Bill Analyzes the Recent Election Special from the PBS Series "Frontline" | NSN | Sept. 25, 2024

Summary

In this episode of 'No Spin News' from September 25th, 2024, Bill O'Reilly critiques a PBS documentary on presidential candidates, particularly highlighting its biased portrayal of Donald Trump compared to Kamala Harris. O'Reilly discusses how the media, including PBS and The View, tend to favor Democrats while criticizing Republicans, focusing on unfair representations of Trump. He also touches on Biden’s recent appearance on The View, labeling it a 'love fest,' and expresses concerns about media bias. The show concludes with promotions for O'Reilly’s content, including new YouTube episodes and a special on 'Confronting the Presidents.'

Takeaways

• 📺 Bill O'Reilly criticizes PBS's documentary 'Frontline' for being biased against Donald Trump, while presenting Kamala Harris in a favorable light.
• 👎 O'Reilly believes that PBS is not neutral and accuses the documentary of heavily featuring people who dislike Trump, while excluding critical voices against Harris.
• 📝 O'Reilly notes that 'Frontline' inaccurately attributes redlining practices to Donald Trump, despite Trump being too young to have been involved in them.
• 😇 Kamala Harris is depicted as almost saint-like in the documentary, while Trump is shown in a negative light throughout.
• 🤐 O'Reilly claims that key details about Harris, like her extramarital affair with Willie Brown, are left out, while Trump's personal mistakes are highlighted.
• 📊 He emphasizes the lack of balance in the media, claiming that many outlets favor Democratic candidates, comparing the situation to the favorable press treatment JFK received.
• 🎙️ O'Reilly criticizes ABC's 'The View' for being a 'love fest' for President Biden, contrasting how Trump would be treated differently.
• 💬 He asserts that despite criticisms, Trump will still gain significant voter support, estimating at least 65 million votes in the upcoming election.
• 🐕 O'Reilly praises the organization Delta Rescue, which helps save abandoned animals, and encourages viewers to support their mission.
• 📚 O'Reilly promotes various resources, including his book 'Confronting the President,' and offers a special Q&A for premium members focused on the upcoming election.

Q & A

What is the main subject of the talking points memo in Bill O'Reilly's show?

The main subject of the talking points memo is Bill O'Reilly's critique of PBS's Frontline documentary, 'The Choice,' which he claims was biased against Donald Trump and overly favorable towards Kamala Harris.

How does Bill O'Reilly describe the portrayal of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the Frontline documentary?

O'Reilly argues that Trump was portrayed negatively, with many individuals who have openly criticized him being featured, while Kamala Harris was portrayed in an overly positive and favorable light without any critical voices.

What specific criticism does O'Reilly have about the representation of redlining in the documentary?

O'Reilly criticizes the documentary for blaming Donald Trump for redlining practices that his father Fred Trump engaged in, despite Donald Trump being too young to be involved at the time.

Who are some of the individuals mentioned by Bill O'Reilly as part of the documentary's anti-Trump group?

Some of the individuals mentioned by O'Reilly include Mary Trump, Jonathan Karl, David Marcus, Tony Schwarz, and Michael De Antonio, all of whom he says are known for disparaging Trump.

What is O'Reilly's reaction to the documentary's handling of Kamala Harris's relationship with Willie Brown?

O'Reilly points out that the documentary omitted the fact that Kamala Harris had an extramarital affair with Willie Brown, while it emphasized Trump's extramarital affairs, which he finds hypocritical.

What does Bill O'Reilly say about PBS as an organization?

O'Reilly claims that PBS is a 'dishonest enterprise' and accuses it of using taxpayer money to produce biased content like the Frontline documentary.

What analogy does O'Reilly draw between media treatment of Donald Trump and past presidents?

O'Reilly compares the media's support of Joe Biden to the media's favorable treatment of John F. Kennedy, implying that both were shielded from criticism by the press.

What is O'Reilly's prediction about the 2024 election in terms of Trump’s voter base?

O'Reilly predicts that Donald Trump will receive at least 65 million votes in the 2024 election, arguing that many Americans do not see Trump as a threat to democracy despite media narratives.

What solution does O'Reilly suggest Trump should adopt in his campaign messaging?

O'Reilly advises Trump to acknowledge mistakes without apologizing, present himself as humble, and level with voters instead of attempting to completely remake his image.

What type of program does O'Reilly promote towards the end of the transcript?

O'Reilly promotes Delta Rescue, an organization dedicated to rescuing animals, and suggests viewers donate or leave a gift in their will or trust to support their cause.

