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Friday, May 17, 2013

2013-05-17T23:27:00Z

This VanderSloot story that we led with – I assume that all you guys saw the show, and I know there are some who missed it, and they just come in for the No Spin News on the net, but boy that is a major story and I think we are going to see him on Capitol Hill, because that is what it is all about. These guys targeting these people, and there is no doubt he is the target. So they can say whatever t hey want to say, the IRS, but you just don’t pick this guy out of nowhere. They went after him, and it cost him $80 grand. Now, for him, he can afford it, but a lot of people could not. That is what I have to get involved with, I have to protect the folks. So, I thought it was an extremely important story, you are not going to see it anywhere else but on The Factor, and that defines this whole IRS situation. There it is.

Otherwise, it will be an interesting week next week. The Sunday shows will have all the spinners out there. We don’t really care much about them, but I think the president and his men are going to meet over the weekend, pretty intensely, and try to figure out how to get on top of this thing, because it is spiraling out of control, and if there are more people that come forth, that is the key. If nobody else comes forth, whistleblowers, then the stories will wane a little bit, because you can’t keep saying the same thing. You’ve got to advance stuff, and nobody knows whether that is going to happen or not. It is tough to go up against the President of the United States. You’ve got to have a lot of courage to do that.

The education thing, I am telling you – this is really an untold epidemic of children in public schools just basically doing what they want to do. If it is violence, they are going to do violence, and the system has basically surrendered to the children. So, you read Lord of the Flies by Golding if you really want to know how bad this thing is. I don’t know anybody right now in Los Angeles; I got a lot of friends out there, who sends their kids to public school. And a lot of these people are liberal; they are just not going to do it. That is how out of control it is. And the system is basically saying you know what? We don’t know what to do, we are afraid of the kids, so we are going to surrender. That’s it.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

2013-05-15T22:54:00Z

This is really an interesting month. I was whining last month about no news, nothing happening – remember that? Now it is scandal du jour. And I don’t know what I would have done had I been in the White House briefing room today when Jay Carney says he can’t comment anymore because of the FBI investigation into the IRS and into the Associated Press. Can’t comment – that is so dishonest. They can comment anyway they want to comment. The only thing a president can’t do is prejudice an investigation, but he certainly can say,” we’ve removed so-and-so and so-and-so from the IRS, we believe that there was an abuse, and we are going to take the following steps independent of the FBI. If they find criminal wrongdoing, that is fine. Okay, but to say you are not going to be able to say anything or answer any questions is blatantly dishonest – and they do it all the time! It is what they did on Benghazi. It is what I pointed out in the Talking Points Memo.

It is now starting to really sink in, I think, to most honest Americans that the president is really in over his head – and I said this a long time ago, on the economy. He simply doesn’t know how to manage the economy, and so he farms it out. I believe that this is what this is – mismanagement. He hires zealots, we all know he puts zealots in positions of power, people who agree with him – and who are even more left wing than him! It is hard to believe, but there are. And then, when they do crazy things, I don’t know! Come on. So, that is what is happening here – and it is not going to go away. See, this is not one of those hit and run type incidents, as much as Jay Carney is going to dodge, it is not going to go away.

The IRS thing is going to be bigger than Benghazi, because Americans don’t like the IRS. There is emotion built in to that. And that will get people’s attention more than t his assassination over in a foreign country. Now, I am not saying it should, I am just saying that is the reality.

So, what we are doing on The Factor is we are giving you very precise analysis of what is happening. And that of course angers zealots on the right. I have had people saying, well you are apologizing for Obama – those of you who watch the show know that is absolutely false. I am not apologizing for anybody, I am telling you what is true and what is not true.

Do I think the Associated Press situation is going to become a major scandal? No, I don’t. I don’t. I think that the government had the authority to do what it did, that the president should explain the urgency of the story, and why they had to do it – that should absolutely be explained. But there doesn’t seem, to me, to be any misuse of power. The AP loves President Obama. It was a national security play, not a political play. There was no First Amendment deal. It was not trying to silence somebody; it was trying to find out who is talking about anti-terror classified information, which is important to me. So, I don’t see that – but I do see the IRS and Benghazi, and there is other stuff bubbling up too.

So, very very fascinating week. We will continue our coverage. On Monday our ratings were out of sight. We are murdering everybody, because people know when they come to The Factor, you will get the truth. Not ideology on either side – you will get the truth. That is what I am in business to do, and I am glad you appreciate it.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

2013-05-14T22:20:00Z

We had a really good show tonight I thought. There is a lot of stuff going in, and I think we covered it pretty responsibly. We had a lot of opinion that was pretty sharp. I don’t mind when people disagree with me. I get a little frustrated when the point is overwhelming. It’s not that you don understand, you got it, it’s that you don’t want to understand it, that people who attack – not just President Obama but anybody that they dislike, in a way that not credible, help their enemy. They bolster their enemy’s position: “oh, poor poor me, look at Fox News, they just want to hurt me, they don’t care about the facts. ”Well, there are a few people here at Fox News who don’t like President Obama, and they are Republican people or conservative people, and they feel that the president is doing a bad job , and hurting the country – and they certainly have a right to their opinion. But that is not the dominant theme among our reporters and correspondents, and I have to represent them as being a hallmark, and the flagship show on the network. I can’t go out there and start to jump up and down and say stuff is a scandal, and this or that, or the president directed the IRS audits. I mean, I can’t do that, so I think you guys understand. If you don’t, you don’t. What can I tell you?

But I will tell you this – we do an h0onest program here, and sometimes that is not easy. Sometimes you’ve got to take a lot of flack for doing that. I am not going to draw a comparison to me and Jesus, but one of the themes in Killing Jesus is that, there was a lot of stuff going on in Judea at the time, political stuff, politics. And nobody was telling the truth about it except him, the Nazarene. And boy, oh boy, did that come down on him. It wasn’t really about religion, it was about politics, and that is the theme of Killing Jesus – and I think you will find it mesmerizing, as I did when researching and writing it. When you tell the truth, or try to get the truth, you are going to torque people off, and they are going to get mad. They want you to tell them what they want to hear, and a lot of people do that. I don’t.

But, I can’t whine about it because we have been number one for almost 14 years now, and we continue to dominate every way, so there are enough Americans who respect what we do that those who don’t, well, too bad.

Other stories floating around – there really, outside of politics, isn’t anything, because legislation is stalled on almost every front. You don’t have the immigration deal come to the floor yet, the Obamacare thing is still just chaotic, you don’t know what is going to happen. So it’s all the Obama administration having problem after problem after problem. That in itself is a story! And we are going to continue that theme this week.

Monday, May 13, 2013

2013-05-14T00:17:00Z

There is a lot of stuff swirling around here. A lot of people who do not like President Obama are getting a little bit too excited. This stuff takes a long time to unfold, but the good news for those of you who do not like the president, is that now the media is engaged. They have to pay attention, so they are actively looking for stories, where they were not. The network news, I wouldn’t say the New York Times – but I would not put it past the New York Times and the Washington Post – particularly the Washington Post – to start to dig in and find what happened here. As I said, it is a pretty simple question – who told Rice to go out and say what she said? Who was that? See, that is where you start. And that shouldn’t be hard information to get. And it matters! The president says it’s a sideshow, it doesn’t matter. To him, it doesn’t matter! To him, it is like, okay, they hate me so they are going to find any way to get me out. That is his point of view.

I am not in a position to really... it disturbs me that Hillary Clinton is not more forthcoming. That disturbs me. I think that basically, you have a situation where it was politically driven, and it was all about the election. That is why they did what they did, and now they are stuck. Now they have to keep saying it doesn’t matter, this is not important - because they can’t admit that they didn’t want to tell the truth because of the election. They can’t admit that. So, it is the press’ duty to get it, Congress as well. Get Ambassador Rice in there; let’s ask her some questions. And then, eventually, Hillary Clinton comes down and has to answer serious questions, not like last time where they had no idea what they were doing.

So, we are on it. And boy, this Baltimore story is something. And Gosnell got what he deserved. You are looking at the face of evil there, but he is through.

Friday, May 10, 2013

2013-05-11T01:08:00Z

BillO’Reilly.com premium members, welcome to the No Spin News for May 10, 2013. I don’t have a lot to tell you about because we told you about it today on the Factor. I think we had a pretty good program for you. Benghazi is heating up. It’s getting to be a cliffhanger now. How’s it going to turn out? When Geraldo turns you know there’s something going on. It’s just a matter of who in the White House was the driving force? Hillary Clinton was the driving force in the State Department. There’s no doubt in my mind and that’s going to hurt her in her run for president in 2016. Republicans are going to seize on that but who in the White House was driving that? Probably not the president because he’s not engaged at that level on many issues and I don’t believe he was on that. But I’s got to be somebody close to him. Somebody trying to protect him. It’s not fair for me to speculate. But surely President Obama knew what was happening. There’s a lot of Watergate comparisons just as far as structure is concerned. Totally different story but the structure is the same. Nixon had a couple of big aides - Ehrlichman and Haldeman who ran interference for him. they were doing things they said were at his behest but he denied it. When it all falls apart they all start to scramble. So I would find out I think who was doctoring the emails and who was in charge of all that. So once you get that, once you find out who was the editor of the emails, going back and forth between the CIA and White House, then the whole thing will unravel. That’s the key piece. SO we’re working o0n it. We hope you have a great weekend and we’ll talk to you again on Monday.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

2013-05-10T01:14:00Z

BillO'Reilly.com premium members, welcome to the No Spin News for May 9^th, Thursday, 2013. I’m looking over some research material here and there was an atrocious article as Bernard Goldberg pointed out in the Associated Press which said there was no big deal about the Benghazi hearings, nothing new. Well there was plenty new and that’s where we are in the country today. The Associated Press goes out to all the small newspapers and some large ones as well and they just reprint it. And so people look around and think “No big deal, no big deal”. The AP is a dishonest news service. We’ve been having problems with them for years. They get their facts wrong, they have a bunch of people running it that are committed left wing people that aren’t interested in telling the truth and they spin everything. There’s a difference between someone like me who is an analyst and a hard news presentation. But the Associated Press – they’re pretty much done. And the other wire service, the UPI is out of business I believe and then there’s Reuters and they’re even worse. They’re even more left-wing.

On the immigration bill, I’m not quite sure how it’s going to come to form. You know, they’re whacking it around now trying to shape it up. Surely if they have the gay stuff in there, that’s not going to pass. They’re going to have to be very selective on the controversial things they put in there but I believe there is on the Republicans side there is some urgency in getting that done and telling the world “Look we’re not anti-Hispanic or whatever. We’re fair minded people”. So I think Marco Rubio’s on the right track. I can’t say for sure that it’s going to pass but I think it’s going to have a very good chance.

Other than that, we had a very good week ratings wide. Five million people watched The Factor last night which is astounding for a news program up against all the singing and dancing and shenanigans they put on. We’re happy. I think people trust us now. They’re getting more and more confident that we’re telling them the truth and certainly the other news agencies are not. Thanks for being premium members. Talk to you again tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

2013-05-08T01:14:00Z

Hey Bill O’Reilly.com premium members welcome to the No Spin News for the 7^th of May. Big story out of Cleveland today, a tabloid story no doubt about it. It’s horrible and I think there’s going to be way more to this story. I think there’s going to be murder charges and all of that. That’s just the way it’s going it looks to me. You know you have these people – I’d say roughly ten percent of the American population is dangerous…absolutely dangerous. That’s a lot of folks – 30 million people. They’ll do anything. Some of them are restrained by the law but many of them are not so when you have that many people spread out over 50 states you have to watch your butt. The Whole culture has changed as far as kids are concerned and how they’re raised. The stats are not that big as I pointed out but the fear of child molestation – that’s more hanis and more available than kidnapping. Kidnapping has been restrained by the federal penalties. Which are draconian so these three guys will never see the light of day again. They’re done. Good. Get them off the street. But there are millions of others who would do the same thing or have done it. So that’s just the way it is in every country in the world. Human beings are all over the place. I’m very mistrustful after seeing so much in my lifetime. You’ve got to prove yourself to me. It’s not that I’m aggressively mistrustful of people, it’s just that I watch closely. I watch how they behave, I watch what they say, I watch their mannerisms, I watch how they speak – much more so than I did 20 years ago. And it’s self protection, protection of my family. I watch because there have been so many things I’ve seen in my life that you just have to be very vigilant.

There’s another story that’s very interesting. The basketball player Jason Collins told the world he was gay. No big deal it got a tremendous amount of news coverage. 2,400 news stories on Jason Collins. The Gosnell trial about killing babies in Philly – 115 national stories. Two thousand percent difference in coverage. Jason Collins saying he’s gay to this monster in Philadelphia whom is going to be found guilty. I don’t think they’ll kill him but he’s done too. Anyway, we have that in play and that shows you where the press is. They don’t want to touch the abortion thing because they like abortion. They’re politically correct and think it’s tied into women’s health and all that but it’s not. It’s not tied into that. It’s an option and you know reproductive right and the Roe V Wade decision was made on privacy. Privacy? I don’t know. I just get it across how callous we’re getting as a nation.

They still can’t get this guy buried – Tamerlan – up in Boston. No one is going to bury him so now they’re raising money to send him back to Russia. That’s really an amazing thing. No funeral home, no cemetery will give access to this terrorist. Very interesting statement. I’m happy it’s happening. We need to send some stern warnings. You kill 8 year old boys? You don’t get anything.

Tomorrow will be a big day on the Benghazi front. We’ll be front and center with it. Thanks for being premium members. We’ll talk to you again tomorrow.

Monday, May 6, 2013

2013-05-07T00:21:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com premium members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday the 6^th of May. Big week for the anti-Obama forces. They think they may have a big story breaking on Wednesday when House Oversight Chairman Darell Issa, who is very anti-Obama, presides over a meeting on Benghazi. Look, everybody knows that this was mishandled. I don’t think there was any chance that the military could have saved Ambassador Stevens and the other three Americans. Doesn’t look like that could have happened but they didn’t tell the truth about it and now the truth is coming out that it was a well coordinated Al-Qaeda attack most likely and it’s an embarrassment but the Obama administration still believes that the folks are not going to care and that no matter how the anti-Obama forces drive the story, it’s not going to matter. I don’t know, I don’t know. Hillary Clinton, is she going to be tainted by this? A little bit but in two years when she starts to ramp up for her run, people will be reminded by her opposition but do they really care about Benghazi? Probably not. And I’m talking about the casual voters that aren’t as invested in one party or the other…one philosophy or another. The folks who just pay attention a few days before the election. Benghazi? I don’t think so. However, if somebody were to say at the meeting on Wednesday “well I told Hillary Clinton XYZ and she told my XYZ” then it gets to big but it’s going to have to bring that specificity to it.

Interesting story out of Cambridge, MA..nobody is going to bury this Tamerlan Tsarnaev. No one is going to bury the man. Nobody wants him, no funeral homes will handle home, no cemeteries will take him. Pretty interesting. So he’s floating around. His body is floating around and we’ll follow it for you. Not a huge story but an interesting one. This woman, his widow had Al-Qaeda stuff on her computer. Maybe he did it. Who knows?

And finally two other stories caught my eye. Al Gore is richer than Mitt Romney. He’s got $200 million. According to a Forbes Magazine report...I don’t know how they would know how much money he had but they say he’s got more money than Mitt Romney.

Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground guy says his terrorism in the 60s wasn’t anything like the Boston terrorism because he just blew up buildings. He says he’s against violence. He was trying to stop killing in Vietnam according to Ayers. Well I’m sure these terrorists would say they’re trying to stop killing in the Muslim World. Ayers is a traitor in my opinion. An unrepentant traitor. I think he should have been charged with treason instead of the bombing but he wasn’t . So now he’s running around, saying this stuff, lives in Chicago. There you go. Thanks for being premium members. See you tomorrow.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

2013-05-03T01:08:00Z

Very busy day here, we’ve got lots of stuff going on and I’ve had to spend a lot of time this week on these Track Chairs, as I told you in the Tip of the Day. We are trying to get thousands of these chairs for the amputees. The American military people who lost limbs fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are making great progress. I will have a major announcement concerning President Obama and the other American presidents next week. I think it will be good news, we are working hard on it.

Here is some inside baseball. We covered most of the news today, so I don’t have to really give you that, but here is in some inside baseball on ratings - television news ratings, as far as cable news is concerned.

After the terror bombing in Boston, a lot of things changed in cable news. The Factor surged, not only during the bombing but we maintained that audience afterward. Last night, close to five million people watched The O’Reilly Factor, and that would put us, if we were an entertainment show, in the top 20. Close in the top 20. And we are beating outright a lot of the entertainment shows.

The Fox News Channel in general has done well after the bombing. CNN has improved a little bit on their 25-54 audience, but their general audience is down, interestingly enough. They gained some younger viewers in primetime and in the morning, but it is still a disaster. And I mean that with no rancor at all, I don’t have anything against CNN, but it is a disaster over there.

MSNBC is the most interesting story. That network got hammered during the bombing in Boston. Nobody watched them, because they are not a news agency. And they don’t really do news; all they do is left wing propaganda. They don’t have any news people on the roster, once in a while they will parade around an NBC correspondent, but they don’t do news. Since the bombing, those people have fallen apart. Collapsed. They were never highly rated, but they beat CNN, because they are both very low rated, but now CNN is beating MSNBC.

Interesting last night, because last night was a typical night, a typical television night – nothing extraordinary, American Idol, which is fading. But let’s see, overall audience last night – CNN won beat MSNBC during the day, MSNBC beat CNN at night but not by much. Fox News dominated all over the place, I mean it wasn’t even close.

This Arias trial has given Headline News some viewers, so they want to know whether this woman in Arizona is going get convicted. I understand the story, it is a cliffhanger. Nancy Grace and those people – they do it wall to wall, that’s all they do, just cover that. And there is an audience for that. Once that audience goes away, then Headline will go back to where it was, which was not very high.

So that is the ratings deal. Fox is very healthy, The Factor dominating. And we really appreciate you guys being the vanguard of The Factor movement.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

2013-05-02T00:29:00Z

I can’t spend a lot of time with you today because of this breaking story in Boston. We are trying to get as much information as we can. I suspect the wife has something to do with this, and it is frustrating because I am not up there, but… I’m not sure if the wife has been interviewed. She hasn’t been taken into custody, that is for sure, but it just strains credulity that this woman wouldn’t know anything.

And now with the three college kids helping Dzokhar – these are serious crimes! They were hunting for these guys for a while. Did the wife, as soon as she saw the husband’s picture; she had to know he was a terrorist, that they wanted to talk to him about that. Did she call them up? I don’t know. Anyway, we think there are a few more things and we also think that Tamerlan was trained in Chechnya somewhere, in that area.

The FBI is over there, hopefully they will get to the bottom of it. They are aggressive; obviously it’s a big story. I am running around, trying to get as much information as I can for you guys.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

2013-05-01T00:13:00Z

I tried to listen to President Obama’s press conference today, but here is the game, just so you know: the president understands that he is not going to get very specific questions by anybody other than Ed Henry, and maybe a wildcard reporter. So it is going to be a lot of general stuff that he anticipates – and the president wants to give a little preamble speech to all of it, which means nothing. No news, this…that – you can’t see he can’t do that, because that is rude and you couldn’t interrupt. So the press conferences really don’t matter anymore. A one on one interview would matter if he would sit with somebody like me, who would challenge him. But he won’t, he just goes to the friendly venues. So basically President Obama is not held accountable for anything he says by the media.

Now, obviously when things don’t work, then critics of the president on talk radio, on Fox News sometimes, on other places, on the net – they get the word out and you know that – like Obamacare – it is going to cost more, and it is a little chaotic, so you know. But will the president ever have to explain anything about Obamacare? No. He won’t. So, it is a different world than it was even 10-15 years ago. Things are not going well in the economy, but the president isn’t really forced to answer any specific questions about the economy.

So, I would say, why do you think that black Americans have almost double the unemployment rate, Mr. President? Pretty simple, right? And therefore, he would have to answer that to some extent or dodge it. And, if he dodged it then you would see him dodging it. But those questions are not asked by these pinheads in the White House Press Corps, I don’t know what is going on there. I’ve talked to Ed Henry about it. As we said yesterday with Bernie Goldberg, now we believe the media has shifted from boosterism, that is being approving of Barack Obama, to actively helping him govern. I think that is the shift that has taken place so that the president will never be asked anything that may be uncomfortable for him. It is frustrating – not the way it should be, not the way the Founding Fathers designed it, it was supposed to be skeptical and adversarial, it is not.

There are a lot of small ball reporting on the Boston terror suspects, I am just going to do the big stuff. I don’t think the small stuff really matters very much. And there is plenty of big stuff this $100,000 in welfare payments to this family? That is scandal. That’s not a mistake that’s a scandal – whether Alan Colmes wants to admit it or not.

Monday, April 29, 2013

2013-04-29T23:38:00Z

So I’m really tired, I hope I didn’t fall asleep on the air. No, I was alert. I always get up for the game, always, always, always. But, it has been a tough couple of weeks - just nonstop because I'm finishing up Killing Jesus. Hard book to write, and we want to make this the best book yet - a lot of good stuff in that book. I was talking about it with Antonin Scalia, I was sitting next to him, as I mentioned on the program. The Supreme Court justice was giving me a little jazz on it, and he says, “if it comes down to you and the gospels, I’m going with the gospels.” I said to him, “well, Justice, the gospels contradict one another sometimes.” Silence! And I said that is what our role is, that we are supposed to be taking what really happened, and the history that we know happened, and stating it, and if it is compatible with the oral history of the gospels – remember, the gospels are an oral history, which means these stories were passed down and finally written about. We will explain all that, but the Gospels weren’t written on site, and the only eyewitness of the four evangelists is John, and I put the most credence in John, by the way, as a historian. John pretty much remembered exactly what… there isn’t a lot of departure between what we found out separately and what John wrote, just for your information.

Anyway, I've been writing that and finishing that up, we should finish that book up in three weeks and it will be out, of course, in September. And that will take some pressure off. And when you go down to Washington, you know it is a big dog and pony show. I am a little cranky, a little nasal-y because of these allergies, boy it’s bad here – I hope it is not as bad as where you are.

Now, the story that struck me tonight is a story that you may not care about that much but this is the millions - I think it's hundreds of millions, myself - that the bribes that have been funneled into Afghanistan disturbs me because as soon as we leave and the money stops what do you think these people to do? These are corrupt people and they are not going to fight for freedom, they are going to fold and leave and go to London or Switzerland or wherever their bank and their money [are]. They are not banking in Afghanistan, believe me. So that what happens, who's in charge then? I think this is really shortsighted, this whole thing, and you know there are a lot of American service people that got hurt over there - same thing in Iraq. Now Iraq is functioning, but there is a big rebellion there now, Sunnis against Shia - the same old thing, which will never stop. But Iraq is functioning, so we least gave them a chance. Afghanistan, once we leave that thing is going to go right back to the Taliban terror headquarters, you watch and see.

So, I don't know that it's been a big colossal waste of money over there but I could be wrong and I hope I’m wrong. But anyway, that was the story we brought you tonight. Where Hume and I see it a little bit differently, and I hope you enjoyed the other stuff. We will have these track vehicles, these Trackchairs - I've an idea of what I'm going to do what I would say in the next two weeks I will let you know. It is going to be very interesting to get this done - and this is what should happen.

Look, in a perfect world the government pays for these chairs, but they just don't have the money. So, private Americans can do it, and we should do it, and we will do it. The government is broke and they would rather spend money on investing in wind power that's never going to come anywhere, than a help our wounded warriors. That’s terrible but that's just the way the system is, so I am going around the system. I have to say though, Barack Obama, every time I brought some to him - he has responded. So, you may not like his politics, you may disagree with the way he is running the country, but he does help in the veterans area, there is no doubt about that - and so does Michelle Obama.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

2013-04-24T23:41:00Z

I was hoping spring would get here, and now I’ve got allergies like crazy, so I am wishing for winter again. Boy, this is the hardest I’ve gotten hit in I can’t remember. But that is okay; I’ve got to tough it out – that’s just the way it is. So we will.

I think there is more to these guys in Boston than we know right now. I laid it out, but I didn’t give you everything, because I can’t – there is some stuff we know that we can’t prove. And I don’t want to put that out there, but it just looks to me – I don’t think that other people knew they were going to blow up people on marathon day in Boston, Patriot’s Day, I don’t think anybody knew that. It is too risky, because somebody might have been informing or something like that, but certainly they had a support system, these two brothers. And that is where the authorities have got to go – and I am sure they are, because the FBI and Homeland Security is in big trouble now because this guy got through the net, and he never should have. I mean this is a crazy thing, this Tamerlan guy. He was so radical and so open about it, there is no way they should not have been watching him.

For those of you who read Killing Kennedy, the interesting part about that is when Oswald came back from Russia, you’ll remember he tried to defect to the Soviet Union, they were all over him. The FBI was all over him. They picked him up in New York when he came back, and they followed him to Texas and they interviewed him a few times, they had a file on him – they were all over him. And that is what the FBI did. Or does, or is supposed to do. When somebody does something suspicious – and believe me, when the Russian intelligence agency tips you about a guy – it’s not like they do that everyday. And then the guy goes to Russia for six months, and comes back and has got no money? How did he get over there, who bought his plane ticket? Maybe his father did, maybe. But he didn’t have any money – he was a bum! He was living off his wife, who was earning $12.50 an hour as a health care person. And they had a kid. Here is the rub: the younger one was selling pot apparently at the college. That’s nice, isn’t it? So, maybe he had some money in his pocket, but now he can’t afford a lawyer – he’s got no bank account. And they’ve got all these guns and explosives – where did that come from? So, I am not buying any of these. We will give the authorities a little time to get these things down on paper, but it shouldn’t be that hard – they should be all over it, and they probably are, because they don’t give us everything real time.

There’s this mosque in Cambridge that I am going to look into now. The Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. They’ve got some crazy people in there, I think we’ve got to take a look at that as maybe being a connection over here. But I assume the FBI is doing all of that, but the clock is ticking because I am going to want some answers. Soon.

Hillary Clinton – I can’t really tell you what the Secretary did or did not do. I don’t think she is being completely honest. I think it is a massive screw-up. Now, whether she was behind the screw-up or not, I don’t know. I’d have to see that memo, I would have to see whether she auto penned it or signed it herself. This is the memo that pulled security out of Benghazi after American authorities over there said they were in danger. So there is a memo, but it’s classified so we don’t know what it says, we don’t know if she signed it. The government is a big bureaucracy. And while other commentators can call her a liar and all of that, I cannot. I have to do the fact-based thing.

And, let me just tell you one more thing about that. As I told you, The Factor was the highest rated show on Friday from 8-9 in all news shows, not just cable. Because we had a combination of the Fox News cable and then Fox broadcast. So, we beat everybody. And the reason we beat everybody is because enough Americans – millions, 11 million that night – know that I am going to put on an honest broadcast. Even if it tees you off. Even if I go against your ideology. I am going to tell you what I think is the truth, and why I feel that way. And back it up as best I can. That seeps in, and it is working. So, when you have a cable news guy beating the networks news guys and gals, outright, you know something is going on. That is a profound change in America. We work hard here. We don’t make many mistakes. We put on an honest program. Paying off. So, I can’t do speculation or ideology. I’ve got to go on what we know. And, if we don’t know, we tell you, and then we are going to find out. Like this money trail – we are following it.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

2013-04-23T23:30:00Z

I hope you got to see the Town Hall meeting last night, it was very successful in the sense that you guys liked it. So that is the only measure of success – if you like it. Now, you can watch it anytime you want. We have it posted up here, and we got a lot of great questions, I appreciate all the questions. I’m going to do more of that, because it is easier for me to directly communicate with you. We do the once a week Backstage Conversations, but this – we can get a lot of questions in. I liked it, everybody enjoyed it, and I think we will probably do more of that, based upon what is happening in the news and things like that.

We are looking into – and we want to be careful here – why this terrorist, the older brother, Tamerlan, went off the radar screen of the Homeland Security people. There doesn’t seem to be any reason for that. So, it is either a human error – and, if so, someone has got to be held accountable – or, it is a failure, a big failure, on the part of Homeland Security, to monitor people who may be threats. This guy had enough red flags on him, how much more evidence do you want? Foreign intelligence agency warns you. He goes back to Russia, into a dangerous area, comes back six months later and you don’t know he comes back? Then he is posting jihadist stuff on a website, and you are not checking him out? That is a big, big failure. That puts us all in danger.

So we are trying to find out what the problem is. Bad agents? Bad organization? Janet Napolitano? What is the problem? And we will find it out. So that is the big story right now for us, because we’ve got to stop the nonsense here.

Now, the other stuff about Brokaw, and about the stupid questions, and the equivalency of drones – that is just more annoying than anything else, but it is my job to bring it to your attention. And I don’t have anything against Tom Brokaw – I don’t particularly like him, he is kind of an arrogant guy to me. I don’t know him well, I never worked for NBC, but the few dealings I’ve had with him – he is a patrician, he comes across as this guy with a sense of entitlement. Different from Jennings and Rather – Jennings had that upper-crust thing too, but he had a decent sense of humor. I knew him much better, Jennings. If I hadn’t worked closely with peter, I don’t know if I would have like him, because he did come across kind of hoity-toity. Rather – a whole different ballgame. Demons all over the place with him. But, Brokaw, I think he’s got a hell of a nerve saying that stuff on Meet the Press, and the not answering any questions about it. Particularly because he made such a large amount of money writing about WWII and the greatest generation and all this. If you look back – the way we fight the war on terror now is nothing like Franklin Roosevelt waged WWII. We were brutal. The United States was brutal in that war – we had to be. You know what we were up against. But there was none of this drones/civilians thing… these guys are hiding up there, and you’ve got to get them. And I know for a fact that plenty of drone strikes are called off because there are civilians in the area and they are not sure if it would be the right thing to do. They only move when they know they have these guys. And, of course mistakes can be made - in anything. To make a big deal out of this, when trying to defend ourselves against these crazy jihadists, that the president of the United States won’t even acknowledge, isn’t it a little screwed up? Don’t you think we are a little screwed up on this? I do. So we are going to unscrew it, and that will be our reportage in the days and weeks to come.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

2013-04-18T23:16:00Z

This has been a hellacious week for me, your humble correspondent. Now, I am not going to whine to you, I get well paid for what I do. But I’ve got to tell you – every second of every day somebody is coming at me with something. We are doing as well as we can with a story that is very difficult to cover now, because the authorities are mad at the media because they misreported yesterday, for whatever reason, that somebody was arrested – and they weren’t. I was watching that in my office, as you heard Ms. Megyn Kelly say, when you’re out there on live TV, you’ve got a little thing in your ear as we’ve explained to you – you are at the mercy of the information coming in. And when the Associated Press and the Boston Globe start to report there is an arrest – you go with it. That is just the chain of command, because these are people on the ground. They are in the community.

Now – you don’t go with what CNN says, because they are a television network apart from the community, but they ran with the story big time. And I was watching them and FNC, and I am going, wow this looks to be solid. But of course, it wasn’t. Very difficult story. Every – what, 20 minutes of every day this week, I get another call from somebody going, “this is going to happen, that is going to happen.” And it doesn’t happen. So, that is just what goes on when you have a hysterical situation.

Now, I think Boston has handled itself really well. The Star Spangled Banner was amazing at the Bruins game last night. I hope you all go there this summer, I think that would be a big lift for the community, get some money in there. We will methodically cover the story. There are a bunch of things next week – this week, you’ve got to respect the three people who died, and the injured. Next week, we are going to start to look and probe into the mentality of who did this. We feel that there will be an arrest soon, and then we will try to figure it out from there – Who it was, why they did it.

Miller said last night he doesn’t care why they did it, and that is an interesting point, but you really have to know why they did it in order to protect yourselves in the future. Now, I don’t want some stupid explanation from these people, I don’t care about that, but you want to know where they came from, how they were able to set it up, why they were motivated to kill an 8 year-old boy, so that you can protect yourself in the future. The government is all about protection, and while it has not protected us on the border and other places; it has done a pretty good job after 9/11 hunting down terrorist, as I pointed out in the Talking Points Memo.

The gun thing, they are really, really disorganized on in the Federal Government. I put forth, in the Talking Points Memo, a really good solution to this. And I know some gun people are never going to bend, just like some immigration people – deport them all. That is okay. You are entitled to your opinion. I am a problem solver: that is my job. I put forth a piece of legislation that, if enacted, would make it very easy for the cops to arrest bad guys who are illegally carrying guns. And therefore everybody else is protected, without a tremendous intrusion. I know some people don’t want to register their firearms, but look. If the choice is between making it easier for the cops to get the gun criminals and you, a law abiding citizen, registering, you register for the greater good, right? Am I right, or am I wrong? Let me know in the message boards about this, because we are always interested in your opinion.

Now, a flag here – [this Monday, April 22] we will have the Town Hall meeting on BillOReilly.com. Earth Day! 9:15 Eastern Time, and I will talk about Killing Kennedy, Killing Lincoln, and for the first time publicly – I will talk about Killing Jesus. About 75% done writing that now, I think it is going to be the strongest book. A lot of people are going to be mad at me, and I will tell you why in that Town Hall meeting, and you guys of course will be able to email questions in, and we are going to have a good time.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

2013-04-17T23:49:00Z

A lot of chaos surrounding the Boston investigation. I don’t, at this point, have enough information to clarify anything. We will be able to do that tomorrow. We are back and forth with our hard news desk, and trying to give you as much good information as possible, because it is just doesn’t do anybody any good to be hysterical. SO, I am going to cut this short tonight, because I don’t want to tell you anything that isn’t true about the bombings, and I don’t really know what is true. I can’t really advance the story from what you heard tonight on The Factor, but we will be able to tomorrow and I will have a much more detailed No Spin News for you then.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

2013-04-16T20:15:00Z

I can’t speak to you long, because I am really working this Boston terror attack very hard. There was a minor controversy about President Obama using the word “tragedy,” I am writing my newspaper column on it. I am going to talk about it a little bit more this week later on, why that word is inappropriate in defining what happened in Boston. I was up there on Sunday, it is amazing – the city was buzzing with the marathon and Patriot Day, everybody was happy – and then this terrible thing happens.

One thing I will tell you is that we are not going to speculate. I am fiercely – and my staff knows this – anybody who speculates on the program is going to be edited. We are not going to do speculation, because I’ve heard too much of it. When we know something, you will know – very quickly. And what we reported to you last night live, there were a few mistakes in that, basically they were mistakes by reporters on the scene, and because I am not on the scene, I have to take the Associated Press, the Boston media, and other things – and we tell you. This is who is saying what. But, by and large, you got the picture from us without speculation. We are going to continue to do that, and then as the week grows on, I will editorialize more and more about my thinking in the political sense, and how Barack Obama and I do not see terrorism the same way. That, I think, will emerge later in the week.

The president didn’t do a bad job, he didn’t do anything wrong. He is just not precise enough for me. I like precision – especially from my Commander in Chief.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

2013-04-11T23:31:00Z

We are kind of stuck in a holding pattern as far as news is concerned. You know, the gun debate is underway, the tax debate is underway, the budget debate is underway. It is all kind of boring because nobody really knows how the stuff is going to shake out. I think the more important stories now are in the social realm, and how a lot of Americans are changing their opinion on fundamental issues that will, in the long run, affect their country. I mean, the legalization of marijuana is not a good thing. It’s just not. Now, do I think it s going to really harm America? Yeah, I would say I do. I think that more children will become involved with it. The message sent is that there is nothing wrong with getting intoxicated. That’s the message – there is nothing wrong with getting intoxicated because that’s what marijuana does – it makes you high. Nothing wrong with that. Now, morally – that is up to each parent to discuss with their children, but public safety? You really want a nation of zombies running around? Alcohol is bad enough, and you add another intoxicant, you send a message that it is all right. That’s a good thing?

The erosion of discipline in America, the erosion of self-reliance, hard work, honesty, the rise of narcissism and betrayal – that is all harming the country. No longer are we looking out for each other. Our primary motivation for the young set is look out for yourself, and that is fostered by the internet – media gratification all day long.

You add the drugs into the mix; it is just not a good situation. Let me tell you a quick story. I’ve never smoked marijuana, and the reason is because when I was in college, when it really came in hard, I was an athlete. I was playing football, basketball, ice hockey, baseball – I was always sweating. I was always perspiring. And I was a serious athlete, so I didn’t really care about intoxicants so much. I just was in training and performing, but I did see what happened to kids who got involved with drugs – and it was never a good thing. Ever. A lot of kids flunked out of school, a lot of kids became addicted to harder drugs. I never saw really any benefit from marijuana. Ever. And luckily I didn’t really need it in the sense that I didn’t need it as social lubricant or anything like that.

Now, you fast forward to today. I am sitting here at the top of the heap, competing with people for a very high paying job. I’ll tell you this – nobody who drinks and takes drugs on a regular basis that I know, and I know plenty of people who do – none of them can compete with me. None of them. Whether that is because of the substance… they just can’t keep up. Simple as that. I can’t do a cause and effect, but I can tell you – if you can stay away from this stuff, and keep your kids away from this stuff, you are going to be a lot better off.

Now, tomorrow I am doing a big benefit in Houston, Texas. I want to thank everybody in Houston for supporting the It Happened to Alexa Foundation to help crime victims and their families. So I am going to talk to you again on Monday. It is four hours to Houston and four hours to New York – it is not easy to do that, but I really believe in the cause. And I know that there are very few people who can raise money – no liberal people are going to do this, and that’s not a shot at them, but they are just not going to do it. Crime victims to them, it doesn’t really matter. So, I’ve got to do it – and this is the fifth or sixth year that I’ve been helping them. And that’s why I will be off tomorrow.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

2013-04-11T00:46:00Z

I don’t really know what to tell you guys as far as the climate in Washington is concerned. The president is going to continue to spend money that the country doesn’t have. It is clear that he is going to do that. The only thing that can stop him is, in November 2014, the midterm elections, which I believe very few people are going to vote in. I think you’ll see voter turnout at 25-30%. However, if the Republican Party can rally people, then the president is vulnerable if the economy doesn’t get better. Now, if the Senate turns Republican, and the House stays Republican, then that is the end of President Obama. So you can end his reign right there, but that is 19-20 months away, and in the meantime, he is going to spend like crazy. There is not going to be nay improvement on that. He simply does not see the problem.

Throughout history, there have been a lot of presidents who have done the same thing. James Buchanan – I know you know that name. I know you know that name! The president before Abraham Lincoln. He simply ignored the south. He knew that the south was getting ready to secede from the Union. He knew the country was about to dissolve, and Buchanan did nothing. Nothing! He just flounced along. Barack Obama knows this spending is insane, he knows he can’t cover it with punitive taxation on the affluent and corporations. He knows that the more the big spenders are hit, the fewer houses are going to be sold, fewer boats are going to be sold, fewer cars – big ticket items. He knows that. He doesn’t care. Just as Buchanan didn’t seem to care that the nation was dissolving before his eyes. And then, when Lincoln got in, he had to handle the Civil War. Whoever the next president is is going to have to handle craziness in the fiscal area.

Otherwise, North Korea – I am watching it. They say they are going to launch some missile. Yeah, all right. I don’t think they are going to do anything, I could be wrong. But I don’t think they are going to do anything. The guy wants attention, you’ve got to believe China – they don’t want the economy to be upset by this idiot, so they’ve got to be squeezing him, telling him if he does anything, they will seal the border and that’s it for them. They won’t get anything in, anything out. That is the way to deal with them, of course, if China would do that.

Otherwise, elderly Americans, if President Obama’s vision comes true – which I don’t think it will – and Social Security inflation payments are adjusted – elderly Americans are going to take it. They are going to get hit. I don’t think the politicians are going to do that. There will be some kind of income threshold there for that. But right now, on paper, the only thing that President Obama wants to try to save money on is smaller payments to doctors and hospitals and drug companies and Medicare, which means there are going to be fewer doctors and hospitals taking Medicare patients. That’s the way it goes. And then, to cap the adjustment on inflation at a very low rate – which, elderly people, not a lot of money, they get hit.

So, it is dim. Word of the day, dim! There is not a lot of bright stuff going on, even as President Obama parties hardy in Washington.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

2013-04-10T00:06:00Z

We finally got good weather here, about 80 degrees in New York. March was a total wash out, but it is nice to wake up to the birds chirping instead of the shovels shoveling snow off the driveway. And you guys down south, and in the west, you guys are in the heat already, but in Denver its 25 degrees. It was an interesting climate out in Denver, you never knew from day to day, whether it was going to be 80 or 20, because the front range wind would whip down there. When I got there, coming from the northeast, I could not believe it.

Everybody who cares – which is maybe 10% of the population – is waiting for President Obama’s specific budget tomorrow. I don’t think it going to be much myself, I don’t think the president really cares. He wants to institute social justice, and is going to do whatever he wants to do and then leave office with a huge debt. I estimate it will be about 20 trillion dollars when he gets out of there finally. And then the next president will have to deal with it, and who the hell knows.

The United States is a country that - we don’t move unless there is a disaster. As a historian, I can tell you that 25 years before the Civil War popped out, Andrew Jackson knew that this country was headed that way, but they were able to bob and weave for 25 years, and then bang. It happened. Same thing with World War II, that is a very interesting story. In 1933, after Hitler took over, pretty much everybody knew this guy was a madman – if you wanted to know – and he was going to cause trouble, and he is building up his armed forces, and Japan was doing the same thing in the Pacific. They looked away, the American people didn’t want to get involved, and Pearl Harbor happened, and Hitler invades all these different countries, and then we are into a giant war. That is what has to happen for Americans to actually pay attention. And in our progressive age, President Obama’s acolytes are getting away with murder because there isn’t any urgency or emergency for those who aren’t paying attention. Now, those of you who are Premium Members, who are listening to me right now, you are paying attention, you know how bad this is – on a lot of different fronts. But your peers, your neighbors who are watching The Voice and Dancing with the Stars - about 30 million Americans watched those two programs last night. Those two mindless, numbing programs. And that is where they are. They work hard, people want a break, they come home, they sit there, and they watch this stuff, or they are in front of their PCs, playing games, looking at porn, or whatever they do. And are they really going to pay attention to President Obama’s budget? No, they are not because it does not affect them. But it will! It will, it’s coming. I can’t say what to do, I just don’t know. I don’t know what form it is going to come in, I don’t know how it is going to manifest itself, I just know it will. You can’t continue to do what the Federal Government is doing – spending irresponsibly – in a moribund economy, you just can’t.

I will tell you a story, and I am not going to mention who the person is, because it is just unfair. But I knew a guy, older man, very well throughout my life, and he one day discovered he had some bumps under his arm. What did he do? Nothing. Two years later, he wound up in the cemetery. He had cancer of the lymph nodes, and he didn’t do anything about it. He knew he had the bumps, he knew they weren’t going away, but he didn’t do anything about it. And then by the time the cancer metastasized, and then he couldn’t function, it was too late. That’s the analogy. You just can’t continue this crazy spending, and people flocking to food stamps and disability programs, you just can’t. I don’t know when America is going to wise up, I don’t know. But, I’ve got to tell you the truth and there it is.

Monday, April 8, 2013

2013-04-08T21:39:00Z

Margaret Thatcher. It is hard to analyze her because the prism was always through the media. She is operating over in Great Britain, in London, I am over here. Actually, I was down in the Falkland War, watching that horror unfold down there. I was based in Buenos Aires but I went over to Uruguay and Montevideo when the British warship was sunk by the Argentines, it was horrible. This piece of rock out there in the Atlantic and these guys dying and all of that – but I don’t know if she could have done other than what she did there. As far as her effectiveness in the economy, I am not an expert on it, let me put it that way. I thought that she was very tough – you need that sometimes. She didn’t have the smooth demeanor of Ronald Reagan. I wish I knew more about her to tell you, but at that point in my career I was kind of a war guy, an action guy – not a political guy.

Annette Funicello – knew a lot about her! Mickey Mouse Club, all the Beach movies. All the baby boomer guys liked Annette – and then she had a very tough life [with] MS. I ran into her a couple of times – very nice woman. I felt very bad for her. There is a woman who seemed to be extremely kind, and then she gets this horrible disease that pretty much racks her whole adulthood. Sometimes you just wonder. But anyway, the big picture is – were we better off in the 1950s? We, as a nation, than we are now. And we are going to get into that deeply tomorrow based on the Funicello situation – which, trivial on its face, but it is not when you look at how the culture has changed. Has it changed for the better or for the worse? And so we are going to get into that tomorrow.

Other stories in play – we are keeping an eye on North Korea. Impossible to know what is going to happen there .I still don’t believe this guy is going to pull the trigger, pardon the pun. But reports are that he is very, very crazy. He is a very crazy guy. So, we are hoping that doesn’t happen because if there is a conflict in Korea, the whole world economy is going to totter. Iran will be emboldened, and nothing good can come out of that.

So, otherwise, we’ve got a very interesting week – a lot of good stories for you.

Friday, April 5, 2013

2013-04-06T00:12:00Z

It’s been an interesting week for us. I cause controversy wherever I go, that’s what I’ve always done, probably always will do it. Not that I want to, but I pride myself on telling you the truth – whether you want to hear it or not. That is pretty much what generates all of this kind of stuff.

So, recapping: we believe that secular progressive forces are gaining momentum in the country, and the reason they are doing that is because the traditional conservative forces are somewhat divided between problem solvers like me, who genuinely feel that the system has to be worked through realistically, and then ideologues like – you fill in the blank, because you know them better than I do, who want purity of thought, which is going to get you nowhere.

Look, George McGovern was a pure liberal candidate for president. Remember that George McGovern? Were you guys around by that time? He was defeated so badly by Richard Nixon, I mean he was crushed. And so was Eugene McCarthy, and so was Barry Goldwater on the right. It is just never going to happen. Never. And then when you add theology into the mix as an argument against policy, you lose. It’s not even close Now, I guess there are about 20% of Americans on both sides, the right and the left, who just simply don’t believe that. And there is nothing I can do about that. You don’t believe it, you don’t believe it. The truth is there, the facts are there, and I present them to you. So, when I said to Megyn Kelly that you have to do more than “thump the Bible” to defeat gay marriage, that is absolutely true, and all these people got offended.

I don’t know why, I really don’t. If somebody calls me a Bible thumper, I really don’t care. I go to church. I read the Scripture. They want to say I am a Bible thumper, fine with me. I don’t care. I will destroy their argument in a civil way – theologically and in a secular way. I will destroy it. So, you want to call me a thumper, you call me a thumper.

If you are worried about left wing people looking down on you because you are religious, well you’ve got a problem. Because they will. All day, everyday and there is nothing you can do about it, other than pray for them. That’s it. So I never really got the central core of it. I guess people are insecure, I guess they react emotionally when their religious feeling is – not rejected, but criticized – which is not what I was doing, I was just saying you cannot use that tactic in the court of public opinion, and you can’t.

I think it was instructive, everybody got it. I used Pastor Jeffers letter today to show that there is not a more theological based, Bible based person than him in the country – there isn’t – and he understood exactly what I was saying, and why I was saying it. So that gives me a little bit of comfort.

Otherwise, nothing really. I am very worried about the economy, as you know. I don’t think the president understands economic matters, as I have said. It is my job to point it out. The Obamacare thing looks like a giant fiasco. I am not an Obamacare basher, I haven’t been doing that from the beginning, but these things roll in – it’s chaos. National healthcare, at this point, as we approach the mandatory institution of it, they just don’t know what they are doing. I hope everybody – every single Factor viewer – applies for the job of being a navigator. That’s $60 grand. Navigate – go ahead! Take the money! Better you have it than these pinheads. You would probably do an honest job, believe me. Navigate – what a scam!

Thursday, April 4, 2013

2013-04-04T23:19:00Z

A story I didn’t have time to get to tonight, but is interesting is that the U.S. government is now using radar to surveil the border with Mexico. And on that radar, operated from a predator surveillance drone, there is evidence that Border Patrol agents apprehend fewer than half of the people who try to sneak in here – and that includes drug dealers. They looked a 150 square foot mile stretch of southern Arizona, and they could see people coming over. The drone could. There are no human beings up there, but it transmits down here. So, the Border Patrol says look, we have some gaps – they are obviously trying to fill them now, or at least they say they are – I believe them. That is what’s going on. High tech now, we can see who is getting away with it, and where they are getting away with it. So the government accountability office, which is the investigate arm of Congress, estimates that in January, the Border Patrol caught 64% - which is a high number – of those who illegally crossed into the Tucson sector. That was in 2011, by the way. That’s a lot. So, I am not so worried about this – I like the drone technology being used down there, because it shows the weak points and it shows where people are. Now, remember – it is not just about illegal aliens, this is drug smugglers as well. And the narcotics traffic is harmful to all Americans.

A bunch of small ball stories that don’t really affect your life. North Korea – we are keeping an eye on it. We will have Peters on tomorrow. I continue to believe that this is just a bunch of nonsense by this North Korean leader who has nothing to do, and he wants to make a name for himself. But I could be wrong, and if we have to blow the hell out of him, we will. If they start a war, they will get crushed.

I hope you guys are following the reporting we are doing, how traditional America has to win the debate, because it is very important. This is a very important story, because I continue to believe that the majority of Americans are traditionally minded. Secular progressives are winning largely because of the media and because of President Obama, not because the folks are on their side. But most folks a re not ideological, and you’ve got to convince them. And if you are going – I’m not going to use “thump the Bible” again – well I just did – but if you are going to just do that, you are going to lose. That’s the point of that, and it’s a very interesting story.

Those of you in Texas, I think the Alexa Foundation in Houston that I am going to be at a week from tomorrow, the 12^th, is almost sold out. So, if you want to see me, it is going to be a lot of fun. It is for a very, very good cause - helping families of violent crime victims. So we are going to be at Tony’s Restaurant in Houston on the 12^th. You can check that out on BIllOReilly.com.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

2013-04-04T00:38:00Z

Boy, am I busy. You don’t want to hear that from me, I know, but I come back from vacation, I get crushed. I’m in the middle of writing Killing Jesus; we are doing all of that. We’ve got controversies all over the place, which is good; it keeps the show perking and people interested in what is going on. Now, there is a power shift going on in the media, an interesting power shift. I am not going to get real specific about it because it doesn’t really behoove me to talk about any other media people, unless I feel they are hurting you. And these guys really aren’t hurting you, but the power is shifting – and a lot of it is shifting in The Factor precincts, as we told you. We are the ones that stop all the craziness now, they come to us because we are effective and people are paying attention to us. A lot of people don’t like that. And so they are starting to attack me for business reasons primarily.

One of the examples I can give you is this “Bible thumping” deal. I did not call anybody a Bible thumper. I used the expression Bible thumping, -ing. And I said quite clearly, to anybody who would listen, or anybody who wants to read the transcript, that you can’t win a policy debate by thumping the Bible. It wasn’t a pejorative directed at anybody, or anybody’s belief system. And anybody who knows me, and has read or Culture Warrior, or [has seen] our Christmas campaigns, or anything else – knows that I am on the side of Judeo-Christian tradition. So all of that is insane, yet I hear on the radio that I call people Bible thumpers – that is a lie. And the reason the lie is being spread – two reasons – the left doesn’t like me because I destroy them in the debate, they can’t defeat me, they never have defeated me in 17 years. They can’t beat me in the ratings, they can’t beat me in the debate, they hate my guts because the left wants to change this country in a radical way, and I do not believe that is good for anybody. The far right, they don’t like me because I am not far right. It’s as simple as that.

Charles Krauthammer told the truth last night – he is a very truthful man. He is a very conservative guy, much more conservative than I am, but he is a truth-teller, and he sees it – he is worth listening to. So, that is where we are. It is a fascinating thing.

Tomorrow, we are going to have Megyn Kelly lead the show. You are really going to want to watch this thing tomorrow, because we are going to compare two very, very sacred causes for the right, and how they are being adjudicated in America. Abortion and gay marriage – we are going to compare it, and it is fascinating. I hope you’ll tune in.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

2013-04-03T02:42:00Z

Interesting story tonight about this liberal media trying to exploit divisions in the conservative movement. I am not a part of it, so that puts me at a disadvantage. I only see what they are writing, which is just insane, and then I see what the conservative radio guys say, and that is pretty insane too. I am trying to float above this, but at the same time tell you what is going on. Now, you watch me, you are Premium Members, you know what I do. I have no allegiance to any ideology at all. My allegiance is to you and you alone, and what that means is that I am going to tell you the truth.

This is stunning to people. Like I said to Michelle Bachmann, hey, you can’t really go to the CPAC Conference and criticize Obama when Bush spent more money on his personal living expenses, and not mention that. You can say they both spent too much money. Or that Obama wants shared sacrifice but won’t sacrifice, or you don’t think he will – that is legit. But to throw up some kind of bogus stats about dog walkers, when the same guy who is walking the Obama dog was walking the Bush dog! And you don’t mention that? Come on.

So, what happens is – I report these things and then the ideologues jump all over me. Like the gay marriage thing. The reason that the polls have changed is that the media is firmly behind gay marriage and the conservative movement – including the Roman Catholic Church and other religious organizations – have not articulated why this is bad for the country. You can’t base policy on what the Bible says. That is going to get you nowhere, and I report that. I haven’t changed my opinion on gay marriage, as I pointed out in the Talking Points Memo tonight. It’s the same thing. I think heterosexual marriage is a stabilizer. I don’t believe it is a human right to get married, and I think that you can accomplish the same things constitutionally with the civil unions. So that is my position, it’s always been my position. I haven’t changed, haven’t evolved – same thing. I want all Americans to have an equal shot at success and happiness. So that is that. Do I believe that marriage has to be changed so that homosexuals can feel good about themselves? No, I don’t I want homosexuals to feel good about themselves. I am not condemning anybody to hell; I have no right to do that. I am the biggest sinner on the block.

When these idiots get ahold of my analysis, they twist it and turn it, and try to say that I am insulting religious people. I’m not insulting religious people. If you want to believe that God condemns homosexuality because of what is said in the Old Testament, fine. Fine. I have no problem with that. But you don’t make law based upon the Old Testament, or you would still have slavery. This seems to be self evident to me, but it isn’t in the world of the ideologues.

Final thing. The Republican Party has been damaged by people who are extremists – just as the Democratic Party has. If you are a zealot extremist, you are not going to get elected. Obama ran and won the elections on being a moderate. Is he a moderate? No. He fooled a lot of people. Did he fool me? Not really, I knew he was a liberal guy, and pointed it out. Did I know he was this far left? No, I didn’t think he was this far left, because he truly doesn’t care whether the economy collapses or not. He is not doing anything [about the economy] – and that is really where I am going after him, because that is legitimate. That is not made up and that is not ideological. That affects everybody, even liberal people. Their bank accounts are going to get whacked if the dollar evaporates, just like conservative bank accounts will.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

2013-03-27T21:45:00Z

March is done, pretty much. Holly week. After tonight’s program, I am off on vacation. I am going down to St. Kitts, which is an island in the Caribbean. I’ve never been there; I’ve floated by it. Regular folks – it is near St. Bart’s, that is a little too swell for me, the St. Bart’s situation. So, anyway, look, I just need a little getaway. I am taking the urchins down there and I’ll be underwater and stuff like that.

I hope you all have a very nice Easter. We are on the main story, which is the continuing financial chaos in the country. There is really nothing else other than the gay marriage stuff, which the Supreme Court will probably kick back to the states, and that is it. So, I am going to relax – I hope you do too. It is a good week to contemplate – Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday Count our blessings – it is not all bad. I hope you do that, I hope you have a nice time, and we will be back on the air – live – on Tuesday evening, April 2. We will see you then.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

2013-03-27T00:28:00Z

All you Jewish members, Happy Passover to you. And you Christians, Holy Week begins on Thursday with Holy Thursday. Interesting – as you know, I am writing Killing Jesus, and it takes me back to the time I spent in Galilee and Jerusalem. Very interesting trip – and I recommend it for everybody to go there, because the Mount of Olives is there, Garden Gethsemane is there. Golgatha, where Christ purportedly was crucified – although that location may not be solid. But, certainly Garden Gethsemane is, and the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem itself. No question he came in on Palm Sunday into the city and caused all kinds of pandemonium. But, be that as it may, you’ll see the book when it comes out in September. I think most of you will like it. I am spending a lot of time on it, the research is very good. A lot of stuff going on swirling around Jesus, that’s for sure. Stuff I didn’t know about! I just got finished last night writing the John the Baptist execution, and again, there is a lot of stuff in there that I don’t think anybody has ever heard before.

As far as the news is concerned, this is a slow week. Congress is pretty much done for the Easter break. The Supreme Court – you know, Megyn Kelly had a pretty astute analysis. I don’t expect them to take any big steps here, but they could shock people – certainly the Obamacare ruling did. I guess they could, I just think it is a state-by-state issue. I don’t see it as a Civil Rights deal, the gay marriage thing. Behavior is behavior. Yes, you might be born gay – I don’t know, only the deity knows. But you are not discriminated against because of your skin color or something inherently visible. If you want to get insurance for somebody, you can do that. And I believe in civil partnerships – and it doesn’t have to be based on homosexuality. My two aunts never married, they lived together, they were straight, and they should have been able to leave money to each other and get all the health benefits and all of that. Civil unions should happen, legally. And, as I said on the program tonight, I want everybody to be happy.

I am not injecting myself into this other than, I do not believe it is a Constitutional issue. I think it is a state-by-state issue, what kind of society you want, whether you want to have marriage as a procreation vehicle. I think the state should stay out of marriage anyway. The reason marriage is even there is because of the Church. The only reason the state got involved was for tax reasons. So, it is a sacrament in the Church, it is a sacrament in the Jewish religion, in the Islamic religion, so leave it there. That is that. It is not going to have a big effect one way or the other in this country. Far worse is the attacks on religion than gay marriage. The gays aren’t attacking religion; it is the secularists that are doing it.

I’ve got one more day, then I am going to take a little time off for Holy Week. Tomorrow we’ve got a very, very good program for you, so we hope you are going to take a little time as well. Talk to you again tomorrow night,

Monday, March 25, 2013

2013-03-25T23:58:00Z

Where are we? March 25 – Passover. Happy Passover to all our Jewish viewers, I should say that – I will have to put that in the script, I am doing this before the show. My voice is giving out, I’ve got a frog in my throat. And so I am going to have to keep this tight. There is no news to tell you about. Everything that was going on, I told you about on the show. This is an unbelievable fallow – word of the day, fallow – news time.
Obama’s trip abroad – it means nothing. There is nothing there that I can see that was accomplished. Now, maybe, down the road, something will come from it. I hope. But, right now, there is nothing happening and that is because we are into the Holy Season – Passover and Easter – and all the legislators take off, and the press doesn’t know what to do anyway, they are all a bunch of lemmings. So we are giving you interesting information, stories that we uncover. But as far as anything dramatic is concerned, there is really not much going on. So, if there is, I am on it you know that.

Friday, March 22, 2013

2013-03-22T22:22:00Z

Long week. A lot of work, a lot of everything – running around, I am kind of delirious. You probably noticed that on the program tonight.

This is a funny story – and I am just telling you this because you guys are Premium Members. It has nothing to do with the news – in fact, there is no news, so I am glad I have this story. I’ve got a nine-year-old son. And he is a good singer, he sings very well. He likes music. So we are watching PBS the other night, and Herman’s Hermits comes on. It is one of these fundraising things where they have the clips from the ‘60s and ‘70s. So there is Herman’s Hermits, and they sing Henry the 8th, the stupidest song ever made. Of course, my nine-year-old loves it. So I tell Dennis Miller, I figure, Miller and I, we could use some material for the Bolder & Fresher shows. So, Miller knows the lead singer for Herman’s Hermits, a guy named Peter Noone, a Brit – who was actually on the PBS show, kind of hosting it. So, now I get an email saying that Herman’s Hermits and Peter Noone, they are going to be on Long Island tonight! Doing a show at Westbury, the same place Miller and I are playing on June 1. And they want to meet Spencer, my son. So I am taking him, and he’s thrilled! This is the kind of crazy, insane life I lead. So, we had to tape The Factor a little bit earlier so that I could go to the Herman’s Hermits concert this evening. Don’t tell anybody, al; right?

Wasn’t that worth the Premium Membership right there for that story?

And here is something else you are going to like. April 22, Monday, 9:15 pm ET – we are going to have a special Town Hall meeting for only Premium Members on BillOReilly.com about the upcoming book Killing Jesus, and Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln. So you’ll be able to ask me any questions you want. I can’t give away everything that we’ve got for KJ, as we call it in the trade “KJ,” but I can tell you what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, how it is going to shape up. And I think you will be interested, and nobody else is going to hear this – you are the only ones that are going to get the special preview on this. So, once again, that is Monday night – Earth Day! – April 22, 9:15 pm ET right after The Factor, and I think you will enjoy it. And I always like answering questions from you guys anyway.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

2013-03-21T23:12:00Z

Spring is here, isn’t that fun? It’s a little bleak out here in New York, bad March, weather-wise. I think I am going to take a vacation soon, I’ve got to get a little R & R, you know what I’m talking about? Every six weeks, that’s what I’ve found – every six weeks, if you work hard, in a sustained way – and that means people raising children as well – you need to get some time off. If you don’t, physically and mentally you just really start to get run down. What happens is that your mental discipline breaks down, so you are more likely to snap at people or get angry or crazy emotionally, if you don’t have that six-week window. So every six weeks, I recommend you take at least two or three days off, and don’t do much. Or do what you like to do, like skiing or golf or something like that. Just kind of get away from the routine. Now, a lot of people can’t afford to do that, so you’ve got to get creative. There’s nothing wrong with just basing at home and getting some movies you might like and a couple of books – everybody can afford that. But you’ve got to plan it out every six weeks – and I am right at that point now, because I really haven’t had much of a break since Christmas.

In the news, President Obama – I am not covering his Middle East trip very much and I will tell you why. I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve seen a lot of presidents go over there, and they all say the same thing, and nothing ever gets done. So, why am I going to give any more credence to President Obama this time around? People over there hate each other. I always hope that they can come to some accommodation. There is a lot of poverty and corruption; President Obama is not going to change that. He can say whatever he wants to say, but two days later he is going to be living large in the White House again. So to me, it is more of a charade than anything else. I don’t even bother with it.

Now, speaking about living large in the White House, what about Michele [Bachmann]? I got a lot of mail on it. Conservative people, a lot of them don’t want to recognize that some Conservative politicians or commentators may not be seeing things clearly, so there is a knee-jerk defense. I saw a little of that on Michele Bachmann, but I’ve got to say The Factor audience is kind of changing a little bit. I think you guys are on to what I am doing, and that is I am covering things objectively. So, Michele Bachman gets up there and she rakes the president over about lavish living, but she has all kinds of mistakes – there isn’t a dog walker, the same guy walks the dog who has always walked the dog – the gardener. And President Bush actually had a bigger White House budget than President Obama has.

So, Mrs. Bachmann made some mistakes. She took her material from a book, she did not check it herself, and some of the material was wrong. Now what she should have done was come on The Factor and said, you know what? My basic criticism was right, that here is a guy who asks for shared sacrifice, Barack Obama, and he is not sacrificing anything in his private life. And that is true. That’s valid. And, yeah I should have checked my facts, but I didn’t because it was a speech and I’m on the run. I apologize for that, but my basic theme of if you are going to ask for shared sacrifice, you have to participate in it – is a good one. Then, Michele Bachmann wins that all day long – does she not? Instead, she ran away and her spokesman made it clear they were not going to answer any questions, even in written form. That’s just not the way you do it.

The same thing with the Bible miniseries and the Obama/Satan thing. I mean, Downey and Burnett should have came back on The Factor. Number one, it is good publicity for them. Get even more people engaged in the miniseries. And number two, they should have said look, this is what happened. But instead they ran away. I will never get that. If you didn’t do anything wrong, and you do have a story to tell – tell it! Tell it. Especially on this program, because I am not looking to hurt Michele [Bachmann] or Downey or Burnett, I like all three of them. The only people that I’m after are people who are lying. I don’t know why Burnett and Downey did what that they did, I have no idea. You have a situation here where Michele Obama – Obama, I always do that – Michele Bachmann – tries to get some points and then blows it. And could have recovered, but didn’t want to for some reason. That’s not good. And people will enver learn. If I could talk to Michele, I would tell her look, you had an opportunity there – because she is a Bold & Fresh lady, and I like that – but she really didn’t do the right thing here.

Other than that, Beckel is Beckel. I got a lot of mail on Beckel last night. You make up your own mind. Again, I’ve got to tell the truth, I did. Beckel tried to spin it, I think we stopped him, and that is why you watch The Factor. The spins stops here.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

2013-03-21T00:06:00Z

I hope it is spring where you are - not up here in New York. Still cool and unappetizing. Usually we have flowers coming up this time of year – nope. I have a nice house, not a lavish mansion or anything, nice house – nice gardens and stuff, about an acre of land. I like the little flower stuff going on, you know? We don’t have that yet. You guys down in the South, you are deep into spring! All right, enough of that.

We are following the president’s trip to Israel. Based on the press conference today with Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr. Obama, nothing will come of it. It was just totally BS. I’ve got to be a No Spin guy – nothing, nothing, nothing. So, I wish I could tell you something, but I can’t.

There’s a kid in Carneys Point, New Jersey, 11-year-old kid. He is on Facebook – and I hate Facebook, I hate all this intrusion – and I know people do it voluntarily, I understand, but I don’t think this is healthy. I like privacy. Privacy is good. Anyway, the kid is 11 and his father is a weapons instructor. So, he is pictured on Facebook holding a rifle. Social Services in New Jersey raids his home. Isn’t that nice? Raids his home. His father is obviously fighting them – I think we’ve got to stop the hysteria here, I really do. If the Social Services sees the picture with a kid and a real rifle on Facebook, call the father. Call the parents, say hey, what’s up? DO we have a problem here? And he will say, no I’m a certified firearms instructor; it is just a cute photo with my boy. That’s it. That’s all, that’s the explanation. Don’t raid the house. Amazing.

Here is something interesting – and we would never do it on our show, because it is too small, but at Portland State University, which is a fine college by the way, in Oregon, they have a class there, and the class is about extremism in American society. And the teacher invites members of the Nazi party and the Ku Klux Klan to speak to the college students. So, what do you think?

I say, fine. I have no problem with that. It is extremism in America, right? These guys come in, class is there, they know they are extremists, they are identified as that, class can ask them questions, and they spout whatever they spout. Now, I would give the kids the option of not attending that class if I were the professor. You don’t have to show up to see these hateful people if you don’t want to, but if you feel that it is educational, by all means go and ask questions. Don’t get rude, just see what they have to say, how they present themselves. That is education. I spent some time in fascist countries, and I learned a lot – a lot – about that kind of a philosophy, how Franco in Spain instituted it, how the Argentinians did it down in the Falklands War – they were horrible. I’ve been to Vietnam under the Communists, China under the Communists, all of that. So, I’ve got no problem with that at all.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

2013-03-19T22:38:00Z

No news. We go through these cycles where there is just nothing happening. Nothing, zero! So then we have to get creative, and we have to get stories that we believe are important, but we have to kind of get them up and running. And that is why I lead with the crazy far-left spending and taxing vision. These people are out there, you are not going to change their minds. Persuasion – I would say most Americans can be persuaded if arguments are cogent and logical, but some of them can’t be. 30-35% - no matter what you do, it is not going to persuade these people to think clearly. It’s just not. And that is frustrating, that why I got mad at Colmes a few weeks ago. He was just spouting his… he new damn well [Obama] didn’t want to cut anything, and all he wanted to do was slow down the rate of spending, yet he kept calling it cuts. Bing, you know. Like waving a red mat at a bull. I’m the bull!

There are a bunch of small ball stories, nothing that mean anything to your life. And I try to stay away from those stories. I try to give you what is going to be helpful to you, or what you should be aware of. The danger ahead. It’s just not out there.

I was going to do a story tonight on the Pope being attacked by the usual suspects, the New York Times and the left wing press, about this crazy stuff in Argentina back in the late ’70s/early ‘80s. I was actually down in Argentina covering the Falklands War, so I saw that horrible government down there firsthand. But I decided to myself, I am not going to give these people credibility. This story is going to die out, the Pope is the Pope, he didn’t do anything wrong back then as far as we can see. If he is a good Pope, then people will respect him. Everybody’s rooting for him, but the people who don’t like the Church, and religion in general, they are going to attack him. We all know that, that is what the war on Christmas is all about. And so I pick and choose. I can’t be doing a lot of Catholic stories because a lot of our audience is non-Catholic. I’ve got to try to get the stories that affect everybody.

Other than that, I want to thank you all for making Killing Kennedy the best selling book of 2012, we told you about that. By a lot, by about a quarter of a million copies. And that includes all hardcover – fiction, nonfiction, pets, animals, dieting. Everything! So, huge. And Killing Lincoln – third! Even though it was out for four months in 2011. So, thank you all very much.

Killing Jesus – I am writing it. Boy is it a hard book to write. You are going to love it. I love it, but it is so hard. I’ve got to get right down to it, and we are going over page after page of research trying to piece to ether this puzzle, but I’ll tell you what: when this books comes out at the end of September, you’ll know more about Jesus than you ever imagined.

Monday, March 18, 2013

2013-03-18T22:40:00Z

Bad weather here continues in the Northeast, March has really been a crummy month. This happened, I would say, more often than not. The weather starts to clear up in early April. It’s a pain in the neck because we are all looking forward to a little nice sunshine and all that. I am whining, thanks for putting up with me.

Big story – nonexistent. A bunch of little things. There is really nothing that I can tell you that is compelling for you to know about other than the continuing divide between the Republican and Democratic Parties, which Cruz and Obama exemplify, which is why I used them. And I don’t think that is ever going to come together. I just think that people are going to have to decide what kind of country they want. If they go with the nanny state, the clock is ticking – we just can’t afford it. There’s just no way that you can afford – there are 320 million people here, you’ve got half of them on some kind of government subsidy. And some of that has been paid for, Social Security and Medicare – you can’t deny people who paid in, you have to make an accommodation. But, down the road you can certainly change the program so it becomes more efficient. I think you are going to have to raise the retirement age, and I think you are going to have to have a ceiling. Say you earn ten million dollars – should you get Social Security? And the answer is no. But again, your job and the people who paid in, and then they prospered – see, to me, I am going to give all that away. I am not going to take any Social Security or anything like that. If I can’t work it out with the government to give it back, I will just give it to charity the moment it rolls in. But I am a free marketeer, I believe opportunity is created in a vibrant free marketplace. I don’t think the government can do it. I think the facts speak for themselves that you are running up a $17 trillion debt – for what? Tell me what the big benefit has been. Well, they kept us out of the Depression – that is speculative. You might not have spent a dime on this stimulus, and the economy could be exactly the same, or even better, with all the government regulations that the Obama people have imposed. All the small business people say it is keeping them from hiring and keeping them from expanding – that is the consensus.

So, I am a free marketeer. I do believe in the safety nets, particularly for children and the elderly. I think we’ve got to help them, and it is a wealthy enough country that we are able to do that. It has to be much better organized – I don’t believe in jacking up more money for education. I think that is an insane con. The highest spending per capita, per student in the world now. We don’t need more money in there, we need discipline and organization. We’ve been over this, and over this, and over this. This story is starting to resonate in the public opinion polls, as some people are starting to wise up. But most people still have their head in the sand. $17 trillion debt, what does that mean to me? I don’t know, I want to watch TV; I want to play on my Internet device. I don’t care. It happened in Rome. I am researching Rome now, because of Killing Jesus. Rome was really the reason Jesus died, and we will explain that in vivid detail. In researching Rome, you can see how the corrupt Roman emperors bought off the folks, and that led to the collapse of the Republic.

Friday, March 15, 2013

2013-03-15T22:52:00Z

I am running down to Atlantic City tonight to do a Bolder & Fresher show at the Borgata Hotel with Dennis Miller, so I don’t have a lot of time to chat with you today. I do think Menendez, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey, is in trouble. I don’t think that the FBI and the federal prosecutors in South Florida would take it before a grand jury if they didn’t have it. Now, you are innocent until proven guilty in this country, but I’ve been around a while, and they really don’t go to this extent with a guy that powerful, unless they think he did it. That doesn’t mean he is going to be found guilty, but I believe he will be indicted. And then he will get a couple of high-powered lawyers, and we will see what happens. So, not good news for Robert Menendez. And at that level, you know there are only 100 senators in the country. You’ve got to be beyond reproach, you just have to be. Now, that has gone down – we got Vitter in Louisiana, and a few others, but that really should be an office where you’ve got to be squeaky clean. Governors and senators – congress people, there are a lot of them, so you’ve got to expect you are going to have a little chaos in that body. But senators and governors, that is an elite club and they should behave. And if they don’t, the Feds are going to get right on it. And this one looked bad from the beginning to me. You don’t take private jet trips to Santo Domingo with some sleazy doctor. You just don’t do that if you are a senator.

And let me add a personal note on this. I have been in this TV business now for 37 years. I got offered a lot of free stuff in my life. I’ve never taken a dime from anyone. Now, there is a rule, I think it is $50 or something, that if somebody gives you a shirt or a hat or a picture – we get people sending me little gifts all the time, and that is fine. I always try to reciprocate, I’ll give them a signed book or anything like that. An airline trip or something like that – no. No, you can’t because once you start to do that, the appearance just crushes you. Particularly a guy like me who is so controversial, I can’t have any of that. So I pay for everything, and I even wait on the lines. I was on a line the other day, a bunch of people were going, oh don’t you have any clout? I looked at them and I said yeah, I have some clout but what do you want me to do, what do you want me to use it for? To cut ahead of these people? Is that what you want me to do? I mean, come on. I have to be a person who is accountable for what happens, and cutting lines or any of that – I’m not going to do it. That being said, there is some security that I have to deal with, so that mean that I will go into private entrances, I can’t be walking around with hundred of people. That is not a wise thing to do.

The point is that if you have a position of responsibility where you can make decisions about other people’s lives, you’ve got to be squeaky clean. Senators, and governors, and congress people – they influence all our lives. What they do, impacts us. What I do impacts a lot of people, and I can’t have any appearance. So that is why the story is important, it’s big.

Other stuff going around – we are really zeroing in, as you know, on Colorado and Hawaii because I do not believe these are honest states now. I think that the fix is in, that there is an alliance between the local media in Colorado and the Democratic Party, and it is troubling. Certainly the local media is not telling the folks what is going on, and I think we’ve proven that beyond a reasonable doubt. And in Hawaii, it’s the same thing. The establishment is taking over and there are no dissenting voices, and crazy stuff is happening. That’s when I have to step in.

So these are interesting stories even if you do not live in these places, it could happen to where you live. So you’ve got to keep an eye on it – be vigilant.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

2013-03-14T23:43:00Z

Not much to say about the Pope. He looks to be a good guy to me. The secular progressives don’t like anybody in the religious arena, so they are going to try to criticize him for what happened in Argentina while he was Archbishop down there. You know, I was down there in the Falklands War in Buenos Aires – I almost got killed in that city. You can read about that in my book, Those Who Trespass. Very interesting time in my life. Argentina was a fascist state, like Nazi Germany or Franco’s Spain. If you got out of line there, they would kill you. That was a tough government run by a guy named Leopaldo Galtieri, Air Force General. There were a lot of bad, bad things going on there.

