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.
LOL...ok, maybe you caught me being mean spirited for wishing Keyes onto Colmes. But I enjoy seeing a through and well presented thought...and few can satisfy as well as Keyes.
I'm with you. SF is nothing but a center for socialist thinking. They want all the "freebies" all the while they are bashing the government daddy that gives them away. I say, take away government protection.
"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."
Hey, I'll boycott San Francisco. (Boycotting San Diego, however, would be a lot tougher.)
Excellent comments by him, I pray he never retracts them and in fact hits harder.
All it takes is one "predatory recruiter" and the rest of you are tarred and feathered.
yes!
Gavin, where's the resolution against PREDATORY government?
Gavin "any twosome" Newsom
shout out to you on Mc Clintock... glad to see him in your tag
I thought they came armed with spitballs.
O'Reilly thinks he's so popular because he's in the Center. I've had it with him referring to the Far Right and the Far Left in the same sentance and smiling when he says the GOP is in Big trouble. He won't explain who is the Far Right - Christian churchgoers, military families, pro-lifers, limited government types? I'd love to see Hannity or Gibson or Hume take over his spot.
The are for predatory recruiting of youth by homosexual predators? And against military recruiting?
I very much doubt that. He has always claimed not to beling to any political party. He has always stated that he is an independent.
That's correct.
By most accounts, Lillie Hitchcock Coit (1842-1929), the heiress who commissioned the tower's construction, was a firehouse groupie from her teen years until her passing, dressing and acting like the firemen down to her own badge and cigar.
The tower does resemble a nozzle, although some have suggested that there was an intended phallic implication as well. Me? I say, sometimes a tower is just a tower.
Yeah because they are preying on poor unfortunates. Ok so Uncle Sam is too evil to be allowed on campus but every other entity fishing for hapless dolts are welcome?
<< Coit Tower, a tribute to SF firefighters from the 1906 earthquake, is supposedly in the shape of a fire hose nozzle. >>
Perhaps instead of blasting the place, he aught to have hosed it?
Poofters like a time to time hosing I'm told.
Oh!, they're not "livid" over banning recruiters who are members of the military who are avenging the death of NY firefighters by having kicked butt in Afghanistan and who are also killing members of the same terrorist group every day in Iraq. I appreciate their concern about their hunk of concrete and stone, but, if this is truly the attitude of the SF firefighters rank and file (i.e. concerned with their tower, but note defensive of the right of our military to recruit), then they are just as selfish, arrogant, and incredibly self-centered as the city they work in.
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