Special Report: “Misfit San Francisco Is Just Ahead Of Its Time”
Well, that explains everything…
So reads the headline to yesterday’s editorial by the S.F. Chronicle’s Joan Ryan, and which qualifies as another entry in the You-Can’t-Make-This-Up file.
Attempting to rationalize (if not justify) this week’s news regarding the S.F. Board of Supervisors issuing a resolution to impeach President Bush, as well as the recent public display of stupidity from Sup. Gerardo Sandoval, Ryan uses the oh-so-clever metaphor that life is like high school. Indeed, obviously for some people more than others. But instead of caring about popularity contests, the “indy” S.F. chooses to be a contrarian — as it relates to pretty much everything.
Ryan gushes with pride and joy:
San Francisco is the odd kid in the back row of the classroom in the tattered vintage jeans and fuchsia scarf with a streak of orange in his hair. He doesn’t wear leather and explains with the verve of an evangelist why not.
He is of ambiguous sexual orientation and ethnicity, though there’s a clear Asian influence. He has amazing bone structure. He is trim and elegant without being too polished. He carries himself the way people do who know they are beautiful. But he doesn’t make any particular effort to look good. That would be shallow and, in his book, shallowness is about the most serious sin.
He sees himself as an intellectual, someone who is compassionate and sophisticated, well read and well traveled, socially conscious and politically enlightened. That not everyone sees him in the same way is of no concern to him. There is no question in his mind that they are wrong, and he is right.
That pretty much nails the definition of arrogant, liberal elitism. Zombietime has the photos to prove it.
If we told you this was a ScrappleFace satire, would you believe it? It sure reads like it. And if so, we’d all laugh along. But it’s not.
Read the rest. We refuse to reprint it. Warning: May cause nausea and swelling of the head.
Pointing out today’s Letters to The Editor, here’s a sampling of some of the “misfits” that Ryan so adores.
Our favorite: “We who oppose the vicious, ignorant agent of corporate evil who heads [the Republican party] are supporting the troops and defending America.”
Of course, we can see that. Somebody call the cops.
(This is what we’re dealing with out here)
But, in all seriousness, if it weren’t for the moonbats, San Francisco is a beautiful city. Even FOXNews is forced to admit it.
According to another “unbiased” Chronicle journalist, Edward Epstein writes:
Sure enough, Fox News, the “fair and balanced” network of conservative news, turned today to this week’s Board of Supervisors vote calling for Congress to begin steps that could lead to President Bush’s impeachment.
Note to Epstein: FOX reported on the story because it’s news. You might want to try it sometime.
A Fox News reporter asked San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House minority leader, at her weekly press conference in her Capitol offices if she supported the resolution.
Before she answered, the Democratic leader — ever the civic booster, her offices are filled with art lent by San Francisco museums, a mini-statue of her mentor, the late Rep. Phillip Burton, and a bat autographed by Giants’ slugger Barry Bonds, couldn’t resist a little banter with a reporter for a network that enjoys bashing her hometown.
Fox News “enjoys bashing” San Francisco? Is that a new program, or are you still upset about Big Bad Bill O’Reilly? Sounds like someone needs a hug.
If this City weren’t filled with leftwing lunacy, maybe there’d be less bad press.
“So now you are covering San Francisco?” quipped Pelosi. “Are you going out there soon? It is a fabulous place. I am so proud to represent it.” And what is your question?
Are you feeling goose-bumps?
The reporter agreed that San Francisco “is a very fine city,” and again asked whether she back the board’s move.
No, Pelosi said, she did not support the resolution, adding the way to express dissatisfaction with the president is to elect a Democratic House, which by the way, would make her the first woman speaker in history.
And moonbats really do fly.
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Insanity in San Francisco
My good friends over at California Conservative are keeping tabs on the lunatics that run San Francisco. This time the City’s Board of Supervisors passed a resolution calling for the impeachemnt of President Bush. Read it all.
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:31 pm
James Lileks
sounds like a public radio jazz dj. He has a voice made for radio and audio books. —- San Francisco: Ahead of its Time? More like behind the times. SF believes in being a Soviet stronghold lost past the evil…
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Wow, you’re really good at snark, name-calling, stereotype-perpetuating, and a basic lack of any substance at all. Common among all Bush-lovers dressed as conservatives who (after frothing at the mouth to impeach a president for lying about a blowjob) scramble to defend and apologize for an incompetent zealot who’s well-documented lies have cost this country billions of dollars, thousands of lives, and long-standing reputation in the world community, not to mention immeasurable damage to the environment. Always quick to accuse the Democrats of a lack of ideas, the GOP is a one-trick pony — the supposed “war-on-terror”, an overblown game of fear-mongering by this administration if there ever was one. Are there terrorists in the world? Yes. Are we in danger of being attacked? Sadly, more than ever. Is Bush fighting a war on terror? Not even close. He’s running a training camp for them in Iraq.
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Hey, thanks, Eddie. Pour yourself another glass…
March 3rd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Here is the email I just sent to the author of the ‘Misfit’ article:
“Hilarious! I already knew that ‘progressives’ are arrogant, self-absorbed and self-righteous — but your spoof really nailed them!
It was a spoof, wasn’t it?
Oh my god, I think I may have insulted you. I’m so sorry!
Good luck on your efforts to join reality.
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Dear Eddie D.,
I’m impressed. You managed to pack in over dozen leftist cliches and untruths into less than 150 words. Damn buddy, those creative writing seminars are really beginning to pay off, aren’t they?
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Whatever, wingnut.
March 3rd, 2006 at 6:12 pm
There is no verb in this sentence:
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Notice that this marvelous child hasn’t actually accomplished anything constructive? His accomplishments consist of talking, plus making other people do things. I had some hope when science got mentioned, but amidst the specificity of fashion and social statements, the vagueness about science projects that blow people away tells us more about the author than she wants us to know.
As an added quibble, if he was way ahead of the curve on recycling, he’s been in highschool a long time. More likely, we’re seeing fantasy autobiography here.
At least going out for a keg is getting something done on your own.
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Eddie, you didn’t really include “frothing at the mouth” and “blowjob” in the same parentheses. Can’t you at least proofread?
March 21st, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Maybe I’m just being oblivious, but what has “Asianness” (if there is such a quality) got to do with Liberal Elitism? What exactly is so “Asian” (again, whatever that means) about them? That Ryan (and apparently you) thought that their style clearly shows some sort of ‘Asian’ influence?
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