O'REILLY: As we have been reporting for years, the root of many social problems in America is the collapse of the traditional family. This afternoon President Obama announced an initiative called 'My Brother's Keeper' to help young African American men who are at risk. The plan is to combine federal resources with funds from private corporations to help the kids.Earth to Bill O'Reilly, you were not invited to the White House give your ideas on the program, you were invited to report on and promote the program on the Fox News Network, because you have the #1 rated cable news show.
I was invited to the announcement and the initiative is very well-intentioned, but some specific things need to be done. First, you have to teach children at risk to read. If that takes one-on-one tutoring, that's what has to happen. Two, you have to provide mentors to individual children who lack guidance at home.
Three, high profile Americans must go on television and the Internet to warn young people that having babies outside of marriage is cruel. There has to be peer pressure not to get pregnant unless you're in a stable situation.
Four, the initiative has to get local businesses to hire kids for summer jobs and internships. Children must know about the workplace and what is expected. Finally, American law enforcement has to engage children at risk and convince them that police are not the enemy.
If those five things are part of the 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative, I can guarantee you that America will begin to turn the situation around. But if people continue not to make judgments about bad parents, disorderly children, and chaos in the family unit, the problems are only going to get worse. Hopefully the White House has made the first step.
O'REILLY: Many of the social problems in America are the direct result of the collapsing family unit in some precincts. African Americans have a huge problem in that area, with 72% of black babies now born out of wedlock; for white Americans the number is 29%.Okay genius, let's say we confront the problem, then how do you stop women from having kids out of wedlock. You cant, it's called fate, and there is nothing you or anyone can do to stop it. We spend millions telling people to not use drugs, and it does no good, so get over it jerk.
Some disturbing facts: 48% of children in single-female households live in poverty; 71% of all high school dropouts and 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes; and boys without fathers present are twice as likely to become gang members. The root of poverty, crime, and despair is the collapse of the traditional family.
Tomorrow at the White House the president will announce a huge initiative called 'My Brother's Keeper.' Essentially it will target young black males and try to give them some hope. I will be at the White House to cover this and we will get specifics. It is long past time for Americans to join together to help the kids.
Put yourself in their position - millions of children are born into chaotic homes where the parents are irresponsible or absent. How can kids like that compete against kids from stable homes? Bringing children into the world when you can not support them is stupid and cruel.
Many Americans object to making judgments about behavior, but that attitude is leading to disaster and we need to begin confronting this terrible problem.
O'REILLY: The American Civil Liberties Union was set up to protect freedom of expression. But now some other very liberal people are trying to shut down free speech and the ACLU is silent. Writing in the Harvard Crimson, editorialist Sandra Korn called for a 'framework of justice' instead of academic freedom. Isn't that swell? She wants to stop academic research with which she disagrees.Now that is ridiculous, and total right-wing garbage from O'Reilly. To begin with, Sandra Korn is a student at Harvard who writes an op-ed column every other week for the Harvard Crimson. She argued that the university should oppose research that is "promoting or justifying oppression." And she called for academic justice, not a framework of justice.
Harvard is about as left-wing as it gets, there are few conservative professors. But overwhelming numbers are not enough for Sandra Korn, who wants to shut down opposing points of view. So do many others on the far left, and the technique in play is the smear. If you criticize people of color, including the president, you're labeled a 'racist.' Call for a stronger border with Mexico and you're 'anti-Hispanic.' Oppose gay marriage and you are a 'homophobe,' and if you want responsibility in welfare programs you are 'anti-poor.'
Those labels are designed to shut folks up, and it's working to some extent. If you are a conservative in Hollywood, you will be denied jobs. If you are conservative at the New York Times, you will not get good assignments. And if you are a fervent believer in God, you will not be invited to the swell cocktail parties in Manhattan and Georgetown. Oppressing free speech is not unusual in far-left precincts, but it's not going to work. This program will make sure of that.
JINDAL: I think there are things we can do instead of waving the white flag of surrender, instead of declaring this economy to be a minimum wage economy. I think our economy, I think America can do better.It was obvious that Jindal was implicating that Obama did the wrong thing by signing an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour. It also seems clear that Jindal does not agree with the President and Democrats that the minimum wage for all workers should be raised.
MALLOY: Just one second. Until a few moments ago we were going down a pretty cooperative road. Let's be clear there are differences here and you just heard what I think ended up being probably the most partisan statement that we had all weekend.So Jindal dug the hole deeper, his next response to Malloy was even worse than what he said to start it all off.
I don't know what the heck was a reference to white flag when it comes to people making $404 a week. I mean that is the most insane statement I ever heard quite frankly. Let’s be very clear that we have had a great meeting and we didn't go down that road and it just started again and we didn't start it.
