Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who is set to join former President Donald Trump on a multi-stop “History Tour” later this year, claimed racism, homelessness and drugs are only problems in “mega-cities,” not rural America.
O’Reilly, who was forced out of Fox News in 2017 over a series of sexual harassment allegations and settlements, wrote a piece Sunday which compared Jackson, Wyo., to San Francisco. The “One Country No Longer” essay on his website called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an “abortion zealot” who presides over a “dangerous” Bay Area district filled with drug addicts, homeless people and racists. O’Reilly noted that San Francisco residents have elected the 81-year-old Pelosi 17 times, meaning they “deserve the depravity they are getting.”
O’Reilly lamented how “little unity” remains in the United States following his recent trip to Wyoming, with the former Fox News figure declaring, “we are no longer ‘one nation under God.'”
“No masks. That’s the first thing you notice upon leaving the airport,” O’Reilly wrote in his Sunday essay, which described flying into Jackson, Wyo. “No homeless, I didn’t see anyone sleeping on the streets. Somehow, shelter is available.”
“Skin color doesn’t seem to be a problem, either. Lots of different races touring the National Parks,” he continued
“This western enclave is a unique part of America, but so is San Francisco, where thousands of homeless drug addicts now roam the streets assaulting the senses of fellow citizens, looting businesses without restraint, dying in record numbers from overdoses,” O’Reilly wrote.
O’Reilly does not mention that Jackson, Wyoming only has a permanent population of little over 10,000 residents, compared to the Bay Area which is home to more than 7.7 million people. O’Reilly accused President Joe Biden of being “right behind Nancy [Pelosi] on abortion and racial division,” going on to claim Pelosi “lives behind a wall” while her constituents battle drug addicts, homeless people and other crimes.
O’Reilly said there is “no longer one America” and said the country is now divided up into “fiefdoms” from the Middle Ages, with “King [Andrew] Cuomo” ruling over New York in the east.
On Saturday, Trump and O’Reilly announced they will both be taking part in a four-stop December tour of Florida and Texas aimed at fact-checking parts of U.S. history they believe have been mischaracterized in schools and the media. In O’Reilly’s Sunday essay, he said Wyoming public school students, unlike those in major cities, are not “taught their country is essentially based on evil. No one is tearing down statues. Few are canceled for stating an opinion.”
Are Wyoming and California even in the same country anymore? Provocative column just posted on https://t.co/rryWmzeOZa. Also, Happy Father’s Day to all the dads who try their best!
— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) June 20, 2021
The former president, writing through his Save America PAC media emails, confirmed the tour alongside O’Reilly is scheduled for later this year.
“My tour with Bill O’Reilly is getting a lot of attention, and I’m looking forward to it,” Trump said in a statement Saturday. “Maybe tickets would make a great Father’s Day gift? In any event, I’ll see you then, and much sooner!” Trump wrote in a statement issued Saturday. “I will be focusing on greatness for our Country, something seldom discussed in political dialogue.”
O’Reilly has penned numerous books about historical figures ranging from Abraham Lincoln to General George S. Patton to John F. Kennedy.
Newsweek reached out to O’Reilly and Pelosi’s office for any additional remarks over the pundit’s essay on disunity between America’s cities and rural areas.
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