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Failing Liberal Cities - September 3rd, Hour 2
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All right, Leonard Skindard.
All things simple man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program.
All things self-proclaimed simple man, that means all things Bill O'Reilly.
Before we get to Mr. O'Reilly, my big question of the day is why the Democrats keep taking the wrong position on 80-20, 85-15, 90-10 issues, like, for example, immigration, law and order, safety and security.
And to get it started, I thought we'd start with the Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and saying the Trump administration is planning a secret invasion of Chicago.
And the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, asking Chicago residents, are you prepared to defend this land built by slaves?
Let's play it.
No one in the administration, the president or anybody under him, has called anyone in my administration and me, have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else.
So it's clear that in secret they're planning this, well, it's an invasion with U.S. troops, if they in fact do that.
Are you prepared to defend this land?
This land that was built by slaves, a land that was built by indigenous people, a land that is built by workers.
Are you prepared to defend this land?
Politics over people.
We don't want help.
We don't want troops.
Let the shootings continue.
Let the murders continue.
Anyway, all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly at billorilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
It makes no sense to me at all whatsoever that they wouldn't welcome the help, especially in light of the fact that there has been a 48% reduction in violent crime in Washington, D.C. since Donald Trump got involved.
Why would they reject it and why would they be so hostile?
Because they can't accept it.
That would burst the bubble they live in and destroy the propaganda they get elected on.
So they can't.
They're trapped.
So when you're trapped in a bad political situation, you cannot justify how you're running a state, a country, a city.
What you do is petty fog.
You create a straw man, an evil person, and then you deflect all the criticism coming your way.
Hello, Brandon Johnson and J.B. Pritzker, onto that straw man, Donald Trump.
It's been going on since 1776.
In fact, I wrote a column on BillO'Reilly.com that says Donald Trump is really the reincarnation of Alexander Hamilton.
Alexander Hamilton's theory of federal government is almost exactly what Trump says.
I don't know if President Trump knows that or not.
Hamilton, the founder of the Federalist Party, which purported that a few very bright people should be in charge of most of the country.
Hamilton didn't care what Georgia thought, and Thomas Jefferson opposed him.
Now, the play Hamilton, one of the most successful plays in history, grossed more than a billion dollars on Broadway.
They had no clue about that.
I can't believe they grossed all that money, and you were not a part of that play.
I mean, that's almost impossible.
It's mathematically impossible.
It is a tremendous play, but it's singing and dancing.
And it's a little bit of history.
Well, that's right.
You can't sing or dance.
I got it.
I could if I wanted to, Henry.
I can do anything.
You know, this is America.
You can do anything, but it doesn't mean you're going to gross a billion dollars.
No, but if there was the offer that you could gross a half billion if you learn how to do the twist and the lumbata, I damn well learn how to do the twist and the lumbata.
But anyway, getting back to the progressive left, my uh column today on billo riley.com is, and this is directed toward voters, not party people.
How can you vote for such failed leadership?
How in Chicago and Washington and New York and San Francisco and LA and on and on?
How can you continue to cast a ballot for people who have failed so dismally?
And the stats are there.
They're incredible stats.
In Newsom's six years in office, he's taken a budget surplus and ran it into a $300 billion deficit that California will never be able to pay off.
And if you look at it yet, if Newsom ran again tomorrow against a Republican, he'd probably win in California.
Well, let me ask you about that.
Do you think the part-time governor, full-time podcaster, Tweety Bird governor that is trolling Trump, that's not helping the people in the Pacific Palace Age?
By the way, I think they deserve water in their water hydrants, their fire hydrants.
I think they deserve water in their reservoirs.
I don't think they should have the highest income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes in the country, but they do.
They are losing hundreds of thousands of people annually in that state.
And you have to ask the question: could he, he might be able to get the nomination for the Democrats.
Can he win nationally?
No.
And he's doing the same thing Pritzker is doing, creating a strong man Trump.
I'm going to be the Trump slayer, you know, not literally, but figuratively.
But here are the correct stats on Newsome, six years in office, $32 billion debt.
