Bill O’Reilly, the best-selling author of 15 #1 books including the #1 “Killing” series, his latest, “Killing the Legends” is here to break down the psychosis of Americans:
A great sayings is, "people believe what they want to believe." Often, facts and reality have little to do with beliefs. Bill and Sean share some great examples...
All right, Leonard Skinner, simple man. That can only mean one thing on this radio show. That's all things, simple man, Bill O'Reilly. Now, his latest bestseller, Killing the Killers, has still on the New York Times bestseller list. He has Killing the Legends. When is Killing the Legends out next week? No, the twenty seventh of September, So everybody is pre ordering it now, and totally different than the other killing books, that's for sure. It's so if you're killing the legends, that means it's people like Hannity, you're killing yourself. You know, who are the legends we're talking about? You know, the legends that I write about are just above. We're legends in our own mind. But go ahead, Elvis Millam in Elie John Lennon, and the subtitle is the Lethal Danger of Celebrity. And you and I know as well as any you know all about that how dangerous being a celebrity is in America today. And he's three. You know what's a really cool thing. So Muhammad Ali's daughter was on the television show and he watched and he sent me boxing gloves signed by him. I still have that. He was a very nice man. A lot of people don't know that, and so is Elvis Lennon not so much. But they got caught up in things they could not control and it led directly to their desks. All three. I say, and I've never talked to you about this. I say, fame is unhealthy. I think it's unnatural. I think, you know, why is it that we put people, musicians, athletes, people in the media up on a pedestal when all we really are doing bills, the same thing that everyone else does for a living. As you say, the folks, we provide a service. We provide news, information, opinion, perspective on the day's events, and and whatever whatever level of quote fame people get, it seems to be very damaging to many people that have it. You got to have a lot of preparation in order to handle the pressures that come with notoriety, whether good or bad. And Americans lead the league, lead the world in adulation of famous people, and now because of the Internet, that adulation has turned mean in a lot of regards. Last night, I was a Yankee stadium for the met Yankee Subway series. All right, So when I go there, I know everybody, and I've got really good security and everybody is nice to me, and I pose for as many pictures as I can pose going up to the suite where I sit. So who's in the suite? The simple man says, in a suite. But that's okay, keep going to no. I honestly, people would not understand that. I totally get it. Yeah, there's fifty thousand people now. I used to sit with Donald Trump, and people remember the famous pictures because he's a big Yankee fan. We would go to the games before he was in politics, and but we did sit in a very protected area with security sitting behind us. I don't have security sitting behind me. But I go into the suite. Guess who's in the suite? Oh, Supreme Court Justice. So to Mayor, I have heard she's a wonderfully nice lady. Well listen to this. So I don't agree with her on anything in vice verse. I met her before at the Kennedy Center Honors when I gave an award to Herbie Hancock. I'm dropping names like crazy here, but it's interesting. So anyway, she's there. She was born and raised in the Bronx, big Yankee fan, and she couldn't have been nicer. But when I was there, and I was there with my son, and I wanted him to talk to her because he's involved with political science in college and all of that. I'm looking around and I'm not seeing the US marshall. Okay, Now, wherever the Supreme Court justices go, they have to be a bevy of US marshals with them. We have to protect our Supreme Court justices, especially in light of what happened. I go to one of the Yankee officials and I go where the marshals and he looks at me and he goes, they're right over there. I look. They look like they were They were dressed as any baseball fan would be, and they looked like they were twenty two and there were three of them. Now, they do that because they don't want to attract attention to the justice because who gets in and out of there in a very secure manner. But the danger to every famous person, whether it be political or entertainment or sports, is escalating so rapidly in our country. That's frighten. And that is why I wrote Killing the Legends, Well the only thing I would say. And then I really want to get your take on this student loan forgiveness thing. Is that there's only two things that I think ground people in life period. I mean, you don't have to be famous to have a messed up life, right. People make bad decisions every day. And the only thing is that I have found to the extent that I might be grounded in any way is a my belief in God and that we're all created by God natural law. And be the fact that I have worked hard my entire life. And by working hard, I mean since I was eight years old, and that kept me grounded. And doing all of that blue collar work for decades of my life keeps me grounded because I don't think I'm any different than anybody else that's providing a service, even though what I do is in the public eye. Okay, so now I'm going to tell your audience a one thing about you that you won't say, Oh no, I'm not gonna like this. No, you like it, Hannah, and he just sit back and relax. One