Re: Freedom of expression
> > Maybe you can tell your friends in the Shenandoah Valley that many of us in San Francisco are also sick of the lefties on our Board of Supervisors. I consider myself a mainstream liberal, and I find myself wincing in pain everytime the Board makes pronouncements. At least you guys in Virginia don't have to hear it everytime Chris Daly opens his mouth. Daly loves to badmouth the SF Chronicle for opposing him, but that paper seems to hang on his every word...because it's always colorful, and it's news. You can also remind your friends that you grew up in Stockton, and California is now divided from north to south politically, with the liberals primarily along the coast. If the more populous coastal cities fell into the ocean, California would be more Republican than Vigininia by far. Didn't you guys just elect a (gasp!) Democrat for Governor? I'm not sure about Stockton specifically, but the San Joaquin Valley in general is strongly Republican and conservative. We stay with friends in the north Valley occasionally, and most people there consider Schwarzanegger a namby-pamby liberal.
> > Yup a bunch of politicians trying to make themselves feel
> > more important than they really are. GOOD GRIEF.
>
> But they are a pain in my a$$, way out here in Virginia's
> Shenandoah Valley. I was born and raised in Stockton, worked
> at KSTN, KJOY, KWG, and KWIN (back when KWIN's studios were
> in a mobile home trailer in Woodbridge)then moved to Vermont
> after an interlude in Canton, Ohio. I was recently
> transferred by the corporation I work for to Harrisonburg,
> VA. Everyone here knows I'm originally from California by
> way of Vermont, and I'm the demonized liberal. Oh, the
> amount of s#!t I get from people over what the SF Board of
> Stuporvisors does. For the record, O'Reilly and Bill Bennett
> can say whatever they want, just like Pat Robertson does.
> Doesn't mean I have to listen to it. But I DO have to listen
> to right-wing buttmunches that come rolling up on me and
> ask, "So what do you think about what your liberal buddies
> in San Francisco did this week?"
> Look, I need a term. I need a word or phrase to describe
> whiny-a$$ crybaby liberals who pass stupid crap like the SF
> Measure H (although the resolution to restrict predatory
> recruiting in public schools was, in my view, commendable.
> So take that, Bildo.) and call a station's license into
> question over what a syndick talker sends over the
> Starguide. I need a way to differentiate them from people
> like me who are solidly and rationally on the left, as
> opposed to being our side's version of O'Reilly, or God help
> us, Ann Coulter.
> Any suggestions?
>