1.2 million people have left the state of California, which in my money is the best climate state in the country.
And it used to offer the most opportunity.
Now it is mired in the highest taxation in the country, although they fight it out with New York.
They are oppressing their people in the sense that they will not punish crime.
But the people voted for that.
Well, it's also a sanctuary state and city.
And one of the reasons for the debt and deficits has to do with the fact that tens and tens of billions of dollars over the years is spent on services for illegal immigrants.
Well, listen to this, though.
In San Francisco, they spent in five years, the past five years, $25 billion on homeless drug addicts.
And there has not been a centilla of improvement.
So that gets me back to my original question.
How can people keep voting for this?
And there's only two explanations.
Number one, they're stupid.
And there are a lot of stupid Americans.
Constitution gives you the right to be a moron, Hannity.
And you know that many of us exercise that right every day.
And the other one.
By the way, way too many Americans do that indeed, but go ahead.
So you're either dumb as a rock or you're corrupt and you don't care.
And you benefit somehow from the Democratic Party, the progressive movement, entitlement culture.
So you don't want to work.
You don't want to compete, you don't want to do the things necessary to live the American dream.
You want a handout.
Well, what party is going to give you the handout?
The Progressive Democratic Party will.
So it's either greed, corruption, or ignorance.
There is no other logical way that rational people vote for failure time after time after time.
Makes no sense at all, but they continue to do it.
Your state of New York, the city of New York, the most densely populated area in the country, is about to vote in a Marxist Bill O'Reilly, and you continue to stay in that state.
And I challenge you as to why.
Well, I have to because of business and family obligations.
No, you really don't have to.
There's something called jet blue.
Hannity, look, I am the purveyor, the leader of three corporations.
I don't work for anybody.
I work for my boy.
Here we go.
Here we go.
The bragging begins.
Totally different than I worked when I worked at Fox.
And it's worked out for me, but these corporations are based here.
Personnel is based here.
I'm not going to bore everybody with it.
But the Mandani phenomenon is very interesting.
I don't live in New York City, so I'm not directly affected by his craziness.
And his craziness will include this.
And you are on one of the most powerful radio stations in New York City.
So your audience is going to hear it straight right now.
Number one, crime will double because Mandami doesn't want to put anybody in prison and is called the NYPD racist.
Number two, your garbage is not going to get picked up because the municipal unions are not going to work for this guy at all.
They're going to sit around and the city is filthy now.
Number three, if you think the immigrant problem is bad, where do you see what happens when this becomes a sanctuary city on top of a sanctuary city?
There'll be millions more people driven into New York City.
You mean on top of a sanctuary state?
Well, but that's, see, that's the key.
In a sane situation, Pritzker and Springfield, Illinois would control Chicago.
And Hochul and Albany, New York would control New York City.
But they are as bad as the people running those cities.
The governors are progressive loons.
So you have no relief.
You have no hope.
And you know the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah story, Hannity?
I do.
This might be coming here to New York City.
I'm glad to hear your optimistic take on it.
Do you see any chance that Elise Stefanic could win and become the governor?
No, do you see any chance that Stefanic can win?
Stefanic could beat Hogle, yes.
Because a year of Mandani, oh boy, it's not going to happen slowly.
The rats will take over, and I mean that literally and figuratively.
The rats will take over New York City.
Look, this is your city.
You decided to stay there.
You've been adamant every time I've challenged you over the issue of maybe it's time for you to take your operation, your three big corporations, and move it to the free state of Florida.
Just like every private equity group, every major banking institution in New York and every investment firm in New York.
And they have moved half their operations now down to Florida.
And that's why they call it Wall Street South.
And if Momdani wins, it's going to get even, it's going to accelerate the process.
And I would argue that many of these firms will leave permanently because they're not going to put up with this crap where no billionaires can exist and where corporations are going to get massive increases in taxes.
Somebody's got to fight these animals.
You know, my book, Confronting Evil, comes out next week.
And one of the themes on the book is that we have to fight evil.
I think Marxism and communism is evil.
