Interesting hook being baited in San Francisco
Bookworm on Oct 07 2010 at 5:46 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Carla Marinucci is a political writer for the SF Chronicle. In this post, she describes how the Liberty and Freedom Foundation put up a billboard advertising a Sarah Palin’s appearance in San Jose soon. It’s not just any billboard, though. They put it in SF’s Castro district –known for its activist gay community . The Liberty and Freedom Foundation made it plain that this was not an accident, but was a demand for tolerance:
“The Castro is supposed to be about a message of tolerance, and we hope that tradition stays,” Victor Cocchia, executive director of Liberty and Freedom Foundation told us. “We were looking for a place to spend our ad dollars, and this came up..and we thought, “That’s what this is all about.”
Hook baited. Marinucci is pretty sure (although she says it without an ounce of censure) that the neighborhood’s denizens will be unable to resist the opportunity to show just how intolerant they are:
But let’s get real: some progressives and Democrats might see it differently — as in a thumb in the eye. Palin, a possible 2012 GOP presidential candidate and tea party darling, isn’t exactly the LGBT community’s cup of tea, with her regular statements about traditional marriage.
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Any bets on how long the sign will last at the Castro’s ground zero?
Interesting question. Do you have any bets on how long the “tolerant” party will be able to tolerate a large sign touting a mainstream politician whose political views are antithetical to theirs?
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I’m more inclined to think it is a solicitation for the locals to get mad and make a little field trip to San Jose. Not that… I’m just sayin’.
Funny, Castro being tolerant.
In terms of advantage, being on the attack and pushing into enemy territory is always to be preferred than being forced to sit on the defensive, never knowing when or where the enemy will attack.
A funny thing about the Castro is that it is now rapidly being “de-gayed” as gays move out to greener pastures in the suburbs. As time has gone on and the first brave souls who relocated to the ‘burbs have reported back, it turns out that San Francisco’s grassy-lawned outliers are pretty damned tolerant and laissez-faire.
In the meantime, trendy straights, anxious to show their coolth and expose their children to interesting sexual practices, have been moving into the Castro. The result: the neighborhood, once the world’s most famous queer Mecca, is now about 50 percent hetero.
The saving grace, of course, is that the new straights are just as intolerant as the old gays. So, yes, the billboard will generate high dudgeon.
As for Marinucci, she is a laughingstock among literate people. The standing joke among local thinkers is how many words/sentences into her ledes you have to read before you pick up on the latest leftist/Democrat talking point. The woman is helplessly mired in her reflexive “progressivism,” and is completely unaware that she is one of the reasons her newspaper has sustained massive losses in readership, dropping from a daily circulation of nearly 600,000 in the early 1990s to about 220,000 today.
Islam delenda est.
I give it a week. Or 5 days from the start of Leftist terror organization meeting.
Could somebody please install a video cam by that billboard?
Or, even better: perhaps the Bay Area conservatives could mobilize the locals for a mass primal scream-in protest in front of the billboard and film it. Put it on YouTube with the title, “This is your Democrat Party Today”.
I walk past that corner every day a couple of times and I never saw the sign til a Facebook friend pointed out the news article. The sign is on the northwest corner and is practically invisible, hidden behind a tree, to anyone except people walking or driving down Castro street from the north. Most activity is from the south and east.