Bill began the No Spin News with a focus on the unrelenting Trump-hatred and the president's challenges going forward.
"I told Donald Trump in the first interview I did with him," Bill recalled, "that they hate you so much and it's not just your polices. Now it's expanded because he has power and you can see the success of the 'Hate Trump' movement, which has enveloped all the media. If you are a pro-Trump person, you are now in the target of destruction. Media Matters and others are trying to destroy the few remaining Trump supporters. In the next few weeks we are going to drop some bombs that will prove that."
The recent mayhem in Charlottesville served as an instructive example. "President Trump was trying to say there was a lot of fault," Bill stated, "and there was. First of all there were the dopey Nazis who don't really care about a Robert E. Lee statue, they just wanted attention. The counter-protesters then showed up and the Charlottesville authorities didn't do anything to stop this. You separate people with iron barriers, but Charlottesville didn't do any of that and they knew this stuff would happen. There's a lot of blame to go around and the hate-Trumpers won't let up."
Bill then ran a montage that illustrated the virulent hatred directed at President Trump. The haters in this case were Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, late night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, and CNN's Jake Tapper, all of whom denounced the president for his post-riot reaction. "The goal of the hate-Trumpers," Bill concluded, "is to get him out of office and overturn the election. I don't think they'll be successful, but that's their goal and they will continue."
Speaking of Trump-loathing, Bill also quoted from a writer who advised married people to divorce their spouse if he or she is a Trump supporter. The article gave this advice: "You do not need to make it work with someone who thinks of people as 'illegals.'"
On that note, Glenn Beck, bearing a slight resemblance to a young Colonel Sanders with his goatee and white jacket, joined Bill via Skype. Beck began by taking issue with Bill's criticism of CNN's Jake Tapper. "Jake Tapper is a journalist," Beck opined. "He may be overly tough on Donald Trump, but he was also tough on Barack Obama.
Beck then suggested that President Trump may be outmaneuvering his many critics: "He made me very nervous with how he was dealing with North Korea, but this may go down as his Ronald Reagan moment. He may have just made the world a much safer place and that will help him with his base." Elaborating on President Trump's base, Beck used one restaurant chain as a symbol. "It's Applebee's where the average American is dining. Those are the 80% who are waiting to see an impact economically, and if they see that things are getting better he has a chance of doing well. He has no chance if he doesn't make things better for the people who put it all on the line for him."
After Glenn Beck and/or Colonel Sanders departed, Bill reported on a new study from the Cato Institute that documented terrorism in the United States over the past 15 years. "92% of people killed in terrorist attacks were killed by Islamic terrorists," Bill stated, "and remember that Barack Obama would not say the words 'Islamic terrorism.' The second deadliest terrorist group were far-right wingers, who were responsible for 7% of the deaths, while far left terrorists were only responsible for 19 deaths. However, keep in mind that the police killed in Louisiana, Dallas, and New York City were killed because Black Live Matters and other groups incited the criminals, who were not described as terrorists."
Bill then put forth this exposition on the left's determination to destroy statues of Confederate soldiers: "There's no problem in having symbols of the Confederacy on a battlefield, that's contextual. But if you just have a statue in New Orleans of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Civil War general who helped found the Ku Klux Klan, that can be moved to a museum. As for Robert E. Lee, he was a brave man and a good general who put his state above his country and was a positive force after reconciliation. Are we going to change the name of Washington and Lee University? If there's a statue of Robert E. Lee in the middle of a town, I'd move it, but I wouldn't destroy it. Washington and Jefferson held slaves, but their consciences were formed in a different time. That's not an excuse, but do we demonize people who helped this country because of mistakes that they made? No. Reasonable people can come to some solutions about this."
Finally, Premium Members weighed in with their opinions and questions. One PM took the left and the media to task for failing to call out race-haters such as Louis Farrakhan or Black Lives Matter. Another viewer accused Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe of allowing the violence in Charlottesville to occur.
When one Premium Member from Baltimore mentioned that his daughter believes everything Bill says is "pure fiction," Bill cordially invited her to call in and defend her criticism. It promises to be a very interesting back-and-forth if and when the young woman checks in. See you for another edition of the No Spin News on Wednesday. |