I'm going to stay here for, I can't guarantee I'm going to stay here forever.
All right, we continue now.
All things simple man Bill O'Reilly, allthings O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Let me divert your attention for a second, and please forgive me.
Sure.
What do you make of the revisionism that is now being prominently talked about on podcasts that somehow Hitler wasn't as bad as we think?
And maybe we should have sided with Hitler over Stalin and not defeated Nazism in spite of the truth about death camps.
Well, lunacy is pretty common now on the podcasts and in the media.
So I wrote two books on this: Killing Patton and Killing the SS.
So the United States of America, which suffered grievously in World War I and World War II, liberated billions of people all over the world.
And now you got loons saying we should have sided with the genocidal Third Reich.
I mean, it goes beyond any rational thing.
When I hear stuff like this, here's what, and this is a true statement.
I think these people are emotionally ill.
Let's say this.
I know a lot of them do it for money, but for anybody who understands the evil of the Third Reich, and Hitler's on the cover, along with Putin, the Ayatollah, and Mao of confronting evil, when anybody understands what that was, you don't side with them no matter what.
Yeah, Stalin was bad, and we beat Stalin too.
We beat him back.
And thanks to Ronald Reagan.
All things simpleman BillO'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate your time, as always.
So you have all of these wild, you know, conspiracy theories.
And, you know, when you think back, Joe Biden, he'd be missing for months and months at a time, never talked to the media, in hiding, being protected by a group of people.
We still need to get to the bottom of it, just like we need to get to the bottom of the Autopen issue.
You know, it was ironic to hear ex-Biden staffer circle back Jen Saki wondering why Donald Trump spent a week hiding in a segment about health rumors all throughout the Labor Day weekend.
People were speculating online about whether or not Donald Trump might be dead.
And some people were actually hoping for it, like Tim Walls.
Listen.
So thank you all for coming out today.
Thank you for believing in these times.
Because look, I get it.
You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things.
And although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news.
Just saying.
Just saying.
There will be news sometime.
Just so you know, there will be news.
There may be news inferring Donald Trump may die.
Jimmy Kimmel apparently thinks this is funny as well.
Here's what he said.
You know, there's a rumor making the rounds this weekend that Trump was dead because he hadn't been in front of a camera for a few days.
That's how much he's in front of a camera.
When we don't see him there, we assume he must be dead.
But Trump says he said that he's in great health.
He's never felt better.
And despite the fact that he looks like a pumpkin that got left in the hatchback on a 100-degree day, he is definitely not dead.
Everyone gets all worked up.
Here's the thing: Donald Trump will never die.
Forget it.
He's like Dracula.
He's going to keep sucking the life out of us forever.
There will be no more trans in Transylvania when he is done.
All I could think of is Jimmy Kimmel ever looked in a mirror.
Putting that aside, Colbert had to chastise and scold his audience for booing at news that Donald Trump is very much alive.
The biggest story was frenzied social media rumors speculating whether Donald Trump had died.
For the record, Donald Trump is very much alive, okay?
And no, we like our president's alive.
Donald Trump is very much alive.
And this whole crazy rumor started simply because Trump had zero events on his schedule Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
And one of the only signs that he might still be around was music in the Rose Garden, which the White House confirmed was the president's music.
I don't find any of it funny.
And ironically, Joe Biden could be missing for three months and nobody would have noticed.
Joyless Reed, formerly of MSDNC, is claiming that magical doctors were able to cover up a conspiracy that Donald Trump was not actually shot.
This is news to all of you.
There are magical doctors who claim that he was shot in the ear, but his ear, I guess, grew bad.
He had a duplo bandage on one minute, no bandage the next.
We can't get a medical record from this alleged assassination.
He was supposed to be shot.
We have nothing.
We've got nothing.
Where's he in?
Where are the investigative records?
One day he slapped his maxi pad on his ear.
The next day, the ear is totally fine.
It's fine.
And I remember being in mainstream media where we both used to work saying, isn't it odd that we've never asked for his medical records?
And I got in trouble for that, right?
So see, you're not allowed to even say, isn't that weird?
