare-up at the time.
Starot.
Sterot.
All right.
I won't say what the accent she has.
And anyway, we were there.
Bill, in 10 years, that border city, you can see Gaza with your naked eye, had been hit with over 10,000 rockets.
Right.
13 seconds from the time a rocket is fired until it lands in this town.
And we actually saw it the day after an attack, and I saw the carnage.
I saw the, you know, the destruction.
It was horrible.
Children play in underground bunker playgrounds because there's not enough time for them to get inside if they happen to be outside in a playground to be safe.
Yeah, and here's the key question.
So this has to stop being a staging area for Hamas.
Go ahead.
Why is Hamas doing that?
Hamas knows he's not going to defeat Israel militarily.
Iran knows that too.
This is why Iran's saber-rattling is ridiculous.
What's Iran going to do?
All right, the Israeli Air Force can bomb that country tomorrow and put them right out of business.
So what's Iran going to do?
All Iran can do is hide behind Hamas and Hezbollah, supply them and help them plan to do what?
What is Hamas rockets into Israel accomplishing?
What?
It's accomplishing killing Jews, which is all they want to do.
That's it.
So when you have that circumstance, there's only one solution.
You have to destroy Hamas, like the United States did to Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
That's it.
There's no other solution.
You can't reason with killers.
I can't agree with you more, Bill O'Reilly, and it's sad.
Israel did not want this war.
They didn't start this war.
This can no longer be a staging area for Hamas to fire tens of thousands of rockets into border town Israeli cities.
I've been there, Bill, during a flare-up.
I've seen it with my own eyes.
It's horrible.
The Jews have a right to defend themselves.
And like America, if we lost 38,000 people in a day, we would defend ourselves.
Yeah, we defended ourselves and we did it.
All right, Bill O'Reilly.
I got to let you go.
We're just out of time.
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We haven't really spent enough time on this.
First of all, how embarrassing that our president goes over to the Middle East and nobody in Jordan, they cancel the meeting.
Even the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas, he canceled the meeting.
Saudi Arabia canceled the meeting with Blinken.
They don't want to meet with Joe.
Why?
Well, I think they see what we all see, a weak, frail, cognitive mess as a president, and they don't really feel like wasting their time and getting lectured to do things that they don't want to do.
One of the biggest fears I can tell you of a lot of, you know, why won't they take in women and children in Egypt and other bordering neighboring countries and help absorb some of the population?
Because they know also what we have been telling you and playing for you on TV every night, and that is the indoctrination.
You know, Hamas with cartoons, they indoctrinate their kids.
You know, I'll show it again tonight.
I've learned that Jerusalem is ours, one child in a cartoon says.
I've learned to love my country and land.
I've learned that we have a land that was taken by force and will only be restored by force.
This is a children's cartoon.
A TV host saying, tell us what you learned from this film and the differences between us and our enemies.
Quote, a young boy, the Jews teach their children to slaughter, to destroy, to kill, and to shoot.
A cartoon song to throw stones with her tender hands on the vicious faces of the enemy.
The enemy saw her.
He hated her childhood.
He hated her heroism.
He aimed the gun that he shot.
It's showing this to young kids, brainwashing them, indoctrinating them.
Well, are there people, innocent people in this?
Yes.
And you know who they're victims of?
The terror group Hamas.
You know, the rush to judgment.
You know, but you don't really hear much of this.
It looks like it was the other team, Joe said.
I'm like, the other team?
Anyway, so he goes to Israel.
At least somebody was willing to meet with him.
Tells Bibi the hospital strike is done by the other team.
I'll play that for you.
Tells a reporter the data shown to him by the Defense Department is reason to think that, yeah, it was Hamas that blew up the Gaza hospital.
You know, the media rushing to judgment, pushing out Hamas' talking points.
Then he says there's no excusing Hamas's atrocities against Israel.
On the other hand, my sources are telling me Joe secretly, along with Blinken, is trying to, you know, tie their hands.
They're saying the right things, but they're pushing other things.