JINDAL: If that was the most partisan statement he heard all weekend, I want to make sure that he hears a more partisan statement which is I think we can also grow the economy more if we delayed more of these Obamacare mandates.Really? Jindal, who fancies himself as the smarter, savvier alternative to the Tea Party madness within the GOP, sounded like nothing more than a Ted Cruz clone. He wasn't able to keep his cool after rightly getting called out for drawing attention to himself for partisan gain. So all he knew to do was go to that same old tired rip on Obamacare.
O'REILLY: "I looked at the AP study that Mr. Potok cited and it's not even close to being true. We suggest that Mr. Potok re-read the study and stop demonizing white Americans as racists."So I looked at the AP study Mr. Potok cited, and I found that it is true and O'Reilly is a liar. I suggest O'Reilly get his head out of his butt and look at the facts, here is what Potok wrote.
O'REILLY: In a fiercely competitive contest Friday, Canada defeated the USA in hockey 1 - 0. Earlier this week, Russians were devastated when Finland knocked them out of the medal round. Putin was furious and had that gulag look in his eyes. Russia and the USA are competitors for world power, and so the Olympic Games and medals take on a huge significance.Then Geraldo was on to talk about the blend of politics and sports at the Olympic Games.
As far as Canada is concerned, we're allies but also rivals. With just 35-million people living there, Canada can't compete with us in production, but we do share a common language and heritage. With all that in play, both teams today were playing for national pride, not just a medal. And that's a good thing. Pride in your country is a positive, patriotism is a positive, and loyalty is a positive. So go USA, but let the best competitors win.
O'REILLY: In 2009 President Obama made a series of speeches, sending a signal that America is really no better than any other nation. Some Americans applauded that position, but here are the unintended consequences: The president has not acted as a dominant world leader, he has not taken on the authority that Ronald Reagan did. The sad truth is that Vladimir Putin is considered by many to be a stronger leader than Barack Obama, and that has led to all kinds of problems.That my friends is all right-wing garbage. Obama never made any speeches sending a signal that America is really no better than any other nation, in fact, he has said over and over that America is the greatest country in the world. O'Reilly just made it up, and what Obama said is that we have made some foreign policy mistakes, like Iraq, etc. But he never once said we are no better than any other nation, that is all lies from O'Reilly.
That idiot Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan is now insulting America in outrageous ways, Iran is jacking us around, Assad continues to kill civilians in Syria, and now in Ukraine there's a civil war brewing. The president says there will be 'consequences' for oppressive actions in Ukraine, but does anybody take that threat seriously? The president has lost moral authority and clearly doesn't want conflict.
Remember that his base, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, opposes almost all strong action against overseas villains. That means petty tyrants can give us the proverbial finger, and they are. It is certainly true that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have harmed this nation, but that doesn't mean we can't have a smarter strategy and lead the world to better places. It's safe to say that Ronald Reagan would have handled the situation in Ukraine differently, and President Obama might want to think upon that.
O'REILLY: Things are not going too well for the Obama administration, so the president must raise his positive profile. Enter 'global warming,' a fervent liberal cause. On Sunday Secretary of State John Kerry described 'climate change' as 'perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.' He is setting the table for an all-out campaign where all severe weather in the USA will now be blamed on 'global warming.'Thank you Mr. right-wing nut, for proving you are a fool. Obama is not punishing the people by holding up the Keystone Pipeline, that is right-wing garbage. The pipeline will not create many jobs and only Republicans support it, which is just more proof O'Reilly is a lying Republican.
President Obama picked up that theme when he visited drought-stricken California, saying that a changing climate makes droughts 'more intense.' We know of no scientific evidence that California's drought is an offshoot of global warming, but there is evidence that the world is getting hotter, even though the rate of warming is slowing down.
Talking Points has maintained that no one knows for certain what causes climate fluctuations, but every human being who cares about the earth should want it to be cleaner. Unfortunately, countries like China and India don't care and they're polluting the planet at a record rate to make money. President Obama can can't stop that.
So if the USA punishes its own people by holding up the Keystone Pipeline, which will create jobs, it would be foolish. The Obama administration understands that it can get a favorable response from the left by pushing the 'climate change' agenda, and will up the ante to obscure other problems like the economy and ObamaCare. That is called politics.
This Tuesday, Attorney General Greg Abbott is set to have joint appearances with Ted Nugent. The Attorney General will join Nugent for events in Denton and Wichita Falls.Davis campaign spokesperson Bo Delp told The Houston Chronicle, "Ted Nugent disrespects a large number of Texans. It is embarrassing that Greg Abbott thinks it is appropriate to appear with Ted Nugent."
"Just last month, Nugent told Guns.com at the Las Vegas hunting and outdoor trade show that, 'I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.'"
Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa released the following statement:
"Just last month, Ted Nugent called President Barack Obama a 'subhuman mongrel' and a 'gangster.' He spews hate against our first African-American President and in return, Attorney General Greg Abbott welcomes him to the campaign trail. Is this how Abbott celebrates Black History Month? Texans deserve better than a statewide office holder and candidate running for governor who welcomes Ted Nugent and his repugnant comments. I can't help but recall the old saying, tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are."