Outlines

00:00

🎤 Bill O'Reilly Introduces the Show and Discusses PBS's 'Frontline' Bias

Bill O'Reilly opens his No Spin News segment by discussing President Biden's appearance on The View and then shifts to a critique of PBS's 'Frontline' documentary, which he claims is biased against Donald Trump. O'Reilly lists several individuals featured in the documentary who criticize Trump, noting an absence of equivalent criticism for Kamala Harris. He argues that PBS, funded by taxpayer dollars, is promoting unfair portrayals of political figures, particularly by presenting Trump negatively and Harris in a favorable light.

05:01

📺 O'Reilly Calls 'Frontline' a Fraud for Unbalanced Coverage

O'Reilly continues to express frustration with PBS's 'Frontline' series, describing it as a 'fraud' for its biased portrayal of Kamala Harris as a perfect figure while ignoring controversies, such as her affair with Willie Brown. In contrast, the documentary emphasizes negative aspects of Trump’s life, like his alleged involvement in redlining, while overlooking Harris’s flaws. O'Reilly highlights that Trump is criticized for his personal life, yet Harris's past is glossed over. He criticizes the media landscape for being biased against Trump, particularly outside of outlets like Fox News.

10:02

🤔 Media Bias and Its Impact on Public Perception

O'Reilly dives deeper into the issue of media bias, arguing that outlets like ABC News, which broadcast shows like The View, are complicit in this one-sided portrayal of political figures. He contrasts the soft treatment Biden received on The View with the harsh criticism Trump consistently faces, suggesting that this media imbalance influences public perception. He predicts Trump will still receive significant voter support despite these media portrayals, attributing his confidence to Trump’s ability to resonate with a large portion of the American electorate.

15:03

🐾 Delta Rescue, Viewer Feedback, and Promoting O'Reilly's Content

In this segment, O'Reilly promotes Delta Rescue, an organization dedicated to rescuing animals, before reading letters from viewers who comment on Trump’s debate performance and political strategy. He also talks about how Trump should position himself as humble without apologizing, emphasizing the importance of connecting with voters. O'Reilly plugs his own website and premium membership, offering viewers exclusive content and encouraging them to engage with his interviews and special segments.

Keywords

💡Frontline

Frontline is a PBS documentary series referenced in the script. In the context of the video, it is criticized for presenting a biased portrayal of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The host, Bill O'Reilly, argues that the documentary unfairly targeted Trump with negative commentary while praising Harris, illustrating media bias.

💡Redlining

Redlining refers to a discriminatory practice in which real estate companies and banks denied services to people based on race, particularly African Americans. In the video, Bill O'Reilly mentions that Donald Trump was wrongfully associated with redlining through his father's business, though Trump himself was not involved.

💡Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris, the current Vice President, is discussed extensively in the video. O'Reilly critiques how the documentary 'Frontline' portrays her in a positive light, contrasting her image as a 'sainted child' with Donald Trump's harsher depiction. This discrepancy is used to illustrate perceived media bias in favor of Harris.

💡Donald Trump

Donald Trump, former U.S. President, is central to the discussion. O'Reilly highlights how Trump was negatively portrayed in the 'Frontline' documentary, with various critics attacking his character and decisions. O'Reilly also addresses specific allegations, like redlining, and argues that Trump’s presidency is misrepresented as a threat to democracy.

💡Media bias

Media bias is a key concept discussed by O'Reilly, where he accuses 'Frontline' and other media outlets of being unfairly skewed against Trump and favoring Harris. He argues that this bias has become widespread across news networks, except for a few like Fox News and Newsmax, and highlights it as a threat to journalistic integrity.

💡The View

'The View' is a daytime talk show that hosted President Biden. O'Reilly criticizes the program for giving Biden a favorable platform without challenging his policies or statements. He contrasts this with how Trump would be treated in a similar interview, arguing that the media treats Biden with much more leniency.

💡PBS

PBS, or the Public Broadcasting Service, is mentioned as the network that airs 'Frontline.' O'Reilly accuses PBS of being a 'dishonest enterprise' due to its biased presentation of political figures. He expresses frustration with taxpayer money being used to fund a network he believes to be unfair.

💡Willie Brown

Willie Brown, a former mayor of San Francisco and California State Assembly Speaker, is discussed in the context of his personal and professional relationship with Kamala Harris. O'Reilly criticizes the 'Frontline' documentary for omitting details of Brown's extramarital affair with Harris, contrasting this with the documentary’s more critical coverage of Trump's personal life.

💡JFK

John F. Kennedy (JFK), the 35th President of the United States, is used as an example by O'Reilly to illustrate how past presidents received favorable media coverage. He mentions how JFK was treated by the press during his time in office, drawing a parallel to the positive treatment Biden and Harris receive in today’s media landscape.

