Groan: 7.5 hours of smug San Fran mayor Gavin Newsom
Hey, remember that judge who sentenced noise violators to Barry Manilow music? Here’s a worse sentence: Sitting through 7.5 hours of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom droning on and on and on about the “state of the city.” There are YouTube segments on health care, education, and the environment. But nada on the city’s infamously deadly illegal alien sanctuary policies.
He’s uploaded his entire speech on YouTube. Even his fellow libs can’t take it:
When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom posted an epic State of the City speech on YouTube on Monday, reaction was mixed.
“Just what I wanted,” said Aaron Peskin, outgoing president of the Board of Supervisors. “Somebody imitating Al Gore for 7 1/2 hours. The guy did a Fidel Castro.”
…Supervisor Sean Elsbernd applauds the mayor for “a fantastic use of new technology.” But he also admitted he hasn’t watched more than 2 1/2 minutes and isn’t likely to view much more.
“Realistically, are the supervisors going to sit for 7 1/2 hours and watch this?” Elsbernd said. “No.”
A commenter cut to the chase — something Gavin Newsom seems constitutionally incapable of doing: “7 1/2 hours — plus the time spent writing, rehearsing and editing — could have been better spent solving the city’s problems instead of just talking about them.”
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Since when did a liberal ever want to “solve” a problem?
I feel better now. I thought it seemed like 7.5 hours.
It really was.
I knew there was something wrong with San Francisco!
This is where the secular humanist comes out in me, this guy is the biggest douche bag. 7.5 hrs of watered down crap makes it official. Already let s.f. s#itty hall know that I will not be visiting their town anytime soon due to the castro district and the lies about the Marines being denied the right to film commercials. Spent much time working in the city and find it disgusting.
Whether you like it or not!
Dude - waterboard me.
All of a sudden, Barry Manilow doesn’t seen so bad.
On an exceptional day it takes about a half hour to get across town from Hwy 101 in the south to the Golden Gate on the north side.
On the way you get to see the result of the great healthcare on the craggy-faced, dirty, smelly homeless folk who always seem to have money for drugs and smokes and wish they knew what day of the week it was.
You get to see the great environment each evening as the drug dealers and the homeless gather in Golden Gate park and each one marks his or her territory for the night–no foreclosures here; and the air wafts with the lack of personal hygiene mixed with marijuana and, well, other stuff.
The education system is: we’ll tell you how is and if you disagree then, Bang! Bang! “Adios, Amigo”, dump ‘um over the county line. The children are taught that promiscuous, reprobate sex with anything and everything is OK and to vote for Pelosi to keep the status quo.
Ah, Frisco, the old homestead.
I’d rather loop “It’s a Small World After All” for 7.5 hrs than listen to that vain crapweasel Newsom for a minute.
I wonder if he has it running non-stop in his bedroom.
What a fricking douche-bag.
No wonder Kim Guilfoyle left his sorry ass, he can’t love anyone but himself!
“Here I come, whether you like it or not!”
The upside: this flaming douche can’t wear out his welcome a moment too soon.
That, “my friends”, is an insult to douche-bags everywhere!
Good one.
I wonder, was mayor Gavin Newsom speaking while looking into a mirror? Or maybe he’s sort a like Nipper the RCA dog, listening to the sound of his voice?
I’m afraid that if we had played ‘Oh Mandy’ to those prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the moral outrage from liberals would’ve been FAR worse.
Thanks Michelle for this posting. FamilyWomen says I’m a pompous speaker if I go on for an hour. At least I have something important to say.
BUT GEES 7.5 HOURS!
That would be like one thousand pages of text. I could read the “Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand in that time.
BUT GEES 7.5 HOURS!
I almost admire the guy’s ability.
BUT GEES 7.5 HOURS!
That’s like making love 7 times in one night.
7.5 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!
Reminds me of a car wreck several years back in which the driver was trapped and could not eject the tape in his player. He listened to Wham for 8 hours, until his battery ran down.
Not to be sacrilegious folks, but I don’t think I could listen to JESUS CHRIST for 7.5 hours. He could explain THE INFINITE in less time than that.
