Posted on 11/19/2008 12:36:35 PM PST by SmithL
San Franciscans famously fought back against Bill O'Reilly - the conservative Fox news anchor who really, really hates our city - when he said back in 2005 that the U.S. military shouldn't defend San Francisco in case of a terrorist attack. "You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead," he said.
Everybody from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Supervisor Chris Daly railed at O'Reilly, calling his comments outrageous.
Not content to leave well enough alone, O'Reilly has now sent an underling to the city to make a documentary to show where, supposedly, the politics of President-elect Barack Obama will take the country.
"The far left is emboldened now that Barack Obama has been elected president, and nowhere is the radical left government more on display than in the city of San Francisco," O'Reilly said in introducing the segment.
The minutes-long documentary goes on to show homeless people lounging in the parks, pot smokers, a transgendered prostitute, strippers -- and, well, that's about it. Jesse Watters, the producer, told O'Reilly he felt like he was in one big Grateful Dead concert filled with "vagabonds, street kids, runaways, your sixties hippie retreads."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
“the conservative Fox news anchor ...”
I quit reading right there.
That’s okay.
I don’t exactly like him, myself.
Pass me the bong before I comment on this.
In case of a terrorist attack SF should be delcared a sanctuary city for the perps.
Anybody got a link to the video?
WTF! You have got to be kidding. O'Reilly a conservative? LOL!!!
It’s awful when people mention the facts of life in San Francesspool. There’s no need to make up stuff about that bunch of freaks when the truth is so often unbelieveable on its own.
Five PM real time, 8 Eastern
Just a logic extension of their position.
Well, San Fransisco — for once we can dislike the same thing — Billy O.
What a blowhard.
Hillary’s a conservative in San Fran...
Heather Knight can only speak for the hate she harbors, not O’Reilly’s.
Wouldn’t have been able to get it in film if it wasn’t true.
There are two San Fran’s one is extremely liberal, gay loving, pot smoking, prostituting side, and the quieter family oriented side, it’s just that the liberal freal show side is much more flambouyant and make the city seem like everyone there is like that, of course not true. Bill says that teh politics of the city will be Obama’s sanctuary city and all.
Right off the bat, does this article anywhere acknowledge that O’Reilly referred to San Fran needing the military to protect against terror attacks BECAUSE San Fran was hostile to military recruitment centers?
Further, I have been hearing for many years that San Fran is largely homeless streetperson USA because they have created that atmosphere for themselves.
San Francisco to Boot JROTC Programs
SAN FRANCISCO — High schools across the city soon will no longer have Junior Reserve Officers'Training Corps programs after officials decided to eliminate them because of the Pentagon's"don't ask, don't tell"policy regarding gay service members.
The Board of Education voted 4-2 late Tuesday to phase out the JROTC from schools over the next two years, despite protest from hundreds of students who rallied outside the meeting.
The resolution passed says the military's ban on openly gay soldiers violates the school district's equal rights policy for gays.
The school district and the military currently share the $1.6 million annual cost of the program. About 1,600 San Francisco students participate in JROTC at seven high schools across the district.
Cadets and instructors who spoke at the meeting and rallied outside argued that the program teaches leadership, organizational skills, personal responsibility and other important values.
"This is where the kids feel safe, the one place they feel safe,"said Robert Powell, a JROTC instructor."You're going to take that away from them?"
Mayor Gavin Newsom called severing ties with the JROTC"a bad idea"that penalized students without having any practical effect on the Pentagon's policy on gays in the military.
"If people want to participate in it and their families want them to participate, I think they have a right to participate without putting them in the political peril of being in this ideological debate,"he said.
Lt. Cmdr. Joe Carpenter, a Pentagon spokesman, has said he didn't know of any other school district having barred JROTC from its campuses.
I believe SF should be removed from the Union before this becomes an issue.
Actually, I'd prefer someone blow up Candlestick Park, I think I'm still thawing out from the Giants games I attended there in the early 90s.
The last time San Francisco had a conservative mayor was back in the early ‘60’s. The last time they had even ONE conservative on the city coucil was back in the ‘70’s. Now, the spethal interests basically run the City. (that wasn’t a typo)
“....Bill O’Reilly hates us and the feeling is mutual...”
I thought the story was about Free Republic. I’ll never forgive him for comparing FR to Kos. Yuck! Not even close.
And that's just the SF Board of Supervisors.
If Bill O’Vilely is a conservative....then my #2’s dont stink
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html
The O’Reilly sex harassment suit, guaranteed laughs.
San Francisco is a beautiful city that, unfortunately, is infested with every possible type of human debris you can think of.
While I wouldn’t mind seeing these bottom feeders dropped into a bottomless pit somewhere, I wouldn’t want the city and its few remaining normal people to suffer.
