San Francisco is at it again
KGO reports that San Francisco is dissing the military again (hat tip - readers Thom and Tim):
New York said “yes,” but we said “no.” Why were the U.S. Marines denied permission to film a recruiting commercial on the streets of San Francisco? San Francisco is, once again, the center of a controversy over how city leaders treat the U.S. military. This time, it involves an elite group of Marines who wanted to film a recruitment commercial in San Francisco on the anniversary of 9/11.
The tension has been building in the two weeks since the city turned away members of the Silent Drill Platoon, and it boiled over Monday afternoon at a meeting of the San Francisco Film Commission. The U.S. Marine Silent Drill Platoon performed Monday morning in New York’s Times Square. They filmed part of a recruitment commercial through the start of the morning rush hour — something they could not do in San Francisco on the anniversary of 9/11. “It’s insulting, it’s demeaning. This woman is going to insult these young heroes by just arbitrarily saying, ‘no, you’re not going to film any Marines on California Street,” said Captain Greg Corrales of the SFPD Traffic Bureau.
Captain Greg Corrales commands the police traffic bureau that works with crews shooting commercials, TV shows and movies in the city. He’s also a Marine veteran and his son is serving his third tour of duty in Iraq. He says Film Commission Executive Director Stefanie Coyote would only allow the Marine’s production crew to film on California Street if there were no Marines in the picture. They wound up filming the empty street and will have to superimpose the Marines later.
“Ms. Coyote’s politics blinded her to her duty as the director of the Film Commission and as a responsible citizen,” said Captain Corrales.
San Fran officials are claiming that “traffic concerns” are to blame, not their politics.
Bull, say the Marine veterans, and rightly so:
Captain Corrales and several other Marine veterans came to the Film Commission Monday afternoon. They see this as just the latest insult along with the city blocking the USS Iowa from docking here, banning the junior ROTC from high schools, and trying to ban the yearly Blue Angels air show.
“This — a slap in the face of every veteran and every parent of men and women who are doing their duty — is shameful,” said Captain Corrales.
The Marines we spoke with also make the point that the city allows street demonstrations, anti-war protests and other events which snarl traffic, such as Critical Mass. They still don’t understand why the Marines got turned away.
Flashback: Blue Angels coverage
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Flashback: San Francisco hates the troops
Flashback: Navy to San Francisco: See ya, haters!
Flashback: Intolerant San Francisco and JROTC
Flashback: San Francisco kills JROTC program
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Just plain disgusting!
Palomino!
They should have filmed anyway. I bet the cops would not have arrested them.
Did we really expect anything better from San Fran? It’s not even a real city anyways, relative to the rest of the Country.
Until San Francisco gets bombed, they will not understand anything. I do not wish death on any Americans, but I cannot think of anything besides massive death that will get these liberals to understand that the USA military are the people keeping Americans alive and well.
Respectfully,
eric http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
P.S. Double-M, mystery solved. For some reason, when I attach links on my office computer, they stay within the box. On my home computer, they do not. I have no idea why, but no more links from home!
I thought a poltergeist was changing the link shapes.
Ok, raise your hand if you’re in any way surprised…
…
No one?
Didn’t think so.
Yes, my City has more than its share of idiots.
Fortunately, The San Francisco Film Commission is made up of eleven commissioners who are appointed and serve at the pleasure of the Mayor.
An Executive Director is appointed and serves at the pleasure of the Commission.
I’d appreciate your help in alerting the Mayor to the error of Ms. Coyote’s ways:
Mayor Gavin Newsom
City Hall, Room 200
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: (415) 554-6141
Fax: (415) 554-6160
Email: gavin.newsom@sfgov.org
Do you think the Marines will fail to defend SF if needed?
Hell no!
No thanks to Ms. Coyote.
Hi, I’m running for President of the United States. As my first act upon election, I will sign an Executive Order declaring San Francisco as no longer part of the United States. Iran is welcome to nuke it.
It was one strange place when I first
visited in 1967 and its been on a down sprial since!!
San Francisco is out of control. How nice it must be to live such a deliriously peaceful life that you forget the men and women who are directly responsible for providing that peace.
I agree with others…I am not surprised. I am ashamed that SF is a city in AMERICA, however.
Once again, Liberals are only tolerant of things they agree with despite lip service to the contrary about treasured freedoms.
Quite honestly, somebody needs a butt whuppin’!!
Let’s face it, liberals just despise the military. After witnessing the protest in D.C. 10 days ago, my first ever, I can only come to the conclusion that liberals suffer from some sort of insane inadequacy complex as they know they can’t ever do the tough things that members of our military do on a daily basis, so maybe they try to make themselves feel better about their own pathetic existence by rejecting our military or trying to bring them down. I’m no shrink, but what else can it be?
