Episode 624: Killing the Witches
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, the American Revolution, and even the Constitutional Convention. The repercussions of Salem continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind The Exorcist and in contemporary “witch hunts” driven by social media. Newt’s guest is trail-blazing TV journalist, Bill O’Reilly.
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| 0:33.2 | On this episode of Neutral, trailblazing TV journalist Bill O'Reilly is the best-selling author |
| 0:39.5 | of the Killing Series and his latest book is Killing the Witches, The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts. |
| 0:46.6 | Killing the Witches tells the dramatic history of how the Puritan tradition and the power of |
| 0:52.2 | early American ministers shaped the origins of the United States, influencing the founding fathers, |
| 0:58.1 | the American Revolution and even the constitutional convention. The repercussions of Salem |
| 1:04.4 | continue to the present day, notably in the real-life story behind the exorcist and in contemporary |
| 1:10.5 | witch hunts driven by social media. The result is a compulsively readable book about good, |
| 1:17.6 | evil, community panic and how fear can overcome fact and reason. Here to talk about his new book, |
| 1:25.2 | I am very pleased to welcome back my guest, the one and only Bill O'Reilly. |
| 1:37.0 | Bill, welcome and thank you for joining me in the news world. |
| 1:49.3 | Listen, one of the highlights of my book, Cyclose Talking to You, Mr. Speaker, we do this for |
| 1:54.4 | almost every killing book. I really appreciate your generosity in having me in. |
| 1:58.5 | Well, listen, when I can be associated with the best seller on your scale, I am quite happy |
| 2:03.9 | to invite you as often as you want to do another best seller. But before we do that, you're also a |
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| 2:16.2 | for a ceasefire in the Israel Hamas war? Anybody who calls for a ceasefire is basically saying |
| 2:22.3 | Israel should surrender to the terrorists. So a couple of years ago we talked about my book |
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