Recently I attended some affair at my liberal sister's house, and practically everyone there was a liberal except for my wife and me. After a while the conversation got around to of all people, O'Reilly. My family and in-laws went on and on how they couldn't stand O'Reilly. I asked them why, because Bill is not really much of a conservative. You know why they hate Bill and consider him an arch-conservative? Because he's not a liberal. That's how they define conservatives. Not being an out and out lib.
You haven’t been to PacBell park then, the new field. It’s further north where the wind blows in on the first base side. If you don’t have gloves and a parka on it makes the Stick more like a day at Wakiki.
Some things just can't be improved upon.
Okay, you can pile on me if you want...but:
Bill may not say he’s a conservative, but wouldn’t you all think that his values are pretty conservative? Not only that, everyday he showcases the looney left....he obviously doesn’t care for them much.
I mean, this guy ripped Bawney Fwank a new one a few weeks ago...didn’t anyone see that?
And what about all the stuff he does for kids and charity...
C’mon people...how come you dislike this guy so much?
San Fransicko
“If you’ve been in the Bay Area or even on the West Coast lately, you’ve probably heard something about the Jack Davis party, the most famous liquor-bottle-in-the-wrong-orifice scandal to hit San Francisco since Fatty Arbuckle. We didn’t hear much about it in New York, because in New York, you can see people bleeding and urinating on each other for fun on practically every street corner, so people are accustomed to these things and it’s not such a big deal.
In a nutshell, for those of you from points elsewhere, this Jack Davis guy, an openly gay and notoriously ‘outrageous’ political consultant who is generally believed to have gotten the last two S.F. mayors elected and whose current client is the 49ers, who are trying to get the voters to approve a bond initiative to finance their new stadium, had his friends throw him a 50th birthday party that was attended by a slurry of big polyurethane-headed politicos in smart little suits and ties.
The party, replete with multi-sexual go-go sluts and a glory hole wall, climaxed with a guy named Steve Leyba getting a pentagram carved on his back and being pissed on and sodomized with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s by my old friend, vampire/lesbian/dominatrix/Satanist/junkie/poet/performance-artist Danielle Willis.
“When San Fran lobbyist Jack Davis celebrated his 50th birthday on May 3rd of this year, Willie Brown was there...About 300 people attended the party. Guests included Mayor Brown, Supervisors Barbara Kaufman, Susan Leal and Leland Yee, Sheriff Mike Hennessey, District Attorney Terence Hallinan, City Attorney Louise Renne, 49ers President Carmen Policy and his wife, former Supervisor Annemarie Conroy and Assemblywoman Carole Migden.
http://www.salon.com/may97/columnists/cintra2970520.html
“I mean, this guy ripped Bawney Fwank a new one a few weeks ago...didn’t anyone see that?”
He also ripped that jerk, Marvin Kalb a few days ago.
In their myopic worldview they cannot fathom anyone being farther to the right than BO’R.
Celebrate perversity.
And I recall reading about that. Wonder what he did for his 60th birthday.
I work in San Francisco.
It’s all true.
Correction: Bill O'Reilly - the guy pretending to be a conservative, who has a 1 hour infomercial for his books.
Well Bill maybe good at what he does, but I could still take him on and win with a debate involving the Bible.
I listened to his radio-talk show a few years back and he was trying to convince a caller about a moral topic and could not even quote the Bible to defend his principles.
That is what is different between a catholic and a christian.
Well, I knew ORielly had to have at least one redeeming quality.
And factor gear don’t forget the factor gear. Given how he talks to the women of Fox I have little trouble believing the fallafel allegations.
Like there's actually more to San Francisco than that, you mean...? ;)
I’ve been to Pac Bell/AT&T as well, but I made sure it was a day game, it made the experience much more pleasurable. :)
gotta remember that anything to the right of Pelosi in San Fran is ‘conservative’.
What part did Bill O'Reilly not cover? The endless pro-Liberal sloganeering of photos of the Golden Gate Bridge by travel agencies on all types of media and advertising?
I love my old City; but truly I tell people -- go visit: But living there is an entirely other STORY and you WON'T be supported nor defended by the power structure if you attempt to defend your own life, your loved ones' lives, coworkers lives, or your children innocence there.
San Francisco is an adult's playground: It's not safe for children and other living beings.
And if you are a business, you are going to die unless you are in on the liberal power structure which dictates a weird mad cult religion as the focus of their LAWs.
Other than that, the article authoress' whine was fairly plaintive.
Well, I promise that for the next 24 hours I will not bring up the other parties national Democrats have attended in San Francisco, as told to me by gay conservatives in attendance as guests. Minors (the underage for those who no longer know what "minor" means outside of a race box) were in attendance.
O’Really is “NOT” a Conservative.
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