of the reasons that you didn't have the problems that Elvis or Lenin or Ali had was because your fame didn't come out of a skyrocket. So you started your career I think in Santa Barbara, California, you went down south. You're in Alabama, you're in Georgia. You worked your way up just like me. Scranton, Pennsylvania for me, Dallas, Denver, Hertford, Connecticut. So we were working people who just got lucky enough and skilled enough developed their skills to become famous. That's a big difference. Agree, Yeah, who explode onto the scene and have no idea of the temptations and the pressures a fame bring. All right, let's move on now, Bill, I know you went to school. I had a student loan from Jamaica's Savings Bank, and I paid it back in ten years fifty eight dollars and five cents every month. At a time, I was living paycheck to paycheck in my early twenties, and it was difficult to pay back. So now you've got Joe Biden is going to forgive debt twenty grand if you went to college on pell grants, ten grand if you didn't receive pell grants. Forgiveness applies to those earning less than one hundred and twenty five grand. And on top of that, the student loan pause will be extended one final time through December of the thirty first, twenty twenty two and by the way, if you have an undergraduate loan, you can cap your repayment at five percent of your monthly income. Now, there are a lot of angry people out there Bill because they paid for their college, They worked their way through college like I did. Their parents, they didn't take vacations, buy new cars, go out to restaurants to save for their kids college. And now we're going to take their money, those people, and we're gonna give it to this generation. And and Elizabeth Warren, I think said it best. Let me play this for you. So you're gonna pay for people didn't say any money, did something that those of us did the right thing. Get screamed, it's not even my money. Had fun by hard little vacations. I save my money. He made more money. But I worked in a double ship. I worked extra dollard works. He is ten, So you're laughing at Yeah, that's what you're doing. We did the right thing. And then we get true, how great was that guy? Look, what people have to understand is that the federal government is not fair. It doesn't try to be fair, it never has been fair, and that reflects life. Many times your parents say life isn't fair, but everybody should know and understand what's going on here. It's very important. Number One, this is a vote grab, Okay, that's what it is. They're buying votes, right They the Democratic Party said we're going to vote. We're going to buy as many votes as we can by giving out as much federal money as we can. And you've seen it over the last eighteen months with Biden. I mean, there's never a check that Biden doesn't want to write. And in fact, in this case, Humor wanted fifty thousand debt forgiveness and I'll tell you why in a moment, and Biden knew he couldn't do that because it would be just a catastrophe of inflation, which is attached to this bill as well at ten and twenty. It's going to inflate at fifty to be ridiculous. So it's a vote grab vote by. The second thing is that the federal government wants to run the United States educational system from preschool to grant school. The Socialists want to run it. We all know that. And the way to run it is to control the money that is paid to the institutions. This is the start of that. What the goal for the progressive left is is to give free education to certain groups equity, and then the other groups will pay the freight. But we, the central government, will control who gets the free education and who does not. That's what this is all about, Hannity, All right, quick break Moore with simple man Bill O'Reilly on the other side than your calls eight hundred and nine four one Sean. You want to be a part of the program, look back to schooltime is here, but that's also prime time now for these online scammers looking for the next victims. Now, all ages of students and parents their targets of cyber criminals. They use very clever methods to steal your money in your personal information. 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Awesome Hannity Tonight, say your DVR nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. Right, we continue with simple man Bill O'Reilly. You know what the problem too is there's a certain lawlessness that he's taken on. And let me play you Nancy Pelosi saying, Oh, Joe Biden doesn't have the power through the stroke of a pen or executive fiat to do this. Listen, people think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power. That has to be an Act of Congress. And I don't even like to call it forgiveness because that implies a transgression. It's not debate forgiven to get just freeing people from those obligations. So the question of who gets forgiven, whether to use the term of art that is out there is a debate. Do we use whatever money there is for the broadest base of support of those with more people with even less debt or fewer people with more debt. That's a policy discussion. But the difference between the president president can't do it, So that's not even a discussion that not everybody realizes that. But the president can only postpone delay but not forgive. Now, Bill, O'Reilly. They're doing it anyway. They're not following the laws of the land. We see that on our southern water is now ruling by Executive Fiad. And at the bottom of every single decision they're making on the economy, on energy, begging doing this new Iranian