Because if he had WOULD any one pay attention to it then.
I don't quite get it. I feel he was singling out NO for it's reputation for sexual openness. When he got called on it, he claimed it was meant to mean all of America.
He thinks NO deserved to be hit. All of us have sinned, even if we are virgins (because the sexual sins seem to get him the most riled up). But the rest of us don't deserve to be destroyed?