Anyway, we also have Biden warning other hostile actors: don't, don't, don't.
What does that mean?
Don't.
Don't what, Joe?
Cautions Israel not to be consumed by rage.
You know, the U.S. made mistakes after 9-11.
The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas.
We don't know the answer.
You know why we don't know the answer?
When you indoctrinate people, how do you know?
You can't read people's hearts and minds.
You don't know what's in there.
But when you indoctrinate young children, they are very vulnerable people.
I mean, this is basically everything from Joe today.
I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday.
And based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you.
But there's a lot of people out there who are not sure.
So we've got to overcome a lot of things.
I was shown by my defense.
Can you show by your defense?
Thank you.
I know the recent terrorist assault on the people of this nation has left a deep, deep wound.
More than 1,300 innocent Israelis killed, including at least 31 American citizens, by the terrorist group Hamas.
Hundreds, hundreds of young people at a music festival.
The festival was for peace, for peace.
Gunned down as they ran for their lives.
Scores of innocents, from infants to elderly grandparents, Israelis and Americans taken hostage.
Children slaughtered, babies slaughtered, entire families massacred, rape, beheadings, bodies burned alive.
Hamas committed atrocities that recall the worst ravages of ISIS, unleashing pure, unadulterated evil upon the world.
There's no rationalizing it, no excusing it, period.
The brutality we saw would have cut deep anywhere in the world, but it cuts deeper here in Israel.
October 7th, which was sacred to a sacred Jewish holiday, became the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
It has brought to the surface painful memories and scars left by millennia of anti-Semitism and the genocide of the Jewish people.
The world watched then, it knew, and the world did nothing.
We've moved U.S. military assets to the region, including positioning the USS Ford Carrier Strike Group in the Eastern Mediterranean, with the USS Eisenhower on the way to deter, to defer further aggression against Israel and to prevent this conflict from spreading.
The world will know that Israel is stronger than ever.
And my message to any state or any other hostile actor, thinking about attacking Israel remains the same as it was a week ago.
Don't.
The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas.
Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.
Hamas uses innocents, innocent families in Gaza as human shields, putting their command centers, their weapons, their communications tunnels, in residential areas.
Palestinian people are suffering greatly as well.
We mourn the loss of innocent Palestinian lives, like the entire world.
I was outraged and saddened by the enormous loss of life yesterday in the hospital in Gaza.
Based on the information we've seen today, it appears a result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza.
The United States unequivocally stands for the protection of civilian life during conflict.
And I grieve, I truly grieve for the families who are killed or wounded by this tragedy.
The people of Gaza need food, water, medicine, shelter.
Today I asked the Israeli cabinet I met with for some time this morning to agree to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza based on the understanding that there will be inspections, that the aid should go to civilians, not to Hamas.
Israel agreed humanitarian assistance can begin to move from Egypt to Gaza.
And then in the last thing that we just played there, he calls for humanitarian aid to Gaza's civilians, not Hamas.
Okay, we've made this mistake before.
We've played this movie before.
Those tunnels that I showed you when I went to Israel, that I went all the way down, nearly 100 feet buried underground, that they build sophisticated tunnels with lights and cement and fortified, that like has a little train track so they can work in the tunnels.
Why?
So they can get out in the middle in the dark at night and capture Israelis as hostages or kill them?
And there's hundreds of these tunnels.
What was the cement?
Where'd the cement come from?
Where'd the electricity come from?
It came from monies from the U.S. and monies from Israel so they could build hospitals and schools and infrastructure.
But they decided to use it to advance their terror campaign.
It just, it makes no sense.
Any humanitarian aid you want to give the innocent people in Gaza, I don't know what the percentage is because I don't know how deep their indoctrination is, will not go to the civilians.
Innocent won't see this aid.
It will go to Hamas and they will build out their terror network.
We've gone over this in detail.
All right, to our phones we go.
Larry, Connecticut, Sean Hannity Show.
Larry, how are you?
Good, Sean.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Just a couple of quick comments, and then I want to get your feedback.
