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.
Google is your friend.
You seem to have lots of issues - none of them coherent.
Fire O'Reilly and replace him with Glen Beck.
OR: why should one have to look it up on google/the poster should spell it out.
Because 99% of the people reading it would KNOW what SECDEF stands for and the other 1% should have to look it up.
It's true, I heard him on his radio show say to a caller that he was a 'progressive democrat'. I was shocked cause I thought the same as you until then.
I missed that. That must be why I find him unlistenable. Other than a few seconds here or there, I don't watch him.
Actually I'd prefer that every community and university that banned Recruiters lose ALL federal dollars. No federal money for schools, law enforcement etc. Let the homeowners that voted for those laws pay for everything. Watch the communists shriek when they get the bill.
BS...look it up
Don't need to. I'm in the 99%.
" Keyes had a show... on MSNBC and it failed miserably."
Has there ever been a show on the MSDNC that has not failed/ or is not failing miserably??
Check out the links in post 31 and 36.
-PJ
Didn't they finally drive the Blue Angels out because of the noise over the city during practice?
-PJ
Not yet - but they are working on it!
Fleet Week is my favorite time to be in SF.
Money talks.
BS...
The reason why they skipped SF in 2004 had nothing to do with anti-war stuff.
I realize that they never schedule the same city two years in a row, but for twenty years SF had been the exception.
It was the promoter that SF chose to use. The BAs wouldn't work for them.
It's been patched up since and they will likely be at Fleet Week for years to come.
America would be beter off with out S.F.
Scarborough seems to be doing fairly okay.
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