💡Delta Rescue

Delta Rescue is an animal rescue organization briefly mentioned in the video. O'Reilly, who is a supporter of the organization, uses this as an opportunity to promote charitable efforts toward animal care, particularly emphasizing its mission to rescue animals from abandonment. This highlights his personal values around caring for animals.

Highlights

Bill O'Reilly criticizes PBS's 'Frontline' documentary on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as being biased against Trump.

O'Reilly claims that all 20 people in the documentary were critical of Trump, while there were no critics of Kamala Harris.

He accuses PBS of presenting Kamala Harris in a glorified way, comparing her to 'St. Joan of Kamala.'

Bill highlights that Donald Trump was unfairly linked to redlining practices done by his father, even though Trump was too young to be involved.

Kamala Harris was portrayed positively throughout the documentary, with testimonies from friends praising her.

O'Reilly criticizes PBS for ignoring Kamala Harris's affair with Willie Brown, while discussing Donald Trump's infidelities.

Bill O'Reilly calls 'Frontline' a 'fraud' and emphasizes that taxpayers fund PBS, making the bias problematic.

He accuses ABC's 'The View' of being biased during President Biden's interview, calling it a 'Love Fest.'

O'Reilly points out that ABC News runs 'The View,' suggesting they should give equal airtime to Donald Trump with someone who likes him.

Joe Biden claimed on 'The View' that he stepped down due to his age, but O'Reilly argues it was due to pressure from the Democratic Party.

Bill finds the selective criticism of Trump, compared to other political figures, such as JFK, similar to past media biases.

O'Reilly predicts that Donald Trump will receive at least 65 million votes in the upcoming election, despite media portrayal.

He defends Trump's four-year presidency, noting that it followed traditional governance and expressing no reservations in voting for him.

O'Reilly comments on Joe Biden's response about Trump's alleged threat to democracy, describing Biden's loss of train of thought.

He discusses his support for Delta Rescue and highlights their mission to help abandoned animals, noting that he donates to them personally.

Transcripts

[Music]

