TV and radio personality, Bill O'Reilly, is back-peddling hard from his recent statements that have so revolted Americans -- that calls for him to be fired from his privileged position on the public airwaves are persisting into a second week.

But rather than defend or apologize for his remarks, O'Reilly is desperately lashing out at his critics. He says they are "anti-American."

But Americans are wise to O'Reilly, who is increasingly being described as a "blowhard."

On November 8, 2005 Bill O'Reilly aired a radio broadcast that will live in infamy.

It seems that O'Reilly didn't like it that San Franciscans exercised their constitutional rights and passed a non-binding ballot measure urging high schools and colleges to ban military recruiting on campus. So does he criticize them? Call for a boycott? No. He says that the the American armed forces should not defend San Francisco and that Al Qeada should go ahead and attack.

His named target? The landmark Coit Tower, a monument dedicated to the heroic firefighters who fought to save San Francisco after the great earthquake a century ago.