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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Bill O'Reilly

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Bill talk about the trouble they both have finding true stories on the web. Bill says Alvin Bragg only charges criminals for misdemeanors instead of felonies even if they use a gun.

Transcript

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Well, Bill O'Reilly, of course, the number one TV radio host, number one nonfiction author in the world. If you're not a subscriber at Bill O'Reilly.com, you should go there right now and sign up. You get the TV show every night. You get all the columns. You get the books, the killing series, the best-selling nonfiction series of all. Just go to Bill O'Reilly.com, become a premium member. Bill O'Reilly, how you doing? I'm hanging tough. How about you, Mark? I'm good. Listen, you've been covering this stuff a long time. Remember, you used to have to sit around and think of a topic for a, you think of something to talk about it. Now, every every day just crazy stuff happens all day long

0:39.4

is this ever going to straighten out though is the world ever going back to normal well it's

0:45.5

because of the internet I mean these there's so many phony stories by the way and they have generate, these websites have to generate clicks. So that's the difference

0:59.8

than, say, 20 years ago when legitimate stories would have come across what they call

1:05.8

the wire, the Associated Press wire, UPI wire. Now, half i have the day my day is spent running down what's true and

1:16.8

what isn't true and i have a staff to do it but instead of them researching legitimate stories they

1:22.7

have to find out whether the story is true or not let me give you a really good example that, you know, we'll hit home for a lot of New Yorkers.

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So a few weeks ago on 60 Minutes, they spent a lot of time on a story that said it was an

1:38.1

informer in Amsterdam that told the Nazis where Anne Frankner family were hiding.

1:44.4

Remember that?

1:45.4

Yeah.

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Okay.

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And it was based on a book.

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So 60 Minutes, and I'm a guy who can tell you this firsthand, if they do your book,

1:55.1

because 60 Minutes did killing Jesus for me, if they do your book, it goes right to number one, because millions of Americans see it.

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So this Anne Frank book went to number one, all right?

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60 Minutes devoted a lot of time to it.

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Book, bang.

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Now they had to pull the book off the shelves because it's not true apparently.

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So we're living in a world where you don't know, even on 60 minutes, which was at one time the gold standard for television news.

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You don't know what's true and what isn't true.

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And so part of the discussion every day is about the stuff that comes out on the

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