We have more records.
I know more about the attempted Ford assassination, Henry, President Ford, than I do about Donald Trump.
And the Daryl Ford thing happened when I was a child.
Joy, we have video of Butler.
You can see the president getting shot.
What else do you need?
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North Carolina, Greg on the Sean Hannity show.
Greg, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Just awesome, sir.
Thank you for all you do.
I wish Trump or Caroline Levitt would ask Chris one question.
Why is it the Army sends its best trauma teams?
And basically, it's only trauma teams to Chicago to test them on how well they do with bullet wounds.
There's nowhere else in the world, probably, that you can go to with so many in such a short time, have to seal up bullet wounds out of chest cavities and everything.
I don't think he would have.
Go ahead.
What's that?
I don't think he would have an answer for why the Army sends traffic.
He doesn't have an emergency there.
I don't think they're sending teams to anywhere else.
Here's the saddest part of all this.
On any given weekend, you can predict with kind of pinpoint accuracy how many people in Chicago will get shot and shot and killed.
And they haven't lifted a finger all these years to protect innocent people so they can live free and safely and not have the stress of wondering if they're going to die if they walk outside their house and they can pursue happiness and their God-given talent.
That is the tragedy that is Chicago and many big cities today.
My free state of Florida, Jeff next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Things about the Chicago is first, you know, why does everybody insist that we got to go help them?
You know what?
They're pushing back so hard.
Let them burn just like California did.
And until the red people inside that state want to stand up and do a recall vote because they have the ability to recall their governor just like California did, which they failed.
And look at the map that's going to happen again to Illinois and Chicago.
They tried to recall Newsome.
Nobody turned out.
Every place that burned in the Palisades all voted no on the recall for Newsom.
And guess what?
Chicago, Illinois, it's going to be the same thing if they don't wake up.
So we should take what's needed and take the guard and go to blue cities and red states.
And let's fix our red states first and let them sit there and burn.
And when those people fight.
Hey, Jeff, let me tell you, anybody with any common sense left the state of California.
You know, they lost a million to people.
They have some of the best weather, best geography in the entire country.
You have to work hard to lose people in those numbers.
The same thing's happening to New York, New Jersey, Illinois.
People are leaving.
And so I don't think there's any hope that these states are ever going to flip back to red in our lifetime.
I understand.
I'm not saying flip, but as many people that are angry about what they see with their own eyes finally, you might think that there's a chance that they could actually come to their senses and let this happen.
I heard earlier talking about, you know, people want something for free and that's why they vote them.
I just can only hope that it's that way.
Thanks for taking my call.
Keep doing what you do in our free state.
We love you.
All right, Jeff.
Love you back.
Appreciate the call, my friend.
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Michigan, Robert, next.
You're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I just wanted to report on the state of California.
I recently was for this Labor Day weekend in San Diego, and the state is in, and that city specifically, the homeless population and, you know, people doing their business on the street right out in the open.
By the way, I have to tell you, San Diego is one of the nicest areas in all of California.
Love San Diego.
Love the people in San Diego.
Very strong military presence there.
One of the best hotels in the entire country, the Del Coronado, except don't ask Linda about it because she had a bad experience there and a bad attitude about it, but that's a separate story for another day.
Yes, I'm familiar with San Diego.
I've been stationed in California since 1993.
Give or take going on multiple times being over there.
I just watched that state, that city, that beautiful city, as you pointed out, just become.
It's just really unfortunate for the people that live there that Gavin Newsom is doing what he's doing to the state.
He campaigned on, you know, combating the homeless, you know, getting them off the street, you know, making it better for everybody.
And I can just tell you, this Labor Day weekend in San Diego, the hotels, everything was great.
It's just the city is being overrun, and the Democratic machine in California is failing not only the city of San Diego, the state, but also the nation.
We definitely do not.
I did not know the cancer spread to San Diego.
I knew it was a big part of Santa Barbara, L.A., all the way up to San Francisco.
I did not know it got that bad in San Diego.
That's sad to hear.
It is very sad.