Liberals crack me up. They can recognize and diagnose - and even create problems…but fixing them. Well, that’s a horse of another color.
If he requires 7.5 HOURS to talk about the problems with San FranSICKO, what would he need if, God Forbid, he becomes Governor and has to talk abou the problems with the STATE!!
I wouldn’t listen to him for 7.5 seconds…
Call me sexist, 30, but, that means they’re like little, girly WOMEN. They want to TALK about problems.
Conservative Republicans are like big, strong, John Wayneish, manly MEN. They want to FIX problems.
The great orators of old-even Lincoln and William Jennings Bryant- would give one and two hours speeches.People would travel all day to hear them. And those were Great Orators. Half way through a 7 hours speech I imagine the crowd would start stoning them. And I doubt even a Liberal would cast Newsome in the class with a Lincoln or Bryant.
Liberals do talk a lot-they just do not have anything to say.
He’s practicing for a Senate Bid.
“Enough talk about me. Let’s talk about you. What do you like most about me?”
7.5 hours of Douche-Baggery has to be a new record!
Sexist! You either fix it make it go away.
What sane person would listen to this for more than a couple of minutes? I can’t understand why anybody would want to know what any liberal has to say about anything. It all ammounts to mindless jibberish, sort of like listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks (Simon and Theodore.
fix it or make it go away
Hey, quit giving Twosome grief. He’s gonna be the next Governor OK? He’s against Prop Hate, supports ALL illegal aliens, doesn’t give a rip about small business, pays lip service to environmental issues, loathes the military, likes gay people who perform public displays of their sexual perversions, enjoys quiet momments away from home with a mistress, looks good in a mayors suit…..gee, the list just goes on and on so what’s not to like?
San Fransisco must be really screwed up if the “fix” takes 7.5 hours to outline.
TMoney,
There is no way I could listen to Wham for 8 hours. I would chew my way through the steering wheel or eat my own heart to escape the madness.
Listening to Newsome for that long reminds me of a quote from Apocalypse Now: “The horror…the horror…”
30, God tried to make it go away in 1907, but it came back. I’m afraid it’ll take another earthquake.
But, I would hope that the modern-day Sodom would come to it’s senses and MAYBE God would stop the earthquake from happening.
Pathetic boob.
On December 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 am, TMoney said:
Reminds me of a car wreck several years back in which the driver was trapped and could not eject the tape in his player. He listened to Wham for 8 hours, until his battery ran down.
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Don’t know which is worse, the wreck or having to listen to Wham for 8 hours. As a child of the ’80’s, I can now say, “what were we thinking?”
Castro and Chavez will be jealous.
Hey TRE, the earthquake was in 1906. A little history lesson for you-San Francisco has had a history of theatric mayors who have some, but less power than the Board of Supervisors. The Board has always been the local version of the Balkins with people carving up and protecting their own little turf. The western part of the city aka The Sunset has been and still is the home of the working class, originally the Irish now more Asian in population. There are several large parts of the city that are populated by the wealthy where you won’t see any homeless or drug dealers. Since the time of the goldminers in 1849, San Francisco has been a place for people looking for a fresh start, a do over if you will. To paint all of the people who live in the city as being just like Newsom is wrong. Many sons and daughters of laborers or dock workers still live here. There is a large population of recent Irish immigrants here, coupled with immigrants from all sorts of countries. Are the politicians her morons-yes. But, for people from other parts of the country who have equally moronic politicians representing them to look down their nose at this city is just plain ignorant.
South Park delivered Newsom’s exact same message in one minute two seconds.
Nooooo…. When I took my neice to Disneyland she insisted on going on the Dumbo ride. The Dumbo ride is next to It’s A Small World. Guess what song droned on and on while we waited in line for two hours? Guess what song will be stuck in my head the rest of the day? Damut.
At least if Newsome is droning on and on, he’s not making policy decisions. This is a good thing.
Do you think that Disney has some type of recovery programs for its employees that have to listen to “It’s a Small World”? I would imagine that many would go postal without some intervention.
