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Bill O'Reilly - April 24th, Hour 2
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Uh my heart is troubled, Mr. O'Reilly.
These are insane times we're living in, as you can see.
Um we now have uh Columbia professors that we have discovered, tenured professors, uh, that celebrated the terrorist attack on Israel on October the seventh.
You have other Columbia professors now rallying to support the pro-Hamas protesters that are on campus.
Uh Columbia students are being taught by people lecturing uh with ties to to terrorism, that there's nothing wrong with being a Hamas fighter.
That's a terrorist organization whose whose own charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
Uh the squad member leader, AOC, complaining that Columbia's decision to call the cops on pro Hamas lunatics is heinous, and yet Columbia Bill O'Reilly gets more than one point two billion dollars a year in federal funding.
Meanwhile, their endowments are in the billions.
Um these are very, very difficult times, and I'll add one thing, and then I'm gonna hand you the ball.
Uh we have a president of the United States that has been doing nothing except pressure Israel to to back off their war on radical terrorism.
The worst terror attack in history.
1,200 dead Israelis, dozens and dozens held hostage, many raped, beheadings, the most violent deaths that you could imagine.
And on top of that, after it Iran fired directly into Israel, Joe Biden said, No, I'm we're not gonna help you with any offensive or response effort that you might engage in.
Uh I feel this is all political because the radicals in the Democratic Party, Joe Biden needs if he has any chance of winning this election in just a mere one hundred and ninety-four days.
Your thoughts, sir.
Well, it's it's complicated in the sense that when you have a power base that controls a president, then that president really isn't looking out for the nation.
He's doing the bidding of the power base.
Right?
I agree.
From day completely.
From the first day in office.
This is what Biden did by the executive order of opening the southern border and abolishing remaining Mexico.
So the first thing he did was an action that has led to a catastrophe for this country and will for decades to come.
So it's just a continuation of that.
Now, what people don't understand is how ingrained the far left is in certain areas like academia.
So in the Ivy League schools, you cannot get hired if you're Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly.
No matter how smart we are, no matter how successful we are, we will not be hired.
And I would say 75% of universities in the country wouldn't hire us.
I'd say I'd say in your case, 99 and mine ninety.
Yeah, but I'm smarter than you.
All right, touch.
Good live, Mr. O'Reilly.
Keep going.
So when you have an entire educational system that is run by Leftists, you're gonna have an overwhelming ma uh number of leftists in the in the system.
And and that's what's happened over time.
When I was at Harvard in the mid-90s, it was left, it was liberal, but it wasn't crazy.
And I still keep in touch with some of my old professors who aren't nutty at all.
Graham Allison, who's the dean of the Kennedy School, is a brilliant man.
And and his announcement Would you would you ever donate a penny now to Harvard based on what's been going on there?
No, and I'll get to that in a moment.
But Alison is is the best China analyst in the country.
Um and he is Dean Emeritus at Harvard.
So it has changed.
Everything has changed.
And Biden sold his soul to the George Soros Cadres for money and organization.
Because those people are organizing Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, the far left controls the voting precincts there.
And that's what Biden did.
So it's no surprise that he's constraining Israel because the far left hates Israel.
We've gone over this.
Now, as far as the individual college campuses are concerned, if you send your kid to Columbia or Penn or Yale, even Harvard, even though Harvard maintains a cachet around the world, then you are putting them into a system where they will be ostracized if they don't go along with the far left mantra that's on campus.
That's what you're doing.
So I recently had a son uh applying to colleges, and he got into seven colleges.
The only one he didn't get into is Boston College, run by the Jesuits, because the head of that college, Father Leahy, hates me.
And so he denied my son entry, even though my son had the grades to get into BC.
It was the best thing that ever happened to my son.
Because he wound up at Salve Regina University, run by the Sisters of Mercy, and there isn't any woke, there isn't any far left idiocy there.
It is run in a very fair way, and the education is tremendous.
And my son went to Oxford off that.
So things work out individually.
And by the way, I'll brag on your son because he's a great kid.
He played lacrosse at Oxford and is a phenomenal athlete and a great student on top of it.
But if he had gone to a liberal school, if he had gone to my alma mater Marist College, which has gone from a working class traditional school to a devoted left wing school, I I told him, I said, Look, I love that school, Maris, when I went there.
But it's not what it was.
And if you go up there, you're gonna be under siege because these leftists control the agenda on campus.
We need to have you go to a school where it's a neutral, where all opinions are respected.
And he chose Salve, not me.
And he's done great there.
So my message to your listeners today is if you have kids in high school and they're thinking about college, you gotta get involved.
I I I I there's a great article that came out today about how kids are going south uh for their educational dreams now.
And and I I know, for example, I know people at colleges like UVA and Wake and USC, uh, that's University of South Carolina, the Gamecox and Vanderbilt and and schools like that.
They the prestige that maybe these Ivy League institutions once had.
And there are public Ivies, you know, Vanderbilt, I think, is considered one uh in terms of uh they're just not then they're not like Harvard or Columbia or Brown or any of these schools.
And by the way, with both my kids, Bill, I'm in I'm I'm so powerful, I had no say in where they went to college.