O'REILLY: A new Gallup Poll shows that just 41% of Americans approve of President Obama's job performance, while 53% disapprove. Some on the far left are disappointed because President Obama is not radical enough. They despise the war on terror, do not want any meaningful surveillance, and generally oppose the capitalistic system.Oh my God, that is just a bunch of right-wing lies. O'Reilly is an idiot, and pretty much all of what he said is nonsense. I am a liberal and I do not despise the war on terror, I want us to kill terrorists when we can. I do not care about surveillance either, as long as it's done legally. And I do not oppose the capitalistic system, I just think more of the money needs to go to the workers instead of the people at the top.
While their numbers are small, they get a lot of attention because there are some very wealthy people behind the movement. Does President Obama care a whit about what the far left thinks? I don't think so, because it has little to do with his quest for 'social justice.' Barack Obama understands the terror threat and has been aggressive in using drones to neutralize it. He also understands that a robust surveillance apparatus is necessary to stop terror attacks.
One side note: The far left doesn't really care if we're attacked because they believe the USA is the root cause of worldwide terrorism. But the majority of Americans are not ideologues - they just want some security and prosperity. But for the zealots, economic problems are not important. They want an entirely different America, and it is clear that President Obama is not going to deliver that.
O'REILLY: On Election Day last November I said that America is a changing nation, which is why President Obama had a fairly easy time winning reelection. The dishonest liberal media took that as a lament, that I was whining about the election results. That was a lie, I was simply giving you the facts.1) It is true, O'Reilly was sad when Obama won, he clearly supported Romney and he was shocked that Obama beat him. He was even mad that the people did not elect Romney, he asked Rove how it was possible Romney lost, then implied people just voted for the black guy to make history. The day after the election (where Obama won) O'Reilly had a look as if his dog had just died.
A recent study asked 1,000 Americans to take the same test that is given to foreigners who want to become American citizens. 29% could not name the vice president, 43% were unable to define the Bill of Rights, and 40% did not know that America fought Germany and Japan in World War II. That's a disaster!
It's quite clear that the public school system is a main culprit; it is no longer teaching history, geography, or civics in an effective way. Also, the Internet has created a generation of self-absorbed, addicted, distracted, and ignorant people. The result is that a very few shrewd people are wielding enormous power and many Americans are voting for what they can get, not what is best for this nation.
We are a nation in decline because American citizens are not paying attention and do not seem to be interested in the welfare of this country. Most of you watching are not in the 'ignorant' category, but if you add up all the Americans who read newspapers and watch TV news, it is a minority. Finally, with the Internet now dominating American life, the situation will most likely get worse.
MAHER: Well, you know for my own selfish reasons, I would like to see Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and the rest of the insane clown posse run, and I'm sure there will be some people on the right who are you know great fodder for us, but I'm a patriot first, so I want the most qualified people.If the early rumblings are any indication, the Republican field is going to be chock full of crazies. With all due respect to the Juggalos out there, the Insane Clown Posse is the perfect name for the potential Republican field.
I don't know who that is anymore on the right. I mean there was Chris Christie on the right. He was going to be the guy to bridge the gap between you know, the crazies and the potty trained Republicans, but he doesn't look like he is going anywhere anymore, so I don't even know who to root for on the Republican side. On the Democratic side we all know that it is going to be Hillary, so what are we even talking about that for?
O'REILLY: There has always been politics at the Olympic Games, and this year's games in Russia now have a bit of controversy. NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas said this about Russian strongman Vladimir Putin: 'In the past year Putin brokered a deal to allow Syria to avoid a U.S. military strike by giving up its nuclear weapons, and helped bring Iran to the negotiating table over its nuclear intentions.'Then Bernie Goldberg was on to defend Costas, saying this: "You asked for context so let me give you a little bit. Here's a quote: 'I don't know anyone who sees Putin as a peacemaker.' Bob Costas said that. He also said 'Putin supports a vicious regime in Syria' and 'corruption is rampant in Russia.' So the idea that Costas somehow portrayed Putin as a benign figure is ridiculous. This has almost nothing to do with Bob Costas, this is about cable television and talk radio and blogs, conservative and liberal, who have a constant need for a supply of bad guys and controversy."
What Mr. Costas stated is true, but the context is weak. Vladimir Putin is a villain, a former KGB thug, and the prime supporter of the Syrian murderer Assad. Sure, he tried to stop military action against Assad, who is his buddy. And Putin protects Iran's crazy mullahs, who are causing trouble all over the place. So if you are going to profile a guy like Putin, you really have to bring a lot of perspective.