deal, begging the Saudis. The Saudis are now decreasing production. Great job, Joe begging Venezuela and OPEC every single item. If you look down the list of AOC's Green New Deal, they're doing it by Executive Fiad, or they get mansioned to go along with a phony scheme, promised him a pipeline and then say never mind. It's like Lucy pulling away the football from Charlie Brown. Yeah, but if you Pelosi's right, I mean, Biden can't be forgiving debts in the private sector. But this isn't the private sector. If you read the fine print in this debt forgiveness thing that he's signed, it all gets attached to the federal apparatus. Somehow the loans come out of the Department of Education. That's how Biden gets around the thing that only Congress has a right to designate money spent by the federal government. So they're playing a shell game with the American people. But the most important thing is for every voter in this country to understand the goal. The goal is for the federal government to control education, the economy, social mores, every single thing of your life. That is the goal of the Also their goal to stop Trump. Last question less than a minute. Do you think they will indict Donald Trump? Not at this point. But I'm not privy to what documents he possesses or did possess. But we know what Hillary possessed because they don't know. Hillary possessed far more top teper classified information, prosecutional discretion. They're going to throw that up into your face. But I'll tell you what. If Trump is indicted, the first witness that will be called by his attorneys will be Hillary Clinton. All Right, Bill O'Reilly, Killing the Killer is still in the New York Times bestseller list. It's always a pleasure. Bill. We love having you on. Thank you for being with us, and I hope you have a great holiday weekend coming up as well. All Right, thanks for having in, Sean, appreciate it. Quick break right back, your calls on the other side, straight ahead, all right, twenty five now till the top of the hour, eight hundred and nine four one, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. This Paul Pelosi Dui video is not really good. He's kind of slearned, couldn't walk straight. Anyway, We've got the audio portion. Let's play it. Are you sure you could complete the test? Because I really don't want you to fall over hearing yourself. That's latold, great, but that's that the peak though, the whole purpose of the test grabbing onto a so called you're involved in a crack. I'll call it. Coming from your bread. I can see your very unsteady on your feet. So it was clearly hammered. Apparently in the Napa Valley where they have all the wine tasting all there are people that I know that are dying to go to Napa Valley and go vineyard to vineyard to vineyard. And no wonder it has the fifth highest DUI rate in the entire country, because cops aren't stupid when you go to the when you go to the winery and you're driving a car, you're probably gonna be Adams shift faced. And if you are, then guess what You're gonna get a d UI like Paul Pelosi did and he hit that out of the car and he could have killed somebody. Um, so that didn't work out well, I'll tell you who. Also, I don't think that Fetterman's gonna take us up on our offer, Linda. I will follow up again today the Bernie Sanders socialist loving uh spoiled bratt Uh. You know baby, trust kid that he's been his whole life. This guy's never had a job. What perfect that title is too long? I think we got to give him a shorter title. Somebody wrote me last night, I said, why don't you just call him Uncle Fester? Oh God, somebody said that to me too. It's really it's so funny. I'm like, but that's mean. I don't want to put on the top. He puts on the tough guy act. He acts all tough, he acts he's working class. Meanwhile we find out he's a trust fund brad his entire life living off mommy and daddy. He buys a home from his sister for a dollar. The guy's never had a real job. He's so out of touch with the people of Pennsylvania. Abortion no restrictions at all, meaning up to the moment of birth. Is he insane? He wants to a moratorium on fracking that's an eighty billion dollar industry to Pennsylvania. Is he out of his mind? He supports all of this new Green Deal socialism. He says, you know, brags that he's with Bernie Sanders, supported and endorsed Bernie Sanders, so he's a full on socialist communist. And chases a guy, an innocent African American, running down the street jogging. This guy even admitted that he probably broke the law, but because he was the mayor, nobody arrested him and confronts this guy with a shotgun and holds this guy hostage. And he got away with that, and he acts like it's not a big deal. Imagine any Republican running for the Senate that ever did something like that. What would the media reaction be there? Anyway, So he gave He's now had two general campaign appearances for the general election, and the first one was eleven minutes. We played that. That's a disaster. And this is out of the four plus minutes that he gave yesterday, it only went on a little over four minutes. That's it. So this guy's campaigned to whopping fifteen minutes in this entire election cycle, and the media mob is running defense for him, just like they did Joe Biden in twenty twenty. Listen to what a disaster this is. Now. Remember he had a stroke before the primary, and by the way, I wish him the best of health. This isn't about his health as much as it is about, you know, wanting to legalize heroin, which he's taken that position. Safe shooting zones all over