On December 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm, cabrerski said:
Do you think that Disney has some type of recovery programs for its employees that have to listen to “It’s a Small World”? I would imagine that many would go postal without some intervention.
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“My name is ______________________, and I can’t get ‘It’s a Small World’ out of my head!”
Excuse me while I puke. He is such a slime bag.
Want to bet that Disney cycles the poor employees out every hour and sits them in a dark room playing old Black Sabaath tunes to get the horrible sound out of their heads?
As long as it feels good
Wow, I never thought of that before. Screw Gitmo and waterboarding, they aint got nothing.
My parents bought the record of the song 25+ years ago after our last trip there (no seriously!). Its still embedded in my BRAIN!!!!!!!!!!! make it stop….
Hey jwm, I certainly agree w/ what you’re saying there… however, I think most folks realize that there are normal, regular, everyday citizens that live in SF and go about their lives/business and despise the unfortunate reputation their city has. I can sympathize, as I’m a native of and live in a city, in the southeast, that’s known as the home of a particular type of crappy music that I personally can’t stand (to me, this music genera makes Wham! sound good)… sadly, it’s the loons of SF, CA, and the left coast in general, that always make the news…. regular people are too boring to be newsworthy and thus are forced to endure living in the moonbat purgatory created by a small percentage of the population. Hang in there bro.
If I have to suffer then everyone else should too:
Altogether now: hmmmm…
CHORUS:
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small, small world
M..m..must resist the urge….
Damut.
a truly gifted politician; to be able to opine for seven and a half hours on what the problems are, without ever offering one solution, or offending any group of your core constituency. gavin for 2012, oh wait we already have barry, so gavin will have to wait until 16.
Listening to this clown talk is almost, and I mean almost, as painful as listening to the Obama and his oral regurgitations.
Interesting that the Democrats have been in charge of San Fransicko now for how many years? None of their social, sexual, nor financial problems have gone away, but have worsened. These leftists have been in charge of the State for how long? Same thing. California public schools? Same result.
Now, they are completely in charge of Washington. Anyone want to bet on how the conditions change nationally in the next 4 years? You can bet good money, that during the re-election bids for the 2012 offices, these “clean, articulate, social progressives” will be pointing fingers at,
1) Bush, for putting them so deep in the hole to begin with, that there is no way they could have been successful, and they need 4 more years, etc.; and
2) the obstructionist Republican minority thwarted the passage of every good piece of legislation that was offered.
Thanks! I just threw that grenade over to my son for him to deal with today too. He’s not answering his text messages, so I feel like being sadistic for a while.
Seven and a half hours? Seriously?
What the hell could you be saying that it takes almost an entire workday to get through?
A law is needed requiring all TV stations, cable providers, and radio stations to play this speech and all his speeches in their entirity.
That should ensure his reelection.
This guy is the perfect choice to represent a city steeped in debauchery!
7.5 hours?
I wonder who got stuck running the camera for that? Did they take turns (or have a turn)? Were they being punished?
At least when Strom Thurmond filibustered for 26(?) hours, it was probably entertaining.
Please don’t let him near Sacramento.
“A commenter cut to the chase — something Gavin Newsom seems constitutionally incapable of doing: “7 1/2 hours — plus the time spent writing, rehearsing and editing — could have been better spent solving the city’s problems instead of just talking about them.””
I agree. I live in the Bay Area, and I often hear the smug “elitism” of the Bay Area progressives when they look down on the hicks in Middle America or the rednecks in the South.
Hey, Bay Area, you can be full of pride regarding your progressive thought and politics, but look in the mirror. Many of your neighborhoods are segregated and violent; many of your schools are segregated, violent, and failing; and the disparity between rich & poor is as extreme in the Bay Area than any other place in the US.
“Just what I wanted,” said Aaron Peskin, outgoing president of the Board of Supervisors. “Somebody imitating Al Gore for 7 1/2 hours. The guy did a Fidel Castro.”
Gavin isn’t Castro, but he wants to be.