NBC Sports simply did not, and then the predictable happened. Rush Limbaugh said 'there's not that much ideological difference ' between Russia and NBC, and conservative Michelle Malkin called Costas 'Putin's sycophant.'
Costas is not some crazy left-wing guy who would celebrate a man like Putin. He was simply reading a script that was designed to be innocuous. But these days, nothing is innocuous. I would not have read the script, but I don't think Costas and NBC Sports meant any harm at all.
O'REILLY: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is doing everything he can to humiliate the USA and destroy his own country. Today he ordered the release of 65 Taliban terrorists who were supposed to be tried for crimes against civilians. Right now there are about 38,000 Americans in Afghanistan and there is little doubt that the men released today will kill them if they can. But Karzai doesn't care, he is a despicable person.And here it is: I told you so. O'Reilly is a joke, because he supported going into Afghanistan, while all the liberals opposed it, because the Russians were there for 10 years and they left losers. You can not take over a country unless you replace their military and their government, and then stay there forever. Liberals predicted this would happen, and O'Reilly and his right-wing friends disagreed, we were right and you were wrong.
If I were commander-in-chief, I would have U.S. special forces deal with those released terrorists. The U.S. embassy in Kabul has issued a statement calling the prisoner release 'regrettable,' but what is really regrettable is how the entire Afghan campaign has fallen apart.
For 13 years America has tried to stabilize that country, giving Afghans freedom and hope for a better life. Women have been freed from virtual slavery, children are being educated, but Karzai spits in our faces. More than 2,000 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan and almost 20,000 wounded.
Karzai himself has been lenient on heroin merchants, has overseen a corrupt government that is stealing billions, and is now putting coalition forces in danger. President Obama is faced with a very difficult situation over there, but needs to impose some power simply to protect the Americans he is directly responsible for. Karzai is a villain who should be tried for corruption in The Hague.
O'REILLY: With President Obama's job approval numbers falling and the Democratic Party having trouble in an election year, you would think liberal Americans would low-key it a bit. But no, they're upping the rhetoric, especially the anti-capitalism stuff. Hillary Clinton is widely seen to be the Democratic nominee in 2016, but she portrays herself as a moderate, which is not good enough for some.Wow, that is almost all right-wing propaganda. The left does not want to dismantle the entire corporate system, they just want the workers to get paid more, because they are underpaid. Nobody I know on the left wants to dismantle the entire corporate system, O'Reilly just made that up.
Many on the far left want to dismantle the entire corporate system, and we are seeing the consequences of that in the Obama administration. The president has not been a friend to corporations, he advocates high taxes to pay for an entitlement culture. Businesses know that and have not expanded, preferring to hoard profits or keep them overseas where they can not be taxed.
That's why the job situation and income for working Americans is stagnant. It's hard to believe, but the far left believes the government can provide well-paying jobs on a mass scale. It cannot, and every country that has tried that has failed. So Hillary Clinton must fight zealotry on her far left. She'll defeat it, she'll get the nomination, and she'll run as a moderate Democrat.
"It's hard to be the CEO of an organization and not know what the closest people to you are up to. It's tough not to know. I know when I was mayor and manager of this city and then governor of the state, certainly you know what your top aides are up to."She didn't say much more on the subject, except to share the hope that "truth is being told right now."
O'REILLY: The Congressional Budget Office keeps track of taxpayer money. In a recent report, the CBO clearly said that those receiving free health care will have less incentive to work because their health needs will be assured. If they have a job they don't like, they don't have to keep the job and can live off entitlements and/or the underground economy.And as usual that is all right-wing spin, so what is the real truth, here it is:
That report hurts the Democratic Party, which champions ObamaCare and other entitlements, so the Democratic spin from Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi is that people now have more 'freedom.' The problem is that you and I, working Americans, will have to pay for that. Talking Points has no problem paying for safety net entitlements, but now I'm being asked to pay for somebody's 'passion' by supporting their health insurance.
It's clear what Senator Schumer and Congresswoman Pelosi are saying, that ObamaCare will 'free' people from low-wage jobs so they can do other things. But 'other things' might not include getting better jobs because if they got those, their ObamaCare subsidies go away.
Finally, the CBO report does have some good news for President Obama and the Democrats, saying health insurance costs will probably decline about 15% from the original forecast. Does that override all the other stuff? You make the call.
O'REILLY: I had a very nice talk with Nancy Pelosi and her husband at the White House in September. I gently asked whether she would be willing to talk with me on camera. She said absolutely and invited me to do the interview in her office. The exchange took place before a number of witnesses. But now Mrs. Pelosi is reneging and says I treated President Obama with 'disrespect.'Haha, too bad O'Reilly. That is what you get for disrespecting the President. And Pelosi knows you are a biased right-wing hack, so she should (and probably) never will do your lame show. She most likely agreed to do your show to be nice at the time, and probably just to get you to go away and leave her alone. If I was the President (or any Democrat) I would never do your show, because you are a biased right-wing stooge.