They told me where they were going.
And that was the end of that.
No, I've them.
I'm I'm sure no, no, Bill, they didn't listen to me.
They did not listen.
I promise you, they did not listen to me.
Lock them in the basement then.
I mean well, I don't call my kids urchins like you, but I guess if I treated them like urchins, maybe I would have had more success.
I totally failed in that department.
All we can do is provide pathways.
I I would make one exception.
Brown has not gone it's liberal, but it's Oh, yes, it has.
I have a friend of mine whose daughter graduated from from there.
The president came down hard.
On the anti Semitic stuff.
Yes.
Okay, but but on wokeism, I can for example, day one, and this is going back a number of years.
It's the f it was the first time I ever heard the the I and understood the depth of of pro proper pronoun usage because apparently all new students are they go around, I guess, a certain area of the college introducing themselves to other students uh and asking how would you like me to address you?
What pronoun would you like me to use?
And up to that point, and this is going back a number of years, I'd not never heard of that before, had you?
It's no it look it's so but once that happens and gets the infection sets in, but the Ivy League schools it's I don't think they're ever gonna recover from this.
I really ever gonna think can you explain something to me?
Because I thought the left cared.
I mean, some of these schools you might get expelled for comments uh that are disparaging, for example, to the LGBTQ community.
You may you might get expelled if you use the wrong pronoun.
Uh we went through an entire me too movement, and and God forbid if you ever said the wrong thing at a party to somebody, you could get expelled for that too.
But you're you're you're in a public square and you can say things like we are Hamas?
Sure.
And and and what part of what happened on October the seventh, the murder, the rapes, the beheadings, the kidnappings, the torture.
You know, what what part are they missing?
How do you not have moral clarity?
And and just to add a little bit to this, where is the president of the United States, where is his moral compass and his moral clarity, because I say he's put his blind political ambition above what it would be the rightful courageous moral stand against radical Islamists that are murdering and torturing people and that have as part of the charter the destruction of Israel
and how they treat minorities in in in the most these most radical groups.
If you're gay, they will kill you, Bill.
If you're not covered and you're a woman, you will be punished and maybe beaten severely.
Sure.
Look at Taliban.
Um there are two separate issues here.
Number one, people believe what they want to believe, and these college kids, most of whom don't know anything, okay, they want to be accepted by this group for whatever reason.
Okay, maybe their friends are in the group.
Maybe this is...
Accepted by a group that supports terrorism, Bill.
But look at it that way.
They don't know what Hamas is.
Well, why don't you say I'm a Nazi?
Because it's Hamas in the third reich of the same thing.
There's no difference.
They want to kill Jews.
That's it.
It's not hard.
So those people are just flat out ignorant.
With Biden, it's a little bit diff well, it's not more than a little bit.
So in my commentary on Biden's abortion remarks in Tampa yesterday, I end the commentary by saying something that maybe I shouldn't say.
Okay, this is on the no spin news tonight.
I say, if there is a judgment day after death, I would not want to be Joe Biden.
And the reason that's that's pretty harsh.
I'm sure you're gonna get hammered for that.
Well, you know, me.
But not that you give a flying rip, but I'm just telling you.
I know.
And and the reason is that this man purports to be an adherent of the Roman Catholic faith, and he doesn't it's not like Mario Cuomo who comes out and says, Look, I don't personally believe in abortion, but I'm not gonna impose my views on everybody else.
That's not it.
Biden promotes abortion.
We did a search hennedy.
He has never uttered in public that adoption may be a good thing.
Not one time.
You know what the sad thing is?
If you ask any liberal, this came up in the DeSantis and Newsom debate.
I pressed Newsom hard on to give me an answer, and he finally gave me one after going in five or six times.
And it was, do you supported any any restrictions in months seven, eighth, or ninth, excluding if the mother's life is in danger?
And his answer finally was I answered it.
I said it's between the doctor and the patient and their conscience.
Right.
No restrictions, Bill, up to the moment of birth.
And Biden the same same thing.
Every Democrat, they won't answer that question, but the Republicans are extreme on abortion, so they're telling us.
But uh listen, Mr. O'Reilly, we could always talk to you for an hour.
We appreciate you coming on.
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Sir, you have a great week, great day.
We'll talk next week.
All right, quick break, right back, we'll continue.
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Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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Biden, I said this before.
I said Joe Biden being on the campaign trail is a good thing.
Because he's he can't have a clean day.
And he and he had another teleprompter hiccup today.
I think maybe one of my favorites is he's reading from the teleprompter and he goes, four more years.
Pause.
In other words, he was given instructions to say four more years to get the crowd to start chanting four more years, and then he was supposed to shut up and pause.
Except he reads four more years, pause.
Uh listen.
Imagine what we can do next.
Four more years.
Pause.
Four more years.
Pause.
You can't make it up.
Only Joe Biden.
Then here's him stumbling through his speech today and then lying again about he used to drive an 18-wheeler, which has been debunked many times.
You lost your phone.
Get that man his phone.
He's going to be in trouble.
That woman or folks, in a sense, I don't know why he's we're surprised by Trump.
