For awhile now, Bill O’Reilly and Al Franken have been running neck-and-neck in the Nutcase 500, but earlier this week O’Reilly took a slight lead through some bizarre comments on his radio show. Discussing a ridiculous ballot mreasure in San Francisco that ultimately put the city on record as opposing military recruiters at public schools, colleges and universities (it is not, as some have falsely claimed, a ban on such recruiting — the measure was entirely symbolic), O’Reilly said,
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. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead.” 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.
That more than beats Franken’s recent lies about his knowledge and role in the Air America/Gloria Wise scandal. We’ll have to just wait and see how Franken decides to trump this.
In the meantime, could Fox please fire O’Reilly already?
Sources:
Gun, recruiter bans embraced. Mary Anne Ostrom, Mercury News, November 9, 2005.
O’Reilly to San Fran: “If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it” (AUDIO). The Political Teen, November 11, 2005.