I asked Mr. Obama the questions that I believe are important to the country; I did so in a respectful way and he answered the way he wanted to. Unlike Nancy Pelosi, President Obama honored his word to me. It's troubling that the questions I asked were not asked before. One reason pertinent questions about the IRS, Benghazi, and ObamaCare were not asked is that many in the media are protecting President Obama.
Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera was actually offended by the interview, which he called 'unsettling.' The truth is that there is enormous pressure from supporters of the president not to put him on the spot. Two White House correspondents, FNC's Ed Henry and ABC's Jonathan Karl, are the exceptions to the rule and do ask hard questions.
The mentality of some working for the president is that he is not to be challenged, but that's not the mentality here. I respect the office of the presidency, but it's my job to ask the toughest questions I can think of to everybody.
O'REILLY: "I believe Boehner is secretly a Democrat because it's always the 'party of no.' This is handing a big gift to the Democratic Party by driving away Hispanic voters."Now of course O'Reilly only did that because he is mad for what Boehner did, because he thinks it will hurt the Republicans in getting hispanic votes they need to win in 2016, and he sure does not want another Democratic President in the White House.
WSJ: Conservatives and the GOP are as responsible for the failure on immigration. The populist wing of the party has talked itself into believing the zero-sum economics that immigrants steal jobs from U.S. citizens and reduce American living standards.The far-right they fear are really 4 people, Limbaugh, Levin, Hannity, and Ingraham. That's it, 4 far-right nuts are holding up the House immigration bill that the vast majority of Americans support, including 66% of Republicans.
Neither claim is true, but Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and the Heritage Foundation might as well share research staffs with the AFL-CIO.
So great is the House GOP fear of a talk-radio backlash that it won't even pass smaller bills that 75% of Republicans agree on. There will be nothing to codify the legal status of children of illegal immigrants who have lived here for decades.
And no expanded green cards for foreign graduates of U.S. colleges, a policy Mitt Romney endorsed. And no cleaning up the work-visa morass that has obliged U.S. farmers to hire illegals to harvest their crops.
O'REILLY: This has been a very interesting week as the country continues to digest my interview with President Obama. All I was trying to get at was the truth, but some people cannot handle the truth, so let's cut through the fog. On immigration, the Republican Party says it will not try to get reform this year. 68% of Americans want a pathway to citizenship, so the truth is that Republicans are hurting themselves.Now remember this, that so-called truth is based on the biased right-wing opinions of Bill O'Reilly, who spins everything to the right to make the left look bad. O'Reilly is lying about Benghazi and the IRS, and the rest is spin. So take it with a grain of salt, and think about this, the majority of Americans agree with the Democratic party on almost every issue facing the country today, the polls prove it, but you will never hear that from O'Reilly because he does not want you to know the real truth.
On ObamaCare, the truth is that it's still chaos. Right now the health care law is hurting more Americans than it's helping. How about the IRS? The truth is that the agency did target conservative groups and misuse its power. On Iran, the Obama administration is doing the right thing. The truth is that if you don't engage the mullahs they'll develop nukes anyway.
On Benghazi, the truth is that the powers in Washington did not control the situation before, during, or after. Did the president participate in a cover up? We don't know. And on social justice and poverty, the truth is brutal. 10% of Americans will always be poor because they are irresponsible. 5% of the population is poor through no fault of their own and should be helped, but a nanny state is not going to help the poor.
Some of them will abuse the entitlements and some will settle for the minimum. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help, but it does mean we should have discipline in the process. And that's the truth!
O'REILLY: One of the major positives coming out of my presidential interview is that I learned a lot. The far right is making a huge mistake in thinking that President Obama is actively trying to harm the nation. He is not, and his overriding concern can be summed up in two words: social justice. The president sincerely believes the deck is stacked against minority Americans and many working poor people, and he is trying to right that perceived wrong.Then the Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz was on to discuss it.
Accepting that premise, you begin to understand his posture on almost every other issue. Take Benghazi, where the president believes the issue is trumped up by Fox News and others. He doesn't see Benghazi or the IRS situation or the ObamaCare screw-ups as important in the long run. He sees them as mistakes, believes we should all move on and support his goal of social justice.
Presidents Nixon and Clinton also thought their troubles were inconsequential because they believed what they were doing for the country was far more important. Talking Points believes that the Benghazi, IRS, and ObamaCare stories are very important to the nation, but President Obama and his supporters disagree. But the president has brought some scrutiny upon himself by claiming the Benghazi attacks were 'not some systematic, organized process.'
Based upon our investigation here, the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans was an organized terrorist action. Also, there is strong suspicion that the Obama reelection campaign did not want that made public because it could lose the president some votes. That's a big deal.