hey Bill O'Reilly here welcome to the no

spin news on Wednesday September 25th

2024 stand up for your country so busy

program today President Biden on The

View that was

amusing uh PBS presenting a fraud

last night on front line we paid for it

you and me and all the good working

people who get taxed we paid for that

fraud when do you hear this is amazing I

got uh notes Here uh that I took on this

they're written down or scrolled down

but I'm going to read my notes because I

want to be very precise when I analyze

this Frontline thing uh and that is the

subject of this evening's talking points

memo so every four years since

1988 the PBS series front line creates a

documentary called the choice where they

give you profiles of the two people

running for president so last night um

they presented uh Donald Trump and KLA

Harris but presented really wasn't the

right word so they had about 20 people

on the

documentary that hates Donald Trump that

hate Donald Trump disparage Donald Trump

throw them up I'm just going to read you

the names it's crazy Mary Trump if you

can believe it was on there Jonathan

Carl ABC David Marcus Mark fiser Luise

Sunshine Tony Schwarz Marie brener

Timothy O'Brien Michael De Antonio

Barbara R Wenda Blair John Bolton

Anthony scaramucci Noah Beerman Peter

Baker Carol lenning so all of them all

of them have disparaged Trump they're

all in the same Frontline

now how many have disparaged KLA Harris

how many people do they have that would

be

none

none all right now they did have

Gingrich new Gingrich Kellan Conway uh

and Roger

Stone uh you know very little airtime so

it's let's say it's 20

to3 and

um I here's my review okay so they start

with uh background now I wrote the book

United States of trump so I know all

about Donald Trump and I didn't learn

anything from Frontline they Pro they

just read my book and put it on the

screen but they distorted a bunch of

stuff so for example uh when they're

looking at Trump's upbringing Trump was

the Helen the rebellious guy and he was

he was a Brady kid and his father and

mother sent in a military school that's

true okay but kamla was canonized a

saint I call her a St Joan of kamla when

she was about seven or eight all right

she was the sainted child against the

hellish Donald Trump and then they go

through it and one of the worst things

was that they lay on uh red lining on

Donald Trump which means that uh because

the real estate business kept

African-Americans out of certain

neighborhoods that was called redlining

and Fred Trump Donald Trump's father did

it but Donald Trump didn't have anything

to do with it he was too young he was

running around Cincinnati at the time he

wasn't the architect of that boom front

line oh yeah

racist back to kamla oh kamla was uh

goes to Toronto everybody loved her

everybody loved her in Oakland and then

everybody loved her in

Canada um and then uh they go down the

list and they had friend after friend

after friend after friend of KLA Harris

all right saying she was the greatest

person I don't mind that she might have

been the greatest kid no friends of

trump nobody you couldn't drag anybody

up I had a bunch of them they weren't

hard to

find and then they go mentors all right

Roy coh the devil all right he's a New

York lawyer really evil looking guy all

right and then they do bring in Willie

Brown they bring in Willie Brown who

mentored KLA Harris he was former mayor

of San Francisco former Speaker of the

House in Sacramento okay but they don't

say that KLA Harris and Willie Brown

were in involved with an extramarital

affair Brown was married they don't say

that but then when they switch back to

Trump Donald Trump cheated on his wife I

went whoa wait wait

okay that's true but what about Willie

he's married married

nothing okay now I'm laughing I'm

actually in my living room I'm not

laughing uh cynically either I'm going

this is a

fraud this front line is a fraud and

remember we paid for

it and then they go down the list of uh

how great a public servant uh comma

Harris has been there's no record of

that none but she was the greatest

public servant stood up

this and that on and on and then Trump

oh Trump oh no it's threat to democracy

on and on and on and on so you get my

drift here now what is serious about

this is that when you have every Outlet

on television with the exception of Fox

News and Newsmax and news Nation when

you have all of the others in the tank

for presidential candidate it doesn't

matter who it is

it reminds me of

JFK J JFK at all the Press when you read

confronting the president you see that I

open up with Kennedy on a boat with Ben

Bradley the editor of Washington Post

and it moves around little cocktails hey

hey and Kenny got away with murder with

the Press not literally but you know and

now we're back to that we're back to

that so the thing that really uh

offended me about the front line thing

and I believe that PBS is a dishonest

Enterprise top to bottom okay it's

awful Mary

Trump Donald Trump's niece has made

millions of dollars vilifying him

millions and they lead with

her come

on come

on that would be like taking a

conservative commentator on the radio

who hates vice president Harris and

leading with

him but they would never do that all

right so then we segue uh to President

Biden who's in New York City and he

shows up on The View now he had been on

The View a few times before he would

never interview with me and I told you

the story about how I face to face asked

him so look your boss Barack Obama has

interviewed with me three times what

about you and he goes I'm never going on

the factor BL because he knew he

couldn't stand up this is when he was VP

all right so this is a Love Fest and

that's fine by the way I'm not objecting

to uh I wouldn't object to Frontline

being a fraud if I wasn't paying for it

that's my primary objection here don't

tell me public broadcast and you're

honest you're not you're

not so ABC News runs the view it's not

an entertainment program ABC News runs

it so if you're going to put Biden on

The View ABC News

then you got to give Trump an

hour and have somebody who loves Trump

on your staff interview him wait there

isn't anybody at ABC who loves Trump so

maybe you bring Sean Hannity in or he do

it or somebody like that who who really

likes the former president no you're not

going to see that anyway it was a smooch

Chama Love Fest here is Sound by one go

I stepped down because I started

thinking about it

you know it's hard to think of I know

you're only

30 but it's hard to think of it's hard

for me to even say how old I am no I'm

serious I don't

know I give my word it's like holy God

that can't be

right uh no that's not why he isn't

running he didn't step down and it

wasn't because he finally realized he's

82 he knew he was 82 when he ran four

years ago at 78 but he was really 82

because now he's really

86 but he was

booted and it's documented Nancy bosi

went in and said look you either step

aside or the Democratic party is going

to pull all your

support that's that's what happened so

there he is going oh no I step down

because I finally realized that maybe I

should give the younger people a CH what

a bunch of spy to steal a word from Joe

and there

they you know again if you're an

entertainment show you can do whatever

you want to do I don't care but don't

put yourself up ABC News as an honest

broadcast you're

not here's some by two Trump is a

um careful

there's not a lot of social redeeming

value there uh no you think right but

but here's the

thing he really does not does not

believe in democracy and the guard rails

that our system is set up yes for the

abuse of

power all right fine that's their line

okay now in the beginning he lost his

train of thought

but he didn't know really where to go

with it and that's what you saw in the

debate and then Joy bear you

think but again they were a perfect

right to spout whatever they want to

spout I predict that Donald Trump will

get at least 65 million votes in

November he could get far more than that

but that'll be the that's his Baseline

65 million that means that 65 million

Americans are too

stupid to know what Joe Biden knows that

Trump is a threat to democracy I think

I'm a pretty smart guy all right I got a

bunch of

degrees I don't think he's a threat to

democracy he governed for four years in

a traditional way I think he made a huge

mistake with the election and on January

6 he didn't act quickly enough but I

have no trouble voting for Donald Trump

I don't think that the Supreme Court's

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