Screw San Francisco and the liberal bozo’s who run it! I would like to have that leftist biased, military-hating woman’s email address and phone number though. Anybody have that? 10 bucks says she’s some ugly, man-hating lesbian.
San Francisco has some nice places to visit as a tourist, but since the Military isn’t welcome there, I know I certainly wouldn’t be welcome. I will take my tourist dollars elsewhere, and I hope everyone else does that too.
Forget using any film footage and wanting to put the Marines in later.
There are alot of cities that would LOVE to have the US Marine Corps filming a recruiting commerical in their town-Memphis with Graceland does come to mind
Time to cease all grants and fed. funding to San Fran. as well as state monies apportioned to these loons.
The UN would feel right at home in SF. Populations don’t get more anti-American than that, and yes….UNPATRIOTIC.
TMoney
Good idea … SF would be a good place to move the UN … and then we make all of the members go the long way around to get there by not allowing their planes to fly across the rest of the US …
Duh….this is her nutjob husband….
Actor, activist, author, musician, singer-songwriter Peter Coyote is one of the Bay Area’s favorite luminaries, a charter member of the “I could live in Hollywood but choose not to” club that also includes Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Robin Williams.
Maybe there is another side to this story? MM quotes the recruiters at length and with great indignation, but the the other side gets only:
I’m proud to say my town welcomes the military.
SF is just an un-American POS anymore. I have visited there, but will never again spend a dime of my hard earned money there.
I saw the Marine silent drill team on FOX from NYC Monday morning. I have also seen them in person, an event I will NEVER forget as they are amazing.
The head of the team, when asked about the upcoming speach of the Pres. of Iraq, made a statement such as “this is a great city that welcomes visitors with all points of view.” I think it was Brian Kilmead that replied “We don’t, we have to live here.”
Pull everything military from SF. Let them run their town with their police officers only. Throw in the National Guard only when they come pleading to do so. Then sign a ‘lifelong’ contract with the National Guard to protect when requested. No other services….EVER!!!!!! Let someone else clean up the Haight and hand out condoms.
Someone has to say it might as well be me:
I bet Armordinnerjacket would be welcome. He would probably get a hero’s welcome too.
CUT THE FUNDING!!!!
I bet SF city officials would have no problem with a whole 8 episodes of 24 Season 7 being filmed in their precious city. Double standard, no other explaination is plausable.
Couldn’t agree more. Cut the funding to SF. Enough is enough.
Proud supporter of the military.
Great, SF has their priorities straight.
Marines - no
Militant gays - give them money and red carpet treatment.
I just hope those militant gays are able to clean up all the mess when the next earthquake hits.
I saw these marine guys recently and they are awesomely impressive. I actually think that the gay community (with their theatrical bent) would really enjoy the show and be proud to be associated with the ‘dance’.
Of course, they are against us fighting Iran what with their touchy feely ideas on homosexuality. These gays need to realize the military is the only reason they are allowed to live in freedom and do what they do.
Anyway - shame on SF AGAIN.
lgm:
We discount the “traffic concerns” because they reutinely allow large marches and demonstrations that clog the streets.
I would wager the Marines would be not only quicker and neater, but more civil as well.
Honestly, at this point, what you suggest is pointless…
SF would have to have some amount of shame to start with…
I feel for their pathetic mess of a city if there’s another large devastating earthquake or worse. Who will they count on for help? Who would have the resources to help them if not the National Guard or the military? You would have looting, rioting and tons of fires and unless there is a Republican president - no one to blame but themselves. I guess they would just be SOL.
8:25 am, lgm said:
Maybe there is another side to this story? MM quotes the recruiters at length and with great indignation, but the the other side gets only:
San Fran officials are claiming that “traffic concerns” are to blame, not their politics.
Bull, say the Marine veterans, and rightly so:
The other side of the story is the Marine is correct. The bicycle Critical Mass ties up san francisco traffic each month and the officials let it happen because it is typically counter-culture. It is their politics because they have already established a consistent track record to oppose anything military.
This is so laughable. (DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED MM)
What about the smug bikers that gathered the last Friday of every month to tourture the crap out of commuters in the streets during Critical Mass/Operation Commuter Clot ? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass
Oh, and then there was that incident when the war started when all the unwashed hippies were running around on the freeways and in the streets of the financial district to block traffic for their cause…funny, this did not raise any concerns about problematic “traffic” issues. In fact, I remember one of the smug tree huggers caught on tape in a verbal exchange with a motorist (obviously working and earning a living unlike the Haight dweller) that he needed to get home to pick up his daughter from day care…her response “Sir, its a very small price to pay…sir, a small price considering…”.
These people are absolute nutjobs…..
For all their preeening and self-congratulation for their “tolerance” and “open-mindedness,” too many libs of the San Francisco ilk consistently fail to walk their talk when it counts.
Scratch a liberal, and you’ll find a totalitarian underneath.