Now, what could Pope Francis have done about it? I don’t know. I don’t know much about Argentine internal politics. I know a lot about fascist states. They criticized Pope Pius the 12^th for not doing more against Hitler when he had Nazi divisions ringing Vatican City. So I don’t know what anybody can do up against Wehrmacht divisions, the S.S., and the Gestapo. We know enough that the Pope did try to save people and they were running a big underground there to get Jews and other people who are in danger out. In Argentina, Pope Francis says he was doing the same thing, trying to save people. But if you go up against these guys, they are going to hurt you. Pope, Cardinal, Archbishop – it’s a rough world out there. Just ask any of the Chinese Catholic Bishops, many of whom are in jail.

So, I’m not making excuses, but I think that this kind of criticism is unwarranted at this point. If you’ve got something you can show me that the Pope colluded with the Argentine fascists, I will take a look at it. But until then, it’s just a bunch of secular progressive anti-religionists trying to diminish a happy time, and that is my point on it.

Barack Obama – we ran the sound bite, what he said in ’08 about criticizing Bush about the big deficit and he triples it. What are you going to do? I think the president has shown his true colors. You’ve seen a shift in my tone about him, that was fact based. And I hope the president hears me and wises up. It’s not too late; you can compromise and get this budget under control. It’s possible. Right now, what I am seeing is that the guy doesn’t really care that he may be putting the whole country in economic jeopardy, and that’s pretty bad. So I am going to keep pounding him on that – and I’m right! I’m right, there is just no way you can accept a twenty trillion dollar debt. So I have no doubts that I am right. Sometimes I have to go well, is there another side of the story? Should I look at it this way? But not on this. We’ve proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the government is derelict in its spending and wasting a colossal amount of money. Coburn out on Oklahoma does good work on this – he estimates 400 billion dollars per year in waste and redundant programs. I mean, that is just a disgrace. And the president doesn’t care. So, I’ve got to get on him.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

2013-03-14T01:07:00Z

A big shootout with the guy in Colorado. He is a smear merchant, and I’ve had enough. That’s it. I know I will lose some viewers. Some women will be mad at me, being too mean to the guy and all of that, but I am trying to protect the kids and this guy is standing in the way of that. Simple as that, so I’ll take him down. He didn’t know anything anyway. You figure when they come on here, they would at least be prepared.

New pope – don’t know much about him. I am praying that he will be a good guy, reform the church somewhat. Zero tolerance for child molesters. Cleans up the Vatican’s image, presents his moral arguments in a way that people can understand who are not Catholic. There are a lot of things he has to do, this guy. I think he is a humble man. Most of these cardinals live in lavish places – he did not. That shows a lot. Champion of the poor – certainly the Catholic Church has to be that. So, let’s hope, for the good of the world, he gets the church – which can be a force for good – back on track. That is a big, big job right now because they have taken a terrible beating.

President Obama – I mean, look. The guy just doesn’t see it. He just does not see it, what are you going to do? Herbert Hoover didn’t see it; he was the president before the Great Depression of 1929. Bang. They don’t see it, and what are you going to do? I can’t force him to take the massive spending thing seriously, and he is not going to do it. All I can do is tell you what I think. I think we can bring a little bit of pressure on these people in Washington to come to some kind of an accommodation. When you say a 17 to 20 trillion dollar debt is “sustainable,” you are putting the whole country at risk.

I am telling you, my job - between all the nuts that I’ve got to deal with, oh my God. But it is all right. As the Godfather, as Marlon Brando said, “this is the job we have chosen. This is the life we have chosen.” But it can get overwhelming. I think we have good shows this week, but we want to hear your feedback on stuff, if we can improve, or tone down. I think I had to jack it up a little the last couple of weeks. I don’t want to do that all the time, but you’ve got to show a little passion. And I really feel that way, and that guy saying I am equating gay with pedophile, it is just so outrageous. He got what he deserved.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

2013-03-12T20:39:00Z

So now we have dueling budget visions between Ryan and the Democrats, coming out tomorrow. So, I am going to wait until I see the Democrats’ vision and we will probably spend some time on that tomorrow. We will also have George Stephanopoulos, interviewing President Obama, on The Factor tomorrow. It’s always interesting to see him, and I just hope it is a better interview than Steve Kroft did, with all due respect to Steve. And if it isn’t, then I am going to have to ask Stephanopoulos why. But I assume Stephanopoulos knows that he has got a responsibility here with this interview. So we are looking forward to tomorrow’s Factor and No Spin News.

On the Alan Colmes front, you saw what happened tonight. I am not backing down; I don’t think Colmes was being honest in his first assessment of the situation He is what they call a die hard, he is going to go down with the ship, and the ship is going down. You can see public opinion turning against President Obama. People are starting to realize that he is not being responsible on the budget and the spending. Part of that is us. I think Geraldo on his radio show said I had a Napoleon complex – Geraldo, Napoleon was 5’4, I am 6’4, okay? So maybe I have a Clint Eastwood complex – he is 6’3. But, I think that the president understood that when we started to get very rambunctious about the debt last week, that this was going to be a big deal, and it is emerging into that. So I am happy about how it came out. If I had to do it again, of course I wouldn’t have called my friend Alan a liar, but I certainly would have said he is misleading everybody, and I would have said it as loud as I said it. I am not backing off from the volume there.

What else is going on in the country? We have the Pope thing – most people don’t really care about the Pope, unfortunately. The man can be a force for good in the world, and he can be a force for evil. It is up to the Pope. Most Popes in the modern times have done very good things, but they are men. They are not Gods, they are men, and all men have flaws. And that is what you see. The expectation is that the Popes are going to be above the ordinary guy, and to some extent they are. Certainly Pope John XXIII was. But as far as a news story is concerned, I think it is an okay news story, you’ve got to report it, but I am not spending a lot of time on it. Because even thought it is my religion, I am here to represent everybody, not Catholics. I am not trying to push Catholicism on anybody.

I wish I was over there, because I like Rome. If you’ve never been to Rome, you’ve got to go. What a great, great city. It really is, in every way. Italy is just a terrific place to go to. Stay out of Naples, you don’t want to go there, Milan – you don’t have to go to Milan. Other than that, though – the whole country. Venice is great, I love Venice. I love going down to the Capri area, that whole Amalfi Coast. It is just great. So, if you get a chance, put Italy on your dance card. I am going to go, maybe next summer. I wish I was there now, but I can’t really take The Factor over there, because we’ve got so much to do here. It is hard to report on the budget when you are over standing in Vatican City. It is very hard to do that. So, that is why I am not there, that is why I am here, talking to you.

Monday, March 11, 2013

2013-03-11T20:20:00Z

The Denver Post smeared me today, it says I am equating Jessica’s Law with attacking homosexuality – it’s really insane, so that is why we had Bernie take a look at it. Nothing you can so about this stuff, I mean they just can’t win the debate; so then they call you a bigot or a homophobe or whatever. We are supposed to have the guy who wrote that article on Wednesday, it will be interesting to see if he shows up. Colorado is an interesting state, much like Vermont. It has turned very progressive very quickly. Big money behind that, we are investigating that. Colorado has been bought, and it is a fascinating story, but we don’t have it quite yet. But we will – we will!
Poor Elisabeth Hasselbeck, she was slimed all weekend, saying she was going to be fired from The View and it turned out not to be the case. Elisabeth is a nice woman, and I feel bad for her. I think she does a nice job, and she didn’t deserve it, so Barbara Walters said she is going to continue. But anything like that does not help your career, that’s for sure. Joy Behar is out over there – not exactly sure why, but she has gone very extreme, and I think they are probably a little nervous over there. I could be wrong.

For Mother’s and Fathers’ Day, I am going to put out a book that is a compilation of what I have written in the past – in a very entertaining, lots of pictures format. It is called Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World. And I don’t want to saturate the market, but we got a lot of people wanting for me to do this kind of a thing, and I didn’t want to do just a reprint of columns and Talking Points Memos, so we put it in a very fun form, it is for Mother’s and Father’s Day gifts. I will show you the cover probably in two weeks – very nice. We will put it up on BillOReilly.com first so you can take a look at it. But again, I don’t want you guys to think that I am like exploiting my success here – I am not. It was a big demand for this to kind of compact Culture Warrior, Who’s Looking Out for You?, The O’Reilly Factor, all of these books into kind of one – in addition to a lot of new material that we have.

So, I did it. It is not Killing Jesus, that’s the big book in September. I mean, that is going to be huge. And the stuff that we are finding out is amazing – just amazing – about why Jesus was killed. But this book is nice for gifts. You’ll like it, I think. It’s lively – that’s the best word for it.

Otherwise, we are on top of everything going on. We have on Wednesday some budget stuff being put forth by the democrats, finally. And we will see, we will see where they want to cut. Let’s see. Put up or shut up. Alan Colmes will be on tomorrow by the way, and I don’t expect to yell at him. But, you never know. Righteous anger.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

2013-03-07T22:15:00Z

Bad weather up here; this is the end of winter. We always get this kind of stuff. New England is going to get hit tonight with some snow; we will just get a little here in New York City. But, it is kind of dreary. You guys in the Snow Belt know what I am talking about, you snow people are rugged! You guys down in Florida and Texas and Arizona, and the sun California – I was there last week, so it was nice. But, life is a tradeoff, right?

Okay. We are still buzzing around. It looks like President Obama has got the message. I can’t really take credit for this, but he knows what we are doing here. And now he is chatting with the Republicans – which he should do! I think that, now that I hammered him, and he knows that this isn’t going away, and he is going to be defined as a villain, that he will be more amenable to making some kind of changes to the insane structure that we have at the federal government. I just think that is going to happen. I could be wrong, but I’ve studied the man and he doesn’t like public opinion turning against him – and it is turning against him on this issue. He has done absolutely jack nothing to get spending under control, and that is a fact. Colmes, and Powers, and Beckel – they can scream all that they want, MSNBC, those pathetic losers over there, but the fact of the matter is that we have an out of control government right now, and it has to get back under control or we are going to have a depression in this country. So, there you have it.

I am interviewing Beck tonight on this and that is going to be pretty interesting. He will be on tomorrow. Otherwise, all the other stories are small-ball. This is the big, big story. The one that every American should be locked in on – of course they are not.

This drone thing, I don’t even bother with this. They are not going to drop drones in America. I mean, jeez, I've got enough to worry about, rather than hypotheticals that will never happen – and that is why I don’t cover this stuff. You guys are Premium Members, I’m sure you know this – when you tune into us, we are not going to waste your time. We are going to do stuff that is factual; we are going to give you the truth as we see it, and you walk away with something then. Not this hypothetical bloviating!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

2013-03-07T02:09:00Z

A lot of reaction, I hope you saw the Colmes thing. A lot of different reactions from all over the place, which we like that. We thought that we had to do that – we, the editorial we. And, I would do it again. I am sorry I called him a liar, I should have said you are not stating the truth, that would have been better, “you are not stating the truth.” And it just gets to the point where, I just have to make a decision. I have to say, am I going to bring a sense of urgency to a situation that I feel puts all of us in danger, or not? 90% of journalists are not going to put themselves on the line. They just won’t, but I’ve been doing this for now 17 years – this is the third big shootout we’ve had. Barney Frank, Geraldo over criminal illegal aliens, and now Colmes. And all three were done to make a point, that there comes, in history, there comes periods of time when the public is in danger. And right now, certainly, the media is not telling you that, and the president is just going blithely along, not to solve any of these problems, for political reasons. And we have made an overwhelming case that that is true.

Now, the semantic argument that I got into with Powers tonight is what’s specific, and again, I am going to let you decide that. She says that it is enough that the president says, “well, I am going to negotiate with the drug companies and bring it down and save 800 gazillion dollars,” I mean that is just BS to me. What drug companies? What drugs? What are you going to do? Put forth what your vision is. You are going to reform entitlements? How? Specifically. Are you going to raise the age? Rich people don’t get it anymore? What are you going to do? “We are going to negotiate and cut 500 million dollars out of it. That is not specific.” That is BS to me.

It is enough for Powers, and the difference between Powers and Colmes is that Colmes was saying, “Yeah this is specific,” and it wasn’t. He was saying that the president did put forward specific cuts – and he did not. It is a slight difference, but Powers is saying it is enough that he says this, that’s enough –he doesn’t have to get more specific. And that is just a difference of opinion.

You are not going to solve any problem unless you know what the problem is in a micro way. So you want to knock 100 million dollars out of the federal budget – you’ve got to know what program is going. And the unintended consequences of that. Okay, so we are going to take this program and we are going to abolish it. Or, we are going to take Operation Head Start, and we are going to cut out this much money, because it doesn’t seem to be working. We are going to lay off this many people in this area. Mr. Obama will not do that. He has no interest in doing it. All he wants is to raise taxes. And as we pointed out, the highest corporate taxes in the world, and the most income tax revenue in history, we have now. And you want more tax?

So, I feel that, if this continues, the American economy is going to crater in a much worse way than it did a few years ago. And I hate to be Chicken Little, “the sky is falling,” but that is what I believe. And because I believe that, I am going to be as loud as I can be.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

2013-03-05T21:58:00Z

I’ve got to save my voice here; I get this once a year, a little frog in the throat deal. I don’t know why, it just comes and goes. But I have it now. So we are trying to basically be fair to this Senator Menendez in New Jersey. You may remember we used his daughter as a commentator a while back. I think she went on to democratic politics and look, we respect the family. We don’t want to hurt anybody. Let the FBI do its work. We have to report what is going on – very confusing situation. I do believe that Menendez tried to help this sleazy doctor in Florida get some kind of security contract in the Dominican Republic that he didn’t deserve. Whatever else happened, we will wait and see. I think we want to be fair on this story, and I tried to be tonight, and I want tot know what you think. Whether we were on it, or off by some measure.

And remember, the reason that I do this No Spin News, and the reason that we have the message boards, is because our Premium Members are the ones that know us best. We want to know what you think, we respect what you think.

I didn’t do the Dennis Rodman/North Korea thing, because I think Rodman is a troubled man of limited intelligence. I am not going to give what he says credence. I let McGuirk and Gutfeld handle it, but I am not going to get involved with that. It’s not worth my while.

What else is going on? There is really not a lot of news, other than the fact that President Obama is using complicated issues that have to be solved to advance democratic politics, which I think is just appalling. He’s got a problem with me now, the president, because this is just… he is there to help us. Not to advance his party. Now he is going to rationalize, saying, “Well, any advancement of my party helps Americans.” That’s not true. He won the election, but he is supposed to represent all of us. The fiscal thing has to be dealt with, he is not doing it, and I am going to really ride him hard until he starts to do it. So, I suspect that message is going to get across to the president. If it doesn’t, then we will step it up. But anyway, it is ridiculous.

If you have any story that you think that we need to cover that we aren’t, please let us know on the message boards, okay?

Monday, March 4, 2013

2013-03-05T01:44:00Z

I’ve got a heads up for you here. We have a very entertaining Bolder & Fresher Behind the Scenes [video] posted on the website, so I hope you check that out. You’ll like it. A lot of people came back to see us and say hello, the show was very successful. If you haven’t seen the show, just pick up the DVD, or you can come to Washington, Kansas City, Denver, or Long Island. We are going to do a couple of shows in the Northwest, I will announce those shortly. But it is hard for me to get out, as you guys know. I was in California last week – beautiful weather, but it was just pandemonium and chaos. My life is kind of out of control; it is just so many things to do and so little time to so them. It is my own choosing. I don’t have to write the books, and I don’t have to do the radio commentary, or the newspaper column. I have to do the TV show, obviously – I am under contract. But I choose to, and that makes my life very truncated. Word of the day! Truncated.

On the news front, I think that President Obama is now losing the confidence of many Americans. That is the unintended consequence of his stubbornness in the fiscal deal. It hasn’t shown up yet in the polls, I believe it will. I think he is losing confidence now. People are saying, “You know what? There is something wrong.” And there is something wrong. I have come to that conclusion over this thing. There is something wrong, he is not leading, and I do not think it is going to get any better. I think he says, “Look, I don’t care now. I got reelected; I am going to do what I want. If it hurts the country, I don’t care.” That is a pretty tough place for a president to be, and that is where we are.

So we will continue to build our case, and to make it very, very hard for the forces of evil to operate in this country. That is what I am doing, building an overwhelming factual case for good government and protecting children and the elderly, and we will continue to do that.

We will talk about the Watters’ World situation tomorrow extensively in the No Spin News.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

2013-02-21T21:08:00Z

We hit the road tonight, to fly in from New York City to Phoenix, Arizona, and we are doing a big Bolder & Fresher show, which is sold out, on Friday night. We will do The Factor out of there tomorrow before the live show, so all the bases are covered. And then we will go to Los Angeles for our week out there. We do that every year, because California is our biggest audience. Biggest state in the union, so that makes sense. And we always have a good time in LA. I always have a lot of work to do, and we have to get up early, because obviously it is three hours behind New York, so we have to get everything done on New York time. Not whining! I like to go to southern California, it is always fun. On March 1, Miller and I have a big show at the Nokia Theater, which is going to be a blast. A lot of movie stars are coming, too.

So, we are on top of things. I think we are breaking stories everyday now about the culture. And you guys are responding to that. We got a lot of good responses to the announcement that my book will be on Jesus, which I think you are going to like. Same style of writing, and we have found out a lot of things that I didn’t know, so maybe you won’t know either. So, all of that is good. I won’t be able to do the No Spin News for a while now, until I get back to New York, so we’ll take a little bit of a break on that, but we do have brand new Backstage Conversations for you, so we hope you are checking those out. And we are going to have a Town Hall meeting about my books, just for Premium Members only. That is going to come up in the next month or so.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

2013-02-21T01:37:00Z

When I was growing up, I used to play ice hockey. I was on the high school team, and then we would play outside on the weekends on the ponds. A lot of fun, really a lot of fun. But once February 23, 24 rolled around – that was the end of the ice. It would start to melt, it was too soft – we knew winter was over. That was always the weekend, 22, 23, 24 of February – and that has always stayed in my mind. So once we hit this date in the northeast, we know that winter is pretty much done. Now, that doesn’t mean it can’t snow in March – it will, there will be chaos - but not a sustained cold. And this year has been pretty warm up here, Al Gore is right, there is a climate change going on. Of course, Al has no blank-ing clue what is causing it, but that hasn’t stopped him from making hundreds of millions of dollars. And you’ve got to give him some credit for that – he marketed it, the global warming stuff – enough people bought it so they poured money into his businesses, and there you go. I don’t have any respect for him, but, as a marketer, he sold the global warming thing – there is no doubt about it.

And, I believe in global warming, because I can read the temperature.

Now, Americans say, according to a Rasmussen survey, that, even though most of us do believe in global warming, 66% say creating jobs is more important than taking steps to stop global warming. Now, to me, this is not an either/or. Cleaner fuel is good, and we should be trying to get it through the private marketplace with tax incentives, because that is good. How many more years can we get hosed with the oil? But, if you are going to start to punish fossil fuel makers, driving fuel prices higher because we don’t have mass alternative fuel, then you are hurting the folks. And if you are not going to drill, if you are not going to look, if you’re not going to explore – all of that is going to be detrimental to the American people because we don’t have enough wind or solar or electric cars, or whatever. They just don’t work that well yet. And I looked into solar for my house on Long Island. It is just so expensive, it just doesn’t make sense! The maintenance and all of that, and you’ve got to construct these things. So, until it gets to the point where most consumers can afford it, we are not going to have it.

But all this is tied into the American economy and how confused we all are today. I wish we weren’t, but we are. Is there leadership in the economic area? Absolutely not. President Obama doesn’t know what he is doing in economics, it has been clear from the first day he walked into the White House. And who suffers? The folks suffer. I hate to end on a pessimistic note, but that is the way it is.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

2013-02-19T21:39:00Z

Very slow news day today, but we had a pretty good show because I am trying to get into the analysis of what is happening - the changes in America. I think we were able to do that today – both political and social. Nobody else is doing that. The changes that are taking place are rapid, and they are fairly pronounced but the media is sitting it out because it is complicated. You’ve got to generalize... you’ve got to think about it, what President Obama is really trying to do. There is a lot of stuff involved in it. I’ve been watching the president, and there is no doubt in my mind now – there was before – that he is not real interested in solving any problems. He is just not going to do it. Gun violence, border security, that kind of thing. He is disengaged. He wants to spend his time changing society, to get as much money in the hands of the have-nots as he can before he is out of office through a variety of programs. He is doing it in a surreptitious manner, this whole education thing as we spelled out for you. My newspaper column, which will be filed on Thursday, is about this as well. This is not to educate the kids. This is basically to get money in the hands of poor families. Money and entitlements (which is money). And it kind of complicated, but you can see where I am going with it – and there is no doubt.

I am a problem solver, that is why I don’t align myself with any particular party because, even though the Republicans are closer to me in the small government, more self-reliance thing, I am not allying myself with them because I want to see their solutions to the problems, rather than just a philosophical bent. Republicans – let’s face it. I thought McCain was an okay candidate up against an impossible situation, the recession brought on in the Bush administration – it was almost impossible for him to overcome that. But Romney was not a good candidate. He just wasn’t. He didn’t do what he had to do, he wasn’t tough enough, he wasn’t clear enough, he didn’t fight back hard enough – he made too many mistakes. And he wasn’t inspiring. The Republican Party needs somebody who is inspiring – and certainly Mitt Romney was not that.

I think Mitt Romney probably would have been a better problem solver than Barack Obama. I think that once he got into office, Romney would have risen – because I know him. But he just couldn’t cut it on the trail, and that is why he lost. He could have easily won that.

So anyway, that is where we are – nothing big breaking, but if it does we are right there.

Monday, February 18, 2013

2013-02-19T01:32:00Z

A lot of people are off this week, kids are out of school – all that. Of course, I am working. I had a nice weekend down in Florida. It was a little cool down there. I did, as I mentioned to you last week, a benefit for the Barbara Bush Literacy Foundation. Harlan Corbin was there; he is a great guy, a thriller writer. And we had a god time talking to the folks and raising money – they raised a lot of money – to help disadvantaged children read. And there is no better cause than that, that’s for sure. There is a whole bunch of stuff going on in the media, and we will get to it all this week, but this is a tough week for viewership and all that. People are running around, but one s tory that is coming with Dobbs is the Facebook making a million dollars in profits and not paying any taxes. So, we are working n that. WE are going to give that to Dobbs on Friday.

And I will be in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday doing the show from there, because we’ve got a big Bolder & Fresher show there, sold out at the Comerica Theater, thank you all very much in Arizona. Then we are going to LA next week for five days there. It is our annual trek out to the west coast. California is the biggest Factor audience – biggest state. Makes sense, the biggest state in the union. A lot of viewers out there, so we like to go out once a year, take the temperature of what is going on on the West Coast, and hopefully we will get good weather. It is always iffy in February.
Other stuff going on that you should know about – there is the first lawsuit (of many) in the Carnival cruise disaster. I could never figure that one out. If you’ve got a fire on board and you are knocking out your sanitation and water systems, you just let everybody off the boat and you pay for their airfare. I think they were around Cozumel, Mexico. Just let ‘em out! And then whatever expense they incur, the Carnival line picks up. You don’t float them around for four or five days, that is insane. We are giving it to Is It Legal? tomorrow, that is a question that I think we are going to answer. You can’t have that in this day and age, everybody will sue about everything. They will make up stuff to sue about! But when you have a disaster like that, you know you are going to get hammered, no doubt about it.

We’ve got a good week for you this week. Lots of interesting stories to tell you about. By the way, the Killing Lincoln movie – biggest rating ever in the history of National Geographic, so we are really pleased with that. You might know that they bought Killing Kennedy, so they are going to do a big movie on that as well. And I will have a big announcement on Wednesday about what my next book is going to be. Big week for us!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

2013-02-14T23:51:00Z

I am heading down to Florida tonight to do a benefit for the Bush family, a literacy benefit. Barbara Bush was kind enough to invite me down, and I will be happy to do it for them tomorrow in Bonita Springs, Florida. I do these things from time to time, mostly to help children, and that is what this is. It doesn’t really matter what the politics are involved, it just so happens that they are a Republican family. If it were a Democrat family, I would do it for them. I do a lot of stuff for Leon Panetta out in Monterey at his institute. So, I am happy to do it.

A busy time, I think the shows have been pretty good. We hit it big on Tuesday night with the coverage of the LA killer and the State of the Union preview. Got a massive rating – thank you very much. I am going to have a big announcement next Wednesday on my new book. I think you are all going to be very interested to hear that, that will be the 20^th. President’s Day is on the 18^th – I will work, most of you guys will be off but I’ll be here! That’s about it. I am running around today, we’ve got lots of controversial breaking stories – can’t spend a lot of time with you.

I just want to say, once again, we really appreciate you guys being Premium Members.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

2013-02-14T00:37:00Z

The Rubio situation. It is really getting to be – and I think you know this, because you guys are on the cutting edge, you follow what is happening in the media – but I think that everybody, even the dimmest American, is starting to realize that the press is no longer in business to inform. They are in business to push politics. Rubio takes a glass of water, and this is a big deal? I mean, come on. So they are going to try to tear the man down, and I am going to kind of stick up for Rubio. Not because of a political agenda, just because I do not think it is fair to him. When they do it, I will help him. And I would do it to anybody, even a democrat or a liberal if I thought they were getting unfairly maligned, for political reasons, by the powerful press in the country. I would stick up for them too. But it is ridiculous, it really is absurd. And the fact that the mainstream media feel they can do this with impunity and get away with it is stunning.

You take a look at Newsweek magazine, once a cornerstone of the Post-Newsweek Corporation, and at one point, that magazine had a lot of power in this country. And it lost it all; it is now an Internet thing that nobody cares about, nobody reads. And it lost it all because it was unfair in its presentation. And Time Magazine is going down that road, although Time is smarter. They put Rubio on the cover, and they’ll have a conservative or two right in their pages. Whereas Newsweek was just flat out left, and even the left wouldn’t buy it! Because the information on a weekly has to be trusted. In order to make a weekly newspaper or magazine worth reading, you have to learn something that is true. You can’t be pushing an agenda. You can do that on the talk radio outlet, or on a cable news show every night, but you can’t do it once a week, because a once a week play is something that is appointment. People have to want to see it. Whereas at talk radio and cable news, which are on every night, it is kind of ubiquitous. You tune into radio, you turn on the TV, if there is nothing else on, you might stop and watch.

So, anyway. Newsweek destroyed itself by this craziness, and I think the mainstream media is doing the same thing, because 40% of Americans describe themselves as conservative. Do you think they are going to watch NBC News? I don’t even know how NBC News continues its nightly news lead; I guess it is in the Midwest, when it is on earlier. People get home earlier, but my God. They just are so partisan, it is like, all right, we understand MSNBC. That is all they do, is push left wing democratic politics. Okay. They are in business like The Food Channel. The Food Channel does food shows. MSNBC does liberal shows. Okay, got it. But the whole NBC News operation is now tainted by that. Their news magazine goes down the drain, nobody watches them, and The Today Show is having a hard time up against Good Morning America. Good Morning America is overtaking them. And a lot of it is ideology, and a lot of it is the tabloid thing – GMA has got a little bit more tabloid. But NBC News holds its lead in the nightly news deal. It is not Brian Williams, he is just a suit. He is just a prompter reader. You don’t go in and say, “Hey, I’ve got to watch Brian Williams tonight!” That is not a slap at Williams; it is just that he just reads words off of a page. He doesn’t do anything else, and he has got 22 minutes – and it is maybe 3 minutes of him, 19 minutes of tape.

So, it is a viewing habit. A lot of the NBC affiliates are strong in the Midwest. And they get the viewership. But ABC News, I think, id the fairest. CBS – I don’t know what they are doing. Everytime I think they are fair, then they get the Obama-Steve Kroft-Hillary Clinton interview. Which was ridiculous.

Why do I care? I do not really care, it is just because I am in this business for 35 years, it is interesting to me personally. Do I care? Not really. Although I will say I was annoyed that they went after Rubio for taking a drink of water. I just thought that was grossly unfair, and when I see something like that I am going to rally to the forces of good.

We are in the beginning of Lent, I am repenting like crazy. I’ve got a lot to repent for. And then it is 40 days until Easter. It is a good time of year, I think all of us - even people who do not believe – should be introspective about their lives and maybe improve things. I’ve got a little Lent thing I am doing here, and it is going to be better – not for me, but for other folks. And that is what I am trying to do. Anyway, that is my little lecture today.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

2013-02-13T03:29:00Z

Very busy day, as you know. This creep out in LA, Dorner, they’ve got him surrounded. And I just hope the police sniper puts a bullet right between his eyes – and I don’t believe in the death penalty! But how many guys is this guy going to gun down? How many people have to die? You’ve got to take him out. So, I hope they got the snipers just looking in the window right now, and bang. That is the best outcome there, that’s for sure. If they had a drone, I would put a drone in there! So we are on it, and it is a fluid situation. There is not more I can say; tomorrow I will have some analysis on it.

Monday, February 11, 2013

2013-02-11T23:02:00Z

Mardi Gras week, for those of you down in Louisiana and other parts of the south. Ash Wednesday is two days away. I don’t have a lot of time today, because I just am up to my eyebrows in a whole bunch of crazy stuff. Books, and I have to go on Letterman tonight to promote the Killing Lincoln movie – which is good; you are going to like it – on Sunday on the National Geographic Channel at 8 o’clock ET.

So, I am just crazed but I am really interested in this story about the drones because, fundamentally, this goes against every left wing tenet. Every one, yet you don’t hear a word out of most of these people. Because they love President Obama so much, they are not going against him. And, for the right-wingers who say he is a Communist and he is a far left guy, this is about as far away from that as you can get. So, I have always said the president is a complicated guy – not socialistic, they try to pigeonhole him as this caricature of the left. He isn’t that. He is no doubt a liberal, man, it is off the chart – and he is coming out of the closet even worse. But the drones and Guantanamo, and things like that, this guy takes a hard approach. So, that is an interesting part as well.

This week we are going to get into that heavily. We will do a live show tomorrow before the State of the Union. Should have a vey good week.

Friday, February 8, 2013

2013-02-08T23:45:00Z

Bad weather here – you probably know it. There is hysteria in the northeast when bad weather hits, particularly because Sandy was such a disaster, now everybody is going, “Oh, the power will go out,” which is probably will. Where I live on Long island, the power company…it’s like living in Zimbabwe. It’s ridiculous; it goes out everyday for some reason. My clocks are always blinking. So, we are going to get this big storm they say, and I guess I will be panicking all weekend.

As far as the news is concerned, nothing really much on the horizon here. We covered it pretty well this week. Starting to get away from policy because there is nothing really in play right now – into the disrespect, the culture, back into that area because that is where things are really winding down fast. There is not that much we can do about the economy, it is either going to happen or it isn’t. I can tell you that the spending is crazy, and I’ve told you that a million times. I just can’t do it every night. But the culture is really deteriorating in my opinion very rapidly. Very rapidly, so I am going to spend some time on that and try to convince you that there are things you can do. And the first thing you can do is limit the Internet if you have children or grandchildren. This thing is just taking over everybody under the age of 30’s life, it really is. And the unintended consequences are going to be economic. We are going to have to be supporting these people; they are not going to be able to make a living. Unless they can get a job in the computer industry, because their social skills are terrible, their thinking process is warped, it is just really bad. The nation of China, at one point 25% were addicted to opium. You may have heard of the Boxer Rebellion – the British were selling opium and a quarter of the Chinese population were just zombies. This is like that! These machines are addictive and they are changing the way people behave. Now, it is not a narcotic that you are going to have a physical reaction to like opium, but it is mentally and emotionally changing people for the worse. And we are going to continue to report on that. Any thoughts you have on that as Premium Members I want to hear on the message boards. Any kind of point of view you have on it, because I don’t know it all, I don’t spend a lot of time on that thing, it just depresses me. Particularly the comments, oh my god. I can’t believe people are like that – I never see people like that, I guess they are afraid of me in person.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

2013-02-07T00:42:00Z

There is a whole lot of economic stuff floating around that basically says what you already know. That the government is spending an enormous amount of money, and that there is no way they are going to make it up, you can’t tax people enough to get that money, that Social Security and Medicare and Obamacare are going to continue to drain the treasury, and that is that. This is the Congressional Budget Office putting it out. Now. I have reported it over and over and over again. I can’t keep doing it because my ratings will go down. You know it, I’ve said it, Obama doesn’t seem to care about it, and that is the fact, Jack.

Now, if one of the republicans, like Rand Paul did last night, really steps it up and starts throwing grenades all over the place, then I can get back into it. But, you know, every two or three weeks we get another report that says the same thing. This is unsustainable, trillions and trillions of dollars are earmarked for all of these entitlements. Medicare and Social Security, you have already paid for, but that doesn’t matter because they use the money in other places, and now there are not enough workers to make up for it. So, the Baby Boomers were the big generation, and now they are retiring. I wish I could retire, I am a Baby Boomer – do I get to retire? Probably not, I’ll be here until I am 90.

Chris Rock – this is what I mean. Chris Rock, he is a funny guy, but does he know anything about public policy? Does he know anything about gun control? No. So, the gun control people use him, they send him up on Capitol Hill so he can say stuff that they tell him to say, but then will he come down and do an interview with me? No, and I don’t respect that – it is just propaganda.

We laid out a plan here. Chris Rock probably knows nothing about it. He doesn’t care to know about it, he doesn’t care to know about anything. He doesn’t research. He is used, he allows himself to be used. We are going to do something on it tomorrow, but this is just the usual. The usual.

A bunch of little stories. In Vegas a 72-year-old homeowner confronted some people who broke into his house, and he fired one shot and they ran away. So then all the pro-gun people are saying, “You see? You see? You see?” Yeah, I see. I got it. Americans have a right to protect themselves and their property. You need a bazooka to do that? That is the debate. To me, I would just take it away, have everybody register their guns, federalize the crimes, no semiautomatic weapons across state lines unless you get a special permit to do it, and if they do, you put people in jail for ten years. That’s it. That is the way to solve it.

Are you going to stop all gun violence? No. But do you give the police and the prosecutors heavy weapons, pardon the pun, against these thugs? Yeah. And you get the onus off the law abiding people, and put it8 where it belongs, on the criminals. You are always going to have the nut factor, always. It is never going to go away, no matter what Chris Rock says, no matter how many times he jumps up and down. The nuts are always going to be out there.

The Postal Service. What am I going to tell you? I feel bad for these people, they work hard. They are going to stop the Saturday delivery. It is an inconvenience, but they are losing $24 million a day, why are they losing that money? Because they didn’t think ahead. They did not think that the email thing was going to be big – are you kidding me? My five-year-old child could’ve said, “yeah, email – I am not going to use as many stamps!” and these people did not anticipate that. Plus, they are paying benefits and pensions that nobody could afford, so they are losing 25 million bucks a day. So, I think that, eventually, the Post Office will be privatized and the government will get out of it altogether. And, it is another drain. Amtrak – the government can’t really do anything in the private sector, I think we all know that. Privatize – take your piece, let the Fed Ex people do it, or whatever. But, no. That is the Post Office.

I wish I could be more encouraging today, but maybe tomorrow. See you then.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

2013-02-06T01:34:00Z

We are in another lull period, news wise here. Not a lot of stuff going on. A lot of maneuvering back and forth by the president and republicans, but nothing substantial. I got a real big kick out of the debate on the Taco Bell ad, which I thought was just flat out disrespectful to elderly people. But so many elderly people have written to me and said, “You know what, O’Reilly? You are starchy, you’ve got to lighten up,” – the usual stuff, that I wanted to do the poll.

To me, I think we’ve got a big problem with the elderly in this country. If you not affluent, you are in trouble because the state does not want anything to do with you, it is too expensive to warehouse you. And a lot of younger Americans, they feel very uncomfortable. My mother is going to be 90 in May, and I don’t usually talk about my family, because I do not think it is suitable to do that, but I have to really take care of my mother. I am not going to put her in a facility; I am just not going to do it. I think it is my moral obligation to make sure that my mother lives out her last years in relative comfort. I have always felt that way, and I am just lucky I’ve got the resources to do it because it costs a lot of money to keep my mother safe and in her own home, where she has been since 1951.

The alternative would be to throw my mother under the bus and just… I don’t know how anybody could do that to their parents, even if you don’t like your parents, because some parents are problematic – we all know that. But to me, my parents tried to do the best they could. They made mistakes and stuff like that, but I was a pain in the butt! I wouldn’t want to be my father. I was really a pain in the butt. Funny guy, entertaining, amusing, but, you know, totally out of control.

I understand the elderly situation, and I don’t like it. I do not think this country is really respectful enough to the elderly, and so, when I saw the Taco Bell ad – I know the Taco Bell people couldn’t care less whether anybody under 55 eats at their restaurant. They are going for the younger audience, I know that. They are all demographically driven, that is who eats fat food – younger people. They are mocking the older people for the enjoyment of the younger people, and that is why I got on their case.

But anyway, I want you to vote in the poll. Not a big deal, I mean come on. But a very fascinating, interesting cultural story.

Monday, February 4, 2013

2013-02-04T21:26:00Z

[I was] down in New Orleans, in Louisiana over the weekend - I did not stay for the game, as I mentioned, because the game is a zoo. It is hard enough for me to go anywhere now – everybody wants a picture, and I understand. I try to cooperate, but when you’ve got 200 people lined up to get pictures, it gets a little tough, and that is what happens when I go into crowds. But we had a good time down in the Big Easy. Beautiful weather – 70 degrees during the day, around 48-50 at night. Went out and took a Bayou ride, as I mentioned, talked to the folks, got a good feel of what is going on. I saw the damage from Katrina in the Ninth Ward. It was very worthwhile, and the folks are very nice. Everybody was very nice, the 49er fans, the Ravens fans, I didn’t have any problem. It was just getting all the pictures done. Stayed away from Bourbon Street, I did not go down there. I did walk on Royal Street if you know the town. Royal Street is kind of the upscale street in the Quarter, and then Bourbon Street is down and dirty. It doesn’t get much more down and dirty than Bourbon Street. New Orleans is a special place in America, well worth visiting. You want to put in on your dance card if you have not been down.

Now, the Super Bowl game – when I saw the lights go out, I said, huh, it could be a terrorism thing. Still has not been explained, because the lights did not go out in the city. So maybe it was just a stadium thing – an overload, or all the machines got so caught up in Beyonce they did not function after that, I do not know. Beyonce looked pretty good, did she not? Very pretty woman. She was writhing around, but they all writhe around – that is what it is now. I think Laura Ingraham was offended she was writhing, but as long as their clothes stayed on, I do not see a problem. And they did. I thought it was fine – you go to these Super Bowl games, and it is a massive undertaking – I am not going to nitpick it. I thought the game was good, I thought the players performed well, the stadium was good. I am sorry about the power, I don’t know why that happened, but that is life.

One of the things that struck me being down there, is in a recessionary environment, people were spending money like crazy. Buying the dopey little trinkets - I could not find a decent Super Bowl souvenir, I wanted to get a couple of shirts for my kids – they are all garbage! We have much better stuff on BillOReilly.com than they have in the stores down there. I couldn’t even get the Saints stuff, I like the logo, I like the fleur de lis. Couldn’t even get that so that was a little frustrating – but I am nitpicking, aren’t I? All in all, good weekend – glad I went down there. I learned a lot, and I hope you enjoyed the game as well.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

2013-02-01T00:57:00Z

This story about Menendez is very disturbing. Let me give you a little background about it – and always keep in mind that it is really unfair to convict anybody because you think, or you might feel, or you don’t like him in general. That is what these pigs do in the ideological press, on both sides, and they are pigs because they don’t know what happened. So, we do not want to do that. But, the reason that I decided to do the Talking Points and lead with the story tonight is because there is an industry in the island of Hispaniola, which comprises the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is a fairly well developed industry of taking children, ages 10-16 primarily, and selling them to tourists.

Now, this goes on in Thailand, it goes on in some places in Hong Kong, Africa, various places around the world. It is child prostitution. It happens in the United States, but our penalties for that are so heinous that it is much easier to do it in undeveloped countries that do not give a fig – like Thailand. Thailand doesn’t care. I was there, I did a major story on it – I actually bought a child for $80 in Bangkok, and we captured it all on tape. So, we know that this happens in the Dominican Republic, and now we know that Menendez went there a couple of times on a social situation on a private jet in 2010 – it is now 2013 – and did not declare it, which is a clear violation of Senate rules. We don’t know any more than that. You can’t trust people n the Dominican Republic to tell you anything. A lot of money changes hands, and they will say whatever they want to say, but you’ve got to pay them to say it. So, that testimony, you throw right out the window.

But, the FBI has got to seriously take a look at this. Now, the guy that Menendez was hanging with, this doctor, he is just a sleaze-oid from the jump, and that tells me again that this guy Melgen… it is a story that is disturbing even if there is not anything more to it.

So, Menendez’s chief of staff Brian says it was just sloppy oversights, all of that. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it, but I will not level any accusation further than he violated Senate rules, and he is hanging out with a sleazy guy, this doctor. The doctor has got a tax lien on him, big time tax lien. The Miami Herald says he is being investigated for fraud, so this guy, he is an operator. His tentacles go right up to President Clinton and Hillary Clinton. They vacationed in his little mansion in Casa de Campo. He can’t pay his taxes in the U.S.A., but he can pay maintenance on his little mansion in D.R>, where Hillary and Bill go for free.

I don’t like it. I don’t like it, and we are going to stay on it now. We broke it big time tonight, we got our people looking at it, we don’t expect the liberal media to investigate it, but the FBI will. I still have confidence in them. They will. Menendez is in trouble.

Now, tomorrow I am going to be down in New Orleans. I’ve got to do some work down there, pre-Super Bowl. I am not going to stay for the game; I am going to come back. It is just too much of a spectacle. I haven’t been down in Louisiana in a while; I am looking forward to going down, taking a good look around. I’ve got to talk to a bunch of people down there about a bunch of things. I am a real mover and shaker now.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

2013-01-31T01:33:00Z

As you know, I do not like to speculate on the air. I like to have all of my opinions back up by facts, so I did not say this in the Talking Points Memo, but the question hangs – why do so many millions of Americans continue to really, really like President Obama and the job he is doing, when we are in kind of bad trouble economically? Any other guy, I think, would be on the ropes, yet President Obama’s approval rating, according to a new poll, is the highest in three years. So, here is my speculative reason, what I think is happening out there. We are getting more and more intrusion on the Internet, which means that more and more people are living their lives staring at a computer screen. They can access what they want, which is almost always entertainment rather than information. Games, porn sites, sports stuff, whatever it may be. That takes them away from news programming, reality programming, book reading, journal reading, newspapers and magazines, anything like that. As they become addicted to the machines, to the computers, to the games, to whatever pursuits they are involved with on the net, their frame of reference goes down. They do not know a lot, particularly on a day-to-day basis. Therefore, when an economic report comes out that says, you know what? The GNP, gross national product, is declining – if that continues, we are going to go into another recession. They don’t even know about it, and if they happen to be cruising around The Today Show, or Good Morning America, or even the nightly news, they are not going to hear it there. So, they are flying blind. At least 50% of eligible voters are flying blind.

President Obama is charismatic enough to get a following just on his personality. There is a lot of emotion attached to the president. First black president, looking out for the minorities, wants to get all the money from the rich people, give it to the poor people. A lot of emotion. So, those Americans who do not follow the news don’t really know what is happening. They like him because they heard different stuff, and they see him, and they think he is a winner. They like him a lot better than Mitt Romney, and that is why he won.

So, that is what is going on. We are becoming dumber, We The People. And the machines are doing it. We are allowing the machines to do it; a machine doesn’t reach out and force you to sit there for hours staring at stupid stuff. But there is a lot of stupid stuff, and it is easier than ever to get it. So, that is what is happening, ladies and gentlemen.

Now, you guys, as far as you are concerned, you are in pretty good shape. Just the fact that you are a Premium Member, and taking the time to listen to this, means that you are involved, you are aware, you are looking for information and opinion, and you want to know what is coming up. It puts you light years ahead of the passive people who have no clue, but it is also frustrating, because you know what is happening, you know it should not be happening, but it is. Don’t get discouraged. I think things change. The economy gets much worse, and people start losing their jobs and all of that, then they will have to wise up. But, right now it is: ignorance is bliss. Turn on the computer.

Monday, January 28, 2013

2013-01-29T00:46:00Z

I can’t spend a lot of time with you today, because I have to interview Colin Powell. It is a taped interview. An important one. I don’t know how much I am going to get out of him, but we are going to try – hard. It is not going to be a powder puff, that is for sure. So, I am doing this interview after, obviously, the No Spin News tonight, so you will have to just tune in tomorrow to see how it turns out! I am prepping for the interview, and I’ve got to spend some time [on that], and then I’ve got to do the show, because I tape this before The Factor comes on at 8 PM ET.

So, I am crazed. Please forgive me tonight, we will see you tomorrow.

Friday, January 25, 2013

2013-01-26T00:04:00Z

This is interesting – I did not cover it tonight, but I will next Tuesday. The president has introduced Denis McDonough as the new White House Chief of Staff – and a whole bunch of other personnel replacements. I don’t know any of them, I have no idea who these people are, so I’ve asked my investigators to do background checks on all of them, and on Tuesday I will tell you who they all are and see if they have anything in common, if they are ideologically left. Maybe there are a few conservatives in there – want to take some bets on that? We are working that story.

Big 60 Minutes interview Sunday night. That will be our lead, as I told you in the Tip of the Day. This is a tough one for Croft - boy, he has got to come in. It will be interesting to see how he handles it.

There are stories that we did not do, that are not confirmed, and I just want to explain something. You may see something on the Internet – because we see it. We get everything. And then you might be wondering gee, I wonder why O’Reilly didn’t do that. If I don’t do a story that is a big, national story, it is because we don’t believe the story is true, and/or we are checking further. Now you might say okay, why don’t you just do that and tell the audience you do not believe it is true? Sometimes I can do that, but other times, reputations would be sullied if I even mentioned it.

For example, there are, I guess, a dozen websites that are pretty well-trafficked, that will print anything. Anything. It doesn’t have to be true – they will even make stuff up and put it on the Internet. 100% of the time, it involves well-known people - movie stars, sports people, politicians – and they will put this stuff on the website as fact. Now, they don’t have even the ability to check it out. They do not have paid reporters, or a big organization t o find out what is true and what isn’t true. But, they don’t care. They are gambling that nobody will even bother – and, in America, as you know, if you are famous, it is almost impossible to get damages in a lawsuit against anybody for defamation or libel or slander. So, they make a calculation that they will do it and they will get away with it. But I have a higher bar – not even legally, but morally. I can’t put a story on the air that we don’t know is true if it could hurt another human being- even if I don’t like that human being. I can’t do it.

So, we do not traffic in innuendo, we do traffic in the Internet, we don’t do any of that. A lot of other people will say well, I will lay it off on Gawker or whatever stupid thing it is on, I am not going to do that. Gawker is one of the worst websites, I should not even mention them because you’ll probably go there and help them out. But there was a report a few months ago about somebody on that, and it was picked up by a local New York City station. Of course it was untrue, and it was proved to be untrue. I saw the news director of that station in a social situation, and I walked up to him and I said, “why’d you do that?” And he got scared – it’s me, I’m 6’4 walking up – “you know… I didn’t really know, it was my producer…” I said, “no, no. You knew. You knew, you get the rundown; you know what is going on. Why did you do it?” He didn’t have an answer, and I looked him in the eye and I said, “you know what? I am going to remember that. And I am going to watch you. You do that again, I am going to make you a focal point of a segment on The Factor,” and I walked away. But, that is the kind of corruption that we have in the press now. This guy, number one, he is incompetent – he should not be a journalist, he should not be anywhere near a newsroom. Number two - he doesn’t care about hurting human beings. And, number three he is a coward. If he thought he was right, or he thought he did something noble, he could have stood up to me. He slunk away like a little rat – like he is.

This is a big problem in America. The Internet, as we have been telling you, is good for research, and it is good for communications. I can dash off emails now to people that it would have taken me hours to get on the phone with. I can just get it right into their wheelhouse, and fast. It’s good. Boy, there is so much damage being done to children on it. Awful stuff. And it is not going to get any better. Anything goes, and it is troubling. It is going to have a huge effect on America coming down the line. So, we will do more reporting on that.

We want you all to have a nice weekend; it is like two degrees here in New York. SO everybody will be by the fireplace up here, we hope you are in someplace nice and warm You guys down in the southern part of the country, this is your time, and that is for sure.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

2013-01-25T00:11:00Z

We got a couple of things done. That murderer in Pennsylvania – we did it on Is It Legal? on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the parole board reversed itself and they are not letting him out, after he killed his wife with a crowbar. They were going to let him out after five years. When you do this kind of stuff, it just cheapens human life. So we either respect human life, or we don’t. I know a lot of you say, well we obviously don’t because we have all these crazy abortion laws, which allow the state to terminate fetuses for inconsequential reasons – and that is true. And that is a big concern to those of us who do respect human life, but after a horrendous murder case, the state lets the guy out in five years? No. So, we were glad we could get that done.

And then of course, the 911 tape, which was clearly a major felony that happened. It was clearly a felony. You do not pull people out of their cars and beat them up in a mob activity, and then nobody is charged? One guy gets probation, and we don’t even know who he is because they put him into juvie court? The authorities did everything they could not to solve this case, and I must say, the victims did not care. They didn’t care whether it got solved or not, because [there were] all kinds of racial connotations to it. But my job is to tell you the truth and send a message to the nation that we are not going to tolerate some things, and that is what we did.

So, we are glad we got the tape, and you know now what Norfolk, Virginia is all about. Simple as that, right?

Hillary Clinton – we’ve got a good story tomorrow on how she is the new Barack Obama. The mainstream media anticipating she will be the next democratic nominee. They much prefer her to Joe Biden. I don’t really know why, I think Biden is more liberal than Hillary Clinton. I think they think that Hillary is so glamorous, first woman president, all of that. So, they are behind her – wait until you see what we are going to play you tomorrow on that.

And it is not that I am opposed to Hillary Clinton, I think she is far more conservative than Barack Obama in her policies, but there is something about the woman’s demeanor that I am questioning. We are not perfect people but she is a bit imperious – word of the day, imperious – which means she is a little haughty, and we are seeing a lot of haughtiness right now at the White House. Do we want more haughtiness? I’d like to see some Lincoln-esque stuff going on in there.

Other than that, we are rolling along here. New year, first month is almost over. We are going to go out to California in February, our annual trip out there. Cause some trouble. California is the biggest Factor audience in the nation, which makes sense because it is the most populated state. But, it is perceived as a liberal state – we have an enormous audience in California. That is on the agenda. I think I am going to be going down to the Super Bowl for a couple of days. I don’t know whether I am going to stay for the game or not, I ‘ve got so much going on and the game lasts until two in the morning now, right? We will be down in New Orleans; I have not been there in a while, looking forward to that trip. We are moving!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

2013-01-24T01:26:00Z

Hillary Clinton – tried to watch it, couldn’t watch it – too painful. She is boring and was not going to tell the truth anyway, and that is just the way it is. She screwed up, she is the head of the department, her guy got assassinated – her guy was asking for more security, that is her responsibility, to provide it – she said she didn’t know he wanted more security. Sorry, not that many ambassadors, you know? When they ask for something, you have got to know.

But, the sad truth is, most Americans do not care about Ambassador Stevens, or Libya, or much of anything else. As long as their reality programs on television, catching alligators, selling your stuff, going into storage lockers, watching singing/dancing/juggling. As long as there are bread and circuses. More and more Americans are simply checking out – and I am not even mentioning the Internet, where people go home and that is all they do. More people go home and turn on the Internet now than television – first time in history. And what do they do on the Internet, many of these people? Play games. Little games – kill the zombies! I know what is going on.

So, all of that is distracting people from figuring out what is happening in the country, or even caring about what is happening in the country. Now, you guys are the vanguard of people who do care, I mean you are Premium Members to a news analysis program that basically deals with the most important issues of your country everyday. So that does not apply to you, but as vast as The Factor audience is, it is just a drop in the 320 million population that we have in America. Now, we reach a lot of people because of the Internet, a lot more than we used to because everything I say is parsed on the net within about 30 seconds of me saying it. And, that is a good thing – although the propaganda surrounding what they use is astounding. I don’t really care anymore; I’ve been doing this for seventeen years. You either like me or you don’t, you respect me or you don’t.

In public service, a person like Hillary Clinton knows – she is not going to be held accountable. And when she runs for president in 2016, which I believe she will, unless her health is bad, she will be in her late ‘60s. When the campaign starts she will be 68 years old, and if she wins she will be 69. We live in a time now where you are pretty viable up until your late 70s if your health is good. It did not used to be that way, but now it is.

Hillary Clinton will run for president and not be burdened with all this stuff. I mean, this is it for her today. What really was scandalous was that – even if you like Hillary Clinton, you Democrat senators and congress people – don’t you owe it to your constituents to ask the most probing questions you can? I have guests that I agree with philosophically on this program, and I always challenge them. Always. Because it is my duty to see what they’ve got, see how aggressively and smartly they can back up what they are saying. But, these people are just hacks. And the Republican Party is the same way, you get a republican up there, “oh well…I like your shirt, I like your shoes,” that kind of thing.

So, this is a big day – I am glad that Hillary Clinton is being held accountable somewhat. President Obama skated on the whole thing, which is why it got dumped into Hillary’s lap. I mean, he is simply not going to deal with it – nobody is going to make him. So, discouraging. Sorry about the ambassador – he never should8 have been killed. I still don’t know why he was there! Still can’t figure out why he was there on 9/11 in Benghazi, one of the most dangerous places on earth. I guess we are never going to know, unless somebody like Woodward writes a book. If I had the time, I could get to the bottom of it, but I’ve got to deal with a thousand other things, I can’t deal with this to the extent that I could find out why the hell he was even there. And certainly, Secretary Clinton is not going to tell us, nor is the President of the United States.

Hate to sound cynical, but the truth is the truth.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

2013-01-23T01:14:00Z

I don’t know about you, but as I get older, the time goes faster. I am hurdling towards my death – isn’t that a nice thought? Thought of the day, ladies and gentleman! Hurdling towards your death.

Good show tonight, I think we are pretty much on the President Obama turning to the left, and how that is going to affect everybody. Nobody else is covering it – I shouldn’t say that. The conservative people cover it from an ideological standpoint, and that is fine. But, we have heard that. We know that. I am trying to cover it from a realistic, this is what is going to happen [standpoint]. Cause and effect: cause is the president’s ardent liberalism that is now out of the closet. The effect is – you better watch the dollar, it could be going down the drain. I think that is more effect-ive, pardon the pun, to cover it that way – because you get through, then, to independents (and maybe some liberals) who are a little bit uneasy with the lack of urgency on the part of President Obama – and the Democratic Party – as far as the debt is concerned.

So, anyway, look – that is what I do. I tell you the truth - I have always done that. Seventeen years, whether you like it or not. Some of you like me, some of you don’t. I get complaints from every spectrum, but this is the danger that I see for my children coming up, and I am not going to ignore it. I am simply not going to do that.

On the breaking news front, tomorrow is the Benghazi thing. That is going to be big, with Hilary Clinton testifying in front of a Senate committee. We’ve got Rosen and Cameron on it. We will have all the inside baseball, and that is a big story. Now, the media is not going to cover it very well – so you need to come to us, because we will cover it well. It is just another example of the corrupt media in America.

So, the final thing is – it is like one degree here in New York. We finally got a little cold wave. It has been a pretty mild winter so far, and now we are getting revenge. As soon as I got back from Florida, it descended. But I am not whining about it – it’s winter! We live in the Northeast, it should be cold - and it is! Very cold!

My dopey dog wakes me up at like five in the morning; I don’t know what I am going to do with this dog. Then I have to take this dog out in the tundra. I like dogs, I had a dog growing up, a German Shepherd, and now I got this dog, and it is running around waking me up. I don’t know what I am going to do.

Monday, January 21, 2013

2013-01-22T03:52:00Z

Let’s see… nothing much going outside of the inaugural festivities. I chose this evening, as you probably saw, to make some points about the way that President Obama is governing. Some might think it was inappropriate, because this is a celebratory situation for America – and I agree with that. You do not have to like the president to understand that this is a great tradition for us. I thought that it was instructive to start to analyze what the president was doing on this day – because it is his choice.

He could have given a number of addresses. And then I also thought it was good to get perspectives from a lot of different people who are familiar with the presidency, i.e. Brit Hume, Bob Woodward, and Jon Meacham.

So, I think we did what we should do. My first allegiance is to you, not to the government in Washington. And if you know I am a loyal American, as a reporter, I have to put you first, and I thought that we did it appropriately – but I understand those who would say, “hey O’Reilly, couldn’t you just give him a break on Inauguration Day?” But, I was not that heavy handed with it, I just spelled it out – and again, he made the play. He could have said a million things, he could have said, “look – I am going to solve these things, I recognize e the debt, I recognize that everybody is in danger, and I am going to do the best I can.” That’s what I was looking for – we didn’t get it. So, therefore I do what I do, you watch, you read, you write, you praise, you criticize – that is why we love you.

Tomorrow we have a kick-but show. The day after. [There is] a lot of controversial stuff floating around that I did not run tonight, that I am going to run tomorrow. Tom Brokaw – whoa. Whoa! Wait ‘til you hear this.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

2013-01-17T22:16:00Z

A very busy day for me, I hope you did not have it quite as intense. Got up this morning, came over to Fox, wrote a little bit of the show, got in my little, suit, went over to The View, which they taped today for tomorrow’s airing. I did it as a favor for them, they wanted me to come on and talk about guns, which I did. And you will want to see this, I believe. So, tape it, The View I think is on 11 am Eastern Time on ABC. You will not be disappointed. And stick around for both segments; guns are first, and [then, it’s] me basically running rough shot over the panel, which includes my pal Tom Arnold, because they have “Man Day” on Friday, or something. It is really interesting, what happened, so that is number one.

And then I come back, and I had to pose for a book cover. I haven’t announced this, but I will tell you guys. We are doing a special book for Mother’s and Father’s Days this year, and it is basically compiling what I have written in other books in one, about the issues of the day. It is going to be called “Keep It Pithy: Worthwhile Musings in a Very Difficult Time,” something like that. And I had to take the photographic session to get the book cover. It is not a rehash completely, I write some new material. But it is not a book that we are going to promote as a bestseller like Killing Kennedy or Killing Lincoln, it is more of a gift book, in that it does encapsulate a lot of things that I have said and written in the past. I think you are going to find it interesting, it is obviously for The Factor crew, but it is very relevant to what is going on. There is a lot of advice, all in one place.

So, anyway – that is what I did. We will make that announcement I think probably in April, that it will be out for Mother’s and Father’s Days. Then I came back and wrote the rest of the show. The reason I led with this story about Notre Dame is, number one, there is not really much else. We had Megyn Kelly do the gun thing, she did pretty well. You know what the story is with the guns, and there is not a lot new there. And, I don’t think there have been a lot of big changes – I really don’t.

So, this is a new story with Notre Dame, and this is a big guy, even if you are not a football fan. He is very well known, and this is really bazaar, but points out the tremendous problems we have because of the Internet age. That is why I did it. I felt that this might be something you do not know about, and you should know about it. There is an awful lot of fraud and other terrible stuff going on over on the Internet.

Now, I avoid it myself. I use it to write my books, and to research. I do some emailing; I do not do a lot of other stuff, and the stuff that I do, the Twitter stuff and all of that, that is basically associated with the program, marketing The Factor. Very, very cautious of what I put in email. Very cautious, because you just don’t know these days what is going on and who is seeing this stuff. Not that I say anything provocative, I don’t. But I do not want my private business in cyberspace. Even on the phone – I assume everything I say on the phone, somebody is tape recording. It is a horrible way to live, but that is the way you have to live these days.

We are going to be in Florida tomorrow, we are going to do the show out of Broward County. I am going to do the Hard Rock show tomorrow night, it is a solo show. It got wiped out by Sandy, and now we are making it up. I like to go down there – I lived in South Florida, as you may know, I taught high school down there. I like going down there in the winter, obviously 80 degrees in January – we’ll take it, right? So, we are going to have a good time down there, I want to talk to some folks, see what is going on in very liberal Broward County. It is going to be a sell-out tomorrow, big crowd at the Hard Rock, we are happy about that. We will check in with you again on Monday, have a great weekend.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

2013-01-17T01:10:00Z

I want you to do me a favor… I think I have a pretty reasonable take on this gun control issue. If you disagree, I want you to … [go] on the message boards. I am going to tell my guys to look at the message boards and give me a summation. I really want to know what you think about this, because I have thought about it long and hard, and I think I’ve got the best take in the United States of America right now – bar none. If people would do with it what I suggest, we would have full gun rights, and at the same time, we would make it very difficult for gun criminals, and we protect people. So I think I have hit it, but I want to know what you think, okay?

[Criticize me] very specifically, if you are going to criticize me - not ideologically. If you are a Libertarian and you say, “well, I should have any gun I want, including a bazooka and a SAM, on my rooftop,” the discussion does not really go anywhere. But if you understand that public safety has to be taken into account when you are debating guns, then I want to hear from you.

Other stories of note today – not much. It is all about this and Lance Armstrong. Tomorrow, his [Oprah interview airs] – I am not even going to watch it. I know what the guy did, I’ve known what he has done for years. I’ve never had any use for him. I met him back in the ‘90s in Aspen, Colorado; I thought he was an arrogant guy. Then, when he was accused of cheating, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but the stuff was o overwhelming, so overwhelming, the evidence against him. And he lied, and he lied, and he lied, and he seemed to get away with it. Since I was not investigating myself, I could not say that he did it, but I made it clear to everybody that I did not have much use for him. Now we know what he is.

As a Christian, if he asked for forgiveness, I have to forgive him – but he has to pay a price. He has to pay a price – people don’t understand this. When you are a Catholic and you go to confession, you do get your sins forgiven, but you still have to pay a price. You have to do penance and you have to make things right as best you can. That is the order. And then, of course, there is the karmatic thing – just because you say you are sorry, does not mean you do not pay for your sins. You can murder someone and say sorry, and you may be genuinely sorry you murdered that person, but you are still going to serve life in prison if you are convicted, that is just the way it is. It wipes your soul clean but it does not do the public service sheet, and that is what he has – a public service sheet. He took all this money under fraudulent circumstances – simple as that .The dope gave him the advantage to win, he made the money off the endorsements, and the advertising – including 30 million from the U.S. Post Office. They were smart enough to put a clause in the contract [stating] if you are doping, we are going to have our money back. So, he has to pay it back.

He is through, he is finished. He is not going to come back in the court of public opinion. By the time the legal situation gets through with him, he probably won’t have much money left. I feel sorry for him in a way – I don’t like to see people destroyed, even if they are venal, bad people. It is not my job to revel in somebody’s destruction, I try not to ever do that, even with people I dislike.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

2013-01-16T01:41:00Z

Tomorrow, President Obama unveils what he wants to do about the gun problem in the USA, and there is a problem. There is a problem with guns. I mean, you’ve got 300 million guns on the street, you know some of those guns are going to be in the hands of people who do bad things with them, right? And, that is a problem – right? Okay. So let’s start there. Now, if the government bans guns – is that going to stop the problem? Of course not, and it is going to add more problems, because people are not going to be able to defend themselves. So, you can’t do that. And it is unconstitutional to boot, so… not going to get a gun ban. Then you have to go up the ladder. The target, pardon the pun, are these semiautomatic weapons. Automatic weapons are banned, which right away tells you that the Constitution does allow for some kind of government regulation, because you can’t have a bazooka, and you can’t have a machine gun, for public safety reasons.

So, the debate becomes – what can you have? The NRA and other gun owners, they want semiautomatic AR rifles and pistols, and they want them! Now, I would not ban those weapons, but I would insist on licensing them. So therefor, you would have to show a reason why you need them. Say you lived in the country, way away from any police agency. And you say, “look, I need this to protect my family,” and I would say okay, you can have it. But you would have to check out, and make sure you do not have a felony, and you are not an insane person, all of that. Reasonable? But, if you lived in New York City, in a high-rise, I would say no, because there are security and police everywhere. So you would have to basically make the case – this is what I would need it for – and then you would say yes or no based on that, there would have to be an appeal process, it would be a big bureaucratic mess, but I think that is the fair way to do it. Same thing with ammunition – the ammunition has to be compatible with your weapon. Clips of 50, I don’t know. I am not seeing that.

Anyway, I am for reasonable public safety standards in the trafficking of weapons. You cannot basically solve the problem by doing anything – you are never going to solve violence in America. It is not going to happen. [There are] too many of us here, the society is way too engrained in the gun culture, and it is not going to change. We are not Australia, we are not Great Britain, we are not Canada, where the populations are less, and the traditions are far different.

What I think President Obama is going to do – he is going to do a few executive orders about information sharing, registration, data banks – all of that. He will order that to happen – cooperation between federal agencies, sharing information back and forth – that is what the bulk of the executive orders are going to be. In the legislative area, it is going to be interesting to see if he takes a semiautomatic rifle ban into congress – where he will lose. He is going to lose that fight. But, he might want to lose it to show Americans about the mean Republicans and get rid of the Democrats who don’t tow the line. He might want to do that. So that is what I expect to happen tomorrow, and I am well aware of the slippery slope arguments, that if you register – but you’ve got to register your car, I think you have to make some compromises for the greater good. But I am a second amendment guy, and I understand the need for protection. Believe me, I get my life threatened all the time. I understand. And I understand the hypocrisy of people saying we should ban weapons, when they have the facilities to hire armed guards. I understand the foolishness of a Chicago that does have a handgun ban, and then has the highest handgun homicide rate in the country, outside of Detroit, which you can’t even count, because that is an anarchistic situation there.

Did you know that more people were shot dead in Chicago last year, 2012, than deaths in coalition forces in Afghanistan? Did you know that? Chicago.

So, all of this stuff – if it were me, I could control it because I would make all gun crimes federal crimes, and then there would be a mandatory ten years in federal prison if you are convicted – on top of whatever you did. So therefore, if you go into a bank – robbing a bank is a federal crime already, but with a gun – the judge gives you seven years for the bank robbery, and another ten for the gun. See, I would federalize all gun crimes – that would go a long, long way in eliminating the criminal violence, because again you just put them away. And they know, so you have gun crimes carrying mandatory prison sentences, which are harsh. That would be big if they ever did that. Why they do not do it escapes me. The liberals don’t like prison; I guess that is what it is. As far as Chicago is concerned, I would basically, if I were the governor of Illinois, pass a law that saws, if you use a gun in this state, it is a mandatory ten years. If the feds are not going to do it, we will do it. So, we catch you with a gun – even if it is an illegal gun and you are carrying it – ten years! You would see the Chicago homicide rate drop big time if that ever happened.

So, call me crazy. I am trying to get solutions here.

Monday, January 14, 2013

2013-01-15T01:50:00Z

President Obama, to me, is basically saying, “I want to destroy the Republican Party, at least for the next few years, while I am in office.” I think that is what he is doing. He is going to set them up to take the fall on gun control, and the debt ceiling. He is not going to compromise on the debt ceiling, and the Republicans absolutely have to get some commitments in spending if they are going to let him borrow for the sixth time – raise the ceiling for the sixth time in his administration.

So, you basically have a situation where the president is using the country’s problems in a political way. I am going to do more on this this week. It is just too bad I don’t have the Super Bowl interview this year – but he probably would not do it with me again. I am too tough, and he knows it. Scott Pelley at CBS is going to do it – they have the game. CBS has the game. Pelley won’t push him, but I would, because there comes a point where ideology has to go into the drawer, and you have to say, “listen, Mr. President, you have got to cut spending. You have to, and you have to stop playing games with this,” because he is playing games! And it really bothers me, because I know that all of us are going to pay an enormous price for this.

Bill Clinton walked out last night at the Golden Globes – they loved him. Boy, did they love him – did you see that? Mr. Clinton loves Hollywood, and it was interesting because I thought Lincoln was going to get it because he came out and introduced the Lincoln clip. I said gee, they are giving him this special role, they really must like Lincoln, but then Argo won. But the reason that Argo won – and I know most of you don’t care about this, but it is pretty interesting, politically – is because the Foreign Press, they don’t like Lincoln, what do they care about Lincoln? These are Foreign Press people voting on Golden Globes. But they love Iran! So it is basically the subject matter.

Now, I did not see Argo – I have it, I am going to watch it soon, I hear it is very, very good. Lincoln was good, and Lincoln, I believe, will win the Academy Award. I can almost guarantee that it will.

Other things in the news? The tide is turning against The Journal News of Westchester on the gun thing. You can’t defend it, and those people have run to ground, they are afraid now. And I think the paper will never recover from that. When you make huge mistakes, you have got to own up or the folks just turn on you.

Anyway, I do not care about The Journal News; I do not think it is an honest newspaper. I do not live in Westchester county, I know the county very well because I was born and raised in the New York area, but I do not think it is a paper that provides anything good for the folks.

There really is not a lot going on. We have a great inauguration night coverage [planned], that is a week from tonight. Really strong lineup – you are going to really like it. We’ve got Watters down there too, doing some inauguration stuff. It should be a lot of fun; we hope you join us then. Live show! And we are rolling along pretty well here; we’ve got, I think, a pretty good point-of-view on what is happening. Non-ideological as always, but worthy. Fact-based. We are happy to see the Corporal Hammer tonight. Happy that worked out for him, we hope he can rally. The guy has been through a lot.

Friday, January 11, 2013

2013-01-11T23:57:00Z

I hope you have a nice weekend coming up; it is not too bad here in the northeast. It is usually freezing, but it is supposed to be 58 degrees, and we can thank Al Gore for that, and the global warming phenomenon.

I am just being facetious, for you people who take the global warming thing very seriously. I do not, as you know. I am agnostic about it. I don’t know why the temperature change is occurring. My pal Joe Bastardi says it is a natural part of the planet’s cycle, and of course Al Gore and his merry guys say it is all the carbons in the air that has changed the way the sun hits the planet or something. I do not know. I have always said this, and I think you all agree with me: the cleaner the planet is, the better! Clean! So, if we can get hydrocarbons to get rid of the fossil fuels and not put everybody out of work, that would be good.

All right, now – I am going to go over this Afghanistan thing, because I did not cover this, and this is why you are Premium Members and you listen to the No Spin News. Here is the deal.

Karzai is the power in Afghanistan. He is our guy, and he is corrupt, and he is incompetent. Same thing that happened in South Vietnam, with Thieu and Diem. And Kennedy killed Diem, if you read my book Killing Kennedy – he assassinated Diem. Kennedy himself ordered it. Same thing: corrupt midgets running around. They are our allies, and what are we going to do? We can’t run the country. So, Obama knows that. He knows the situation is fairly out of control, and that the only way to control it is [to] have American forces calling the shots. But we only have 66 thousand there now; it is down from about 125 at the peak. And Obama wants out of there, because he does not want to spend the money. He wants to use that cash for Obamacare and other social programs.

The problem is that the president is correct when he assesses this situation. The reason we went there was to make sure the Taliban could not operate anymore, and as soon as we leave, here they come back again. So it is really a sticky, awful situation. American forces have won that war, by the way. The Russians lost to the Afghans, we beat them. That is an amazing military story, but nobody is interested in that. So, what to do? I would keep 20,000 troops in and around Bagram and Kandahar. As you may know, I have been over there, and those troops would basically respond to any emergency situations so that the Taliban… it would not be easy for them to overrun certain places and do outrageous things. 20,000 seems to be reasonable because the stakes are pretty high. You do not want al-Qaeda reconstituting in Afghanistan. We got them down in Yemen now, and in some African nations. Very tough – those nations have no infrastructure at all. We just do not want to give them another safe haven.

Will Barack Obama keep 20? If he doesn’t, I am going to come down on him, and I don’t think that is unreasonable. I think the commanders will suggest that. I suspect he will keep them there, but he might not. He wanted out of Iraq, and he got out of Iraq. And nothing really catastrophic has happened in Iraq, but it is a whole different situation there. It is a tribal thing – you don’t have the Taliban on the border – in Iraq.

I am not sure what direction the president is going to go in. We are interested in the story, but today’s press conference with Kars, that really did not amount to anything. Over and over again they said the same thing, and you’ve heard it all before.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

2013-01-11T00:31:00Z

I am getting – not nervous… concerned – that is a better word. I am getting concerned about the president and his overall outlook on how to run the country. What it all comes down to for me is problem solving. I have never really been an ideologue; I have never been a guy who promotes a certain philosophy, because I think that there are solutions to problems on both sides. I obviously am a traditional guy, and think that traditional values, if you will – that is kind of an overused word, but – are better for a country of 300 million based on capitalism than some kind of social engineering that I have never seen work in my life – anywhere! I have just never seen it work.

When Barack Obama then threatens through his vice president, and his press spokesman Jay Carney, to basically say listen, if you do not go along with me in Congress or wherever, I am just going to do it. I am just going to sign an order, I am going to get around you by using my authority. Then you are into Richard Nixon territory. That is where you are. So, I am going to defy the system, and I will take it into the court system, and I will run up millions of dollars in legal fees as the Justice Department litigates on my behalf, and in the meantime, I am going to make it impossible for Congress to cut spending. And we are not going to do any entitlement reform. It will take years and years and years. And I am sitting here going, problems need to be addressed and solved. That is the way the country gets stronger – not one guy, even though he is elected... reelected. And believe me, the reelection of Barack Obama set him free. He is not the same guy, believe me. He is on a tear. And he does not really care about guys like you, or me, or anybody else who opposes him. He is going to get the social justice thing done. He is not going to cut any spending, and if he does it will be in the Pentagon.

So, I am getting a little concerned about it – and you will see it. You’ll see it in the way I am shaping my opening remarks, in the segments we choose to put on the air, but it is not all gloom and doom. I am not Glenn Beck buying the bunker and the dried food and stocking up on gold. I think that if the president continues this way, he is going to get thumped in 2014 in the congressional elections. I do not think Americans are going to embrace this kind of “I am going to do it and I don’t really care what you think” [mentality]. I don’t think so. I could be wrong on it, but three and a half million plurality, which is what he won on – that is not a lot. And Romney was a weak candidate. Let’s face it, let’s be honest, all right? He was weak.

I think that the folks are going to have to wise up – and that is my job. To tell you that I do not dislike Barack Obama as a person, but I am seeing a more militant, left wing approach to his governance, and I do not think he is solving any problems here. I think he is creating more problems than he is solving. Obamacare might be the best example of that. It is going to create a tremendous amount of fiscal deficit problems, spending problems, insurance problems, performance problems, doctor problems.

All of these things are going to happen. So the country is in flux right now, but the president is basically saying my way or the highway. That is our big theme, that is what we are covering.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

2013-01-10T00:32:00Z

Just keep track of how fast this year is going to go. It is already zipping by; it was the fastest Christmas vacation I could ever remember. I just think I am over-scheduled here. As you get older, time goes faster. When I was a kid, I did not notice it but now, it is just crazy. You are busy too, I am sure.