O'REILLY: The left in this country is extremely creative; they spin and put out stuff that never ceases to amaze. The latest is about my interview with President Obama. The spin is that I dealt with phony issues, stuff trumped up by Fox News. Jon Stewart accused me of 'dipping wholesale into the faux Fox scandal grab bag.' He echoed President Obama by saying that some of the issues I brought up have been 'thoroughly investigated.'Haha, and now the truth. Most of what O'Reilly said is lies, and right-wing spin. Jon Stewart is 100% accurate about O'Reilly and Fox, and he nailed them for their bias on made up scandals nobody in America cares about. The people care about the economy, jobs, health care, immigration, taxes, and guns. Benghazi and the IRS do not even make the list.
That's a farce. There have been no cogent explanations about why the administration misled the world over Benghazi. With the IRS, there has been no explanation about who was behind the targeting of conservative groups. And on ObamaCare, only 8% of people using the website say it's working well. These issues are not important to Jon Stewart or even to the president because they don't pertain to social justice or global warming.
Now, I'm going to speak very slowly so Stewart and his crew can take some notes. Number one, there are serious charges that the administration would not tell the truth about Libya because of the upcoming presidential election. Number two, if the IRS is abusing its vast power, every American should be concerned. And finally, the people are being forced to accept ObamaCare and it's still chaotic. Are you hearing me out there in left-wing fantasy land?
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O'REILLY: It's fascinating to watch the discussion after my talk with President Obama Sunday. The usual suspects are complaining that I was rude and obnoxious, while the hard right is moaning because I didn't slam the president to the floor. But the vast majority of Americans were given a clear view of some very important issues. I managed to get the president on the record about controversial topics, something which has not been done before.Okay, to begin with, O'Reilly is milking the presidential interview for all it's worth, to get ratings, because the Monday show had 4 million viewers. And 2nd, Milbank never once at any time called it the 'nastiest exchange' of O'Reilly's three interviews. He never said it, and if you doubt me go read what he wrote at the Washington Post website. O'Reilly made it up, he is a liar, what Milbank said is that it was a hostile interview, which it was.
Initial ratings say about 20-million people watched the interview live, with hundreds of millions more seeing it on the Internet. The president was cool throughout and I did my usual stuff, I pressed him. Enter the far-left zealots who can not report anything honestly because their job is to distort. Dana Milbank called it the 'nastiest exchange' of my three interviews with President Obama.
Milbank is intellectually dishonest - he writes a column for the Washington Post and spouts nonsense on TV. On a wider front, the mainstream pretty much ignored or covered the story casually. In a surprising move, CNN almost totally ignored the story. Perhaps they didn't have enough time, being a 24-hour news channel. All in all, we have more information about the president now than we did before Super Bowl Sunday. And no nastiness was involved.
O'REILLY: Keystone Pipeline, a new study comes in, environmental impact negligible, 42,000 jobs. You're going to OK it, I assume?Notice the 42,000 jobs number, it's wrong. O'Reilly is lying, Obama corrects him and he still refuses to drop the right-wing propaganda on it. Nobody is saying it will create 42,000 jobs, except right-wing spin doctors, and Republicans who are biased and support it.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, it's not 42,000, that's not correct. It's a couple thousand to build the pipeline.
O'REILLY: Forty-two all told.
OBAMA: Well, the bottom line is what we're going to do is to the process now goes agencies comment on what the State Department did. The public is allowed to comment. Kerry is going to give me a recommendation.
O'REILLY: All right, so I assume we're going to do that after five years.
OBAMA: We'll take a look at it.
O'REILLY: Okay, I'll take that as a yes.
TransCanada has said in a press release that those 20,000 jobs include 13,000 for constructing the pipeline and 7,000 to manufacture steel pipes and other equipment. It predicts it will take two years to complete.O'Reilly also said a study shows the environmental impact will be negligible, without telling you that study he is talking about was done by a conservative group that supports the pipeline, so their conclusions are biased and can not be trusted. So that's another lie O'Reilly was caught spinning for the Republican party.
But TransCanada's estimate does not mean they expect 20,000 people to work on the project, a spokesman told us.
Each "job" represents one "job year" or one job lasting for one year, they said. This means that if a single person works on the project for both years, his or her stint is counted as two "jobs."
This could place the number of actual people employed by the pipeline closer to 10,000, or some 6,500 workers in construction and 3,500 in manufacturing. Not 20,000.
These construction jobs are not permanent, and for the most part, they aren't local. The positions will disappear when the pipeline is complete.
The U.S. Department of State, which is in charge of evaluating the project, estimates that only 10 to 15 percent of these jobs can be filled with workers from communities in the pipeline’s path.
