Posted on 11/11/2005 11:15:23 PM PST by Political Junkie Too
Conservative Broadcaster Bill O’Reilly is making no apologies for his inflammatory comments about San Francisco.
"I'm from New York,” O’Reilly said on the radio Friday. “There are dozens of people in my neighborhood, on Long Island, who are dead because of 9/11, and you people are telling me you're not going to allow military recruiting out there. Hey, it's serious, and I think you guys need a wake-up call."
O’Reilly is upset about the city’s proposition discouraging public schools from allowing military recruiters on campus. On his national radio show Tuesday, he said San Francisco should not get a nickel of federal funds.
"And if al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it,” he said. “We're going to say, 'look every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower, go ahead.'"
On Friday, San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly told CBS 5 that he is taking action against O’Reilly by introducing a resolution demanding that Fox News executives fire the conservative host.
"I was outraged," Daly said. “To green light terrorist attacks and violence shows a lot of hate, not a lot of humanity. It's un-American."
Daly says that San Francisco firefighters are livid over O’Reilly’s remarks because Coit Tower was built as a monument to their profession.
"To choose that target, given the context of bravery of New firefighters on Sept. 11th, is doubly harsh message from Bill O’Reilly,” Daly said.
Mayor Gavin Newsom says the proposition does not mean that people in San Francisco are Anti-military. He says that people just have concerns about what he calls predatory recruiting.
Build a 10 lane freeway through it!
Keyes had a show... on MSNBC and it failed miserably.
Yeah right.
Bush, OTOH, needs all of our support to fight off the combined propaganda attack of the DNC, France, Soros, AlQueda, the UN, and the Beltway Press.
No. It's true.
Yes it did, although that doesn't mean that every possible format that he might appear on would fail. Someone posted that Alan Keyes excels in a debate format, which I agree with. Matched up next to Colmes as a foil and with the chance to interrogate guests I believe he'd do quite well...better than his own show did.
To paraphrase Samuel Goldwyn..."Mr. Mayor - if you want to send a message, call Western Union."
It's true, I feel safer visting NYC than I do in SF; that's why I don't visit SF anymore. Potemkin Village is in a death spiral. It's probably a blessing the USS Iowa isn't berthed there, SF doesn't deserve it.
Sure it does. They tried several different formats and it still failed.
He is right though to be outraged against the proposal by SF.
Putting Colmes up against Alan Keyes is like sending someone with a whiffle bat to a gunfight.
More like watching the keystone kops battle it out.
GOOD TAGLINE! PING!
We lived north of SF when 9/11 happened, and afterward it was hard to listen to the "It's all America's fault" commentats on local tv and radio--and when Berkeley basically 'seceded'
concerning the war and ruled that fire trucks could not display American flags, I was truly disgusted. I remember driving across the Golden Gate bridge back then and seeing troops atop the toll booths carrying rifles at that time, protecting the city. Now SF is too good to help protect the US??
Those who straddle the fence and try to placate terrorists
(see: France, Jordan, etc.) are just asking for trouble. Terrorists read the papers and watch FOX too! This is gonna come to no good, I'm telling you. BO'R has it right--they don't want to be part of our country, let'em go. Start their own country. It won't last long. How will they defend themselves--whip out cans of hair spray vs. guns?? Idjuts.
The are for predatory recruiting of youth by homosexual predators? And against military recruiting?
Pretty gay isn't it?
You don't think the thugs are going to turn there guns in by the deadline?
/sarc
Wouldn't that be like a Tigress having a fight with a three legged Mutt???
HEHE
I don't like O'Reilly much either but he is right about SF and their people who are bashing the military. I say you reap what you sow and good for O'Reilly for speaking up.
I live just outside of SF and when we go into town - ... well, this is how it goes.
BEGGER: Hey, do you have any spare change?"
US: No, do you. (and we hold out our hands asking them for $$)
PS... they get really angry!
We need to stop calling them "homeless people" and call them what they are...bums, delinquents, good-for-nothings, grifters, outcasts, pariahs, scumbags, slimeballs, tramps, vagabonds, vagrants....
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