I seen it firsthand, and I thought it was just going to be, you know, what I see, you know, like you report on, you know, like we see on TV and, you know, online, but I seen it firsthand.
I didn't let my wife get out of the car until I was on the side of her car because of, you know, what is actually taking place on every corner in San Diego.
It's just a beautiful city.
Like you said, a beautiful state.
It's just the Democrat machine in California is destroying the state.
And we definitely don't need Gavin Newsom as the next president.
So people need to wake up that he is the problem.
And the Democratic Party has no solutions for what ails this country.
And like you said, most people that are red, the conservatives, need to stand up and take back that state.
Well, remember, Gavin put out a videotape of his plan to stop homelessness in the city of San Francisco, and he has failed miserably.
It has exponentially grown all across the state.
And, you know, now he's been in power.
It'll be 16 years, and they've done nothing but make the problem worse.
All right.
Appreciate the call.
Thanks, Robert.
Linda, no pushback at all.
New day, new me.
Look at you.
Come on.
Seriously.
Listen, we've had this conversation many, many times.
And, you know.
We never had the real conversation.
You won a very prestigious award.
What was the award?
It was so prestigious, you forgot the name of it, huh?
Whatever.
You won some award.
What was the award?
It's called the Gracie.
It's the radio version of the Emmy.
Okay, so you win this huge award.
I couldn't make it out there because I had to stay on the air.
Yeah.
And so to make it special, I flew you and your family out there, put you up in the nicest hotel in San Diego, which is the Del Coronado.
And oh, actually, nothing.
It's already a few days ago.
Did I not pay for you and your family to go out there?
No, no, that part is true.
You did.
You paid for that.
Did I pay for the Del Coronado?
You did pay for the Del Coronado.
You did.
And I thought this was all my idea that your whole family go and celebrate your great success.
You did.
The problem is that you were off, which is why I agreed to go.
So you were off those days.
You actually took a few vacation days.
Yes.
And then news broke and I decided to come in and do my show.
No, news did break.
No, it didn't.
Nope.
That's not what I'm doing.
Okay, so I decide.
What is the name of the show?
It's my show.
It's my show.
If I want to work, I'll work.
It's my show.
What is the name of the show?
I'm asking.
I forgot.
Kind of like you forgot the name of my award.
The Sean Hannity Show.
I think.
Okay.
So I decide while you're away to contact our team, which is more than capable of handling a show, even if you're on vacation.
It's never going to be as good if you're out.
Okay.
I'll concede the point.
You had a fit, and then you had a bigger fit that they were doing some construction at the Del Coronado, which I knew nothing about.
And it ended up being a disaster.
And the moral of the story is never do anything nice for people.
Well, no, I think the moral of the story is, is that I never take off unless you're off.
You know that.
Unless it's like the kids, you know, has to go to a doctor appointment or I'm the doctor.
I mean, it's so.
Or a football game or a prom or something important.
I've never been out for a football game.
I've never not been here for a football game.
Whatever.
An occasional sporting event.
No.
An occasional event.
I mean, an occasional schooling event.
No, the kids' games are on Saturdays and like the first game.
Their first game is Friday.
I can't believe you take kids to a football game and you don't, you don't take a bad game.
You can't even explain to this audience.
You can't explain what crossing the plane means.
I don't need to explain it.
The kids just have to play it and I have to cheer.
That's my job.
And I have pictures.
But you don't know what you're cheering.
Yes.
I see their team get a touchdown and I clap.
And I'm actually really good at that.
I want you to know.
I have all kinds of big pointy fingers.
I have pom-poms.
I have giant pictures.
You do not have pom-poms.
If you have pom-poms, I want a picture.
I want to put it on your side.
I have pom-poms and I shake them and I'm like.
You did not have pom-poms.
You are lying through your teeth.
This is not true.
This is fake news.
I'm not buying it for a second.
You don't have pom-poms.
I'm not afraid of three-foot, not kidding you, pictures of yours.
You have pom-poms when you go to your kids' football game?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
I shake what my mama gave me.
I mean it.
I'm like, let's do this.
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