Posted on 11/11/2005 11:26:51 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Does Bill O'Reilly have it in for the city by the bay?
San Franciscans have been in an uproar this week over apparent comments by the host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" that it was A-OK for terrorists to wipe the city off the map.
At issue are comments from O'Reilly's Election Day broadcast on his syndicated Westwood One radio show about a San Francisco ballot measure opposing the presence of military recruiters in city schools.
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Every now and then BOR gets it almost right.
Frankly, I would give the whole state of California back to Mexico. It would be addition by subtraction.
... but 55 years ago, SF was not filled with looneys, gays, anti-gun nuts, and fruitcakes.
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I agree, and I didn't say it was. I have lived in the state actually a bit longer than that and have witnessed the transformation of the greatest state in the nation, driven by a conservative government of high quality, into an absolute liberal s%$#hole run by liberals, socialists and freaks.
Again, I agree. Will we ever get it back??
re: post 21
Couldn't have put it better myself.
I await for it to "burn".
<laughing>
Indeed, the Beats were the vanguard of the 1960s. They were taking drugs, studying Eeastern mysticism, and transgressing sexual norms 10 years before the rest of us.
By the way, the Beatles chose their name in honor of the Beats. I remember seeing part of the Beatles Anthology special that ran on ABC some years ago. George Harrison was recounting how the Beatles were in some odd lab somewhere, and they looked at crystals of LSD through a microscope. He described the regret he felt at that moment that the Beatles had played such a big role in popularizing that drug, which turned out to be such a huge disaster for so many people.
Now if we could only put this on our secret websites so the terroists will never find out about the importance of SanFrancisco. Sh be very quiet. lol
do you mean the Californians who just made it legal for a 13 year old to get an abortion without parental notification?
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Throw those liberal morons, and the Repubs that did not show up at the polls....absolutely disgusting.
Well every so often Bill displays a good conservative instinct. Its very rare but it may just have happened this time.
As far as SF city officials suggesting anyone is on drugs...well, that's quite a laugh given the condition that SF is in. Let's see, just this last week they passed a city law that violates the 2nd amendment, not that long ago the mayor unilaterally broke the law that CA had passed by about a 2/3's majority regarding the definition of marriage and yet didn't bother to hold him accountable to the law. No, I'd say it's the SF city officials who are on drugs...and probably literally true, not just figuratively.
"Let's just say that when the Big One hits SF, it will be a struggle to muster the funds to rebuild."
If it happens before 2009, Bush will have no problem finding a few hundred billion lying around to throw at SF!! See New Orleans for an example.
"O'Reilley's a jackass."
Yet many people on this thread are in happy agreement that, if a bunch of Muslim scum wants to kill Americans, by all means let them.
"Well every so often Bill displays a good conservative instinct. Its very rare but it may just have happened this time."
True conservatives don't call for the deaths of Americans simply because they voted against a recruiting measure.
They do make the point of what the real result of banning the military from their region is. You don't support a strong military the other guys kill you.
You want support from the army then support the army.
Its called illustrating absurdity thru absurdity and it works marvelously.
Well, I enjoyed visiting SF when I was at Stanford in the 60's. At that time is was a very conservative financial center with a night life. Haight Ashbury was an attraction among many others. It is hard to fathom the stories we hear today, expecially if one follows the real estate prices. Though, after a history conference one collegue quipped that their were too many fruits and nuts for him.
I have a vivid memory of SF when I was 8; we drove cross-country on vacation (Virginia to California). This was in 1968. We visited the city on a cold foggy July day (which recalls Mark Twain's remark that summer in SF was the coldest winter he'd ever experienced). I remember the trolleys and the Victorian houses. My parents were kind enough to drive us into the Haight somewhere to find my 3rd grade teacher, who had moved to California, presumably "with a flower in her hair" (as the old song went). Alas, we didn't find her. But we did see psychedelia decorating the hallway of her apartment building, very exotic to an 8-year-old.
Not so fast podner. North of SF and in rural areas California is a damn fine state.
Unfortunately good folk are leaving in droves because of the taxes. That's why it's getting more liberal. My husband and I are definitely not retiring here. It would be financial suicide. For now we stay because it's an employment hotbed and we're doing really well.
This may be an unpopular opinion and I realize the frustration with the politics of SF (which I share) but wishing a terrorist attack on any US city is, in my mind, an unAmerican thing to say. O'Reilly is a fair-weather friend and a perv and I have never liked him-- so there I said it. Flame away :-)
"This may be an unpopular opinion and I realize the frustration with the politics of SF (which I share) but wishing a terrorist attack on any US city is, in my mind, an unAmerican thing to say. O'Reilly is a fair-weather friend and a perv and I have never liked him-- so there I said it. Flame away :-)"
Wishing and calling for a terrorist attack on Americans is treasonous. Bill O'Reilly should be sent to Guantanamo Bay immediately for torture and interrogation.
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