All right, look. Here is the deal on what is going to happen for the next six months. The president is going to test the waters, see how far he can go in getting gun control, immigration reform, more spending in the federal government level. He is going to test it. And the republicans in the House know that they are the only check on the presidential power right now, so they are going to resist. They are not going to give in – they gave in on the tax increase for the wealthy because public opinion was so far against them, they had to. But, now on the debt ceiling, gun control, and things like that – the president is going to have a much harder time. The war is going to be fought in the press, and most of the press is going to take the president’s side. Interestingly enough, I am caught in a pretty unique position here, because I am really trying to do this in a fair way. I understand the second amendment, and the intent of it, which was to give American citizens the power to protect themselves, because the Founding Fathers knew the federal government could not provide protection in the infant nation. So, what else are you going to do? People moving west had to have firearms to protect themselves against Native Americans, animals, the French, whoever it may be. And then at home, on the east coast, there was always a fear that there would be a coup d’état. The military might overthrow the fragile government, and so the Founders wanted the population to be armed. It was a protection thing against bad people that might hurt them, and against a government that might go out of control. So that still stands, nothing has changed there. However, now the weaponry and the technology are so sophisticated that you can’t have a bazooka or a surface to air missile in your backyard. That is a public safety issue.

So where do you draw the line? I think the debate is worthy, and I am reasonable on this. Do you need an assault rifle? Well, convince me you do. Convince me! I am ready to listen, and I think that is what the federal government has to do – let’s listen. But I also think that, with 300 million guns on the streets, any criminal maniac can get a gun – and that is not a good place for the nation to be in. So that is where I am coming from.

We are going to watch the debate, make sure it is fair, make sure nobody gets jobbed, make sure nobody demagogues the issue like The Journal News in Westchester County. I think we have destroyed them. We are going to go about it.

Immigration reform, it is another matter. The Republican Party has to go along with it because the Hispanic vote is now significant in America, and they are voting for democrats – primarily because they believe the GOP is anti-Hispanic. So, that is going to get done – it is going to be a quasi-amnesty, and that is what’s going to happen.

Gay marriage – not so big an issue for me. I am fine with the states [deciding] – if the people in the states want it, all right. If they don’t want it, fine. I don’t think the feds should be involved in marriage at all – let the states sort it out.

And marijuana. Look, I know how much harm marijuana does. I have seen it – not in my own life, because I don’t use marijuana, but I have seen my friends and family members and people that I know very well get caught up in this marijuana business. And if children get ahold of it, their childhood is over – so I am not a big marijuana fan. I am not a big fan of being intoxicated. If you look back on your life, and you do imbibe alcohol or take drugs, a lot of the problems that you get into occur when you are stoned or drunk! Unwanted pregnancy is leading the league in that regard.

This marijuana’s greatest thing, the Willie Nelson crew – I disdain these people. I think that society should call it for what it is. Intoxication – not a good thing. I am not trying to tell you what to do. If you want to get blown out of your sneaks once a week in your basement, I don’t care. Just don’t hurt anybody. Don’t let the kids get it.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

2013-01-09T00:25:00Z

It is interesting to speculate – and I don’t really do a lot of that on the air, as you know – about what President Obama is trying to accomplish with his new appointments and his new point of view about how the government should spend its money. It looks to me like the president is finally saying to the world, “listen, I am a far left guy, and since I don’t have to run for election ever again, I am going to really come out of the closet.” I could be wrong about it, that is why I am not making a big deal out of it yet on the air.

But I am watching this Chuck Hagel thing pretty closely. Now, most Americans do not care about the Secretary of Defense. They did not even know Leon Panetta was the Secretary of Defense – they don’t even know who Leon Panetta is! Chuck Hagel, Chuck who? Former senator from Nebraska, Vietnam vet – I do not expect the folks to be following this stuff like that. But when I saw the nomination, I went, you know, this is interesting! Why does President Obama want Hagel? So we started to do a little research, and Hagel is very skeptical about Israel – that is number one. So is President Obama. President Obama is not a big fan of Israel. He thinks that they are oppressive. It goes to his helping the downtrodden philosophy – social justice. He thinks that the state of Israel is overly aggressive in its defense. So, he picks somebody whose attitude reflects that. Now, Panetta – he was not that way. But Hagel certainly is. And then you have the Hagel [who is] very tepid about Iran – not a saber-rattler at all. And Hagel did not like the Iraq surge, on and on.

Hagel is a Vietnam vet. I think he was disillusioned over there in Vietnam, as many good people were. But the real key here is – if Hagel is going to run interference for the president’s cutting of the military budget, because Panetta would not do that, and Hagel might. Hagel might get out and front and say, “you know what? We don’t need this, we don’t need that, we need to cut back,” all of that. Because I think President Obama might want to do that. He knows he has to cut, why not cut the Pentagon? Why not cut defense? He is using the drones like crazy, so he says, “you know, I’m not soft, I am killing these guys from the sky – we do not need a big presence, we do not need all these guys and gals and hardware, we will get it from space.” Now, that is fallacious, because you do need a presence on the ground if you are going to have an orderly world. Who is else is going to keep order in the world? Testing: who else? Who else? No one!

But Hagel might get out in front, and if you start to see that, I will point it out to you of course, but then you will know what the true agenda is here. And I am kind of convinced now – 75% convinced that Barack Obama is really going to govern to the left, really going to go that way. And that is why I did the abortion thing tonight, because… what this ruse is is flagrant.

Now, am I going to get any traction in the House? Are people going to step up and say yeah, we are going to investigate? That will be interesting to see. I can only do so much. I can bring it to the attention of the politicians, but they have to do it. I do not have subpoena power. But there is no doubt that they are trying to get around the Hyde Amendment, and have you and me pay for abortions. That is what the liberal agenda is, and I exposed it. So, keep your eye on military spending, Secretary of Defense Hagel, and President Obama. That is what I am doing – my whole year is devoted to this. If the president is going to be a far left guy, we are going to out him. I know you are saying, “oh, he already is!” I know what you are saying. You can say that, and I respect your opinion. I have to go on the facts. That is what I have to do, and we are right on the case.

Monday, January 7, 2013

2013-01-07T22:16:00Z

[This will be] a really quick No Spin News, because I am underwater here. I am trying to get all the details about the Journal News story, which is developing into a pretty good press situation. We are trying to do what we can to hold the press accountable – which is dangerous for me, because they will come after me. That is all right, I have done that for seventeen years now, but the press is very powerful in America. It is not my job to just keep on the politicians and people who have power over us, but also to watch the media. And this thing up there in Westchester is just horrible. And I am not a gun zealot - you guys probably know that. I am a Second Amendment supporter, but I think public safety has to be taken into account in all of these debates. I am not pushing a gun agenda, but for the press to try to embarrass and disparage legal holders of gun permits is just unacceptable. It is done out of ideology and that is what really is the crux of the story – the ideological component. We will do anything, but are we going to print the names of people who are on welfare for their whole life? No. Well, that is information that is public as well, so why wouldn’t you print that?

There is a good argument to be made that there is a permanent underclass that drains the country of assets and makes it almost impossible for us to get into a fiscal condition that is beneficial to all Americans. You can make that argument, so why not print the names of all people who are permanently on welfare? I am not going to tolerate this ideology. Would I print the names of those people who are on welfare? No, I would not, because I am not in business to disparage individuals, and there may be a very good reason why they are on welfare, and I do not have time to check every one of them out. So, no, I would not print them if I had the information - and I would not seek the information.

So, look. The press is out of control in America. We have told oyu time and time again, I think we have proven the case that it is a corrupt enterprise now. And this is a good example of it, which is why I am spending so much time on it.

On other important stories – we are following the case of the Marine in Florida. We are not going to do anymore reporting on it until he is ready to speak to me either on or off camera. So we are going to give him some breathing room down there. I know a lot of you are interested in the case, and we are on it.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

2013-01-03T22:30:00Z

Can you believe this Al Gore? You know, I am… big on giving people the benefit of the doubt. The New York Times has misreported a bunch of stuff where I am involved. They have said stuff about me that is flat out not true. But, in this case, the writer of the article that we told you about in the Talking Points tonight, Brian Stelter, is an avowed liberal. He is not looking to lampoon Al Gore, as I said. So, it looks like Gore tried to jam this thing in, this deal to Al Jazeera, so he could avoid paying the heightened capital gains tax. So, I have to assume it is true right now – which I do not like to do because of the New York Times. But I am assuming it is true. He is through! Gore is done. You cannot be that hypocritical – you can’t – and survive in the court of public opinion.

Now, you will notice, this did not get a lot of play on the networks or the other liberal cables or whatever. But, boy oh boy, after tonight it is going to. This is really, really bad. And then to sell the network to Al Jazeera, oh my god, talk about aiding the enemy.

So, Gore – you know what happens in life? Greed always gets you. Greed always gets you – and I think Gore is a greedy guy. He made a lot of money in the global warming deal. He made money on this cable transaction, but he wanted more money. He wanted 5% less in capital gains. And, you know what? It came back to bite him. Also, Gore gives no money to charity – or at least he did not when he was Vice President. Remember, he comes from a very, very moneyed home. He was born into a rich family. And, he has got a huge mansion outside of Nashville that uses all kinds of unbelievable energy, yet he is running around screaming about global warming and carbons and this and that.

I think this guy is up there with John Edwards as the biggest hypocrites that I have ever seen. Now, yes, there are hypocrites on the right, and they get exposed as well, and fine. But, at this level? At this level? It is hard to think of them. A couple of those preacher guys got caught doing stuff they should not have been doing – that is pretty bad. When a religious person uses theology to enrich themselves or to be holier than thou, and then they come down, you see that they are doing all this stuff – that is bad. But, this, at this level? Gore? And you would think that the guy would have enough sense to say, “you know what? I will absorb the 5%. I will do it.” But no. It was my job to out him; I did it in a very methodical way.

Look, if I got it wrong, as I said, I will make a big apology to Gore, I will scorch the New York Times (obviously), and Gore can come on and do whatever he wants. But, he is not going to come up against me. He is just not. He can’t, he doesn’t have it.

So, that is the big deal today. Otherwise: small ball stories. I have a bunch of letters saying that the Hurricane Sandy legislation was tabled because of pork. I do not think that is why it was tabled. There is some pork in there, in the bill, but a lot of it is related to natural disasters. And the conservative press is not going to tell you that. Now, does that make it right, to laden this 60-billion dollar Sandy expenditure with other pork things? No, but they are not totally ridiculous. It is shoring up stuff, in case the next storm comes they want to limit the damage, that kind of stuff… Rosen reports yesterday that it was tabled, so the Republicans can have an out on the second part of it – that is probably what is in play... I like Rosen and Cameron, we are going to use them every week. Boehner got reelected as Speaker of the House, that is not a surprise. But, you know what? Boehner vs. Obama? I think Obama is stronger. Now, maybe I am wrong – maybe Boehner will up his game, but in the court of public opinion, Boehner can’t stand up to Obama. Very few speakers can stand up to a president, obviously. Tip O’Neil/Ronald Reagan is probably the best example of guys who came close. O’Neill was very powerful. Lyndon Johnson, in the senate, very powerful with Eisenhower.

Anyway, that is what is going on. Say some prayers for Al Gore. It is not good to be a hypocrite.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

2013-01-02T22:51:00Z

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first No Spin News of 2013. As I told you in the message at the end of the program tonight, I did not like 2012. I do not think it was a good year for the United States. A lot of stuff is going on that, in the long run, is going to be harmful to you. So, I’ve got to step it up a little bit. That is my charge, and I will do it. It is not political so much, I am not an anti-Obama guy – although I am getting a little bit discouraged, because I do not think Barack Obama cares if his policies lead to disaster. He is not really balancing the crazy spending with the revenue and all of that, he just wants to sock it to the people who are achievers in this country – and he is. He has got the Republicans on the run, thanks to Mitt Romney’s poor performance.

The more I think about that presidential race – and I will get into this tomorrow – today has been a very hectic day, so I cannot spend a lot of time with you but tomorrow – the more I think about Mitt Romney’s poor performance in the fall, the more it angers me. I think he could have won, but people went with Obama for emotional reasons and now, I think we are going to be paying a pretty steep price for it. I could be wrong – the economy could turn around! The market was up 300 today. I could be wrong, but if I am right, boy, we are digging ourselves a really, really big hole. But we are looking out for you.

We are going to have a big story advancing this Marine who was let out of Mexico situation tomorrow. You will want to see that I think.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

2012-12-21T00:37:00Z

I am multitasking! You have no idea how many things cross my desk everyday, and I had no idea that this was going to be this way. I’ve got a great assistant, and she takes care of a lot it, but it filters through. You’ve got to do so many things, and particularly because I have a responsibility here to take care of the folks that help us out all year and make sure everything is good. People send me stuff; I am just going through it now. I have some Electoral College maps; I am going to save those. When I die, I am going to have a huge cache of stuff that people could put in a museum or something like that. It is really an interesting situation.

So, where are we now? We are at, basically, the end of a year that has been a pretty bad year for America. I do not think there has been much good cheer in 2012. A lot of people are very depressed, and I understand that. I understand it, but I do not think that it is going to stay this way. It is going to take something. It is not going to happen logically. It is going to take an event to turn public opinion around from the very liberal secular direction we have taken in this country.

I do not know what that is going to be, nobody does. But something will happen, it always does. If you look at the history of America, it always self-corrects. Something will happen, and from that, we will get a more balanced look at what is happening.

A lot of people blame President Obama – it is not his fault the country is not doing well – it is the voters. Because the president really is a guy who is fairly transparent, is he not? I mean, I have been following him from the time he started his presidential campaign in early2008. And he has never, ever portrayed himself as something he is not. He is a very liberal man who wants to change the country. He wants the power to be in Washington, and that’s it.

You saw tonight on the opening segment the two liberal democratic women we had on. They are okay with that, that is what they want – big government in Washington doling out the dough, telling people what to do, how to live, what doctors to go to. They are comfortable with it. And you can go, “how can that happen? How can that be?” Go to China, there are a billion and a half people who basically said, “hey Beijing, you do what you want.” Because the Chinese are told what to do and when to do it – even down to how many kids they can have. Now, if a billion and a half people say, “you know what? We don’t want to deal with this,” there is no government in the world that can keep them down. Same thing in Cuba =the Cubans had a chance to rise up against Fidel Castro. They passed. A lot of people will trade freedom for security, and a lot of people in America will do that as well. Don’t kid yourself. These rabid supporters of the far left, they want a big federal government, doling out the goodies, cradle to grave entitlements. They want Denmark. They want Holland. They want France.

I am following this Gerard Depardieu story. He is a big actor in France, big action guy. A lot of money .He is moving. He’s out of there. He is going to Belgium. Now, you’ve got to be desperate if you are moving from Paris to Belgium. I mean, that is desperate. No disrespect to Belgium, but it is boring with a capital “B.” Paris is a beautiful city, a lot going on. But Gerard says, “look, I am not handing 75% of my income to you. I am getting out of here.” And a lot of the other French superstars have done the same thing. Most of them live in Switzerland. There is a guy, Johnny Holiday, a big rock guy, live there.

But that is what Barack Obama would love to do here, 75-80%.. Take it, and give it. Take it, and give it. Now, that is corrupting. You give people money – believe me, I have done it in my life – I have given people money – and it has never helped them. Loans – that is something else. That is something else. Some people pay them back, some people do not. But you give people money, never helps them, because then they are just looking for more money, in an easy way.

We are on the wrong path here, there is no doubt we are. My job, basically next year, is to look out for you, and to step it up a few notches. That doesn’t mean attacking President Obama: that is not going to do it. It is basically telling you the “why” behind the “what,” and exposing people who are doing bad things.

Look what we are doing with this Marine. We are praying that he gets out of there by the weekend. If he doesn’t, as I told you yesterday, Mexico: you better watch out., because we are coming, and you are going to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in tourist revenue, because people are not going to go down there. Anybody who does should be ashamed of themselves. This guy does not deserve to be in prison, he is a good guy. He put his life on the line for America. And where is the Commander in Chief? In Hawaii. If I were the president, I would be so outraged.

Anyway, look. I want you guys to enjoy the season. Try to put the angst on the shelf, have fun! Know that we are going to look out for you in 2013; the staff is committed to doing that. I appreciate all the good things you have done for us. The books, phenomenon, you know that. The Factor remains number 1 after all these years.

Have a great Christmas, good New Year – we will see you January 2.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

2012-12-19T21:49:00Z

We are trying to get this Marine Corporal out of Mexican prison, and it is a fairly serious situation. Obviously, if you watch the program you know that, and as Premium Members, we assume you do. So, here is what is going to happen. If President Obama is not able to get Corporal Hammer out – which would be incredible to me, because we give them 330 million dollars a year, so I just can’t imagine that, but Obama might not even try. He is a mercurial man; you just don’t know what he is going to do – if anything. Hillary Clinton – totally ineffective, totally out of the box. Nobody even knows where she is; she doesn’t want to testify about Benghazi. Three people in the State Department had to resign today. You know, they are tamping it down, the media doesn’t care, but it is bad. Her approval rating is at 60% - for what? She blew the total Libyan thing. She has not been engaged on the Hammer thing in Mexico. And, one guy is one guy, but this is a guy who served his country and put his life on the line in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we are going to leave him there to rot? It is ridiculous.

Now, if Mexico does not let him go by Christmas, then we are going to call for a full-fledged boycott of Mexico. Nobody travels in, nobody travels out. We are going to try to get the airlines to cooperate with cutting back their schedules there, the American airlines. It is going to hurt them. Mexico’s economy is very, very dependent on American dollars. We know that we can’t reach everybody; we know that some people won’t do it, they don’t care – but enough will that it will make a difference. We did this a long time ago with France, when France was supporting Saddam Hussein. It hurt them. They denied it hurt them, but it did – we know it did. And some of the honest journalists in France even chronicled the fact that the cutback – 10-15% U.S. dollars over there, that means a lot. Now in Mexico, it is even more intense. So, I don’t want to do that because people get hurt, and I don’t want to hurt anybody. But, we have got to send this country a message. And this new president, Nieto, he looks like the same old, you know? This guy could let him out tomorrow. He pardons him on humanitarian grounds, he gets him out of prison, he walks him back across the border, and then Nieto is a big hero. Why doesn’t he do it? Why?

I can’t tell you why. I can tell you that I have not gone to Mexico in years; I believe it is a corrupt country top to bottom. The cartels run a lot of these places. The Mexican government won’t do what it has to do, which is declare a state of siege and have the army go in after the cartel leaders. They won’t do it, so they are going to have a corrupt system. Everybody is on the take. If you drive an American car down there with U.S. plates, believe me, you are going to get hassled. And the reason they got this guy anyway, Hammer, was because they wanted his family to pay 50 grand to get him out. That is the game. They did not have to arrest him; I mean they have all kinds of documents from the U.S. side. That is ridiculous. He was no threat, everybody knew that. He was doing what he thought he should do. He made a mistake – he went to Mexico. That was his mistake.

Alright, so we will let you know what happens. We are hoping for the best. There are some encouraging signs, so stay with us this week and we will try to get the guy out.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

2012-12-18T22:41:00Z

We are working hard to get this Marine Corporal out of a Matamoros Mexico prison, where he should not be in the first place. This is why I don’t go to Mexico anymore, because it is a very, very corrupt country. And the government in Mexico City cannot control what happens outside of their, maybe, 20-mile radius. It seems to me that the country is o corrupt that there is no central authority anywhere, and the drug cartels run each province. So Sonora, Baja, whatever it may be – they are controlled by the drug lords, not the federal government.

So, what happened to this Marine was, he went down to Brownsville, Texas – and I mean, this guy made a mistake, there is no doubt about it – and he registered with the U.S. Customs there and he said, “look, I want to take this antique gun on a hunting expedition to Costa Rica, so I want to register it with you, and then I will go across the border, show the paperwork, and register it with the Mexican authorities and carry it with me, with the papers.” Now, that is assuming that the Mexican authorities would honor anything the United States puts in print – which they won’t SO, that is mistake number one. Number two – the customs guys apparently told this Corporal – who served in Afghanistan and Iraq (he left the service with an honorable discharge), “yeah, okay – that would be a good plan,” – which is crazy. The guy should have said, “look. You can’t take a gun in there….” You can’t even drive in Mexico! If you have U.S. plates in Mexico, you are going to be pulled over and extorted. And that is why they put the guy in jail – they wanted his parents to pay 50 or 60 thousand to get him out. That is what happened.

But the problem is that, once he got in the jail, then it became a big deal – and now the Mexican government, the macho…can’t admit what they did. “Well, he had the gun…” All the Mexican authorities had to do if they were concerned – which they weren’t, they just wanted to extort money – would say, “I am sorry, we are denying you admittance to the country, go back to Brownsville, Texas, and we will confiscate your weapon.” That is what they could have done. Easy, right?

Now, the fact that President Obama does not know anything about this is startling, because the news media has been reporting it for more than a week. Senators and congress people are involved, and the president doesn’t know anything about it? I believe Carney when he says he doesn’t know anything about it – I believe him! That is how detached from reality the White House is.

So, it is my job to basically put pressure on all of these people so the Corporal can get out before Christmas. This is horrible, and as we told you last night – inside the Mexican prison, you can get…killed in there, easy. There are no regulations in there, it is the same thing. If you’ve got money, you are protected. You pay protection every month to the guards or other prisoners or whatever, and that is the way it is. Human rights watch should be all over that, but of course they don’t care about any country but America, that is what they want to criticize.

So, anyway – this is a terrible situation. Mexico is a beautiful country. I have been there many times, and the folks are nice – the regular folks, very nice. But I just can’t go there – I just can’t go there anymore! I mean, that government – president after president after president, they’ve got 40 thousand dead by the drug wars down there, they can’t control it. They don’t issue marshal law, which is how you do it. Look, if I am the president of Mexico, believe me, I solve this problem. I issue marshal law, the army comes in, they all know who the cartel guys are, they go into the cartel guys ,they arrest them, no habeas corpus, take them into custody. Search their compounds, destroy their pipelines. The army does it, not the police. The police are corrupt. And that is how you get it under control. It is a state of siege. That is what they have there, but the Mexican government won’t do that, because a lot of the Mexican government officials are on the take. And what you have is chaos. Any American going to Mexico better watch their butt. And, if they don’t release the Corporal, we are going for a total boycott of travel down there. And we are going to call for the American airlines to suspend their routes down there. And we will see who cooperates and who doesn’t, we will see who cares about their fellow Americans, and who does not, right?

Monday, December 17, 2012

2012-12-17T22:07:00Z

What we try to do with this Connecticut massacre coverage is to broaden it out, about how it is going to affect you down the road. Now, President Obama is playing it coy. I don’t really know whether he knows what to do. Gun control is not a big concern of his, never in his resume have we seen any real interest in that. You know what is going on in Chicago: that is the gun violence capital of the world right now. The city can’t get a handle on it – and that is his home turf. Where all these people are being gunned down, that is where he worked as a community organizer. So, it will be interesting to see what the president comes up with – and I assume that he will probably call for a ban of semiautomatic rifles like the AK-15. That is what I assume is going to happen, and then there will be a ferocious debate over that because some Americans believe they need that kind of weaponry to protect themselves. It is a very difficult thing because the Founding Fathers did not really define the issue as far as public safety is concerned. Back then, everybody needed a gun to protect themselves – just about everybody. When you were walking around, there was really no protection against Indians, and animals, and crime in the fledgling nation. And then when people moved west, obviously they had to have side arms. So we have grown up with a tradition, unlike Britain, which did not have any of that, so it was much easier for the British to control firearms once they were invented, than it is in America. We needed them, and now we have three hundred million guns. You can’t confiscate guns – that is not going to happen. And even trying to ban an AK-15, it is going to be hard. There will be court challenges and all of that. [It is a] public safety issue, so it could happen, but it will take a long time.

So that is where we are really are with this. [Banning] handguns is impossible. Even cities like Chicago have tried to ban handguns and have been unsuccessful in the courts. And obviously, Chicago can’t even police its own streets. So you are going to tell an innocent person who is living in a bad neighborhood that they can’t have a handgun to defend themselves? That is insane.

That is where we are. As far as I am concerned, I am listening to reasonable proposals. I would like to see what they are. I well understand there are some Americans who are basically not going to give anything. They want guns and that’s it, they are willing to accept the collateral damage of a gun culture, which we do have, Costas is right about that. And I respect that opinion, particularly in people living in rural America, they do not want to be told that they can’t have such and such a gun – they are responsible, law-abiding citizens. But on the other hand, you have got to take public safety into account. So, where I live, an AK-15, not really necessary on Long Island. A handgun? Absolutely. Absolutely. A big rifle? No. There are no hunting grounds on Long Island; we don’t have any of that. So, I am listening. I want us to have the best protection we can for everybody, not just children.

Now, the other part of this story, that we are going to start to report a little maybe tomorrow or the rest of the week, is how American children are affected by this kind of a story. All the kids know about it. Now, do they see it as real, is it just an extension of a video game, which they play all the time – that has got to have some kind of an effect, and I think it is fascinating. But, we do this responsibly. I turned down guests today who didn’t have enough specific points to make. They are general. One guy, we had a criminologist that I said no to. Brilliant guy, and his solution was on mental health – he goes, well, we have to do better with mental health. Alright, so what is your plan? We have to spend more money. Presto, he is eliminated. That is not a plan – that is a waste of everybody’s time. If you want to spend money, tell me what you want to spend it on, don’t just tell me we have to spend more money. It is just like education – “we have to fix the education…we have to spend more money.” On what? Better teachers, that kind of thing. And your litmus test for a good teacher is…? They don’t have the answers. Lazy thinking.

We are very specific in our coverage here. We hope we are being responsible. I understand that passions on both sides are running high. I will do the best I can – if I am making any mistakes, let me know. Try not to be a Kool-Aid drinker on either side, try to think for yourself and take into account the big picture – not just what you want.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

2012-12-14T00:20:00Z

So, I have kind of declared war on the forces of evil here in this country, and that might be overstating it a little bit, but, from what I can see, these people who want to change America – the economic system, the social system, the religious landscape, all of that – I don’t like what they want to put in its place. And I’ve been all over the world; I’ve been to 78 countries. I don’t want this kind of a system. This is not a good system. I mean, little things like legalization of marijuana and gay marriage – look, that is not going to change the fabric of the country in the sense that it will influence how we arrive at justice and defend ourselves. So, it is not that big a deal. But collectively – collectively – to run down the traditional family, to encourage intoxicants – all of these secular things – unfettered abortion – all of this stuff, combined with completely revamping the economic system so it is run by the government – I mean, we are going in the wrong direction here. The unintended consequences of all this… are going to be significant. They are going to be really, really significant.

So, that is why I am stepping it up. And, as you can see, the more I step it up, the more the Huffington Post and all of these people really get upset. I mean, they are really getting on my case. When the Associated Press goes after you, you know there is a problem here. So, basically, what I am going to do is, I am going to devote the next few months to doing this kind of culture war business. And I think this is the major story of the day. Yeah, the fiscal stuff – I am keeping an eye on it, but I am not going to bore you everyday with nothing, because what good does that do? If they do not come to an agreement, it will be a massive story, and then we will get into it heavy. But… it is just a waste of time to do this speculation.

This culture war stuff – believe me, these people are on a mission. They are on a mission and most Americans don’t even know it – they don’t even know what is going on! So, anyway. That is where we are, that is what we are doing. I hope you are on board with it. Let us know in the message boards if you think I am overdoing it. I don’t want to overdo it; I want to bring you the information that you need.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

2012-12-13T01:15:00Z

Let me tell you about my little White House visit last night. Each year, the White House has a Holiday Reception for the media. And, you’ve got to be invited – they usually invite me, and they did. So, I went because I wanted to take my nine-year-old son to see the People’s House. And I explained to him before we went that I, dad, pay for the People’s House – that is why we are going. And, while the president may live there, he only lives there for a finite amount of time. I did not use “finite” with a nine-year-old, although my son has a good vocabulary. And it is the taxpayer who funds it, so we are going to head on over and have some snacks and listen to the nice choir from the Air Force Academy, and look at the decorations that we paid for. That is pretty much all it is for me.

Now, I had my picture taken with the president and Mrs. Obama and my son, because he could keep that for the rest of his life. Barack Obama and I, I think, have a respectful relationship. It is a little distant right now, because I don’t think he is too thrilled with Fox News in general, and, I am part of that. I understand – the Fox News Channel was the toughest on Obama out of all the media, and he did not appreciate it. Natural. If he has a beef with me in something that I ‘ve done, I haven’t heard about it – and we are in contact with them all the time. And my staff did get invited as well, so we were there – and I don’t think there are hard feelings on a specific level, I think it is a general thing. Mrs. Obama [was] very gracious, as always. I have seen her in a number of social situations, and the woman is very, very smart, and very kind to children. I have always said that.

Did I learn anything last night? No, I did not learn anything. I like the White House. I like the whole presentation. I think it serves our country well to have that there. They did not overdo it, they did not spend a lot of money – it was okay. I did not see a lot of media people there that I knew. It was mostly very liberal media people. I had some people around me, so there was not any nonsense. The people that I have known for a lot of years, I talk with. I don’t talk with people I do not know anymore, because they will wind up on websites or whatever, so unfortunately I cannot do that. A lot of younger people wanted their picture taken with me, and that was fine. We did that – I don’t mind doing that! What else happened? It was a beautiful night in Washington; the national Christmas tree is just majestic this year. Really nice. And, you could see the Capitol lit up on Pennsylvania Avenue. I was thinking about Lincoln, and a lot of things. I stayed at The Willard Hotel where Abraham Lincoln lived before he took the Oval Office. I’m sorry – before he went to the White House. There was no Oval Office, and I made that mistake in Killing Lincoln, and I did it again here. It just sticks in my mind.

Anyway – all in all, it was a positive experience. I don’t think Barack Obama is going to be sitting down with me again. I think he says, “look, I wont twice despite these guys, so [blank] them.” I think that is the way it is going to be, but we are ready to receive him anytime. He is an interesting guy. I do not agree with him on his progressive agenda – I do not think it is working economically, or socially. But, that is okay – I am sure he disagrees with my traditional point of view. It is healthy to have disagreement in this country.

Monday, December 10, 2012

2012-12-10T22:17:00Z

I am getting ready to get down to Washington, D.C. I am taking my nine-tear-old son to the White House Christmas Party. I am not really excited about it. I have been to a number of these things. I like to go to the people’s house - I am paying for it. Beautiful, the way they do it – I mean it really is a stunning experience. But, you know, there is a lot of BS-ing going on – I am not that kind of guy. There will be a lot of gloating; there will be a lot of left-wing people there. That is okay, but if they are in my face it is going to be annoying… The reason I am going is to take my son, who I want to, obviously see this experience, and we go to various places in Washington. Even though he is just nine, I want him to have a sense of history and a sense of his country. So, that is what I am doing. So, therefore, tonight’s No Spin News is going to be cut short – I’ve got to get a train. And then tomorrow, we won’t have one, because I will be in Washington, but I wanted you guys to know that I am not ignoring you.

We are just doing great in the store, and we are giving a lot of money to charity. So, we really appreciate it. We have really good stuff this year. The books are just, lights out. But the mat, you know, Patriots in Residence, and the bumper sticker I came up with, Self-Reliant [Americans] on Board. We who believe that the country does not owe us a living, we have to start asserting ourselves a little bit, and that is what I am going to try to do in the next year or so. Confront the madness in a very specific way, like I did in the Talking Points. Give you guys some reason to be assertive, a reason to be out there. Our philosophy is, ask what we can do for our country, not, hey where’s mine? And I want to get a bunch of material out there that sends that message. So the mats and the bumper sticker do that.

Two weeks from tomorrow is Christmas. Wow. Unbelievable. I don’t know about you, but I can’t even see straight, I’ve got so many things going on here.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

2012-12-05T22:42:00Z

I hope you enjoyed the program tonight; we had Costas and Senator Rubio on, as you know. Those are pretty good interviews to have, because there is no news. This is like a broken record – I am looking around and going, what is going on? There is nothing, a lull in the action. Ever since the election and Hurricane Sandy, there has really not been much. And, I don’t want to bore you with speculation, “well, this could happen…” and if I hear the words “fiscal cliff,” I mean it’s boring. I’m like you; I look at the news like you guys. I am in it and I shape it, but I am a consumer of news to. When I get up in the morning and I turn on the TV and I am looking around at the news programs in the morning, I am looking for things that are interesting and that give me information that I don’t know. Very rarely these days am I finding that. I am finding the same old, same old, same old. And it is boring, and I am not going to put it on The Factor.

There is really nothing else that I haven’t covered. We incorporated pretty much everything into the show tonight that I could get in. The only thing I didn’t mention is Planned Parenthood is opposing a bill that would ban sex-selection abortions. This is how crazy Planned Parenthood is. They want abortion – and you need to know this, because there are a lot of people who are pro-choice in America, who don’t really know what the abortion lobby is all about – Planned Parenthood and their acolytes, they want babies aborted for any reason at anytime. They don’t want any restriction, because it hurts their business.

They get paid. It is a money thing. They obviously don’t believe in the sanctity of life. You could not be a member of Planned Parenthood and believe in that - it is impossible. But they take it five or six steps further, like that guy Tiller, the assassinated doctor out in Kansas. What Tiller was doing, and what has now been proven because his assistant lost her medical license, was basically telling women, if you have five thousand dollars, we will find a way to abort your child. It may be ten minutes before the birth, we will kill the child and we will make up an excuse. So, give me the five thousand and I will perform the operation.

That is what Tiller was doing in Kansas. Now, there are very few doctors in this country who are doing that now. We are keeping a close eye on the situation. Maybe three or four in the Midwest, I think there is one in Los Angeles. These Planned Parenthood people – you never heard any criticism of Tiller from them, or the MSNBC nuts. Tiller was a good guy, a hero to them. And I thought the whole situation was ironic, that Tiller was murdered in a church. In a Lutheran church, where he was apparently a regular member, a well thought of member of that church. It was all very, very bazaar. It is disturbing to think that a group like Planned Parenthood, getting government funding and legitimized to the extent that Barack Obama would have them in a speaking role at the Democratic Convention, would oppose a gender-based abortion ban. But they do. And, you know what is going on, I know what is going and, and we’ve got to fight against it. And we will.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

2012-12-04T22:22:00Z

Not a lot of news again. It is sounding like a broken record here, not a lot of news again. The usual stuff- fiscal cliff: very boring, nothing happening. Something will happen, but all of this blather before it happens is a waste of your time, which is why I don’t cover it.

Interesting debate over the gun culture. We will have Bob Costas on tomorrow, along with the first interview after the election of Senator Rubio of Florida. So, big Factor tomorrow night. As far as today is concerned, I am keeping an eye on the Syrian situation over there. But again, there is nothing we can do about it. Assad will go, it just takes forever for these things to evolve. We know that the U.S. CIA and Special Forces are helping the anti-Assad forces, that will be secret, but it is happening. It is unfolding slowly – poor people over there are getting killed. He is a tyrant, and that is what happens in this world. There is nothing else you can do.

I think most Americans do no t have any clue about how dangerous this financial situation is. I talked to a very, very wealthy American today who owns a lot of businesses, and he is saying that he and his peers are very, very concerned about this debt. There is no plan to get it under control, it is hurting business, it is hurting investment – and that is why I did the Krauthammer deal. These are not exciting stories, they do not translate into rating on television, but I’ve got to do it, and we are going to do it responsibly. This is a big, big problem, and it is heading our way and it is going to affect all of us. So, just keep your eye on that. I am going to flag you to it.

Monday, December 3, 2012

2012-12-03T23:36:00Z

Three weeks until Christmas – we hope you are organized. It is very important to be organized this time of year. There is so much coming at you, and you are going to get tired, and you’ve got a lot of responsibilities – and you want to have fun too. So, just write everything down – my Tip of the Day! It will be a lot easier if you can see it right in front of you. I mean, I have the same situation – every two minutes there is something else…

This Kansa City Chief thing is very disturbing, and it’s just – everybody wants to solve these problems, and you can’t. And you know me, I don’t give up… Individual madness, you can’t solve it. Now, should this guy have had a gun? No, he should not have had a gun. The guy was very immature, but if you are going to stop him, what, are you going to give a maturity test when people want to buy a gun to protect themselves? It is just unending, it really is. And these people put forth these simplistic solutions like gun control. Gun control, with 100 million guns on the street? Come on. The tradition of our country is that people needed firearms because they were going in and settling dangerous areas, and there was no law. That is why it blew up. England did not have the same traditions. Everybody had a sword and a dagger. Here they had firearms. We had to overthrow the king, and that took weaponry. We are fighting Native Americans, and on and on. So, the tradition is that we protect ourselves and we arm ourselves, and that is not going to change. No matter how many crazy people demand [it]. So, we have got to accept the reality of the situation and basically go from there. You are not going to stop madness.

Now, I am much more concerned – and I say this with respect – with Chicago, where these kids are running around, gunning people down on the street for no reason. Now, there you can do something about it, but, again, what is the city of Chicago, one of the most liberal run organizations in the country, done about it? Nothing. They do not know what to do about it. They have already banned handguns in Chicago. So, there you go.

War on Christmas – it is personal to me. It might not be to you, I understand. I have got to do what I think is best for the country, and I am. As I told Father Morris, a good man, I think we need stronger leadership from the clerics of all Christian faiths. We are not getting it right now, and that is why the secularists are emboldened and they are winning. So, you’ve got to fight back.

Friday, November 30, 2012

2012-11-30T23:59:00Z

We have the president acting a little bit immature: we went over that. That doesn’t do anybody any good, particularly him. I think the president has to be cognizant of how he is going to be seen in history at this point. If he is going to do an in-your-face administration, he is not going to get anywhere, and the country is going to suffer. So, at this point, I am disappointed.

Now, you say, “well, why are you disappointed? We don’t like Barack Obama…” Okay, look – if you don’t like him, you don’t like him. I am not enamored with his political point of view, I think he is way too leftwing for me. I don’t think he understands economics, I don’t think he has run the country well, and all of that. But, I don’t see him – or, at least I did not see him – as a person who is destructive. I mean, who wants to destroy – he just wants to do things his way. But, now you are entering into a zone where he knows that, if he doesn’t put forth and spending cuts, he is not going to get a budget. And, if he does that on purpose, then I am going to have to really swing into action. Because if I think that one of our elected officials is consciously trying to hurt the country, then I have to go after him. I am not going to go after him on ideology; I am going to go after him on performance.

So, I hope that does not happen, I hope this is just gamesmanship. Even if it is, I don’t like it – it is unnecessary, destructive to the country, it is annoying – all of those things. So, very disappointed in Barack Obama at this juncture. Let’s hope he wises up after, you know, a lot of people expressed disenchantment. There is no room for this, you’ve got to compromise, both sides do, and get a deal. And you’ve got to reform entitlements – you’ve got to! So, do it! And stop with the nonsense. You got reelected, you don’t have to run again, do what is best for the country.

Otherwise, there is no news. We…headed off at the pass. You know, the secularists, they keep coming back to the door, and they really, really despise Christmas – because that is the most visible holiday that encourages people to look inward spiritually. So, the atheistic secular progressives hate that. And the more they can diminish Christmas, the better. So, we head it off every year, and embarrass them – which I think we did with Lincoln Chafee yesterday, and I hope we don’t have to continue to do it. I hope we have a nice December, and everybody gets into the Christmas swing and is generous and kind to each other and I don’t have to fight these things. But believe me, if I didn’t fight these things, nobody else would. Nobody. And that is how powerful the secular progressive forces are right now. People are afraid of them, because you do this – if you go on the net and look at these crazy leftwing websites, you know what they are saying about me. And all it takes is one nut with a gun, right? People are afraid. So, that is where we are.

Now, I am hoping some news breaks out somewhere! Because there really isn’t anything going on – nothing. This fiscal cliff stuff is boring, obviously I am on it, but I am not going to do it day in and day out. I mean, who is going to watch that? Nobody. Christmas stuff – there it is, I am not going to exploit it. If it pops up, I will deal with it. It’s like whack-a-mole.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

2012-11-29T21:22:00Z

This is the slowest news week I can remember, and I have been in this business for thirty-seven years now. There is nothing happening. Fiscal cliff! You know what? I am not even going to pay attention to it until something is on the table. Let them bloviate and go back and forth, I am not going to do it. I was pretty surprised when the president said that Susan Rice is doing an excellent job, the U.N. Ambassador. I thought that was arrogant. She may be doing an excellent job, but she screwed up big time on a very big story, Benghazi. That was ridiculous, but President Obama does not like to admit mistakes. He is not that kind of guy. He does not like to do that.

What else? The Christmas thing, I hope you enjoyed the Chafee interview, that was thanks to Jesse Watters – he landed that interview. And, look. I think the governor got pounded, but you have got to give him credit for coming on. You have to. Very few guys would have done that. Very, very few politicians, and that impressed me.

Here is a survey that we did not have time for, but I will give it to you. This is a Gallup poll, taken this month. Just off the top of your head, would you say you have a positive or negative image of each of the following?

Capitalism. 72% of Republicans have a positive image. Just 55% of Democrats do.

Big business. 75% of Republicans like it, just 44% of Democrats like big business.

Federal Government. Only 27% of Republicans like it. 75% of Democrats do.

Socialism. 23% of Republicans like it – I wonder where those people are hiding! 52% of Democratic Americans like socialism.

Wow. I don’t think they know what socialism is. Now, your humble correspondent – that would be me – has been to 75 countries. So, let me tell you a little bit about that. 1969 – I spent some time in Spain under Francisco Franco. He was Hitler’s pal. And that was a fascist country, where guys with machine guns and funny hats were everywhere. You get out of line in that country, you are in trouble. No due process. Scary place, Spain under Franco.

Then, I segued on over to East Germany. Same time period – big wall there. Guys with machine guns. You try to get out of East Germany, they shoot you and they let you die in the mud. They don’t even send anyone to get you. They shoot you down; you bleed to death in the mud. Okay, that is communism, right? Then, China. Been there. Vietnam. Been there. [I have never] been to Cuba, but I have been to Guantanamo twice, which is on the Cuban mainland, and I know what the Cuban situation is because I taught a lot of Cuban kids in high school in Miami. You do not want to live under those regimes; I mean you simply don’t want to live there. If you are an American, and you are used to pretty much leaving the house in the morning and doing what you want to do, then you are going to live in these countries? You are going to admire socialism, where somebody you don’t even know takes your stuff away from you? Is that what you want? Is that what these pinhead Democrats are admiring? 23% of Republicans like socialism, what is that? You have got to understand that this is totalitarianism. They tell you what to do, and what to give, and they will take it, and you can’t stop them.

So, I always recommend a few films. Schindler’s List – the best film about Nazi Germany. You’ve got to watch that movie. The Killing Fields, unbelievable film about communism in Southeast Asia and Cambodia. I like The Godfather II, which shows you why Castro took over in Cuba, and how that happened. And the poor Cubans, to this day, they have been enslaved since 1959. So, you can learn just by watching movies sometimes. I’ve been there, I know what it is. Capitalism – look. Some people get hurt, some people fail. But it is by far and away the best system on earth for the most amount of people.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

2012-11-28T21:47:00Z

It has been the slowest news week I can remember. That God for Governor Chafee in Rhode Island, I don’t know what I would have done without him. I guess these guys do not figure out that if they are going to mess around with Christmas, they are going to have to deal with us. Do they not know that we are here? I mean, Chafee certainly knows we are here. Anyway, there is really nothing else going on.

They are posturing in DC about the fiscal, financial situation – I am not going to speculate about it. Whatever they do, we will react to it, but they have not done anything yet. So, I am not going to even bother with it until they get up and running. Don’t waste your time with stuff that “might, could, should,” you know how that goes.

There is a lot of trouble in Egypt; do we really care what happens in Egypt? No. I am looking at it. If it does bleed over into something that affects us, then I will report it. Robert Dole is ill, the former senator from Kansas and presidential candidate. He is a patriot. He is 89; he has been here a long time, that is for sure.

This is an interesting story, I am probably not going to do it, but I want you to know about it. A survey in California says that 1 in 7 drivers on the highways there may be influenced by drugs when they are driving. And they did this – they stopped a whole bunch of people and drug tested them. Twice as many people showed up on drugs than drinking. That is pretty interesting, because these marijuana legalization, drug legalization people – when you get high, it is the same thing as getting drunk. You lose control of some parts of your body and mind, because you are altered. You are in an altered state. Now, some people can drive that way, and some people cannot. But, the more of this stuff you make available, the more intoxicants that are on the market, the more risk you are going to have on the road. But, they never talk about that – it is all drunk driving, never drugged driving. And that is just as dangerous.

Military people want to serve in combat, the ladies want to serve in combat, because that means, if you do that, you can get promoted quicker. So, they want to be in combat. I do not feel one way or the other about it. As a commander, if I were a military commander, I would be taking the best people with me, and if there was some woman who was better than the guy, I would take her. I think that women, if they are going to be in combat, they have to perform the same way a man would. To that level.

And that is about it. There is really nothing going on. Everyone is busy, including me. It is a challenge to give you an entertaining program, but I think we are doing it. Something will happen - it always does.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

2012-11-28T01:25:00Z

Can you believe this Lincoln Chafee guy, the governor of Rhode Island? I mean really, there has got to be something wrong with this guy. You know, does he think he is going to win this stupid stuff? It’s okay for television idiots to say there is no war on Christmas, and all of that, because nobody holds them accountable. They are idiots – everybody knows they are idiots. And they do not have to run for election or anything like that, they just say whatever they want to say. And, unfortunately, people pay them, even thought they get low ratings – it doesn’t really matter. But this guy is an elected official, and he starts to do this every year? It is just amazing to me, it really is.

If you know what this Gangnam thing is all about, this video, please let me know, because I have no clue why this is popular. What else is going on? Really these two days have been very, very slow – except for the big story about the Benghazi stuff, which I am sure Americans are not going to pay attention to, unless it gets up to the Obama level. So, unless stuff comes out that the president himself directed some kind of subterfuge – that is a good word, subterfuge – then nobody is going to pay attention. Nobody cares about Ambassador Rice, nobody even cares about the office of Secretary of State, which is pretty frightening. But, that is the way it is.

You basically have that situation – that isn’t really going to take off unless Barack Obama is implicated. I can’t say one way or the other. You would think that he would probably have to know that what was being put out there was not true, but to get anywhere with it you are going to have to prove it. And, that’s it. If you can’t prove it, it doesn’t mean anything. So we are watching it very closely, we have two good correspondents on it in Washington, and I am sure they are working it hard. It is an important story. It has nothing to do with ideology; it has to do with honesty in government. You know, that is what is has to do with. If you want an honest government, then we have got to figure this out. If you don’t, and many people don’t care, trust me on this, then it becomes a moot point for them. But not for us, we are in business to give you honest information, so we will pursue it very hard.

We have just a few weeks before Christmas. I am very pleased to be able to give out a lot of money to charities, and we hope you go to the BillOReilly.com Store. We have got a History Store, that is not associated with the website. But, for some of you looking for upscale gifts, I mean investment-type gifts, check that out. We put that up. It is just a small little thing that I think some people might like to see. Otherwise, the Christmas Store has great gifts and all kinds of deals for you. My mandate – and I have told all the guys this – is to keep the prices as low as we can keep them, and get good stuff, so we help everybody out. And, so far, it is working.

Monday, November 26, 2012

2012-11-26T23:36:00Z

There is no news today at all. Zero. So, when I get up in the morning – and I get up early – I have to look and see what I am going to do for an hour at 8 o’clock Eastern Time. And, the answer is – there is no news! So, what I decided to do was use my trip to Texas as a jumping off point for the culture wars, and the economic wars that are going on in America today – and I think it worked. You basically have the first state and the second state, as far as population is concerned – 180 degrees opposite in the same country. So, this is fascinating to me. Everything is different – you go to California, it’s one way, you go to Texas it is another way. Now, there are pockets, you know, if you go inland California, that is much different than the cities on the coast – everybody knows that. We are generalizing here; you have to do that to make your points. So, we did that and I think that is where the country is going to go.

You have to make a decision. Do you want to get down to this Western European entitlement “nanny” state, or do we want to be like Texas, where there will be people in poverty? People will fail, and there is not a lot of help in Texas. If you go down in Texas, you are going down. Not a lot of people going to be feeling sorry for you there. But, if you make it, then you keep it. No state tax, and you can become wealthy quickly. SO, there you have it.

Now, the other thing that caught my attention over the Thanksgiving weekend was this Morsi guy, the leader of Egypt, saying, “hey you know what? I am the dictator, thank you for electing me, but I am not going to really listen to anybody anymore.” I predicted this is what would happen – I told Barack Obama to his face it would happen on Super bowl Sunday. Because, this Muslim Brotherhood, these Islamists, they have no interest in democracy at all. They don’t respect anybody [with a] dissenting point of view. If you don’t believe exactly what they believe, they want to kill you. And the Muslim Brotherhood is right in that arena. They are not interested in dissent - they want to stifle dissent. So this guy comes out and says, “you know what? You elected me president, now I am not going to listen to anybody. I am going to do what I want to do.”

Now, there is trouble in Egypt because there are a lot of secular Muslims there. And, they are not happy about it. But boy, oh boy when the secret police start rounding people up, you are going to see what happens there. Because remember, the protestors have no power. Unlike the United States, where we do have protections for protestors, and a legal system that sympathizes with many of them, in Egypt, if they want to throw you in jail, they will throw you in jail and you have no recourse. That is where you are going – and they could kill you. You could [be] floating down the Nile, who is going to stop them?

And that is the way it is in most Muslim countries. So, that caught my attention. And, I hate to be right on the negative level. It is not worth it to me to see bad things happen because I predicted it would. I would much rather be wrong about these things. But I believe President Obama does not understand radical Islam. I believe President Obama does not understand macroeconomics. And, he kind of has a view and he is going to stick to it no matter what the evidence is. I don’t think that is going to serve him well in his second term, I could be wrong. But, if the economy continues to be more abound, in two years from now you are going to see another resurgence in the Republican Party. But, they better get some leadership out there fast, the Republicans. Because, as you well know, that Romney race– they could not have made more mistakes at the end than they did.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

2012-11-21T01:17:00Z

This will be the last day that I will be working this week, because we will be on Thanksgiving hiatus. [It will be] a special show, a taped show on Wednesday, and then we will do what we usually do – run the special stuff on Thanksgiving and Friday. It is a very low period; people are not watching television except for football games. Everybody needs a break; everybody has been working hard here. I am sure you have been working hard too, so we hope that you have a nice time on Thanksgiving day.

This Libya story – something is wrong here. I do not really know what yet, but something is. Will we get to the bottom of it? I think so – John McCain is really angry about it, and he is the best hope. The journalistic community is not going to do it, but McCain is really digging. We do not know why the Obama administration did not want to tell the truth about the attack in Benghazi, but I assume it has to do with something on the election. They thought it would be a negative, and then they started to tell people what to say and try to manage it. It never works. Do the American people care? Not really, I mean you guys do. I do. We want truthful government. But, the majority of people – they don’t care. Now, will they care? If a big scandal breaks, it is like Watergate. In the beginning, nobody cared about Watergate. Bang! So, we will keep on the story.

The second thing that is very puzzling is the Israeli thing. I don’t really cover it on a daily basis because I do not know what is happening there. We are hearing they are going to make some ceasefire deal. It is not a story that directly affects you and me. So, I am looking it, I am watching it. I did the Bernie segment tonight about press coverage of it, but you know, this stuff is going on for three thousand years. Goes in, goes out, rockets here, rockets there. I hate to be blasé, but what am I going to do with it?

But, here in the USA, there is a profound change underway. The press is telling you it is not happening, of course it is. It is kind of like the war on Christmas These left-wingers, I remember Jon Stewart doing a big thing, [saying] it is not happening. I mean, how many lawsuits do you have to have? So, here it comes again, and we are on it. We won that – we do not have any retailers that I know of that have told their employees not to say Merry Christmas. That is when we started, when they started ordering people not to say Merry Christmas. That was way over the top. So, we have reversed that trend. We will find a few; there are always a few. And we will have a talk with them – sometimes on camera, sometimes off. But, we are on it.

So again, I want you to have a nice Thanksgiving, and we will talk to you again on Monday.

Monday, November 19, 2012

2012-11-20T01:51:00Z

Thanksgiving is a week early this year. Did you notice that? That is good for the economy because it gives people an extra week to shop for Christmas stuff. And it looks like people are going to spend some money this year on gifts…that is good; we encourage that if you have it. You want to be generous and all of that. And, of course, we have the best stuff! Signed books are very inexpensive, but they mean something! People getting a signed book – Killing Kennedy, Killing Lincoln, Lincoln’s Last Days, whatever it may be -they remember that. They are going to put that in a special place, and you are going to be associated with the book. If you give somebody a tie or a little cologne, they don’t – come on! People give me stuff all the time, and I hate to say it but I forget who gives me what. A lot of it I re-gift or give away – I don’t need it. That kind of thing. But, if somebody gives me something very personal or quirky, I remember it. So, just a word to the wise. The reason I am even telling you this is because, all the money I get from the website goes to charity.

We just got the final accounting from the Stewart show, The Rumble. That is going to give me close to half a million dollars to give away. So, it was worth my time to do it. A lot of charities will be receiving that money in the next two or three weeks, and I am happy to do it. I have been very fortunate, very blessed, to succeed in the marketplace. And if, you are in America, in a capitalistic nation like we are, and you succeed in the marketplace the way I have, the money flows in.

Now, I don’t care about money. Anybody who knows me knows that. I don’t want to waste it. Oh, I got furious with one of my kids over the weekend. We were down in Miami, and we are at a hotel because I was doing a Miami book fair address, and he opens up the $4 bottle of water in the hotel room, when we have two free bottles standing right next to it! There was a big sign, “FOUR DOLLARS” – he saw it! But because he is a kid of affluence – not spoiled, he is not spoiled, but he is not used to money being an issue. I said, “what are you doing, Spence? This is four bucks this water! Number one, it is a giant rip off, number two, you have two free bottles right next to it!” He didn’t even think about it. Then I made a joke out of it, because he didn’t do it on purpose.

And I remember when I was growing up – I love these “when I was growing up” stories – we used to go out to [this] Italian restaurant every week. That was my father’s big thing, he loved their spaghetti and clam sauce. And I liked it, too. But, pone day I wanted to get spaghetti and meatballs, and I did not want to get the spaghetti and clam sauce. The spaghetti and meatballs was a buck more. I wish I could have frozen a picture of my father’s face. “Dad, I think I am going to get spaghetti and meatballs,” he looked at me. It was a buck! A buck more. No way I was getting that. He goes, “you’ll eat the clam sauce, son.” Which I did! Because we had to watch every buck. We weren’t poor, but you know, he was a child of the Depression and a lot of stuff comes with that.

Anyway, the roundabout thing I am telling you is to buy stuff on BillOReilly.com because we give it to charity and it all works and everybody wins.

Now, as far as the news is concerned, there is no news. Except for the Israeli Hamas stuff, which is really nasty. The reason this is going on is because Israel wants to downgrade Hamas and Hezbollah’s capability to attack, in case Israel has to go in to bomb Iran. That is the real motivating factor behind it that nobody is talking about. I will get into it a little tomorrow with Bernie Goldberg. I understand what is going on over there. It is a shame that so many poor people have to get hurt on both sides. But, big time stakes – they want to kill the Jews, Hamas, and the Jews want to live, and whenever you get that situation, that is what you get. We are following it, we are not making it a centerpiece of the program like CNN does. We are not doing that. But, if anything happens that you need to know about - that affects you - we will certainly report it.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

2012-11-15T22:21:00Z

This is an interesting time because I am not sure whether there is anything to this Libya stuff. Now we are hearing that the CIA gave Ambassador Rice bad information. It looks like the CIA is going to take the fall for this. If that is the case, then there is not going to be any scandal or anything like that. That is what the initial stuff seems to be. Petraeus tomorrow – he is probably going to back that up. The [conspiracy theorists] will run out and do what they do, but I have to deal with facts. However, I am taking a skeptical eye at what is being said, because that is my job. That is my job, and I will do that and report back to you accurately, as we did with the election.

I am very proud of the election coverage. The best thing about it was you guys voting in the BillOReilly.com poll. Almost 50,000 of you weighed in on that now – that is an enormous amount of people coming into a poll. And, 80% said that I was fair. And I know among those 80%, a lot of people got mad at me for various times throughout the campaign when I told them stuff they did not like to hear. But, in the end, I think The Factor viewers are largely fair people, and you came to the conclusion that we have you accurate information. Because the way it turned out was pretty much the way we said it would turn out, although I did not make a prediction. And, I’ve said this before but I will reiterate it to you guys. The reason I did not make a prediction on Monday before the Tuesday vote was because, the information that I was getting was trending toward President Obama all day Monday. I was actually getting that information on Friday. We have access to polling and internal polling for the parties, and we know people. I talk to people. It was funny because off the air, the night of the election, before I went on at 8:08 pm, I called some people in New England who I know, and said, “how does it look in New Hampshire?” – because New Hampshire is a good barometer of what is going to happen. And they said, “trending Obama.” And I said, “well, what are the Independents doing?” and they said that it looked like about 8% going for Obama more than Romney. And I reported that.

Now, you may remember that Megyn Kelly corrected me – and I was pretty surprised about that. I gave her a little jazz off the air about it. Look. Megyn Kelly was going by Fox News exit polling, I was going by Bill O’Reilly reporting. And, what happened? Bill O’Reilly reporting won. Nine percent – the president beat the governor in New Hampshire among Independents. I said eight percent – pretty damn close. Megyn was saying 2%. Now, it is not a slight at anybody, other than to tell you that when I tell you something – it is not off the top of my head. And that has really served me well in 35 years of being a reporter. My credibility is as strong now as it was at any time in my career, and you cannot shake it. You can attack me personally – they do that all the time – but you cannot attack the core of the program. Because the core of the program is backed up with facts. And that is why we have been able to be number one for thirteen years. That is why you guys watch us and are Premium Members – because you know we are not wasting your time with opinions that are grounded in nothing but ideology, or bigotry, or whatever it may be.

So, when people say that we have lost the country… I still have confidence in the folks. I think the folks are in a position to now where they are under the sway of a lot of media and a lot of uncertainty, where they feel that they are going to get better stuff from the Democratic Party. But I think that is going to go away. I really do. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so – I really think that four years from now, if I am still around doing this, you are going to see a much different campaign. It all has to do with the economy, of course, but I think the folks, even a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama, they just weren’t convinced that Romney was the guy. A better candidate than Romney I think could have done it.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

2012-11-14T22:40:00Z

I am looking at the ratings from last night, once again The Factor dominated. About 4,500,000 people watched the program in the first two runs… Hannity was second, but we beat him by more than a million. Nobody else on the other networks even comes close. CNN is a disaster area, my God. MSNBC – this Rachel Maddow does all right, the liberals like her. The rest of it is pedestrian.

Anyway, the presidential election energized the left, no doubt about it. But that is wearing off already, and we are only a week out, after the vote. But, you can see it wearing off, and now it is business as usual, and the president is going to raise taxes. We will see what it does to the economy – simple as that. He believes he needs the revenue, all right – he is probably going to get some revenue. I can’t see the Republicans blocking it, they are going to have to compromise with him a little bit, but if, a year from now, the economy is still terrible – I don’t know what is going to happen to America if President Obama is a lame duck and he can’t get anything going. It is going to be a long, long three years. I say three, because the last year is all about the campaign of 2016, where Hillary Clinton is definitely going to go. I don’t know who, on the Republican side, will try. I assume Marco Rubio is looking at it, but I don’t know.

The presidential press conference, as I [covered] – I liked that talk. I have to write memos everyday, and obviously I am writing them and hoping you like them, and I am liking them too, but that one I really liked. I think I nailed it. I just didn’t see why we are bothering. If every question is going to be, “well it is under investigation and we can’t tell you anything,” well, why are we bothering with this? And that is the answer to every question… So, I made my case and I think you probably concur – most of you. If you don’t, we are always, always, always looking for Premium Members to comment. Because, we know you guys follow us the most, and we want to know what you are saying. Please let us know if you disagree, agree, if you like it, you don’t like it – we want to know.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

2012-11-13T21:48:00Z

I want some advice from you guys. You are Premium Members; you know what we are doing here. I can either attack these people, who are misusing their power in the press directly, or I can do what I do, kind of a general thing. What do you think I should do? You saw the Talking Points Memo; I did mention that the Los Angeles Times reporter and a Variety reporter’s name. Now, that elevates them and their crew. That is a good thing for them. I don’t want to give them any more notoriety than they deserve, and they deserve none. You see my dilemma here? Conundrum!

You may remember the Al Franken thing, that I was so outraged by his lying in his book, that I mentioned it and all of a sudden the book is a big bestseller. It probably would not have been had I not mentioned it. So, he is a weasel and… Franken is the worst. When he was elected senator of Minnesota, I kind of gave up on Minnesota. I love the state; I like to go up north there, in Rainy Lake and the Boundary Waters. I have always liked going to Minnesota, but man – what is going on? It took me about two or three years to get over that.

But anyway, look. The deal is that I can either destroy them on the air and make them objects of derision for our audience (but that helps them in their audience), or, I can just do it generally. So, I want to know what you think. Because the corruption is now so intense, that what they do is so dishonest. And the branding, the racist stuff, and all of that that they traffic in, it is disgusting, and they should be called out. But, there is an industry for it, and it makes them more powerful. Therein likes my dilemma, and that is why I want your advice.

Why don’t you give it to me on the message boards? I will have the guys look for it. We will read some of the mail tomorrow on it. Make sure you put your name and town. But I do want your opinion, alright?

Monday, November 12, 2012

2012-11-13T01:16:00Z

I am back from a short holiday in Turks and Caicos - beautiful place. [It is] very easy to get to from New York and Miami – anywhere on the East Coast. I recommend it highly. I stayed at a place called The Veranda – it was very nice, you would like it. I had to get away – eight days without power, snow, locusts, grasshoppers, you name it. Biblical times!

The Petraeus story – I like him. I met him a few times, [he is a] good guy. Too bad, too bad. I am not going to get out in front of the story; we will let our analysts take it. We will take it step by step. It looks like they knew about it, and did not want to break it before the election. The Obama administration controls all of that – there is nothing anybody can do, they can whine about it after the fact. Would it have affected the presidential vote? I do not think so. But, it is another brick in the wall. This is not a transparent operation in Washington – never has been, never will be. We all know that now. We have four more years of the Obama administration, I think you are going to have more stuff come out like this. Certainly the Libya stuff is going to break and you are going to see pretty horrendous behavior there. But, Americans kind of knew that, and they went for the entitlement stuff.

Very important Talking Points Memo in the B-block today, I hope you guys will download that, keep that handy. Remember, I wrote a book about this, called Culture Warrior. Big bestseller, number 1. Some of you have it, some of you don’t – it is available on BillOReilly.com. I am not pushing the book; I am saying that I predicted that this is what would happen ten years ago… I think it is going to reach critical mass, and when it does, the country is going to snap back. Some people are going to be lost for good, but the younger people who really have their heads in the clouds, they are going to wise up to some extent, so I am not thinking that Armageddon has befallen us. I am thinking that it is a setback for the country; I think it is a stronger country if we embrace traditional things here. I do not want to be Holland, Norway, Sweden, or Finland – nice countries. [I] don’t want to be that. 320 million Americans, opposed to 9 million Swedes – come on.

That is what we are going to do for the foreseeable future. We are going to bring out why traditional America is the better way to go, and hopefully that will start to seep in.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

2012-11-07T22:03:00Z

The day after the presidential vote. So, a lot of people are despondent – I guess that would be the word. Dennis Miller [is] one of them. My attitude is that things happen for a reason. So, I don’t become emotionally invested in presidential campaigns, or any political stuff. I want what is best for you. You think, many of you do, that Mitt Romney would have been best for you. And, I kind of agree with that. But, I am not 100% sure of it, so, therefore, when I cover the campaign, I have to bring a dose of skepticism to both candidates, which I did. And you guys appreciated it; I mean the poll was overwhelming.

As far as the vote is concerned, Barack Obama out campaigned Romney. His strategy was better. Demonizing the governor from the start – as Miller says that was unfair, not nice – but that is hardball at that level. Now, do I respect the president for doing that? No. I lost respect for the president over Libya, I don’t respect him for trashing Romney. Miller is right, Romney is a good man, and he doesn’t deserve to be trashed. He is not some rich greed head who doesn’t care about anybody, if he were he wouldn’t be in public service.

So, all of that goes on Barack Obama’s negative sheet. As far as Romney is concerned, I laid it out pretty vividly in the Talking Points Memo, but I will give you a little bit more behind the scenes. I know people working in the Romney campaign – Boston guys. I worked in Boston; I’ve known them for a long time. When we were trying to secure the interview with the governor, I went to them and said look, do you guys not understand what is happening here after Hurricane Sandy? I mean, you are nonexistent; you are out of the mix. You’ve got to get back in a big way. The way to do that is to come on The Factor. Now, you can roll your eyes and [call me an egomaniac] – fine. You want to that? I’ve got the numbers to back me up. [On] Monday night, seven million people watched The Factor. Seven million. Another – what, fifteen million? – saw our coverage on the internet. If Romney had appeared, in a night-before-the-vote interview on this program, I am saying maybe 20-30 million voters would have seen it in some form. I mean, that is a monster opportunity.

Yet, the governor passed, and went on Monday Night Football’s halftime show. To me, that is a mistake – it is as simple as that – it is a major mistake. And I will tell you something else. Senator John McCain called Romney and said, “You’ve got to get on The Factor! I didn’t do it and I made a mistake.” He called him and said that! So, why didn’t the governor come on? I don’t know. I don’t think he had confidence that he could stand up to the questioning that I would put forth. I don’t know why – he has been in the business a long time, he knows I am not out to gun him. I am going to ask him hard questions – that is what I do. But, you’ve got to man up here. You don’t have to because, to be fair, I’m sure he was hearing form many of his people “you don’t need to do this, we are running ahead.” But the problem was that they were not running ahead – and I knew it. All the internals changed, three days after Sandy hit the mainland of the United States. All of the internals changed. Why? Well, part of the reason was Christie telling everyone what a great guy Obama was, and Obama looked compassionate and he was there looking presidential, he had the jacket. The media was giving him a good push for it, and then Romney – there was nothing Romney could do. Nothing he could say, nothing he could counter with – nothing. Five days! So, he had three days to recover – Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. And if he had done the interview with me, we would have promoted it starting Saturday – it would have gotten a huge amount of attention. You would have seen it. Would it have changed the outcome? I don’t know, it is impossible to say. But, certainly he would have gone out with momentum – if he did well in the interview. If he didn’t do well in the interview, we would have crushed him, and apparently he felt that maybe he would not do well – I don’t know.

But, life presents opportunities – most people pass on them, in all forms of life. And when you pass on a good opportunity, stuff happens. When you were watching me on Monday night, I told you I could not make a prediction. And I told this to Katie Couric on her show today. The reason I could not make a prediction was – in order for Mitt Romney to win, everything would have had to break his way. Everything. How often in life does that happen? Now, it is possible – and I did not want to guess. The potential was there for a Romney victory. He could have won. But, I wasn’t going to do that because I knew that it would all have to go his way, but I wasn’t going to say Obama was going to win, because the data was not there for that either. There was no data on either side. But, the indications were that Romney momentum had slowed, and 9% of those who voted made up their mind on the way to the polling place. And most of those people voted for Barack Obama. You’re telling me that if Romney had not had a kick-butt performance on this program on Monday night…? Last minute deciders. The president only won the election by less than three million popular votes. That is nothing. Nothing. And if you look a the map, the Hispanic vote killed him in Florida, Colorado, and Nevada. The Hispanics just wiped him out there, and the Hispanic vote was enough in Virginia in a very close race, to put the president over the top. So, that is four vital states that Hispanic Americans turned in. Romney could not have done anything with that crew. Because he had said in the primaries, illegal aliens should self-deport. And, nobody really knew what that meant, and it sounded kind of ominous.

So, I think the Romney campaign realized that they could not make any inroads. But, in order to counter the African American and Hispanic American vote, you had to overwhelm the white working class vote – both male and female. He did not overwhelm. He performed well, but he did not overwhelm. And he could have overwhelmed, by really being blunt at the end and saying look, if you vote for Barack Obama, this country may indeed go bankrupt and you can just kiss your savings goodbye. And he would have had the data to back it up. He didn’t do it, just like he didn’t do Libya.

So, anyway – fascinating race. We respect everybody’s vote, as long as it was honest and heartfelt. President Obama has got to be under a lot of pressure now. He has only got two years to turn the economy around. If he doesn’t do it in 2014 in the congressionals, I mean he is going to get whacked – he will lose both houses. And then by 2016, the whole Democratic Party will evaporate if the economy does not improve. So you won’t have a Democratic party, it will be gone. Not literally gone, but people gave Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt in this vote. They were very generous to President Obama, the American people. If he fails to turn the economy around, that generosity is going to be withdrawn with a vengeance. It will be very fascinating to see, and we will be here, I hope, every step of the way.

Monday, November 5, 2012

2012-11-06T01:02:00Z

I know most of you will vote – I would say probably 90% of Factor Premium Members will vote tomorrow. Because, you guys are obviously invested in your country, you take an interest, you pay attention to programs like this and websites like this. So, I don’t have to say please get out and vote – because I know you will. [The] last Rasmussen poll has Mitt Romney, 49%, Barack Obama 48%. Four years ago, it was Barack Obama 52% in Rasmussen, John McCain 46%. And Rasmussen turned out to be correct last time. So, just for your frame of reference, Rasmussen has it pretty much tied – 49-48 is a dead heat with the margin of error. Now, as I said in the Talking Points Memo, it is very, very difficult for me because I am a big mouth. I like to go out and walk that high wire and make those predictions. But, I am talking to all my sources – the one thing I know for sure – and I actually told this to the Romney campaign because we were having discussions about having the governor do an interview with me over the weekend – which he did not do, instead choosing to do Monday Night Football this evening. You can decide whether that choice benefits Mr. Romney. Anyway, I knew that Hurricane Sandy, and the economic data on Friday, would blunt the governor’s momentum because, the news coverage shifts away from him. Simple as that. It is nothing that Romney did – it is the news coverage shifts away from his campaign stops, and on to the devastation of Sandy, and the economic data that was released on Friday. Which most of the media spun towards the president’s advantage.

Now, that doesn’t take a genius to figure out. This is what I do for a living – I analyze the news. So, in attempting to get the governor to come on The Factor the Monday – tonight – before the election – I said to them, the way you blunt that is to do an interview with me that will be heavily promoted over the weekend, and everybody turns their attention back to the governor. Make sense? Make sense to everybody? Because we know what we are doing here. It is no accident that we have been on top for 12 years. No accident that Killing Kennedy is number 1 and Killing Lincoln is number 3 after 56 weeks – those are not accidents. We know what we are doing. We know how to market, we know how to reach people, we know how to be provocative. Now. The Romney people chose not to do the interview with me – or anybody else. It’s not just personal, I don’t think Mitt Romney cares one way or the other about me – he is not like Chris Christie who doesn’t like me for whatever reason. And believe me, I am not angry about that – I am kind of mystified, but I just pointed out that while it is personal with Christie, it is not with Romney.

Now, we knew why President Obama would not do the interview – it’s Libya. He knows I am going to ask him about Libya and he does not want to answer the question. So that effectively eliminated him from the interview process – and we knew that. I still tried, but we knew that it wasn’t going to happen. But, Mitt Romney, I think, has a story to tell – a pretty compelling story. So, why not tell it on a program that reaches millions and millions of independent voters, everybody in the country will be dialed in on it. It will be on every website in the world the moment the interview ended – why not do it? I don’t know, you tell me – you e-mail me and tell me why he didn’t do it. I don’t know, I think it was a mistake just like John McCain and Kerry told me. Both of them told me, “We should have done it, O’Reilly. Should’ve done it.” History repeats itself. Now, tomorrow at 7 o’clock, Kelly and Baier come on the Fox News Channel. I will be doing a little bit of analysis around 8 o’clock, but you know, there is not a lot for me to do because I will be provocative and that is not what election night is all about. It is exciting enough, you don’t need me stirring the pot up, but I will be on for a little while around 8 o’clock.

But anyway, at 7, Virginia and Florida polls close. Now, they stay open a little bit in the panhandle of Florida, so you have that. But, Baier and Kelly are going to have data. They are going to have data at 7 for you guys. Of course, we do not know what that data is, although I can call, as I said in the Talking Points, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia for Romney right now, and Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts for Obama! I wish it weren’t that way, I wish all states were balanced, but they are not. That is just the way it is.

So, anyway, things are exciting – this is a very important week for the country. I really like the poll that 79% of you think we have been fair throughout the campaign, and only 21% think we haven’t been. That is an overwhelming compliment to The Factor, because there are a lot of viewers here who have a lot of opposing points of view. Some of you guys get mad at me when I criticize Mitt Romney. We don’t have a lot of hardcore Obama people writing in here, but we certainly have a lot of Obama voters – people who voted for him and may vote [for him] again, and independent people, they watch the program. No doubt about it. I mean, every liberal soiree I go to, people come up to me and they watch it. So, to have 79% of the viewers think that we did a fair job is very complimentary, and we worked hard. We work hard here. I will talk to you again tomorrow. We will do the Talking Points tomorrow even though The Factor isn’t on per se, I will have special Talking Points for you guys about the election. I will probably do it a bit later, we will try to get it up by 8:30 or 9 when we have some returns in.

Friday, October 26, 2012

2012-10-26T23:57:00Z

We’ve got this hurricane whipping up the East Coast, nobody really knows where it is going to make landfall. I postponed my appearance tonight in Florida; we will do that on January 18, which is a great time to be in South Florida by the way. So, if you want to come down and have some fun, we will be there. That is a Friday.

Big campaign weekend in the sense that we are having a lot of new stuff on this Libya thing. It still has not gotten traction, but I think it is going to next week, because now we had the Americans calling for help in the firefight - help was denied by the CIA, apparently. Petraeus is a very, very astute patriot – [he is] the head of the CIA, General David Petraeus. So, I can’t imagine – it has got to be underlings who screwed that up. Four-hour firefight, you do not know whether Petraeus knew about it, whether he was told about it. Certainly, President Obama probably did not know about it real time. Again, you just don’t know.

What we can say is that, after the fact, the Obama administration totally botched this. 100%. The president still is not forthcoming, and the press is not pushing him, as we said. So, I expect this thing to get a little traction next week, among the voters. And, certainly Mitt Romney could be highlighting this, but he has chosen not to. He is playing it very safe, the governor. We are again efforting an interview with him next week. We just don’t know if that is going to happen – I am trying. We will tell you, of course.