O'REILLY: "I'm not on a jihad against Milbank. I'm on a jihad, a holy war, against declining standards of journalism. The Washington Post editors... had to know that Milbank was lying. And they had to know that he was lying for a reason, that he's a far-left zealot. It's okay to be a liberal columnist, but once you cross the line into lying to promote what you want, then the paper's got to take action."Now that is the funniest thing O'Reilly has ever said, and the most hypocritical. O'Reilly is calling for the Washington Post to fire Milbank for something he said, even though when liberals say the same thing about people at Fox O'Reilly screams bloody murder and says liberals want to deny them their free speech rights.
O'REILLY: "And they had to know that he was lying for a reason, that he's a far-left zealot. It's okay to be a liberal columnist, but once you cross the line into lying to promote what you want, then the paper's got to take action.”Think about that, because O'Reilly does the very same thing, he is a far-right zealot who crosses the line into lying to promote what he wants, so using his logic Fox should take action and fire O'Reilly for doing the very same thing Milbank does. And O'Reilly is worse, because he lies every night for the right on the #1 rated cable news show, Milbank just does it in a newspaper column.
OBAMA: "I don't think I anticipated the degree of the problems with the website. The good news is that right away we decided how are we going to fix it, it got fixed within a month and a half, it was up and running and now it's working the way it's supposed to and we've signed up three million people."Which is just right-wing lies from O'Reilly, Obama answered the question, O'Reilly just did not like the answer so he moved on to another question. Not to mention all that has been covered, over and over, they had investigations and hearings and we know everything, O'Reilly and the right just refuse to move on, even though they are year old stories and nobody cares about them anymore, except partisan right-wing idiots.
Asked about Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama said this: "I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable."
O'Reilly also claims Obama evaded some pointed questions about the terror attack in Benghazi and insisted that there was "not even a smidgeon of corruption" in the IRS alleged targeting of conservative organizations."
O'REILLY: On your watch, median income has dropped 17 percent among working families in this country. Part of it was this terrible recession, everybody knows that. But 72 percent of babies in the African-American community are born out of wedlock now. Why isn't there a campaign by you and the first lady to address that problem very explicitly?1) O'Reilly lied about the keystone pipeline jobs, here are the facts, as reported by forbes.com, a conservative website: In January of 2010, Trans-Canada CEO Russell Girling claimed that the project would produce 13,000 construction jobs, and this past April the company revised that number even lower, to 9,000 construction jobs.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Actually, Bill, we address it explicitly all the time. I'll send you at least 10 speeches that I've made since I've been president talking about the importance of men taking responsibility for their children, talking about the importance of young people delaying gratification, talking about the importance of, when it comes to child-rearing, paying child support, spending time with your kids, reading with them. Whether it's getting publicity or not is a whole different question.
O'REILLY: But I don't see the pressure from the federal government to go in and say, this is wrong, this is this is killing futures of babies and children.
OBAMA: I've just got to say, Bill, we talk about it all the time. And we'll continue to talk about it. We're convening, for example, philanthropists and businesspeople city by city who are interested in addressing these kinds of problems at the local level. What's interesting, when you look at what's going on right now, you're starting to see, in a lot of white working class homes, similar problems. When men can't find good work, when the economy is shutting ladders of opportunity off from people, whether they're black, white, Hispanic, it doesn't matter, then that puts pressure on the home. So you've got an interaction between an economy that isn't generating enough good jobs for folks who traditionally could get blue collar jobs even if they didn't have higher education and some legitimate social concerns that compound the problem.
O'REILLY: Keystone Pipeline, a new study comes in, environmental impact negligible, 42,000 jobs. You're going to OK it, I assume?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, it's not 42,000, that's not correct. It's a couple thousand to build the pipeline.
O'REILLY: Forty-two all told.
OBAMA: Well, the bottom line is what we're going to do is to the process now goes agencies comment on what the State Department did. The public is allowed to comment. Kerry is going to give me a recommendation.
O'REILLY: All right, so I assume we're going to do that after five years.
OBAMA: We'll take a look at it.
O'REILLY: Okay, I'll take that as a yes.
O'REILLY: I can't speak for Fox News, but I'm the table setter here at 8:00. Do you think I've been unfair to you?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Absolutely, of course you are, Bill. But I like you anyway. O'REILLY: Give me how I'm unfair. You cant make that accusation without telling me.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Bill, we just went through an interview in which you asked about the health care not working, IRS was wholly corrupt, Benghazi.
O'REILLY: But these are unanswered questions ... it's my job to give you a hard time.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think regardless of whether it's fair or not, it has made Fox News very successful. What you guys are going to have to figure out is what are you going to do when I'm gone.
O'REILLY: I gave President Bush a real hard time.
O'REILLY: Are you the most liberal president in U.S. history?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Probably not ... In a lot of ways, Richard Nixon was more liberal. He started the EPA, he started a whole lot of the regulatory state that has helped make our air and water clean.
O'REILLY: I thought you were going to say FDR.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, FDR, Johnson. But I tend not to think about these things in terms of liberal and Democrat or liberal and conservative because at any given time, the question is, what does the country need right now?