Turning their noses up in disdain for those “rough men who let them sleep soundly in their beds at night” is not a sign of superiority, but of moral rudderlessness, ideological bankruptcy and rank ingratitude.
They don’t have to love America. But it seems too much to ask of them not to spit on her.
Still, people like those running the show in San Francisco - the self-parodying, pseudo-intellectual poseurs who behave like tyrants in the name of “standing up against militarism” or whatever - are part of the price we pay for a free society.
The very fact that they’re not hauled off to a re-education camp somewhere in North Dakota is definitive proof that we are free.
At least, that’s what I have to keep telling myself to reduce the foul taste in my mouth that makes me want to spit every time I see or read about yet another display of “liberal” intolerance.
I would not visit San Fran if I had an all expense paid trip to do so. I find Charleston SC to be much more charming and very friendly to military personnel.
It was my pleasure to e-mail Mr. Newsom and spell it all out for him in plain English. Perhaps he won’t read it as the choice of subject line was a bit too strong…but it alone makes my point. (Thanks for his e-mail address.) Don’t mess with the Marines or their grammas.
Now they are willing in SF to close down the streets for this.
http://www.folsomstreetfair.org/
Oh and they have a nice flyer for this fair.
http://www.cnsnews.com/cns/photo/2007/092507FolosomFull.jpg
Just another reason not to buy any Miller Beer products with their sponsorship of this event.
Whoa pressto….protesting beer? That’s UN-American……and so is SF after following this thread.
I guess kicking the JORTC’s out of San Francisco schools wasn’t political either….HOW CONVEEEENNNIIIEENNT!
SF Motto: “Only if you agree with us can you say what you want.”
I think it was San Francisco leftists that adjusted my home computer so the links would not work. Hey, that is not as farfetched as what emanates from Frisco.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/until-san-francisco-gets-bombed-they-will-not-understand-anything/
Ok, it previews well within the box at my office. The Rice a loonies have not messed up this PC.
Respectfully,
eric
The Mayor of San Francisco is currently trying to run a City Supervisor out of office and will thus be backing a power grab by the psychotic wing of the City “Board of Supervisors”.
The City has run amok. These losers have fumbled away the San Francisco 49ers and a decent shot at the 2012 Olympics. Yet, they are imposing “universal health care” on the last source of income- small businesses.
The Marines would be allowed to film on the bridge if Bush repealed all federal highway funds which includes bridge construction and maintenance.
Of course, if the Marines volunteered to dress in chaps and bondage gear, Supervisor Ammiano would “order” Coyote to let them film. Slime ball.
#39 - don’t forget the Silly-City’s attempt to subsidize ID’s for Illegal Immigrants that cannot afford them…oh, along with little vouchers for up to $50 in discounts at local retail stores etc.
Welcome to my nightmare!
I’d like to see those in power have the nerve to cut off San Fran at the knees - they don’t want a military presence there…fine! But no more federal aid for anything, and no military presence in the event of a natural disaster or calamity. And if there’s a terror attack in San Fran - good luck!
Pull all military bases, personnel, and related business out of the San Fran area. Take all the jobs with them.
I’m sure the assorted hippies, illegals, and other liberal moonbats will mobilized to keep the city safe in the wake of a catastrophic event because clearly San Fran no longer needs the military.
Of course, they’ll turn around and blame Bush and the neocons, but at least they’ll get a taste of what life is like when the greatest military in the world abandons you.
#11, I’ll agree with you (expect 8-5 on the workdays).
many in the financial district are conservatives….but we all go back to our homes from SF after work hours and on weekends.
SF is a lost cause. People that refuse to acknowledge the sacrifices that others make for their freedoms deserve little, or no respect. It is not the courts, the politicians, the artists, the constitution that gives them their freedom. It is the people in uniform willing to commit the ultimate sacrifice that give them freedom.
For SF to deny the Marines is to spit in the face of freedom. No one should defend this insanity. I for one will not defend SF. One day under terrorist rule would wake them up quick.
As a side note. We should demand congress check into this ‘no gays’ in Iran thing. Anyway we could get Barney Frank to go on a fact finding mission?
Okay, it was joke people
If I don’t acknowledge the attempt at humor, the bomb throwers spoil the mood 
Have a great day all
As far as Cities go, in my opinion, San Francisco was a great city up until around the mid 1950s. Then it started down hill but fast. I grew up in SF and was very thankful after 40 years there to get out in 1970. Yes I guess there are a few places there worthwhile to visit. In some of the better locations by the late 60s some homes started to put up steel grates on windows and steel bared gates around the doorways.
Those mentioning that SF would be a fine place for the worthless, in my opinion, United Nations recall that the UN was established there.
Here it is boys and girls!
I got the loony woman’s email address from my man, the intrepid true patriot Pat Dollard, one of my favorite brawlers and a man liberals greatly fear.
stephanie.coyote@sfgov.org
or
stefanie.coyote@sfgov.org