Appearing yesterday on a conservative San Francisco radio show, Bill O’Reilly offered his first public comments since being criticized for saying he would approve of an al Qaeda terrorist attack on the California city.
O’Reilly not only stood by his comments, but claimed they “needed to be said”:
“I mean, look, everybody knows what’s going on there. What I said isn’t controversial. What I said needed to be said. I’m sitting here and I’m looking at a city that has absolutely no clue about what the world is. None. You know, if you had been hit on 9/11 instead of New York, believe me, you would not have voted against army recruiting. Yet the left-wing, selfish, Land of Oz philosophy that the media and the city politicians have embraced out there is an absolute intellectual disgrace.”
This isn’t the first showing of O’Rielly’s character, and certainly won’t be the last. Back in Oct 2004 he was sued and eventually settled a sexual harassment suit by his female producer – a suit that based on O’Reilly paying “multimillions of dollars”, shows that he is in fact a sleazeball perv with unbecoming an character.
In all honesty, O’Rielly loves the fact that people like me talk about him. Its the same philosophy for any shock show on Fox but in this case, the guy believes in the trash he says, rather than just saying it for the pure shock value of it.
I’d bet he secretly has a loft in Castro district of SF and takes repeatedly with no vasaline on the weekends.
Regardless, no person of any humanitarian respect should call for the death of their man or fellow man for pure disregard of their beliefs…. oh wait… what am I saying… that’s just unAmerican.
O’Reilly to San Francisco: “[I]f Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. … You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead” MediaMatters
O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Isn’t Controversial. What I Said Needed to Be Said.” Think Process