The failures of Joe Biden.
But, you know, everybody looks at the U.S. for leadership, and we have none at the White House.
And right now, the House looks completely chaotic.
We have no unity on the Republican side.
I think there were 10 or 15 Republicans that voted against Jim Jordan, which is baffling.
I think it was 21, but who's counting?
21.
Thank you.
But what's your opinion of who are these people?
When are they up for re-election?
And that's the only thing that's going to change the course of this country.
Vote these knuckleheads out and put in people that are in there for all the right reasons.
It seems like most government officials, it's an 80%, 20% thing.
80% can't make it in private industry, so they go into a government job.
20% are there for all the right reasons.
They want to do good work, and we've got to get back to that.
Strategically, you know, got to win elections.
And, you know, just again, want to get your opinion on who these 21 radicals are that are saying no to Jim Jordan.
Listen, I normally would just, we put it up as a public service, if you will.
You know, people have got to make up their own minds.
At the end of the day, what we have is petty infighting, and what we have is immaturity.
What we have are a bunch of guys acting like they're in kindergarten.
And to me, they look terrible.
To you, they look terrible.
I would think that this moment where Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East, has been hit with the worst terror attack in their history.
I think that this would be a no-brainer to get back to work and open the people's house.
I don't like band-aid solutions.
Oh, maybe we'll empower so-and-so to have speaker powers for 60 or 90 days.
That's not bold leadership to me.
It certainly shouldn't even be on the table, but I keep reading about, well, maybe Republicans will partner with Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats.
Okay, if you want to give up the majority that you were given, don't expect to get the majority back anytime soon.
All of that is going to play out at the end of the day.
You know, I feel as you do.
By the way, if you want to know why I'm not a registered Republican, this is why.
That makes sense?
Oh, it does.
Yeah, completely.
Constitution first.
Those are just titles and names.
It's how you vote, how you act, how you behave.
Yeah, and a lot of people like to be called congressman and senator and all these other names.
Anyway, appreciate the call, Larry.
Quick break right back to our phones, toll-free.
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And now, a word from the 46th President of the United States.
We've been doing everything we can do to keep Biden from being the nominee.
And guess what?
We tried it in Iraq.
It's not working.
So now we're going to try.
I mean, in Iran.
Excuse me.
We've tried in Ukraine.
Sean Hannity is on right now.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
Mike, Long Island, New York.
Mike, how are you?
I'm well, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
So, you know, yes.
Hello?
All right.
Let's go to Richie is in Long Island, New York.
We've got two Long Islanders.
What's up, Richie?
We lost the last one.
Maybe there's bad phone servers out there.
What's going on?
Okay, Sean, thank you.
Honor to speak with you.
My idea would be a power sharing, but not between Republican and Democrat.
Two Republicans, maybe Jim Jordan is one of them and Scalise or whoever else could share until such time as Congress can continue balloting for a permanent speaker that can maybe share the speakership between two Republicans.
Let's say two weeks at a time, one guy on, one guy off.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
I hear you're thinking deeply about it and you're looking for answers and solutions.
Why do I feel that this should not be, especially during these times, a hard decision for Republicans to come together on?
Why do I think that they need to be able to get the job done?
Right now we have one candidate for speaker and one candidate only, and that's Jim Jordan.
And I just would hope that maybe after however many more votes they have this week, that maybe they'll just realize where we are in the world, what's going on in the world, what's going on in our own country, and just out of sheer necessity and out of a sense of duty and responsibility, just do their jobs, whether they like it or not.
I bet a lot of soldiers are going to get orders today that they don't particularly love, and they're going to salute and go do their job.
I would like to think that they'll get there.
I'm not in a state of panic over it.
I'm in a state of, you know, a little bit of disappointment, but frankly, it's fairly predictable.
You know, my entire career, I've seen Republicans create circular firing squad after circular firing squad.
And I watch Democrats.
And what they do is they circle the wagons.
And it happens every time.
Nancy Pelosi had a tiny margin.
She didn't have any of these problems.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
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