O'REILLY: I think that you are much more friendly to a nanny state than I am. I'm more of a self-reliance guy, you're more of a big government will solve your problems guy.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I disagree with that because I think that what used to be considered sensible, we now somehow label as liberal. Think about it, Social Security, Medicare.
O'REILLY: But you're paying for that, it's the freebies that are the problem.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: What freebies are we talking about? Welfare actually is worth less now than it was 20, 30 years ago, it's worth less than it was under Ronald Reagan.
O'REILLY: Take a look at the disability explosion. I mean it's insane. The workplace isn't any more dangerous now than it was 20 years ago. It's through the roof, you know people are conning you.
OBAMA: We have not massively expanded the welfare state, that's just not true. When you take a look at it, actually, the levers of support that we provide to folks who are willing to work hard are not that different than they were 30 years ago, 40 years ago or 50 years ago. You and I took advantage to certain things. I don't know about you, but I got some loans to go to college.
O'REILLY: No, I painted houses, I didn't get any loans.
OBAMA: I painted houses during the summer, too. It still wasn't enough. So the so my point is is that that's not a nanny state, that's an investment in the future generation. I think self-reliance is alive and well in America. I think the problem is people don't see as many opportunities to get ahead. My job as president, as long as I'm in this office, is to give them the tools to get ahead. They've got to work hard, they've got to be responsible. But if they are, let's make sure that they can make it in America. That's what it's all about. That's how you and I ended up sitting here talking.
I've been treating patients for 30 years, and I see the detrimental side of marijuana all the time. We are seeing how it affects the mental function and there's a new syndrome where marijuana use takes away ambition and motivation and desire. A study shows a drop of eight IQ points after years of chronic pot use, and the psychological effects are even more disturbing.He also said pot is worse than alcohol or cigarettes, which is just insane. And O'Reilly put him on because he agreed with him, with no guest on who disagreed to give the counterpoint. So it was a one sided biased segment with no fairness and no balance. Which is typical O'Reilly, and what he does when he wants people to believe what he believes, with nobody to question anything they said.
O'REILLY: The Public Policy Polling group recently surveyed registered voters about who they trust in TV news and Fox News won by a landslide. 35% of the public trusts FNC, while just 6% of Americans trust MSNBC.Okay, now we get to what O'Reilly did not report from the poll, and it is a lot. In fact, he left so much out it's going to take a while to report everything he did not tell you the poll said.
So, like us or not, we are a force in the USA, despite the dishonest pounding we take from crazed left-wing critics.
As for me, the survey found that I have a 41% approval rating, while 37% disapprove. Shockingly, that approval number is higher than any of the current crop of possible Republican presidential candidates.
When you look at the 8 outlets we tested individually, only one is clearly trusted by a majority of Americans. That's PBS, which 57% say they trust to 24% who don't. Most Democrats (80/6) and independents (49/31) trust it and it at least gets an even split with Republicans at 38%.Take note, PBS is the only one trusted by a majority of Americans. The great no spin journalist Bill O'Reilly never reported that, ever, not once.
O'REILLY: On Super Bowl Sunday I will once again interview the President of the United States. The interview will be short, but the president has kindly granted some additional time on tape afterward that we'll show you Monday. Although the president sometimes criticizes Fox News, he knows its power.Folks, almost all of that is spin, O'Reilly never mentioned that Fox was also voted the least trusted by 33% of the people, or that the only reason it was voted the most trusted by 35% of the people is because 69% of the Republicans who took the poll voted for Fox. It's all right-wing spin, in the so-called no spin zone, and I will do a blog about it with the details that prove it.
The Public Policy Polling group recently surveyed registered voters about who they trust in TV news and Fox News won by a landslide. 35% of the public trusts FNC, while just 6% of Americans trust MSNBC. So, like us or not, we are a force in the USA, despite the dishonest pounding we take from crazed left-wing critics.
As for me, the survey found that I have a 41% approval rating among Americans, while 37% disapprove. Shockingly, that approval number is higher than any of the current crop of possible Republican presidential candidates. I am looking forward to seeing the president on Sunday.
Last time I interviewed him I got lashed by both the far-left and the far-right. I expect the same reaction this time around, although I think fair-minded Americans will appreciate the questions.
O'REILLY: Government researchers are looking for some volunteers who will allow doctors to spray the flu virus up their noses. The bad news is that you'll be quarantined in a hospital for at least nine days; the good news is that they're paying $3,000 to each human guinea pig.Sounds great right, simple and easy quick $3000, wrong!
RODGERS: Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Republicans and I support equal pay for equal work.And now the truth: McMorris Rodgers actually voted against laws meant to address the pay disparity between men and women four times.
My message last night was one about empowering everyone in this country, no matter what your background, no matter where you live, what corner of the country, no matter what your experiences are. We want you to have the opportunity for a better life.