That is the big news story – the hurricane coming up and, you know, when this happens, everybody panics, they’re getting water, they are digging fallout shelters, all this stuff. It is going to be a big storm – okay. Last Halloween up here it snowed. You just got to roll with it. So, we are following that, we are following the presidential election. Monday we are going to have John McCain on the program. He is really angry – REALLY angry – about this Libya stuff. And I’ve known the senator a long time – as angry as I’ve ever seen him. So, he is going to be on and we are going to let him go, he is going to say whatever he wants. And, I talked to the Obama people at the highest level, and I said, “look, we are ready to have the president come on and answer some questions in a respectful way.”

Do I expect that to happen? No. Could it happen? Yes. Like, a 10 to 1 shot. I think Romney is 50-50, and the president is 10 to 1.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

2012-10-25T21:40:00Z

You guys down south, I hope you are going to dodge Hurricane Sandy. Unfortunately I was supposed to get down to Broward County, and give a speech tomorrow night at the Hard Rock Hotel. Can’t do it. Can’t get out of here, can’t land in Florida, so we postponed that to January 18, which is a great time to be in Florida. So, we will have a lot of fun then. You guys who bought tickets – we will see you then. The guys who did not, that is a good time to fly down there and see us…

One thing came in very late that I did not have time to work into the program. Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense, says that yes, the Defense Department knew what was going in Benghazi but could not deploy forces because they did not know what exactly the targets were, and they did not want to kill any friendlies. That makes sense. That makes sense, it was a battle over a few hours, but a few hours, when you are talking about air power and drones and things like that – a few hours means very very little. So, you don’t want to be carpet bombing people or droning people and you don’t know what you are shooting at. So, I understand. But that does not excuse the administration’s utter lack of candor about what happened in Benghazi.

You got the polling; we gave you everything that we had that is relevant. It does not look like the third debate had any real effect except it might have – and this is speculation – it might have helped Romney with women because, according to the Associated Press, he is now drawing even in women, and was behind. So, Romney’s demeanor of not attacking, being fairly passive, might have helped him with women. Again, speculation. If it were me, I would have gone for the knockout punch. I don’t think the governor has knocked out the president in this race. I think either man could win. I think this time next week, you will start to see a break one way or the other, and it could literally go either way. I do not subscribe to Dick Morris’s landslide scenario. Although, the Michigan poll – very interesting – it is a tie there. And that is an indicator that the president might be weakening, because Michigan is obviously a Democratic state with Detroit dominating that state.

So, anyway, look. We are on it, we are going to report accurately, without ideology. I hope that is what you want, I hope that is why you are Premium Members. I know you guys get annoyed sometimes because you are rooting for one candidate or the other, or whatever. But, it is much better if I just give you the facts. You always know where I stand – I am always going to tell you that. But, I am not going to root or spin or do any of that. I think… it doesn’t serve you well for me to do that. There are plenty of other programs that do that.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

2012-10-24T20:32:00Z

Lots of stuff going on – in fact, I am running out to tape the David Letterman show in support of Killing Kennedy. Last night, Letterman criticized Barack Obama, my heavens! What is going on? He said the president misstated Mitt Romney’s position on the auto company bankruptcies during the third debate, and Letterman was teed off about it. That is interesting, isn’t it? So, we will chat about that tonight I think a little bit.

Polling today does not really matter, so I did not use anything but the Iowa stuff in our discussion there. I will just tell you: swing states – Rasmussen in Ohio – Obama 48%, Romney 46%. Dead heat. Virginia – Obama 50%, Romney 45%. This is an Old Dominion University poll, which I do not believe, and I promise you that, after the election, you know, obviously we are going to see who wins and all that, but the polling that was wrong and misleading, I will highlight in the Talking Points Memo, so that you will all know next time around who is good and who isn’t good…. We use Rasmussen because Rasmussen was right in the last two elections. I am a fact-based guy; I go with the guys who are the best. Gallup too, Gallup is very accurate – not as accurate as Rasmussen, but very accurate.

It is all small-ball today. This, the Navy, bayonets, all of that – I just don’t get involved with that. We are working feverishly here to try to get interviews with both the president and the governor. Obviously, there is danger for them to do that – it is a tough interview. I hope they do. We will know pretty much by this time next week, and I will report back to you. I would not be surprised if both of them do not do it. Obviously the governor is playing it cautious now, we saw that in the third debate. And the president, I guess they are polling everyday – and we do not have access to their internal polling. If he has to do it, he will do it, but if he doesn’t – he won’t.

Because, again, [if] they come in here, they are going to have to answer the questions – unlike the debates!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

2012-10-23T22:48:00Z

Let me give you the CNN poll numbers after the debate last night. I’ll give you the whole thing:

48% of registered voters – not likely voters, registered voters, which means, people who don’t pay attention as much – said that President Obama won the debate, 40% say Romney won. Alright, so that is fairly close. 60% say the president did a better job in the debate than they had expected. Okay. Obama won because of his aggressive strategy – that is what the feeling was in the snap poll. The bottom line is that half of those questions asked at the debate did not effect how they would vote. 25% say they are more likely to vote for Romney and 25% more likely to vote for Obama – so, it is a wash. It doesn’t mean a thing – which is what I thought.

So, look. Why Governor Romney is doing what he is doing is subject to speculation. You heard my speculation – he is going for the woman vote. He does not want to be confrontational - he wants to be presidential. He feels that, by not engaging in a back and forth with the president, he comes across as more of a statesman and women will like that more. Romney realizes that white men will vote overwhelmingly for him, that blacks will vote overwhelmingly for the president, that Hispanics will go probably 60/40 for the president, and he needs women – white women – to vote for him. That is how these guys do it; they break it down into categories. And he is about 9 points behind [with] white women, so that is why I think he did what he did.

Chris Wallace reported that Romney himself made the decision – not his surrogates and advisors – to not go after President Obama. Now, what do I think? I think it is a mistake. I think you can be statesmanlike and presidential, and at the same time say, “what the heck? I am an American; I would like to know why those four Americans are dead in Benghazi. I am getting fifteen different stories from you guys. What happened? How come you are not holding a press conference? Why aren’t you explaining? Why did your ambassador and press spokesperson say it was video-generated when you knew the CIA said it was terrorism?”

Those are legitimate questions, and I do not think women are going to hold it against Mitt Romney for asking them. Maybe I am wrong, but I have been very successful on this program, and we have about 55-45% men to women here, it used to be 52-48%, which was the best in the news business for women, 52% men, 48% women – now it is 55-45. WE slipped a little bit, and I do not know what to attribute that to. I don’t know, maybe I am getting older and more wrinkly. I don’t know! We have a tremendous amount, as you know, of women contributors. We of course want to hear the female point of view on everything, and we do not patronize women. We aren’t saying, “yeah, you can’t really take the tough debate” – we do not do that. So that is what Mitt Romney did. He made that decision not to really go after the president based upon not wanting to offend women. Maybe it will work – and maybe I am wrong. I am saying this definitively – I do not know definitively.

I would like to ask the governor, but we do not know if the governor is coming in. We are hoping he will. You know, if the governor comes in and Barack Obama does not, I mean, the governor wins big – even if he doesn’t do that well in the Q and A with me, he wins big just by coming on in. So, we are trying to get that across to the Obama people. Very interesting times we are living in – two weeks from today we will vote!

Friday, October 19, 2012

2012-10-20T01:11:00Z

Pretty stunning turn of events now, we are watching in the polling around the country. And you heard the two guests tonight. The one guy form Vegas – he is a gut player, but the professor from Boulder, in the University of Colorado, he is a serious guy. The problem is that, as I mentioned twice, and I think you guys have got to take this into account as well if you are following it closely, the presidential race this time has much more emotion in it than it did in Jimmy Carter/Reagan, or even Bush/Gore. There is a lot of emotion invested in Barack Obama by a lot of Americans – minorities particularly. So, how is that going to play out? If the minority crew comes out to the same extent they did four years ago, I think the president will win. Nobody anticipates that – everybody thinks there is going to be a lower turnout among black Americans and Hispanic Americans – and probably higher among white men, who are President Obama’s weakest crew. If that holds, then Mitt Romney will win. But that is why the polling is all over the place – because turnout, nobody really knows how that is going to come down.

But I have said this from the very beginning. I knew that Mitt Romney would win the Republican nomination, and I thought he would win the election – and I have not wavered from that. It is my job to challenge Dick Morris and all these guys who say, “Yeah, it is going to be a walk in the park.” You know, that is what I do. But, my personal beliefs – and this is just for you guys, because I am not going to say [it] on the air. Maybe I will the last day before the vote – and we are going to have a Town Hall meeting, by the way – just for you Premium Members – the night before the election. I might say I think that the governor is going to win. If he does well on Monday – and there shouldn’t be any doubt that he should do well, because it is not a complicated situation – I can’t see how Barack Obama is going to overcome that.

Now, we are trying to get both candidates on The Factor. So far, both of them are not indicating they are going to come on, unfortunately. And I am going to have to report that. And, I am surprised at the Romney campaign. I am not surprised at the Obama campaign. Even though we’ve been fair to them, they know that it will be very rigorous – it will be rigorous for the governor too, but the governor is going to reach an awful lot of people if comes on this program. Not just the people who watch, but after we go off the air, everything we say goes on the world wide Internet. And people see it. So, the governor can win big – especially if he comes on and Obama doesn’t come on. So, I don’t know… I can’t run their campaigns for them. McCain didn’t come on last time – he regrets it. Kerry didn’t come on – he regrets it. I wish they could talk to Mitt Romney. But I am not giving up! I am not giving up. And I am not going to really pound it until, I would say, Halloween. If we don’t have them nailed down by then, then we are not going to get them.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

2012-10-18T23:11:00Z

This “binder” business – [it is] insane. Insane. Somebody said to me today, “Look. You know what this is all about, really. It is about… diverting attention away from Barack Obama’s economic plan – which is kind of nonexistent at the moment – and getting into small-ball controversies, which are just a waste of time. [It is] just to divert everybody’s attention.”

I think there is something to that, because this is so ridiculous. And, I’ve been through this over the sixteen years I’ve been doing this analysis business. You know, they will cherry-pick something I say and they will blow it up into some big thing and distort the meaning of what I am trying to get across. But this – binder? Women in a binder? That’s offensive? It gets to the point where you are being so harmful to the country by chaining free speech that you become the problem! And I think the ACLU has done that. It is fascism. If we don’t like what you say, we are going to find a way to brand you racist or a homophobe, or whatever… Now, the binder business. The reason I even bothered with it is to show you absurd it is, and how this can become an issue out of a presidential debate that had some pretty serious issues in it.

We are going to have some new polling tomorrow about the presidential race, which will reflect what happened in…Tuesday’s debate. Next Monday is the next one. And, that will be interesting, to see if Barack Obama gained any ground – because he is losing – or, was losing – all over the place, as Gallup pointed out. The seven-day tracking poll has got him down by 6 – and that has got to worry the Democratic power structure. That is a big number. I expect that the president will make kind of a mini-comeback over the weekend. But then, Monday, he has got to really explain what happened in Libya and why it is such a mess. Why is it such a mess? I will be interested to hear it, and I am sure you will be too.

We are doing a live show on Monday, and we got a great lineup for next week, because we really only have two more weeks before the election!

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

2012-10-17T20:54:00Z

Good debate last night… The only thing that disturbed me was Candy Crowley not putting things into perspective at a very crucial time. And, I cannot make an excuse for Ms. Crowley. We put in a call – I do not believe she will come on the program, but I want to talk to her about it, because when you insert yourself at that level, you better be right. And she was not. Now, a lot of people – like Katie Couric demonstrated – they don’t really understand what the subtleties of this are. They do not understand what the president did, and we still do not know who pulled the security teams, why Rice and Jay Carney were out there saying something that was not true – we don’t know any of that. And Romney, it his job, I think, on Monday in the foreign policy debate, to zero in on this and try to get some answers. He can just conduct himself as a journalist if he wants to.

So, I just finished writing my newspaper column – it will be out tomorrow, I want you guys to read it if you can. Because basically, Romney is not taking advantage of the openings that he is being given. It is not that he is doing anything bad – he didn’t do badly last night, I don’t think he hurt himself. I think the president helped himself - I don’t know if Mitt Romney did or not. But, Romney did not hurt himself, and it is so close now that you basically have to be almost mistake-free. But, still, the president has a record – and some of that record is disturbing, and you’ve got to highlight it – and the governor really doesn’t hone in on that. He looks to me to be over-rehearsed; too many things that he wants to say, that they told him to say – you know, that kind of situation. So, at this point, anything could happen as they say. Anything could happen!

Monday night, I expect a big Libya component, a big Iran component. The president is going to take credit for Bin Laden’s death, the drone thing – as well he should. You’ve got a Guantanamo thing there that Romney can go into, you’ve got a whole bunch of other stuff. So, the third debate will be the least exciting of the three – I don’t expect any big fireworks, unless the polls come out over the weekend – Friday, Saturday, Sunday – and show that one or the other really got hurt (which would surprise me), but if one or the other gets hurt, then he will have to really pull out all the stops on Monday.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

2012-10-17T02:36:00Z

Everybody is anticipating the debate, and some of you will be listening to this after having seen the debate… I am not Kreskin; I have no idea. But I will tell you as I told you in the Talking Points that it is do or die for President Obama tonight. [It is an] interesting situation, how things change so fast in this country, with the 24-hour cable and Internet. Anyway, tomorrow we will have the best coverage. You know what we do. We will take it very methodically down the line with no dog in the hunt, no sping. We will tell you who won, who didn’t win, who did well, who didn’t do well. I expect both candidates to do pretty well tonight. I would be surprised if either one of them blows it. It is a pretty easy format. Romney has got an awful lot of ammo. The new Libya stuff, the folding of another green outfit, I mean he has really got ammo. But we will see how he uses it, you know?

I always put myself in the position of everybody I am covering, so I put myself in the governor’s position and in the president’s position. And, if it were me, I would rather be in the governor’s position tonight. Because, I know what the president is going to say, “well, this guy doesn’t have any plan, and he is always blowing smoke, so, hey – what is your plan, pal?” And the governor has got to [say], “well, here is my plan! This is what I am going to do.” And, if he does that, it could be over.

That is where we are. We appreciate you guys being Premium Members… We raised an awful lot of money from The Rumble; I don’t have the final figures yet, but I am going to give, I think, close to a half a million dollars to charity from that dopey debate. Can you imagine that? I mean that is really good. We will keep you posted on that – we are not going to make it public on that, [it is] for you guys, because you are the vanguard.

Monday, October 15, 2012

2012-10-16T00:15:00Z

Everything is heading toward the debate tomorrow night. Which, obviously, if Romney does well, I think, will put him over the top. I could be wrong. But I think if Governor Romney equips himself well tomorrow night, if he shows the same kind of dominance, he wins. Because I don’t think Romney can lose on the foreign policy debate – not with the Libya thing. So, I think the president has got to come out smoking – but he cannot be Biden. He can’t be rude. If he tries that, he is going to get smacked because Biden, I think hurt himself (as I said in the Talking Points Memo), but nobody really cared. If you are a president and you do that… that is not presidential. So, say he was making noises or laughing condescendingly, or any of that, that is not going to play.

And here is something very interesting that I did not report tonight. A new Politico/George Washington University battleground poll – and George Washington University was where I was with Stewart - says that likely voters put the president and Mitt Romney pretty much at the same likability – 49% to 48%. Remember, before the debate, Romney’s likability [was] way down. Way down. And, in certain states, Politico has Romney up, 50% to 48% in likability. Is that important? Yes, it is important. Because there are people who go in [and think], “oh, who do I like better?” Not everybody is as astute as you guys are, paying attention and involved. A lot of people vote on emotion, and if they like somebody – I swear to God, that is why Bush beat Kerry. That is why Bush beat Kerry – people liked him better. And, despite the problems we were having in Iraq, they did not like Kerry. He came across as aristocratic, and kind of snobbish. That is why Bush one – because people liked Bush. Maybe they did not like his policies, that much, but he seemed to be a good guy. That means a lot.

So, anyway, we’ve got a big, big show tomorrow. The pre-debate show, and then, of course, on Wednesday, [we are] analyzing the debate. You know what you get here. Our ratings are enormous. We will tell you the truth – not spinning it any way. You are going to get the straight story, and what happened. So I hope you will be tuning in this week.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

2012-10-12T03:04:00Z

[This will be] a short one tonight, because obviously I do not really have an update on the election until I get an opinion on who is doing what in the VP debate tonight. It is not going to mean that much, because the ideological battle is between Romney and Obama, but it will mean something – particularly to those of us who analyze news for a living.

I know exactly what I would do if I were debating Vice President Biden. I am going to tell you – I wouldn’t tell Congressman Ryan, I wouldn’t say this on TV but I’ll tell you guys. You basically come in with five stats, very simple stats. The first one is: $16 trillion debt, $6 trillion of it – run up by Obama/Biden. And, the rejection of the Simpson-BOLLES committee recommendation for cuts. So, you just basically say, “Look. You can blame whatever you want to blame on Bush. It ain’t gonna fly anymore. You guys ran up the debt, the economy has not improved that much, and your own commission recommended cuts, and you won’t do it.” That is a devastating one-two punch. Bing-bang.

Now, Biden is going to do the two-step, but everybody will know it, so you keep it simple. Those are the first two things I’d hit him with. The third thing is: I would bring up Libya. I would go, “can you explain to me what the hell happened there?” I don’t know if Ryan should use the word “hell,” I would. We’ve got four dead Americans, and you guys do not know what is going on? Who told Rice to go out? You are the vice president and you don’t know who told her? Simple, effective: “what happened?” Put him on the defensive; don’t let him off. “What happened?”

Four. You come in and you say, “Look. This is a battle between Liberal forces, like you and the president, who want a Western European model, and, traditional Conservative forces like Governor Romney and myself, who want self-reliance and robust capitalism. Do you not understand that if you continue to run up debt at this rate, the United States will be like Greece, and there will be rioting in the streets? Do you not get that?” Let’s see what he says about that – I would be very curious to see what Biden says about that. You’ve got a collapsing economy in Southern Europe; you’ve got the Euro almost out the door, because of the entitlement society.

And then, finally, and this is the crusher: you don’t want to reform Medicare, Mr. Vice President, and we do not have any money left for it. So, what is going to happen? What are you going to do? You don’t want vouchers, you don’t want to raise the age, you don’t want any reform at all, so what is going to happen? Very specific. Bing, bing , bang, boom, bah. You see, that is how you do it. Because those are simple statements, they are backed by fact. You can’t deny them. And, you put him in a corner where he has to explain stuff that, I don’t know if he can explain…I would be fascinated to hear the explanations.

Now, if I am Biden, I try to rattle Ryan really early. I pick up a couple of inconsistencies that he has said – I am sure they are out there. And say, “hey – you said this on that, and now you are saying this – what is it? Romney wants this, you want that, what is the deal?” Try to rattle him – that is what I would do if I were Biden.

We are watching it, and of course you will have my analysis shortly.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

2012-10-10T20:31:00Z

I am going to the Yankee playoff game tonight, so of course I am compacting everything before I go up there. I am going with my pal Donald Trump, who is going to tell me that President Obama was born in Zimbabwe… He really believes this stuff – and I know some of you do too, but I will tell you once again that we checked it out – and our guys are the best in the business. They are just the best. So, if they say that the president was born in Honolulu, and his birth certificate is legit, and the newspapers there ran the birth announcement, I am believing it.

Now, the big story today is this Libya fiasco. Hillary Clinton – oh my God. I mean, there is just no way you get around withdrawing security out of there, and then your ambassador turns up assassinated. So, it is going to be really interesting to see, because Hillary Clinton wants to be president. It will be really interesting to see who turns on President Obama, if anyone, because there is obviously a lot of unanswered questions here. Somebody knows the answers to them. I mean, who told Susan Rice the U.N. ambassador would go out there and say it was a spontaneous demonstration off a crazy tape? Who told him that? Susan Rice did not do that on her own, who told her to do that? Was it Mr. Obama? Was it Hillary Clinton? Was it David Axelrod? Was it Barney Frank? I mean, who? So, that question has got to be answered. You saw the tap dance that Jay Carney did today with Ed Henry grilling him. I mean, that was crazy.

I don’t know if this is going to be a game changer in this country, but I do know this: the Boca Raton debate coming up in Florida is all on foreign affairs. That is the last debate. And, if I am Romney, I am just sharpening the knives here. That is on Monday the 22of October, and if this isn’t resolved by the 22^nd, I am going in and going, “listen I, Mitt Romney, an American citizen, need to know who told Rice to go out and say that!” And the president has to go either, “I don’t know,” or name the person. And, if he doesn’t know, what does that say about a foreign policy leader? So Romney has got a huge “gotcha!” – enormous – coming down the road. I would not waste it if I were Romney, on the town hall debate. I might say, “I am little confused about all this Libya stuff, I hope you are going to be able to tell us what happened Mr. President!” But I would drop that bomb on him on the 22^nd – big time – if it is not answered by then. That is a fascinating thing coming down the pike.

And, the fact that the Obama administration excluded Fox News from the conference call by the State Department yesterday, I thought that was pretty insulting. I mean, yeah we are covering the story, but if we are not covering it correctly, you can get anybody you want on The Factor anytime you want. That offer is always open to the Obama administration. If you want to put someone on there and explain it, we are ready to lead with you any day you want. So, don’t be excluding us from conference calls. And, if you think we have been unfair – come on and say it, you know? There you go.

So anyway, lots of stuff percolating. We are really happy that you guys are Premium Members. Welcome to the thousands of new Premium Members that are in. If you have not renewed your membership, this is a good time to do so because you get a free copy of either ‘Killing Kennedy,’ ‘Killing Lincoln,’ or ‘Lincoln’s Last Days,’ for the kids. If you have already done that, you can buy a copy of ‘Killing Kennedy,’ you get Lis Wiehl’s ‘Darkness Rising’ thriller. So, if you have a copy, that means you get two more books in the tent – for the price of one – and Christmas is coming up. You can give them as gifts – people love those gifts! And they are very inexpensive, so think ahead. That is what I always do.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

2012-10-09T23:51:00Z

From here on in, because we only have four more weeks before the vote, I am going to do the No Spin News every night on the election, if you don’t mind. If you do mind, let me know through the message boards, but I think it is more instructive for me to give you some inside baseball about the election at this point than the other stories.

I was on The View today and, you never know what you are going to get when you go on that program, because Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are very, very devoted liberals. So, when I walk in there, I am on my guard – anything could happen. Today was a love-fest with the ladies. No challenges. They asked me a few political questions about the election, I answered honestly as I always do, I gave them the facts. Usually [there is] sniping and the little petty stuff – not even Behar today! Most of it was on ‘Killing Kennedy,’ which is why I go over there anyway – if I have a book to promote, I reach an audience at The View that I might not reach at The Factor – and that’s why I do it. Same thing with Letterman. They couldn’t have been nicer.

So, what do I learn from that? Number one, I think that the left is very, very frightened right now. They see it slipping away, and they don’t really know how to react to it. The initial reaction from the Obama administration was to call Mitt Romney a liar – that is not working. Independent Americans do not want to hear that kind of stuff. That is just for zealots, so they stopped doing that today. They don’t really know how to spin it. So, I think it is basically okay. We’ve got a week before the next presidential debate, and we are just going to basically do nothing until that happens. Now, you have the Ryan/Biden thing on Thursday – not very much going to happen there in my opinion – unless somebody makes an enormous error. Which is possible – they are only human beings. Ryan got a little miffed at a reporter today. He was asking some kind of gun control/tax question. Ryan has got to realize that most of the press is not his friend, and they are going to try to trip him up. And the way you diffuse that stuff is basically by saying, “come on!” and just making a joke out of it. Or, if you really want to get attention, then you say, “listen, you pinhead, that is an unfair question.” You can do both – I’ve done both. It depends on what I want to accomplish.

I don’t expect to see much out of the vice presidential debate, unless Ryan goes after Biden – and I don’t think he is going to. I think Ryan is just going to basically explain his position on economics and tie it into, “look, unless we stop this crazy spending, then the country is going to go off the cliff.” Biden is Biden – he is probably going to try out a whole bunch of stuff – “you want the rich people to get more money,” and all of that. Ryan should be able to handle it, because Ryan is on a budget committee, he knows what he is talking about as far as fiscal matters are concerned. To me, it is probably going to be a standoff.

Now, next Tuesday is going to be an interesting situation, as I mentioned on the show. It is a town hall, where you are going to have people asking questions in a long-winded way, and the questions are going to be generalized so that the candidates will be able to answer whatever they want to answer. So, are you going to have knockout punches there? I don’ think so, unless somebody attacks one of the others – Romney goes after Obama, Obama goes after Romney. That is not their style. I am not seeing that that is going to be a game changer. So, right now, momentum is with the Romney campaign – you are seeing it all over the country. If Romney can get one more – one more! – advantage somehow, somewhere – he is going to win. He needs one more, because right now it is a dead heat.

Monday, October 8, 2012

2012-10-09T04:18:00Z

I thought The Rumble turned out okay, for the reasons that I outlined on the program. We raised a lot of money for charity, which makes me happy. We appreciate all you guys who have checked it out. If you haven’t seen it, it is worth your while. It’s really worth your while, because Jon Stewart epitomizes what the left wing in this country believes. You can really see that, up against the facts that I presented, it’s just like Obama and Romney – it is tough for these guys to really defend It. You are spending all of this money, and we just don’t have it and they don’t want to stop spending it. So, it’s kind of frightening.

Other than that, we did a very nice situation on Killing Kennedy. 250,000 copies sold in the first five days. Which blows away anything I’ve ever done, and the publishing industry is amazed. I think you guys are going to enjoy the book, you are going to learn a lot. And the next book we are going to announce before Christmas – it is going to blow the barn doors off everything. I can’t tell you any more than that for competitive reasons, but I really appreciate you guys being loyal Premium Members. We’ve got a couple of thousand new members – we hope you are enjoying Premium membership, on the message boards and talking to tall the folks. I think we have a really good crew of sane, smart people who help charities galore, so - all good right now. We will see you again tomorrow.

Friday, October 5, 2012

2012-10-05T19:14:00Z

[The] unemployment rate dropped, and that is good news for the country, so, you know, it disappoints me when I hear conservative ideologues on the radio and television trying to downplay good economic news, because they want to get Mitt Romney elected. That’s not the way to go about it. The election is going to be decided by independents, not ideological people. We all know that. And, if you come of [as] irrational and destructive in your criticisms of President Obama, that is going to drive independents toward him.

It is the same thing we did in the lead story tonight. With the Democratic Party unbelievably, I don’t think I’ve ever really seen anything like it, attacking Mitt Romney as a liar. I mean, not only… do they look like sore losers, but, they are so nasty that independent fair-minded people are going to say, “You know what? We need a break from these people, we are going to go the other way.” And the same things hold true on the conservative precincts. If you get good economic news, that the unemployment rate drops, celebrate it! It doesn’t mean anything really. If it gets President Obama a few votes, so be it. The real number, as I discussed with Lou Dobbs, is take-home pay. And take- home pay is more abundant in this country because there is no competition. For every job opening there are ten people – I shouldn’t say there is no competition for the jobs, there is plenty of competition for the jobs- but there is no competition for salaries because the employer can say, “Look, you can take it or leave it! You don’t like it? I’ve got nine other people who will take it.” So, they don’t have to give big raises – they don’t even have to offer a salary that you would have gotten four years ago. And that is why the median salaries are down $5,000.

That is what is important. And, most of these jobs on the 7.8% are part –time jobs, but that is okay. You want to have people working no matter what you can have them [doing]. You are basically looking at a situation where, even though there is passion, and there is a lot of animosity toward President Obama, and Mitt Romney, by ideologues, you have got to rise above that.

Now. The Rumble. I am hoping you guys will all tune in, and pay the five bucks, because it is a big charity concern obviously. Even if you don’t want to watch it, give us the power to help The Wounded Warriors, and The Fisher House, and a bunch of children’s charities… Now, what am I going to do? I am going to do what I always do with Stewart and Letterman and Leno and these guys. They are professional comedians; they come at it from a largely scripted point of view. I’m sure Stewart’s guys are working now to put him in the best light. I’ll hear what he has to say, and then I’ll counterpunch, just like I did last night, you know? I don’t know what I am going to say: I have no idea. I have one surprise up my sleeve that I think will be pretty entertaining. I’ll bring that in with me. But, other than that, it is basically Edie Hill is going to ask us the questions, and we are going to answer them. We will have some Q and A on cards – we can’t have people doing it, because they will go crazy and vamp and all that. It is going to be a really interesting, fun, 90 minutes. So, on Monday we will discuss what happened.

We are getting a lot of publicity. [There is a] big cover story on The Washington Post Entertainment Guide today. And not so many cheap shots – I was ready for the cheap shot alley. They are kind of holding back on that, the mainstream media. Interesting. I think I know why but I am not going to speculate. We will see how it goes down. So, it should be a lot of fun, and look. I am in business to do two things: number one to look out for you, to protect you. If there are bad things happening, you are going to know about them from me. And, number two to raise as much money as I can for people who need it. I mean, that is – those are the two things that I am in business to do. And, if I couldn’t do those things, I wouldn’t be on TV anymore. And that is the God’s honest truth. I would retire, I’d travel the world, I’d write my books, I’d lay on the beach. I’ve done what I wanted to do. I’ve succeeded, way beyond what I ever thought I’d succeed. So, I don’t have anything to prove. And, I am not looking for another job or anything like that. So, as long as I can do the two things that I want to do, the two things that I think are very positive, I’ll do them. If tomorrow, News Corp changed direction and said, “Hey, Bill, you’ve got to do, X, Y, and Z,” I would say, “See you, thanks a lot guys.” And, if tomorrow they said I couldn’t promote my charities and things like that, I would say “see ya.” But we don’t expect that to happen.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

2012-10-05T03:02:00Z

Last night, it wasn’t so much that Mitt Romney won, it was that Barack Obama lost. Not that Mitt Romney was bad, he wasn’t. He did a good job. But, he didn’t land any knockout punches or anything… [that would make you say] whoa, look at that, he flattened him. All the governor did was basically explain himself, and portray himself not as this rich ogre who doesn’t care about you – and that is not hard to do. The governor is a politician; he has been in office a long time. So he knows how to portray himself and how to come across. The stunning part of this, and I said this on that program, is that Barack Obama didn’t even use the 47% thing. That was the biggest cannon he had. Now, you figure that Mitt Romney had an explanation for that, but still, you drop it, and you see where it goes. So the president, I don’t know – I can’t tell you why he did what he did. And no one else can with certainty either. Unless one of the people from his campaign would come forth, and say, “look, this is what was going on.” And I don’t believe that is going to happen because the Obama campaign is very tight, they don’t talk out of school. You might get some anonymous sources, that kind of thing, next week.

All right, going forward – what’s going on? Basically, you have a situation where Mitt Romney has momentum. Now, we don’t know what is going to happen after the 16^th, but he has, now, almost two weeks, 12 days, where he can fundraise – and he needs to, because he is being outspent in Florida and Ohio – fundraise, go around, look presidential, and figure out where the next killing field is going to be. And by that I mean, he can’t say the same stuff in the next debate that he said to the president in this debate. He has to come up with new stuff. Now, the president may give him some opportunities, because the president has got to be more aggressive, and he has got to get out there, but I don’t think demonizing Romney is going to work anymore. And, as we all know, Mr. Obama does not have a good economic story to tell. So, Romney, if he plays it very very well, and he plays it smoothly, and he watches and counterpunches, he can keep the president back on his heels. But I do expect a much feistier Barack Obama next time around – he may even be ferocious. Which will be interesting to see.

Mitt Romney’s campaign has the momentum, [it] will close the gap in the polls, [and he] could win the election if he comes off

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

2012-10-03T22:36:00Z

I do not have a lot to tell you about, because obviously we are all watching the debate – I’ve recorded this earlier. And, we are really gearing up for tomorrow’s show, which will be one of the most important in Factor history. So, we hope you tune in tomorrow night. We are going to be – as we always are – very direct, back up what we say, no rooting interest. And I know that tees a lot of you guys off, but I can’t do that. If I do that, what happens is that you fall into what happened at The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC News. You fall into a culture of trying to fit your preference into a factual context. Do you see what I mean?

So, say I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill Kennedy, and I was stubborn in my belief. So that I would look for every fact to divert attention away from what really happened, which is that Oswald did kill Kennedy (if you read Killing Kennedy, we prove it beyond a reasonable doubt). Now, the same thing is true in the news business. So, if I start to do that, then you are not going to get “No Spin.” The No Spin Zone blows up… Now, it is obvious to you, I’m sure, watching the show, that I am not a big government guy, that I believe that the president has mismanaged the economy, and that I think that this country’s power is in decline. It is obvious that I believe that. And, I’ve told you that – I’ve told you why I believe that.

So, when I go to the voting booth, these are things in my mind. But, I am not going to tell you who I vote for, and I am not going to endorse anybody. Now, you can read between the lines if you want, and that is fine. You can speculate. But, tomorrow, what I am going to do is I am going to tell you exactly who won that debate, in my humble opinion, and why. And you might not like the answer! It might not agree with you, but at least I will give you something to think about. Because I don’t know, I am doing this No Spin News before anything is even said. It’s fun. Don’t get too mad at me. I am trying to my job here, and we have done it for 16 years – and we’ve done it well – so I am not going to change the formula.

[This is] an important election, I hope everybody is locked in on it. I think it is very important that people know what is going on in this country, and that is why we are in business, and that is why you are Premium Members.

I’ve got to tell you this – don’t tell anybody! First day sales of Killing Kennedy – both e-book and hardback – more than 100,000. [That is] unheard of with a hardcover nonfiction book – more than 100,000 on a Tuesday. I appreciate it. It is a good book, you will like it.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

2012-10-02T18:46:00Z

A lot of stuff is going on. We have pretty much suspended to polling deal until after the debate. I think next Monday, you will get some accurate polling to show how both candidates do tonight in Denver. I am not making any predictions - I really don’t know. I know what President Obama will do – pretty much nothing, but say the same stuff: “everything is working out, we are moving ahead. Everything is going to be swell.” You are not going to blow him out of that. Romney, I don’t really know what he is going to do – how aggressive he is going to be, what kind of emphasis he is going to put on, his criticisms of the president, his demeanor – whether he is going to be tough but accessible, or he is going to be same old, same old. I don’t think he is going to be that, because he thinks he will lose.

I do believe that, if Romney performs well on Wednesday night, that he is right back in the game. Because I do not think a lot of the support for President Obama among Independents is very deep. He’s got his 40-42%, they love him. But after that, it falls off, and if Romney can present himself as somebody who has got solutions for the future, which is really the key, Romney can pick up some votes.

We’ve got a lot of stuff floating around, but it is not definitive. There’s a lot of, “well, did the White House do this in Libya? Did they do this in Fast and Furious?” I do not think any of this stuff is going to really matter, I think voters are locked in on the pocketbook issues. As bad as Libya could turn out to be – if there is some kind of massive cover-up here that was ordered, I don’t even think you are going to know about it for another six months. So, that is why I am not doing cartwheels as far as reportage is concerned, because there is nowhere for me to go. I can’t advance the story at all.

I think we put it forth pretty accurately about foreign policy tonight. It will be interesting to see if Romney picks up on that – it is a domestic debate. The first half of it will be on economic issues, and then they are going to get into healthcare and some other things – governance, whatever that means. I am not really sure. So you get 50% Wednesday night on the economy and then 50% healthcare and, you know, kind of vision – “what’s your vision?” - I think that is what the governance thing is. I am not expecting any knockout punches, but I do expect Mitt Romney to rise to the occasion. He did in Florida after he got thumped in South Carolina. I think we are going to see that again. A competitive race is good for the country. With the media rooting for the president, I would like to see a competitive race. Because I think that if Barack Obama gets reelected and continues his big, big spending, we are all in trouble. That is where I am coming from.

Friday, September 28, 2012

2012-09-28T20:10:00Z

A lot of people are making a big deal out of the Obama administration for kind of botching the explanation for the assassination of the American ambassador in Libya. We use, of course, Stein on it tonight. Do I think it is a game changer in any or way or an influencer in the election? No, I do not. I do not think Americans are engaged enough in that entire story to have it influence their vote one way or another. If you do not like the president, you feel that he is a screw up, and that this is just another example. Now there are some people that say it is a conspiracy to cover up the fact that they did not protect the ambassador and the Americans over there. Okay, all of that might be true. And, subsequently, in investigations, maybe we will find out more about how they were warned, they did not do anything, X, Y, and Z.

But, I can tell you this – David Petraeus, who runs the CIA, he is a hero in my estimation. He is the general who turned around Iraq, then went to Afghanistan, then the president appointed him director of the CIA. This guy is no screw up. He’s not. Neither is Panetta, the Secretary of Defense. When I heard this stuff, I said, okay, interesting story. I know it is not a game changer. It is going to be forgotten next week because of the debates, which will start to override everything. So, that is why I’ve covered it, but am not jumping up and down and screaming and yelling at this point. I believe Susan Rice should be replaced as the U.N. ambassador, I think that she did the country a huge disservice, and that there is no reason for her to continue to bet there. And, most likely, she was told to do what she did, which was downplay the attack. We would like to know who told her that. I want answers to these questions, but I think I am astute enough to know that, at this point, we are not going to get those answers, until after the vote. No matter what we do.

Alright. The debate [is] next week. Huge news week. Enormous. And you have to assume that Mitt Romney is going to come in knowing that this is it for him. If he botches it, it’s over, and we all go on vacation. I expect the governor to elevate his game. I expect him to be very, very good in that debate. Because I know Romney – he is a very competitive guy, he is a smart guy, and he is a man who has accomplished a lot. And he is going to go in, and he is going to give the president a good dose of, “hey – you are not doing the job.” That is what he is going to do.

Barack Obama is pretty much going to stay where he has been. He is not going to take any chances, because he believes he is going to win on the coalition that he has put together. So he is going to say, “give me a few more years, all of my policies are going to work, it is going to click in, I saved the auto industry, we are going to have a great Obamacare policy, everybody is going to be swell with the entitlements, I am going to help the folks, I am looking out for the folks…” That is what you are going to get. And, you are not going to blow him out of that. I am not expecting any surprises out of the president.

Romney is going to have to find a way to say, like Reagan, “there you go again, you are asking us for more time, you’re asking this, you are asking that. Well, the fact of the matter is that you did [this, this, and this] and it all failed.” The biggest thing he’s got is the income going down for the folks – that is five thousand dollars median income in American households. Down five thousand dollars. That’s big. And the sixteen trillion dollar debt – five trillion of that run up by the president. Romney has got to hammer that home. Now, do Americans care about the sixteen trillion dollar debt? Most of them don’t. But that doesn’t mean anything…the point is that Romney must keep the president on the defense. So, you can do that by hitting him with stats that are not in dispute. The president can’t say, “Oh that is wrong.” And, there are seven or eight of those stats. You’ve got to keep it there.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

2012-09-27T22:28:00Z

What we are on now is the Romney campaign watch. So, we are basically watching how they are managing the governor, to see if they are going to make the same mistakes that John McCain’s people made last time around. In any presidential campaign, there is chaos and confusion. There is competition for leadership, to get face time with the candidate – all of those things are in play, I can tell you, with the Romney campaign. The president has got a little bit of a smoother ride because Axelrod in Chicago pretty much calls all the shots – so that is one guy. But in the Romney campaign there are four or five guys – and that works against the governor. Now, he is spending a lot of time on debate prep – we know that, whereas the president is not spending that much time [on it]. So, the president looks like he has got his story and he is going to stick to it. And that story is:

“I inherited a debacle, I saved the country from a depression – it took longer than I thought, but the actions that I took helped everybody in Ohio and Michigan and we are on the road to recovery. We would not have been, had I not spent all the money.”

You are not going to blow him out of that. That is what he is going to say. Now, the governor is a little bit more complicated. So, the governor has to shake the president, but at the same time sell himself. All the president has to do is defend himself – he only has one thing to do. Romney has got two things to do – he has to get through that defense, and then he’s got to sell himself as a credible candidate. [That is] harder for the governor, in a lot of different ways.

Now, as someone who debates every night, and gets paid very well to do it, I can tell you that Romney is going to have to take some chances. And that goes against his basic makeup. He is much more of a consensus seeker than a confrontational guy. I am a confrontational guy, as you know. He is much more of a peacemaker than a rabble-rouser. Which is good, Americans are looking for stability. But Mitt Romney has got to watch President Obama and see if he leaves an opening. It’s almost like a lawyer in a criminal case, cross-examining a witness. If a witness says something that opens up a line of questioning that is going to be damaging, to either the prosecution or the defense, depending on which side you are on, you go in.

And I expect that Barack Obama will do that, because in my two interviews – which were really debates with the president – he did that. He opened up a few areas for me to go in. In the first interview, during the campaign of 2008, it was the income redistribution stuff. And I nailed him on it. And exactly what I said came true, and he denied it. And then, during the Super Bowl interview, it was the Muslim Brotherhood stuff. And again, I was absolutely right, I am not saying this to brag – it is just that, you will remember both of those things, I think. The president left himself open. Now, Romney has got to be listening really hard in that debate – he can’t be thinking so much about what he is going to say. He has got to listen to what the president is saying, and counter punch in.

When I go out for an interview, and this is why you guys are Premium Members, because I would never say this to the general public, I don’t bring in any questions. Ever. To any interview I ever do. When I go into a presidential interview, because of time, I have written down subject matter – what subjects I want to get into, but no questions. When I interview people on The Factor, I don’t have anything. I have my research that I have already read, but I don’t have any questions. That is because I have to listen to what they are saying. And I pick up on what the guest is saying… Larry King is the best example. All Larry was thinking about was what he was going to ask next, and he was not listening – or he was listening only halfway, and he missed a lot of opportunities. And that is what the governor has to do. He can’t go in with all this rehearsed stuff. You do that on political ads. You buy your rehearsed time on political ads. He’s got to go in nimble, and I am not sure. That is going to be fun to watch next Wednesday, because I am not sure if Romney understands how to defeat the president in a debate. I will know within the first ten minutes of the debate – and of course, I will tell you the next day. We will do the best comprehensive coverage of that debate anywhere. So…on the No Spin News from now until Election Day, it will be 90% on the campaign. Spread the word.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

2012-09-26T21:34:00Z

I really wish I could tell you definitively, what the heck is happening in Ohio, Florida, and Virginia – those are the three states that are key to Mitt Romney’s fortunes. I really don’t know. I am a little teed off that these polls are so skewed toward the Democrats. When you poll in a state like Florida – and Quinnipiac admits this, they are not trying to hide it – and you are taking 9% more Democrats in your poll than Republicans, what do you think is going to happen? The media does not report that, they do not tell you that. And, to me, it just is annoying – to say the least. My job is to report to you exactly what is happening. I am not going to sugar coat this, because I do believe that Mitt Romney has lost some momentum. I think the 47% remark hurt him more than anything. But, remember, the president had the “you didn’t build that” remark, so it is kind of even in the gaffe area. Now, where it is not even – and this is what I am going to concentrate on tomorrow – is likeability. Likeability. Americans like Barack Obama. All the polls say that.

Now, conservative Americans, Republicans, people who are very involved in politics, they don’t like the president – generally speaking. But, the masses who aren’t involved with politics – they like him! And, it was the same way with George W. Bush. The partisans hated him, the folks kind of like him, even after he got in trouble with Iraq and the economy. If you took a poll now, most people would say personally they like President Bush the younger – and the elder. So, Romney does not have that likeability. He is a neutral. It’s not that Americans do not like him, but they are…buying this “aristocrat, has money all over the world, doesn’t pay his fair share” [image]. There are enough people buying that to hurt Romney.

Now, I know the governor, and he is a nice guy. That is oversimplifying it, but I have met him a number of times. I know him a little bit better than Barack Obama - although, the president and I have had some very interesting off-mike conversations, and both of them – I would have no trouble going to the game with them. So, I don’t see a gap between likeability, but I know them, I have access to them – or, had access to them. Now, it will be interesting to see if Governor Romney – and we have invited him now, formally this week, - [will] come into The Factor. I can’t imagine that he is going to dodge us, because, quite frankly, if he does, he will lose the election. Because I will have to tell everybody. So, I don’t think he is going to do that. Now, will Barack Obama come in for another interview? Which would be his third. I am not sure about that. They will be looking at the polling, thinking, “Do we have to do this?” Anybody coming into this forum, as you know after 17 years - everybody knows - it is fraught with danger. Because I am not going to back away from my questions, and they are going to have to answer them. A lot of politicians do not want to answer the tough ones. However, we are going to be fair, we always try to be. And that will be fascinating. So things are really heating up now – speeding up. And I am going to speed up my coverage. We are going to devote 75%, even more some nights – like tonight – to the presidential race, because it is ultra important.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

2012-09-25T20:49:00Z

A lot of action here in New York City this week, because you’ve got the UN and all the pinheads from around the world drawing big salaries and expense reports. What exactly do they do again, this United Nations outfit? It doesn’t seem like they do very much – and I am not saying that in a cynical partisan way. I feel bad for the people of Syria, for example. You’ve got twenty thousand dead there, backwater country, brutal dictator – and what does the United Nations do about it? Nothing. Iran is arming them, Russia is helping them, and what does the United Nations do? Nothing.

So, once in a while the UN could send a few troops in to places that are totally out of control like Somalia, and they can patrol around certain perimeters – they can send vaccines into certain places in Africa and Asia, but that is about it. We could use all that money to do a lot more for the world than this big cumbersome operation that is a joke. It is a shame. Woodrow Wilson had the League of Nations, this kind of vision that everyone would cooperate for a better world – well, look. They are not going to cooperate. It is self-interest rules, and on the United States part as well sometimes. Not often, I think we are a noble nation; we try to do the right thing – most of the time. But, come on. The Syrian people expecting help from the outside? Not getting it.

I don’t trust the Washington Post poll, not because the newspaper is corrupt or anything – obviously it [has] a left-wing concern like the LA Times and the New York Times, but I don’t trust the poll. It is always skewed… against Romney. It is interesting - I am trying to get the Ohio governor John Kasich (who used to sub for The Factor) on the program. Not having an easy time…getting Governor Kasich on the program. And that tells me that things are not going well for the Republicans in Ohio. I could be wrong. I know he is busy. Everybody is busy, busy, busy. I’m busy - but if I could help my party, and tell the folks what is going on, I think I might do that. But, not happening. Not happening. What are you going to do? We invite, we try to persuade.

Now, it is going to be very fascinating to see if Mitt Romney himself comes on. I think he will. If he doesn’t, it is going to hurt him, because I am going to have to tell everybody that he won’t. McCain didn’t really want to do that last year – you remember that – and he told me that was a mistake. Kerry didn’t come on – he told me that was a mistake. Both men did – they told me right to my face. Now, maybe they were patronizing me, but… we are trying to get both the president and the governor to come on, and if they don’t I will tell you! Now, President Obama, I can’t predict. I can’t predict, but Mitt Romney should certainly come on this program. You never know. We will keep you posted as Premium Members every step of the way on that. And, beginning next week, as we get into October, we are going to ramp it up. Our coverage is going to be the best. [We will have] presidential coverage every night.

I do have Killing Kennedy, the book, coming out on October 2^nd. You will like it – I think it is better than Killing Lincoln. Not a lot better, but better, because it is more contemporized. And, the data that we were able to get is more vivid than the data we got for Killing Lincoln. Both books tell you things you would never know, but the Killing Kennedy data is really strong. I am going to explain next Tuesday why that is – what we had access to that makes the book extraordinary. I think it is, and I am not bragging, I just think that if you buy it and read it, that it will enhance your life. You’ll be happy you did. Much like Killing Lincoln. Killing Lincoln [will be] number three next Sunday after 52 weeks in the marketplace. That is unheard of. When Killing Kennedy comes out, it is possible we will have two in the top five, as I said last night. And, this is just great, Lincoln’s Last Days, for the kids - number one juvenile book in the country. Knocking out Justin Bieber and all those other crazy books. I love that because that just shows that the kids really want this stuff. They read it, they like it, they tell other kids. And this is what we have to do here.

Monday, September 24, 2012

2012-09-24T21:19:00Z

CNN reported the personal journal of Christopher Stevens, the ambassador killed in Libya, and the state department is objecting to that. I would have reported it if I had gotten it. In [the journal], it shows that Stephens was worried about being assassinated in the violence. I don’t think you have to clear stuff like that with the State Department. The State Department is embarrassed because they did not protect their ambassador. It’s as simple as that, and I don’t think CNN did anything wrong at all.

As we mentioned, the reportage on Romney and Obama is skewed to favor the president. There is no doubt about that. But it is really the social media that is doing most of the damage to Mitt Romney. So, he is really nonexistent – or an object of derision – on most social media. That is what is hurting him with Americans younger than 40 years old. There is nothing you can do; Romney has got to overcome it himself.

In New York City, public schools are making the... morning after pill – which is an abortion device – available to girls as young as 14 without parental consent. We will deal with t hat later this week, in the Culture Warriors [segment].

[A new]Gallup poll [is reporting] mistrust among Americans concerning the media – 60%. 60% of Americans do not trust the media, 40% do. And the 40% that do are naïve, to say the least. Do not trust the media. They are not looking out for you. There are agendas running wild, it is basically a dishonest industry right now. I am doing my best, ladies and gentlemen – but I take flack from the left and the right – you know I do. But that’s okay.

What I tell you on this program is the truth as far as I know it. And if we get information [that is] a mistake – we correct it. When was the last time we corrected something? I can’t remember – because my staff is under orders not to make any mistakes – and they don’t. When we do, we will correct it. If I make a mistake, I will correct it. But, I am in the business of truth telling. Not advancing an ideology or a political party. It is obvious that I don’t believe the country is in good shape right now, and if you want to apply that to being anti-Obama, you can do that, but I am not anti-Obama. I am anti-bad things for America. And right now, bad things are happening. And I’d like to see them not happen. If that means changing the leadership, then that’s what it means. My job is to tell you what’s happening, and then you can decide what’s to be done about it. Make sense? The partnership that we have, between me and you guys (Premium Members).

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

2012-09-20T20:07:00Z

We are not really taking the polls all that seriously right now, because what is driving the numbers is media coverage rather than the candidates themselves. So, most people are just getting fleeting glimpses of what is happening. You guys are locked in, you are watching cable news, and you know what’s happening - but the majority of people throughout the country do not. They just hear stuff, and maybe they will tune into a local newscast, maybe they will get a few minutes of a cable show, whatever. But their perceptions of President Obama and Governor Romney are being formed by the media. And you know the media is favoring the president, which is a big advantage for him. No doubt about it.

But, when you have the debates, and you have the two guys going mano-a-mano, in this kind of a situation, where the president is personally popular, but his policies obviously are causing some angst. People are going to be locked in on that, just as they were with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. And, I’m telling you – I’ve told you from the very beginning – that is going to tell the tale here. The debates. If Mitt Romney can come across as authoritative, and if he can make President Obama go on the defensive – [and make him] start to defend some of the not-so-good stuff that has happened to the country, then Romney’s got a real chance. If he can’t, if Obama is on the offensive, and Romney can’t get him in a corner – it’s like a prizefight – then the president will be reelected. Because it’s that close!

I thought that Mitt Romney was going to be more popular at this point than he is. I thought that because I know Romney, and he is a good politician. I mean, he is a guy that comes across as somebody who knows what he is talking about, and is a public servant and all that. But, it hasn’t happened. And, the American public is still, not suspicious, but I would say apathetic about Mitt Romney. These are not Republicans or Democrats – these are the people who don’t have an ideology. They’re really not locked in on him as a person. And they hear all kinds of bad things through the media. So, that is what is holding Romney back. Yeah, he said a couple of things that are run with by the liberal media – but so did Barack Obama. “You didn’t build that,” the income redistribution – so it’s about even in that…situation. But as a guy, Romney has not distinguished himself yet. He has three chances. And, he has to be bold – not fresh, but bold. If the president gives him any guff, then he has to be a little fresh.

So, that’s where I am right now as far as telling you what’s happening. I’m not one of those guys who flip-flops all over the place – I still think Mitt Romney has a fairly good chance to win, even though he is not having a strong third week of September.

I hope you guys will check out the Jon Stewart-O’Reilly debate, because charity is going to benefit, and that is really my only dog in that hunt. And I really want to thank everybody for the unbelievable success of the books… Sunday, not this coming Sunday but next Sunday, the 30^th of September – the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list [comes out] – Killing Lincoln [is] number three – after 52 weeks in the marketplace. A year. That is just unheard of. But, the next week after that, Killing Kennedy comes out. Which is in the top 10 on Amazon already. It is possible – I don’t think it is going to happen, but it’s possible, that we will have the 1-2 books. Killing Kennedy at number one, we expect it to debut there, and Killing Lincoln at two. I don’t think that has ever happened before, in the history of American publishing.

And then, the kid’s book, Lincoln’s Last Days, beat out Justin Bieber last week for the number one spot [for the] third week in a row. And that is really, really good because we have to get the kids interested in their country. And, if you check it out, you parents and grandparents, if you go to the bookstore and just look at this book – it’s a beautiful book. [There are] a lot of pictures – [it’s] easy for kids to read. And it’s exciting. And once they start to read that kind of stuff, once they get engaged, and start asking questions – you will see a big change in them. So, when I started all this history business, I did it for that reason – to get both adults and children re-interested in what happened in their country in the past, and it’s working. Thanks to you guys – and we really appreciate it.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

2012-09-19T21:21:00Z

I am going to work on a clear report, because it is very murky about food stamps and welfare and what the Obama administration has done to change the requirements and the work rules. So, I am working on that. We are going to give it to John Stossel for next week – what it used to be and what it is now. I think that is a good story. Other stuff we haven’t told you about are mostly politics [stories] because obviously [there are] forty-something days before the election. So, we have to ramp that up. There is not a lot of other stuff floating around.

This is interesting, I did not get into it, but apparently an advocacy group (and you’ve always got to take that with some skepticism, because they have an agenda) estimates that by the year 2030, half of the American population will be obese. Because, obviously, we are living in a society where we are sitting on our butts all the time with the PCs, the Tv, whatever it may be – in the car. And, I’ve got the same problem. I’m sitting on my butt all the time. I’ve got to force myself to get up and walk and go out to the pool and swim – it is a lot easier just to sit around, especially when you’re working all day… but, it’s no excuse. If you want to stay in shape, you’ve got to watch your diet – cut out the wheat, cut down on the sugar, and walk everyday if you can, and you’ll be okay. If you don’t do that, and you’re driving through the drive-thru windows, you know, Taco Bell – that stuff adds up. I was in a pancake house the other day, and I wanted to order this little pancake breakfast. But, now they have to put the calories on it – it was like 1,500 calories just for the pancake breakfast! It was unbelievable. That would have been it for my day! Because you can’t work it off. You eat two of those, that is 3,000 calories. You are going to be chubby. Now, some people don’t care if they are chubby, and more power to you. As long as you stay healthy. If you want to be hefty, that is okay. I’m not one of these people who looks down upon people who are overweight, I don’t. A lot of that is heredity, a lot of that is DNA, you have no control over it.

That is about it. I don’t have much else to tell you today. I want you to check out Killing Kennedy, you’re going to like this book. It is a hot book; it is going to open huge. If you order it in advance, you’ll get a copy before anybody else.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

2012-09-18T19:33:00Z

Romney is going to start to have to start to break out pretty soon, before the debates. [He will have to] set a little tone. So what? He said that 47% of people are not going to vote for him because they want entitlements. It is not that high, but it is about 40%. That is true. Don’t back off: explain why that is bad. The nation gets weak – the more dependent people you have, the weaker the nation gets. The more go-getters and self-reliant people you have, the stronger the nation is. Simple as that. Romney has to start to talk straight. I don’t know if he is capable of it. I’ve never done anything else in my life, so it is hard for me to zero in on people who can’t just say it straight. If it is me, and I say that, and I’ve got some people in my face, I’m going, “what’s your problem? What’s the beef? What is the beef?”

You saw me tonight with Colmes. What is the beef? This is the truth…some people need help, temporarily. Absolutely. And we should give them help. And we do. But there is a culture and it is growing. It is certainly there in Europe and other nations, where they sit around and go, “hey, I want mine. Give it to me now.” And it’s growing here! And it is absolutely being fostered by the Democratic Party. When was the last time you heard the Democratic Party say anything about self reliance? Or competition in the marketplace? When? Who? The party has been corrupted by the far left. It is not the way it used to be.

In Rhode Island, a school has announced it is banning the traditional father-daughter and mother-son activities, saying that students with only one mom or dad or offended. So if you don’t have a dad, and you’re a girl, you can’t do a father-daughter [event]. Well, you can do an uncle-daughter. Brother-sister. This is just so crazy. And it started because the American Civil Liberty Union, on behalf of a single mother, complained to the school [that] the kid felt left out. This is eroding the fabric of the nation as well. I feel bad for kids who do not have two parents, but you can do things to help that. I was a Big Brother in the Big Brothers organization for two years. I’m still in touch with the kids that I mentored back then. One of them just had a baby. There are ways to do this, rather than banning mother-son and father-daughter activities at the school. That is just so stupid.

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Monday, September 17, 2012

2012-09-18T01:04:00Z

Welcome back to the No Spin News! We were off for a little while, because of the conventions and other chaos, but now we are going to try to do it as much as we can. Once in a while I get so busy that I can’t even do this – because I’m running around the building, or there’s something I have to do for the company, or whatever it may be. So, forgive me, please.

Two big stories that I’m trying to get to the bottom of – this Muslim World thing. I liked the segment tonight, but it wasn’t particularly illuminating. I can’t put a number on how many Muslims worldwide are violent haters – I just can’t put a number on it. But I can tell you that there is not another religion on the planet that comes close to the problems that Islam is causing the Earth. I am not sure – I guess it is poverty driven, and ignorance, poor education, culture – but, you know, enough is enough with this. In the age of the Internet and modern technology, everyone knows what’s violent and what isn’t. And, if you are going to be violent in the name of some God, then we are going to have to take care of you. You don’t just let people run wild like that.

I am taking it slow, I don’t want to smear anybody… but I am a little teed off about this. I think this is a threat to all of us. By far and away, if there is a terrorist act that is going to be committed, the odds are that a Muslim is going to do it. A Presbytarian isn’t going to do it, a Buddhist isn’t g oing to do it. So, I’m trying to get inside what the problem is. And, you can’t just say, “well, it’s poverty in one country and this, that, and the other thing,” because the Gulf nations aren’t that poor. But there is this hatred of anybody who believes differently than they do – the infidels. And I’m just not sure – I’ve been to a lot of Muslim countries and I’ve had pretty good experiences there – Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon – Iraq and Afghanistan I was there with the U.S., so I can’t say I was there on my own – Kuwait – I was there. I did not have bad experinces. But, there is something very, very wrong. So, we are going to continue our reporting there. And I think President Obama has got to be a little circumspect about this, because… just like [with] the economny, this soft power has not worked.

Now, this story amuses me. I am not going to cover it, it’s too small. But, I Burlington, Vermont – you know Vermont, I mean, that’s about as liberal a state as you are going to get. Vermont and Hawaii are the two most liberal states in the Union. A restaurant in Burlington is now adding an 18% surcharge if you speak French. So, if you come down from Quebec to Vermont, because that is who speaks French, you get an 18% rise on your check. And they say it’s because Candians fro mQuebec don’t tip – so, they are making them tip. Now, that is discrimination. You can’t charge more money to one group than nanother, and I expect to see a challenge, but I thought I would bring that to your attention. In very liberal Vermont, liberalism stops with the tips! Give me the money!

The Jon Stewart thing – I am going to be very interested to hear what you guys say on the poll and in the message boards about it. It is going to be very funny, and we are hoping to raise millions of dollars for charity. It depends how many people buy the show. You know, for $4.95, I mean come on – I can’t make it any cheaper than that – because I wanted everybody to get it! The charity thing is a big component of this, and I hope you check it out - I think it will be worth your while.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

2012-09-05T00:04:00Z

You are catching me at a time when I can actually talk to you, which has been very rare in the last week or so. And [this is] probably the last No Spin News for the week, because I have to head down to NC and I have a million things to do. It’s not that you guys aren’t important, it’s just that I can’t fit in. And, we don’t have a lot of other coverage other than the politics anyway, because we are doing the hybrid Factor – half analysis and half speeches. We are going to roar back next week with a really strong lineup. We are adding Adam Carolla on Monday, he is a new contributor. We are adding a new feature on Friday with Bernard McGuirk, he is Imus’s producer, and the always-effervescent Greg Gutfeld, and me. The three of us are going to analyze what happened in the week. That was The Week That Was. Remember that, the David Frost show? Same concept – except these two guys are out of their minds, and I’m probably getting in a lot of trouble for putting them on the air, but it shouldn’t be boring. So, those new features on Monday and Friday will be instituted. We are looking at some new contributors as well. We will break them in as we feel the need….

The Democratic Convention, as I said in the Talking Points Memo today… they are up against it. All the polling shows that the president is in trouble. They know it – they being the reelection campaign, Axelrod and the boys. They are smart. They are playing an electoral college. The president like, lives in Iowa now. The president is there every hour on the hour. They feel that Iowa, with its (I think) 8 electoral votes – have to have it. That’s how close they think it is going to be.

Morris thinks it is going to be a wipeout – Romney is going to win by a landslide. And I, you know, if Romney can hold his own in the debates, and score a couple of points – which he should be able to do with all the economic data so horrendous… if Florida and Ohio go to Romney, because I think he is going to take Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Colorado, and Nevada. Those are all states that went to the president last time around. But, really, the bellwethers, as you know, are Florida and Ohio. If Romney can win in those states, he wins: he is the new president. So, there is a lot at stake in the Democratic Convention this week, but what can they do? What can they do? They’ve already demonized Romney to the tune of $100 million in TV ads. I don’t know what else they can do. Is Sandra Fluck going to help them out there?

I think the president’s speech will be full of hope, and “we’re just about there, and give me four more years and we’ll get it,” social justice, alternative energy, the economy will turn. He’s got to say that. And then he’s got to say that Romney and Ryan are going to take everybody’s entitlements away. So, okay, we’ve heard it a million times. Some people are just hearing it for the first time. Which is why I have to cover it. We will see what happens. Right now, if I’m Mitt Romney, I’m feeling pretty good.

Also, one other [thing], I thought the Clint Eastwood thing was good for the Republican party, because it got people talking about it. And it was surprising. I don’t much care - the political content of an 82-year-old actor’s words don’t really matter. It’s that he is such a commanding presence, and he surprised so many people, that I think it was a good thing for the Republicans, because it focused the attention on them - from people who wouldn’t ordinarily pay attention. So, I think it worked in their favor. Just my opinion – you know, I’m a humble guy.

Have a great rest of the week – we will pick up the No Spin News again on September 10.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

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So, I am going on vacation. I know you guys will miss me, and I will miss you. It has to be done; I need a rest. [It’s been a] busy, busy week, a busy, busy summer – and the fall is insane. We’ve got the kids book out, Lincoln’s Last Days – if you have a child or grandchild in 4^th-8^th grade – you want to get them this book. This will light the fuse for them to be interested in their country. It’s a bigger thing than just a kid’s book. [There are] a lot of good pages. You’ll like it yourself. I mean, you’ll look at it and you’ll like it. It’s a good deal.

Then we have Killing Kennedy coming out [on] October 2. We have a bunch of projects we are doing, we have the Conventions, we have the debates coming up – it is going to be wild, wild times. I hope you like… the way I am covering it. We rely on you guys, on the message boards and via emails directly to me.

When I say, for example, that I didn’t think Joe Biden meant a racial deal, you know, some of you go “yes he did!” And fine, I could be wrong; I guess I could be wrong. But, what he was trying to do was polarize and stoke up his base… he doesn’t think that Republicans want to enslave or anything like that. That is what I am trying to get across: there is a difference between rhetoric and intent. Now, there are some people whose intent is to hurt you, and to hurt everybody. I don’t think Biden is there. He’s a zealot; he puts forth his point of view in a bombastic way. I do that. I’m not a zealot, but I am bombastic in my presentation, so I kind of know what he is doing, and that is why my analysis reflected that. Some of you guys disagree – you could be right. Maybe he is sitting there going, “yeah, I want to ignite a race war. I want to make the races hate each other.” Maybe he is doing that. I know the guy – [he is] not that kind of guy, but I could be wrong.

But I want you to understand where I am coming from. It doesn’t matter whether the ratings go up or down, or if people don’t like me, they are screaming and yelling – it doesn’t matter. I’m going to tell you what I think and why I think it. But, I like you to disagree. I like that. It’s robust debate [that] makes the country great. I’m not offended unless you try to hurt me. And then I get offended real fast. And then we take action.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

2012-08-15T22:22:00Z

We are investigating this shooting at the Family Research Center in Washington, D.C. But, before we jump to any conclusions bout whether it was politically motivated – which it seems like it is – we really want to find out who the suspect is, the history, and all of that. You may remember that I was attacked by the far left about Tiller, who was assassinated. He was a late-term abortionist in Kansas. What the far left tried to do to me was just vicious; they tried to blame me for the murder. Now, I am going to call them on that tomorrow and we are going to name names and we are going to have a very, very proactive piece, but I don’t want to make any mistakes in my analysis of the shooting at the Family Research Center. So, that is why we are taking our time here. We will have it all for you in a very interesting way tomorrow. We hope you tune in.

As far as today is concerned, there is an interesting story that I might get to with Megyn Kelly tomorrow, that California meter maids in some cities out there [are] making $100,000 per year. This is in Los Angeles and a few other places. That is why this state is going bankrupt - $100,000 for meter maids! You just can’t. Look, I respect working people, but the taxpayer cannot pump that kind of money into anyplace. So, I’m taking a look at it, it is a pretty interesting story – I don’t think anyone else is going to report it. We may get to it tomorrow.

Hispanic Americans seem to be solidly in the camp of Barack Obama. A new Politico/George Washington University poll says that Hispanics favor the president 62-26 over the Republican ticket. I’m afraid that is going to hold, because many Hispanic-Americans believe they are going to get a better deal from the entitlement culture than they will from the Republicans…62-26 – will it be enough? It depends how many Hispanics and African Americans turn out.

2012 gas prices are heading for a record – I will talk about it with Dobbs tomorrow. No surprise – the price is being manipulated, as I’ve been telling you for years. I wish I could do something about it, because it T’s me off to no extent.

Other than that, there were a lot of small-ball stories that are around, but nothing that really influences your life. And, that is our litmus test – if it influences your life, we are going to get into it. If it doesn’t, we wont.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

2012-08-14T23:37:00Z

Polls are starting to trickle in about Paul Ryan, none of them [are] really consequential. You have to understand, most Americans don’t even know who Mitt Romney is yet. I know this is astounding to you guys, who are locked in and [who are] Premium Members who pay attention, but most Americans know nothing about Mitt Romney. And Paul Ryan… is a phantom. It takes a while for the American public to catch up with the news cycle. So, the polls and stuff like that right now really don’t matter. The left hates him, the right likes him… politics as usual. I think Ryan is a good choice. If the Republicans lose, then that is what the country wants – they want a nanny state, an entitlement society. And, that’s it – there is nothing we can say, because the choice is so stark.

Now, the conventions. Christie is the keynote address speaker at the Republican National Convention, and it will be fire and brimstone. It is a good choice [because] people will watch him. And then, Marco Rubio will introduce Mitt Romney. That’s a good choice because Rubio is very needed… in Florida. Rubio is not as good a speaker as Christie is, but that makes sense. Sarah Palin is still shut out. The Republican establishment does not like the governor; there is no question about that.

I [am doing] the Factor Tip of the Day. Tip of the Day is interesting. A lot of people love it, and ratings are up in the back of the show, and that is a barometer that we have to pay attention to. But, I get a steady stream of negative mail on the Tip of the Day, and I do not really understand why it annoys people. I’m not telling you what to do – you can take or leave it. You don’t have to watch it; I am not trying to force you to do anything. I’m telling you what works for me. And, I am giving you stuff that might make you money, [that] might make your life more convenient… like the unclaimed.org [tip], and some websites that you can negotiate to get discounts and better travel, things like that. I don’t know what the beef is, I really don’t. But, some people complain about everything.

Anyway, I am getting some, “well you endorse products because they are buying you off” business – now these are from unstable individuals. Nobody can buy me. I mean, come on – I’ve been doing this [for] sixteen years. Just because I say I like a product, does not mean I’m trying to get the product, or do anything other than tell you what works for me. There is a big, big problem with obesity in America, [there are] a lot of folks trying to lose weight, you may be one of them, and the reason that people are so hefty these days is because of our lifestyle. We are all in a hurry, and, if you have children, you are running from one place to another, it’s hard to get good nutritious food on the table, you are in the fast food joints – because you just don’t have any time. There are days when I don’t have time to eat, so I’ve got to run and get a sandwich. I don’t eat fast food anymore – it’s just too hard to flush it out of my system. But, I will eat a tuna sandwich on the run. I don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables.

So, I understand why people are hefty. And yeah, you can go to the gym – if you have time to go to the gym. If you have time for an hour work out, you’re not going to be hefty. If you can run a few miles, I mean more power to you. But, a lot of people can’t. So, I’m trying to give you [tips] like, you can cut your appetite down by putting a little lemon juice in water 30 minutes before you eat – and that works. If you have a craving for a cupcake or an ice cream bar, if you pop this Eclipse gum, that craving is diminished. It works! If you want to eat a bag of potato chips, which is going to load you up with all kinds of fat content and calories, you can substitute some of these Pop Chips, they are just as good, [and] one bag [has] one hundred calories. So, I don’t know why people object to that message, I am trying to help you guys out. You guys are nice to me, you watch the show, and you’ve made me a tremendous success, why can’t I give back a little bit? Oprah did this for years, now I am doing it and it is controversial. Well, I guess that’s just the way we live.

But, anyway, that is the reasoning behind the Tip of the Day. We hope you like it. If you don’t, let me know. Tell me why!

Monday, August 13, 2012

2012-08-13T21:22:00Z

The Ryan thing, as we said in the Talking Points Memo, I think is very good for the Republican Party. It gives them a strong economic platform. They are going to have to make their case that Ryan doesn’t want to kick all the old people out of their homes and take away their entitlements, but that is what you have to do to win the election. Ryan is an articulate guy; he is very aggressive in his presentation. I think that is a good thing, because Romney is not. Romney is what we call a generalist… He talks around the issue rather than looking at someone in the eye going, “you pinhead, here is why you’re screwing things up and here is why I’ll be better.” Romney doesn’t do that. But Ryan does, to some extent. He is not Chris Christie, but he is a pretty no-spin kind of fellow. So, I think that it will help with Independents. I think that people who pay attention will quickly understand what is going on. But, again, boy, oh boy, are there millions and millions of voters who just don’t know anything. And it is getting worse with the machines - you [can] lose yourself in the Internet [and] create your own world. You’ve got football coming up now, you’ve got the Olympics…I mean it is a really distracted electorate. But, I’ll tell you what – if this country doesn’t stop with the massive government spending, it is going to go down the drain. We might be dead by the time that happens, but it will happen.

I am getting heat on both the left and the right; so let me give you an example of the right. Ted Nugent, he’s a rock guy, a good guitar player, big gun guy – he didn’t like the fact that I said that the FBI should be alerted to heavy weaponry purchases and ammo purchases. Mr. Nugent writes on some website that I am engaging in “yellow journalism”. He challenges me to buy a machine gun or a bazooka, and, if I can, he will donate $10,000 [to charity], and if I can’t, I donate $10,000 to charity. The problem is that he is saying that I have to buy the machine gun or the bazooka legally, and that, of course, is the crux of the matter. At these gun shows, you can buy heavy weapons there, or you can buy semiautomatics that can easily be converted to machineguns. All you gun people know what I am talking about. [On Tuesday’s show we will have] an Is It Legal? Segment about a court ruling on this. I will stand by my analysis that anybody buying AKs, ARs, a lot of ammo, all those purchases – gun shops, gun owners, whatever it may be, gun shows – should be reported to the FBI. It’s just an anti-terror logical mechanism. Yeah, [it’s a] slippery slope, and then they get our names, and then they come to our house and seize our guns and all that – I understand that. Look. I think I am doing what the Founding Fathers would do. Public Safety is protected – if somebody buys an AK, an AR, the FBI gets his or her name, cross-references. They’ve been in an insane asylum for ten years – the Feds are going to check that out. They’ve been over in Yemen for six months, the Fed are going to take a look. And they should. That’s all I’m saying.

We should all be very proud of our Olympic team, [with] 104 medals. China came in second at 87. It is [nice to see] America as the world power that we are. In economics, sports, and, I hope, ethics. It is nice to see that. I think our team, even the people who didn’t do that well, conducted themselves very, very well. There weren’t any crazy incidents, and that’s a lot of athletes. You figure one or two would run naked through Trafalgar Square, right? Nobody did. Great, great showing and congratulations to our athletes.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

2012-08-09T23:21:00Z

We had a meeting today to set our lineups for the convention days; I’ll give it to you guys first. I’m not going to make a public announcement about this, so… this is why you are Premium Members, you get all the behind-the-scenes stuff. I’m going to be at the Republican Nation Convention for two days. I am going to go out there on Wednesday, August 29^th. We will do the show in New York on Tuesday, the 28^th, and then we will go and do the 29^th and 30^th [shows] in Tampa, where the Republicans are.

We are trying to get most of the icons of the Republican Party; I think that is a smart thing to do. But we are not really interested, this year, in talking heads and party propaganda. That doesn’t really serve you too well. So, we have a short list of people we want to get – basically people who have been through the presidential wars before, and can give us some insight. Kind of like what Dick Morris [did], when he was working with the Clinton people. He gave you a little background on what they went through and how they did it. I think that is much more instructive than hearing the daily talking points be spit back at you.

So, we will be there two nights, and then the next week, Labor Day week, I’ll be down at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, September 6^th for one night. Now, the reason there is a disparity there is primarily because there really isn’t much going on at the Democratic Convention. It is pretty much a rerun of last time. The president is going to give a big stadium speech. We are not going to be in the stadium because [you would not be able to] hear the show. We will be close by on that night. But, there is little I can do down there to advance the story, and the security in both conventions [is] very intense for me.

It’s amazing, I’ve been doing this for sixteen years now, and when I first started out, some people knew me because of ABC News and Inside Edition, but it was like, “hey, Bill, how you doing?” or “Hey, aren’t you a TV guy?” – that’s what I got. Now… everybody wants a picture, because everybody’s got the little cell phone camera. That’s fine – when people approach me and ask for pictures, I try to accommodate them, and autographs – I try to do it. But, if I’m in a place where there are thousands of people – you can imagine. There are always going to be crazy people. The Occupiers are going to be at both conventions, so I’ve got to have security guys with me. It gets to be, not a burden, that’s the wrong word, but it gets to be an ordeal. It gets to be an ordeal just to move around in certain situations. So, I’d rather not even bother, because it distracts me from what my job is, which is reporting and analyzing the news to you. I can’t spend all day on trivial stuff, and it is hard for me to negotiate.

