Posted on 11/11/2005 11:05:58 AM PST by SmithL
Conservative talk-show host Bill O'Reilly is ready to scratch San Francisco off the map of the United States. Gone. Coit Tower? Terrorists can blow it up, and the rest of the country shouldn't care.
The Fox News talk-show host and one-man conservative media juggernaut has concluded that the United States and San Francisco just don't go together anymore. Voting to oppose military recruitment in public schools and to ban handgun ownership, as San Franciscans did Tuesday, means the city should be cut off from federal dollars. And then some.
"You know, if I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds,' " O'Reilly said Tuesday on his radio show as San Franciscans were approving the two measures. Perhaps, he didn't realize that he'd be speaking mostly to foreign tourists and suburbanites if he were standing in Union Square.
"Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead," O'Reilly went on. "And if al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. 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."
San Franciscans might be offended by this invitation, or perhaps even threatened, if more of them visited Coit Tower.
On a cool gray Thursday afternoon, the San Francisco landmark was filled, as usual, with tourists from Ohio, Texas and other states where TV's "The O'Reilly Factor" and its syndicated radio companion, "The Radio Factor," pull better ratings than in San Francisco.
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I don't get it, how can SF vote to ban handguns? It's our constitutional right. How does SF get away with ignoring the constitution? Am I just being stupid or is this vote meaningless?
Wow. I actually agree with BOR on something! Don't call him conservative though.
And I would like to keep Dr Savage and the Niners please.
As I look into my crystal ball, I see a rash of home invasions and burglaries in SF. Ommmm....
Add Molinari's Deli in North Beach to the list.
You're not stupid and this vote is not meaningless. You're trying to apply logic and rational thought to a place that long ago abandoned that approach. The people here are comfortably insane.
Consider the source. Pravda is probably considered conservative there.
I didn't get the writers point at all, other than his panties are in a bunch. I'm with O'Reilly on this one. Screw 'em.
"San Francisco? You're France to me now." -- Glenn Beck
Don't forget, their mayor deliberately flouted CA law and approved giving marriage permits to gays last year. He was breaking just as many misdemeanors as if he was handing out permits to open whorehouses in residential neighborhoods.
Yet did the state police arrest him for flouting state law? Nah.
Such would have been the wet dreams of the faggots in SF. To have their beloved mayor taken away in handcuffs. It would have moved gay rights to the front page.
It will take the single remaining normal person in SF to challenge the laws in courts.
O'Reilly Conservative? Shows how much the writer of the article knows which isn't much.
The vote in meaningless. There is a provision in the CA constitution whereby state law trumps local jurisdictions with respect to this type of thing.
Thats the one! See post #10
I wonder what is the connection between the BOR and city government? The BOR says only that Congress shall not... It says nothing about local voters or even state government.
I'd agree with keeping the 49ers only if we could get rid of the Yorks.
I wonder if they were as upset when Rhandi Rhoades suggested that Dick Cheney do a "Fredo" on Bush..."you know, take him out on the lake and (popping sound)". The SF Chronicle can go and get stuffed.
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