With San Francisco's honor besmirched by the falafel loving Bill O'Reilly, it was only a matter of time before Gavin the Good marched on in and made with the chivalry. After all, he couldn't let Daly and Peskin have all the fun. So in a noon press conference today, Gavin let forth with great vengeance and furious anger upon Mr. Spin Factor, letting him know in no uncertain terms that we don't need him around anyhow.

And so it began: "I'm proud of San Francisco for being an example for the rest of the nation on compassion and tolerance and an economic center in the world. I think we're an example in so many respects." Like letting homeless people run around everywhere!

Anyways, here are highlights of the remarks:

-Said everyone in the city is frustrated by the war and resent "predatory" recruiters from trying to steal our kids away to send them to bad, bad Iraq. Also added that we're not going to do anything to actually stop recruiters, just that we wanted to say "bad recruiters, bad."

-Also claimed that "we have more veterans living in Northern California per-capita than probably any other area in the nation" and that his grandfather fought in WWII.

-Called O'Reilly on his hypocrisy for castigating others for their outrageous comments yet makes outrageous comments himself and said the city doesn't want O'Reilly to "proselytize" to us about what he thinks we should do.

And for the big finish, said that San Francisco is an "experiment" that's "actually working to a disproportionate degree" then asks O'Reilly to ponder why we live in a city that "that sparks the imagination of so many?"

Reverend!

We don't know about you, but we can't wait to watch "The Factor" tonight to see what Bill's response would be. Will Gavin be put on his enemies' list? Will we? Pretty please? Or is it the "Colbert Report" we're supposed to watch? We can never remember which one is supposed to be real and which one is supposed to be parody.

Update: Bill announced on "The Factor" (yes, we watched) that he's conducting an online poll as to whether or not people should still come and visit San Francisco in lieu of the whole "anti-military" stance thing. Obviously, we need to have some fun with this. In other words, vote here. Tell them SFist sent you.

Image from Yankee Pot Roast