So, that is what we are going to do. Two days down in Tampa, [it’s] a little bit of a bigger story because Mitt Romney is trying to establish himself. And, you are going to have the VP there, which we think will be named next week – [at the] latest, the week after that. The Democratic Convention – I don’t see too much of a shift there. They are pretty much committed to the class warfare campaign; they feel that will give them enough. The Democrats feel if they win, it is just going to be by a little. Some Republicans like Morris feel it is going to be a landslide – I don’t see that. I see a close election. But, I could be wrong. I’m’ looking at the folks - and polls at this point don’t matter - I think most people are scared, as I said. Frightened people don’t vote for incumbents, no matter if it’s president, governor, mayor, congress, whatever. So, that’s what we are going to do. Next week we’re going to be here [in New York], we’ve got a really good lineup of people coming in, setting the stage for the political war that is going to rage between now and Election Day on November 6^th. It’s going to be war – war. And we are there to cover the war. I’ve covered real wars; I know how to cover war. I’m good at this.

We are very happy you are Premium Members, because you’ll be ahead – you’ll get this stuff before anybody else does, and again, I’m not going to tell anybody my schedule for the conventions. I’ll tell you, because I know you won’t tell anyone else, right?

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

2012-08-08T21:29:00Z

An interesting poll out of CBS News/New York Times/Quinnipiac shows that Mitt Romney is up by five in Colorado. That surprised me a little bit. Colorado [is] a heavily Hispanic state now. A lot of liberal, Denver-area [and] Boulder-area people. But, apparently the economy is really hurting the president there. If he loses Colorado, I think Romney is going to get it. Virginia [has] Obama at 49, Romney – 45. I don’t have my finger on the pulse for Virginia, I really don’t. The northern part of the state, the suburbs of D.C., [are] very liberal. The southern part of the state [is] obviously conservative. That is within a margin of error - it’s close. In Wisconsin, Obama - 51, Romney – 45. I wouldn’t – if I were Mitt Romney – spend a lot of resources in Wisconsin, even though they have a Republican governor and the recall went the GOP’s way. I just don’t think that state is doable for Romney – Minnesota either. Michigan, yes – but not Wisconsin or Minnesota. The machines in the big cities in those big states – Milwaukee, Madison – are all democratic. Out on the countryside, it is not as organized, it is hard to overcome that. That’s why in Pennsylvania, for example, Philadelphia has such an inordinate amount of power. Yeah, you have Pittsburgh on the other end of that state, but Philadelphia is so democratic. In New York, New York City dominates how this state goes.

…Finally, in another poll, this is [from] The Washington Post/ABC News; Mitt Romney’s favorability ratings have stalled. I don’t think that really matters that much. I always go back to the fact that this is going to be a referendum on Barack Obama, on whether they want four more years of very, very shaky economic policies (they being the American voter). That’s how I see it, so whether Mitt Romney is personally popular or not doesn’t really matter. He is a rich guy and a lot of people are not going to like rich guys no matter what they do. Although John F. Kennedy was an exception to that, but remember you didn’t have the vicious media you have now. Back in 1960, you had a very pro-Kennedy [atmosphere], and not a lot of class warfare stuff going on in this country.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

2012-08-07T21:56:00Z

If you watched the second segment with Colmes and Crowley, Colmes hit it. And then he didn’t know what to do, because he made President Obama look bad. He admitted that there was no tax plan put forth by Mitt Romney in a specific way. So, the president is running around telling everybody that Romney wants to take money from the middle classand workers, and give it to the rich people. That’s not true, because Romney doesn’t have any plan. So, inadvertently, Colmes hammered the president. Now, there is something very frightening going on here that concerns me. Barack Obama believes what he says, but what he iays is not factual. [Are] you following me here? I don’t think the president goes out and says, “well, I’m going to lie tonight, I’m going to go up and lie.” I don’t think he does that. I think that he takes the stuff that his writers and handlers give him, looks at it, and believes everything they tell him, without any kind of, “well, how do we know this?”

Look. When my researchers give me a packet, and its not fully sourced, I call them right away [and ask], “how do we know this? Who is saying this? How do we know that person is accurate?” I’m grilling them about the accuracy of what they are giving to me, so when I say it to you, I am confident what I am saying to you is factual. He doesn’t do that. Barack Obama doesn’t do that, and the primary reason he doesn’t do that is because he doesn’t care. He wants to get points, he wants to hammer Mitt Romney, and so he does. And if he has to use stuff that’s not factually true, it doesn’t really concern him.

But it concerns me. Now, I’m used to politicians stretching the truth, I’m used to all of this – I’ve seen it in [my] thirty-five years. I’m used to propaganda. They all do it, both parties, no doubt. But, most of them know they are doing it – you see the distinction I am making here? Most of them, when they go out and give you a speech, they know half of it is BS. They have to sell it, but… he believes it… I am getting to be more and more skeptical of the whole process here. Now, I can’t give you an assessment of what Mitt Romney believes, but he strikes me as a fairly straightforward person, which is why I took Krauthammer on tonight. That answer about the London Olympics did not offend me. He answered the question truthfully. And, if the British are whining about it, that’s their fault. Their problem, not Romney’s problem, but the press of course seized on it, and…used it to hammer the whole trip, which tells you a lot about the American media.

So, there’s a lot of stuff going on here – a lot of stuff in play. I’m glad you’re watching because we are really bringing it to the surface on a daily basis and you need that… We have an enormous amount of people watching this program every night, comparatively – between four and five million people. And that doesn’t count all the people watching on the net and overseas… But, I wish it were 40 or 50 million, because Americans need to wise up. Fast. We’ve got a very serious situation developing economically here, and if it is allowed to go untended, we are all going to be I bad shape. Not to say that Mitt Romney can solve it – I don’t know whether he can or not. As an American, I would like to see us get back to supply side marketplace economics, because the top-down government stuff has failed, and I am a pragmatist. If my football team is losing, then I want the football team to replace the players who are making the losses possible. [It’s] as simple as that. If the New York Mets, my baseball team, can’t win, well, then get better players! That’s my philosophy in politics as well.

Monday, August 6, 2012

2012-08-06T21:44:00Z

[Harry] Reid – let’s face it. The guy is going to say or do anything. …If I were Romney I would try to put out as much tax return stuff as I could. He probably has some stuff in there that is embarrassing, you know, that he took some write offs for X, Y and Z, parked some money in places overseas – it’s what rich guys do. I don’t do it, I made a decision early on that I am going to keep my money in the USA, I am going to pay every tax they throw my way, and I do. It’s a decision I made. Now, if Barack Obama succeeds in getting my tax burden up to 45-50%, I am going to look at other ways, because that’s just too much money to pay. I’ve got to be honest, I’m not going to do anything illegal, but I’m certainly going to look for ways to get it down. I think about a third of my income is appropriate and fair.

This Sikh temple thing – there is nothing we can do, we being American people, about this kind of violence. You’ve got crazy people all over the place. My theory – and it’s just that, a theory – is that the Internet is exacerbating crazy people’s actions. There were always crazy people. Always. But, a lot of them were shamed into basically staying in the house. Now, they’re emboldened by this Internet, where they can find other people who think the way they do. So, if you’re a neo-Nazi, you’ve got neo-Nazi people telling you, “you’re the greatest, go out and do whatever you want”. If you’re a pedophile, you’ve got people telling you to do that. It just becomes encouragement for the lowest dregs of society. And we are seeing that all over the place – not just in the violence area. People are becoming emboldened, they don’t feel that their aberrations are wrong, there is a rise in narcissism, and sociopaths are everywhere now. It used to be [that] they were shamed and constrained – that is no longer the case. And the Internet is why – that is why you are going to continue to see this crazy stuff and there is really no solution to it. Freedom is a two edged sword. Bad people can use freedom to do bad things – and they do.

I think we covered the Occupiers – oh my God, talk about narcissists and crazy people. The drug thing, to me, I just can’t abide it. I’ve enver been able to abide it. I think drugs, even soft drugs like marijuana, do a lot of damage, particularly to people who are unsettled emotionally. I know people who smoke pot who don’t really have any damage that you can see, but I also know people who smoke pot whose lives have been ruined by it. It’s really Russian roulette. [It’s the] same thing with drinking, you sit there at the bar, and you just keep throwing them down, something bad is going to happen to you. You get stoned every night, something bad is going to happen to you. It’s just the law of the land.

Finally, Clint Eastwood, my pal – I really like him; I’ve kown him fifteen years now. Straight up, [he is a] very honest guy. He is throwing in with Romney. I haven’t talked to him about why – I think it is just because he sees the chaos economically, and he wants to get back to capitalism. Eastwood is a capitalist, he owns a hotel out there in Carmel… and a golf course – I think he sees that the free marketplace is the way to go, and that is certainly not where President Obama has his enthusiasm. I believe it is all economically driven for Eastwood.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

2012-08-03T00:27:00Z

This is an interesting week for us because we're up against the Olympics, and that's taken some of our audience away, and there's a lot of people switching around… they look for events that they like, and then when they see one, they stay over there, and when something else comes on and they don't like the archery or whatever it is, they come back to The Factor. But we're down about a million viewers each night--still dominant with far more than anybody else has in cable news, but it's annoying. But I've got to put up with it.

I'll tell you what--if you're not watching the show, you're missing some good stuff… we've had good shows this week. And next week we have the special Watters' World series on the cities that don't like the United--the O'Reilly Factor. (They don't like the United States either, in my opinion.) But you're going to enjoy it.

We realize we had some audio problems on the Town Hall Meeting; we're going to fix them, obviously, and tighten everything up next time around, but basically you guys said you liked it. We didn't get a lot of [negative comments], so we're going to do two more of them. The next one will be in mid-September, after the conventions [when] we start to see the polling matter, and then of course we will do [another at the] end of October--we'll have a big one after the debates and that'll be a huge deal. So, as a Premium Member, you get that exclusively, and I hope you feel it's worth it because we're putting these together obviously so you guys will be happy.

…next week we have a pretty strong lineup. We like Adam Carolla--we think he's doing very well. We're going to try and make him a regular. He's a good complement to [Dennis] Miller. We're revamping our Fridays--Fridays are very hard now. There's a shift in America away from watching any television on Friday. It used to be Saturday was the day nobody watched TV; now it's Friday and Saturday. So we have to make our Friday shows, like, you have to watch them. So we do have a couple of new things coming in in September on Fridays, and… you've got to see it. So if you're not there, actually physically watching it, you'll DVR it, because DVRs count in the rating system, and we need to get a buzz going on on Friday.

Every other day [of the week] is pretty strong--the contributors, we're happy with them. Sometimes they're better than others, but I think they're mostly all smart. They get it, they know what we're trying to do, they roll with it when I make fun of them, they sass me back--we want that. But we are probably going to do a survey with you guys in the next few weeks about which contributors you like, which are strongest, which are weakest--that kind of thing. We're probably going to do a survey. We did this a couple of years ago and it was helpful, so get on guard for that.

Monday, July 30, 2012

2012-07-30T23:15:00Z

There’s a new Gallup poll out that asks Americans, “how important a priority should each of the following issues be for the next president?” and then they listed a whole bunch of things. I’ll give you the extremely important category. Creating good jobs – extremely important/very important – 92%. So that is top priority for Americans – to have a president who knows how to create jobs. Reducing corruption in the federal government – 87% think that is very important. Reducing the federal deficit – 86%. Those are all good signs. [It] shows that Americans in both Republican and Democratic precincts understand the problems. Dealing with terrorism and other international threats, 86%. Another good sign. Ensuring the long term stability of Social Security and Medicare, 85%/ Improving the nation’s public schools, 83%. That is a misleading number, because the federal government really cannot do that, so that is a phantom Setting high moral standards for the nation, 76%. Making healthcare available and affordable – 74%. That’s interesting. So, moral standards [are] more important than healthcare. Overcoming political gridlock, 76%, making college education available and affordable, 69%, dealing with environmental concerns 52%. So, only half the nation is engaged with that. Increasing taxes on wealthy Americans - 49%.

So, that is a pretty encouraging poll, I think. I have always felt that the majority of folks really know what is important and what isn’t, but they are susceptible to propaganda, and you get a lot of that now – particularly on the Internet and television news. Talk radio is choir time, so you have to seek out your talk radio hosts. And almost 90% of Americans who listen to talk radio are looking for someone with whom they agree. So there isn’t too much of an intrusion on the general population when you’re speaking to the choir. But, television is a little bit more around – it reaches more people. Yes, you have to seek it out, but not to the extent that you have to turn the radio on. And, the Internet is pervasive.

The problem that I have with the American electorate right now is that a lot of people simply don’t pay attention, they just don’t know. You try to explain to them the difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party, and they didn’t know the difference. So, they vote on personality and perception, and that is why Barack Obama is competitive. Because he is the president, and his personality is good, he looks confident out there. But, if you look at the economic record, it’s abysmal. Now, I’m not telling you who to vote for, but if you are voting [based on] performance, I don’t know how you re-elect a president with this kind of economic profile. I just don’t know how that happens. Which is why I believe that Romney will win at this point. But Romney continues to make mistakes, and come off as more of a stilted man than a real guy. And I don’t know if that is ever going to change.

One final note so you guys don’t miss it, tomorrow night, 9:15 PM Eastern Time – LIVE – Presidential Town Hall right on BillOReilly.com, for you Premium Members. [It is the] first of three, and you’re going to like it. So, I hope you take the time – it is going to be a lot of fun, and we already have questions pouring in – and they’re good ones. I’m looking forward to it. I will be… doing it live from my office in New York City. And we will kick it around with you guys, answer your questions, go back and forth, we’ve got the Internet set up to take all the transmissions from all over the world, so give me your best shot tomorrow night, 9:15 PM Eastern Time. We will see you then!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

2012-07-26T20:54:00Z

Not a lot going on today, the stock market was up big – you never know, it’s a rigged game. I keep telling everybody that. I have about 20-25% of my assets in stocks – mostly funds. But, you simply can’t win because there is no rhyme or reason for what happens. There are forces that can manipulate the market, that get information before everybody else does, so I’m really not a big stock market guy at this point. I don’t give financial advice anyway, but to me, it is a very shaky situation. Save your money – if you can buy municipal bonds that are non-taxable, that might be good – you’ve got to be careful about them, though. Nothing is easy – nothing is easy. And if the taxes go up, it’s going to be harder for everybody.

We are making some progress on this Jessica’s Law thing, this US prosecutor [Loretta Lynch], I can’t say enough about her. It is very rare that y ou see that, somebody really going out and saying, “you know what, this is wrong, and I have power, and I am going to try to right the wrong.” Certainly the governor of New York is not doing that, and Christie, I think he is starting to wise up in New Jersey, but boy, oh boy, I am disappointed that he didn’t take a more active approach to this. This has been going on for years in Jersey, trying to get Jessica’s Law. [There is] no reason that state shouldn’t have it [considering it has] a Republican governor.

They are arguing in the Senate and the House about taxes and all of that – that is not going to get resolved until the presidential election, it’s just not. And I don’t see any one party taking over – having control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency. It’s possible the Republicans could do that – not possible the Democrats are going to take the House, there’s no way – even the New York Times admits that.

If Barack Obama really slips, and Romney starts to do well, and the debates go Romney’s way, [it is] possible that the Republicans could take Senate, and Romney could win. And then everything would change in this country. Now, I’m not going to say it would change for the better, because I don’t know. Certainly there would be a more free market approach, and a lot of the things that The Factor viewers admire – smaller government, less intrusion – would happen. It would have to happen – Romney would have to do it.

So, that is the scenario. The Democrats are not going to control Congress, even if Barack Obama wins. But, if Romney wins, it is possible the Republicans could sweep – which would really be a drastic change for this country.

So, that’s what’s in play, thanks for being Premium Members. Remember, next Tuesday, 9:15 PM EST, first Presidential Town Hall, we hope you are all there – Live! We are going to have a really good time and you’re going to have some really good information.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

2012-07-25T23:36:00Z

Tomorrow, my newspaper column is released; you can see it on BillOReilly.com. I hope you guys check in every week with that, I think you’ll like it. This one concentrates on the… profound change going on in America, with all the people on welfare, and federal disability and all of that…. You can see the numbers are now going to overwhelm the achievers…. The people who are actually working in the marketplace are being overwhelmed by the people who want to be paid for basically not doing very much. So, we data-fact it. Data-fact is a new phrase I’m inventing. So, it’s just beyond anything. And the guy who is cheerleading this is the president. Now, the importance of this is [that] most Americans have no clue – they have no idea what is going on. You guys do, because you pay close attention, but there is an amazing shift going on in this country. And I give you the data – we [will] do a comparison from fifty years ago – 1962. Where were you in 1962?

I was running around Long Island, jumping in the pool, going out to Jones Beach without sunblock, absorbing secondhand smoke from my mother. You know – that’s what I was doing, playing stickball in the street, basically sweating at night because I had no air conditioning. My father said, “well you have a fan,” …and I looked at him and said, “well that just blows the hot air on me stronger. It just makes more hot air,” whereupon he ground out his cigarette and walked away. Fifty years ago, an amazing time in America. But, it is a very good basis for comparison, it really is. Things were better back then, because things were simple back then. Now, we have high-tech, we have all kinds of craziness.

The other thing in play is the gun control stuff. You saw last night, where I said that you have to create a new law, and heavy weaponry has to be reported to the FBI. And [I got] a bunch of mail saying, “no, no, no, you can’t do that,” and I’m not expecting to change anybody’s mind on this, but I think if you think about it without emotion, you’ll see that I am right. All we’re asking for is heavy weapons – heavy weapons. You know, AKs, that kind of thing. When there is a sale made, a lot of ammunition, whatever it may be, it is reported. Just as if you take a flight lesson, it is reported. Because terrorism is terrorism. Whether it is some guy out in Colorado gunning down Americans, or some crazy major at Fort Hood, if we can get a heads up on who has heavy weapons in the country, that is a good thing. And, you still are protected by unreasonable search and seizure, you are protected by the Second Amendment, you are protected. But, say somebody buys a lot of ammunition, and that is reported to the FBI. And then they look, and they see that person is on a terror watch list someplace, in Britain, or in Canada. Or, they see that that person has committed a violent felony is Idaho. Then, the FBI – and this is what they do – they conduct a little surveillance. They go out and they ask around [and find out] what is going on. That is how you stop terror activity – that’s how you do it. So, I’m not a guy who says you can’t buy the AK-47. I mean, if you need an AK-47 for whatever reason, I think you have a constitutional right to buy it. However, the Feds should know you have it. Just like the Feds know you have a car. They know what kind of car you have, they know if you have paid your license fees and your registration fees. I just paid my registration in New York State. The State knows everything about my car, and you’re telling me that the FBI shouldn’t know about heavy weapons? I am not talking about handguns, or hunting rifles, no. Have congress define what heavy weapons are, and debate it, so everybody sees, and pass a law. Again, I don’t expect to convince you, I am just amazed that some people let their emotions run wild, and they don’t see the logic of what I am saying. I think I am [being] very, very logical.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

2012-07-24T21:03:00Z

I am doing the audio book for Killing Kennedy this week, so my voice might be a little raspy on the show and on these calls here. Kennedy is a kick-butt book, [I’ll] tell you that right now. I think it’s better than Killing Lincoln, because we are breaking a lot of new ground, [there are] a lot of things that you have never heard, and we bring Oswald and JFK into very sharp focus. The reason I was able to do this is because I got the cooperation of some FBI Agents (now retired), who were assigned to various people right after the assassination, and who have never talked to any journalist before. So, we are going to be able to give you in this book, exactly what Lee Harvey Oswald was doing, when he was doing it, how he was doing it, and exactly what JFK was up to, because we did talk to some Secret Service people who worked for him. Some I name, some I don’t, but all of it you can take… to the bank. So, we are excited about the book – it comes out on October 2^nd.

Now, this week, we have a lot of things going on with the Penn State sanction, [and] the Jessica’s Law controversy here in New York and New Jersey. We want you to help us with that, we need to get Christie and Cuomo motivated, because they just simply don’t care at this point. We’ve go to make them care. You guys know what the right thing is here. We can’t have child rapists going around getting two years in prison. I mean, that just cant stand. We have a society here that is confused, to say the least. Value systems are changing, right and wrong is changing. The secularists have made tremendous advances. We have a president who is a secularist. That’s not to say that Barack Obama doesn’t believe in Jessica’s Law, I don’t know whether he does or not. We don’t get a lot of leadership on protecting the kids in this country, [we are] certainly not getting it from the governors of New Jersey and New York. So, we, the folks – we, the people – have to do it. We have to tell them how we feel. That’s why we have the petition up on BillOReilly.com, we would like you to go in, we want to get hundreds of thousands of signatures, and then we will deliver it in person to the governors and we will see… how they react.

Christie is… I don’t know, I don’t want to denigrate Governor Christie. I’ve never met him, I don’t know him. I’ve met Governor Cuomo. Again, I don’t think Cuomo cares about the issue myself, I could be wrong. Christie – I don’t know. But the statement he released to us was just wishy-washy, to say the least. So, I am hoping these guys have a conversion.

Otherwise, President Obama [is] raising a lot of money, Mitt Romney [is] raising a lot of money, the showdown is coming. The summer is going fast. We are on it, and every step of the way you will know what’s happening. And our ratings are good, you guys are tuning in. We will always be honest with you even if it’s not popular.

Right now, it is pretty much a dead heat with Romney, I believe with a slight lead. Electorally, maybe not popular vote, very possible Barack Obama will win the popular vote, because he will get big pluralities in states like California and New York, but he could lose the electoral vote because I do not believe he is going to carry Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida. But, who knows. That is my best analysis at this point. Anything can happen.

Monday, July 23, 2012

2012-07-24T00:43:00Z

We are right in the midpoint of the summer now. I hope you are getting some R&R in. I haven’t really gotten a lot, but in August I am going to take a week [off] before the conventions. I was supposed to be off last Friday, but I got called in on the shooting. These stories are difficult for me to cover, because we don’t want to saber-rattle, we don’t want to make things worse, but some things become apparent very quickly, and I’ll give you one example. Some of you, I don’t know if it was you guys [Premium Members], but I got some letters on this thing. I said, during the course of the hour on Friday night (and by the way, Jon Scott, one of our correspondents out there, did an excellent job) …when the six year old was announced dead, what was she doing in the movie theater? The Batman movie runs about two and a half hours, so it’s a midnight showing – that means 2:30 [am] is when you get out of there. What is a six-year-old girl doing in the theater? So, I said she is in the theater because the people didn’t want to pay for a babysitter. Now, I got letters [saying] “well, maybe they couldn’t get one.” But that’s not the point – the point is [that] you don’t go. You don’t take a kid to the movies on a Thursday night at midnight. You don’t do it. Now, if you get a babysitter that you can trust, okay, I can understand that, and maybe your work shift is so that that’s your only opportunity, okay. But, it’s still a kind of bazaar thing. I wouldn’t leave my six-year-old unattended from midnight to 2:30. That wouldn’t happen in my house ever, unless it was a hospital emergency or whatever.

But, I got letters saying “O’Reilly…you’re a mean guy,” I’m not a mean guy. I think that society has just lost track of common sense. You don’t keep a kid in the movies until 2:30 in the morning. I don’t care. I wouldn’t care if the kid were fifteen years old. That’s insane. Now, we feel terrible for the family. In fact, the mother is pregnant, she is still in the hospital – she was wounded. The baby that she is carrying survived. And you can imagine the guilt and horror of these parents. So, I’m not rubbing it in to them, what I am trying to say to you (you being millions of people who watch us all over the world) is don’t do this. Don’t do it. I’m not trying to make the suffering of these parents even more acute, that’s not what I do.

But, we have a purpose for everything that we do on The Factor, and, as I said in the beginning of the No Spin News tonight, it’s hard for me to cover thee stories because certain things become apparent very quickly. And, there was one interesting thing we reported on Friday, that ABC News I guess had reported… The mother of this shooter in San Diego, when called, said, “You have the right person,” well, they quoted that as…the mother indicting her son, James Holmes. Apparently that is not what the mother meant, the mother meant, “Yes, I am the mother of James Holmes.” So, again, that was a very tough thing that was coming in, rolling quickly. I reported what the dispatch said, I sourced it, but it was wrong. The mother wasn’t indicting her son, not that it matters…this guy did it. It doesn’t really matter whether the mother knew he did it or not, but, again, this is why these stories for me as a commentator, are very difficult to do. As a hard news [guy], if it were…25 years ago and I were doing hard news… you cover the news, you don’t comment on anything, you just say, these are the facts.

I’m proud of my hard news record, by the way. I never really screwed up a story, won a few Emmys. So, we are proud of that. And that gave me credibility to do what I do now.

The unemployment situation now, is starting to impact on President Obama. We didn’t report on this tonight because it’s kind of small-ball, but it is important. In the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia, all will be contested by the way; unemployment is going up in those states. And, the president really doesn’t have any answers. I’m not saying this in a partisan way, but he doesn’t. So…his foundation is crumbling. Nevada, for example, highest unemployment rate in the country, nearly 12%. I don’t know how the president carries Obama, even with the influx of Hispanic voters, who are more likely to vote for him. I don’t know how he does it. So, Florida, you’ve got an 8.6% unemployment rate in Florida…for a service state? A state where people go so they can work because there’s so much tourism? 8.6%? How does Barack Obama carry that state… I’m looking at the economics of it, and Virginia has 5.7% unemployment – manageable. So Barack Obama could carry Virginia, I think. But, some of these other states – Michigan, 8.6%, North Carolina, 9.4%, forget North Carolina; they are going to vote for Romney. But, Michigan is at 8.6%, that’s in play.

So, it is coming up fast. We’ve got a month before the conventions. I’ll be going to both conventions for a brief time, not hanging out, but I’ll be in for the big stuff. And then the debates whip in in October, and then we vote. Everything is going fast, we live in a fast society, and we thank you for being Premium Members. Don’t forget – a week from tomorrow, the big Town Hall Presidential Meeting on BillOReilly.com, and we will talk to you again tomorrow.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

2012-07-19T23:46:00Z

[There are a] couple of stories I didn’t get to today because we don’t really have a full explanation of them, and I don’t like to do stories unless we can really tell you what’s going on. There is a report, from the FBI, by former FBI director William Webster about why Army Major Nidal Hasan, despite all kinds of warnings, was not scrutinized by the army before he killed thirteen people in that horrible attack in 2009 at Fort Hood. The conclusion of the report is that political correctness on the part of the FBI allowed Hassan not to be put under a microscope. Now, this is coming from a Congressman Michael McCaul, and McCaul says that Webster’s report offers some new details that show the FBI was concerned about investigating an American Muslim in the military, and that’s why the investigation was not pursued, into Hassan and his radical leanings. Now, the report is not out yet, but the bureau is expected to release an unclassified version tomorrow. When it comes out, we are going to report it, but I want to see exactly what it says.

We know that al-Awlaki’s father is going to sue the United States of America, and al-Awlaki is the Al Qaeda American citizen who President Obama ordered killed by a drone. And that happened in Yemen. So, al-Awlaki’s father and two other plaintiffs are filing suit. It’s not going to get anywhere, but I think the ACLU is helping them though…they are involved somehow. I’m going to give this to “Is It Legal?” next week and they’ll have everything. Again, I don’t really know the extent of the ACLU’s involvement, but we will, and that will be Tuesday.

In Virginia, [a] very, very important state for Barack Obama, Quinnipiac now says it’s tied, 44-44, Obama-Romney. Now, if Morris is right, and whenever there is a tie the tie goes to the challenger, Obama is in big trouble… I have to go with Morris on this, I know I’ve been betting [on] him and winning most of my bets in the past, but…the guy does this for a living, and I know he is rooting for Romney, yes, and I’ve told him…we don’t need anybody rooting on The Factor, if you want to root you can root on the other shows, but not here, what we need here is hard data.

But, I believe Morris is right in this – when it’s a tie, and you have a bad situation, like the economy, [the] tendency is [that] the last few voters who go in, put the challenger over the top. So, 44-44, that adds up to 88: you’ve got 12 float[ing]. And Omar says the 12 are going to break, most of them, for the challenger Romney. I do believe that is true, that’s why my analysis disagrees with Charles Krauthammer’s. Krauthammer says Obama would win if the vote were held today, I say Romney would win. So, we’ll all find out, but a lot of things are going to happen between now and…Tuesday, November 6^th. That’s when we will be voting, for the presidency of the United States.

[This will be a] very, very fascinating election. I think this is, to me, the most interesting one. I’ll tell you why. In my lifetime, I was a straight reporter up until the mid-90s. So, before then, I really had on rooting interest. You know, I thought Ronald Reagan was doing a good job, I thought Carter was doing a bad job, but Kennedy, Nixon…meh, Ford, Carter…meh. I covered it…Carter, Reagan…I mean, you couldn’t go with Carter, it was a disaster. And, on and on. But, this one now, this is the most stark contrast, so, that’s where we are.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

2012-07-18T21:00:00Z

Not a lot going on that we didn't tell you about, so I want to give you a heads up today on the Presidential Town Hall meeting that is in less than two weeks, [on] the 31^stof July, 9:15 PM EST. [It will be] right after The Factor - we don't want to compete with ourselves, obviously. We do want to give everybody on the West Coast time to get home from work and all of that. It is going to be a lot of fun - now here's what we are going to do.

It's a 45 minutes exposition, and I'll be live on BillOReilly.com - just you guys will get it. So, we are going to have a lot of information for you. Polling in the swing states, latest trends, inside info - that kind of thing. So I'd say I'm going to do about ten minutes on setting up where the presidential election is on the last day of July, because it is coming fast now. It's coming fast - by that time it is just over three months and we'll be voting. And then, you guys will be able to send in your questions, your comments, your debate thing if you want to disagree - we want to hear that. I'll say, "Okay here is so-and-so from La Crosse, WI, and she thinks I'm full of hooey because I said this," and then I'll give my shpiel, then she can come back...now, we only have a few technicians, so, we assume we are going to have thousands of people involved in this - we will do the best we can. But, I want to give you a heads up that it's interactive, it's what you guys want it to be - it's not just a Q and A though, I want to hear what you think about how the campaigns are being waged, who you think is going to win, the mistakes that are in play, what Obama has to do, what Romney has to do, what you think is going to happen at the debates - all of that we are going to take.

So, we are going to have three of these deals for Premium Members. We are going to have one in September, one in October, this one in July, and then, a couple of days before the actual election we are going to have a Town Hall meeting for everybody. It's going to be crazy, but we'll do it. So, it's going to be a lot of fun. Now, if you have any suggestions for the Town Hall meeting - if there is something that you would like to hear, just start to email us that now. You know, if you have any innovative suggestions, editorial suggestions, you want to replace me with Megyn Kelly, you know, just send them in - we'll do what we can.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

2012-07-17T18:57:00Z

Did you know that on Delta Airlines they were serving sandwiches on a flight from Amsterdam... to, I guess New York, and they had needles… the kind you [sew with] inside the sandwiches? One passenger was injured. [The] plane landed in Minneapolis. I don’t know what they were doing in Minneapolis, but anyway, the FBI is investigating. That had to be sabotage. That’s what that is, and that’s why it’s disturbing… if you can sabotage people’s food on an airline, that’s terrorism. That’s what it is, so that’s why I’m mentioning it. Now, I’m not going to make a big deal out of this, because it could be one lone nut – you don’t know what happened, but I am glad the FBI is looking into it. When you go abroad, the security is not the same as it is in the United States, particularly the security inside the airports. So, that’s what happened. I don’t eat the airline food anyway; I bring my own food now, because you can’t win. Even if it tastes good, you know your thumbs are going to fall off if you eat too much of it…. They are not looking out for you on the airlines anymore, they’re just giving you slop, it’s ridiculous.

In the gulf, a U.S. Naval vessel fired on a small boat. I don’t really know why this happened, but we assume it was [that] the boat was menacing the U.S. craft. In the dark, you don’t know what’s going on – you issue a a warning, and the warning isn’t heeded, you blow them up… They could have bombs all over: remember the USS Cole. So, that happened, and now there’s an investigation over [it]. One Indian fisherman was killed, three Indian nationals critically injured. This happened outside the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf. So…who the hell knows? [It’s a] crazy world.

There is a report [from] Knox College in Galesburg Illinois, I don’t know that place. They studied six-year-old girls [from ages] 6 to 9, and sixty girls were shown dolls, and asked which ones they liked. Sixty-eight percent of them said the “sexy dolls” and [that] they wanted to look sexy. Kids absorb the culture, and the culture is all about that, no doubt about it. The innocence of children [is] still there but if you are a parent or grandparent, you really have to work to protect it. You have to work to protect that. And if you don’t watch all the time, boy, bad stuff is going to creep in. The electronic age – that is one of the [worst] things about it. High-tech stuff comes into your home that could never have come into your home even ten years ago.

Otherwise, nothing a lot going on in the political realm. The big debate, as we covered tonight, is this presidential decree that your individual success is mostly do, or partly do, to the largess of the federal government. [That’s] kind of crazy, you know, I see where [Obama] is going with it, but [with] the president, what it all comes down to, is social justice. He wasn’t money to give to people – Americans – who don’t have very much – and he doesn’t have any money now. We’re broke. Sixteen trillion in debt, so, he wants to up the tax rate to get more money to give the poorer folks perks – healthcare, whatever it may be. And now they are going to make it easier to get on welfare, you already know [about] the food stamps, and on and on and on. So I suspect that if the president is reelected, this will then get it to a historical degree, although the House will remain republican and shoot down a lot of what he wants to do, but he can get around it, with executive orders and things like that, as you have seen. So, people don’t really know what’s at stake – what’s at stake is your money. If you don’t have much, the president wants to give you some. If you do, he wants to take it away. And that’s the bottom line.

Monday, July 16, 2012

2012-07-16T15:34:00Z

So, the big story we broke today is this whole Bain Capital business.[It’s] a bunch of bull, it’s just politics. The Obama administration obviously didn’t have a big problem with outsourcing as we demonstrated through General Electric, but now they do. I don’t think anybody is going to buy it. It took me a couple of weeks to even engage on this because it was so stupid and then I figured, well, since the regular White House press isn’t shooting it down, I am going to have to. I don’t like to get involved – and you should know this – with sticking up for a campaign. I don’t want to have to be Mitt Romney’s PR guy… or President Obama’s correct-the-records guy. I don’t want to have to do that; it’s not my job. My job is to watch these guys [and] make sure that they don’t mislead you. Now, they’re going to mislead you on a daily basis, because they are going to say bad things about each other, some will be true, some won’t, but [if] it gets to be a campaign, I have to move in. And this Bain Capital thing is a campaign. If you know anything about business, Bain Capital did what everybody else does: they tried to make money. And if somebody was sending jobs to Honduras, and they thought the company was worthwhile, they are going to buy the company, and they wouldn’t think twice about the jobs in Honduras. That’s the way American capitalism works. Even at BillOReilly.com we try very, very hard to buy our stuff in the USA but sometimes, we can’t get it made here in the volume we need. So then we have to go to a company that outsources the material so they can get it to us. Now, the American company still makes money – we don’t buy directly from another Nation, we buy from American companies. But, sometimes they outsource the shirts or whatever, to Honduras or China, whatever. And we evaluate that, but remember we are in business to get money to charity here. So, if we can get a 30% lower rate for the same product, that means 30% more goes to charity. So, it gets to be a complicated situation. But, in this case the Obama campaign is ridiculous – it’s ridiculous! And why Romney didn’t jump on it before I do, I have no idea – I don’t know what these people are doing. It was just standing there with the GE thing. But believe me, after we break it, everybody will have it.

Anthony Weiner, former congressman of New York [who] got caught up in that Internet scandal, may come back into the political arena to run for office in New York City, which is very tolerant of aberrant behavior – it always has been! So, Weiner is in the right place if he wants to make a comeback. I don’t care one way or the other, myself about Anthony Weiner. He was okay to us… he is a far-left guy, [and] I don’t think he is going to do the city any good by spending all kinds of money that we don’t have here, but that’s for the voters to decide.

One thing we were looking at that we didn’t report [and is] kind of small is that two employees at the New York Times gave money to the Obama campaign – a woman named Sally Singer… and John Stickney. Two people, working for the New York Times, in the editorial arena, gave money to the Obama administration. That’s against their rules at the New York Times, but they did. Also, someone from The Huffington Post did the same thing, [but] they don’t have any rules at The Huffington Post, so it doesn’t matter there. The New York Times ostensibly, but… we all know what the New York Times is, who works there, and what they do.

[I am] looking forward to the July 31 first Town Hall Meeting about the presidential campaign just for you guys, so please gear up. That will be at 9:15 PM ET… it will be live, and we will take all your questions and comments then.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

2012-07-12T22:02:00Z

Tomorrow [is] Friday the 13th. I'm not a superstitious guy, I don't believe in that crazy kind of stuff, black cats… don't walk under ladders, all that stuff. Now, do I go out of my way to seek out black cats so they can run in front of me? No, but I don't go out of my way to do anything with any animals, so there you go.

Alright, so, lively interview with Shelton from the NAACP tonight on the lead, I did not like the interview, because he filibustered. Now, we appreciate him coming on, but, you know, he did it on purpose, he knew I was trying to get in, and he wouldn't shut up… that's not what we do. Now, I [could have] gone two ways - I could have really hammered him, like I did with Barney Frank [and] a few other people, or I could have done what I did [which] was get firm with him, but then there would be two people talking at the same time. But, I couldn't let him hijack the interview, which [is] clearly what he wanted to do.

So, I'll be interested to hear what you think of it. I mean, he was dead wrong, and he was misleading you by saying that Romney wanted to do away with public education funds, that's just simply not true. I called him on it…. Also, McCain did get jazz in the NAACP [event] that he attended last time around. So… he wasn't being genuine on the interview.

Now, it's a tough one, because I don't want to alienate the liberal African American community, but I'm not going to let them misbehave, because I don't let anybody misbehave on the program. So you've got to walk this line, but I personally didn't like the interview, although I understand it had to come down that way… I could have been really rude to him, and really let him have it, but that would have done more harm to The Factor than good, I believe. You know how the propagandists are. We've got about five million people watching us every night, but a lot of people don't see the program, and then they hear about stuff that happens, so you don't want to give the liars and our enemies any ammunition.

[The] Penn State [situation is] awful. You know, I feel the same way that I felt when the Catholic Church got caught up in this pedophilia stuff. I don't have any emotional tie to Penn State, but I do recognize the important role it played in Pennsylvania. [It] doesn't play that role anymore. Their primary state university is in disgrace, and there is nothing you can say about it. The top guys allowed child molestation to occur, and didn't do anything to stop it, and you… absolutely can't do that. So, they deserve everything they get.

We did not report the Florida State attorney releasing some documents today about the Trayvon Martin case. There isn't anything there that is newsworthy, we couldn't see anything. There isn't any kind of evidence of racism on the part of Zimmerman, who is charged with killing Trayvon Martin. So, the court thing just moves ahead. It will be a sensational trial, if I had to bet now, [I would say] he [will be] acquitted. But, obviously I don't know all of the information, and anything can happen in the courtroom. That's not to say that he didn't do anything wrong, by the way. I'm just going on the legal facts that I know right now: there is reasonable doubt about what happened.

There are a bunch of… what we call "small ball" stories, [they are] interesting little things that happened in the States but they don't rise up to segments, because they are just not universal enough, however, this one is, but I chose not to do it because I don't think it's a shock. In 1992, 46% of Americans had a great deal of confidence in television news. Now, 21%… and those people must be total morons, because television news is corrupt, and we show it day in and day out, day in and day out. Like me or not, we are an honest program, and we can back up what we say. If we make a mistake, we tell you we make a mistake and we apologize. But, most of these other people, they are doing stuff in the editing room, and we expose a lot of it, with Bernie Goldberg on a weekly basis, but it's on and on and on. if you think you are getting the truth from TV news organizations, you're not!

That's not to say that they are all bad, there are some very good people working in those organizations, but there just isn't that kind of objective, "we're going to tell the truth to the folks" [outlook] that there used to be. Even though the anchormen have always been liberal - Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw - all liberal men - they made an attempt to tell you the truth. At least they did at ABC - CBS was trouble when I was there, there is no doubt about it.…

There are two people that I watch on the network news: Sharyl Attkisson on CBS, the investigative reporter, and Brian Ross, [the] investigative reporter on ABC News. When they tell me something, I know it's true. [I also watch] 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes is pretty rigorous in their vetting process. But other than that, when they tell me something, here is what I do: I call my guys and say, "check it out," and sometimes it checks out and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't take it [at] face value. It's amazing how many people do. They see something on TV news, or even on the internet and they believe it… I'm just staggered. it is like believing something out of the supermarket tabloids.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

2012-07-12T00:43:00Z

[It's a] short exposition tonight--I'm just running all over the place, so I don't have a lot of time. We covered pretty much everything that you should know about on the program. There's some polling, but it's among the regular folks, not likely voters, and it doesn't really mean anything when you get into that precinct of regular folks, because… about 53, 54% [of registered voters] vote, so, you know, a poll of everybody--a lot of people are just not going to show up.

Miller claims that people are distracted when they get the call [from pollsters]. I'm not sure that's true--it's a pretty easy question. "Do you like Romney or do you like Obama?" I don't know whether distraction could skew the poll, but certainly people who aren't going to vote--so what? Who cares what they think?

It looks to me like Mitt Romney is in a very strong position. His body language… tells me he's pretty confident, and I think the internal polling on both the Democrats and Republicans show right now a shift to Romney. But, of course, you've got three debates, you've got the conventions, you've got the VP selection--but I can't see the president gaining any momentum anywhere. It's Romney's to lose, as they say in sports. It doesn't look like Barack Obama's going to have anything now to help him, so what he's got, he's got. He's got the economy, he's got the healthcare--he's got it [and] it's not going to change.

Whereas Romney, if he screws up, obviously he's going to go down [in the polls], but if he stays the same or improves his presentation, he'll go up [in the polls]. So in the potential of votes, it seems Mitt Romney has a big advantage. He has the potential to persuade, whereas everybody knows what you get with President Obama. He's been there for three and half years. You know what you've got. With Romney, you don't know yet. He's still rolling out to most American voters--so, therefore, the potential, of course, is in his corner.

Now, on our first Town Hall on the 31st of this month, we'll roll out the electoral college heavy, so be thinking of your questions--because I'm going to be taking a lot of questions during the town hall, and they're going to be funneled to me on the website, so you're going to be able to punch them up right then and there as we continue to speak. It'll be 45 minutes of just me and you, and I think it'll be fun…

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

2012-07-11T01:44:00Z

I think we had a pretty good program tonight. We're trying to break stories nobody else is covering, like this kid in the rap video and the thing in Utah about the float, because it's the same old, same old in the presidential campaign.

We've exposed, pretty much, that there is no benefit to the economy [to] raising taxes on anybody in the country right now, and we've proven that beyond a reasonable doubt. Dennis Kucinich, a devoted Democrat and liberal--he didn't have anything [in defense of the proposal on the show tonight], and that's about the best they're going to do. I mean, Kucinich knew where were going with [the story], so he had all day to prepare… By raising taxes on anybody in the middle of this very difficult economy, you don't help the economy, and you could possibly hurt it. It's speculative, but there's certainly history to show that that could happen… what Reagan did reinvigorated the economy, so why wouldn't you give that a shot?

Now, the reason, obviously, is that polls show that most Americans want the wealthy to pay more. The whole Buffett thing was a big ruse and a con, but a lot of people bought it, because they don't pay attention. And that, really, is the seriousness of what we're trying to get across here--that fully half of the electorate, half the people who could vote in November, have no blankin' idea what's going on, and, you know, I can't go door-to-door. I think I do a pretty darn good job (and I think you agree, or you wouldn't be Premium Members) of presenting you with facts--facts… and then you can do with [the information] what you want. You want to be conservative? Fine with us. You want to be liberal? Fine with us. Just center your belief system on the facts that we present. That separates us from almost every other talk radio and cable television [news] program on the air, because we're not in business to persuade you to go vote one way or the other. But when we do have a concern about the country, which we certainly do now, with a $16 trillion debt [and] no meaningful spending cuts in the air and a president who doesn't look like he's got a clue on how this economy [could be turned around]?

You might remember that when George [W.] Bush lost control of the Iraq war, I pretty much said that… I came on, and I said, you know what, this isn't going well, and this [war] is descending into chaos, and people are getting killed. We've got to do something about it, and the president doesn't seem to have any answers. Now, after that… Mr. Bush did a stunning thing by flooding the zone in the surge, and it worked. So he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat--he did it. It was him, not his advisors. I mean, obviously Gen. Petraeus executed the plan, but the president's the Commander in Chief and had to sign off on it. So you've got to give him credit, and you also have to say that if Bush can do that in Iraq, maybe Obama can pull the economy out of the fire, but I'm not seeing it right now. There's no surge in the economy.

The president's running around the country, saying, well, look, I'm going to tax 2% of the American workforce at a higher rate, and that's going to solve… what? What is that going to solve? We gave you the stat--[this idea] raises $85 billion a year, and Obama and his crew spend $85 billion in eight and a half days. So what is that? What is that? And the downside could be constraint in spending and investment, which makes the economy worse. Is that worth the calculation?

Monday, July 9, 2012

2012-07-10T01:06:00Z

I made the announcement on the program tonight that the first of the Presidential Town Halls is going to be on the 31st of this month [at] 9:15 [PM] Eastern time. Now what this is going to be is, I'm going to be there [online], and you guys can ask me any question you want about the presidential race. We'll have all the latest information about the electoral college, polling on a state-by-state basis--a lot of stuff for you that I don't have time to do on the program. It's going to be all about that, and… my perceptions about who's ahead, the mistakes they're making, the wise moves they're making--because this is coming up really fast. We have the two conventions at the end of August…

I'm thinking about not even going to the Democratic convention at all now, because there's nothing for me to do there. …obviously the nomination is in play. I don't think we're going to get a presidential interview at that point. The president is going to give this big outdoor address at the stadium in Charlotte--I don't really see a need to be there for that. So--I have to go to the Republican deal because of the vice presidential sweepstakes, and there's more in play there, but I don't want it to look like I'm favoring the Republicans over the Democrats by not showing up, so maybe I'll have to make an appearance in North Carolina. I don't know… I just don't want to waste everybody's time by me going down there, because when I go down there, there's got to be security, there's a big dog and pony show.

It's funny, because in 2000, 12 years ago, I remember going out to LA to the Democratic convention, and it was, like, no big deal. I could walk around, I could do what I wanted to do. I remember hanging out with Schwarzenegger one night, and nobody really cared. Now it's a huge deal, 12 years later--and it's corresponding to… 12 years at #1. That was when we just about hit it, in 2000.

So if I walk around the floor of the Democratic convention, I've got to have five guys with me, in case some crazy loon comes out with a knife or something. So it becomes… an ordeal. When I was at Minneapolis at the Republican convention, I could not walk the streets, and here's what happens… everybody has a camera in their cell phone. Everybody has one. And I don't like to be rude, so if people say, "Can I get a quick picture, Bill," and I stop and I say sure, click it, and inevitably they don't know how to work the camera. So it takes, instead of 30 seconds, it takes two minutes. And they're fumbling here, they're fumbling there, they don't know how to point it, they've got their finger on the lens--you know how it is. I look up, and then there's ten other people who want pictures, and then there's 20, and then I'm there all night. And you think I'm exaggerating? I am not. It's the cell phone mania camera deal, because once you get a [picture] with any person of note, then you can send it to everybody, see? It goes all over the place, and then you have to watch or know who you're taking your picture with.

Bill Clinton's over there in Monaco, and all of a sudden, two women come up and they say, "Oh, President Clinton, can I have my picture taken with you?" …they turn out to be porn stars--this is a true story--and there's Clinton, grinning like an idiot, surrounded by two porn stars. And of course it's on every Internet site, with wise-guy comments all day long.

I think back, and when I was a young kid, I thought it was going to be really fun to be famous. I didn't think I was going to be famous, but I figured if I ever was famous, it'll be fun. I wanted to be a baseball player. It isn't fun--it's not fun at all. It's a pain. Now, don't cry for me Argentina--I make a lot of money, I get the best seats in the house… people give me free hors d'oeuvres at the restaurant… that's all good stuff. I don't really care about it very much, but it's there, and it's nice, but I tell you what--for me to go down to these political conventions now is a major ordeal. So I'm thinking about curtailing my presence.

Now, if you guys think that would be not a good idea, I want you to let me know--e-mail me if you think my presence there matters. But, you know, these conventions are so orchestrated now there's no spontaneity in anything. They know what they're going to say, it's all written beforehand… the spectacle is interesting, but I'm not going to be able to--maybe I'll get some inside stuff. It's possible somebody might come up and say, "I know this, or I know that." One time I ran into Bono [and] I got him on the show; in Boston, we got Michael Moore on the show… so, you know, some things can happen spontaneously.

But anyway, the important thing is that we're going to have three of these Town Hall meetings on BillOReilly.com just for you guys. Nobody else is going to see or hear them. We're not going to open it up later for everybody to see it--it's not going to happen, because I want you guys to know we appreciate you being Premium Members, and we're going to give you… the extra stuff, so this is it.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

2012-07-05T23:33:00Z

…I want to alert you to something that's going on. Because the presidential election is coming up fast, the liberal press is targeting Fox News Channel for vicious attacks, and this happened last time around. They're targeting me and some other people on FNC--the management, and things like that, but these attacks are pretty vicious. [The] latest one is on "Killing Lincoln." Apparently there's something in the New York Times that said it's bad history, and all of that.

Don't believe any of this stuff, and I know you don't, but it's all designed to diminish and denigrate people who may not support Barack Obama, and send a message to others in the media--if you dare oppose Barack Obama's policies, we are going to come after you and hurt you and your enterprises.

Now, "Killing Lincoln" has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 40 weeks; that drives them crazy. They don't know what to do about it. It's sold… about 2 million copies, and it continues to be a bestseller after 40 weeks, as I said. So we're going to fight back. I'm not going to kind of just take it. We're looking to see who's behind it. We'll unmask them [and] we'll go after them. The problem is that… at MSNBC and these kinds of places… any mention I give them helps them. Nobody watches that channel, so if you mention them, then people tune over to see who you're talking about. So you've got to be very careful about that. We don't want to help them. They're desperate; they really have nothing going [for them], but you will see increased attacks over the next four months on FNC.

Now, in the good news department, "Military Officer" magazine, [in the] July edition, says this about "Killing Lincoln:" "Best-selling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard have combined their considerable writing talents to produce one of the most readable, exciting and perceptive accounts of the assassination of Pres. Abraham Lincoln. This historical thriller reads like a novel, but is well-crafted history." And we really appreciate that.

You know, this is a magazine that I have no contact with… it's obviously geared toward military officers… but who better than to read about Abraham Lincoln? So we're flattered by this review [and] happy that it's out, and I'm going to use this against the forces of evil, which are arrayed in a attempt to get Pres. Obama reelected.

Now that's not to say President Obama is evil. I do not believe he is, and a lot of you write me letters… [saying] I'm too easy on him. No I'm not, and you know that in your heart. I'm very fair, but the president has not done a good job economically. I don't like the power grab--I don't like the executive privilege on "Fast and Furious," and I made that very, very clear. But unlike other people, I don't attack him personally. I use the facts, and that is why these people hate me more than anyone else--because I direct my criticism not only toward the president, but all the people in power, using facts. Irrefutable facts. And when you do that, they can't win the debate, and they don't--and you see it night in and night out on The Factor. So I think we're in a good place as far as you're concerned, Premium Members.

Monday, July 2, 2012

2012-07-03T01:25:00Z

…as far as the news is concerned, as you may know, I interrupted my vacation to come on with Laura [via telephone] on Thursday [to] give you my overall view of the [Supreme Court] ruling [on Obamacare,] which is not a good ruling for the country… and I gave you my reasons. I hope they're acceptable; I hope you understand what's going on. It's a complicated matter. It's not very simple--I mean, it's got a lot of varying degrees of legitimacy and illegitimacy.

It sounds like I'm BS-ing, but I'm really not. It's a complicated situation, and the problem with it is that it all comes back to us, so we have a chance… to make a statement on what exactly is going to happen in this country, and we're going to have to vote on it in November. And I don't think… that most Americans understand what's at stake. You do--you're engaged--but most Americans don't. 41% have no idea what Obamacare means, why it's there, how it affects them, what they should think about it--that's a lot of folks… and I think that we all have to take a deep breath here and try to understand that this country is changing way too fast for my tastes--way too fast--and I want it to stop.

I want us to slow down and to look at what's really happening, because some of these decisions are really going to hurt you and me, and those decisions are being made among a very few people. [Supreme Court Chief Justice] John Roberts took a lot of power--that one man--a lot of power, and I don't know… I understand why he did what he did--I explained it today--but I never would have done that. Never, never, never, never. Because once you open the door to the federal government, where they can punish you for not doing what they want?

…some of you think it's noble… for the government to provide health insurance for everyone [and for] people who can't afford it--I'm not going to say it's not noble. I'm going to say there's a better way to do it. That's my frustration with Boehner and these guys on the Republican side. I just don't believe they're articulating that very well, and… if they want to win and regain power in Washington, they have to do a better job [of that].

Friday, June 22, 2012

2012-06-22T20:42:00Z

As far as news is concerned, we've really been on it--[I've been] very happy with my staff this week.

We're waiting for this Sandusky thing--he's guilty, he did it. One of his adopted sons has come forward, saying he was molested by Sandusky. I wish he had done that during the trial. There's no doubt that this guy is a pedophile child molester, and I don't think he's going to get off. If he does, all hell's going to break loose.

I guess he could be recharged with this adopted son business, because he was not… on the original charges, so he could be recharged and retried. Maybe that's what they're doing, but boy, oh boy, this guy's got to go away for the rest of his life. I mean, there's just no excuse for that crime--none. [If] you do it, it's like murder or rape--you go [to prison] forever. In my opinion--you just go away forever. You don't ruin lives like that.

The Supreme Court made a ruling about profanity [and] nudity… on TV, and basically the court is saying, in an 8-0 decision, that the FCC can't be fining people because the law's too vague. So it's a dodge, but the court clearly wants the indecency laws on television--on the public airwaves--rewritten. That's what the court wants, so that [the laws] become more specific about what is allowed and what is not allowed… so that's where we are, and it's interesting--it's an interesting deal. Who's going to rewrite them? I have no idea. I don't think there's anybody interested in rewriting them.

We're just going to be like Britain, and after a certain time, probably nine o'clock at night, then anything's going to go on TV--that's where it's [headed]. Because you already have that on cable. Now, the difference is you have to buy cable, whereas the public airwaves are free and owned by you and me… just like the land twelve miles off shore.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

2012-06-22T00:16:00Z

The situation with Barack Obama has reached critical mass, but here's the interesting part--most Americans don't know it. They don't know how damaged his presidency is, and the reason is that the mainstream media (and I guess Fox is part of that, but I think we've been pretty good in chronicling what's happened to the present--however, the others have not) bury the stories about Holder and "Fast and Furious" and contempt and Obamacare--they bury it. But next week, they're not going to be able to do that, because the Supreme Court is going to rule on Obamacare, and if it goes down, the president's signature achievement blows up.

Also, the House is going to vote on Holder's contempt [charges]--the full House--and that could lead to a grand jury proceeding against the attorney general. Now, my gut tells me that Holder, at the last minute, is probably to pony up some documents. He doesn't want this to go to the grand jury, because if it does, he can't stop it after that. [If] the grand jury finds evidence that he committed a crime, he could go to prison, so Holder… better wise up and wise up fast, and you've got to know that behind closed doors there are all kinds of discussions going on right now, executive privilege or not. Because once it gets into the criminal realm, then… all hell's going to break loose.

There are people who believe that the attorney general committed perjury, and that's why they don't want to put the documents out--because [the] documents would prove that, so he's toast. Now, I have no idea, and I'm not going to speculate, because that would be irresponsible of me, but as I told you last night, there is no reason on earth why these documents should not be handed over to the Congressional committee, and if there's some kind of advice given to President Obama [in the documents], redact it. It'll be obvious in the documents what that is.

So… I got all kinds of letters about conspiracy--Obama did this, and Holder did that. I just throw those away. They don't mean anything to me. You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm a professional, and I have to analyze based on facts, not what somebody thinks might happen. And I'm not saying that in any derogatory [way]; it's fun to talk about it, and to say, okay, well, this is what I think might be the case. Yeah, that's good stimulating conversation, but as far as what I have to do, it doesn't do me any good.

There's a new study published in the Cambridge University Press about why some Muslims hate the USA. It's an analysis of 13,000 Muslims in 21 countries, and it shows that a lot of observant Muslims just don't like our culture. They don't like the Kim Kardashians, the MTVs, the in-your-face sexuality, the secular, rap, Hollywood presentation. It offends them. They'll watch it all day long, because they want to be offended, I guess--they hate us, but they'll watch it. …the movies that Hollywood puts out overseas in the Muslim countries? They clean up--they clean up. The more violent and the more explicit those movies are, the more people go.

Otherwise, we're just kind of waiting to see the next shoe drop on the president. I believe he is exhausted, as I told you; my newspaper column gets into that pretty heavily… it's a good column. I think I have really [pinned down] what's going on with the president. I've watched him very closely, as you know, and I don't dislike him--I'm not watching him with an eye to try to hurt him. I don't do that. I'm trying to report to you exactly what's happening with him, as I did with President Bush. I think we've been fair, but the column is worth reading.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

2012-06-20T23:43:00Z

[There's] a lot of news today, and how this [Holder stuff] is all going to shake down will be very interesting, but the intent is clear: let's tie it up in litigation until after the election. Americans will forget about it [and] they won't take it into consideration. However if the documents get out, I'm thoroughly convinced now there's something in those documents that would damage the Obama administration… if there weren't, they'd let them out. It doesn't make any sense at all to make a stand on this. It's not even a big deal to the American public at this point. They don't really care about it, so why are you doing it? [There's] got to be a reason, right? [It's] linear thinking--A to B to C to D. And they will--the Obama administration--succeed in tying it up in court. It just depends on how the Republicans sell it to the basic population that is not paying attention to anything like that--news numbers are down everywhere…

What happens to Holder? He just hangs in [there]. They're not going to dump Holder. So he's around--it doesn't matter what Congress does with him. So it's the same-old, same-old. If you are a protected member of the establishment, people with power, you can get away with a lot, and finally, usually, it gets resolved, but it takes a long time.

Marco Rubio is being vetted, according to Mitt Romney. He's got a shot at it--VP nominee. No doubt about it--he's got a shot. We're hearing that Tim Pawlenty is a contender. I don't think that'll happen… with all due respect, it's bland and bland. They need some pop on the second part of that ticket for the Republicans, with Mitt Romney being fairly buttoned down, as Bob Newhart used to say--buttoned down.

This is good news: authorities in Texas are not going to charge the father who beat a 47-year-old man to death when he caught him molesting his four-year-old daughter, so there's no charges there, and the grand jury said, you know, forget it. Look, all of us react emotionally when our children are in danger, and that's the worst thing in the world outside of murder that could happen, so we all understand it. And, you know, if you're going to be a child molester and you die, not a lot of people will feel sorry for you. And then you've got to face your maker after that, so that's not a good thing. If you're a child molester, you're not going to get any quarter from anybody, and that's that.

Finally, I've gotten a little worried about this Putin. This guy's a bad guy, and we've all known it, but now he looks to me, watching him at the G-20 Summit in Mexico, he looks like he wants to embarrass and humiliate the United States. He believes that he can pretty much push President Obama around, and I think he's going to be a provocateur. [It] just looks to me that way. Now, I believe that President Obama will not take a lot of BS from Vladimir Putin, because Obama's already been criticized for being too light on the Russians with the missile stuff and all of that. And I think he knows that if Putin pushes him, he's going to have to push back--hard, and publicly. He gave Putin a pass last night--it was ridiculous, and I chastised Mr. Obama for doing it, but I think if Putin pushes his luck, there's going to be a big story [unfolding] there...

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

2012-06-20T02:04:00Z

[There's] a lot of stuff going on today, as you know…

Wouldn't you just like to punch Putin? What a villain this guy is. He sends heavy artillery and tanks and stuff to Damascus so Assad can kill innocent people, women and children… what are you sending it there for? I don't know how Obama can sit in the same room with the man. I've always said that Putin's a villain--bad guy, ruthless, killer, and you know, there they are together, like he's somebody we should have to listen to.

Everybody should know that in the world, there are [four] nations that will commit murder--outright murder… North Korea and Iran, Russian and China. They will murder people on a mass level--when they want oil or weapons, whatever they want, they'll do it--those four--and people should know it. It's awful.

There's a report from ABC News that Marco Rubio is not--not being vetted as a possible VP for Mitt Romney. Interesting. Usually campaigns ask people to turn over documents, financial and otherwise, but apparently Rubio has not been asked to do that. I don't read too much into this--I still think he's a main player in this sweepstakes, but ABC is reporting that he has not been asked, and it's interesting.

President Obama has tapped John Kerry to be his debate partner… Kerry, because he did the presidential debates, will be playing Mitt Romney, and they'll go back and forth in their rehearsal. [There are] three debates scheduled for the fall.

[The] United States plans a significant military presence--about 14,000 troops in Kuwait--to stay there on the bases [and] make sure nobody misbehaves in the area. We predicted that would happen--no surprise, and it's a smart move.

Asians are now coming to the United States in more numbers than Hispanics, according to the Pew Research Center. 430,000 Asians moved to the US in 2010; 370,000 Hispanics. Those are legal [immigrants]… 45% of Hispanic immigrants in the US right now are illegal; 15% of Asian immigrants are [illegal]. So when you get into the illegal precincts, the Hispanics overwhelm, but as far as legality, it is Asians who are topping the list.

And finally, Alec Baldwin apparently grabbed some photographer and roughed him up. I've known Baldwin for a long time--he's not a bad guy. He's… an ideological Kool-Aid drinker [and you] can't reason with him on politics, but he's not a bad guy. And you've got to know that these celebrities in New York and LA are hounded [by paparazzi]--they're just hounded. You know, many times I've wanted to slug people, [but] I never did, because it's a big payday for them if I hit them. But know how Baldwin feels. You catch somebody on a bad day when they're overwhelmed and put a camera in their face and say something nasty to them? You know? That's what happens. So I'm never going to be too critical of that kind of behavior, although if you do it, you're going to pay. The courts have no sympathy, and these people will sue you, and you're going to pay. So my philosophy is, if you do take a shot, take a good one--take a good one. I hope I never do, but if I'm pushed to the limit by somebody--you saw my pitch at the Mets game, right? I can still physically do some damage, so if I have to, I'm taking a good [shot], because I know I'm going to pay in the end. I'm going to get at least a little bit of my money's worth. I know it sounds bad--I hope the kids aren't listening to me--I don't justify it, I would be wrong to do it. I'm going to try every way not to do it, but if I ever do do it, whoever's on the receiving end is going to remember.

Monday, June 18, 2012

2012-06-19T00:07:00Z

We're looking at the constitutionality of the Obama decision to grant quasi-amnesty (which is the best… way to describe the illegal alien policy that he has imposed), and I can't find anything that would allow the executive branch of government to do what he's doing. Now, as you know, I'm sympathetic to the actual policy, because you've got kids dragged here by their parents, and they stay here for decades, and they're productive citizens--they go into the military, some of them; they work productively [as] good citizens. So what are you going to do with those people? They didn't break any laws themselves by coming here; their parents broke the law. So you've got to look at them as a separate class than people who overstayed their visas or sneak across the border. That's only fair, and if we're a fair country, we have to do that. I mean, these people were impressed--that means they were forced--to come to this country, because they were children.

So the policy itself is fair, and it should be sanctioned by Congress, but you can't have a president standing up there, going, "Look, I want to do this because I know it's going to get me votes." Because that's why he did it--he could've done this in the first two years legislatively, and he chose not to. Everybody knows that. "But now I need the Hispanic vote, so I'm going to do it." And… the answer is, no you're not.

So it'll be interesting to see who files against him, because whoever does is going to be branded a racist--they've already started that business with Sam Donaldson--and… they're going to be branded anti-Hispanic. And it's such a subtle, sophisticated argument that we're making here that the casual voter… isn't going to really understand how the president overstepped his bounds, unless you watch The Factor and other public service… news programs. You're not going to know… so you're going to hear, "Well, the Republicans are against it, and they want to do this, and they want to do that," and therefore, it's going to work politically for Barack Obama. He's going to get sympathy in the Hispanic community, and Romney is going be branded as a mean guy, and that's that. And Romney knows it--that's why Romney's being very, very careful in how he defines what he would do.

Now, I must tell you that when I come out and I say, on television, look, it's fair to look at this class of illegal immigrants differently, I get hate mail. I do! I get hate mail--[from] people who say… you're not what you used to be, you have no spine… I'm saying to myself, look--there is a right and wrong in this world, alright? And if you're a child, and your parents take you anywhere, you don't have a say in it. And then they dump you there, and then you, for whatever reason, prosper, and you do good things and you're responsible, I'm going to kick you out? Think about it!

And then [people] say, "Well, you're taking jobs from Americans…" I'm not taking anything from anybody. The vast majority of these people [are] already in the workforce--they're already doing stuff to make a living, and if they're not, they're on the dole, which, we don't want them there anyway, do we? I mean, that's a drain.

So yeah, you can be a hard[-liner], and say, look, if you're not born here and you don't have a birth certificate… we're going to kick you all out. But the government's never going to do that, ever, in a million years--[never] are they going to round up people and throw them out. [It's] not going to happen.

So, in lieu of that, what else is the solution? There is no solution. You just do the shadow game, and that's what we're doing, and the shadow game is costing us gazillions of dollars. So, in theory, Congress should pass a law that creates a certain class of illegal immigrants who are here not on their own ticket, and deal with them separately--that's fair. That's what a good country does. That's what an effective government does--it takes a look at the situation and it finds a solution. But to impose it, as the president is doing because he want to get votes, is venal, and it's unconstitutional--simply unconstitutional.

So that's where we are on this, and again, I'm in business to tell you the truth. I'm not in business to pander to anybody, and it gets me angry when I see these right-wingers and left-wingers who… are smart enough to know what the right and wrong of it is, but they don't care. They measure and they calculate what… their audience wants to hear, and then they feed it to them. That's what MSNBC is, all day long… and some in… right-wing talk radio do that… all day long. They don't care what's fair; they don't care what's true. They sit down and they calculate, "How can I please my far-left viewers? Or my far-right viewers? And that's what I'll say."

You know, we never have done that here--ever, in 16 years. And… [if] we have to take the heat, we take it, but the people who give that kind of heat? Sometimes I question [them], really. I mean, I respect you if you feel [we] should have a zero-tolerance program toward illegal aliens. If that's your sincere belief, that you would, if you were president, round them all up and throw them all out? Okay--you're not wrong, legally; you could do that, legally. But morally, I think you've got to have some room here… we're a compassionate nation--we always have been, and I think we should continue that, rather than [being] a hard-line China-type place.

…the same people screaming for compassion on the illegal alien front? Many of them are the same people who couldn't care less if babies get hacked to death two minutes after they're born, or four minutes before they're born. Then I take a look at those people, and I say, yeah, you're compassionate, sure--why are you compassionate? For political reasons, not conscience reasons. You've got to be consistent in your belief system for me to respect you.

So anyway, that's where we are in this thing, and I hope you're following it, and if you feel we're wrong, or we're not reporting accurately… let me know. I am absolutely ready to listen to all views on this, but I want you to understand mine, especially because you're Premium Members…

Friday, June 15, 2012

2012-06-15T23:28:00Z

So a very, very astute political move [was made] today by Barack Obama. He didn't get anything done on the immigration front for three and a half years--he didn't try very hard, and now he says, you know what, I need the Hispanic vote, so I've got to do something. So he comes up with a fairly reasonable proposal. I mean, it's hard to say that that thing that he wants to do is going to hurt the country.

Number one… it isn't the fault, as we said, of the children who were dragged here. Their circumstances are beyond their control, so it's a compassionate move. Number two, it might hurt employment--I mean, obviously Americans are looking for jobs, and these jobs are going to be filled by… immigrants, and that could hurt in the competitive arena. But you don't know; it's speculative. And competition is not a bad thing in America--we like competition.

So it's going to be hard for Mitt Romney or anybody else to say, hey, Mr. Obama's unfair… he comes across as a compassionate guy, and he doesn't care whether the right hates him--they hate him anyway. [He's] not going to lose any votes there. Independent Americans? …it's hard to quantify it, but he bolsters his support in the Hispanic community. There's no doubt about it. So it was a shrewd political move [with] not a lot of downside to it. It's not going to take a lot of heat. The conservative guy who tried to interrupt him looks like a fool--I mean, that's what Occupy Wall Street does. Does he want to be in that crew? So I don't know. …I thought it was a pretty astute political move. I don't object to it.

If I were president, I would do a whole different ballgame on this thing, and I've laid it out to you in the past, what I would do. But [every illegal alien] would have to register… we would then take a look, we the federal government, at who people are, where they are, what they're doing, what their circumstance is, and then evaluate. And… the people… who were dragged here by their parents, who served in the military? Certainly you want to reward them. So that's the way you do it.

There's all kinds of small ball stuff in in the news. I'm not even going to bother with it. There was a brawl between two rappers over this Rihanna--I don't care.

Lindsay Lohan, who we've said is going to die, now is unconscious in the hospital. The woman is a drug addict, and when you're a drug addict, you go any day.

There's a whole bunch of stuff around, but it's small ball stuff… and it's stuff that we can't really get to on the program, and I don't really want to bore you here.

The bottom line on it is that we're kind of in this holding pattern now in America until August and the conventions, and then things will ramp up. I do expect there's going to be some tussling this summer, and I'll be here most of the time to tell you about it. The Supreme Court's going to come down soon and rule on Obamacare--that'll be big. That's going to be a big story.

And, you know, Mitt Romney's smart staying out of the fray. The economic news is so bad--let the president deal with it. And Romney says, "Why do I have to be around? Everybody knows it's bad."

Thursday, June 14, 2012

2012-06-15T01:32:00Z

This week I had to finish [writing] "Killing Kennedy," so we had to finish the book. I've got to do one more editing job tonight on it, and we will hand it to the publisher, Holt, which is a division of Macmillan, tomorrow--and it's a kick-butt book, I'll tell you what. I know I'm going to be attacked, because we're telling you the truth about a lot of things. Some of it is good, and some of it is bad. I think that overall, President Kennedy's going to come off well, but boy oh boy, we're not pulling any punches here. We're not like the Washington Post and the New York Times were in 1960, so we're telling you exactly what happened [and] why it happened, and we're taking you right into the events just as we did with "Killing Lincoln." So it is quite something.

I've read the book 3 times now, because… that's my job--I write it, then I have to read it, read it, read it, and even after the third reading, I'm going, "Wow, I can't believe that happened." But it did. So that, in addition to doing The Factor, and then all the other stuff--I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I'm well compensated, and I choose to do all this, but I don't know what day it is--that was my original point.

Some of the things that we haven't been able to report, because we just can't illustrate them: The US [is] expanding secret intelligence operations in Africa, and that's smart. Al-Qaeda has moved in there--wherever there's chaos and no central government, al-Qaeda's going to go, so we have to follow them. So we've got special ops going on in African nations that have a lot of Muslims there. And you've got to do it, and again, I give President Obama credit for the war on terror--I think he's done very well.

Lance Armstrong--I can't get a handle on this guy. I met him one time--I did not like him. [It was] just visceral--it was probably me. I just didn't like him. I met him in Colorado; he just came across to me as some kind of guy who thought he was maybe more than a bicycle rider should--I don't know. I hate to be judgmental about that--I'll just say this: I wouldn't hang around with him. Now, he was sober when I met him… but boy, they're after him. They are after Lance Armstrong for this doping business.

This Texas story, we're going to do tomorrow, about this man who killed the guy who was sexually molesting his four-year-old daughter. It's a very intense story and we will have that for you tomorrow.

J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon--I leave all that to Cavuto and those guys, Varney. I'm not a big finance guy--it bores me. [I'm] not a money guy; I don't really like material things. I go shopping, maybe, I don't know, once every two months, because I've got to get underwear--that's why I go. You can't send people out to get underwear, you know? If I can send them out, I send other people--"Go get me this!" You've got to buy your own underwear and socks. …I walk into a mall, and there's like 90 stores--there's nothing I want to buy. I don't care about it. And I don't care about these greed heads who are trying to make money and doing all these deals. It just bores me to tears.

And that's about it. The economy is stagnating--you all know that. There's nothing good on the horizon there, and that's why I think if the election were held tomorrow, Barack Obama would lose, but that could change.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

2012-06-13T23:59:00Z

I got a lot of mail last night on the Beck segment… you know Beck, he's a provocateur, and he's going, "Oh, Obama's a socialist, and… he's a Marxist." And I'm going, "Beck, [he's] not a Marxist--he's just the most liberal president ever to serve," which I think is absolutely accurate. So then, inevitably, I get the mail--"Yes he is, he's a Marxist, and you're crazy, and why you so easy on him?" I'm easy on him, calling him the most liberal president of all time? I don't think that's easy.

But anyway, the Marxist thing is interesting, because if you are a Marxist (…Karl Marx was the founder of communism, so you're a communist--it's one and the same--there's no difference between a Marxist and a communist), you basically believe that all private property is subject to the state--that the state can seize any property it wants at any time for any reason. That's a communist; that's a Marxist.

There's no way on earth that Barack Obama fits into that category. There's no evidence of that; he wouldn't do it even if he could. It's just not in the [realm of] reality. Yet people believe it--they've talked themselves into it or whatever. Now, I could make a big deal out of it--does Beck believe [Obama]'s a Marxist? What Beck believes is that his theory--the president's theory--is Marxist-based. But does Beck think that if [Obama] had unlimited power, he would seize all property? I don't think so--maybe he does, but I don't think so.

Anyway, the point of this is that it does no good--and it actually marginalizes you--if you oppose someone (let's assume you oppose President Obama…), you then must, if you are interested, articulate [to other people] why you don't want the president [in office any longer and] try to persuade people in your circle to see it your way. Once you get into "well, he's a Marxist" or "he's not born in the United States," or something like that, you marginalize yourself… true believers will agree with you, but most people will not. And so, therefore, you lose any influence you might have.

So my job, basically, is to watch all politicians and make sure they don't hurt you. Right now Barack Obama is hurting you, because he doesn't understand how to turn the economy around, and it's becoming quite clear that he doesn't understand that. The data rolls in, and the president makes no adjustments at all--none. He just continues to say, "It's Bush's fault, it's not my fault." [That's] not good enough, and everybody knows it's not good enough. Even the people who will vote for Barack Obama know that's not good enough; they simply are voting ideology. They would rather have a liberal in there then a good economy, and that's pretty Kool-Aid-ish. I don't care whether you're liberal or conservative if you're doing a good job and people are prospering and the country is fair--[in that case] I'm going to vote for you! …I don't like abortion, I don't like a lot of the social stuff that liberals espouse, but I want to see performance. …If it's neck and neck, I'm going to go for the person who wants to protect life and will appoint Supreme Court justices who will honor the Constitution. But if there's a genius that's doing well for the country, and the other person is an ideologue, I'll go for the genius--I don't care what party he's in or she's in.

