As all but the GOP frontrunner once again took to a Fox News stage for what Glenn Beck called “the worst debate I have seen in my lifetime,” two of the network’s former powerhouses — Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Reilly — sat down for a nearly one-hour discussion that, less than 24-hours since its debut on X, has already racked up 8.8 million views.
With O’Reilly on the set, things were bound to get “pithy,” and, after discussing his own firing from Fox in 2017 (“I accepted it.”); his wildly successful “Killing” series of books (“The bestselling non-fiction book series of all time.”); demonic possession (“There’s an act of evil… I think it probably runs a television industry in America right now.”); and the assassination of JFK (“So many people have made so much money off this…”), O’Reilly pulled no punches when the conversation turned to the current state of our nation.
(00:32) Getting fired from Fox News Channel
(09:24) The future of cable news
(11:21) “We’ll do it live!”
(12:43) O’Reilly’s new book, Killing the Witches
(16:37) Demonic possession
(18:25) Witch hunts
(21:23) JFK assassination
(25:10) Biden’s incompetence
(28:31) The Left’s…— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 28, 2023
“We’re in the Age of Disorder now,” O’Reilly told Carlson. “America has entered the Age of Disorder, and it’s because of the Progressive Movement.”
President Joe Biden “is diminished mentally,” he continued, and “the Progressives like that because the people who control him inside the White House can tell him anything and he’ll do it.”
Take, for example, the refusal to secure the United States’ border with Mexico.
“This open border policy — which is insane, literally insane — this has led to massive death with the Fentynal problem, destruction of cities like El Paso [Texas] — whole cities evaporated — chaos in New York, where you’ve got buses of migrants being attacked by citizens who don’t want them moving into the neighborhood,” O’Reilly stated.
“There isn’t anything good about this, and immigration law says this should not be happening, but Biden won’t enforce the law because the Progressives don’t,” he explained.
He noted that George Soros has spent his entire life advocating for “no borders anywhere,” adding that not even former President Barack Obama went “that far.”
“Biden? Age of Disorder,” O’Reilly repeated. “Black Lives Matter, no police, nobody’s punished for crimes, tax people up to here so they don’t have any assets.”
If you only watch 3 minutes…https://t.co/W76ABPX5ba
— CitizenLenz (@CitizenLenz) September 28, 2023
“The more money you take from people,” he said, “the less power they have. And the Progressives want to run everything, including telling your children what to think when they’re five years old. And most Americans don’t get it because the press is working with the Progressive Movement and suppresses all this, so they don’t know that we’re in the Age of Disorder.”
“And we are,” he stated. “Everywhere.”
“We gotta snap back,” O’Reilly said, “or we’re going to lose what we have here.”
The conversation pivoted to Donald Trump and the many indictments against him.
O’Reilly is confident that, regardless of what his political opponents throw at him, he won’t be kept off the ballot, and he’s not going to end up behind bars.
“Number One, he’s not going to be taken off the ballot,” O’Reilly said. “There’s no Constitutional order that would allow that to happen.”
“Number Two,” he continued, “he’s not going to prison because, even if he’s convicted, none of the things that he’s charged with would warrant prison.”
“And the Supreme Court would rule, if it ever gets up there, that he’d be in home confinement where he could run the government if he wanted to,” O’Reilly added. “If he wins, he’ll be confined at the White House or whatever, but none of that’s going to happen.”
Despite believing that Trump “will do what’s best for Trump,” if he is elected, O’Reilly stressed, he could “stop the Age of Disorder.”
“He can stop it,” he said. “You could close the border tomorrow. All you have to do is write an executive order that says, ‘We are suspending all requests for asylum for six months until we can get this thing under control. So we’re not taking any more.’ You could do that tomorrow.”
With respect to dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin, O’Reilly said Trump won’t tell the historian “what he has on Putin, but I know he has some.”
Trump is hated so much in Washington D.C. because he “doesn’t respect them,” according to O’Reilly. “He’s not in awe of them.”
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Melissa Fine is the former executive editor of Casino Player, Strictly Slots, and Poker
Digest magazines. She is a UCLA graduate, news junkie, and dedicated Stargate SG-
1 fan. Melissa currently lives with her dog and two cats in a tiny town in the Sierra
Nevada foothills.
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