Pennsylvania. Gee, that's a brilliant idea too. Anyway, here's him yesterday. Let me ask you a question. If you say you think the word of steal worker, what words come to your mind? If you say steal workers, you know what comes to my mind. Also is making sure that I'm going to be proud to stand and defend the Union way of life, Perry, if I make it to DC, being anti union is anti American? What is wrong with demanding for an easy, safe kind of their income, a path to a safe place for them to win or excuse me to work? Thank you, thank you for endorsing me on first day of my campaign. We've got a bigger problem than Biden. Maybe here. I mean it's painful to listen to on the human level, nobody will believe me. I don't wish anybody ill health. I don't. But he's certainly not up to the job of being a senator. But put that aside. Put his health issues aside. Because it had not been transparent about it. Nobody in the media is even pushing them for an answer about it. And but it's because the positions he takes. Sanctuary state, he wants legalized heroin, he wants to end fracking in Pennsylvania, abortion with no restrictions whatsoever. He's a Bernie Sanders basically trust fund brat, has never had a job, and he acts like a tough guy because he's got all these tattoos and he wears a hoodie and people think he's tough. He's not that tough. He won't debate Oz, he won't debate us, he won't do interviews. I don't think he's capable of it after hearing that tape you, I don't know that he was ever capable of it. But the thing is that we're seeing now is he's not able to hide it. So the difference between then and now is he can't hide it and he's not able to see. He's obviously going through all the rehabilitation that happens when you have a stroke, and he needs to focus on getting better, being in rehab, learning how to do all the things we need to do again. And that's it. That's it, and quite franklish. One the reason why they think that you don't mean it is because they wouldn't mean it. They're out there to attack and to just you know, kick conservatives. I don't wish, we don't do that anybody, of course, we don't know. I just don't. I mean, but he's still not fit to be senator. He's not been a good governor. That is a fact. He's not fit to be senator. By the way, Linda behind the scenes has been given me a hard time because my godson is getting married and I'm a big part of all the events that will be taken place in coming days, and I think we should I think we should note Sean that I do take great enjoyment in this. I'm fully admitted to it. Because you hate weddings with a passion. I'm gonna try and be on my best behavior. My family is a little worried though, So what does that mean you'll be there for a whole ten minutes instead of eight? Well, that issue has come up. How I plan on staying when I speak, what I will say. You know my kids in particular, Dad, you can't. It's it's your godson. Dad. You don't, Dad, don't, but whatever you do. And then I and they kind of push me. So I pushed their buttons and I said, well, I'm gonna be myself and just saying those words scares them. That's all we need to hear. That's a dad, Please, Dad, you can't. I'm like, what do you mean, I'm just gonna be myself, my charming's oh man, Jake and Kentucky. What's up, Jake? Glad you called, sir. Thank you for taking my call. Mister Hannity, one quick question for you. How does the sitting president have the authority or the constitutional authority just to tell his subordinates say, hey, the former president he no longer hands any of his rights or his authority. How does that work? Well, I think you're raising a good question here. It doesn't work the way that they say that they're working. And at the top of the hour we'll talk to John Solomon and Greg Jared about this very thing. For example, Greg Jarrett said on Day one that the Federal Records Act gives authority to a former president to have custody and control over presidential papers. Wall Street Journal echoed that argument yesterday. And then on top of it, then you have the timeline, which I keep going back to the National Archives and Records Administration NARRA for short, they sent the Trump people a letter thanking them for their help and cooperation in February of this year. And then you've got the DOJ and the FBI, were at Marlago in June. They wanted to see what other boxes remained, and they asked the Trump people to put it under a padlock. They did, and they could have taken anything they wanted that day. All they had to do was ask, and the President said, come back anytime you want, whatever you need, we'll give it to you. I mean, it is no way that the president he doesn't pack up all these boxes. This is all a crock, all of it. He wasn't out there would wow, that's a whole other topic right there in itself. I mean, it just you know, you know, the stuff that we've seen President Trump go through. This is just another Democrat dirty trick and it's disgusting and it's been six years of this crap and I'm sick of it, and America is sick of it. America now they're watching this. And even people that maybe are maybe not inclined to like Donald Trump or his personality or whatever, you can't deny that his policies work. He can't. I'll take that debate to anybody any place any day now. If you'll argue that he maybe occasionally should be a little more delicate on Twitter and not being as many fights with some of these people. Okay, I can understand how you feel that way, but remember you you weren't the person light about for three years about colluding with Russia and stealing