It's never that simple, of course, but you get my point--that here, we have a very serious situation; the US economy [is] still very bad. If you want Barack Obama out of there, you have to be methodical in your arguments. Persuade people that he's simply not doing the job. But once you get into "he's a Marxist, he's going to seize your house, he's going to do this, he's going to do that," you're going to lose credibility.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

2012-06-12T23:40:00Z

Violent crime in the USA fell 4% last year, compared with 2010. So that's good, and the reason is that they're putting more people in jail, and the liberals don't want that. They want to let people out--nonviolent offenders. Cocaine dealers, heroin dealers, meth dealers--in liberal eyes, they're nonviolent offenders, so let's let them out. Most of these people are drug addicted themselves; that's why they sell, to get money to buy. But when they get out [of prison], they basically cause problems. They sell a lot of drugs, people need money to buy drugs--that's why they mug you and break into your house and steal your car. So by putting the dealers away… the authorities dropped the crime rate everywhere, and now they want to let the dealers out--so you do the math, alright? I've studied this for a long time.

There's no more despicable person than a child molester--I'm not going to convict Sandusky here or on the air, but the testimony against him is overwhelming--overwhelming.

Florida is suing the federal government; [the] federal government is suing Florida. [It's] all about trying to get voters off the rolls if they're ineligible in the Sunshine State. I might give this to Megyn Kelly on Thursday--thinking about it--it's kind of boring… but you really need to know what's going on…

Holder, as you know… obviously, this guy, from the jump, [with] the Marc Rich pardon in the Clinton administration, hasn't been a public servant that I can respect. I met him one time--he was nice enough and articulate, smart, but he just doesn't have what it takes to be a good attorney general, in my opinion. And he's going to… obviously try to help his pal President Obama, so you've got to get him out of any investigation.

Pakistan--the USA pulled its… negotiating team out of there, because Pakistan is ridiculous. I don't know what it's going to take over there for these people to wise up, but I think the United States has to take a tough line now… that doctor has to be let out of prison--that's number one. He's got to get out of there. If China can give us a dissident, Pakistan can do it. [There's] no reason that guy should be in jail.

And finally, a Texas father who caught a man sexually abusing his four-year-old daughter and killed him may be charged, but I doubt it. Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon says the guy had a right to protect his daughter, so he beat up the guy who was molesting her, and the [child molester] died. …I would have done the same thing, and I bet you would've done [it too]. …nobody wants to see anybody die, but you can't be molesting children, and parents have got to protect those children. If you see something like that, obviously you're going to lose some control, and that's what happens. I'm going to see to it that this doesn't happen in Texas, but I can almost guarantee you it will not--they're not going to indict this guy down there.

Monday, June 11, 2012

2012-06-12T00:19:00Z

I'm going to tell you about my trip to Iceland using this time, because there's not really a lot going on in the news… there's small ball [stories], and people are running around, going "Yeah, Eric Holder, Fast & Furious, contempt." [It] could happen [but] probably won't, and if it does happen, so what? I hate to be cynical, but… we tried this in the Clinton administration with [Janet Reno], the attorney general back then, who I thought was the worst attorney general ever… and now we've got the same thing, and Holder knows that President Obama is going to protect him.

Now if all of Congress were to get on board [it might be different], but that's not going to happen, so look--I'm going to cover it, and it's shameful, no doubt about it. …just tell us what happened. You screwed up? You screwed up--that's all… that happens. Nobody wanted anybody to get killed… [if] you made a mistake on a sting, just say you made the mistake on the sting. I don't understand it. Anyway, that's really all that's in play right now, and we're following the campaign…

Now: Iceland. President Obama would love this country because it's green, and that's one of the reasons I went there--to see the geothermal energy and how they're harnessing it. It's an impressive deal; they've got volcanoes all over the place. That's why the country exists. [It's the] most isolated country in the world--[there's] nothing around it. It's up there by the Arctic Circle--part of the country is within the Arctic Circle. It's cold; we had 60° weather, but when that wind comes blowing off the ocean, it'll turn your head around, as they say in the song.

The people are fairly nice; [the] women are very good-looking [and the] men are slugs, but that's pretty much everywhere, right, in the whole world? Everybody speaks English, and we had a good time. We went out to the waterfall, saw the natural stuff, the fjords, all of that; [we] dunked into the Blue Lagoon. That's the geothermal pool. It's about 100°; you go in there and it's supposed to rejuvenate your skin. It ruined my bathing suit--so that's what it did for me! It didn't do much for my skin. But it's… very sulfuric. It doesn't smell that bad--everyone was telling me that it was going to smell bad… it didn't.

You can heat your home over there for $100 a year, because of all of this geothermal stuff. A lot of the power lines are under the ground, so it's scenic. People respect the environment. [As for] wildlife, [there's] not too much--some whales and puffins and a few foxes running around. [There are] no trees--it's too cold. They do plant trees, but the trees go, "Why are you bothering? It's too cold here!"

But all in all, it was a nice place to see--my 78th country… and I've always wanted to go in there, and… I talked to a lot of people about their social welfare system. It's a socialist nation. [The] average income… [is] about $33,000. [There's a] 37% income tax rate [and a] 25% VAT (value added tax)--14% on food, so they're getting you… in return, you get free healthcare, a guaranteed pension. I didn't see any poor people, but there's not a lot of rich people… but there's no incentive to save any money, because the government will take it away. So… it's a socialist deal. There isn't seizure [of property], but… I didn't see any fabulous wealth. The guy who owns this Blue Lagoon thing--he must be making a fortune. It's a private deal, because there were tons of people in there at like 40 bucks a pop. But I didn't see any conspicuous wealth at all. So they keep it in control--325,000 people [and] all of them look like Vikings, and I had a good time, but when I got home, I said, you know what, I'm glad I live here. And I swear, every time I've come home from all 78 countries, I've always said that.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

2012-06-06T22:52:00Z

This is the last day this week that I'm going to be here. I'm going to Iceland. Every two years I go someplace with 25 of my thug friends. Sometimes that number varies, depending on who's in prison and who's out on parole, but we're going to Iceland this year. [I've] never been there--I've been to 77 countries, so this'll be 78, and the reason I'm going there is twofold. I want to check it out… it's an all-green country. All of their energy is… thermal, not nuclear, but just thermal energy from the volcanic activity on the island. Now, we couldn't do that here--there are about a half-million people on the island at any given time. That's all. And [Iceland] is not a small place--if you look at the maps, it's way up by the Arctic Circle… anyway, you know, the Viking culture and all of that [will be interesting to see]. So I'm looking forward to [the trip]--we're only going to be there three days. I'll be back on Monday, and I'll have a report on my trip.

Obviously the Wisconsin deal is big--much bigger than the left [would] have you believe… however, if Walker was booted out of office, [there would have been] bonfires and everything else. But now, it's, "Well, you know…" [It's a] big defeat for progressive forces in the United States. Huge. Because Wisconsin is a very liberal place. If you've ever been there, the cities of Milwaukee and Madison [are] the only cities of major population. [They're both] very, very left-wing. The rural areas, not so much, but not a lot of people live in the rural areas. So that's what you have there.

Now, if I were Romney, I wouldn't be jumping up and down about Wisconsin. I think Wisconsin still might go for Barack Obama. It's going to be very, very close, and Romney should campaign there. It's not like California, Oregon and Washington, which… Barack Obama could get arrested tomorrow and they'd still re-elect him. It doesn't matter. Wisconsin--[Romney's] got a shot there. I wouldn't spend a lot of time there [if I were Romney]--same thing with Minnesota. It's just too crazy in both of those states. You don't know. Illinois is another hopeless cause for Romney, but overall, you can see a shift in the United States as far as, "OK, we gave the progressive movement a chance… we saw what they had [to offer], and they're just not doing it." It's just not happening.

We're watching Europe--that's all progressive stuff, going down the drain there. Greece, Spain, Portugal--all of those big spending places, going right down the drain. Americans [are] uneasy about the $16 trillion debt, uneasy about the economy, uneasy about President Obama's social justice programs, uneasy about the massive investment in green energy that's not paying off--uneasy, uneasy, uneasy.

In my newspaper column, which you'll see Thursday on BillOReilly.com, is about the fear [in America], and when there's fear in a country, the incumbents go--always. If the election were held tomorrow, Mitt Romney wins. Not by a little--he wins by a lot. [That's if the election were held] tomorrow. I expect that to tighten, and Mr. Romney has to perform during the debates, as we've mentioned.

That's about it. There's not a lot of other stuff that we haven't told you, other than Miley Cyrus becoming engaged to be married at age 19. That sounds like a good future plan for her, doesn't it? Miley Cyrus. The reason I mention her--it's another childhood star. There's so much danger in that. And she was big--I mean, my daughter loved her for a while, and then turned on her when Miley started to try to be Marilyn Monroe or whatever she wants to be. So anyway… I don't know why I brought that up. It just popped into my head.

So anyway, I'll be missing for two days. I'll be back on Monday.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

2012-06-05T23:57:00Z

…the Wisconsin [recall vote]… by this time, you probably know who won, because I'm recording this a little bit earlier in the day, and, you know, I'm looking [and] all the data says that Walker's going to keep his job, which he should. I mean, he's doing a pretty good job there, as opposed to the state next to Wisconsin, Illinois, which is going to crash and burn under the progressive Democratic structure they have. So it's becoming more and more clear to those Americans who want to look at reality that you just can't keep spending money you don't have, and that's where we are…

…I want to explain this. My parents were kind of divided in their political loyalties. I remember the Nixon-Kennedy 1960 race was the first time I really had any awareness of what was going on at that level, and my mother voted for Kennedy because her mother was named Kennedy. We're part of the Kennedys--they'll never admit it. If you run into any of the Kennedy family, and say, "Hey, Bill O'Reilly's part of your family," they'll laugh and run and hit you.

…my father voted for Nixon, even though he didn't really like Nixon. He didn't like Kennedy's father, because Kennedy's father made his money bootlegging alcohol during prohibition. My father's father was a police officer during prohibition, so there was that, and my mother used to laugh that that [their votes were] canceling each other out, and I don't think my father thought that was real funny, but he didn't say anything.

…I'm not a party man; I think you guys know that. I don't really get into partisan politics or ideology. I'm a performance-driven guy, and that comes from my sports background. If you win the game, then you're to be admired; if you lose the game, you're still to be admired, if you play hard. [There's] no disgrace in losing. But I want performance on the field, and, you know, when I saw George W. Bush get bogged down in Iraq for two years, there was no performance there--and then, almost miraculously, Bush made the decision to turn the thing around, with the help of David Petraeus, [who is] now the CIA director.

Now, for the two years that Iraq was going south, I was pretty tough on Bush, and I said, "Listen, you can't put our guys out there with no strategy, this isn't working." And then when he turned it around with the surge, I gave him credit, as I told Barack Obama in my first interview with him. But now, Barack Obama has failed to move the economy. He can say he created 4 million jobs--he can say that, and maybe they can find a way to justify that--but basically what you have here is a bad economy, after three years of his presidency. And you have a debt that's unsustainable. And you have him not wanting to cut anything, rejecting his own commission's recommendations about cuts. So to me, that's a bad performance. That's bad.

Now, the drone [program and anti-]terror performance--that's pretty good for Barack Obama, but it doesn't rise to what's going on with the economy, so therefore at this juncture I'm looking at the field, and I'm going, the current president, the incumbent, [is] not doing the job [adequately].

Now, is Mitt Romney any better? I don't know! I have no idea whether he's better or not. He did an okay job in Massachusetts--some things worked, some things didn't. But he did okay there. But is he going to be the savior? Is he going to come in and [turn things around]? I don't know.

So the question that I have to decide as a voter, not as a commentator, is basically, do I want to take a chance on Mitt Romney? Now, I'll never tell you the way I vote, because that's not fair. I've got to watch both of these guys… once you commit to someone… then you're starting to root for him--you want him to win. And then when you want him to win, you're overlooking the bad stuff that he does. So my mentality has to be pretty disciplined--that I'm just going to basically watch them both.

But I'll go to the polling place. I'm going to cast a ballot. And right now, I want better performance out of the executive office. I want a better performance, period. There's 320 million of us, and right now the federal government's not doing the job. The war on terror? OK. I feel protected; I feel they have it under control. The economy, immigration… the social aspect of the country? No. I don't think they have it under control. I don't think their philosophy is correct, I don't think their discipline is correct, I don't think their execution is correct...

Monday, June 4, 2012

2012-06-05T00:23:00Z

Here's an interesting story that I didn't have time for tonight, but we will get to it this week. The number of unemployed American women has increased by 766,000 since Barack Obama took office, so, you know, when you hear about the "war on women," the anti-Obama people are saying, "Here it is." This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Now, I tend to not do these stories, because they're partisan stories--I tend to say that we would rather have analysis based on what's going on that day, [rather] than do partisan stories that really don't get us too many places. So I could be wrong on that, but as it gets closer to the election, these kinds of things will take on more importance to me as somebody who selects what the storyline is going to be that night, because then you get into a situation where each camp is going to try to convince you of something. Now, I've been up-front in saying, hey, there is no war on women, it's totally made up, and that's true, okay? There's just no validity to the fact that the Obama administration is saying there's a war on women. It's just a made-up campaign thing that's embarrassing--it's just embarrassing. And I pointed that out, time and time again.

Now, this labor stat--you can digest this stat any way you want, but it becomes basically an ideological play. So, to me, there is no war on women in the United States; to me, the Obama administration was dishonest in trying to sell you [on the fact] that there is such a war, and that these stats are basically bad for women. But they're bad for everybody--there is a very, very big cloud hanging over the American economy, and that's on President Obama, and, you know, if the election were held tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, Mitt Romney would win--I'm entirely convinced of that, and 80% of that vote would be economics. 80% of it.

Congress is looking into the General Services Administration--these are the people that went to Vegas and ran up… [a] $750,000 [tab] and all this crazy stuff. Now, will Congress get to the bottom of this? Probably not, but the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is going to squeeze them a little bit, and if something comes out--look, I hate the cliché, but where there's smoke, there's fire. If they were doing this in Vegas, you know they're doing it all over the place. So, look, that's what they say--there is a big investigation. These investigations usually don't amount to much, but we're following the story here, so if they get anything, they'll give it to us and we'll make a big story out of it, because I'm tired of government waste, how about you? I'm paying a lot of taxes--I just wrote another humongous check last night. And I'm going, "Do I want to fund these junkets?" And the answer is no, I don't. I don't want to buy people's birth control--I don't want to do any of that. Sorry if you think I'm greedy, and I'm sure you don't.

Finally, Penn State [is] going to be back in the news because of this Sandusky trial--horrible, awful story. Again, we don't convict on TV. We will let the evidence come forth, and… it's depressing that this is the country you live in now [where] you have to see garbage like this. Penn State [is a] fine university and… it's smeared forever. So that's just what the story is.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

2012-05-31T23:17:00Z

We've got a lot of stuff going on on this Edwards trial, so I'm running around here. It looks like… there's confusion and chaos, and that's good for him. I do believe that this charge that they came back with to the judge (the jury today) is a conviction, but, you know, it's probably not a heavy sentence for him--and that's what his attorneys want. They want to be able to appeal and to just keep him out of prison forever, and it looks like the jury is confused about what he did or did not do.

So all in all, it's speculation, but educated speculation, it looks like Edwards had a good day today, unfortunately, because he's a weasel and we want him to get what he deserves. Do I believe that he knew? Yes, absolutely, and I've told you that. I think the guy knew, I think he did it, [I think he] took the money [and]… funneled it to his mistress and he knew what he was doing.

Republican women are rallying to Mitt Romney. That's not a big headline. There's a new Washington Post poll says that Romney's coming up among Republican women--well, OK, you know, what do you expect?

President Obama's going to live and die on turnout; he's going to live and die on how many people show up to vote for him or stay home, because it is a referendum, as I said, about Barack Obama. There's no doubt about it, and that's what's going on, is that the president is running against himself… that's not to say that Mitt Romney is not a good candidate or doesn't have good programs, but people don't don't know him. People don't know the man--so he's kind of a phantom, and he's not an outgoing guy who can get known fast. He's not that kind of guy--as Miller would say, "He's not that kind of cat."

So I expect that to hold, and I've said all along--and you've heard it, and I'm not going to say it again because I don't want to bore you guys--that it's the debates. Romney's got to come across in the debates strong, in control, in command. If he does, he'll reassure [voters], and then independents will come and vote for him.

That's about it; there's not a lot of other stuff that's going on that influences your life at all. There's a bunch of little small-ball stuff we'll get to tomorrow...

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

2012-05-30T23:25:00Z

Basically I had an interesting experience this morning in Hartford, Connecticut, where I used to work local news up there. I was giving a speech to a big group of business people in the Hartford Civic Center--about 8,000 people there. Bill Cosby was on the bill [along with] a few other fairly significant names, and I basically told the crowd that this was a whole different generation of people, with loyalties to themselves, not to the business and not to their employer… generally speaking, and that they have to be very careful about who they select to work for them, which is the key to any small business. I have a small business; I run two corporations. …it's much harder to get people to be loyal to the corporation or the job than it used to be. People work for jobs, but they're loyal to themselves, and… they don't really appreciate--and again, I'm… speaking generally now--what… the employer has to go through to usually give them a job… there's a sense of entitlement.

So anyway, I got through that, and then I gave a little primer about what would happen to the country if Romney were elected or if President Obama were reelected. Now, Connecticut is a fairly liberal state--there were a lot of Democrats in the audience--and I said to the audience, if President Obama is reelected, you can expect more of the same: more big spending. And a few people booed… and I was taken aback by that. I mean, I know they… perceive me as being anti-Obama, which I think I've been very fair to the man, be that as it may, so I said to the crowd, "Are you kidding me? I know you paid your money, it costs a lot to get in, and you can boo and hoot if you want, but are you kidding me? You're telling me that President Obama isn't a big spender and that you don't expect that to continue? Is that what you people think?" And it was like a silence--some guy said something, I didn't even hear it… but I was caught by the general tone of Obama supporters not accepting the truth about their guy.

You know, if you are going to sit there and say, well, I want President Obama reelected, I'm going to say, okay, tell me why. Convince me that… his vision is good for the country and I'll listen. But if you're going to sit there and tell me "I want President Obama reelected and I don't believe he's a big spender," then I'm going to walk away, because then the conversation becomes, you're talking to a moron. You're talking to somebody who says, I live in Poland. No, you're standing here in Connecticut--"No, I'm in Poland right now." I mean, that's how crazy it is. That is exactly how nutty it is. And I don't know--and you guys probably have this in your life--I don't know the extent of this, how many people are truly loons [or] what percentage of the population are so far out there that you can't have a reasonable discussion with them. I don't know. I get crazy email, but we get tons of e-mail, and a lot of it's very good. And there are crazy things, and sometimes I read and make fun of them, but I've always felt that that was the exception.

Now I'm starting to think that, for whatever reason--narcissism probably the biggest--there are people who simply cannot ascertain what is real and what is not real. They can't do it--it's beyond them. Frightening. Because then you get into a situation where anything could happen. They could do anything and justify it, and you could never count on them for any kind of rational discussion or any kind of rational pattern of behavior, and, you know, it's this… certain percentage of the population that basically can't tell reality from fiction. They make up their own reality, and it's frightening. It really is, and I saw that today in this crowd. And I think that the other people in the crowd were confused… by this, because it wasn't like I was bashing Obama. I wasn't bashing him; I don't do that. I basically said, "This is who the guy is, this is what he's going to do, and this is how it affects you," because it was a bunch of small business people in there--that's primarily who the audience was. I ran down Romney… "If he gets in, he's going to cut taxes for small business, he's going to try and stimulate the economy that way; if it doesn't work, it's going to be bad, because he's not going to have enough tax revenue to cover the entitlements, and the debt'll get bigger." That's my assessment. And then I said, "If President Obama gets reelected, he's going to continue the massive spending; he's not going to cut back any programs, and he'll probably spend more, and the $16 trillion debt will be $20 trillion, before you blink your eyes. And that's true, unless the president undergoes an unbelievable conversion, of which there is no sign."

So in your life, I just want you to be aware that there's a changing… thought pattern out there. A lot of it has to do with education, a lot of it has to do with the media, but it's there--it's real--and you've got to guard against it.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

2012-05-29T23:34:00Z

…welfare state, yes or no? I say yes. I say the trend is overwhelming--that the federal government is trying to buy your vote by giving you stuff. I think that's what's happening here, and I could be wrong, but the evidence shows that [in the] last 20 years, 20% more people are dependent on government programs. Once you're dependent on them, it's like any addiction--you know you've got to feed it. So that's why, even guys like Mitt Romney, when you say "what are you going to cut," they get very vague, because they want those votes, and once you say you're going to cut a program, everybody getting money in that program [is] not going to vote for you. So that's what's going on there.

About half of the new veterans coming back--coming out of the service from Afghanistan, Iraq, in general--are filing for disability at a historic rate. …it's everywhere, everywhere.

Today Mitt Romney officially clinched the Republican nomination. Nobody really cares. He's the guy and we'll see how he does. That was great debate footage though--I saw that… over the Memorial Day weekend… somehow I was [watching] C-SPAN and I saw this debate between Ted Kennedy and Mitt Romney. It was great [and] I had to show it to you. I'd like to see Romney get some fire in the belly. There's a lot on the line here.

Syria's falling apart--a lot of people dying there. [There's] nothing can we can really do about it--I assume the CIA is trying to undermine Assad. I don't have a beef with the United States not running around publicly, getting involved with all of these backwaters. I don't think we should be doing that.

The story of the day is Justin Bieber--are you kidding me? 5' 7", 110 pounds, going ferocious, and I don't blame him. It's all I can do to hold myself back, and believe me, with the paparazzi that are bothering me, it's going to be a little bit different than Justin. You're looking at 6' 4", about 200 here, with a little… self-defense training… so there are times when I had to just jam my hands in my pockets. I wanted to take them apart, but you can't--as soon as you do that, they win. The lawyers are there--these bloodsucking lawyers--they're the ones that I'd really like to pummel. Oh yeah. There they are. And you know who they are. I don't have to name them. They're just waiting, just waiting… so anyway, poor Justin--we're rooting for Justin, and I understand it. The kid's like, what, 20, 21? …so it's too bad, and I hope it doesn't cost him a lot of money, and we're going to be on Justin's side--Justin Bieber, ladies and gentlemen, but if Justin Bieber is forced to attack somebody, I think that says things are pretty much out of control. Pray for me, that I don't wail on anybody, because if I do, you know what I'm going to say? I'm going to say "blank it," but I'm going to go to town--I'm going to get a bang for my buck, pardon the pun, and that's not going to be good. So I'd probably have to do five or six years in the state penitentiary, and that wouldn't be good. I think we could get a remote out of [a prison] to do The Factor while I'm behind bars, but I'm not sure, and… [it would] cost News Corporation some more money. I don't think they'd like it, so I've got to try and keep things under control.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

2012-05-24T00:12:00Z

…I'm really angry about this Pakistan situation… I think… enough is enough with these people. [President Obama] has got to go public. I know a lot of this diplomacy is behind the scenes; I said that to you a couple of weeks ago when Laura Ingram was pounding Obama on the Chinese dissident, and I said, you know, behind the scenes they're going to get him out of there, and that's exactly what happened.

But Pakistan is a different situation. [Giving] this guy 33 years [in prison] for pinpointing Bin Laden [for] us, when everybody knows that the Pakistani government knew he was there and wasn't going to do anything to him? This guy's a hero, and President Obama should demand his release, and if they don't give him up, no [more foreign aid] money [for Pakistan]… and then we'll tilt toward India. Pakistan and India hate each other--it's a Muslim-Hindu thing--and for centuries they've hated each other. So let's tilt toward India. We'll build them up a little bit [and] see how Pakistan likes that. …there's stuff we can do, and we'd better start doing it. I'm really teed off about this.

Florida--[there is a] new poll by Quinnipiac, and again, these polls--I don't use them on the show, because they don't really mean much, but in Florida it's a little bit different. I told you the gay marriage [announcement by President Obama] was going to influence Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio, and you're seeing that now. Romney leads in this poll in Florida 47-41, and about three weeks ago… it was a tie, 44-43, Romney… you can see across the board in Florida that people are bailing out of President Obama, and he needs that state. If Romney wins Florida, I think he wins the election.

The Catholics are suing; the networks won't cover [it], and now a new poll by Gallup asked Catholics, is it morally acceptable to use birth control? 82% say yes. 15% say it's morally wrong… I don't think that's a headline. Everybody knows that there's a difference between dogma and doctrine in the Catholic Church. Doctrine is basically man-made, and dogma is from Jesus--stuff like… "honor your father and your mother," the 10 Commandments… that's dogma. Doctrine is… the holy days of obligation, you've got to go to mass… doctrine can change. Dogma cannot. [The doctrine regarding] birth control could change--[though] I don't think in our lifetime it will, but it could. It's not dogma. Jesus wasn't running around saying, "Hey, don't use any birth control when it's invented in 2,000 years…"

[The] Secret Service chief apologized for the debacle in Colombia--Mark Sullivan said that it was booze that did it, and [that] this is not something the Secret Service does all the time. I don't know. …it makes the country look bad, and obviously that's not a good thing.

And finally, a new poll… [from] Rasmussen says 56% of Americans now want to legalize marijuana… and then tax it and all of that. I'm opposed to that. 36% are opposed [and] I'm in that crew, because I don't believe that legalizing… another intoxicant, specifically one that can really influence children, is a good thing. I think the message is, it's not good for you, that's why we've made it illegal. And it's not…

I've got to tell you--I know this is going to sound conceited, but I know a lot of people who smoke pot. None of them can compete with me mentally--none of them. I think it just slows you down mentally. [The] stuff stays in your system--the THC. It's not good for your lungs, not good for anything. I understand people want to relax. I got it. I don't do it, but I don't make a moral thing out of it… I think it's very pernicious--it's very harmful for children to get involved with intoxicants, and I want to try to make that a strong message in this country, and it's not. So that's where I'm coming from. If you're over 18 and you want to smoke a joint, it's up to you, but I will tell you, and I know--I know, because I've seen it, up close and personal--you can get addicted to weed. You can get mentally addicted to it [when] you're looking forward to it and that's overriding other things in your life, and it affects you. It absolutely desensitizes you. So that's the fact, Jack, you know?

…I don't think they're going to legalize marijuana. I think they'll probably decriminalize it, but I don't think they will legalize it--certainly not Mitt Romney. He's not going to legalize it--are you kidding me?

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

2012-05-22T23:53:00Z

…I told you a very interesting story about what happened to me on Friday. I… took three kids to see "Jesus Christ Superstar" in New York on Broadway--great show, if you're in town. So I get off, and I walk out in the street, and I have security, unfortunately, as part of my life. So my driver's waiting there, just maybe 10 feet away, and then all of a sudden this guy comes in my face, screaming he's an occupier, with a camera.

Now, that wasn't by accident. Somebody saw me go into the theater, they sent a blast over to their headquarters, they put out the word that I was there, and this idiot shows up. Now, I said to the guy, "I'm here with kids." [He] couldn't care less. So the driver stood between him and me so I wouldn't kill him, and, you know, my tendency is to [want to] kill him--that's my tendency. …It's the Irish "you're in my face…" but if I do that, and that's exactly what they want… then I'd be charged and all of that. So anyway, the guy literally chased the car down the street--ran after the car. That's how bad this guy was.

And I said to myself, you know what, this "Occupy" [movement]… is a terrorist organization. Not on the level of al-Qaeda or that kind of thing, but all they want to do is cause trouble, which is the definition of terrorism--they want to create terror, and there is a variety of different ways you can do that. You can crash planes into buildings, you can blow people up, you can stalk them--stalkers are terrorists--you can intrude on them on the street, you can call their house, you can print terrible things about them on the Internet. It's all designed to disrupt their lives, and that's what terrorism is. And that's what the "Occupy" movement is now, and I'm very concerned about President Obama not repudiating the movement, which is what the whole… top of the show was about today.

Now, we're on this--we are on this. I have had enough of the "Occupy" movement. I am not going to allow it to get sympathetic treatment anymore by anybody--anybody who comes out in favor of that movement, if they're powerful (I don't care about the ideological slugs that don't mean anything)--but if they're powerful people, anybody continuing to support this movement will come under our scrutiny, and you know what that means. You saw Jay Carney today--did Jay Carney look like an authoritative White House spokesman today? My eight-year-old son could've done a better job on that question than Carney did, because it's indefensible. They can't defend it. And the president better repudiate "Occupy" pretty soon, or it's going to become a very big issue--I guarantee it. Why? Because I'm going to make it a big issue. Alright? It's going to be very, very big.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

2012-05-17T23:22:00Z

…in Florida, 70% of fourth graders can't pass the standardized tests, so the teachers say it's not fair… one of the test questions was this--"Suppose you were someone else that had chance to ride a camel. Imagine what would happen on a camel ride. Please write a story about what you would do on a camel ride." And then the kid has to write a paragraph or two, so they couldn't do it, and the teachers say [it's] because fourth-graders in Florida don't know what a camel is. I'm not kidding--they don't know what a camel is, so it's unfair. It's an unfair question.

Now, if fourth graders in Florida don't know what a camel is, then it's the fault of the school, because they should've gone over their basic animals on this planet in kindergarten! I'm not buying this anymore--it's on the school and on the teachers. If the kids flunk, it's because you aren't doing your job. I was a teacher. Did I have kids in my class who couldn't pass the test? Yes. Was there anything I could do? No. The reason was they were so damaged emotionally by their parents or their situations that they couldn't concentrate and couldn't care less, so they weren't going to read and they weren't going to pay attention, so they weren't going to pass anything. But those were a minority--very, very few of them, and if you're telling me that you're 10 years old, and you don't know what a camel is, it's your fault, teacher--your fault.

[It's the] first time in US history that more non-white babies are being born. It's a cultural story. America's changing--50 years from now, it's going to be a totally different country than it is today. I'm glad that I'm not going to be around to see that, quite frankly. I do not believe America is going to be stronger 50 years from now than it is today. I believe the traditional values inculcated in society by the World War II generation (my parents, your parents--a lot of you) made the country strong, and I believe that the nanny state that we have now, and the excuse-makers, are going to really run down America's strength.

I don't think it has anything to do with skin color at all--nothing. If you look at the Armed Forces, some of the bravest, most effective members of the Armed Forces are minorities, and that is your litmus test, right there, because that's discipline, that's courage, that's loyalty to the flag--that's all that is is embodied in the military. That's where the laboratory is, as far as social science and color--right there. And any officer will tell you color doesn't matter. So minority babies don't really matter--it's what is emphasized in our culture, and right now what is emphasized is, "Somebody else has got to give me stuff. I don't really have to do it myself. If it is hard, I don't want to do it. I want to play video games--I don't want to learn a skill. I wanted to just have fun all day, everyday." The machines are taking over, and that's what's going to tell the tale.

Finally… there's a movement in the House by Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan and Adam Smith of Washington to give terrorists full rights of criminals in the United States. Again, this is a far-left position, where our country [would have to] adjudicate foreign terrorism the same way we would somebody breaking into your house or stealing your car. It makes no sense on any level, but these people, being those who believe that our justice system should handle war, are not going to stop, and you're not going to convince them. They just believe what they believe--it's like somebody believing in socialism, that the government has a right to seize private property and give it to somebody else. They believe that, and you're not going to blow them out of it. That's what they believe. It's the same thing here. Not going to happen--Congress will never pass that, and that's the good news.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

2012-05-16T23:03:00Z

[A] new Fox News poll goes against the prevailing wisdom of Barack Obama losing speed, and I think I know why. The Fox News people poll registered voters, not likely voters, and we've made this distinction before on The Factor--likely voters are more in tune than registered voters. But anyway, the Fox News poll asked, "If the election were held today, for whom would you vote?" Barack Obama, 46[%]; Mitt Romney, 39[%].

Now, in April, it was 46%-46%, so what's happened since then? Gas prices have gone down a little bit--I think that's probably the primary motivator. The stock market is still crazy, unemployment is still above eight [percent], and the gay marriage thing has been thrown in there, to boot. So do I trust this Fox News poll? Yes--I think it's accurate, but I think that the independents also have an interesting take on this, because the second question is, "Who would you vote for president?" Among independents, Romney, 34[%], Obama, 29[%]. Now, that's down big for Romney, because he won [among] independents 46%-34% in April. So he's lost 12 percentage points--Romney has--among independent voters in a month. It's impossible--that's impossible. Nothing happened. So, you know, I'm looking at this poll, and I've kind of put it in my drawer… I don't believe the poll. I believe what it has is true, but I don't think that there is any worthiness to it. I don't think it's a barometer of anything.

My take is that Barack Obama is running strong in places like California and New York, Massachusetts, Portland, Oregon… Seattle, Washington, these these big metro centers. He runs strong there, because they're just very, very committed liberal people living in the big cities like San Francisco, and that almost overwhelms the other people who were polled throughout the country. However, when it comes to electoral votes--I'm looking at this map here. There's no way on earth Barack Obama's going to carry North Carolina next time around. He's not going to do it. I don't think he's going to carry Florida or Ohio or Virginia, so those states are vital to him. He needs them--[but he's] not going to get them. So the question then becomes, is he going to pick off any state that John McCain won last time around? It doesn't look like it to me. The Obama people think they have a chance in Georgia, but… I just can't see it. You go county by county, and it's just not happening there.

Maybe Barack Obama takes Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota… you've got to figure he's going to get Minnesota--they're kind of crazy people up there. And that's not a disparagement of the president--it's just that Minnesota elected Al Franken. I mean, my god. And Jesse Ventura is another kook.

Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, running for Senate against Scott Brown, [is] having all kinds of trouble with this Native American stuff, and she can't get out--can't say "I made a mistake." [She] can't say any of that. She's got to tough it out. …at this point, it looks like Ms. Warren got a lot of currency and her career got a lot of help by her claiming that she was a Native American, and there is absolutely no backup for that--none, zero. And… what she points to is that some of her relatives have high cheekbones. If that's the case, every model in the country is a Native American. I mean, come on…

This is a good story… this is a grisly story, but it's interesting… flesh-eating bacteria--it floats around, and once in a while, it lands in somebody's body, and they wind up on the tabloids… but in Orlando, Florida somebody stole some medical equipment from a pathology lab, apparently contaminated with flesh-eating bacteria. So now, the authorities are saying, "Hey, you thieves who took this equipment, [it's] got flesh-eating bacteria stuff on it." Now, is it true? I don't know. If it were me, I would just say it, just to scare the sleaze balls that stole the stuff.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

2012-05-15T23:23:00Z

The big story [today] is …about people now seeing Pres. Obama in a different light. He was elected based on home, because the guy had no experience. He was a mediocre senator from Illinois--[an] honest guy, but really [with] no big-league experience. He came up from single-A… and then, boom, he's president, and people made a bet on him. They bet that he was going to be [a] different kind of politician who was going to be able to rally the parties together, improve the economy, and then go forward so the country would be stronger. That has not happened--that has not happened. So he can't run on his record, because his record on economic issues is abysmal. So what he has is his character, but now, in this poll, it says that nearly 70% of Americans think he flip-flopped on gay marriage for political purposes, not because he sincerely feels that's the right thing to do. That's death. Once you get a politician who ran on, "I'm different, I'm a guy that transcends, I'm the new type of guy," and then that's all shattered, it makes it very, very difficult for Barack Obama then to strike the same tone.

So how does he beat Romney? [He] can't beat him on economics, can't beat him on character (unless Romney is exposed to be a total charlatan)--so how does he win? …I think Obama knows this, and certainly his people do, so they're falling back on the coalition of the willing. Remember the coalition of the willing [when we went] into Iraq, and the Bush administration desperately tried to get nations to help out, and most of them wouldn't? Now, [for] the Obama people, the coalition of the willing [consists of] organized labor, minority voters, women--single women, primarily--to try to get enough [votes] to put him over the top, but it isn't enough. It's not enough. So that is a big story that you're not going to hear anywhere else. I saw this poll, and I went "Whoa." That is the headline...

Ron Paul [is] out of the race--nobody cares. He shouldn't have ever been in the race. He got a few delegates, but so what?

Norfolk--we put a lot pressure on them, and now… they're doing something over there. I still don't believe that this is a teenage-driven thing. I think there's a lot more to this story, so we'll see.

There's a bunch of little things, like Lady Gaga has to cancel her sold out show in Indonesia, because the Islamists are threatening to blow her up and she's corrupting everybody--those little things I don't even bother bringing to your attention anymore on TV, unless it's "Dumbest Things of the Week" or whatever.

Jacob and Sophia are the most popular names for babies in the USA. Here's the list--Jacob, Mason (…are you kidding me? Mason? Don't name your kid Mason…), William (yes!), Jaden (eh), Noah, Michael, Ethan, Alexander, Aiden and Daniel. Girls: Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Olivia… Ava, Emily, Abigail, Madison (a little too precious), Mia and Chloe. Eh. Where's Dorothy in there?

Friday, May 11, 2012

2012-05-12T00:17:00Z

This Mitt Romney thing--crazy, and, you know, the Washington Post--hey, he did a little hazing [in] prep school. What a shock, [he] can't be president. And then, instead of analyzing what the Washington Post is doing (and obviously they want Barack Obama to be president), the right falls into the trap! "Oh, well, President Obama smoked pot. President Obama did this, President Obama did that." [It's] legitimizing this stupid story from the Washington Post. It doesn't matter what these men did in their youth. Everybody does stupid stuff. It doesn't matter at all. If Mitt Romney... had continued to bully people, had continued to terrorize alleged gay people, of course you'd report it. But I've known Romney for a long time, and I know people who have covered him very, very closely in Boston when he was governor--they all say the same thing: pretty nice guy, not confrontational, not a guy who brutalizes people. And there you go. Those are the people who don't even like him, saying that.

So I sit here at my desk, and I wonder what is going on with the US media, because I can't beat them alone. I can hurt them, and I have, and so has Bernie Goldberg--Bernie and O'Reilly [is a] pretty devastating combo. As we pointed out earlier this week, this Brian Stelter at the New York Times? This guy--he just flat out writes lies in the paper, the editors over there don't check it ,and then they have to issue a correction, like they did today. I mean, here's how dumb this guy is--this Stelter guy. He says, in an article, [something to the effect of] O'Reilly didn't like the fact that Chaz Bono was on "Dancing with the Stars"… when the exact opposite happened in my interview with Keith Ablow. I stuck for Chaz Bono--I said, look, he's an American. If he wants to pursue happiness in that way, why not let him go on "Dancing with the Stars?" I mean, do we have a litmus test now against people who do different things, and they can't be in the public eye? That's crazy. That's what I said, sticking up for Chaz. But Stelter wrote in the paper that I attacked Chaz. Now, all he had to do is look at the transcripts, which are available to anyone, but no, he's too lazy and dishonest--Brian Stelter.

[It's] not the first time this guy has done this stuff. So we called the New York Times--we go, "What are you doing over there?" [The response was,] "Oh, well, we were wrong, oh." No, it's not that you were wrong--everybody makes mistakes. Not like THAT--I mean, if somebody on my staff did that, they're gone--they're gone. [We] can't have it. Now, in 16 years, I've never had to fire anybody, because nobody's ever done that on my staff. The biggest mistake we made was taking that Breitbart stuff about that woman who worked for the federal government and not checking it, and we apologized. That was it… [The New York Times doesn't] care, particularly if Brian Stelter and the others are attacking O'Reilly or Mitt Romney or George W. Bush or anybody that's non-liberal, and this is corruption. So I'm sitting here, and I'm watching massive corruption--and I think we pointed that out in the Norfolk, Virginia thing, where they wouldn't even report the story of the mob violence against the two reporters.

How bad is this, when a free press is not free anymore? It's corrupt. So… I know I can't win this by myself. I can embarrass them; they don't really care, they're not going to change, and the public is pretty much saying, "Well, what else is new?" I know some of you get upset about it, but most people don't. They kind of have accepted the fact that we have a corrupt press. We have a corrupt Congress, law enforcement is not so great either--I don't know, boy. That's not good for the country. I think we're going down a real wrong road now where we don't even demand standards anymore for the powerful.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

2012-05-10T23:11:00Z

This [ruling on] child pornography online that that we discussed with Megyn Kelly really has me--not depressed. Angry, I think, is a better word. These pinheaded judges better knock it off, because child pornography is a crime all around… whether you make it, whether you participate in it as an adult, whether you watch it in any way, shape, or form--you're committing a crime, not only against the law, but against humanity. And these judges, parsing it--"Well, you can watch it, but you can't download it. It's not a crime if you just look at the images." Yes, it is!

…now, the law says if you're an educator, you have to report child sexual abuse, and that is why this professor should be sentenced to… a lot of years in prison. But for a regular American citizen… if you watch a murder take place… and then you don't report the murder, some places can prosecute [you,] and some places can't. But it's a crime against humanity, and all places should have laws, that if you see a felony, you have to report it, or you can be charged with obstruction of justice.

…we're really off the rails here in America right now. We are totally off the rails. Our judicial system is off the rails, our economic system is off the rails--we're just really wandering aimlessly, and we've got to really get it together here, because this is insane--insane.

This gay marriage thing is going to hurt Barack Obama [in] places like Florida, Ohio, North Carolina… he's going to lose a couple hundred thousand votes, and that's enough--that's enough to throw it to Romney. Romney's not going to lose any votes by Barack Obama endorsing gay marriage, because people who are for gay marriage tend to be liberal, [and] they're going to vote for Obama anyway. So Romney, his anti-gay marriage posture doesn't hurt him one bit. President Obama a changing his mind does have some independents saying, you know what, enough's enough, so I'm going to vote for Romney. So, when you add it up, [it's] not a good political thing, but, you know, if Mr. Obama--and nobody can read minds--really sincerely believes that gay marriage is the right thing for the country to do, then he did the right thing by endorsing it, because it is a matter of conscience, as I said.

…basically we are in a fallow period, with news not breaking out anywhere, really, much. This Norfolk story--we got some pressure to bear on it, finally. Do I have confidence the Norfolk police will solve the crime? No, I do not. They don't want to solve the crime, and they'll find a way not to solve the crime, and it doesn't look like the Commonwealth of Virginia [is] that interested in it, unlike Florida, which… moved into high gear in the Trayvon Martin situation. Now, there is a big difference--Trayvon Martin was killed, and the two reporters in Norfolk were just assaulted--not "were just" [assaulted], but there's a difference between death and getting beat up. I've got it. But shouldn't we [be] pursuing justice? Shouldn't the media and the police be pursuing justice? But we are intimidated by the racial natures of some crimes--there's no doubt about it.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

2012-05-10T00:01:00Z

So this Norfolk story--we knew we would be attacked by the vested interests in the area. They're taking a pounding--the Police Department, the media there, tourism, all of that. And this is just the way it is. You go up against the established personages [and] in any… American community… rather than try to solve the problem, they're going to attack you. That's just the way human nature is. I'm used to it. I've been doing this 35 years. I'm the bad guy, it's all about me, I'm a racist, I'm a fascist, whatever they want to call me.

[The] fact remains that you have an outrageous miscarriage of justice going on down there, and we're just not going to let it stand… so… if they want to play ball with us, we will help them solve the problem of their Police Department not being able to, after a month, arrest anybody but a 16-year-old boy, when a whole mob of 30 people surrounded the two white victims. I mean, come on, you know? Inspector Clouseau could do a better job down there. And then the media's the media, so what are you going to do about that?

…the national media, besides The Factor, absolutely won't mention it. [They're] entrenched--even the conservative outlets [are] not really reporting the story. Everybody's scared--they're scared to death. They don't want to be put in that black/white prism. They do not want that.

In Kansas City, a Muslim woman has won $5 million. She sued [her employer], saying that because she dressed in [a] traditional headscarf, that people bothered her--it was a hostile environment towards her. So the jury awarded her $5 million. AT&T has got to pay it. Interesting. You know, this is a lawsuit-happy country. We can't get anything done because of lawsuits--everybody's suing everybody. There are tons of lawyers who will take your lawsuit and not require any money up front, hoping they can get a settlement and break down whatever person or company they're after. It's way out of control, and our Congress will not take steps to stop it.

The way you do that is the British system, where the judge in civil cases has the right to say, you know what, this is frivolous, [so] you pay all the court costs, Miss Frivoleur, or Mister Frivoleur. …whoever's bringing the lawsuit [that] has no merit, the judge can order them to pay--that cuts it down… [but] we won't do it, because the lawyer lobby is so strong. But absolutely, that should be done.

Finally… support for the Afghanistan war is now at 27%. Now, part of that is just more than 10 years of this, and everybody's tired of it, and part of it is President Obama basically not saying anything about it--not rallying the folks to the cause. Our troops are doing a great job over there; we've run into some turbulence, but by and large, they're magnificent. But the folks say, you know what, 10 years is enough. And I agree. It's enough. So we've got to find our way out of there somehow, and I'd like [for] the president to talk about it a little bit more, because the people that are serving in that theater… deserve some recognition. They're doing a great job, trying to protect these poor Afghans from the savages that would enslave them, and that's what it's all about.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

2012-05-09T00:24:00Z

We're making big progress in the Virginia situation. I talked to the attorney general, Ken Cuchinelli, on the phone this morning. He's going to come on, he says, tomorrow night. The conversation got a little heated between me and the attorney general. I like him, and I think they're running a good government in Richmond. I was down in Virginia over Thanksgiving, and… they're trying very hard to turn the economy around and do the right thing. The reason the conversation got a little heated was because he thought I was being unfair to him and the governor, and I'm saying, listen, I disagree. We asked you to come on, you didn't, and I'm reporting the truth, and if you want to come on and set the record straight, you can lash me all you want--you're welcome to do that. So he is coming on tomorrow night, and he wasn't pleased that I criticized him, but it's my job to look out for you and everybody else, and if two Americans get beaten up by a mob of thirty people and then the police don't aggressively investigate and the newspaper covers it up, I'm going to report it! And the guys who have the authority to go in and right the wrong--I'm going to pinpoint them. Now, the attorney general says he doesn't have that much authority--I don't know, and I don't really care. My philosophy is, "find a way." I'm a "find a way" kind of guy. You're the attorney general, you're the governor, you know there's an injustice being done. You know this is being covered up--it's beyond a reasonable doubt. Nobody is saying the Norfolk police are doing a good job, and everybody knows the media is in the tank. So go in, and do what you can do. It's impossible to believe… that nothing can be done, and I don't believe it. So anyway, we're going to sort it out tomorrow. We're happy that the attorney general's coming on. If I'm wrong, let him yell at me… free-fire zone here… I am confident now that we have the attention of the authorities in Richmond, and they will right the wrong in Norfolk. They have to--one person arrested after a month? One hundred people saw it? No. No.

North Carolina voting on the gay marriage thing [today]--they're going to vote it down. It's going to be an amendment to the constitution of North Carolina, and they're going to say "no" to gay marriage. It goes state by state--some states don't care, some states do.

Mitt Romney is endorsed by Rick Santorum--no surprise there.

They got this guy--apparently the CIA says he was a terrorist trying to get onto a plane with a bomb. Aren't they always trying to get onto planes with bombs? I'm not diminishing it--I think the CIA does a great job. But there's not much I can do with that. I don't know who the [bomber] was or where it was or whatever… it just makes everybody more paranoid here, which is not a good thing. We can barely get onto our own airplanes here with all the stuff, and this is what al Qaeda wants to do. They win, even if they get caught, because it creates chaos in the American transportation system.

Oh, I should have told you this--on the subject of gay marriage, 50% of Americans believe same-sex marriages should be legalized, and 47% say no.

I stay out of this stupid stuff about wardrobe of the First Lady and Ann Romney. I don't care, it's stupid.

[The] UN says that Mount Rushmore must be returned to native Americans. That's dumb. …it's just dumb. You know, look, we all know that the native Americans got hosed, and the government's been trying to make it up to them. They can't, really. [There is a] big alcoholism problem [amongst many native Americans], and the reservations, if you've been there, are not great places, although there are some exceptions to that. They can do the casinos to get some money. We're trying, but you can't right those historical wrongs. Slavery--you can't right it. You just can't. We've got to move ahead.

Monday, May 7, 2012

2012-05-08T00:16:00Z

Politically there's nothing really going on, and so we are basically getting behind other stories like the Virginia story, which is an important story law enforcement-wise, media-wise [and] political[ly] in Virginia. I don't understand why the governor or attorney general won't do anything--it's so blatant. Why? Why won't they do anything? I don't get it. I guess there's a tremendous amount of fear revolving around any kind of minority/white confrontation, I guess. I'm not getting it at all.

Anyway, the only big political story this week is George Clooney's fundraiser for President Obama on Thursday in LA--$40,000 a head. $40K! And it's estimated to raise $6 million for the president's reelection campaign. …I think it's fine! …if you can get people in there to give you $40K, more power to you. Believe me, Mitt Romney's not running around short of money. He's doing his fundraising, and they're all going to have money, and they're all going to say what they say. I don't think it's going to be a lot different from what you're hearing now. I can't imagine any new attacks, unless new stuff comes up, and believe me, both sides are just looking for anything. So, to me, it's the debates, as I told you, that's going to tell the tale. They can spend as much money as they want, but it'll be a standoff as far as spending is concerned [between Obama and Romney]. It's not going to be like Romney overwhelms the field like he did in the Republican primary…

In France, Sarkozy is out and a socialist guy is in--François Hollande… the reason that Sarkozy lost was because there's far-right and far-left parties that wouldn't coalesce around him. The far-left wouldn't anyway, but the far-right, led by this Marine Le Pen--if they had gone over to him, he would have won, but they don't like him.

Now I don't know what that means for France… they say they're going to tax people at 75% who are wealthy. I talked to a wealthy Frenchman today, and he said everybody is moving to Luxembourg. This is true. Now, Luxembourg is just a train ride away from Paris, maybe a couple of hours, and everybody's packing up [and] getting apartments in Luxembourg, saying see you later. They keep their French apartments, but because of the EU, now they're going to say they're citizens of Luxembourg, where the taxes are very low… a lot of people have moved to London, although that's not to give you very much of a tax break… but Luxembourg would, so that's what the rich people are doing.

75%--I'd move, even out of the USA… I'm not going to stay around and have my property confiscated. Where would I go? …I think I would buy a place in Ireland for the summer [and] maybe Bermuda for the winter, or Anguilla… maybe [the British Virgin Islands] and Ireland. Maybe the Bahamas--[there's] very low tax in the Bahamas [but the] Bahamas [are] kind of gritty. BVI is a little more civilized. But I would go. I'm not a person who's going to let anybody seize my property. And that's what they're doing in France--that's what they're going to do. So it's their problem, right? Not ours--but it might be ours, if we keep going the way we're going.

Gay marriage--I assume that Pres. Obama will come out soon and say that he is okay with gay marriage. I don't think that's going to win or lose him any votes. I think that liberal people are going to vote for him, and conservative people will vote against him, and that's what that issue is. So I don't think it's going to do much one way or the other.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

2012-05-03T23:38:00Z

No politics--nothing really going on there. Polls are polls; you know they don't really mean anything six months out, as I told you. Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Virginia--all of those states we're watching [to] see if there's anything that may cause people [in those states] to go on way or the other, but there really isn't. I mean, [the] jobs report comes in a little bit better this week--okay… but people are still very anxious about the economy, and that's what going to either [re-]elect or throw out Barack Obama. That's it--how people are feeling the day of the vote. [If] they're feeling good, he's got an advantage. [If they're] not feeling good, Romney's got an advantage.

On that note, former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann plans to endorse Mitt Romney in Virginia today. That's nice. It doesn't mean anything, but it's nice. We like nice.

There's a book [coming] out I want to take a look at. It's called Barack Obama: The Story. …it's written by a former Washington Post reporter… who's pretty good… and so I'm interested to see that book, see what he gets. I'm interested in knowing the truth about not only Barack Obama, but every president of the United States. It's not supposed to be a hatchet book, but it is supposed to be much tougher than most of the stuff written about the president. So I'm trying to track that thing down.

Junior Seau, if you're a football fan, a very talented linebacker for San Diego and later New England. He shoots himself. In cases like this--I cover it some, as a reporter--there's usually something behind it other than just disenchantment with his life. Everybody goes in cycles--sometimes you have good years, you have bad years, up, down, in, out. That's just life. Challenges, victories--it just comes and goes. In these cases it's usually about some kind of mental illness, like schizophrenia or manic-depressive [disorder] or something like that. That usually drives suicides, when a person doesn't have control over their thought process. They have a mental illness, and there's lot of mental illness around these days--lots, much more so than it used to be, and I attribute that to permissive society. Discipline has broken down, and somebody who's on the edge of mental illness, they can go over that edge, if they're not in a structure. Anyway, we feel bad for Seau's family. The guy was… 43… boy. And a big star, too. He could've used his fame to help children, to coach teams, [to] do a lot of things, so we're very sorry that happened.

In the Edwards trial, it's grisly. It's just grisly--that's all I can tell you. How bad is it? On a scale from 1 to 10, I'd say it's a 9½. This John Edwards is just a despicable piece of garbage--that's what he is--and he ran for vice president. So [there's] not much else you can say. I hope he's convicted. The pain he put his… late wife [through was] awful. Bad guy, all around.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

2012-05-02T23:13:00Z

I don't know whether you remember this or not, but I think it was back in October that I said the "Occupy Wall Street" movement was done after the first violence in Oakland, where they attacked police, and I said that the American people are not going to tolerate protest movements that try to destroy property or people, and that there isn't an anti-police bias in this country, and you can't keep doing that.

Well, the far left went crazy, particularly MSNBC… well, I was right. Yesterday [the Occupy Wall Street movement] tried--they huffed, they puffed, they tried to blow grandma's house down. Three cities had trouble--Seattle, Oakland and Cleveland. That's it. [In] New York, a few of them showed up, mainly prodded by organized labor. They didn't do anything--they were going to shut down the tunnels… they just marched around. They didn't even go back to their little campsite because the cops won't let them go back now. And so, it's over, and I write my newspaper column [about it] this week. You'll see it tomorrow. It's just over. And the reason is you can't be violent in the streets. Vietnam was a rare exception, and even [during] Vietnam, most Americans were uneasy with the extremes--they were. Abbie Hoffman and these guys and the Black Panthers and the Chicago Seven--these aren't heroes. They got a little attention--they aren't heroes… basically you had a situation where the American people saw what the protest was, and they said no… and it's over. They'll cause a little more trouble, probably at the [Democratic and Republican national] conventions, but they don't have any influence at all.

…Afghanistan [is an] interesting situation. I'm glad the president went over there to give a high-five to the military people. It's interesting he's getting attacked from the left as we talked about in the Talking Points Memo.

This is what we're going to do tomorrow--this is a disturbing study, because I do have a teenager myself. More American teens are smoking dope--nearly one in 10 lighting up at least twenty times a month, according to a survey. A report by The Partnership at DrugFree.org released today said abuse of prescription medicine may be easing a bit among young people, but the pot thing's out of control.

Now, if you have a kid, a teenager, smoking pot 20 times a month, you've got a drug addict on your hands. Also you've got a huge, huge problem--all kinds of things. Nothing good comes of that. And I keep telling everybody, the more you make it socially acceptable, the more it's cool to do--more people are going to do it. Now, if you drink a six-pack of beer 20 times a month, you've got a problem--you've got a problem. So parents--I don't think they understand this pot business… there are some baby boomers who got away with it, and… to this day they smoke it. I know a professional woman, mid-50s, very successful, [who] gets stoned everyday. She's addicted--she's addicted to it. And it really hurts her life.

So I think we've got to start taking this seriously, this marijuana business. I could be wrong...

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

2012-05-02T03:12:00Z

The loons [from] "Occupy Wall Street" tried to disrupt stuff, and not enough loons showed up, so they couldn't disrupt anything. You know, they're downsizing at "Occupy," because nobody's paying attention to them, thank God.

The other big story today is, of course, the president's trip to Afghanistan, which I applaud. I mean, I think--I've been there, and I think the people working over there, both military and civilian, have it very hard. This is not a country that you want to go [to] for a little tour. I mean, there's just nothing there--you know, I found the culture fairly interesting myself, but after three days, I was looking at my watch. "When are we taking off, again?" I met tons of military people, which made the trip very worthwhile, but it is not… a place you want to go, so when the president goes over and draws attention to the fine job that the US military has done in Afghanistan, I applaud that, and I think you do, too.

The problem is [what Pres. Obama said] before he left with this Romney business, about Romney might not have gone after Bin Laden. I didn't like that, and I'm not talking about any partisan stuff here. …If I were Gov. Romney, man, I would be teed off--really teed off, and the prompt that they used to justify it… wasn't even close. It wasn't even close.

…I think the president was immature to choose to politicize the Bin Laden situation--immature is the word I'm using. It certainly didn't gain him any votes, and that's how you have to look at these things. Yeah, his crew is going to support whatever he does, so we knock them out of the box, and the people who hate Obama--they're not going to like anything he does, so you knock them out of the box. But the fair-minded people in the middle, who are kind of just trying to evaluate the president and the governor--do you think they're going to like that? I don't. I don't think so. So I think he lost votes and he's demonstrating the fact that he's not confident--he's not confident his leadership.

A true leader doesn't do that--they don't say, "Well, he wouldn't have gone after Bin Laden, [neener neener]." I mean, come on… what is that? So I felt I had to deal with it tonight, and I think we did it fairly, but, of course, you make the call on that.

Now, as Premium Members, don't forget to grade us, because the [number of] graders are going down. We used to get maybe [200], 250 people [grading the show] a night--now we're down to about 100. So I know everybody's out running around… but if you can do it, if you have the time, we count on your feedback.

Monday, April 30, 2012

2012-04-30T23:40:00Z

…I've got to run here, because we have a whole bunch of stuff coming in from the White House. [There's] something going on over there, and I think it has to do with the anniversary of [Osama] bin Laden's death tomorrow, on May 1.

Also, we have the "Occupy" nuts here in New York saying they're going to block the tunnels, or whatever the crazy stuff [is] they [are planning] to do.

So I'm kind of running around here, trying to figure out what the president's going to do tomorrow night, because we have to react very quickly to whatever it is, and it's not happen until late in the day. So this is my life--this is what I do for you guys. I have to run around, figure out--I'm supposed to go to the Mike Wallace memorial tomorrow. I may not be able to do that now [and] it's a shame because he is a friend, and I admire what he did on TV… that guy really changed the business. But anyway, I'm not whining--I'm just telling you that I don't have a lot of time to spend on the No Spin News tonight…

Karl Rove is saying that the electoral college map, which I think is really the indicator [of who's leading in the election], because Barack Obama could well win the popular vote in November, carrying California and New York--those big states that you know… are going to go for the president, no matter what. But the electoral college is really tight right now, and according to Rove, 17 states are in play, with 225 electoral college votes. 17 [states]. So the other 33 states are spoken for--we know who's going to win in those states. So we're watching that pretty closely now, and seeing how things develop. We will get Rove on the program soon; we'll go down the whole board for you, and all of that.

I thought we had a pretty good program tonight, zeroing in on the craziness, and… try to stay sane out there. Being a Premium Member is a good way to do that, because, again, we're just going to give you the facts. We're not going to give you crazy conspiracy theories or all this other nonsense [like the so-called] war on women… This country allows men, women, cocker spaniels, goldfish, the most opportunity in the world by far, and… because somebody doesn't want to pay for another woman's contraception, there's a war [against] them? How crazy is this?

Friday, April 27, 2012

2012-04-28T00:25:00Z

There was this outrageous guy, the Colombian ambassador, [who] lives in Washington, DC [who] wants President Obama to apologize to his nation because of the hooker scandal involving Secret Service agents, and I'm not exactly sure why the president's got to apologize, because prostitution is legal in Colombia, and the government there is saying there's nothing wrong with it. So they should be happy… that some American cash was extended to some of their citizens for services rendered. I'm not getting the apology here. If you embrace prostitution and tell the world it's legal and put the girls out there--or the boys, or whoever it is--and then somebody uses the service, and then you say, well, you've got to apologize for that? Does that make sense to you?

Now, the Secret Service should be apologizing to us, the US people, because that's embarrassing--they've embarrassed the country. And now they've changed their policies, that on-the-job Secret Service agents abroad cannot have any foreign nationals in their room, and they can't go to any questionable establishments. So that's already been changed. But the Secret Service owes an apology to the USA, and to the president himself. That's where the apology should come.

The student loan issue is bogus, as I told you--nobody's going to raise the student loan fees, and you can grandstand all you want.

We're covering a story in Massachusetts that is horrible. A… 39-year-old man [was] run over by an illegal alien from Guatemala… [he] was walking across the street. This woman ran him over in a Nissan Pathfinder--she was going 60 [miles per hour] in a 30 [miles per hour zone]. She fled the scene--they got her, they arrested her, charged her with vehicular homicide. But a judge in Boston has now ordered her deported before the trial should take place… in effect, giving her a free airline ticket back to Guatemala while this guy's in a coffin. So I've given instructions to my staff to walk through this for a Tuesday night exposition. A lot of people [are] blaming a lot of other people. Homeland Security is involved, so we're going to see how it shakes [out over] the next three or four days, and then we'll have something for you definitively on Tuesday, but I wanted to tell you and give you a heads-up that we're working it.

Public opinion of the federal government is at a 15-year low, according to a new Pew survey. Nobody likes the federal government... 54% of Americans say the federal government is mostly corrupt... 62% say they don't like it, but 61% say their local governments are okay, though the feds are having a lot of problems.

It's thanks to guys like me, because I tell you what they're doing and how they're screwing up, which they are, and that gets out, and people are going, "You know, [I'm] paying a lot of federal income tax… and what are we getting? $4 shrimps [and] hot tubs." [The folks are] not liking it.

We are also--I'm going to give you a heads-up on this--doing a major investigation of the TSA craziness at the airport. Again, you know, we do these things very methodically, so that when we tell you something, it's rock-solid true, because it's going to be tough… we've invited Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano on the program, but things have to change. It's out of control. So we are working that--I can't give you a date on that, but it's coming pretty quickly...

Thursday, April 26, 2012

2012-04-26T23:40:00Z

There's not a lot of stuff going on, although the First Lady was at a campaign event in Omaha, Nebraska and said, "Two years ago we made history together by finally passing health reform…" I don't think that's objectionable. You know, you've got to watch how much the First Lady and Mrs. Romney get involved in policy. This certainly is policy, but she's stating a fact… so I think it's alright.

CBS News is reporting that, in addition to firearms, that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives… allowed hand grenades to go into Mexico as part of their sting operation. According to one ATF guy, they were watching a smuggler named Jean Baptiste Kingery, and he bought a bunch of hand grenades, and that was the end of them--so they disappeared. E-mails showed ATF agents were aware they might lose track of Kingery while they allowed him to transport the grenade parts into Mexico. E-mails also show ATF agents knew the grenades could end up exploding and killing innocent people if they proceeded with the plan, but they did it anyway. That's not good. So… this thing, is it going to become big? I don't think so, unless… they really zero in on the attorney general, Eric Holder--"they" being Republicans in the House [of Representatives]. So they'd have to do something--cite him for something. If they do that, then it will become big; if they don't, it'll just be this kind of stuff--me telling you this and you say "That's horrible." But what else is new? They're not going to do anything…

I went on a mini-morning [TV show] tour this morning. CBS [This Morning] has been after me for a while. I [have known] Charlie Rose for a long time. He's okay; he's a Manhattan liberal guy. I don't think he's a mean-spirited guy. I… have no beef with him. They did a good interview, I thought, with me. …they wanted me to say something bad about Barack Obama, and I didn't do it. I just laid out what the issues are, and what the decisions [are] that people have to make… but the interview went pretty well, and then they were nice enough to ask me about "Killing Lincoln"--why I wrote it, and I think that's important for people to know. I want Americans to know what true leadership is, and there's no better model than Abraham Lincoln…

Then we went over to Fox and Friends and did a little debriefing. Now what I do there is, if I appear on a morning program on a network which is up against Fox and Friends, I give them the courtesy, because we use [Steve] Doocy on our program, we use [Gretchen] Carlson are on our program--they're nice to do it for us, so I return the favor…

And then I went on Imus. Imus and I kind of have a checkered past. I first met Imus in 1979 when he was a drug-addicted local shock jock here in New York… that was 33 years ago, and, you know, over the years he's said some very nasty things about me, which I didn't appreciate, but… he's on the Fox Business [Network]. They need a little pop over there, so I… gave him some grief, Imus…

Other than that I promised I would tell you the end of the story that I started yesterday, where I was a senior at Marist College, and I came back from the University of London… and when I get back on campus, I lived in a dorm… I got back and there [were] drugs all over the place--marijuana smoke... at first, I tried to ignore it, but then they're playing Iron Butterfly at four in the morning, waking me up. Not only did I have work to do as a student, but I was on the football team, on the newspaper… I didn't have time to get woken up by a bunch of potheads.

So anyway, after failing to reason with these people, I threw one of them out the dorm window. It was only on the second floor, but it was kind of a shock to him as he went flying out, screaming. The next day I was walking to class, and a guy ran up to me and said, "The dean wants to see you--Dean Wade…" And I said, well, I'll see him after my class. You know, I was an arrogant SOB. So I went into the dean, and he was sitting there all stern and looking at me, and he said, "You know, we had a complaint from this kid's parents, and you hurt him." And I said, "I didn't hurt him. I threw him out the second story window. He landed in the grass--it was actually snowing, so he landed in the snow. He wasn't hurt. I saw it." He goes, "Well, you can't be throwing people out the dorm window, so I'm going to suspend you from school for a couple weeks." I said, "No, you're not, dean." …and that's exactly what I said--I said, "No you're not. You're not going to suspend me."

And he looked at me--I could see he was getting teed off. But I said, "Because if you suspend me, I'm going to call the police, and I'm going to tell the police that you're running a drug den here in the dormitories. Is that what you want me to do? And in addition to calling the cops, I'm going to write a big column about it for the newspaper." I'll never forget the guy's face--he turns red. I never saw anybody turn that red in my life. He kind of started to hyperventilate. I said, "Listen, dean, I mean, I'm trying to do my work here, I'm paying my tuition, I'm doing everything I should do, and I've got a bunch of drug addicts running around [my dorm], and you're sitting here telling me you're going to suspend me? I don't think so."

And I swear to God, he said to me, "Get out of my office," and I said, "I'll see you around campus." I got out--that was the last word ever about that, and I was 21 years old when that happened. Bold and fresh? You bet!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

2012-04-26T00:22:00Z

The Secret Service scandal has now engulfed 12 employees; nine have been been fired and three look like they're going to be cleared, [so] that's just the scorecard on that.

Some of the Secret Service agent who were being fired are saying, look, this happened all the time, and they may blow the whistle--you've got to assume there'd be a couple books in this, so yeah, this is big--a big scandal in an agency that the United States puts up front and center as almost incorruptible. So the story is not going away.

Newt Gingrich [is] getting out of the race--we told you that would happen three months ago, much to the speaker's chagrin, by the way. But I've got to tell you the truth. I keep telling you this--some of you guys get mad at me when I tell you the truth. I'm sorry you're mad at me, but look, we knew it way back in the first and second primaries that Newt Gingrich wasn't going to win, and the South Carolina thing was interesting, but we knew it was an anomaly driven by the media more than anything else, and then the Florida thing--that was it. I mean, once Newt lost in Florida by that big margin to Mitt Romney, it was all over.

The campaign--I thought Romney did very well last night [and] presented himself well, and I think you're going to see a bump in the polls because of it. If the governor can just keep it on economics and loss of individual freedom, I think he'll win unless something big happens. I mean, I think the president is really on the defensive, and the more he gets into redistribution of income and more federal control, the less the independent voters are going to rally, and we have a brand-new Fox News poll out... among independent voters for president, 46 Romney [to] 33 [for] Barack Obama, and that's down seven points since March for the president--up six for Romney. So the more the president goes to the left, the more independents will vote for the Republican candidate, because you're independent for a reason--you don't want to be ideological.

A new poll says that both Michelle Obama and Ann Romney are more popular than their husbands--of course you would think that. I know both women; they're both very nice, I must say. Very nice.

We're going to have Megyn Kelly look at this Alabama thing tomorrow--I told you about it last night. The authorities say there is no hate crime bias in the situation in Mobile, Alabama--I'm not so sure about that, so we're asking Kelly to look into it, and we'll have it for you tomorrow.

John Edwards [is] getting what he deserves. Even if he's acquitted, he's not to be acquitted in the court of public opinion.

This Metta World Peace [guy from the] LA Lakers--I know him--Ron Artest--[I've] had some conversations with him. [He's an] intelligent guy, but boy, that elbow was awful. I'm sure you saw the video of it. You can't be doing that--you're going to kill somebody if you do that. He's out for seven games, and he loses about $350,000 of salary.

…according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, older adults using illegal drugs have nearly doubled since 2002, 2007. [It's] mostly these pills that you get, these painkilling pills--OxyContin, this stuff. But a lot of grannies are smoking pot. They're ex-hippies--the hippies are now grannies and grandpas, and you know, once you start smoking pot [and] you like it, just because you're 75, it doesn't mean you're not going to do it anymore.

I'm finding more and more people that I know are doing this kind of pot business. They wait until the kids are in bed, then they go out on the patio and toke it up. To me, I never got it. I didn't even get it when I was in school. I'll tell you an interesting story: I came back from London in the fall of 1970. I was a third-year abroad student at the University of London [for the] 1969-1970 [academic year]. I came back, I painted houses during the summer, made some money so I [could] go up to Marist College for my senior year, play a little football… my roommate was a resident advisor, which meant that I lived on campus while most seniors lived off-campus… I show up a couple of weeks early for [football] practice. Nobody's in the dorms, and it was fine. Then all of a sudden, all the kids hit the place, and it's [suddenly] pot city. I mean, I'm walking back to my room and there's a haze of drug smoke, which never happened before I went to London, and it had come in big-time, and everybody was stoned and running around the dorms and all of that.

Now at first I ignored it, because it didn't really mean anything to me--I didn't do it--but then they started to play Iron Butterfly at four in the morning at top levels, and… they were waking me up. Not good for them. So the "bolder fresher guy" basically made an example of one of these potheads who was blaring his stereo at 4 in the morning, and I threw him out the window. We were on the second floor, so he didn't die, but he screamed pretty loud--true story. They still tell it at Marist College, and tomorrow in the No Spin News I'll tell you what happened to me.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

2012-04-24T23:32:00Z

We're going to do a big thing tomorrow on the Mexican border, and that's under control, after all these years. Finally the National Guard, the fence, stricter enforcement, a bad economy--have all merged together, and it looks like there are very few [illegal immigrants] now sneaking into the USA. But we'll give you the numbers and the analysis tomorrow--just giving you a heads-up on that.

There was a story in Alabama that I have not covered--I may do it with Kelly on Thursday, but I'm hesitant to do this. There was a guy who was playing basketball outside his house in Mobile, and somebody complained that it was too loud and he was making a lot of noise, so [a] fight ensued. He's white--blacks attacked him, a whole group, both men and women. And they hurt him badly--he's in critical condition--and then apparently one of the black attackers said, "I'm sorry, this is for Trayvon Martin," something like that. He wasn't sorry [meaning] contrite--he was just saying, "this is payback."

Here's the problem with the story. Number one, we don't have any primary source… the guy [who was attacked] can't talk. There is a photograph of him--he's in bad shape. And we don't really have any eyewitnesses saying that--this is all secondhand. So I've got to be careful. Number two, it's very, very inflammatory to run something like this on the national news. …I'm not afraid to run it, but I don't want to make any mistakes, so we're going to take a look at it for the next day or two, see if the… victim and his attorney and the police can make any on-the-record statements and then we'll report it with Kelly on Thursday. I think that's the way to handle it, but I am aware of it.

President Obama wants $469 million to fight overseas global warming. It's the same old stuff… more money, more money, more money, more money. It just has to stop--it just has to stop.

I don't think [John] Edwards is going be convicted in North Carolina on this federal beef. …the main witness against him is very weak, so Edwards will probably slither out of it. I hope he is convicted. I think he's a really, really bad hombre, and this is karma, but the case is not strong. It could happen… the jury's got to hate him, and he deserves what he gets--that's for sure.

This mother who was fired after donating a kidney to her boss--this story doesn't add up. That's why I didn't do it. It doesn't add up, and it's not big enough for me to care about, but I looked at the story, I saw some of the other coverage--it doesn't make any sense. So I can't get involved in that.

Monday, April 23, 2012

2012-04-24T00:15:00Z

Slow, slow slow slow [news day]--we don't like this kind of stuff because makes it difficult for us to get any momentum behind the program. As you know, we're doing a lot of analysis of why the United States is so deeply in debt, and really, what's going on behind the scenes, and I think we're doing a pretty good job of that. When you see the entitlement spending rising so quickly, with almost half of the population receiving some kind of federal benefit right now, it's unsustainable--you just can't do it. And I'm kind of worried that if that Pres. Obama doesn't change his attitude, and he is reelected, I don't know if we can go four more years without a real catastrophe economically. I don't know. I think that's how close we are here to having Armageddon with the $16 trillion debt, which will be $20 [trillion] by the time he gets out of office, if he is reelected. I just don't think we can sustain it. So... I know [the White House watches] the Factor, and I'm hoping he's seeing what we're doing here, because, look, I'm not rooting for anybody. I can't do that.

If Mitt Romney turns out to be… totally incompetent or can't do [the job], I have to be able tell you that. But [by] the same token, I just cannot go and support President Obama's administration because he has been unsuccessful. I've got to tell you the truth about both guys, and I will, and the president has not been successful in his first term. If he's reelected, he'll be one lucky guy, because he has not done the job. The economy is still very shaky, the debt is way out of control, I think we've lost some stature around the world as far as our power base is concerned, I think the Chinese are taking advantage of us--a lot of stuff is in play, so you know, it's going to be a very tough campaign [season] for the Factor in the sense that we're going to tell you the truth, and you're not going to hear that on almost [any] other program on TV and radio--you will not hear the truth. You're going to hear rooting, and once you start to root, then whatever your guy does is fine [and] the other guy is the devil, no matter what he does. Some people like that; I don't--I think it's a waste of time. I want the truth. I want to know what's happening.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that President Obama's 2013 budget is going to hurt the economy in the long run. Now, again, that's speculation, but the CBO is obviously not a fan of the Obama administration. So they're basically saying, look, you're spending too much money, it's constricting the private sector, people are afraid to hire because of Obamacare… and your budget is going in the wrong direction. You need to put money into areas that increase the advantage of the private marketplace, and the Obama administration is doing exactly the opposite.

…they're going after George Zimmerman--his past. I'm watching it… I really don't want to do that [story, but] if something comes out that rises [to the level of newsworthiness,] I'll tell you about it, but right now all of this is just nitpicky stuff. Everybody's got stuff in their background that's not good…

We have a funny story: the UN is investigating the United States about abuses toward Native Americans, so I'm going to get into that a little. The UN--the nerve of them.

