Bill O'Reilly and San Francisco

Bill O'Reilly stands by recent statement on San Francisco.Here's part of a radio transcript:

HOST: First question, do you stand by what you said?

O’REILLY: Of course I do. I mean, it’s ridiculous. We’re in World War III and San Francisco votes against military recruiting in schools. It’s insane. So, you know, people have to live with their actions. If I were President Bush, I would just go in and say, “Alright, that’s fine. You don’t want to help us in World War III? We’re just gonna withhold federal funding, except for children’s programs.” I’d make an exception there. You know, look, when is the city of San Francisco going to wise up? You know, enough’s enough. This is life and death we’re talking about here. And you know, I’m from New York. There are dozens of people from my neighborhood on Long Island are now dead because of 9/11, and you people are telling me you’re not going to allow recruiting out there? Hey, it’s serious, and I think you guys need a wake-up call — not you guys, the people who voted against the military recruiting.

HOST: Yeah, we certainly don’t need a wake-up call on that score. It was a couple of months ago, we said virtually the same thing when the Board of Supervisors announced that they were above the warship — I believe it was the U.S.S. Iowa, wasn’t it? — docking as a military museum, because “we don’t want to be endorsing the military.”

O’REILLY: Yeah, well I think that enough’s enough, and there are a lot of good people in the city of San Francisco, but you’ve been hijacked by the radical left. Your press is radical left. The San Francisco Chronicle is a radical newspaper, its circulation is dropping like a rock. Your local news doesn’t exist, TV. You’ve got big problems in the city — and I love the city, it’s a great city, but if you’re going to work against the United States of America in the war on terror — the city of San Francisco chooses to do that — then you have no right to have federal funding. Believe me, if I were President Bush, I’d be standing in the middle of Union Square telling you that.