Bill O'Reilly Pulls a Pat Robertson

Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly essentially told terrorists that San Francisco is fair game for an attack. O'Reilly is angry that Frisco residents voted to discourage city public schools from allowing military recruiters on campus.

If you want to ban military recruiting, fine. But I’m not going to give you another nickel of federal money. 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. 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."

I personally don't have a problem with military recruiters visiting public schools, as long as they are treated no differently and given no more privileges than college or trade-school recruiters. But I fully understand why the citizens of San Francisco have concerns about predatory and manipulative military recruiting practices.

At any rate, O'Reilly is totally out of line. While I expect ridiculous statements from the mouths of cable-news personalities, justifying terrorism targeted at a major city because many of its residents disagree with you is sick and inexcusable.