There's a $60 lightbulb, which I will buy--Philips, the Dutch electronics company, has a LED bulb [that's] 60 bucks, but you can get it for as little as $30, and I'll buy that bulb, because it's supposed to last 27 years, and I hate changing these bulbs! I'll buy a bulb if it lights the room! These little bulbs they have? I'm walking into the wall--I can't see anything. Moths can't find the bulb! If it lights it up, Philips, I'll give you the $30, $40 for the bulb. If it doesn't, I won't--that's the kind of guy I am.

Are you believing Chris Christie wasn't asleep at the concert? I'm saying he was.

Friday, April 20, 2012

2012-04-20T23:31:00Z

The oil speculation thing is interesting because there's so much backfire on it. If the speculators weren't that much of a problem, they wouldn't be so ferociously trying to protect their little domain here, in my opinion… a bunch of people don't [agree], but it's always the same crew--and I'm not disparaging them, they have a right to their opinion--when you deal with the oil companies, it's all, "No, no, no, no, they're so benign, they're so benevolent, no, they don't price gouge, no, they don't price fix, no, they don't manipulate." I guess these people have stock or they have some kind of attachment to [the oil companies]. Oil companies are predatory--they are. And if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, he'd be on my side here. So… I do what I can do and do. If you want to believe me, you can…

I don't really believe this--there's a poll that says that the youth vote is plummeting for Barack Obama. Almost half of 18-24-year-olds said in a survey that they'd like to see the president stay in the White House, but 41[%] want him to get out of there. I'm not really sure about this poll, so I'm just going to tell you that that's what they said. I believe that younger Americans will support President Obama 60-40 over Mitt Romney. And the reason is simply [that] young people are idealistic; primarily they live in liberal precincts now--colleges, high schools. Their friends are [on the] left, and this peer pressure among that group is very, very big. But the numbers turning out [to vote] are not going to be anywhere near [where] they were in 2008. So that'll hurt Barack Obama. African-American voters will be down and so will younger voters.

…we have an interesting story coming up on Monday about food stamps and disability at the federal level in our continuing reporting on how out-of-control spending is among the feds, so you want to be here for that--you will like the story, but we're checking it 85 times so they can't come at us.

Now, let me give you an interesting thing [illustrating] what I'm up against here, and again, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, but you've got to understand. We did this "Culture Warriors" segment on "Glee" last night, and I said, look, I like "Glee"--it's a good show. Good music, good numbers, a lot of talent on that show, and they do good things in the sense that they are anti-bullying and they tell young people, look, go for your dream, develop your skills--those are all good things.

However, they are obsessed… with the counterculture, with alternative lifestyles, and a lot of times they glorify it, like the sex tape [storyline], where they didn't show any downside to these two young women--cheerleaders at the school--making a sex tape and putting it on the Internet. Now, are you kidding me? If they did that in real life, then their lives are over--done, finished. Humiliation [for] their parents, their brothers and sisters, job prospects, college prospects--I mean, [it would be] a disaster. Yet in the program, it was [brushed off as inconsequential].

So I made the point where, if you're going to do this stuff, you've got to do it responsibly. You can't glorify this stuff and say there are no consequences, because then… young people will experiment--some of them. [It's a] legitimate point; I'm absolutely right. Well, on the Huffington Post: "O'Reilly brutalizes 'Glee,' O'Reilly attacks 'Glee.'" …and it's designed to diminish me--to portray me as some kind of far-out-there guy, a right-wing crazy man, who's so out of touch and judgmental or whatever, and this is what I have to deal with everyday, but it's all right. I'm well paid to deal with it, but it is… supremely annoying.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

2012-04-19T23:16:00Z

I like this back and forth between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney; it's pretty amusing. The silver spoon guy, Romney, and the president is playing that up big time, and then the governor says the president is absolutely clueless about how to run the economy and how the American system actually works. This is good, because even though they're sniping at each other in a personal sense, it's gentle--"silver spoon" never hurt anybody. The governor says, well, the president's attacking me--not really. …he's just trying to define [Romney] in a way that's going to help him.

Attacks are when you try to hurt somebody personally, you lie about them, you put them in a position to defend things they didn't do--that kind of thing. Those are personal attacks--just watch MSNBC, and that's what they do all day, everyday. It's not as bad as it used to be, but it's still pretty bad over there… and then you go on to these guttersnipe websites and look at these people and what they say--those are personal attacks, designed to injure. President Obama doesn't want to injure Mitt Romney, he wants to beat him--and vice versa. Neither man is confrontational, which is an interesting deal, and McCain wasn't either. I thought John McCain was going to be much more confrontational than he was in the campaign.

So… this theme is going to roll out, and it's going to be very interesting to watch, as long as it doesn't get out of control. Even the "Ann Romney doesn't work for a living" [thing]--even that, OK. Everybody got involved, but is that vicious? No. It's not vicious. I'll tell you what vicious is when it comes up--Bill Maher [is an example]. Bill Maher is vicious--that's vicious.

Sen. Marco Rubio said once again he's not going to be accepting any vice presidential nod. I don't know how the guy can go back [on that]. He told me that; he said it again today. …Krauthammer still thinks that if they go to him, he'll take it, but I just don't know how he can… he's been very adamant about it.

So who do I predict for VP? I'm checking out three guys right now… I'm checking out this guy Portman in Ohio, a Congressman there. I don't know much about him, but I hear his name floating around all over the place, and obviously Mitt Romney needs Ohio. Ryan of Wisconsin, the budget guy, the Congressman there, we know him… I think he'd be a good choice. I think he's articulate, he's very bright, very economically centered. Is he charismatic enough? I don't know. Is he going to bring any minority votes? Probably not. [Will he deliver] Wisconsin? He might bring Wisconsin. I think that's 11 or 10 electoral votes--it doesn't matter all that much. So… he's certainly being considered--is he a home run? No, but I think he would be a plus.

Chris Christie is an interesting name. [He] changes the campaign, becomes the very confrontational avenger that a lot of conservative Americans want, but is a social liberal--he's not a conservative guy socially, so some conservatives are not going to like his positions. Gay marriage, abortion--he's not FOR them, but he's not against them in a way that a lot of traditional Americans are. So he's a lot like Romney in that he's not that conservative--he's more of a moderate, but he is a guy who will take the battle to the other side in a very vivid way. Jersey--can a Christie-Romney ticket win that [state]? Maybe… it would tie President Obama up. [It's] possible.

So… if I'm Mitt Romney and I'm sitting there, looking at these names, if Rubio says no, then what do you do? The Hispanic card goes flying out the window. Susanna Martinez, the governor of New Mexico, already said she's not going to do it, and she wouldn't be a good choice, anyway--she just doesn't have enough experience. So it's goodbye to the Hispanic card [if Rubio says no. There's] no other Hispanic American that's really at that level.

The other name that's being batted around is Condoleezza Rice, who I do not believe would want this job. I think that Dr. Rice is comfortable out in California, she's got a nice life for herself--why does she want to be second, running around the country, involved in that kind of a brawl? …I'd be very, very surprised if Condoleezza Rice would want that job. [She has a] good resume; [she] certainly helps with women, no doubt would help with women. There's no way Barack Obama loses California, no matter what, so [she's] not going to give [Romney] any electoral votes.

And then there's the governor of Virginia, who is not very well known. Virginia, I think, will probably go over to Romney no matter what. I think Virginia's had it with Barack Obama.

So there you have it. I can't really make a prediction at this point, because I've got to check out this Portman guy a little bit more. Probably in about two or three weeks I'll have [a prediction] for you. I don't expect that the Republicans will name anyone until the convention, because you've got to have a little drama at the convention. You've got to get people interested in watching, so I think they'll probably hold back until then--that's my gut feeling.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

2012-04-18T22:59:00Z

This stuff on the GSA is far beyond just one federal agency that looks out for buildings. You know, this is the mindset of a lot of federal employees, and this administration lavishes money on the federal system, and because of that, the lax oversight and abuse of taxpayers' dollars is getting worse and worse--it's cause and effect. There's no austerity program, no cutbacks--none of that at that all. So I'm teed off, and I bet you are too.

…the campaign--there's really not a lot to tell you about. Ann Romney came into the studio yesterday before the program--nice woman. I've known her for a while. She just came in to say hello [and] told me that she's really having fun on the campaign trail, and I said, well, then you've got to expect you're going to get hammered--you go out there and you talk about politics, [and] people are going to come back [at you]. So, you know, she knows--I think she thinks she can handle it. Certainly they won in that Hilary Rosen deal--that helped the Romney people big-time, no doubt about it. The "war on women," which is phony, and it's funny, because some of the far-left cranks are saying, "Well, what about the war on Christmas? That's phony." You know. Yeah, OK. The "war on women" by Mitt Romney.

Now, what kind of a nitwit would spend four years of his life running for president, and millions and millions of his personal fortune, to try to get in a position to be present, and then say, "You know what? I'm going to alienate all American women. I'm going to declare war on women. I don't want women to support me." I mean… you step back and think about it [and] it's so crazy. So unbelievable. But that's what we have today in this country, because the media is stupid, and the media drives all this nonsense.

We're watching the Wisconsin deal--the recall of Gov. Scott Walker. [It] looks like a new poll says that he leads the two people that are going to run against him--may run against him. I think that vote is in June… so he's up over both of them, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and former Dane County executive Kathleen Falk. He leads Barrett by 5 and Falk by 7. If had to make a prediction on this thing, I say Walker keeps his job.

We didn't cover this Ted Nugent thing because Ted Nugent is a rock guy who goes out and says stuff all the time, so what am I going to do? Am I going to cover every rock guy who goes out and says stuff all the time? I mean, does that mean I have to devote a portion of the segment to Axl Rose? I mean, come on. If Mr. Nugent had any authority (he doesn't), I would cover it, but, I mean, he's free to say what he wants. It's overblown, and I'm not going to cover it, because it's not important.

You know this Current TV, this Al Gore thing? I've never seen it--I don't get it. I don't think anybody gets it except Al Gore--he's the only one who gets it. But they apparently called me a Nazi, so why do they do that? Because they're desperate--absolutely desperate. More people watch the [local] news in Sioux City, Iowa… than watch this network, and it's supposed to be a national [cable] network. So they're going to try anything, and the latest is that some guy called me a Nazi. It hurt my feelings--no it didn't. I'm just pointing out that this is the way to get a fast amount of attention in the country… in which we live.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

2012-04-17T23:46:00Z

[It's been a] busy week this week. We've been running around trying to get a bunch of stories in play that are complicated. Number one is this speculator story about driving up the oil prices. We've told you for years that the oil companies use speculators to tack on higher prices at the pump, so when they see speculators who don't have to put down cash, driving up the price of oil for delivery in September or October, which is what they do, then automatically the oil companies raise the price for you and me at the pump.

Now, the speculators may lose their shirts, because the price of oil may come down, and they're stuck holding this paper, but the oil companies don't--they get the money. See what the con is? And the speculators can get out very fast, because they don't put up their own money; yeah, they might lose on paper, and they have to make it good or they get drummed out of the bidding process… but they can manipulate [things] and go in and out fast.

So what should be done is that you've got to put up the money--50% of it when you buy a… barrel of oil to control six or seven months down the line--you've got to put the money up, just like I have to put the money up when I want to buy a stock. I call my broker, I say I want to buy 2,000 shares of whatever, and then the money goes out of my account right that day. That's what has to happen, because when the price of oil comes down on the speculation, believe me when I tell you the oil companies are very slow to drop the price at the pump, and that's why they make such an enormous amount of money.

Now, I know that some of you are never going to believe me; I always get the mail from the oil people, but that's the truth, and that's it.

This Secret Service thing is disturbing because it makes the country look bad. You know, human nature is human nature; you're in the Secret Service, you can't do that--those guys have to be fired. Whether they get Sullivan, the top guy, or not, I mean, I'd give him a hearing, Sullivan--it might not be his fault. But it seems to me that if they would do that that blatantly--they're going to brothels in Cartagena? I've been to Cartagena--you know, and that's not a big town. If you're going to go to a brothel, people are going to know about it. And so these guys walk into the brothel? That's pretty bold and fresh, pardon the pun--and they're negotiating with the babes in the brothel, and they're Secret Service agents on assignment to protect the president? Come on, come on! And you're telling me this is the first time it happened? I don't believe that. So anyway, they've got to get to the bottom of it, and it's bad.

Gallup has now stored its daily tracking [poll] for the Obama-Romney race, and Romney's up by two. I like the Gallup poll; I think they're an honest poll, so we'll give you that poll and we'll give you Rasmussen. Those are the two that we go by; we were served very well last time by those two polls--very well.

And I'm starting to feel a little jaunty here, because I haven't made a mistake--I told you very early on it was going to be Romney, and as soon as I did that, then I got the mail that I'm "favoring" Romney. I didn't favor anybody--everybody gets the same treatment here. You know that. I just tell you the truth and what's going to happen--I saw it coming, and it came.

And finally, I didn't win a Pulitzer again this year. I'm never going to win one, no matter how good my commentary is, because I'm me, and I'm not whining about it--I accepted this a long time ago. I'm lucky I won the three Emmies--I'm lucky I won them… so the three Emmys--that will be my legacy. I'm not going to win a Pulitzer or any of the other big shot [awards], because the boards that decides these things are very, very left wing, and that's the truth. I'm not whining--they're just left-wing people. It's just like the Nobel and everybody else. I mean, you look at the judges, and O'Reilly? Oh, my God--no way.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

2012-04-12T23:49:00Z

I hold in my hand the latest Fox News poll, released 6 PM, Thursday, April 12, so you guys are among the first in the country to know [the results], and as I predicted yesterday… I told you Mitt Romney would get a bump, and that has happened. If the election were held today, according to a Fox News poll, Mitt Romney would win 46-44--Romney up four points since last month, Obama down two…

How interested are you in the 2012 elections? Extremely interested, 32; very, 33; somewhat [or] not, 34--that's… Democrats. Republicans are extremely interested, 42; very, 31; somewhat [or] not, 26. So Republicans look to be more motivated.

President Obama's job performance: approve, 42; disapprove, 51%. That's a big shift in a month. In March, approve, 47; disapprove, 45… so the president's down five points in approval and up six points in disapproval.

Have economic policies of the Obama administration helped or hurt the economy? Hurt, 37; helped, 31; no difference, 31. So this poll is all bad news for Barack Obama--there's no good news here.

Does the national debt have to go up in times of unemployment and war? Yes, it has to go up, 28; no, spending is out of control, 68.

Are you satisfied with how things are going in the country today? This is the key to the presidential election. Satisfied, 32%; not satisfied, 67%.

So we have a really, really bad poll for Barack Obama, and I'm not happy about it, because I have to cover this election in a fair way. Now, what's fair? Let's get into this, because I know that the Fox audience primarily… is skeptical of President Obama, and I am too. I don't think he's done a good job, and I've said that, overall. I think the president is trying--I don't think he's a socialist or communist or Muslim… any of that, but I think that he is an avowed, A-V-O-W-E-D, avowed liberal man who believes that the federal government should control social justice by taking money from American citizens and doling it out. That's his philosophy. And he's tried it, and it has not worked…

So right now you have a president who is in trouble with the folks, not the ideologues… and struggling to find a way to right the ship in seven months. Now, Mitt Romney should be encouraged by the Fox News poll, but it comes down to Romney's performance. So Romney could go down real quick--he's got to basically keep on message that he can do a better job in the economy. It's as simple as that… [he must be] clear, concise, and right to the point. [He's] not talking about birth control, not talking about Adam and Eve, not talking about Mormons [and] covered wagons--anything like that. Not doing it. Economy, economy, economy; national security, national security. You've got to talk about immigration--you've got to do that, so you better have a good plan, governor, because you're going to need Hispanic-American votes.

Now, if you're Barack Obama, I don't know what you do. I just don't know what you do, because he has spent more money than any other president, ever, to serve in this country, and it hasn't worked… Obamacare's probably going to be overturned, so he's going to be standing there with no accomplishments, except getting [Osama] bin Laden and decimating al-Qaeda, and that's no small thing--you've got to give him credit where credit is due, and that's why I said I've got to cover this fairly, and I will.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

2012-04-12T00:23:00Z

We're on the Trayvon Martin case. [There's] not much more to add right now--whenever a defendant's or suspect's lawyers flee the scene, it's not a good sign. Looks to me like this Zimmerman guy's a little unbalanced--he's not going to be able to plead insanity or anything like that, but obviously it makes defending him much harder. Again, we're going to take it step-by-step; [I'm] not surprised at what happened, and I think we're covering it very responsibly.

These Black Panthers--the reason I'm not that upset about them [is because] I don't think there are many of these people, and I think they're desperate for attention. Yeah, I gave it to them, but you need to know what the subtext is here--that these people are around, they do have a constituency (I mean, Louis Farrakhan has one as well). You need to know that, but their numbers are pretty small, pretty paltry. However, they are violent, and you've got to keep an eye on them, because a few violent people can do a lot of damage.

In the Utah primary, Newt Gingrich's campaign had to submit a filing fee for $500--the check bounced, so it just shows you what's going on there.

You heard my Talking Points [Memo tonight] on Rick Santorum. I thought he did a very noble campaign--congratulations to him.

In Miami, the manager of the Marlins has been suspended, Ozzie Guillen--he's kind of a crazy guy, Ozzie. I met him a few weeks ago--he's kind of insane. He said he respected Fidel Castro because they couldn't kill him or something. Again, I don't know why people take all this stuff very seriously--what do you care what Ozzie Guillen says? Why? Now, I know people lost loved ones and Castro's a murderer--I understand all that, and if you have a personal connection, sure, but just the bystanders? So they suspended Ozzie for five games.

The John Edwards trial is coming up--that's going to be a dog and pony show. I have no idea on the… weight of the evidence. We'll follow it with "Is it Legal?" and Megyn Kelly. You know what I think about Edwards--I think he's a slug. We were on to him very early. I think he's very dishonest, and I'm not surprised that he's in this kind of trouble.

In Arkansas [the] Supreme Court recently struck down a state's law banning sexual contact between teachers and students, finding that people ages 18 or older have a constitutional right to engage in a consensual sexual relationship with anyone. …so seniors in high school can make a play for their teachers. That doesn't seem to be right, does it? I taught 18-year-olds when I was teaching high school--I was 22, they were 18. [There have] gotta be boundaries, but in Arkansas I guess they don't see it that way.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

2012-04-05T23:28:00Z

…I will be off tomorrow, Good Friday, and Passover, then I will be off on Monday and Tuesday. I'll be back on the 11th… Juan Williams is [filling in on] Friday; I think Laura Ingraham is [filling in on] the 9th and the 10th, so we hope you watch as you always do…

I'm on John Stewart's [show] tonight [with] kind of a funny bit off the four dollar shrimp deal--I made a big deal out of that, as you know, so Stewart and I go back and forth on it tonight on his show, which you can tape…

I think Barack Obama was very embarrassed by [these] Supreme Court comments, and now [Eric] Holder had to take the time to issue this kind of mealymouthed statement to the judges in Texas--the federal judges demanded to know what was going on. It's all theater, of course--it doesn't really mean anything. But I think the president made a mistake in the sense that, you know, a guy like… Justice Kennedy (and I can say this, because I know him a little bit--I had a long talk with him one day in his office, and he's a good guy--honest guy) …he's on the fence on a lot of these things, and you hear this kind of stuff--"Well, you people better not overturn Congress." That's subliminal--judges just don't like that… so it didn't do Barack Obama any good at all to bring… the Supreme Court into the Obamacare legislation.

If you want to tout Obamacare, you tell everybody how good it is for the country, but you [can't] be saying, "Hey, the Supreme Court better not do this." It wasn't a threat exactly--it was just like he was incredulous about [the fact] that they would even think about [overturning the law].

Well, look. I mean, I think I'm a fair guy, and if I were a Supreme Court justice, I would vote [the law] unconstitutional--again, you give the government too much power. Commerce clause, schmommerce clause, you know? It comes down to this: they're ordering you to do something, and in our government, that's not the way we were founded.

The federal government is there to protect us and to make sure there's not anarchy among the states--to make sure that things are run as smooth[ly] as possible--interstate highway system, currency, protecting of the borders (they did a great job there, right?), you know, protecting us from foreign threats--all of that. That's the government's role--it's more of an overseer, protector, not a "You better do this because we want you to." That's not what we are, and the reason is because that's what the kings did. That's what the monarchs did, the dictators did. All the people that our founding fathers, our ancestors, fled--that's what they did, and so when they got here, they said, you know what? We don't want this--we want to make the decisions, we the people, not the federal government telling us to buy anything, so therefore, there is where it falls down.

Barack Obama is a sincere guy--I've always believed that. He's a left-winger, obviously, but he believes that the greater good is served by this apparatus telling people what to do. …sometimes that's true--for example, when I was teaching high school, the greater good was served by me telling the urchins what to do, because the urchins were chaotic. But they were minors. It was my job to teach them. So I would tell them what to do: "Shut up." And if they didn't, they got in trouble. That's in context, and that's the way it has to be in those situations. In the Army, you can't have everybody [saying], "Hey, you know, I don't really want to get up at 5:30 in the morning." You get up, or you're out, but that's not what day-to-day life is. You enter the military, you're in the military--you're in their system. You go to school, you're in the educational system. But when I go home, I don't want Barack Obama knocking on my door, saying, "You have to buy these Girl Scout cookies, because then I can give more money to people who don't have any money so they can have cookies." No!

…they already tell me how much money I have to pay in taxes, and I understand that. The founding fathers gave the Congress the right to tax. You've got to have money to run the government. I got it. If I don't like it, I'm free to renounce my citizenship and move to Bolivia. I can do that.

So anyway, it's a philosophical thing that has a wide, wide implication, and the president doesn't really understand, I think, how the country was founded. I really think that in a debate between me and Barack Obama about the founding of the United States he'd get his butt kicked. I really believe that. So I don't think he understands how we got to where we are, and even if he does, he doesn't care--he wants to change it.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

2012-04-05T00:03:00Z

So Mitt Romney's the guy, and, you know, that's pretty much it. He's got 655 delegates, more than half of what he needs, and there's just no way Rick Santorum can stop him, so that's that. And that shapes up to be an interesting race, so let's talk about [it] a little bit.

Barack Obama is basically going to run on Romney being a mean rich guy. That's what it's going to be, because Obama can't attack Romney-care. He can't attack Romney, saying he's not conservative enough. He can't do any of that… so all the attacks on Romney from the right that you've heard over the past six months, they go away, replaced by "clueless rich guy wants to hurt everybody, doesn't care about the kids, doesn't care about the women, doesn't care about the cocker spaniels, doesn't care about the goldfish," and whatever constituency the president is talking to, Romney will not care about those people. Now, it sounds funny, but that's exactly what the campaign is going to be, because you're in a position where one party wants to cut spending, and when you cut spending, somebody's going to be teed off, because that money's going somewhere, and when you stop it, whoever was getting it is to be annoyed, alright? So there a lot of targets for President Obama going to go into… "Education spending--oh, they want to cut it, they don't like the kids." "Hey, school lunches, oh, they're going to let the kids starve." "Old people, they want to revamp Medicare, they don't like you, you're going to be out on the street, you'll be on your front lawn, you'll be living in a tree." All of that--that's what it's going to be on the Democratic side.

Now there is a constituency for that, but it's pretty much committed to Barack Obama now. He doesn't get a lot of votes doing that, other than what he already has, so he's preaching to the choir.

So Romney comes in, and what does Romney do? Does he go on the offensive and say, "No, I care about the kids, I care about the old people, I care about the women?" Does he do that? I wouldn't. I wouldn't. What I would do, if I were Mitt Romney, would be say to every American, "You know what, you're getting hosed. This is a fraud. This whole administration is a disaster, and you don't know it yet, but the sky's going to fall. You want to call me Chicken Little? Fine. You can't run the kind of bunko scheme they're running, spending unbelievable amounts of money that we can never repay. You cannot do this and think that the country's going to prosper economically in the future." That's how I would run… [Obama] doesn't know what he's doing, he screwed up on every turn, he wants green energy but he doesn't know where to invest his money in green energy, there have been no returns on it at all, the oil companies hate him because he won't let them drill, the country's getting hammered from right and from left, the housing industry is a disaster, Wall Street doesn't like him, all his regulations--have they improved your life? …See what I mean? …if you're Romney, you basically run on competence--competence. So it will be competence against fear.

Now, Romney's playing the fear card, too… but he's doing it a different way, because there are demonstrable ways that Romney can say to the American people, "Hey, look, are you better off than you were five years ago? Are you?"

And then [the Democrats] will go back to the mantra that Bush's policies made the country a disaster, and that Romney wants to go back to those policies. Romney's going to have to delineate himself from Bush [but] not by name--he'd be foolish if he did that. Just, basically, "Look, I'm the guy, and this is my vision, and this is how I'm going to pull it off, and this is why, if you elect me, the country's going to be better.

It's almost Reagan-esque, and… I said this before. If Romney is smart, he'll go back and he'll watch the debates between Reagan and Carter, because the same stuff is in play. It's so ironic. Iran's in play, Iran was in play back then. Gas is in play, gas was in play back then… it's almost the same thing. The economy's wobbling, the economy's wobbling. Liberal president, liberal president. So if I'm Romney, that's what my homework is. I'm watching how Reagan did it, what Reagan said [and] how he positioned himself, because Reagan and Romney, they're pretty similar. Reagan had more charisma, because he [was] an actor, and he was able sell himself better than Romney has been, but they're kind of non-confrontational guys… there's a lot of similarities there.

So that's the way it is. That's the way it's going to be. It's going to be the president, who is a very good speaker, trying to convince Americans that this rich guy is going to make things absolutely horrendous if he's elected, and then Romney, saying, "Are you kidding me? This guy doesn't know what he's doing, and here's how I'll get us out of the mess."

[The race will be] very close--it's going to be very, very close, but it won't really kick until the first debate, as I said. All the other polls from now until then really don't matter. What will matter is Romney choice for VP--that will matter. That will matter a lot, much more so than usual, because Romney is kind of suspect, and if he pulls in a good VP candidate, that will help him.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

2012-04-03T22:58:00Z

Kentucky won the… NCAA championship last night [in] basketball, and then 15,000 people rioted in the streets of Lexington. That's nice, right?

So, you know, what is this all about? It's about intoxication--that's what it's about. So the firemen put out 40 fires, I don't know, millions of dollars worth of damage, I guess, and it's because these kids and some non-students were loading up during the game, drinking, and then they got blasted, and then they win, and they run out and do destructive things. That's what it's about.

How do you stop it? You can't, really, other than suspend students from school, which I would do if I were the dean, if they were found guilty. I don't know if I would expel them--if they had any other things on their [rap] sheet, I might. And then the police and… the system should punish them. Punishment is a deterrent. But [it] happens every time, no matter where it is, people run out and do this stuff. It doesn't matter what the team is or what city--bang. It's all intoxication-driven.

This terrible thing in Oakland--now, once again I'll explain to you why we can't cover stuff like this… all it is is a straight reportage story, and then if you wanted to do a feature, you could find somebody who… lost a loved one. Some Korean national who attended this university out in Oakland--it's a Christian university called Oikos (I've never heard of it) went in there and killed seven people, and the guy had all kinds of tax liens against him, and [was] obviously a bad guy. …bang bang bang, seven people--human beings--are dead.

So what can I do with it? I can't really do much, other than what everybody else does, which is who, what, when, where and why. So we don't do these kinds of stories on The Factor unless, like the Trayvon Martin situation, there's a national controversy, or two sides to the story. No two sides to this story--this guy is a murderer, and he should go to jail the rest of his life. …the people who he killed had families and friends, and they're suffering. That's it.

Same thing with the tornadoes in Dallas--they zipped through, and what am I supposed to do with that? I can tell you about it, but Shepard Smith already did that.

So what we try to do is bring you stuff that is unresolved, that you have a vested interest in, that you have an opinion in, to make it interesting. So that's our litmus test on what we cover and what we don't cover.

CNN [is] a different story; they don't do a lot of analysis, so they cover the breaking news. Interestingly enough, [that] doesn't get them a lot of ratings because most people have seen it by the time they get to prime time, on their local news, or Shepard's broadcast or whatever. [There's] nothing wrong covering it, by the way; it's just that there's nothing I can do with it.

Friday, March 30, 2012

2012-04-02T23:00:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members! Welcome to the No Spin News for April 2^nd, 2012, our first show in the month of April.

We expect Mitt Romney to win Wisconsin tomorrow, and also Maryland and Washington. Wisconsin still close enough so there might be a little drama. The other two are Romney wins.

And then after that, there's Pennsylvania, which will be kind of a duke out, but Rick Santorum basically playing catch-up, and he just doesn't have the time or the money to do it. So we're looking ahead, and it will be Mitt Romney against Barack Obama.

Interesting that Ann Coulter doesn't think that Marco Rubio is ready for the vice presidency. I think he's gonna be offered it. Whether he takes it or not is another matter. But Hispanic Americans, the GOP needs them, and it's no accident Rubio's working up some kind of immigration plan right now. That's not an accident. You watch and you see the signs.

Outside of that there's Martinez, the governor, the new governor, new governor of New Mexico, but relatively unknown, untested. I don't think the GOP is going to go that way. And Hispanic voters have got to come over, at least 40% of them. And Romney with his pretty hard approach on illegal immigration that they have to go back to their home countries, that's pretty tough. Pretty tough to get out of that unless Rubio comes up with a new formula and Romney goes "Oh, that's better than what I had!" That's how you get out of it. So this stuff is back and forth, up and down.

We're going to send Jesse Watters out to Chicago where there's just mayhem in the streets now. 13 people shot, 2 killed, just last Thursday! Just on a Thursday! 23 murders over the past 14 days. 117 in the first three months of the year in Chicago. Murder rate up 56%. So what the heck's going on out there? We're going to send Watters out there to find out. Probably have that on Thursday or Friday, depending on if he makes it back alive.

I saw that Today Show thing. I like the Today Show. They treat me well. I don't know what's going on at NBC though, overall. I think they need some new blood in the executive precincts there.

The New York Yankees are the favorite to win the World Series this year. 17% say they're going to do it. Boston Red Sox, 12%. Philadelphia and Detroit, 9%. These are the fans voting. I have no idea who is going to win the World Series, but I will tell you I think the Detroit Tigers are very very powerful. Very powerful. So if I had to bet, I'd bet on them.

OctoMom's on welfare. She said she'd never do it. Nobody believes her. She's a kook. I feel so sorry for these babies and these kids. I really do. And in a free society these maniacs can do what they want, and the children get hurt. And what are we supposed to do about it? We're at the mercy of the Family Courts system, which is chaos, as you know.

Alright, so that is the No Spin News, and we will see you again tomorrow.

Friday, March 30, 2012

2012-03-31T00:01:00Z

[There's] not a lot going on. Everybody's settling into the inevitability of Mitt Romney being the nominee for the Republican Party, and as we reported, a new Marist College poll has him out in front in Wisconsin. We expect that to hold on Tuesday, and that will be pretty much the end. Everybody is tired, fatigued; you know, I think it was good overall for the process.

I'm not one of those who say Republicans hurt themselves. I think you have to have competition--it's a rough game. I think Santorum did very, very well; I mean, think back to where he was in the summer. You've got to admire his campaign, his pluck, his energy, and I like much of his message… Romney just simply overwhelmed him on logistics, not personality, not issues so much, although the senator did bog himself down [with] social issues that pretty much Americans don't want to hear about. You've got to know what the voters are going to respond to, and the senator really did not know that.

Spike Lee has paid the family off that he inconvenienced by putting their phone number up as the phone number for… George Zimmerman. It was a wrong phone number and [this] elderly couple, the McClains, had to flee their home, so Spike is paying them off. We don't know how much--probably a nondisclosure [agreement in place] there.

…there's an article about Bin Laden, that he had four children and five houses in Pakistan… Pakistanis knew he was there. Simple as that, they knew. They didn't care. They tried to keep it from us, and that's what Pakistan is. You know, we send them a couple billion dollars a year to try to keep them in line. You know that's what it is.

In France they arrested 19 suspected Islamists with weapons, so you've got to understand this danger from jihad is still there and still palpable. You know, here we're kind of lulled to sleep.

An amazing story in Northern California--a mountain lion attacked some guy, and a bear whacked the mountain lion! …I don't think the mountain lion would've killed the guy, although the guy is 69… he was hiking, he says the bear whacked the mountain lion and the mountain lion ran away. It's an amazing story if true. You know, you go hiking in the American wilderness anywhere, you don't know who you're going to meet up with! You'd better take some protection with you!

We did a very good job--I have to pat myself and our staff on the back with the Trayvon Martin case. We've made a lot of points this week; you know it. You see what's happening before your eyes, and I'm saying prayers that this doesn't de-evolve into a race situation where people are going to get hurt. It may very well might--it could happen. If it does, we'll know who the agitators are. Tomorrow there's a rally in Sanford, Florida--you know, again, they say they want to have a "conversation"--another cliché. But what they really want is a conviction, and you've got to base that on facts, and they don't have them--nobody has them yet.

So that's what we've been doing, and you know it, and we'll continue to cover it in a fair and balanced way, so we can't do any more than that. I can just tell you how disgraceful I think the American media is, across the board now--it's just awful. I've been in this thing for 36 years, and it is the worst that it's ever been, and going south fast.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

2012-03-30T01:33:00Z

Good show tonight--this is one of our stronger shows [that] I think we've had in a while, and I want to go over it with you, so this is kind of like the debriefing session. There's not a lot of other stuff to tell you about, although the Sanford Police Department in Florida [is] kind of overreacting--they're threatening to arrest any journalist who asks people about the… Trayvon Martin case after hours. I mean, that's ridiculous, and they've not acquitted themselves well down there in Sanford.

That's about it. Everything else is small ball--Jerry Lee Lewis… gets married for the seventh time. He's 76 years old. Why? Jerry Lee, you know, just kind of go out calm, you know? Anyway, none of my business.

I think that, you have to, no matter what you feel about the Trayvon Martin case, if you look at how we're handling it, you understand what I'm doing here, because I'm fed up with allegations being stated as fact. I see it every day. It's not just on television--it's in the newspapers and everything else.

So, you know, here's a great example of an Oprah Winfrey who comes on and says, hey, this guy [Zimmerman] should be arrested. Well, with all due respect, you don't know anything about the case, Ms. Winfrey. And when you have professionals designated by the state at a high level to investigate, you let them do their job. We don't need you butting in. That doesn't help anybody.

So I had to do it, and I did it, and I'm proud of it, and I hope you would see where we're trying to go here. It's a larger story than just Trayvon Martin, because the press is out of control in this country, and they don't care about ruining people's lives with phony allegations. The Duke rape case is the best example, of course, of that.

The hot debate over the clergy--I thought both of those guys were good. I hope you saw the Dolan interview, and if you didn't, it's on FoxNews.com… so check it out, it's a good interview.

The Culture Warriors weighed in good tonight. Laura Ingraham gave us a good explanation of how the Obamacare bill is now going to be adjudicated by the Supreme Court--very, very important for all of us, and I stand by my prediction that it will be struck down. And remember, if the individual mandate is struck down, the law just dissolves, because if you can't get the revenue base of the country, you just can't afford to do the other things. And if a Republican Congress comes in, the law is toast anyway, but I'd rather have it be ruled unconstitutional, because then that puts a chain on federal power going forward, which I think is necessary. So even if [Congress] voted it out, you still have that precedent at the Supreme Court, which you don't want, because then… the federal government will come back again and say you've got to do this, you've got to do that.

Less is more, except in areas of defense, public security, where we need the federal government regulating the money flow, all of that--we need that. States can't do it. And oversight on unfair enforcement of the law is very necessary at the federal level, but that's it. …the rest, let the states and local [governments] handle it, because they know what the people need.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

2012-03-29T00:36:00Z

You know, I think we're covering the Trayvon Martin case as responsibly as anybody could. Again, if you don't think so, let me know. My instincts say that this Zimmerman will be charged--I think he will be. I could be wrong on that--just telling you that. I'm not going to say that on TV. But it looks to me like he stoked up the confrontation; whatever the confrontation descended into, it would not have happened had he not been following this guy around.

Now, you can make the case that neighborhood watches, that's what they do--you can make that case. And again, I'm not going to try it [on TV], but deadly force is deadly force, and this thing never had to happen, and the 911 guy telling [Zimmerman] to back off--that's big. But, again, we'll cover it as fairly as we can possibly cover it, and I think we've done that.

Also, the Supreme Court hearing on Obamacare--we're way out in front of that story. You know, at this point, my prediction that it will be found unconstitutional I believe is strong. I was one of the first ones to say that; you might remember [that I said as much] weeks ago, because I just can't find in the Constitution where the government has the power to force us to buy anything. You know, they can make stuff up… but you know what it is, and the justices know what it is. So there's just no doubt that this is not constitutional.

Now, you get the politicized court… I'd be disappointed if the four liberals go. I really would be. Because then you really don't have any objectivity at all. Now you can make the same case [for] Clarence Thomas and Scalia, that they're always going to go on a conservative end, but they always don't…

It's a states' rights issue. Nobody's calling Romneycare in Massachusetts unconstitutional. They're not doing that, because the states do have the right to regulate what happens in state industries. They have a right to do that, so if the state wants to do it, okay, but the Feds don't have the right. It's a little complicated, but that's when I'm in business to do. I think I've made it pretty clear, and again, if you have any questions, just put them on the message boards and we'll answer them.

There's a new poll I didn't get to tonight. Quinnipiac says that President Obama's vulnerable in three battleground states: Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is an interesting state. If the president were to lose that, he's going to lose the election. I don't expect President Obama to win in Florida. Ohio will be fought, but I think Kasich, the governor, will deliver [for the GOP], but Pennsylvania, with all the minority voting in the Philadelphia area, that should be Obama territory. But right now, he's polling about even with the generic Republican.

So again, this thing is going be very, very close in November--it's going to come down to the wire. We're going to have the best coverage of it, because I am already on it, laying out what we're going to do, where we're going to be, how we're going to handle, and you're going to like it… I'm going to really ramp it up because this is a very important election…

Monday, March 26, 2012

2012-03-26T23:46:00Z

OK, so this Martin case in Florida heats up with the Black Panthers going down there. As soon as they get down there, you know it's a circus. MSNBC [is] in big trouble--you can't be calling for somebody's head and then say you are reporting on something. You just can't do it, so NBC has got a huge problem.

And this is continuing now, because it's not really a news channel. So if I were over there, I would just change it into a commentary channel or something. They don't do any news there--they don't have any news programs like Shepard Smith or Brett Baier. They don't do that, they just don't do it. All they do is left-wing stuff, day in, day out, day in, day out, up and down, in and out, left-wing, left-wing, left-wing.

So you can't basically tell the public, hey, we're a news channel, we're affiliated with NBC News. You're not, you're not. Now, it's not really our business to go over that--they run their news agency [whichever way they] want. But then it gets into a lot of sticky stuff, because NBC, that's their banner. I mean, all those people answer to NBC News--that's who their boss is.

But the liberal media in America are not going to challenge it, because they like it. They like to have that cachet and that ability to promote a far-left agenda on the air. You know, never before in this country, never before, has that ever happened--that we see a situation whereby you have an entire news organization devoted to getting left-wing people elected, because when you strip it all away, that that's what it's all about.

…the Supreme Court, as we said, we believe that they will throw out the individual mandate. You can't force Americans to buy anything. If they don't, [the] country changes big time--[it] absolutely changes.

On the Trayvon Martin front, you have a basic situation where there are two sides to the story. Certainly the state of Florida has to handle it--they've assigned a special prosecutor. That's the way it should go. I don't think you can let the local police do it--I don't think so. You've got to get the state [authorities] down there. They have to look at it. The FBI is in there, looking for civil rights [violation] allegations. That's OK. But we really want the crime, the alleged crime, if there was one, defined. …the civil rights thing is secondary.

I don't mind the FBI being down there--that's why they're there. They have to oversee stuff that happens if the states aren't going to take care of it, but you've got to give Florida a chance. So that's where we are on that, and I think our coverage has been very, very responsible.

Other than that… we really covered a lot of stuff today… in politics, it's the same old stuff. I mean, Romney's well ahead; we expect him to win the nomination, and, you know, there's nothing really I can do to advance that story at this point. We like Santorum; I think he's done a very good job in basically defining the issues as far as conservatives are concerned--what's important to conservatives, and that's very worthy.

See, I don't mind candidates who are liberal defining what's important to liberals. I think all Americans should know what the battle is--what you're fighting over--and Santorum does that very well.

I don't know what's going to happen to Newt Gingrich--he doesn't have any money [and] he's got to pay his people. You don't assume he's going to pay them out of his own pocket, because you know that mounts up pretty quick.

Friday, March 23, 2012

2012-03-23T23:15:00Z

Louisiana votes tomorrow--[the] latest Rasmussen [poll says] Santorum, 43%; Romney, 31%; Gingrich, 16%; Paul, 5%. We figure that's the way it'll go down. Santorum will win. Romney's not really even campaigning very hard there. So Santorum will have a little story, but it's a Saturday play, not going to get a lot of traction, not a lot of delegates, so what can I tell you?

And then it goes into the wider range of states, where Romney is expected to do well, but anything could happen. We're not count Santorum out at this point. Gingrich is out--he's done. So he might quit next week, we'll see.

Whitney Houston--I just threw Geraldo this for a second tonight--but I told you that I've known people who've died from drug use. It's not always just [an] immediate OD--the heart goes, their weakened immune system, people take them out--but Houston had an enormous amount of drugs in her system. All kinds of drugs--cocaine, prescription drugs, marijuana, alcohol--I mean, she wanted to kill herself. I told you that. You don't do all that and think you're going to just walk away with it. I mean, come on.

President Obama--I don't think it's going real well on his energy tour. Now he wants to lower half of the Keystone Pipeline. I don't even take this stuff seriously anymore. I don't even bother with it. You know, when you hear that, you just roll your eyes and go, come on, will you get some kind of energy policy that will help us? We don't have one right now.

President Obama is going to go to South Korea on Saturday for a nuclear security summit. That's good, and Iran will probably be the hot topic. I hope they get more pressure on them.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

2012-03-22T23:33:00Z

We didn't cover the France situation. You know, it's hard for us to really lend anything to overseas reporting. You've got a guy, Muslim, Mohammed Merah, killed seven people, barricaded himself an apartment outside of Toulouse, France. They got him, they shot him. You know, there's not much more than that, so people ask me, well, why don't you cover certain stories? There's got to be an ongoing narrative to the story, or it's got to be so huge that it has implications for everybody. This doesn't have implications for anyone. Obviously France has a problem with militant Muslims, like everybody else, so that's why we don't get into it--there's nowhere to take the story.

Student loans in America have topped $1 trillion, and that's because the government has made a lot of money available, and the kids are taking it. Now, I never used the student loans--it's interesting. Never used a student loan--when I went to Marist College, my father picked up the tuition, and I paid my expenses. I painted houses during the summer. I made a lot of money--I mean, I was rolling in dough doing that. We had a painting crew and [did] very well… car insurance, gas money, playing around money… clothing money--that all came from me, and my father picked up the tuition at Marist and the dormitory cost, and it was nice of him to do it. So I didn't have to take a loan.

And then when I went to grad school at BU, I remember talking to my father--I said, you know, this is going to cost me a ton of money, and I don't really have it… and he said, well, too bad, I'm not going to sign a co-loan. He didn't believe in loans. So what I did there was, again, I painted houses, drove a cab--I really killed myself, and I had some savings from my… two years of teaching in Florida, but I spent every nickel--every nickel--to get through Boston University. But I did not borrow.

And then, Harvard, when I went there in the mid-90s for the mid-career program Master's in Public Administration, I had the money to pay that. [It] hurt--[it] hurt. I went from earning a ton of money at Inside Edition to writing checks to Harvard. So that was an interesting experience.

But, you know, I know there are people whose fathers won't or can't pay for their college, and they do have to borrow money. So I don't think it's a bad thing, but I think there has to be some kind of constraints on it--$1 trillion in outstanding loans? That's tough. That hurts the country.

The Chevy Volt--you'd have to be paying $12.50 for a gallon of gas to make the Volt economically worth it, because it costs forty grand, and they're doing a calculation here. Look, the bottom line here is the Volt's not worth it. It doesn't work that well, and the inconvenience of having to plug it in and all of that is just not worth it. If the product is worth it, people will buy it.

Look at "Killing Lincoln," and I'm not saying this facetiously… so I write this book, and the publisher looks at me and says, you know what, you sell millions of books on contemporary nonfiction--you're going into the history world now? You know how many history books on Lincoln been written? About 4 billion. Why is yours going to prosper? I said, "Because it's good." …I got a very paltry offer from the guys that I was working with back then, and I said no, and I went to another person, and they made a better offer, but not nearly what I was making for my nonfiction books, and I said, you know what, I'll take [my cut] on the back end, which means that you get paid for sales, because I believe it's a good product. It's a good product, and obviously I have the promotional advantage of having a TV show, but once it gets out there, I think people are going to buy it. That's exactly what happened.

If you write a dumb book and you have a TV show, you'll get an initial look at it, but then nobody will buy it, because word-of-mouth drives everything. So if the Chevy Volt were good, and people were buying it, going, "Yeah, I love this Chevy Volt," then there'd be a madness to buy it, but it's not that good, simple as that.

Nothing going on on the political front, really. Romney has now pretty much got--everybody knows that. He's probably now looking out to try to salvage some money, so he knows he's got it. He doesn't want to spend up all the money he's raised, you know, but he has to do some of that to get the delegate count. So that's what he's thinking about. Barack Obama is thinking about gas prices and trying to convince everybody he's on the case. So that's what they're thinking about.

And finally… Bill Maher used to be on the Factor, you remember that--and I used to go on his program. And for a while--I was never in agreement with Maher. He's a secularist and anti-religion guy who's increasingly become far-left in his political thinking, but there was a time when he was kind of independent politically. So, I said, you know, I'm not an evangelist; I'm not trying to convince Bill Maher to believe in God, and, you know, his politics I can have an intelligent discussion with him [about]. But he's gone way over--way, way over to the dark side, attacking people and all of that.

But he writes an op-ed in the New York Times today, saying, listen, this censorship is bad. We agree--we agree. But I think Maher is doing it more out of self-interest, because Maher wants to use all these terrible derogatory terms. This is how he gets paid. This is how he gets attention. So he doesn't want to be held to task. I think that's why he's doing this. I'm doing it as more of a constitutional marketplace-driven decision, so that's the difference, and we're not going to engage Bill Maher anymore on the program. You reach a certain point--Al Franken's reached that point, Michael Moore's reached that point. Although, Moore I would probably have a discussion with, but there are a number of people who reach that point, where, you know, it's just not worth it anymore… [the] audience loathes them, I'm not interested in talking to them--and that's where Maher is.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

2012-03-21T23:22:00Z

So some viewers and letter writers are angry because Mitt Romney has pretty much won the nomination--they don't like him. [It's] understandable; it's like your team loses in the playoffs in baseball, football or basketball--you don't like it, you're not happy, but that's the process [and] Romney won, and my job is to report [what] was happening. I think we've been very, very accurate the last four months in portraying what was happening and why it was happening. We didn't give you any phony business like a lot of the others do to keep it as a horse race. We told you from the very beginning that Mitt Romney was the favorite because of his organization and money, and that means a lot in America… that's the way it is.

Now, the saving grace is the primary systems start in Iowa and in New Hampshire where you can run with not a lot of money, as Rick Santorum did, and then Santorum built it. But, from the very beginning, it was going to be very difficult to beat Mitt Romney, so he's going to be the guy, and if Marco Rubio goes on a ticket with him, that's going to be a pretty formidable ticket. So I would say it's even money then [in that case]. And Rubio has got to make the decision. He said he wouldn't with me, but Krauthammer believes that he will when pushed--he will take it.

A bill designed to give President Obama more tax revenue from the wealthy--the so-called Buffett rule, that people earning more than a million a year would have to pay a certain amount, no matter what they earned it from… if that rule went into law, which I don't believe it will, but if it did, that would raise $31 billion over 11 years, which is nothing, because there just aren't that many people in the high tax brackets. OK?

People like me--I'm paying already, through the nose. I just got another tax bill yesterday, you know? And it's a lot--you get state, I get state, New York State--I get local. My property taxes [are] about $30,000 [a year], and I don't live in a mansion… I have a 1-acre property. It's a nice house, not a lavish house--$30k [that] I've got to pay in property taxes. So, I mean, come on, telling me I don't pay my fair share is insane, but that's what they're doing, because they want people who don't like the rich to obscure the chaotic way the Obama administration is running the economy.

Newt Gingrich has more debt than cash on hand--he's done. The Speaker's finished [and] he knows it. It's a matter of… him struggling through the rest of the week to Louisiana, and then I don't know what happens after that.

Now here's something interesting. Robert De Niro made a joke--he was speaking at a Barack Obama fund raiser where Michelle Obama was in attendance, and he said to the crowd, "Do you think the USA is ready for a white First Lady?" And now people say it was inexcusable, the First Lady said she was offended, inappropriate… I just thought it was a dopey joke… I mean, Robert DeNiro, he's not exactly Robin Williams out there with the jokes, you know what I'm talking about? I'm sure De Niro is sitting there going, "You talking to me? You talking to me?" People get offended by the weirdest stuff. That didn't offend me at all, but that's me, I don't get offended very easily.

…Ron Paul was on Jay Leno--talk about a lot of laughs--and said that Secret Service protection is a form of welfare. He doesn't like it, he doesn't want it, because it costs the taxpayers money to have Secret Service agents running around protecting these guys. You know, OK, look--it's a dangerous world. There are a lot of cranks. The government wants to keep things under control, so Secret Service is necessary. Yes, it costs us some money, but it is certainly money well spent, Congressman Paul. Twilight Zone, anybody? You bet.

Monday, March 19, 2012

2012-03-20T00:43:00Z

I felt sorry for Kathy Areu tonight, because she's a very nice woman, and we don't use her all that much, and she's usually pretty sharp, but tonight she came in unprepared to the Factor. Now, let me just walk you through this, and this is what happened. So she comes in and she's told by the… story coordinator, look, O'Reilly's going to bring out the fact that you've got Rosie O'Donnell, Anjelica Huston and Anita Dunn, three liberal women with high profiles, rallying behind this Sandra Fluke, and their basic reason to rally is that women's reproductive rights are being threatened, so you can expect O'Reilly to challenge that premise.

OK, so that's what the guests are told--this is the area we're going to talk to you about, you can expect Bill to challenge you, and thanks for coming on, good luck. So most of the guests bring in something, because they know by now--she's been on the program before--that I'm going to say, if they make a contention, as Kathy did, that Republicans are trying to roll back birth control access, then I'm going to say, well, give me an example of that.

So when she started to go to Republican candidates, and I said, well, give me one example of Mitt Romney saying anything anti-women--she expanded it out of contraception into anti-women--and she couldn't, so it was game over. It was like a prize fight, you know, when you come out and you're dancing around, you're jabbing and you're jabbing, and all of a sudden, boom, the guy's on the floor. That's what happened.

Now, I saved Cathy because I like Cathy, in the sense that I didn't say, ah ha, you didn't have the answer--I could've gloated, but I'm 6' 4", she's 5' 1"--come on, you know? And I like her, so then we moved ahead quickly, but the argument was shredded, which is the importance of the segment. There is no assault on women's reproductive rights--I don't even know what that means, anyway. There is no cutback in access to birth control… and then she said Bush cut it back, and I'm going, "What?" But [she meant] in Africa… number one, President Bush gave more money to combat AIDS and other diseases in Africa than any president on earth who has ever existed.

Number two--I don't know if that's true, but I think what happened was during the Bush administration there was a law passed that if you were doing abortions you couldn't get US taxpayer money, because that's the law inside the USA. [I] think that's what she was referring to, but it's hard in these kind of generalized conversations to pin people down. But I didn't really have to, because once the Romney thing got established… it was game over.

The other thing we did tonight that I thought was fairly interesting was the acceptance of $200,000 by the MSNBC commentator. [We're] not doing [the story] out of any kind of malice, or anything like that--it's just a big number, and as I told you, journalistic standards in this country have collapsed, and this is just another example of it. So, look, you need to know these things--I don't like to do stories on the competition at all; it just helps them. They can run with it and attract attention--they don't have any viewers anyway, so we help them every time we mention them, but this was an important media story, and I thought Goldberg handled it pretty well.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

2012-03-16T01:28:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News. 15^th of March, days before St. Patrick’s Day. They’re already celebrating here in New York City. I went into one of my favorite haunts last night – Langan’s – to get some supper. Langan’s, right off of Broadway. Good Irish bar, owned by a guy from Ireland. And the place was rocking, three days before St. Patrick’s day. They’re just warming up here in New York City.

Not a lot going on right now. We’re in a lull period. Pres. Obama gave another talk on energy and didn’t say anything. He doesn’t know what to do. It’s like the BP oil spill. He didn’t know what to do. There are a few things you could do. They would torque off the oil companies big time. And no president really wants to do that. But I think you go after the speculators, as we talked about in “Is It Legal.”

But the president is now threatening to release some of the oil reserves that we have, thinking that might drive the price down psychologically. It’s not a bad bluff. You know, you’re bluffing the speculators to start and sell short. If he releases some of the oil it doesn’t hurt us, but it’s not really going to have much of an effect on your local gas station. The prices are fixed anyway. I tried to tell Stossel that, and I’m not getting anywhere.

Other than that it’s a bunch of small-ball stuff. David Axelrod, the campaign chairman for Barack Obama now is not going to appear with Bill Maher. One of the good things that’s come out of this is that people like Bill Maher who are over the top and haters, you know, they’re on notice. They’re certainly on notice. The right wing guys too. Rush Limbaugh, he got hurt. He got hurt. And he’ll come back. His audience is loyal, and his station group is going to hold firm. The advertisers will come back.

But I think the civility has to go up. It couldn’t get any lower. But it’s going to be a vicious campaign, no doubt about it. So we’ll be following it for you.

One of the intriguing stories we’re following, and we will report on it as soon as we get hard data, is who is the Sergeant who killed the 6 Afghan civilians, 12 of whom were women and children? Who was this guy? How can any human being do that? Obviously the guy flipped, lost his mind. But were there signals to that? He’s a sergeant. They’re not releasing his name. He’s in Kuwait now, at the big American base there. He’s coming back to Fort Lewis in Washington where he’ll be tried. He’s going to be found guilty. He will serve life in Leavenworth, I believe.

But the guy is a family man. He’s got a bunch of kids. We’ve got to trace it. Did they know this guy was unstable? What was he doing there? All of that. That’s very important. Because we’ve had hundreds of thousands of American troops perform nobly and honorably in that theater, and one guy – one – does this. And a few months ago there was another thing where they were urinating on corpses.

You’re always going to have that in any organization. You’re going to have a few guys that just are – you saw that at Abu Ghraib in Iraq – you’re always going to have a few. But in cases like this it gets hyped up and effects the whole country. What this sergeant did effects every part of what we’re trying to do in Afghanistan. It’s amazing, but it’s true. The good news is in Afghanistan itself there’s no media. It’s word of mouth. There’s no radio, TV, nationally. They don’t have electricity. That’s how primitive the place is. Forty years life expectancy there. But word does get around. And obviously America is at a crossroads in the place, as we said.

So we’ll be reporting more on that. We thank you for being Premium Members, and we’ll see you again tomorrow.

Friday, March 9, 2012

2012-03-15T03:34:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for the 14^th of March. Tomorrow is the Ides. What happened on the Ides of March? What happened? Julius Caesar, assassinated in Rome, when his friend Brutus turned on him, along with a whole bunch of others. Not a good thing. So therefore “beware the Ides of March” which was said to Caesar by a soothsayer, and that’s how that came into being.

Okay, now on the news front, this is interesting, and it’s just my opinion, and I could be wrong. The big headline last night was that Rick Santorum was the big winner in the Alabama and Mississippi votes. But he really wasn’t. Because when you throw in Hawaii, Mitt Romney won the most delegates. But very very few reported that. Very few.

Now, my contention is that the left wing media, which dominates on television in particular, wants to damage Romney because they believe he will be the ultimate candidate. Therefore they set him up as a loser. Because if you look at the popular vote, Romney was very close in both states. It was very very close. And they are very conservative states, particularly in a Republican primary dominated by committed right wing people.

Now I’m not rooting for Romney, and I’m not telling you anything that isn’t true. But when I see the coverage I say “Hmm, this is pretty interesting. The left wing media wants to portray Romney as a loser because they believe he will be the nominee based upon the delegate counts, which are going to go his way starting in Illinois, and California, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York – all of those will likely go Romney’s way. If they don’t, if he gets bushwhacked in Illinois, then all bets are off.

Now you’ve got to give credit to Rick Santorum. The guy is waging an excellent campaign in my opinion. Energetic, straight to the point, connecting with the regular folks. You know, he gets mired down in these social issues, which is a mistake, but everybody makes mistakes, particularly at that level when you’re under tremendous pressure and they’re coming at you from every direction. So I really admire Rick Santorum’s campaign.

Newt Gingrich I do believe is a vanity run now. It’s something that the Speaker wants. We know he doesn’t like Romney, but getting out actually hurts Romney, because then conservative people would coalesce, you would think, around Santorum. But Gingrich is staying in for the time being. I believe if he doesn’t win Louisiana I think he’ll get out. I could be wrong on that. But it doesn’t make much sense for him to stay in. He knows he can’t win. And he’s not going to win. It’s like Ron Paul. But Ron Paul is not a factor. Gingrich is.

So there you go. Nothing really changed last night. But the press is really spinning the story toward Santorum, and you know they despise him, but they’d much rather hurt Romney at this juncture, because they believe that he will be the nominee against Barack Obama.

Afghanistan continues to be chaotic over there. And I’m going to have my commentary. I’m still getting data on it. But I think a tipping point has been reached. And I don’t think we can hang on over there the way we have been. I think we’re going to have to change strategy, and the Afghans are just going to have to fight their own battles to a greater extent than they have been.

I don’t think we pull out, I don’t think we do anything panicky, but those people over there, don’t want us there. They don’t.

And finally, I had a nice trip to Florida. We did four shows in two days. And the folks were great. It’s good to talk to the folks, to find out what they like and don’t like about The Factor, what they think is important. Economics, of course, dominated. Not too much social issues. I was surprised. Nobody saw that HBO show on Palin. I asked all the audiences. Nobody watched it. I did. And I’ll give you my opinion tomorrow night on it.

Gotta run now because we’re doing a live show and I don’t want to screw it up, you know?

Okay, this is the No Spin News. You are great for being Premium Members. Talk to you tomorrow.

Friday, March 9, 2012

2012-03-10T01:03:00Z

So we wrapped up our Sandra Fluke coverage, and I don't think we're going to do much more, unless, you know, there's some big deal, but I think she'll probably fade into obscurity now, and I hope you guys realize that we broke the story of the story, and that this was a political operation, she was an operative. Mr. Limbaugh fell into a trap that elevated her to an extent she never would've been considered for, but the fact remains that she was run by very powerful people, and now she winds up in the hands of Anita Dunn, the former White House communications director, at a PR agency. So I think we did very, very good reporting, which is why I hope you're Premium Members and watch the program.

77% of those voting in a Super Tuesday state say rising gas prices will be an important factor in their vote. That does not bode well for Barack Obama, although I do believe that, you know, because these prices are manipulated, they will be manipulated downward fairly soon. [There's] a lot of power involved here, and the oil companies know they're scraping up against it. They have to declare profits at the end of April. They're going to have record profits, and they'll trot out the same kind of oil company shills--"Well, our margins are just 9%." "Well, we have to take all kinds of risks." But we know what the game is. We know what's going on. So Barack Obama's caught in this, and, you know, it's going to hurt him, unless the [gas] prices come down a good buck, which I don't know if that could happen.

The US is investigating allegations that officials in the Afghan Air Force--and believe me, there are only like six of them, because it's not a very big Air Force--are running narcotics. You know, look, Afghanistan is a mess. It's always going to be a mess. It's just one of those places. The quicker we get out of there, the better. I've turned around on that--let's just get out. We can leave a big presence at Bagram and [a] big CIA presence at the embassy--yes, I would support that, but we're just not going to convince those people to do what they need to do to have a democracy.

It's not easy to have a free society. It's not easy. It's much easier to sit your house and let the fascists run the show and do what you're told. But to exercise freedom and to fight against tyranny is hard. The Afghan people are not going to do it, no matter how much aid we send them, or encouragement, or whatever--they are not going to do it.

One of the reasons is life expectancy is about 40 years old in that country, so all these people want to do is have a couple of good meals and maybe a few laughs before they're out of here. And they don't have [a large amount of] time to, you know, get involved with big concepts like democracy. Now, you might say if they ever did wise up and did have a country that was developing in a free marketplace, than their life expectancy might be 70 years old--so they might benefit from it, okay? But that does not seem to be happening there.

There's a bunch of other little stories floating around [that] we're going to tell you about next week--nothing of great importance. Rick Santorum is favored in the Kansas caucus tomorrow; the others aren't even campaigning there. [It's] not very important. The polls, though, in Mississippi and Alabama, as I said, surprised me--Romney's running pretty tight there. I thought Romney'd be way behind in those states, but he's running competitive. I don't know whether that's going to hold on Tuesday, but if it does, [it'll be] very good news for him, despite what Dr. Krauthammer says.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

2012-03-09T00:10:00Z

One story that I did not cover this evening from the Washington Post… it says that the Obama administration gives jobs to big fundraisers, and than they run down of all the people who have given the president donations [or] bundled donations for him. 24 of them have been given posts like foreign ambassadors, cabinet positions--Eric Holder being the most famous, attorney general.

Now, this is not unusual, right? Most presidents do this, and I say to myself, alright--and we had a debate among the Factor staff--I said, okay, well, look, yeah, he does it, but everybody did it. Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson--I mean, you can go way, way back. If they give them money, then they get a job, OK? But my staff said… President Obama promised to change things, transparency, new wind, new this, new that, so we should do it.

Now, you know what I said? I said, does anybody still believe that after three years? And I'm not being cynical now, but there's no transparency to the Obama administration. He's running it the way George W. Bush ran his, and Bill Clinton before him, and then Bush the elder, and then Jimmy Carter, and then Ronald Reagan. [It's the] same thing. Does anybody believe that there is hope and change and transparency in this administration? So, I mean, it would be me flogging the obvious here. And it's kind of dry, and I don't know. So that's why I didn't do it. Maybe I made a mistake.

The other story that is floating around is this Andrew Breitbart website tape of Barack Obama in the early 90s sticking up for some radical professor at Harvard. You know, OK, but what does it mean? [It was] 20 years ago--yeah, I mean, the guy is a progressive liberal, and he's sticking up for a liberal professor [on the tape]. Is the professor a felon? Did he do anything? Is he a member of the Symbianese Liberation Army? No, he's just some guy who was a left-wing fanatic. How many professors are like that?

So, again, I leave this kind of stuff to others' more ideological programs, and the reason I do it is because I've got so much to report to you. Look--look at the [Sandra] Flock situation. We're fleshing this out. We're telling you that this is an organized deal. This is a big story. Look at the energy price story we did tonight, laying that out--look, with all due respect to Mr. Obama, he doesn't have a clue on how to run an energy policy. He doesn't know anything--he's still staying [that] if we have all this alternative fuel, it'll bring down the price of oil. No it won't! And he's investing hundreds of billions of dollars in all of these crazy schemes, and none of them work! That's important. Some tape from 20 years ago about Barack Obama with an Afro screaming about some crazy left-wing Harvard professor? Not on my radar. So I just figured, you know, you guys as Premium Members, you know what we do here, so I've got to explain it to you.

Some big solar storm is heading for the USA. I guess we're all going to be dead tomorrow--I'm not sure. Some Northern lights thing. I'm not a big scientific guy here, but they say it's 4,000,000 mph, particles are coming, and I don't know. It sounds ominous, but I think what I'll do is go to sleep and miss it, and then when I get up, if I have to go shovel the driveway or something, then I'll do that, but I can't get too excited about this stuff in space. I like space--I don't want to go there, but I like it… when aliens come, I will have the first interview, I guarantee you, because it would want to be on the highest rated show--any alien with any PR savvy is going to be wanting to come on the Factor, right?

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

2012-03-08T00:06:00Z

Joe the Plumber, huh? [That was] pretty interesting--it's going to be a tough race for him. It's a liberal area, but good for him--good for him Samuel Wurzelbacher. You know, he put his money where his mouth is, running for office. We think that's a good thing, and congratulations. So he'll be on the ballot in November against a very liberal Democrat in Ohio's Ninth Congressional District [against] Marcy Kaptur. She defeated our pal Dennis Kucinich, so Kucinich is out, after a long, long time in Congress--eight terms, I think? So that's what happened on the local front.

Nationally you know--I don't have to go over it again. I thought we had pretty good analysis tonight.

My newspaper column tomorrow is--I think you're going to like it. I'm going to keep it as a surprise, but I do want you guys to tune in tomorrow night and dial that column up.

Now, other than that, there's not really much going on, except for Iran, which I really haven't covered, other than with Hunt and Peters about a week ago, and we kind of did a cross-pollination with Afghanistan and the craziness that's going [on] there.

Here's my take on Iran, so you know. I think it's coming to a head. I think Israel is basically saying to Mr. Obama, look, you take care of it, or we're going to take care of it. So we'll give you a few more months, but if summer rolls around and these guys are still carting uranium in there and trying to gin this up, then we're going to bomb them, and that's it.

Now, this is fraught with unintended consequences, because oil prices will go through the roof, and that'll hurt everybody's economy, including ours, so that's number one. And number two, you don't know now the Muslim world will react. Iran doesn't have a lot of friends, but, you know, you bomb a Muslim country, there come the dead babies out, the women wailing, you get it, you know it. You know, you burn inadvertently some Korans, and you've got people shooting each other and blowing each other up in Afghanistan. Imagine if you have B-52s going over and leveling a couple of towns. So you've got a specter of disaster there.

That being said, I mean, President Obama can't let Iran progress much further in this area. Now, I think he's going to try to do the two-step until the election, but if it does happen, all bets are off on everything, because we're going to be preoccupied with this--this will become an enormous issue, and the economy will be set back.

So it affects us all. We're keeping a very close eye on it. We're not going to do any speculation because it doesn't get anybody anywhere--it's a waste of your time and my time, and I'm not going to do it. But when we get hard data, we will report it to you. Fair enough?

Monday, March 5, 2012

2012-03-06T01:46:00Z

Tomorrow night we'll be off because of the Super Tuesday election coverage, and the polls that we have now show a dead heat in Ohio, but you would have to think that Romney has the momentum there because he's caught up so fast with Rick Santorum. Gingrich and Paul are pretty much out of it.

[In] Georgia, Gingrich has a big lead, so you've got to figure he's going to win there. As mentioned, Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia are all Romney states. North Dakota--I don't know. Idaho, I figure Romney is going to win there… Alaska, I don't know. I think that Santorum has his best shot in Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Ohio, as I said, I think Romney's going to pull it out there.

So, you know, if that happens, and that's the likely scenario, then Romney becomes the prohibitive favorite unless something screws up--he'd have to screw up himself.

…we gave you the skinny on this birth control, contraception business. Interestingly enough, the left is very energized about this story. You can see increased ratings at the liberal TV outlets, whereas conservatives and independents don't really care about it very much, so our ratings are the same, pretty much, or down a little bit. There's no drive right now to hear about politics on the right--none. So I think you guys are kind of fed up with the Republican system, tired of it already--too many debates, too much wind, too many back-and-forths, whatever it may be. You're out of there. Now, you guys will come back when it gets more defined, but right now, the left-wing media is getting most of the action. [There's] nothing anybody can do about it. I mean, I put on a pretty decent program, I think, every night, [with a] lot of diversity in it. We tell you the important stuff going on, and you either choose to watch or you don't. But entertainment programs like NCIS and American Idol, The Voice, things like that--they are doing very, very well, whereas cable news [ratings are] middling… no drive into cable news right now.

I thought there would be a little bit around Super Tuesday--I thought politics would… ramp up a little bit. Zero, nothing. So, you know, whether people are fed up, discouraged, cynical--I don't know. I don't know what it is. All I can do is give you the best show that I've got, and I do that.

Today's show was very, very good. I thought it was right on the mark, and if you paid attention to what we were saying, it is a very interesting situation that the Democrats have managed to [put together]--they didn't do anything untoward, unless… you don't like their policies… but in their strategy, they just got really lucky, but whoever thought it up in the first place and put that player on the field--Sandra Fluke--that's [a] pretty interesting situation, because President Obama was getting his butt kicked, and now he has momentum.

Alright, now, as Brit Hume said, nobody's going to remember that in November and I think that's absolutely right, but for the first week of March, that's where we are...

Friday, March 2, 2012

2012-03-03T01:10:00Z

Let me give you some new polling numbers--[though] we're not really taking this into account too much. We think Monday the polling numbers will be clearer. This is according to Rasmussen, again a good polling agency--in Ohio, a very important state on Super Tuesday: Santorum, 33; Romney, 31; Gingrich, 15; Paul, 11. So it's a virtual tie [between] Santorum [and] Romney. I might say at this point that it's really hopeless for Gingrich and Paul on Super Tuesday--it's not going to happen. We thought there might be a surge for the Speaker, but even in his home state of Georgia he's having some problems. He doesn't have any money, so I don't think that's going to turn out too well. But again, I could be wrong, although I have not been wrong so far this year, thank God. I've pretty much called it accurately.

I can't tell you Santorum [vs.] Romney--I can tell you, though, that Romney has about three times as much money to spend over the weekend than Santorum does, and Romney can dip into his own funds anytime he wants--his hundreds of millions of dollars.

..a court in Chicago, federal court, ruled Wednesday that the cops have a right to search a cell phone without a warrant, because cell phones can be thrown away and all that, so if there is a [suspicion] of a crime and the cops are there, and they need evidence, they can seize the cell phone and check it… it makes sense. This new technology… is going to hamper the police and help the criminal, so you've got to use common sense here.

Now, if the police are just walking down the street and grab your cell phone, and you aren't doing anything, you have no record, and you're not acting suspiciously, then I think you have a situation where you could have a lawsuit against them. But if you are acting in a way that suspicious and the police can prove it, and they grab your cell phone as evidence, then I think the judges should allow it. So I'm big on privacy--I don't want cell phones being used by the authorities in any way, but in the commission of a crime, or if a crime is suspected, that's a whole different deal.

OK, let's get to [tonight's] Talking Points Memo. I see the bigger picture here on this Sandra Flock--she's an activist, a woman who went to Georgetown with an eye on changing the social fabric of that university. It's a liberal university anyway, even thought it's a Jesuit school. She's articulate; I don't think that this woman is a bad woman. She's making her case persuasively to some people. But let's face it: this is all about the nanny state running wild.
You know, for decades, men and women both, bought their own birth control, and those who didn't paid the price. And even if you mandate that birth control is free, you're still going to have unwanted pregnancies, because people get drunk, they do different things--some people want to get pregnant. There's all kinds of different circumstances. But here's the real deal. Any woman can get birth control free. Walk into Planned Parenthood--they'll give it to you, and that's the way it should be.

If the feminist movement, the progressive movement, feels that strongly, that birth control should be free, well, fund it privately. There are tons of places you can do that, and you can walk in a pharmacy with your money and buy whatever you need to buy. So there's no freedoms being infringed upon here.

This is a ruse to just grow the government so it just pays for whatever progressive cause the liberals want, and I… don't want to pay for her recreation. You know, this is a choice she makes; be responsible. "I don't have any money, I'm a student." Well, you know, I was a student. I didn't have any money. I took care of myself and I acted responsibly. You can too, lady. So don't tell me I have to pay a higher insurance premium so you can have a good time on the weekend. That's insane, and that's the point I'm trying to make.

As far as dollars are concerned, this is not big dollars we're talking about on insurance premiums here, but it is the nanny state run wild, and I'm tired of it, and I think you are, too.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

2012-03-02T03:04:00Z

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members. Welcome to the No Spin News for March 1^st, 2012. Two months down, ten months to go. Time goes fast, that’s for sure. Winter’s over here. When I was growing up we used to play ice hockey on the ponds from about December 20^th to February 25^th. February 25^th, we had ice until then.

Now, there wasn’t one day this winter we had ice. So, Al Gore, huh? Not one day could you skate on a pond here in New York area. But anyway, back then February 25^th was the drop dead winter date. After that, temperatures would be over freezing pretty much every day.

Now, March 1^st rolls around and it’s spring. So winter’s over already. It’s crazy.

Okay. The show tonight, we’re trying to do – there’s really nothing going on except these little stories that are, you know, interesting I think, but they’re not killer stories. And unfortunately the ratings are showing that most of America does not care much about the Republican primary. So you have Romney on, you don’t get a spike in the ratings. You have Santorum on, same thing.

The people who are Republicans, who are engaged, yeah – but the masses of people are watching American Idol, NCIS, these shows. And you’re not going to get them over with the politics. That will change, probably at the end of the summer, when the race starts to get down to “you did this, you did that.” So what I have to do now is change my reporting into setting up what the race should be about. Because neither party, I think, recognizes the danger that the country is in. You know, I feel like Chicken Little here, running around saying “the sky is falling” and everybody’s looking up and going “what are you talking about O’Reilly?” Because they don’t understand that the massive government spending is now beginning to erode all of our buying power, and you can see it in the gas – there is an element of the weaker dollar involved in these gas prices.

Now some people are trying to put the whole thing there. That’s not true. They’re deceiving you. But there’s an element of it. So that the oil sheikhs, and the oil company barons say “you know what – all the dollars that we got last year aren’t worth as much, so we need more dollars, we’re going to charge more money at the pump, and selling the barrels over in OPEC.” Now they don’t have to do that – they choose to do that because they want more money. It’s not a matter of supply and demand. The same supply is available now than was available this time last year. Yet the price is $0.40 higher per gallon.

So it’s not a supply and demand. I’ve been telling you and telling you and telling you that’s not what’s going on. It’s more of a manipulation like “We know we can get this price, and what are they going to do about it?” They being the folks. You have to buy the gas. And you don’t have any other place to go. You gotta go to the gas stations that are in your town. It would be like every supermarket getting together and saying “You know what? We’re going to charge $4 more for every piece of meat we sell. All of us.” And immediately the price of meat goes up $4, and you’re looking around for an alternative grocery store and you don’t have any. Now if one grocery store says “We’re going to sell steak at $4 more a pound, you go to Costco. You go to Walmart, and they’ll undersell. You go on the internet to the steaks there. They have some good steak places on the internet. And they’ll undersell. So they can’t do that.

But for gas there’s no alternative. You have to buy at the gas stations. There’s no place else to go. So that’s why they can jack the prices up to any level they want, and it doesn’t really matter how much supply is around. And then they ship it off to China, they do this, they do that, in case Americans are cutting back – and they are – on gas purchases. You have to if you’re on a budget. But the oil companies don’t care. They say “Whatever we don’t sell, we’ll send to China or India. We’ll send it down to the third world. They’ll buy it. We don’t care. We’re not going to lower prices to encourage you to buy more oil, because what we don’t sell we can sell overseas.”

