Official scolds O'Reilly over 'blow up' San Francisco

San Francisco's Coit Tower

San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly shot back at Fox News host Bill O'Reilly for saying on his radio show he encouraged al-Qaida to "blow up" the city's landmark Coit Tower.

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O'Reilly was responding to San Francisco voters' approval of a proposition discouraging military recruiters on public high school and college campuses, reports the city's KRON-TV.

The Fox commentator said President Bush should react to the vote by pulling military protection from San Francisco.

"If al-Qaida 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," O'Reilly said.

Daly responded angrily in a KRON interview.

"Coit Tower's a monument to San Francisco's firefighters," he said. "They put out the fires in San Francisco after the great quake. American heroes – they were there on Sept. 11 and now you want al-Qaida to blow up Coit Tower? Give us a break. You are out of line."

San Francisco's Proposition I – which doesn't ban military recruiters but urges schools to reject them – garnered 60 percent of the vote.