an election. So he has every right after that to be suspect of the people that hate his guts, that dragged him through a phony impeachment, not one, but two of them, the same people that ignored the real quid pro quo, the same people that won't rate Hunter's house or Hillary Clinton's house. You know, at this point, you know he has every right to be pissed off at the double standard. I'm pissed off about it. And Americans, you know, that's why this election matters, and it matters a lot, especially the House and the Senate. These key races mean something. Anyway, Thanks Jake, appreciate you being in Kentucky. Listen, Thanks to my friends at car Shields, I don't have to worry if I break down on the road, I don't have to worry about expensive repairs. And here's the great thing. Whether a car has five thousand miles or one hundred and fifty thousand miles on it, if you lock in your car shield protection today, it's around one hundred bucks on average. Your price will never go up as long as you own your car around one hundred bucks a month. They offer protection plans. They cover more parts than ever before, and when you need to repair, you don't have to deal with the paperwork or all the headaches. 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That's carshield dot com slash Hannity or eight hundred three nine one eighty eight eighty eight to keep your family and your costs safe and secure with your vehicle. All right, let's have back to our phones. Deborah is in the Free State of Florida. What's up, Deborah? Glad you call? Hello, Sean. I am so happy to be talking to you. First time I got through long time listener. And my point today is yes, thank you for God, bless you all you do for our country. Year one of the great patriots in America. So what I'm like to say is this. Everyone's talking about the August eighth, Monday raid on Trump's Marla though, well, on August fifth the warrant was issued. Why did they wait a couple of days till Monday? Everybody's talking about that, and from observing everything, in my humble opinion, I think that what they did was they waited till Monday so they could get a full news cycle on Monday, get all their six o'clock pundits on the mainstream media to get ready and to steal their garbage about how horrible Trump is for hiding all these doctors. So it was merely a boy to get to the news cycle and keep that going for a week. And now what we're in the third week. Okay, so we've had all these leaks. It may have to do with the nuclear codes. There may be as many as seven hundred classified documents. I'm going to replay comy and when he laid out all of the things they found on Hillary Clinton's servers and the things of course that were deleted that we'll never get a hold of, that we think foreign entities probably do have copies of. But anyway, when you read what she did versus what Donald Trump did, Donald Trump gave them access and gave them fifteen boxes, and gave them Axis in June, and gave them an opportunity to take anything they wanted. So this is all a crock. And if it was so dangerous, as the medium mob would have us believe, or Democrats would have us believe, why did they wait three long days to do it? Why did they wait eighteen months to do it? They should have done it right away. So none of it makes sense. And I think, yes, this is nothing but the latest greatest example smear, slander, to smirch and try and get Trump anyway, you can, and they've they've thrown everything at this guy and they've not killed them. They want him politically dead. That's just the fact they don't want him running now. On the other hand, it's a little ironic because you talk to Democrats and they love to cite their little poles from liberal media organizations. Oh, Donald Trump would be the easiest Republican to beat. So if he's the easiest, you would want him to run again. But apparently they really don't believe that, because by their actions, they're showing that they're very fearful of Donald Trump. Debrah, you you make me proud. Thank you so much for being a long time listener, and thanks for your patience. I'll give you the last words. What's your final words? One more thing. I think one of the reasons they did this chill was to get a preemptive strike in because they know Trump is going to run, they know he'll probably win. And when he has a valid reason for going after Hunter and the Biden crime family and he raised their places, they can say it's political retribution. When it's not. It will be warranted and it will be just. But they are doing this to say, look, he's getting retribution. I'm done, thank you. They had evidence that Hillary committed crimes, they did nothing. They didn't raid her house. We know that she purposely, with intention the leaded thirty three thousand emails on her servers. We know that she had aids bust up you know devices, phones, blackberries and bust it up into little pieces and throw them away, and that simcards were removed from other devices. Then they're handed over to the FBI. But without a simcard, they're meaningless. You can't get any information off such a phone. So you know the double standard, the dual justice system is on full display for the country to see. The good news is November is coming. If you care to get the country back on track, the first step is November. The second step is November of twenty twenty four. That's how we'll save the country and we'll lead your help, dever, thank you, all right, quick break. The eight hundred and nine four one Shaun is a number you want to be a part of the program. As we roll along,