So we’re hammered. We’re trapped. And all of this goes into lack of leadership. So Pres. Obama, is he being proactive in trying to get the oil companies to be reasonable? I guarantee you when the oil company profits come out in a couple of weeks, record profits. I guarantee it. And we’re all going to be sitting around, and then the oil company apologists are going to run out “Oh, but the margin of profit isn’t that big.” Who the deuce cares about the margin of profit? When you control the market it doesn’t matter whether you’re making 3 cents on the gallon or 10. If you’re selling gazillions of gallons, you still have more money than you ever had before. See, all of this is smoke and mirrors.

And a true leader says to the folks “Look, we’ve got a situation. We know you’re getting hurt. And I’m going to do everything I can as president to try to get these oil prices under control, and get them to go back down again. And I’ll cut a couple deals that I have to do. If I have to release some reserves I’ll release some reserves. If I have to make some deals on exporting, I’ll do that.” That’s what you need. Because then psychologically the speculators say “You know what? We’re at the top of the market.” And they’ll start to sell short. And then the price comes down. But you don’t have that leadership.

So I’ve taken a lot of flak on this. But it’s okay. I don’t mind it. I really don’t mind it. And now my phone is ringing, so I gotta go. So thanks for being Premium Members and we’ll see you tomorrow.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

2012-03-01T01:19:00Z

So what'd you think of Mitt Romney on the program tonight? He's a little stiff, but he's always going to be that way, and I don't think that disqualifies anybody from public office--being stiff. Certainly Barack Obama's a better presenter, but if you listen to what Romney says, even though he says it over and over again and he doesn't use flamboyant language, he's basically telling you that, look, he is capable of figuring out complex economic solutions to the problems that we have in the modern world--massive debt, changing economy from manufacturing into cyberspace, and all of that.

[He also] doesn't believe Barack Obama has that skill set, so that's what he's selling. Now, for conservatives who really, really want an ideologue in the White House, that's frustrating, but I've got to tell you guys, it's not going to happen--not this time around. I get letters from conservatives [that say], "Well, I won't vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstances." [It's] certainly your right to do that, but then you would have to live with Barack Obama for four more years, and when the president doesn't have to run for reelection--you know, the constraints are off--Barack Obama's already very, very left wing [and] he would be more so, in my opinion. So that's what you're facing.

Now, I don't root for anybody, as you guys know, and I'm going to give everybody a fair cut in the election, so I'm not going to go in and say Barack Obama's an incompetent. I'm going to say, I'm not happy with the debt--that's honest. I'm not happy with it, and I don't see any solutions from the president--zero solutions. I'm going to tell you that. But if Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, whoever it may be, comes in and does something dopey, I'll tell you that too. I know that frustrates a lot of people who want The Factor to be rooting--we're not going to root.

Here's the interesting thing about this. All of the ideological cable television news programs, from the left and the right--all of them--do not have anywhere near the ratings the Factor has. So while I may frustrate some people, I think millions of Americans admire the fact they can tune [into] this program and get an honest play. You might not agree with it, but you know it's honest--there's no agenda. We're not trying to do anything other than give you information that we feel is necessary and accurate, of course.

So, you know, look, I don't like getting mail that says, "O'Reilly, you're this, you're that…" I mean, nobody likes that. …I've been doing this 15 years, so I'm used to it, but I'm happy and I'm pleased that our presentation is crisp. You saw when… I interviewed Mitt Romney tonight, I have a good report with the governor. I gave him a little jazz when he's boring at the end; I gave him 30 seconds at the end to do… his little plug, because he was nice enough to come on in the middle of the day [since] we had to tape that interview a little bit earlier… I'll do that for Barack Obama, too, if he comes on, but then I'll give him a little jazz… to let you know that what we do has a purpose here.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

2012-02-29T05:19:00Z

We broke this story about Ben and Jerry's funding the occupiers. It's a more important story than you would first think, because these people are going to cause trouble this summer, and Glenn Beck might be right about this. Now [they're] getting some money behind them; they're paying them out there to basically interrupt Republican gatherings and and create chaos on the street. Now, I think that'll work against the Democratic Party myself, but obviously Ben and Jerry's, and the people behind them, don't.

Now, I didn't name these people on the air because they're kind of small--I don't know who they are--but the other people trying to raise money are Dal Lamagna, founder of the company Tweezerman--never heard of it. Entertainment industry executive Richard Greenfield--I don't know him--and Danny Goldberg, who was a rock manager. He managed the band Nirvana. So they're all going to put big money behind this, along with Judy Wicks, founder of the White Dog Café in Philadelphia. Again, I don't know any of these people, but you might.

So we're going to keep a close eye on that, and Ben & Jerry's? You know, look, you want to do that, fine, but then you're afraid to come on the program and answer questions? So I don't have any respect for you, and I will never buy a Ben & Jerry's product again.

Now, I don't say that on the air because I'm not the business of boycotting anybody. The last time I did that was with Ludacris and Pepsi, and I really felt strongly that Pepsi was embracing this kind of a culture that was hurting children. You know, we won that, but we lost the war, because these guys have now been mainstreamed--these gangsta rappers--and there's just nothing you can do about it, but I don't want to be in a position of telling you what ice cream to buy, and stuff like that. You can make your own determination, but I feel, because you're Premium Members, I'll tell you that I'm not going to buy anymore. Because what if some cop gets killed, or somebody gets hurt? I'd lay it on Ben and Jerry's, if they're paying these thugs.

[A] survey by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation focusing on African-American women [says]… heavier black women have higher self-esteem. Wow. So it doesn't really matter what weight you have, it's all upstairs in your head. I like that. You know, I always say you have the freedom to look like you want to look. I think you should take care of yourself, because if you don't, then I might have to be paying your medical bills--you know, people who are smoking, and all of that. If you don't have enough money to buy your own… health insurance, then who does it come back to? [The bill] comes back to other people, and I think you've got to think about that.

Interestingly enough, this year… I'm changing my diet, because I was eating too much sugar, and a few friends of mine got diabetes as I got older, and I said, you know what, I'm a big cupcake, ice cream guy, cookie guy--I'm going to try to cut that out. So it's Lent, and I gave it up. Now, this is what happened… so guess who sends over the best tasting cupcakes in the world to my desk yesterday? Lorne Michaels, the Saturday Night Live producer--"Bill, thanks for being on the show; here in the most delicious cupcakes in the world, ever made, ever created--here they are, right in front of you, two inches away."

Now, you're telling me there's no devil? You're telling me that you don't believe in Satan? Are you telling me that? That's exactly what happened, so here I am in Lent, giving up all the sweets, not eating any sugar, and then marching into my office, right on my desk, the most delicious cupcakes in the world. That's number one.

Number two--last week I'm in LA [at a] nice dinner at the Tower Restaurant, some trendy place on Sunset Boulevard… [I] don't order dessert, nobody orders dessert at the table. We're just getting up to leave, and here comes the chef… "Mr. O'Reilly, big fan--here are some cookies on the house, the most delicious cookies ever made. Here they are!" [And he] hands them to me.

So now, you're telling me that there's no devil? So I'm thinking about Jesus in the desert, because this is what Lent is--the 40 days, 40 nights and… all of the temptations that [he experienced]. Now I'm not comparing myself, obviously, to the deity in the Christian sect, but isn't it funny? Isn't it funny? I betcha that happens to you, too--that you do something or you give up something or you're trying to get away from something, and right in your face, through no fault of your own [is the thing you're trying to avoid]. But I didn't eat the cupcakes, and I didn't eat the cookies. I didn't--didn't do it. I'm proud of myself.

Friday, February 24, 2012

2012-02-25T04:26:00Z

We had a good week here in LA--we got a lot accomplished. I think we brought the debate about gas prices to the fore; everybody is talking about it. I think we framed it properly, I think we told you the truth. A lot of people are surprised about me contending that we the people own the oil in America, and I didn't think that that was a big controversial subject.

When this republic was founded, it was founded for the citizens that were living here in the thirteen colonies, and basically, the land that was available was given to them. People didn't buy land when they came here from England and other European countries. They got in their little wagons and they went and said, "I like this, I'm taking it." That's how the whole country was settled. And then, as the population grew and grew and grew, states were formed, and the states took some land for themselves... and it was never controversial. And then when the land was pretty much formalized, where you said, "OK, this is my land, I have a deed"--by the way, I have Daniel Boone's deed to his property in Kentucky, signed by Daniel Boone (I hate to digress, but I thought that was pretty interesting)--anyway, the basic premise of the country was [that] we the people own the land, and then when they made the international treaties, twelve miles of ocean offshore. And then we elect government officials to administer the land for us on a federal level and on a state level, and then they use our tax money to keep it up. And then, when the motor was invented, we needed oil, so oil companies were formed, and they got into partnerships with the USA--why? Because the oil companies didn't have any right to go and drill all over the place, because it wasn't their land. Whose land was it? Your land! My land! "This land was made for you and me," as Woody Guthrie once wrote.

So now I'm bringing that back, and people are going, what? It's my land? So I was happy to hear Lou Dobbs tonight expound upon that, because it changes the equation. If you have a delicatessen or a restaurant, we don't have any stake in that--we the people--[it's a] private enterprise. They do what they want, they sell their stuff. Clothing store, sporting goods store--whatever it may be--we have no stake in that. However, when the government forms a partnership and issues a permit for anybody to do anything on land in the United States or twelve miles offshore in the ocean, then we have a stake in it. It changes the equation.

So I'm happy we could get that point out. I hope you guys see [it] the way I do. Most of the mail has been supportive, but I would say there's? 40% of the people who are writing me are going, "Well, you're being unfair," and some articulate that I'm being unfair to the oil companies or being unfair to the Republican Party which wants to drill, drill, drill, but I'm trying to be as fair as I can possibly be, with an eye on making sure that your life isn't devastated by this oil price craziness. I mean, that's my primary concern.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

2012-02-24T04:39:00Z

Only 4.5 million people… watched the CNN debate [last night]. The problem with the debates now is they're boring. The highlight of all of the debates was Newt Gingrich wailing on the press and wailing on… [John King]. That was it. And from then on, it's [been] downhill, and so people aren't going to watch them anymore. They're not.

What, then, you have is a vacuum… a lot of folks watch The Factor--we do 5 million a night, in that range--that's a lot of folks, but there's 320 million people in the country. Now, a lot of our stuff is seen on the Internet, so many, many more people know what we're doing than actually watch the show, but when you look at the aggregate, Mitt Romney nobody knows. Rick Santorum, nobody's heard of him. Ron Paul, they know a little bit, [and] Newt Gingrich, they know him--but his negatives are in the 60s. So we didn't even spend much time on the Speaker tonight, because it looks like he's toast, and I don't see how he's going to come back, because last night he was strangely passive at the debate. I think he's resigned that he's not going to get it. That's what it looked like to me. I've known him for a long time--I thought he would be much more aggressive in his presentation, but he was kind of… laying back, and that was his last shot. That was it. So he didn't really shake it up--nobody's talking about Newt Gingrich today, to be fair.

But I'm more concerned about President Obama. I don't know what he's thinking. And I pride myself with kind of knowing why they do what they do in the political world. You know, he gives this speech in Miami about oil prices, and he doesn't have any solutions for oil prices. What does he think people are going to say? Now, I know nobody's going to watch the speech, and I know the liberal media's [going to] give him a pass, but still, every time you go to the gas station and you pay $60, $70, who are you going to blame? Who are you going to blame? One guy, one guy, and one guy only, and his name is Barack Obama. But the fact that the Republican… contenders… didn't seize [on] that? I was stunned.

I would've brought in a gallon of gas… I would've brought it there and put it in front of me and held it up as a prop. I might even have worn a cap--a Texaco cap or something. I would've put on a show, if I were them, to get people galvanized about this. That's the kind of issue that can sway a campaign. You need those kinds of emotional red-meat issues, not contraception--that doesn't do it. It's fine, I guess, for the press, but for the folks, they don't want to hear about it.

O'Reilly visits The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

2012-02-23T03:13:00Z

Now, last night I went on [the Tonight Show with Jay] Leno--some of you may have seen that... it's the 12th time I've done that program. I remember when I was a little kid I used to sneak down... we had a little black and white TV in the living room, and I'd sneak down about 11:30 when everybody was asleep to watch Steve Allen on the Tonight Show--I loved him, because he had all these zany characters... all these crazy guys. I just thought it was great. I guess I was about 10, maybe 9... and I never, in a million years... never, never did I ever think I would be on the Tonight Show.

In college, I was actually in the audience, and Joey Bishop was subbing for Carson, and he came up into the audience to do "Stump the Band." My friend and I, my roommate and I, we just stood up, so the camera had to see us, so he had to call on us... and I thought that was it, that was my Tonight Show experience. But twelve times I've been on the show.

Now, what happens on the Leno show is that Jay will come into the green room--and I've got to say, they're very nice there--you go to Burbank, they've got little snacks for you, sodas. It's a nice place. They give you a little present--they gave me a portable coffee machine. Of course, my first question was, what kind of a person would have a portable coffee machine? Aren't there a thousand places to buy coffee? Why would you take one? I gave it away, which is what I do when I get bak shish from anybody. Anyway--then Leno comes in, and he always wears the same outfit. He's got a work shirt, and jeans. And he comes in, he sits down, and we gossip for a little while. He used to ask me what I wanted to talk about; now he doesn't even bother doing that, because my answer is [always] "Whatever you want to talk about, Jay, I don't care. It's your show, you take it where you want to take it." And then he goes and he gets dressed up in his suit--the band is great, by the way. And then you go out after he does his two segments of foolishness, and you have a conversation with him.

So I thought it went well last night. A couple of people saw it and said it was entertaining. I never know when I'm out there--I don't know how I look, I don't know what I'm saying--it just goes so fast that you really don't know, but I think it went our way last night.

Now, the reason that I do this kind of stuff is [firstly] to promote "Killing Lincoln"--I mean, it's still on the best-seller list [at] #3 now, after 21 weeks. Thank you all very much. But the other [reason] is to brand the show. If people believe what they read in the print press and online, I'm the biggest fascist dog in the world--I mean, the show is just a right-wing hate-fest, and that's what the press puts out about The O'Reilly Factor. So the only way I can counter that for people who don't bother watching is to go on these other shows that they may watch, the entrainment shows, and come across as a reasonable guy. [As a result], they might take a look in [at our show], and then that's all dispelled. That has worked very well for us, and that's why you do The View, that's why you do Letterman, that's why you do Leno, Saturday Night Live... to raise awareness of the [Factor] brand.

Now, the Leno show is totally different from Letterman. Letterman never talks to anybody before the show--I don't think he talks to anybody during the show. Once in a while Dave and I will have a conversation about his son and my son, that kind of thing. But he's not a guy that's friendly and wants to spend a few minutes with his guests--he never does that. And then you never know where Letterman's going to go, particularly with me--Letterman wants to trip me up [and] make me look like a schmo... it's alright with me, I don't care--I mean, I usually get the better of him, I think. But I'd much rather do Leno than Letterman, because it's a much easier, more fun experience. But I will do Letterman occasionally, and again, [it's] to raise awareness and sell [my] books, whatever...

Today I'm going after the show to see... Tony and Ridley Scott, the directors... they did "Gladiator," they did "American Gangster," which I was watching last night on TNT--great movie--and they're going to do "Killing Lincoln" for the Discovery Channel. That'll be out this time next year--Presidents' Week next year... I'm the executive producer on the project, so that means that Lincoln will not be wearing a toga. We're going to do [everything] very [realistically]...

Stakes run high for Romney, Santorum in tonight's debate

2012-02-23T03:12:00Z

The big story, of course, is the debate tonight. We'll have very precise analysis tomorrow. I'm going to take the first eight minutes of the show on Thursday to go over what they did and how they did it, because this is really important, this debate. It sets up Michigan and Arizona, and Romney really has to perform well. So you can look forward to that--I'm going to put a lot of thought into it [and] try to define it a little [more clearly]. None of the polls really matter until Friday [or] over the weekend. Monday we'll probably have a clear idea of who did well in the debate.

Report: Whitney Houston death caused by overdose of prescriptions, alcohol

2012-02-22T00:42:00Z

...a report came in late this afternoon that Whitney Houston died from an overdose of Xanax, valium, and alcohol--that's not a good combo. We haven't been able to confirm it with LA authorities who are doing the testing, but... it sounds like that's it...

I didn't take as much heat as I thought I was going to take last week when I excoriated the media for pretty much looking the other way after a two-decade travesty of Whitney Houston reporting. There comes a time when the media has to basically say, "This is wrong, this is wrong," and if the media would do that, celebrities would then be shocked into either changing their behavior or at least keeping it out of sight. I mean, somebody like Lindsay Lohan who has been humiliated to the nth degree, but Whitney Houston wasn't--[the media created] more of a sympathetic portrayal of her. So, as you know, I went on the Today Show and ignited the controversy, and I really thought I was going to get it, but it's mooted--the criticism--and it's weak. It's scattered all over the place... but the basic point is that the media has abdicated all responsibility in the United States for any kind of objective reporting on personal behavior. If you're a serial killer, yeah, they'll get a little upset, but not that much--Dr. Tiller [is the] best example. The media made him a hero. This was the late-term abortion doctor who was assassinated in Kansas, and, you know, look--we know what he was doing. We've seen the reports from Kansas. $5,000? Any reason, I'll take that baby out, ten minutes before it's born--come to me, I'll do it. And then [the media] sticks up for them... I took a lot more heat on that than I did on Whitney Houston. Obviously it's a life-or-death situation, and, you know, to be fair, I didn't want anything bad to happen to Tiller as far as violence is concerned--I wanted him to go to jail. He absolutely should've been in prison, but I didn't want him to hurt, and then when he did get assassinated, you know, "Oh, O'Reilly made it happen, O'Reilly did it"--that kind of stupid stuff.

Whitney Houston--I feel sorry for her family, and I especially feel sorry for her daughter. Can you imagine being the daughter of a drug addict in the public eye for all of your [formative] years? I just can't imagine that. What kind of effect does that have on a child? And that's why I don't feel sorry for Whitney Houston... I feel sorry for her family, but, you know, she has a child. You have a child, you just don't use drugs. You stop. "Oh, yeah, it's a disease, it's a disease," yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got it... but I believe in free will. I believe anyone can overcome the disease of addiction, because millions have. You provide a ready excuse when you say "it's a disease and some people can't overcome it." I don't believe that. I don't believe it. If you're a Christian, or even if you're Jewish, you really can't believe that--or Muslim--because the theology is based on, you choose. You're not a slave to evil. You have a choice--you make the right choice, you're rewarded; you make the wrong choice, you're condemned. Those are the tenets of those religions. Now, if you're Buddhist, you don't have those judgments...

So it's a complicated thing... it's the low point of the media right now. They're not fair, they're not balanced, they have an agenda, they don't care about personal behavior that is injurious to society, and to Whitney Houston herself. I contend that if every media outlet had said to Whitney Houston, "You know what, we're not going to talk to you anymore; we're not going to pay any attention to you until you clean up, because what you're doing is wrong to your daughter." I think that would've put pressure on the woman--maybe she would've wised up. Maybe. But she had so many enablers... and look what happened, she's dead in a bathtub.

So anyway. That's the end of that story. We didn't cover it--CNN, I think they're going to cover it until Easter-time. I mean, how much more can you do? But it was fascinating for me to be in the middle of that storm to see how people reacted.

O'Reilly makes a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live

2012-02-21T02:28:00Z

[Saturday Night Live] had asked me a few years ago to host [the show], and I couldn't do it because it takes a lot of time. You've got to be over there every day for eight hours, and I've got to do this show, so I just couldn't do it. But we know Lorne Michaels is a Factor watcher, and so he called me up last week, "You want to come over and do us a favor and do this little skit?" I had to see what the skit was--I couldn't be doing stuff that's just totally disrespectful, or anything that would've been anti-Fox--but the skit was just crazy, and I thought it was pretty funny. I have people who say it was really funny, and people who go "You're a total idiot for doing it."

The reason that we do these kinds of things--Saturday Night Live, The View, Jon Stewart, even Leno to some extent--is to get The Factor brand out. We've been very, very successful in doing that, because remember, most people don't watch cable news. They're watching entertainment programming--that's our competition, not MSNBC and CNN. We crush them every night. But Dancing with the Stars and American Idol and NCIS and all of these shows--we have to compete against them, so the more people that know about The Factor and see me on [some other show]... the better it is, because everybody watches with the clicker, so we get people coming in. We catch their attention, they stay [on us] for a little while; that's the game.

So television is a heavily [marketed] situation, and that's what that was all about... now, they were very nice to us... there was one performer [who was] not nice--didn't do anything overtly... but most of them were very nice, and we were pleased with that... but I'm not going to say who it was out of respect for Lorne Michaels, who himself is very nice to us. I started watching [the show] way, way back when it first started with Chevy Chase and Belushi and Aykroyd and Gilda Radner and all of those people.

It was the first time I'd ever been there... Michaels let me sit in on the meeting between the rehearsal and the real show where they prune it down--fascinating. Fascinating how he runs the show, because I do the same thing on my show. I have to make sure that all the segments are up to [snuff], sometimes we change, sometimes we pare down. He did the same thing, so it was interesting to watch.

I didn't go to the party afterwards; I'm afraid of Justin Timberlake, I don't know who he is... no, I know who he is. But I didn't do that, because I had to come out here, to LA, the next day. Those guys party all night--I mean, the show ends at 1 AM, and then they go out and run around until 4 or 5, but I have to tell you, it's not like it used to be over there. These people are all actors--trained actors. They're not Second City people and all of that. It's a much more disciplined thing, because it's all sketch-driven.

I thought it was a decent show--there were a few laughs in that show. So we're happy we did it. We hope you didn't get offended or anything [by] it, but I figured I'd explain it to you.

Santorum's lead expands nationwide

2012-02-21T02:27:00Z

The only thing that I really need to report today are these polls that came in on the Republican side, because they don't really mean anything. Gallup had a tracking poll today that's got Santorum eight points up on Romney nationwide. But again, it doesn't mean anything because the debate on Wednesday is going to change everything...

Tomorrow night we've got Karl Rove and a few other people [to talk about this], and then on Wednesday night, a very important debate for Romney, and he could get into a trap, because Santorum and Gingrich--who I guess got a new infusion of money [from] this gambling guy, Adelson--they'll probably go after Romney, so it'll be two against one (Ron Paul not a factor). But Romney's got to really stand out on Wednesday if he wants to turn it around. If he does poorly or neutral, then Santorum will likely do very well next Tuesday in the Michigan primary, Arizona also. We don't have any polling out of Arizona. Michigan is close, but Santorum has [pulled] ahead.

Now, all of this is because of fundamental conservatives, people deeply invested in the Republican party, [who] are obviously favoring Santorum over Romney. When you break out of that into the mass of the electorate, Romney will run stronger against Obama--I don't think that's going to change, because independents are suspicious of Santorum, and the press is going to brand the Senator as a religious zealot... that'll come.

Only one Republican debate remains

2012-02-18T01:07:00Z

...there's not much going on as far as politics is concerned. Mitt Romney has to be very, very worried about the debate next Wednesday night. He must do well on Ash Wednesday, because if he doesn't, that is it before Michigan votes, and if he loses Michigan decisively, Mitt Romney's in trouble.

Now, the danger for Romney is that Gingrich and Santorum might both gang up on him. Gingrich doesn't like him personally, because Romney's machine destroyed the Speaker in Florida, and Santorum obviously has to beat him one-on-one. So if you get two guys going after Romney, Romney is going to have to be quick and keep his composure. Two against one on a debate stage [is] not easy, but that's the way I see it shaping up.

I think Gingrich is going to go in hard against Romney, not Santorum. I think the Speaker knows he's finished and he's going out with a flourish. So, I could be wrong, but that's what I see.

High school student quits choir over Muslim song selection

2012-02-17T01:02:00Z

A Colorado high school student quit the choir because they made him sing a Muslim song. Do I care about that? I don't know about. I'm not real concerned about Muslim songs at this point, you know? I guess I could do these things, but to me, they don't really drive the narrative of the country, and the narrative of the country is that we're facing an election in which the Republicans do not have a real cohesive strategy yet that would provide four more years to a very progressive president who makes no disguise that he wants a western European[-style] entitlement state. That's what he wants--he wants to redistribute income, and that's what he's going to try to do. And Americans have got to make a decision... do we want that kind of country? It could go either way--it really could go either way. There's a lot of people who want stuff. They feel entitled to stuff--not just stuff from the government, but stuff in general.

...I get lots of letters from teachers who are telling me students [won't do homework]... there is a sense of entitlement--"How dare you tell me to do something. How dare I have to... do a lot of homework when I'd rather play my video games. How dare you, how dare you." And that really is seeping in--I see it... [when] you ask people to do something and they look at you like, what? I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

So that's a big theme for us. President Obama is not seeing the damage that his policies are causing... I don't think he goes home and says, "Ooh, I know I'm ruining the country." There are people who think that... I don't believe it.

Rick Santorum releases tax returns

2012-02-17T01:01:00Z

Rick Santorum released his tax returns; last year, he made about $925,000. He paid about 28% in federal income tax. I'm sure he paid more for state tax of Pennsylvania and all of that--that's about right. So there's no problem with him in the tax deal. He did that to show that he pays more than Mitt Romney paid, because Santorum's income was earned income--he was working. He worked for Fox news and did other consulting jobs. Romney's [income] was interest... and so it's taxed at a different rate. A lot of people still don't understand that.

O'Reilly, Lauer spar over Houston coverage

2012-02-17T00:44:00Z

Whitney Houston, the Today Show, all of that--the reason I am doing this is [that] I am just fed up with it, OK? I mean, we are living in a society where they are glorifying--they, the media--all of this inebriation/intoxication stuff, and kids are buying in [to it].

So, look--I don't have anything against Whitney Houston. I don't know her. I don't know Amy Winehouse, I don't know Kurt Cobain--and I don't really care, and I'm sure you don't either, but these people, what they do in public does have repercussions, and the media stands by and says, "Yeah, okay, fine. Hello, Cheech and Chong, we think you're cool, you know? Hello Willie Nelson--how many times are you going to be arrested? But we love you, Willie." And I'm saying to myself, it is the horror of addiction, if you know anyone or if your family's experienced it. I don't have to tell you, but a lot of people... don't get it, and I'm trying to bang this drum. I'm probably fighting a losing battle--I'll be attacked, of course, but I don't really care about that. But that's why we're doing this--it's not about Whitney Houston, it's about the country and how the media covers the country.

Rick Santorum leads Romney narrowly in Ohio

2012-02-16T01:18:00Z

I'm going to do politics tonight, if you don't mind, because we have a new Fox News poll that just came in late this afternoon. I didn't spend a lot of time on it [on the show tonight] because these polls are fluid. They're not going to mean very much until the next debate, which is at the end of the month, and then you have the Michigan [...and...] Arizona vote.

So what we have here is a heavy-duty Fox News survey about the Republican candidates, so let's start with a hypothetical matchup--Romney against Obama. This is a swing state survey--the 12 swing states. Obama wins against Romney, 47-39; wins against Gingrich, 52-32; wins against Santorum, 48-39; wins against Paul, 48-36. Now, does that matter? No, it really doesn't matter, because that's all going to change.

Here is the national poll: Obama against Romney, 47-42. It's close. Obama against Santorum, 50-38. Obama against Paul, 48-38. Obama against Gingrich 51-38. So in that poll, the national poll, Romney is the most competitive against the president.

President Obama's job performance, according to Fox News: 48% approve, 45% disapprove--50-50 split with a 3% margin of error.

This is the most important question: "Are you satisfied with how things are going in the country today?" 38% in the swing states say they are satisfied; 61, not. That's not good news for President Obama. Overall nationally, 65% [are] not satisfied; 34% [are]. That's the key number. So people are not real happy about where we are, and that's what's going on.

Now, among the states, Ohio [is a] very key state--Romney leads... Obama... in a fictional matchup, 44-38, and Santorum leads Obama, 43-40. That's Ohio.

These polls are all over the place. They drive you crazy. They really do, and I'll tell you why. This is like a dead time for politics right now. It'll head up in two weeks with the debate. I think the debate is on the 28th of February--I could be wrong on that... whoever does well [in the] next debate will surge, but right now people are just floating around, so they really don't know.

Rick Santorum--you've got to hand it to him. Nobody, including me, thought this guy was going be this competitive at the end of February, and Newt Gingrich--stunning decline after South Carolina. Stunning. And it just shows you how much demeanor... I think it's all the Speaker's demeanor. He got teed off, people saw it, they didn't like it. It was understandable, to me, because Gingrich was getting pounded, but he got teed off.

Now, Santorum has maintained composure throughout; [he] hasn't made any mistakes. Romney doesn't feel it--he doesn't feel it, and that's what conservatives are objecting to. He says the right things, but he doesn't seem to feel it, and I don't know if he's ever going to feel it. I don't know if he's that kind of guy. He's more of a technician that an emotional guy.

You know, when I do a Talking Points Memo on TV, I'm feeling it when I'm telling you I believe. I'm not just reading words off a page. But Romney doesn't really feel it. Once in a while he gets a little annoyed, but he's not looking at you, going, you know what, I don't like the way this country is going. I'm going to get in there and really change direction. He says it, but he doesn't say it with conviction, and that's what I think is holding Mitt Romney back.

Rick Santorum is a doctrinaire conservative. He [voted] when he was in the Senate pretty much along the Republican Party line, which means he voted for a lot of spending under George W. Bush, but he is a true conservative. I've known him for many years, and that's his belief system. But if he ever did get the nomination, I don't believe he could beat Barack Obama. Now, again, I could be wrong on that, because I've made mistakes in the past, but I don't know if this country at this point is going to elect a doctrinaire conservative. There are just so many people who are not well informed. They don't understand the difference between liberalism and conservatism, and when the media starts to demonize Rick Santorum, which they surely will, it's going to be hard, and I think Barack Obama would love to run against Rick Santorum, much more so than Mitt Romney. But no matter who runs, it's going to be close, I think--it's going to be very close.

Competition in polls stiffens between Santorum and Romney

2012-02-15T01:40:00Z

All the polls say that Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum [are] about tied now with Republican voters nationwide. That's not unusual, because Newt Gingrich has collapsed in the polls, and his support largely went to Rick Santorum. Now, when this gears up again in two weeks--the Michigan primary, the Arizona primary, Super Tuesday on March 6, three more debates coming down the road--all of that will change.

Obviously Gov. Romney has got to up his game, he's got to seal the deal--all of those clichés--because conservative Americans are not liking him. Now, if he does get the nomination, [and] I believe most conservatives will vote for him to try to get Barack Obama out of office--I don't think there's any doubt--a few hard-core [conservatives] will stay away, but not most. But Rick Santorum remains a problem for Mitt Romney--it's as simple as that.

Now, for my take here, as you know, we don't endorse and we don't root, and we don't do anything. I am befuddled--befuddled--by Barack Obama's failure to engage the national debt. So that, for me, is a huge issue, and I'm waiting for Mr. Obama to explain to me why he is not going to do that, or doesn't want to do it, or doesn't care about doing it, because... to me it's inexplicable.

So that's my beef with Barack Obama. I don't particularly like the government intrusion and the Obama-care--I think the private sector could take care of all of this stuff if well-thought-out programs were imposed. For example, you buy an insurance policy, you pay your premiums, you get sick? It would be against the law in an O'Reilly administration for the insurance company not to pay your medical bills or to try to throw you off the rolls. [That would be] against the law--they'd go to jail if they tried to do that. That's how I would handle it, rather than taking over the health industry and imposing a colossal amount of pressure on the taxpayer in order to give millions of Americans free healthcare, and that's what this is all about--the redistribution of income, which we've talked about.

Now, on the Republican side, Rick Santorum is a conservative ideologue, alright? So, can he beat Barack Obama in a nation that is becoming increasingly secular? Can he persuade non-ideological independent voters to go for him? Very tough. If Rick Santorum gets the nomination, the odds that he will beat Barack Obama are about 4 to 1. He will be where Barry Goldwater was in '64 against Lyndon Johnson--not impossible, but very, very hard.

If Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination, it's about even money right now... you look at the electoral college, you look at the states in play, you look at the money factor, you look at what Romney brings in on the economic realm, that he isn't an ideologue (even though he wants to convince conservatives he is--he isn't, we all know that)... [he's] got a better chance than Santorum [of winning in a general election]. That's not going to change, because Rick Santorum isn't going to change. He's a very, very committed conservative, and conservative voters are about 40% of the electorate, so Santorum needs another 10 to 12 [percent] to go over to his side. [It's] not going to be easy, and that's assuming he gets every conservative vote, which he's not going to, because some conservatives simply won't show up that day.

...I'm doing a technical analysis for you, because that's why you are Premium Members... the fact of the matter is that you pay for this service, and I'm going to tell you the truth whether you like it or not, and in the long run, of course, we're all better for hearing the truth.

Investigation into Whitney Houston's death remains open

2012-02-14T01:39:00Z

Whitney Houston--I saw the woman in concert on the Boston Common in the late 1980s. [She had a] tremendous voice--not a lot of stage presence. [She] looked to be a little timid; she was young at that point, you know, about 23 or [24] when I saw her. I was an okay fan--she had some good songs, [but was] not a dominant entertainment figure to me. But I like the R&B stuff, and I followed her very casually throughout the years and when she hooked up with this idiot Bobby Brown... I knew there was something wrong. You don't marry a guy like that if you've got anything on the ball at all. And then subsequently she descended into drug addiction--we've heard this story how many times before?

But it's interesting to see the reaction to the drug addiction--oh, it's a disease... we're going to do this tomorrow. There [are] some elements of disease in substance abuse--some people are more susceptible to it than others, but it's free will... you choose to do what you choose to do. You have the power to break that, or not to do it at all, as I chose not to do, because in my family there was alcoholism. I said, you know what, I don't really need this; I'm not going to get involved in that. I was an athlete... in my younger days I was playing four sports, sweating all the time... I just said, why do I want to drink--I'm training, and it's not going to do me any good, and I was very serious about my sports. So that saved me from that.

My cousin died at 42 from alcoholism; my grandfather died of cirrhosis of the liver. So it's in my family, and some people are susceptible to it from their genes, and I know that, but I don't believe that anybody is his bound to be a drug addict or an alcoholic. I don't believe that. They make the decision to do it, and so did Whitney Houston. I mean, here's a woman who had all the talent God could possibly give somebody. [She had] a tremendous amount of money, [and] when you have money, [it] gives you options--life options. You can travel anywhere, you can live in comfort, you can help other people with charity, you can start foundations, you can start businesses. [If] you have money, you can do a lot of things that can enhance your life. She chose to inebriate herself on a daily basis, I understand, and the body can only take so much, and that's what happened to her.

People who use this kind of substance could die the first time, or you could do it for 30 years, and then finally keel over, but it's going to get you. And plus, in the meantime, you're wasting your life. I'm not lecturing you, but you're wasting your life--I mean, what do you want to walk around intoxicated for? I know people who smoke pot every single day--every day they smoke pot. I know people who drink at night when they get home from work, every day, and they fall asleep because they're out. They tell me that they "self-medicate" because they have apprehension and stress and all of this, and I look at them and I say, don't you understand how this is going to take a toll on your life?

You can't get intoxicated--you can't get high every day and not think it's going to affect you. It will. It affects your personality, it affects your perception, it affects how you treat other people, your priority level... so, to me, it's a much more serious problem that I think society defines it... as I've said many times before, 75% of all child abuse and neglect [is] driven by substance abuse... [if] you have a kid and you're getting inebriated every night, there's something wrong with you... and that's flat-out it.

I feel bad for Whitney Houston and her family; I said a prayer for her, but I think she wasted it. God gives people talents and He expects that you [will] use those talents and not abuse yourself, and she did.

Conservatives see vote for Romney as vote against Obama

2012-02-14T01:37:00Z

We can see the cable news ratings--they're kind of flat right now. The Republican race is boring now; we've heard enough. It's going to be a slog out to the [Republican] convention--we figure Romney will probably get [the nomination]. Gingrich looks like he's finished. Santorum still has a little bit of life, but it looks like it'll be Romney, and the Republican Party's not greatly enthused about that, but it isn't about Gov. Romney. It's about President Obama--he just doesn't see the Colossus [of] government being the detriment that I see, and I'm basing my assessment on facts, not emotion or ideology.

So, how are you going to pay this off? Just the interest alone that the US government has to pay to sustain a $16 trillion debt puts you in more debt. You can't even raise enough revenue to pay your interest at that level--you have to borrow to pay your interest. So, I don't know. I don't know what to say. I've been doing this 15 years... I know I've told you the truth for every day I've been on the air, and this is something that is very, very intense.

Obama budget plan includes increased taxes on the rich

2012-02-14T01:36:00Z

President Obama sent [his] budget to Congress, and of course, it's not going to pass--you know the gamesmanship there, and it's kind of a boring thing on the surface, but in the context of the election, it becomes a little bit more important to your life. I'm trying to convince people to pay attention to this--I'm fighting kind of a losing battle. I know it's not exciting on the surface, but boy, oh boy, you know, when you have a fundamental system that's running up debt to the tune of $1.3 trillion a year, it's out of control, and whenever anything gets out of control, you either die--you know, if your health gets out of control, you die, a la Whitney Houston--or, if it's a country, you collapse.

I'm not kidding here. I mean, you cannot continue to run a federal government the way the USA is running... you can't. President Obama doesn't believe that--he simply doesn't believe it. I can't change his mind, and I'm trying to get people's attention, like Paul Revere... pay attention. But most people don't.

Judge tosses out PETA lawsuit alleging whales are 'slaves'

2012-02-10T00:06:00Z

The whale lawsuit--the PETA people were suing on behalf of whales, saying that they were slaves to Sea World in San Diego. [The lawsuit] has been thrown out... You've got to love PETA, though. These people have nothing to do all day, and they just sit around, "OK, now, what stunt can we do so O'Reilly will mention us?" And I fall into the trap every single time.

Report: 27% of released Gitmo detainees return to terrorism

2012-02-10T00:04:00Z

There is a report that I find very interesting--that 27% of released Guantanamo Bay detainees have returned to their terror ways. 600 have been released or transferred to other countries; 27% of those, according to the House Armed Services Committee, are back doing terror stuff.

That's a pretty big number, because they're only supposed to let go the people they're convinced are rehabbed or never did anything in the first place--pretty big number.

Biden, Daley warned Obama of contraceptive backlash

2012-02-10T00:03:00Z

Apparently Vice President Biden and former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley told President Obama, you know what, you really should give the [birth control] exemption to all of the Catholic and Christian entities like hospitals and clinics and things like that--don't force them to cover birth control, because they're going to raise the freedom of religion issue, and you're intruding on them, so you shouldn't do it. Obama says, you know what, I'm going to do it anyway.

The reason, and this is from Politico, the president overrode the vice president and the chief of staff is because Health and Human Service Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, who's also a Catholic, said no, no, no, no, this is about women's rights, which is just nonsense. Nobody's trying to deny the right of women to buy birth control... tons of clinics [including] Planned Parenthood will give it to you all day long! They'll throw it at you! So this is just crazy stuff.

Now, Sebelius is the former governor of Kansas, and she was a big protector of the abortion doctor out there--Tiller, who got assassinated... look, I'm not judging anybody, because I'm the biggest sinner on the block... but boy, if I'm a Roman Catholic and I'm protecting a late-term abortion doctor? You've got some problems--you've got some problems here, because there is no wiggle room. On birth control, there is wiggle room, as far as what is the dogma, what is the doctrine, all of that. But not abortion--that's a fundamental Christian tenet. You can not--you can not.

I know some people don't believe that, and again I'm not going to cast aspersions on them, but Sebelius? My God. And the Catholic church is very reticent [about saying] anything about public officials who do these kinds of things, as you know--some bishops will, most will not.

Ellen DeGeneres addresses JCPenney controversy directly

2012-02-09T01:24:00Z

...Ellen DeGeneres did a thing on me on her program, thanking me for sticking up for her, as I said that the Million Moms shouldn't demand she be fired. I've got no problem with the Million Moms saying, "I'm not going to go to Penney's, I'm not going to buy stuff at Penney's." I don't have any problem with that... but to go after somebody's job, an individual American's job because he or she is a homosexual, or a communist... or whatever they may be, I don't think that's right. So I did defend Mrs. DeGeneres' right to be a spokesperson. You let the marketplace dictate. [If JCPenney] is getting hammered, then she won't be there. If most Americans don't care, then she will.

So anyway, [Ellen] thanked me and offered me her Penney's discount card. And then Julie Bowen, who's an actress on "Modern Family," said she wants to make out with me because I said that.

Now, I didn't use any of that on The Factor, and I'll tell you why--and this is just for you guys... everybody [on the staff said], "Oh yeah, let's use the Ellen clip, let's use this stuff." And I said, you know what? I don't want to do that, because it makes me look like I'm pandering to these people. I have some beefs with Ellen DeGeneres. I don't know if she's promoting her lifestyle properly in front of children. It makes me a little queasy. Kim Kardashian makes me queasy, you know? I think that stuff should be private. So I didn't want to run it, because I didn't want you to think that I am pandering to them and that I like their approval. I mean, I like anybody's approval, but I don't say stuff for [approval]. I say stuff [about] what I believe, and so I didn't use it... the mail was about evenly divided on the DeGeneres thing. It was interesting to read... but I want you to make up your own mind. I said what I said because I think that all Americans have a right to work and they shouldn't be fired because they're one persuasion or another.

Santorum victories send a shock through Romney campaign

2012-02-09T01:23:00Z

Santorum [was the] big story last night, but [there was] not a lot of coverage, because the votes were so small, but it is a big story to me because it just says that Mitt Romney has not turned the corner in the sense that he cannot seem to convince most Republicans that he's got the right stuff.

Colorado's a good example--Romney won it last time, and he got 35% last night. Santorum got 40%. Missouri [went] 55% [for Santorum], Romney 25%... in Minnesota, Santorum 44%, Romney 17%, Paul got 27%. So, you know, it's a small vote--not wide--but Romney just hasn't caught on, and I think the governor has to basically look at himself and say, "Why? Why?" He's made the most progress when he goes negative against his opponents, and you can expect him to do that against Barack Obama if he's the nominee. They're good at doing that, but for him, he doesn't seem to be able to convince you that he would be a good president.

Now, I see it a little bit differently because I am in business to solve problems, not to impose an ideology. I know a lot of you feel very strongly that we have to get back to conservative principles in this country and all of that. I understand that, but to me, it's more important to have a technician in there who can get the debt down, who can have a fair budget [implemented]--stop the waste, discipline, all of that--than the culture war stuff.

I think the culture war stuff is going to take care of itself. Abortion is a good example--most Americans now oppose abortion, and I think that trend will continue, as the science tells us that at conception there's human DNA, so therefore the pro-life core is putting themselves in a very tough position to make a judgment about terminating a fetus that is human. I mean, who does that? I don't want to do that. So those are the kinds of things that I think take care of themselves.

Gay marriage... is probably an issue that's going to go the way of pluralism--not in all states. I think the Supreme Court will uphold the states' rights to have the marriage the way they want it, but I think gay marriage is here to stay in Massachusetts and other states--New York, where I am, and it's not really going to have that much of an impact. I think, you know, straights are straights, and gays are gays. I don't think there's going to be a lot of of impact on that.

But these culture war things right now in America? They're not the most important things. The most important things are getting the economy back on track, rebuilding the power of the United States, and protecting ourselves from these crazy people like Iran. ...I want a guy in the presidency who I have confidence in [and who] can do that. It's as simple as that.

Candidates campaign in Nevada as primary approaches

2012-02-03T23:11:00Z

We expect Mitt Romney to win in Nevada and in Maine in the caucuses there. I don't see anything that's going to be... significant... until Super Tuesday. That could change with something out of the blue, but all of the.things on the docket--you know, there'll be a debate... OK, we'll look in on that.

Gingrich will have to do something--he's got to pull a rabbit out of whatever hat he has, because that's his shot, the next debate. He's got to do something. And that's about it, so we get a little lull in the political thing, and President Obama is feeling good about the drop in unemployment numbers. That's going to help him--no doubt it's going to help him.

Komen Foundation backs off decision to pull Planned Parenthood funds

2012-02-03T23:10:00Z

This Planned Parenthood organization disturbs me. I think it's a ruse. What was once designed to really help women has become a political thing that uses its vast fund-raising capabilities to pretty much undermine pro-life values and other values, and I think it is very destructive. I gave you my reasons personally why I don't do the pro-choice... reproductive rights business because spiritually I just can't justify it. But I'm not going to tell you what to do spiritually--I'm not going to do that.

However I want you to respect my point of view, and I respect the other points of view that disagree with me, but they really don't have much when you point out the scientific things have been put forth--the DNA on conception, that it's a human. "Well, I don't think it's a human being until it's viable." Well, who are you? Who are you? The science says it is, with human DNA. So that's the kind of thing I would never want to explain--if there is a deity and he is judging my conduct on this earth, how arrogant. So you've got to, I think, side on the basic science of it all, and that's what I do.

I don't want to see fetuses destroyed. I don't think that gets anybody anywhere. I understand the pain that unwanted pregnancies cause--rape and incest and all of that. I think it has to be a case-by-case [basis], but generally speaking, people like Planned Parenthood who actively encourage people to have abortions? I think that's wrong, and I don't want my money going for breast cancer research and prevention going into an organization like that, and that's what it's about. But the secularists won, because they have the media and they were able to get the Internet chaos going, and... the Komen society couldn't stand up, or wouldn't stand up. I know what's going to come my way after I deliver these commentaries, but I... think they should have stayed where they were. I don't think they should've capitulated, but they did.

Soccer riot in Egypt leaves at least 74 dead

2012-02-03T02:43:00Z

And finally, 74 people killed in Egyptian soccer riots. And I hate to say this, because I've been to Egypt, and it's a beautiful country, and I enjoyed myself there - but it shows you that life is cheap in these countries. Life is cheap. You've got to be really, really careful, because people, their value system is much, much different than it is here in the West. And I can tell you, being somebody who's traveled to 75 countries, that's pretty much the way it is in the third world. Life is not as valued as it is in the more developed countries. And there's many, many reasons for that. But Egypt was under control. And as much as Mubarak was a villain, a bad guy, he controlled it. Now it's out of control.

Student cellphones confiscated in school's probe of drug selling

2012-02-03T02:40:00Z

There's a lot of drug selling going on using these cell phones, a lot of cases we're looking into in high schools. I again say that all high schools should ban cell phones. You can have them, but you can't use them unless you're off campus, unless there's an emergency. That's the way I see it. No good can come of texting and having a phone while you're in school. I didn't need it, you didn't need it, these urchins don't need it, okay?

Defense Secretary suggests earlier timetable for Afghanistan withdrawal

2012-02-03T02:36:00Z

We're going to do this with Geraldo tomorrow -- Leon Panetta, defense secretary saying that the US will be out of combat missions in Afghanistan next year. This is having all kinds of propaganda repercussions as you might expect. I don't think that they should have said it, but maybe Geraldo will take a different view of it. He's been over there a lot.

I don't even think you could ever pacify Afghanistan, no matter how many people you had there. But I don't think you signal what you want to do to Pakistan and Iran.

I don't really care about the Taliban very much. I think you can keep them under control with just a training force, and the Afghans themselves can. But why do you want to let Iran know what you're doing? We're on the border now. We have troops on the Iranian border. Why do you want to let them know?

So I don't know. That didn't strike me - and I think Panetta's a good guy. Did a good job with the CIA. I think he's doing a good job as defense secretary.

Trump endorses Romney in Vegas

2012-02-03T02:29:00Z

Now, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney today. Does that mean anything? Okay, here's the Fox News poll: "Donald Trump's endorsement, would it be more likely to persuade you to vote for someone?" 10%. "Less likely," 27%. So that means if Trump endorses a person, 27% of Americans say they're not going to vote for him. 62% say it makes no difference.

So Trump, he had a good time. He had a run. But I don't think he's relevant anymore - this year, anyway. But he likes Romney.

Romney leads by 20 in Nevada poll

2012-02-03T02:28:00Z

Nevada now becomes the focal point, the caucus there. The poll from the Las Vegas Review Journal has got Romney at 45%, Gingrich at 25, Santorum 11, Paul 9. And we think that's probably what's going to happen in Nevada. A lot of Mormons. A lot of angry people because they're out of work and the housing market is bad. They're looking to get Obama out of there. And they think Romney is the best person to do that.

It's not a real ideological state. It's a transient state. People come in and out of there because of Vegas and Reno. So that's what's going on there.

Super Bowl-related spending could reach all-time high in 2012

2012-02-02T01:40:00Z

Super Bowl mania--should be a good game. They're close--good teams. Boston and New York, big markets, so everybody's jazzed for that. I'll have more to say about that on Friday; we'll have Joe Namath and Boomer Esiason on the program. [The Factor is] not a big sports program, but I think the Super Bowl we can do a little of it. Lou Dobbs is running down the big money on it.

This is the biggest money thing in the country--the Super Bowl now. More than 100 million Americans will watch the game. That's crazy. That's more than watches The Factor--a lot more.

'Occupy' protesters throw condoms at Catholic school girls

2012-02-02T01:39:00Z

There's a terrible story that we are investigating in Rhode Island where some Occupy Wall Street protesters threw condoms at Catholic schoolgirls. I'm going to go on the air with it tomorrow. They also interrupted a priest trying to deliver a prayer to those schoolgirls, and we're going to--we're investigating. We don't want to make any mistakes here. It's a local story up in Rhode Island. We've got our people in Providence trying to run it down, and we're going to get it for you. It happened--it happened--so we will have that for you tomorrow, and the Culture Warriors are on it.

Obama approval rating cracks 50% in only 10 states

2012-02-02T01:37:00Z

So going forward, we're taking a look at Barack Obama now because he's been out of the spotlight, and he's got some problems, as we said in the Talking Points Memo. He has big deficits in the states. See, the national polls are heavily weighted in big cities like Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, because that's where the folks are--that's where the people are. So the numbers for Obama are going to be bigger on the national polls, but if you look at the state-by-state [poll numbers]... only 10 states have an approval of over 50% [for President Obama]. Even crazy Hawaii, which I love--I love that place--crazy Hawaii's at 56% approval. That's really, really low. Crazy California? 50.1%! So, on a state-by-state electoral college basis, President Obama's got huge problems--huge. But the Republicans have got to figure out a way to exploit that, because the class warfare thing is coming up fast.

Romney win in Florida puts additional pressure on Gingrich

2012-02-02T01:17:00Z

So we were right on the money, and I can't brag, because the polls had it nailed down in Florida. It's pretty sophisticated now how people do this and how they can forecast elections based upon polling. They have it down, so, you know, when we say "Here are what the polls say," we use only the polls that we trust--Rasmussen and Gallup, primarily. We will do Marist College, Quinnipiac College, Suffolk University in Boston. We stay away from the network polling--if we cite it, know that that's not our first tier. Fox News polling's pretty good. But anyway, everybody had it nailed down pretty tight.

So the problem now becomes a pathway for Newt Gingrich to stay in the race. Rick Santorum and Ron Paul [are] just not going to win. So we know that; everybody knows that. Gingrich still has some potency left, but it's hard for him now to raise money and to get in position to do any damage to Romney because there's only one debate this month. So how does he damage him? It's not going to be a miraculous turnaround--everybody's not going to go, oh yeah, we need Newt Gingrich and not Mitt Romney. It's not going to happen in places like Colorado, Nevada, Minnesota and Maine. It's not going to happen. It might happen in Mississippi or Georgia, but those places don't come into play until March.

So, you know... Gingrich [will] probably hold on, I would assume, hoping that something will happen to the Romney campaign--a revelation about money or something like that. So he'll have to play a waiting game, but there's not to be a lot more to report on until Super Tuesday.

By the way, the ratings for the Florida reportage last night, just so you know, were far below what the Factor usually does... CNN, their prime time is so poorly rated than anything they put on will get a higher rating than what they usually have, and I'm not saying that gloatingly--I'm just telling you what the fact is. MSNBC, they do the same thing every night. They have the same viewers, the same liberal viewers--they don't get anybody new. The liberal viewers want to hear the liberal stuff, and that's where they go. There are not many of them. You know, if Fox News were getting ratings like MSNBC, everybody here would be fired--everybody. We couldn't possibly live with those numbers--those kind of low numbers that they get. The same with CNN.

Latest poll shows Romney with a 20-point lead in Florida

2012-01-31T01:00:00Z

In Florida, it looks like Mitt Romney is [pulling ahead]--how do we know? A lot of people are going to be mad... the reason we know is that there's a lot of advance voting in Florida--a lot of advanced ballots [have] already been counted. The three counties they look at, Sarasota, Martin, and Volusia County--those are the counties that usually tell who's going to win in that state. They all are breaking big for Romney, so that's all I can tell you. I don't want to ruin anybody's profile; I still think people should go out and vote, but if Romney loses tomorrow, I will... do something dramatic. I don't know yet. I don't want to get in trouble here. But I'm almost certain he's going to win, and then what?

...then it goes into kind of a low-key nothingness. You've got three debates between now and Super Tuesday on March 6. Debates--I don't know what more these people can say. You've got Nevada; that's a Romney territory thing because of the big Mormon population out there. You've got Minnesota; it's a caucus up there. I don't know what's going to happen there--does anybody care? I don't think so. And then you've got Missouri, which is not really a primary--it's a non-binding vote. Why they bother, I don't know, but there's nothing really that could derail Romney until March 6.

Now, if there are big revelations, if they get into a fistfight, or something happens where Romney donated money to al-Qaeda in an offshore account in Yemen--yeah, but we're not anticipating that. So it looks like a Romney versus Obama play. Now that becomes a very interesting race, and I'm way ahead on this because I know both of these guys and I know exactly what they're going to do.

Now, I don't want to jump it now, but you guys are Premium Members, so I'm going to tell you that I'm going to kind of shift into that mode if Romney wins big tomorrow. I'm not discounting Gingrich. I mean, the guy has been down and he comes back; you've got to admire him. Santorum's not going to win, and neither is Paul, but I'm not going to discount or diminish Newt Gingrich. He's a very good campaigner, a lot of people like him.

If Romney falters for whatever reason, Gingrich is right there, and that's... why [Gingrich] is going to hang on, because he's says anything can happen, and who's going to be there? I'll be there. He doesn't have any money--did you know Romney outspent Gingrich 4 to 1 in Florida? That's big. That's big.

So that's where we are right now. We're not going to be on tomorrow, Tuesday. We're going to have Kelly and Baier giving you the returns, which'll be fun... and we'll be back with a roar on Wednesday, and then we'll kind of segue into the bigger picture as far as the philosophies of the Democratic Party versus the philosophies of the Republican Party should Mitt Romney be the standard-bearer.

Barney Frank gets ready to tie the knot

2012-01-28T00:50:00Z

Barney Frank's getting married--I could say many, many immature and foolish things about that, but I will refrain. There's no good that can come of it.

Perry bills Texas $800k for campaign's travel & security expenses

2012-01-28T00:49:00Z

Governor Perry of Texas billed the state $800,000 in travel costs for his campaign. Texans aren't going to like that. Most of that is security--he's got Texas rangers with him and Texas Department of Public Safety people--that costs money. That's the game, though--he didn't do anything illegal. You know, the governor travels outside [the state, and] his security detail goes with him, just like the Secret Service goes with the president. So I don't think the governor did anything wrong, but I don't think Texans are going to be real thrilled with it.

Only 2 of 5 Americans view Obama as liberal

2012-01-28T00:47:00Z

A Pew Research Center study says 43% of Americans believe President Obama is a liberal. Well, yeah. 37% say he's a moderate. Now, I predict that most of the 37% who say he's a moderate are crazy left. The president is a committed liberal; there's no doubt about it.

Romney escalates attacks following debate

2012-01-28T00:30:00Z

Big week for Mitt Romney, no doubt about it. All the polls say that Florida looks very friendly to him, and the debate last night went his way in the sense that he stopped the Gingrich momentum. I don't like "who won, who lost." I don't like all that. That's up to you. You get really subjective answers, and most of them aren't even honest. People have agendas--I don't have an agenda. You saw the debate... you can decide who did well and didn't do well.

All I know for sure is that Romney stopped the bleeding. He showed that he was assertive, he explained himself ...in the financial end very well, and he gave as good as he got from Gingrich. Now, Santorum [is] pretty much not a factor in Florida, as we told you about three weeks ago. It's going to be very hard for Rick Santorum to compete in Florida because he doesn't have the money to do that. But he's gained, and certainly presents himself very well. I think Rick Santorum has really helped himself as far as [becoming] a serious political player in this country a lot by this campaign.

Ron Paul [is] not a factor.

...I expect Romney to win on Tuesday, then the media basically says "he's got it, he's got it, he's got it." Romney then heads out West, friendly territory to him, builds some momentum. The wheels could come off--Gingrich should hang around--but I think you'll hear in the next two or three weeks it's Romney, Romney, Romney...

Super Bowl rematch will be a tough game

2012-01-27T00:27:00Z

I just got my annual Super Bowl prediction sheet from the Scripps Howard news service. I usually pick these things right. Every year since 1986 I've made these predictions and I think I'm like 90%.

Now this year, for you sports fans out there, very tough prediction--very hard. I'm going to pick the Giants 27-24 over the Pats, basically because I'm voting with my heart and not my head. I don't think the Giants can cover the two giant tight ends--too many giants there. The two huge tight ends the Patriots have who have caught a tremendous amount of passes all year, typically in the red zone and in the end zone.

So I don't think the Giants can cover them. That gives Brady a big opportunity, particularly if he has time to throw. So that's sticking in my mind, but I'm still going with Giants 27-24. It might even be an overtime game.

Now why do I like the Giants? Well, they have God on their side, with apologies to Tim Tebow, because this team was 7-7. They've won five in a row, most [of those wins] on the road, and they should not have had a streak like that based upon the first part of their season. And Green Bay is a tough team--they went up to Green Bay and they thrashed them. Green Bay is better than San Francisco. So if the Giants can bring the same amount of passion, not turn the ball over, and get to Brady--because if you start to smack any quarterback around (it doesn't matter who it is--I played quarterback, I know) you throw their timing off.

Eli Manning has been sensational. I assume he will continue to be that. So he, I think, is going to have a good game. The Giants can't run the ball but New England is not a tremendous defense, so if they come up with a decent game plan, the Giants could move the ball

But there's something rolling around in my stomach on this one, so I'm probably not going to bet--real money. I won some money on the Giants-[49ers] game. I'm not a big better; I'm talking twenty, thirty dollars... and I want the Giants to win, so I'm going to go Giants 27, Pats 24...

Romney tries to fire up supporters prior to Thursday debate

2012-01-27T00:20:00Z

Big debate tonight--if Romney holds his own, he should win Florida. Gingrich is getting pounded, as we reported, by the right, and it is clear the establishment Republican apparatus does not want Newt Gingrich to run against Barack Obama. From a practical standpoint, I understand it. Romney's a stronger general candidate--he's stronger than Gingrich with independents and even conservative Democrats, and the Speaker is explosive, so anything could happen at anytime. You can kiss [the minority vote] goodbye if Newt Gingrich runs, whereas Romney might get a few.

So all that's a political calculation; however, I would not do what Tom DeLay is doing, what other Republican conservatives are doing, trashing Gingrich--I think that's classless... I would not do that. You got a beef with him on policy? Say it. You think he's not going to beat Obama? Say it. I've got no problem with that, but to trash the guy? That's just not classy. It really isn't. That's what the far left does.

Now, I've been listening to some far-right commentators on the radio--not Rush Limbaugh, by the way. He's not in this crew--other lesser ones than Limbaugh. They're as vicious as you could possibly get--they're as bad as the far-left loons. I just think that demeans their cause. It certainly does for me. When I hear these personal attacks, I turn it off, and I never, ever, ever listen to that person again. They disqualify themselves, because they're haters. Haters don't win elections. They never win. And if you want a better country and to solve problems you can't be a hater, so that's where I'm coming from here--I feel very, very strongly about it.

Pelosi predicts Gingrich won't be president: 'There is something I know'

2012-01-26T02:15:00Z

Pelosi is saying there's no way Gingrich will be president because she, Nancy Pelosi, knows something. "There is something I know." Uh oh. Anyway, is that an idle threat? I don't know. She probably knows something about Gingrich that's not flattering. But you've gotta be careful. You've gotta watch yourself. You'd better be accurate if you're going to throw that out there.

Garth Brooks wins lawsuit against hospital

2012-01-26T02:11:00Z

Garth Brooks wins a million bucks, because he gave a lot of money to a hospital and in return the hospital said that it would build a wing and name it after Brooks' mom, who died in 1999. Colleen, died of colon cancer. And the hospital reneged. Took the money, took Brooks' money, this donation. And then Brooks sued and won. You know, there's a lot of that going on. A lot of betrayal in America. I know a lot of my friends have been betrayed. And I don't know what that is. People's word doesn't mean much anymore. I'm generalizing, I know, but it's around.

National Parks Service head grilled over Occupy protesters

2012-01-26T02:10:00Z

The head of the National Park Service is on the grill, Jonathan Jarvis, because he's letting these Occupy protesters camp out, costing the taxpayers a lot of money. It's against the law. So why is he doing it? He can't explain it. So I think we'll get into that tomorrow.

Jay Leno and NBC sued over Mitt Romney joke

2012-01-26T02:04:00Z

Jay Leno and NBC sued over a Mitt Romney joke by a Sikh. We're going to get into this with the Culture Warriors tomorrow. Very interesting to me, this lawsuit. We'll play you the joke, we'll tell you why it's being done and all of that. Alright, that's tomorrow.

Navy SEALs rescue captives from Somali pirates

2012-01-26T02:00:00Z

Navy SEALs rescued two people in Somalia being held by pirates. So, you know, the SEALs are a force. And we respect them very much, and their training center out on Coronado Beach out in San Diego.

Romney criticizes State of the Union speech as 'detached from reality'

2012-01-26T01:57:00Z

The State of the Union address, you know it was a campaign speech. Not a bad speech. Nothing in it that was terribly offensive, or out of the ordinary.

I almost respect Barack Obama for kinda staying to who he is. He is a big government guy, believes that that's going to lead America into the promised land. I can't go down that path with him because there just isn't any data. There isn't any data to show that the president's vision will work. In fact, quite the opposite, as we proved last night.

So I'm not going spend a lot of time on the State of the Union. I think the government in Washington needs to be reinvigorated. Can either Romney or Gingrich do that? I'm not sure. I'm really not sure. They are struggling against each other, so it's hard to see them in the bigger picture right now.

It's gonna be a close race for president matter who it is. I think Romney, as I told you, has a better chance with the independent voters coming over to his side. Gingrich, you know, he's got a lot of controversial stuff. I'm not talking about his personal life. I think that's pretty much done. But it's his demeanor in the sense that he scares some people. He's very confrontational like I am. And that doesn't go down well with older people sometimes. You know, you get a lot of that.

Whereas Romney is much more centered, and in a race against a cool guy like Obama, Romney might be more effective. But Romney's got to step it up. You know, he's got to become a real person. If he can. I don't know if he can. I don't know him that well.

I've spent some time with him, as I told you, and he seemed fine. I mean, he's not a gregarious guy. But he's fine. You know, he's appropriate, he's smart he understands the issues. So that's all I want.

I'm not looking for Shecky Greene. Remember Shecky Greene? No you don't. He's a comedian, a Jewish comedian, worked the Catskills. He was always on TV when I was a kid. There was always Shecky Greene. But anyway, Romney's not Shecky, and he's not Billy Crystal and he's not Robin Williams, and he's not anybody like that.

Gingrich camp criticizes Romney for delaying release of tax returns

2012-01-25T00:38:00Z

Gingrich's tax returns had him paying 30% to the government, and Romney paid 14% in 2010... it's all legal, it was cap gains. If you don't understand that, you should understand it. I'll go over it really, really fast.

If you earn your money from a job, you're taxed at a federal income rate [of] anywhere from 34% down to 11% or 10%. If you get money from an investment long-term, that means a year or more--interest, stock [earnings], whatever--it's taxed at 15%, because it's really double taxation. The money that you are saving and investing, you've already paid tax on. Very few people understand that, and it's demagogued all day long.

So I've got no problem with Romney and his tax returns or his investment portfolio. He did what's right for his family--he generated income based upon what he had earned--and that's the American way. I have absolutely no problem with it. And if President Obama wants to play this class warfare game, I'm going to criticize the president for that. I am. I think it's wrong. That's not what our system is designed to be.

And, of course, there's always the question in the background, does the president like our capitalistic system? And I think there's a good argument that can be made to say no, he doesn't. He wants much more of a government intrusion into the free marketplace. I think it's pretty apparent. He'll deny it, but from what I see, he absolutely wants the government to control the economy, and to redistribute wealth in this country, and that is not what the founding fathers set up--not even close. They didn't want that. They wanted the states to basically control what happened within their borders, not the federal government, and there was no power given to the states to redistribute anything. You know, George Washington was our richest president--the estimate is he would, in today's dollars, [be] worth about $500 million or some crazy thing like because he had all this land in Virginia.

Newly aggressive Romney goes after Gingrich

2012-01-25T00:28:00Z

I don't like to get involved with "Newt Gingrich resigned in disgrace, no he didn't, yes he did." I don't really want to get involved in any of that. I'll present it to you, and we'll use guys like Krauthammer to define it for you, but I'm not going to weigh in on "he did this, he did that, his ex-wife, he paid 12% of his taxes..." unless it's egregious. You know, I'm just not going to do it, because that puts me in a position where I'm defending or attacking a certain candidate.

The only candidate that I have really scrutinized is Ron Paul, because I just feel that he's dangerous on a number of different levels. And you know that. I've been upfront about it--don't like him. I don't know him as a person, but I just don't like the campaign, I don't like the cult-ish stuff surrounding him. So that's the only guy. The other ones, including the president, we're going to let them go and say what they want--the president has a record, and absolutely I have to analyze that. But Gingrich and Romney have no national records, as far as contemporary stuff is concerned. Gingrich [did] back in the 90s, but again, that doesn't really really concern me very much. It really doesn't. I don't want to go back in a time capsule and re-litigate what happened in the 90s--that's boring.

Obama faces uphill slog with tomorrow's State of the Union address

2012-01-24T01:03:00Z

...tomorrow is the State of the Union. From what we understand, Barack Obama is going to get out there and basically reiterate his belief that the federal government pretty much should be in charge of the economy. He's not going to pull back on that--that's what he's going to do tomorrow. He's going to say, you know, we had a rough ride, we were handed bad things, we've stabilized it, we've had growth of this many months--that's what you can expect--and that we're going to continue to do what we do, which means massive spending.

It will be interesting to see if he does pivot, then, and say [that] we do understand there's a big debt, we've got to get it down, we've got to cut back, we've got to reform. That would be smart for him to do tomorrow night in the State of the Union, but whether he will or not will show whether or how much of an ideologue he is, because you know you have to stop spending. Everybody knows that, and that is the president's big, big deficit, pardon the pun, in campaigning for the presidency for reelection. You just can't continue to layer billions of dollars on the debt--you just cant, but he doesn't seem to be convinced of that, in my opinion. But that could change tomorrow night, Tuesday night.

Gingrich hopes to capitalize on SC momentum in Florida primary

2012-01-24T00:52:00Z

[It's a] busy week--we've got the debates tonight at nine o'clock. We'll have, of course, the best analysis anywhere tomorrow. The debates become... they're tedious for me. I don't know about you. But Romney--he'd better step up... if he loses Florida by a big margin, I don't know. I don't know. I didn't think that Gingrich could really put it together, but it looks like a populist deal right now. So Romney's got to find a message, got to find some kind of narrative to persuade you that he could beat Barack Obama, and would govern the country the way you want him to. If Romney doesn't, I think it's all over.

Now, somebody said to me the reason Santorum is staying in is because there's a good chance that he thinks that Gingrich will blow up--something will happen, and that he'll be there to step into that breach. He knows he's not going to beat Gingrich and Romney, Santorum does, but if he hangs around, he becomes a player at the convention, and if something does happen unexpectedly, he's there--forget about Ron Paul. He's not a factor anymore.

I think we're covering it very, very fairly, but if you don't see it that way, please let us know through the message boards or e-mail or whatever. I am reading a lot of those letters, as you know, every day.

Right now in Florida the polls say that Romney's down by about eight points, and that's not a lot... Romney could, with some effective advertising and if he does OK in the debates tonight and Thursday, he could come up, so it is still a horse race.

Gingrich calls ABC interview with his ex-wife 'tawdry,' 'inappropriate'

2012-01-20T00:56:00Z

There's lots of action today with this Newt Gingrich deal, with his former wife Marianne trashing him on ABC. [It's] unseemly, that's for sure. She's told her story before--why did she have to do it again right before the South Carolina primary? It's just spite. Ugh. You know, it's not my job to defend any of these candidates... but after a while, you just say to yourself, why would anybody want to put themselves through this? ...boy oh boy, if you look at how these guys are getting trashed--Gingrich and Romney, every one of them--[it's] very, very tough.

So I hope you enjoyed the interview that we did with Brian Ross. We tried to be fair about it. I would not have done it, as I told Mr. Ross--I would not have done the interview. I just think enough's enough at this point, and I wouldn't have done the interview if was a Democrat, unless it had never been reported before. To go over old stuff? I don't know. ...I'm not going to condemn ABC. There's another side to the story, voters have a right to know, all of that. I understand that. I just would not have done the interview myself. If they came to me and said, "Hey, I've got Newt Gingrich's ex-wife out here," I'd say get somebody else--I don't want to do it. It's just me.

I don't know what's going to happen in South Carolina, I really don't. There's a lot of stuff going on, swirling around, but I assume that the Romney campaign is working hard to kind of squeak it out there, but I wouldn't bet on it. We're trying to get Mitt Romney tomorrow, Friday, and as one of my top bookers said, look, none of these guys are real anxious to come on The Factor, because they know that compared to most other interview programs, this is going to be rigorous. So they would rather go on shows--even though the [other] shows have a lesser audience, fewer people watching--where they know that they can control the interview and they're not going to be challenged, and unfortunately, that's 80% percent of cable news programs these days. Unfortunately the business is "get the guest," rather than "ask the best questions." Access is more important than information--[but] not here.

So I'm just hoping Romney comes on tomorrow. If he doesn't, I'll talk about it in the Talking Points Memo.

So, South Carolina--big vote on Saturday, very important, and we're on it. I think our coverage has been pretty good. I'm looking around, I read the thousands of letters that come in, and nobody's calling us on any kind of stuff that we did that's not right, unfair--they say I'm unfair, but they can't back it up... so I think we've been very fair and very precise about our facts.

Romney attempts to sidestep conversation about taxes

2012-01-19T01:50:00Z

I can't believe that I am now in a position of defending capitalism. I never thought this would happen to me. I've been a capitalist since I was nine--I first made money shoveling snow on Long Island. My thug friends and I would go out after the snowstorms with our little shovels, and we got a couple bucks for clearing out the snow. Then when I was about 12 I started to babysit [and] got some money for that; at 17, I worked in a Carvel, so I've always been a worker bee... but I never really thought about what the class differences were. I'm writing my newspaper column... about this. In my house, we didn't have a lot of money. My parents worked--my mother went to work when I was 13, but there just wasn't a lot of money. My father worked in the city as an accountant for Caltex, but he didn't make anything. My sister and I, we had the basics, but that was it. I never really even thought about it, you know? We didn't know any rich people... in the Levittown area where I lived, everybody was pretty much working class, and the was no separation. Everybody had the same house, the same car, the same clothes...

I remember when I was playing ice hockey for Chaminade High School, which, by the way, was an upper-scale high school--my father broke his back to send me there, because if I had gone to the public school, I would've been in prison and everybody knew it. So he sent me over to the brothers at Chaminade and kind of shaped me up. I didn't like it very much, but it was necessary. But anyway, I was a goalie on the ice hockey team... and goalie equipment is expensive, and my father said, "Look, I can't afford to buy you a goalie outfit so you're just going to have to be creative." So I got together some money and I bought the leg pads, because you've got to have them. And I remember I bought them second hand from this guy, and they were good. Skates were skates--you could buy skates, but I didn't have tacks or anything that like the rest of the team had. I just had regular skates. I used a baseball chest protector for my baseball team--I kind of purloined it, instead of a regular hockey chest protector. I used an old lacrosse mask as a hockey mask, and then I had my mother sew a glove onto my first baseman's mitt for the for the mitt. I had to get a glove stick side goalie thing--you have to have that, with the big flat platform.

So, I mean, I went out there cobbled together, but I didn't care. It didn't matter to me that the other guys had better equipment than me, and I never even thought about it. I just wanted to be better than they were. I wanted to win the game, and ...I did. We were very successful as a ice hockey team.

So now I'm finding myself in a position where I'm a rich guy and now I have to defend capitalism, which I never in a million years thought that I would have to do. I'm not defending Mitt Romney. I'm defending basically the demonization of those who have, and I don't have any sympathy for the rich kids--the guys like the Kennedys and the Bushes and... the legacy people. Al Gore, these people, who can all live very comfortable lives because of their family money--the Roosevelts--I mean, I don't even think about them. I write in "Pinheads and Patriots" that the "rich kid syndrome" hurt George W. Bush as president... but I'm not jealous of them, and I don't begrudge them what they have, even though the Kennedys got their money from bootlegging whiskey in the 30s and 20s. My father was furious about that, but I don't care. If the guy's a bootlegger, he's a bootlegger. It doesn't means his sons and grandsons are bad. They just lucked out. Dad got the money, and they could live on trust funds, as JFK did...

But this attack on capitalism is bad for the country, because capitalism does drive the private marketplace, which creates jobs and creates prosperity. The reason that the working middle class is getting hosed now is because we're in a transition period from a manufacturing economy into a high-tech economy. It's like the industrial revolution, right? Look, the old union jobs--going to the mills and all of that--that's over. You need an education, you need a skill--you don't have one, you're just a run-of-the-mill guy showing up for work, you're going to get hosed. You're not going to make any money, and the government's not going to be able to even out that playing field, no matter what President Obama tells you.

Unemployment among college graduates is 4%. If you're a plumber and you know how to fix people's pipes, you're going to make money--six figures. I'm always looking for people to come to my house and fix stuff. Electricians? You're going to make money. You can't do anything? You're going to be eating at McDonald's. That's the way it is. And it's not some big plot by Mitt Romney. He's paying 15% [capital gains tax]--that's what it is. What is he supposed to do?

John Kerry--you didn't hear a word about this in the liberal press--had a big yacht he registered in Rhode Island to dodge the Massachusetts tax on it. Remember that? Come on, come on. It's crazy. So now I'm the main defender of the of the capitalistic system in the country. Romney better start doing it himself, or he's going to lose. He should use this opportunity to say, "You know what? Yeah, I am a rich guy, and I use my money for good"--if he does. If he doesn't, then we're going to find that out. And, "I obey the law, and I know how money works, and I'm going to change the tax system, and I'm going to change the economy for the better for everybody, and here's how I'm going to do it." You've got to change--you've got to turn that to your advantage, because if you don't, [your opponents are] going to kill you.