Bill O’Reilly rebukes leftism like never before

Bill O’Reilly, once host of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News and now host of his own domain and podcast, yesterday burned every bridge he ever had with anyone on the left. Until recently – and certainly while he was at Fox – he prided himself on political neutrality. “Caution: you are about to enter a no-spin zone,” he’d say, and would cut no slack to the right, either. And never did he deliver an unqualified rebuke of either side – until yesterday. His was the most breathtaking criticism he’d ever dished out – and one the left richly deserves.

What Bill O’Reilly said

The latest rant by Bill O’Reilly appeared on X at 12:08 p.m. EST on January 11. A user who goes by “Big Fish” or “Big Fish 3000” posted it, with a brutally simple text:

He appears on the set of his No Spin News podcast, wearing a white shirt and cobalt-blue tie. Telling how recent the podcast is, is impossible – because he has not worn that costume in the last twenty-four regular videos that appear on his Rumble channel. The segment runs for a minute and twenty seconds and is an obvious excerpt.

But no one can mistake the meaning of his words:

… these other progressive things, we’ve got to stop this now! I’m telling you, I don’t have any progressive friends anymore. They’re gone, because I can’t stomach them. Criminals running wild, murdering people, because progressive D.A.’s, funded by George Soros, don’t want to punish these violent criminals? That’s what you’re giving me? You support that? Get out of my house. Out!

I’ve had it! [President Joe] Biden is not going to get any better – and the Democratic Party has got to get destroyed next November.

I don’t care whether you like [President Donald J.] Trump or not. Trump governed this nation in a responsible way, where everybody prospered. And if you don’t believe that, you’re a moron. Every single thing, every single indicator, was on positive territory. All the working people, no matter what color they were, were making more money, and there were more jobs. We didn’t have inflation, we didn’t have supply problems, we didn’t have any of it. Now we’ve got all of it, in addition to an open border….

Citizen Free Press picked up the segment at 12:30 p.m., with a nod to “Big Fish.”

Allison Anton at The Western Journal posted about the segment on that site. At 9:00 p.m., Mike LaChance at The Gateway Pundit picked it up from there. He also shared several other X posts quoting the Big Fish post:

Another user, replying to Citizen Free Press, embedded a video of a segment Bill O’Reilly did during the 2020 campaign.

Biden, appearing in Michigan, apparently mixed up Michigan and military COVID-19 incidence and mortality statistics. O’Reilly concluded that the then-candidate literally did not know what he was saying.

Sadly, not everyone, replying to or quote-posting the two copies of the segment, appreciated O’Reilly’s point. Then again, no one ever ran for public office without getting a single vote. That applies to Biden, too.

Backing it up

Of course, no one can dish out harsh criticism the way Bill O’Reilly does. But every honest person knows he’s right. George Soros did fund the campaigns of several public prosecutors who won’t prosecute. The message is always the same: the law belongs to the white man, and exists only to persecute the non-white. Elect me, or my opponent will arrest you next, just to be mean and racist. (Oh, yes: according to critical theory, racist ≡ white.)

That works, right up to the point at which crime accelerates out of control. Because most crime, even today as Democrats deliberately stoke racial tension, is still opportunistic. And the opportunities to commit crime involve being part of the neighborhood, and often knowing the targets. So the people in the neighborhood voted in a new D.A. who wouldn’t arrest them. And no, nobody arrested them. But the criminal perpetrators know that this D.A. is a soft touch. So the voter who didn’t want to get arrested for the “crime” of non-white-ness, is now dead. That’s what Bill O’Reilly meant by “criminals running wild, murdering people.”

And true, Joe Biden will not get any better. In fact he made a Second Speech, a sequel to That Speech of September 2, 2022. Then again, Biden might not be running for reelection. Michelle Obama might – a fact Bill O’Reilly knows.

It’s as easy to show that the economy was better under Trump than it has ever been under Biden.

A failure of civility

Allison Anton took extra time to contrast the comparative civility of the last century with the marked incivility of today.

Whereas, even at the beginning of O’Reilly’s journalistic career back in the 70s and 80s, people on both sides of the aisle could have cordial discussions and disagreements about their political beliefs.

But now, many conservatives never speak about their politics in public or at the workplace for fear of reprisal from our elite institutions.

Or even at church, the one place where conservatives need to start talking about politics. Because if we don’t, we soon won’t have any churches to go to.

Is it lawful for you to [examine by] scourg[ing] a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? Acts 22:25 (KJV)

And worse:

And, by contrast, many progressives feel emboldened to display their sexual deviancy or call for violence against their political enemies in public forums.

And let a conservative do either – which CNAV does not recommend – and the censors come.

Your ordinary American and average progressive operate in completely different, and directly opposed, belief systems. The Democrats and Republicans of the 60s, the 70s and 80s could happily coexist with each other, having at least a decent amount of beliefs in common.

But today’s conservatives and progressives have almost none.

Former Rep. Scot Klug (R-Wisc.) knows what Ms. Anton is talking about. He wants to institute an American National Civility Award. Sadly, that award is likely to be one-sided, if anyone qualifies for it at all. In any case, an Israeli has observed that sometimes one cannot resolve a conflict, short of “just winning.” True, he said it in the context of the Fourth Arab-Israeli War. The American political divide isn’t that dangerous. Yet.

Almost five years ago, George Khalaf suggested building bridges, by reminding people of the good things conservative policies bring about for everyone. The problem is that progressives don’t want these good outcomes, though sometimes they say they do. They are like the angry Fabian who swats a dime out of the hand of someone offering it to a beggar. “Don’t delay the revolution!” he snarls. Bill O’Reilly clearly understands that, too.