The gov's f-bomb explodesBy Tim Redmond
Wow, even the San Francisco Chronicle is critical of Gov. Schwarzenegger's elementary-school-level prank. (My ten-year old son saw the letter on my desk yesterday and read it and said: "Is that guy really the governor of California?")
It's been fun watching the national news media go gaga over this, in part because nobody wants to use the word "fuck." Here's the New York Times:
The message can be seen only by a careful reading of the printed version of the veto statement. By taking the first letter of each line, beginning with the third line, two words emerge: The first is obscene; the second is “you."
The Times also had trouble with Ammiano telling the guv to "kiss my gay ass." That came out like this:
Mr. Ammiano, who is gay and was upset over cuts to state-financed AIDS programs, shouted at the governor, calling him a liar. Mr. Ammiano also apparently shouted another — more vulgar — insult.
Most of the news coverage, though, has missed one of the key points -- this was a bill that would have helped San Francisco finance port repairs. It was uncontroversial, he no opposition, and would have cost the state nothing. So the Guv not only made an ass of himself; he hurt the city of San Francisco in the process.
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Comments (9)
Why do you keep banging on about this? Over and over and over? The Guv is soon going to be out of office so who really gives a shit? California government is dysfunctional, it didn't start with Schwarzenegger and it's most certainly not going to end with him.
Why are you giving a pass to Ammiano's insult at the Democratic dinner? Yeah - Arnold shouldn't have shown up but was it appropriate for Tom to stand up and warble, in his nelly little voice: "Kiss my gay ass!"
Posted by Lucretia the Troll | October 29, 2009 01:53 PM
C'mon Tim, do you really think this is all on the Governator. Sorry but Ammiano is an ass. He conducts himself like an arrogant clown and insults Schwartzie Boy in public - what does he frigging expect? I agree that SF could have used the bill. But that's politics. Maybe the next time out, this self-centered goof of a "legislator" will think twice before shooting off his big mouth. What a loser.
Posted by Del Barton | October 29, 2009 03:23 PM
Ammiano didn't create universal health insurance in the city. He created a system where expected monies from the state and and federal government as well as unfounded mandates(har marc) from business give half assed insurance to some people.
Posted by glen matlock | October 29, 2009 04:43 PM
Dean nattering nabobs of negativity: Tom Ammiano's leadership created the universal health insurance in San Francisco that sparked the national successes we are having, including a public option. This is just one of his successes. I could go on.....
Posted by Brian Basinger | October 29, 2009 04:51 PM
Arnold "Screw-the-Poor" Schwartzenegger (along with his ruling-class buddies) can kiss my straight ass, too, while he's at it. Or maybe not! I don't want to get that close to any of those creeps unless I'm armed.
Posted by Aaron Aarons | October 29, 2009 05:02 PM
Thanksgiving is approaching. While we give thanks to Squanto and other 'real americans' who, in well intentioned yet devastating acts of compassion and humanity helped my british ancestors, the Pilgrims, survive in the wilderness; only to survive and decimate the first peoples; slaughter the buffalo; clear cut the forests; poison the rivers and streams; turn fertile dirt into dust; pollute the air; pursue polices of foreign adventurism in support of corrupt dictatorships, or to 'win hearts and minds' and spread a debased democracy by miliary might by bombing innocent 'collaterally damaged' civillians. Let us also offer up a heartfelt prayer that the likes of 'Glen'(and others of his ilk), and the Troll never meet face to face or belly to belly, do the nasty and produce more Damiens.
PS. Glen, I kinda, sorta, apologise for 'naming' you. Though i disagree with many of your comments, I feel they generally come from a reasoned place of experience, belief and committment. I feel no compunction in respectfully, yet vehemently disagreeing. However, like me, you speak up, put yourself out there, and thus we can become 'targets'; unlike trolls and the ignorant reactionary arseholes who dont have the cojones or labia to self identify, and, like the Knights of the White Camelia, hide their true and original faces behind pallid masks of shame.
PPS. Lucretia. Suck my tag-nuts.
PPS. GO TOM. RUN JEFF RUN. NUKE NEWSCUM.
Posted by Patrick Monk | October 29, 2009 06:12 PM
I find this all entertaining.
Spouting off while someone else is speaking is either bad or it is not, using a persons sexuality (including yourself) to rant away is bad or it is not, using a persons position of power to get revenge is bad or it is not...
... unless you are a progressive, then anything you do is OK, because you have better morals, thus whatever you do is OK.
Shouting "you lie" is bad, and shouting it may even be racist according to some, shouting out about "kissing a gay ass" is OK though, as long as you are a superior progressive.
Some abusive shouting is OK after the reworking of it to make yourself the victim or it to be clever, it all depends on how much better than the rest of the human race you are.
Posted by glen matlock | October 29, 2009 07:22 PM
Paper cuts scissors? Ass is more vulgar than the f-bomb?
Posted by marcos | October 31, 2009 11:47 AM
So Marc, poor behaviour is now quantified? Quantified to your own advantage of course, all the "outrage" over Joe Wilson has blown away when it is one of your own screaming children?
Tell me progressives, does the studied and fluid outrage ever get confusing, or does making it up as you go along work that well? You never think about your "outrage" in any ongoing context?
"Ammiano is funny and 'speaking truth to power' Arnie is a bully and is mean."
while
"Joe Wilson is likely a racist and a bully and he made a fool of himself and his party"
does that sum it up for progressives?
Posted by glen matlock | October 31, 2009 11:55 AM