How many times does he have to prove we can't be trusted?
Don't mess with the women of America.
We're ready to move forward, not back.
All right, ready to choose unity over division, dignity over hate, truth over lies.
Are you ready to choose freedom over democracy?
For democracy.
Well, we did get that thing.
Anyway.
You know what I do?
That's exactly right.
Now the problem is as as much of a cognitive mess as he is, then you've got your, you know, Venn diagram, vice president, your giggling vice president.
You know, let's go back and listen to Kamala, you know, giggling and laughing at all the inappropriate times.
Do you plan to visit the border?
Um, not today.
More parents are seeing the value of educators when they had to kiss.
And say we're not paying them nearly enough.
I'm kind of a geek.
So to that extent, one of the things I love are Venn diagrams.
Since taking office, the president and I have made it an incredible investment, the largest investment ever, to take on the climate crisis.
Roughly a trillion dollars with a T. I had to.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
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Let's say hi to uh Tim is in Nevada.
What's up, Tim?
How are you?
Hey, Mr. Sean Hannity.
It's a pleasure to speak with you, sir.
Oh, the pro pleasure's all mine.
What's on your mind today?
Well, I'll tell you what, I'm I've been watching all this stuff at these campuses, all the protesting and whatnot.
And uh, you know, uh I'm like many of the other conservative Americans.
You look at this and you say to yourself, these are the same kids that want their sick student debt paid.
And of course, we have a president that's willing to bow down and probably make that happen if he could.
By the way, there are 17 states now that are suing Joe Biden over this.
And we did have a Supreme Court decision that did forbid him from doing it, but you know, the rule of law doesn't matter in Joe's world and with a weaponized system of justice.
But continue, sir.
Yeah, it's just amazing.
But you know, there's a reason why all this is happening, and it's because Biden has basically turned the White House into a giant circus tent.
And what I mean by that is when you stop and think about just the things that have happened in the White House, like the they found cocaine in the White House, um, they got people pulling fire alarms, um, they have people in the halls of Congress waving flags for other countries,
which you know, they they do everything they can to desecrate the highest office in the in the United States in our historical landmarks, but now that just rubs off to these students that you know go on their little merry path and they say my body, my choice, but they don't say their student loan they pay.
And it's just it's um it's amazing that they can continue to do this.
I I would think that our government, or at least the local police departments, would cord up cordon off each end of wherever those protesters are and vet each one of them and find out who they are, find out if they're students or if they're just people that are walking on campus that are paid.
Well, Director Ray says on college campuses in the protesting, the FBI doesn't monitor them, but they share intelligence about specific threats of violence.
But uh, we do know the FBI was monitoring tiger moms like Linda that show up at school board meetings and monitoring uh peaceful pro-life protesters.
Uh you have people chanting that they're supporting uh a terrorist organization and they're not they're not monitoring that.
And then in the same breath, you know, Christopher A goes on to say that I I'm hard pressed to think of a time when so many different threats were elevated at the same time.
Uh I'm like, well, why don't you do something about it?
Why don't you fix that?
That might be a good idea.
Yeah, and the and the other thing, the thing that really gets me is they can stand in front of those police officers and and mouth off to them and and sometimes spit at them or even even hit them in something, and those officers can't do it.
We we had a cop get pelted with a uh a bottle at at Columbia University last night.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I mean, we just need to buckle down on these kids.
I mean, they're to me, it just reminds me of a bunch of for the most part the girls, a bunch of bunch of girls that didn't make cheerleading squad and want to go out and be heard.
That's all they're doing.
But uh Well, I think it's more sinister than that.
I think it is, you know, these are supposed to be the best, the brightest uh educational institutions.
You have to have a great grade point average, or at least you used to.
I don't know what it is today.
And And you have them so ignorant and intellectually lazy that they they are they end up offering aid and comfort to terrorist organizations.
And that should be repulsive to everybody.
And the schools, they're having negotiations and they set deadlines, and then when the deadline comes and goes, then they have another negotiation with another new new deadline.
No, those students, you know, i if you used the wrong pronoun or you said something offensive uh on on any controversial issue, be it race or LGBTQ, you'd be expelled.
But you're allowed to support openly, you know, a radical terrorist organization.
Then they'll arrest you, but they're not gonna have a you're not gonna have a criminal record.
Don't worry about it.
Well, what's the point?
Yeah.
That's why I think we need to turn the page back and listen to Mike Rowe a little bit when he says we need to attend these trade schools, because you won't see anybody in trade schools.
I was in one, and it did me a world of good.
But you won't see anybody in trade schools protesting and asking you to pay student loans because they work for what they've got.
And these kids are just, you know, it's just out of control.
They need to be contained.
They really do.
They need to be vetted.
And here's the problem.
The professors, and we've vetted some of them.
You have tenured professors that openly celebrated what happened on October seventh.
The fact that they're not fired for that is beyond any comprehension I have.
Anyway, good call.
Uh, Tim, uh, my years, uh my years working as a contractor, some of the best years of my life, and taught me a lot of valuable life lessons.
Appreciate the call, my friend.
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Quick break, right back to our phones.
800-941-Shawn as we continue.
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