RADIOApril 25, 2022

Bill O’Reilly gives the missing context to his AIRPORT RANT

Bill O’Reilly admits he never should have used ‘bad language’ during his altercation with a JetBlue employee earlier this week after his flight was delayed 5 hours: ‘Whenever you do that, you lose.’ But he tells Glenn that his overall anger in response to the situation was still justified and ‘righteous.’ Why? Because it wasn’t just O’Reilly’s flight that had such difficulties taking off. Rather, he says, JetBlue cancelled or delayed 76 PERCENT of all flights that day thanks to pilot and staff shortages. Several other airlines are having similar difficulties, O'Reilly says, and Biden’s Department of Transportation isn’t doing ANYTHING to fix the issue. Even worse? The ‘corrupt corporate media,’ O’Reilly says, won’t cover the story either. In this clip, he explains why…

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GLENN: Okay. Well. All right. That one even makes sense. In some strange way. So, Bill, let's talk about the mask mandates going away.

BILL: Okay. That's not the biggest story of the week.

GLENN: Okay. Well, I want to start there.

BILL: Yeah. So you can go wherever you want, it's your show. You're a successful guy. All right. Mask mandates. So this is -- this is my question.

And I am an inquisitive, simple man. So Joe Biden comes out. The president -- and he's asked. What do you think about the mask? People wear a mask. And he said, it should be up to them, remember that. It should be up to them.

And then, 24 hours later, the Justice Department, under his orders, appeals, spending millions and millions of taxpayer dollars, the federal judge's ruling, knocking out the mask mandates on public transportation. So I'm saying. A simple man. Wait a minute. If Biden just said, it should be up to the person, that is optional, why is he spending tens of millions of dollars, appealing this ruling?

Any of you guys have an answer to that?

GLENN: No. But it leads me to another question on this. And that is, is that what you were mad about, when you were at the airport?

BILL: I knew you were just trying to get there, Beck. I just knew.

It's a facade.

GLENN: Yeah. Okay.

BILL: Okay. Get a pen and a pad. Here it is: 7:00 a.m. flight. JFK Turks and Caicos. Airtime, three hours, 15 minutes. Supposed to arrive at around 10:20 in the islands.

GLENN: Hang on just a second. You had -- I think you had the sympathy of the American people. Turks and Caicos. Yes, you did.

BILL: Okay. I was just trying to go on a little vacation. A little break. All I want. Paid my money. All right. You have to get to the airport, two hours ahead, for international flights. But you have to be there at 5:00.

GLENN: Yeah.

BILL: Okay. I arrived a little bit late, but not too much. All right. I'm trying to be a good guy. Good consumer.

I walk through the security. Try to get in. You know, they put me against the wall. You know, all that. But I finally arrive at the gate. And it says, on time

JetBlue on time.

Yes. Yes. Five hours later, no! No!

And so I'm sitting there, about 100 people, and they -- they know me. And they have people coming up with kids. What's going on? Can you find out what's going on?

Because the JetBlue gate people. Wouldn't tell anybody. They kept moving the flight back and back and back and back. All right. Finally after three hours and 20 minutes, I get up.

All right? And I walk over, to inquire. I said, can I speak to the supervisor. The supervisor comes out. Said, look, these three hours and 20 minutes. We have to know, are you going to take off, or not?

Meanwhile, Delta, flying the same route, takes off on time. Okay?

So JetBlue is under the weather. I said, no, no, no, no. There's no weather. It's nice here. It's nice in the Turks and Caicos. And your competition took off at 11 o'clock. All right? It flew the route. So, anyway, the guy gets -- in my humble opinion, he gives me an attitude. And then it degenerated from there. I say, I was wrong, using bad language, and I used a little bad language. Not a lot. But a little. But whenever you do that, you lose. Even if your anger is righteous, as mine was. Righteous anger. Everybody else there. I thought there was going to be a riot at one point. Now, I had immediately my staff research JetBlue for that day. April 3rd. Okay?

76 percent of their flights were either canceled or delayed.

76 percent.

So I did a little bit more investigating. You know why the plane didn't take off? They didn't have a pilot. So word got back to them, that there was -- O'Reilly is a little teed off. They call a pilot at home, in New York, he gets in the car, it's his day off. He drives in. He shows up, five hours, 15 minutes late, and he tells the people, they dragged me in on my day off. That's what he said.

Okay? Now, most of the -- it's now seven hours. Five-hour 15 minute delay, and you're there two hours ahead of time. Finally, the thing takes off. I do even more research. I find out, that on their whole system, they can't -- they don't have enough pilots or flight crews to put the planes in the air. Yet they still schedule the flights, Beck.

And I think everybody in the country, and this isn't just happening at JetBlue. It's happening at Alaska airways and others. And the Boston Globe, the only one doing an exposé, because there's a big hub there, at Boston, at Logan.

And Tuesday of this week, more than 50 percent of this week, even after all of this. More than 50 percent of JetBlue flights were either canceled or delayed. Do you get the feeling that this is out of control?

Let's take it a step further. Who is in charge of JetBlue? The department of transportation. Who is the Secretary of Transportation?

Might that be Pete Buttigieg? Is he still on maternity leave? I don't know.

Okay. I don't know. There's not an airport near South Bend of any note. The department of transportation today, could fine JetBlue amazing amount of money.

But Buttigieg doesn't do jack. And this has been going on for months. And do you hear, I'm a little righteous angry now. I'm getting a little --

GLENN: I know. I know. I brought that poor guy out. I'll bring him out in a minute.

BILL: Yeah. Okay. Sure. This is not about me. This is about broadly inducement. Millions and millions of Americans are paying their money to these airlines, with the expectation, they're going to get to where they want to go.

College kids. Families on spring break. Easter breaks. Stranded for sometimes days.

And nobody in the Biden administration is doing anything about it. Nobody.

I have contacted the Easter bunny, to tell the president, you got to solve this thing. That's what happened.

GLENN: You know, when -- you sucked all the fun out of my questioning. You really did.

BILL: I knew it. I had legitimate righteous anger. So does everybody else.

GLENN: Thanks for wrecking it for me. All right. Back with Bill O'Reilly in just a second.

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GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?

That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.

We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.

They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.

It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?

So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.

So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.

And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.

And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.

Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!

Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.

He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.

He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.

When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!

When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!

You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?

Here it is!

You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.

That's who you'll be.

The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.

We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.

Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!

Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.

Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.

Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.

Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.

If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.

That's your calling. That's why you were born.

Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.

You're not destined to be alone.

You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!

Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.

And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.

When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.

It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.

New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!

It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?

We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.

But we think that's life.

I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.

And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?

What did I do to attract that?

Why does this thing keep happening to me?

Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?

Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!

What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."

Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.

And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?

Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?

Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.

That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!

And the only thing that you can change, is you!

Seek the things, that have virtue.

Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.

Find the things that are true! Truly true.

Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!

And you will change your life and your world!