Sean Hannity promises to personally contact Ron DeSantis to intervene with some libraries in Florida removing Bill O’Reilly’s books
Hannity: “As a favor to you, I will very gladly reach out to the contacts I have and connect you”
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Sean Hannity promises to personally contact Ron DeSantis to intervene with some libraries in Florida removing Bill O’Reilly’s books
Citation From the January 17, 2024, edition of Premiere Networks' The Sean Hannity Show
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Mr, O'Reilly, sir, I actually felt bad for you in the last week. I read that there were places, libraries in Florida that chose your book to remove and look at and possibly put on a ban list -- like your out of your Killing series, Killing Jesus was one of them, and a couple of others. And I saw that you were rightly angry and indignant about it.
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BILL O'REILLY (GUEST): But everybody should know that Governor DeSantis could not care less about this situation.
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HANNITY: I know people that I can guarantee you will give you a call back. Now, nobody -- it doesn't matter if you're Bill O'Reilly or anybody, should should be treated brutally by any elected official's office -- or, but I do believe, and this is my opinion, knowing the governor as well as I do, and I've known him for a long time, that this would be an issue that he would care about. I'm not sure. He's obviously been very busy out campaigning. I have -- I would bet everything I have, he has no idea, that you're trying to reach him. But as a favor to you, I will very gladly reach out to the contacts I have and connect you because I just -- I find it hard to believe that this was brought to the governor's attention.
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O'REILLY: This is a good law in Florida because what some of these school districts were doing down there, in the liberal precincts, was horrible.
HANNITY: I could tell you that, you're right. I agree with you on your analysis of the law. I'm just -- knowing the schedule and you've been there, you know what it's like. These campaigns, these candidates, it's like they have a fire hose going down their throat. They're gulping water. We work in a business where we often gulp water, and you got to prioritize what you're doing. Now with all that said, it shouldn't have happened.
I would imagine after any fair, objective analysis that your book will be returned rightly so to the library. The same with Anne Frank. I would assume the same with Grisham and Stephen King. I I would assume all of that.
And I, on your behalf, if you do -- if with your permission, I'd like to reach out to people that I know that I know will get the message to the governor because I would bet pretty much everything I have, this did not hit his desk. This did not make -- he was not informed of all of this, what you're describing.