Your Daily Dose of Whatever Gate We're Calling It
So yes, we have a predilection for hitting up Fox News occasionally. We like to look at it as testing our mental fortitude, a way to see how far we could go before our blood pressure rises to the point we have to throw things. Somehow, this weekend we missed Matt Gonzalez appearing on Fox's "The Lineup" to talk about the Yale Choral Group story (Yalegate? Doughgate? Choirgate?). Oh, and your host of the Lineup? The former Mrs. Gavin Newsom, Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Talk about tension city-- here was the political rival of the Mayor chatting it up with the Mayor's ex-wife. And according to Matier & Ross, Kimberly signed off with these words: "all right, Matt Gonzalez, and we will see if you run for mayor again." Now just imagine what it's like seeing one of your ex'es talking to one of your rivals. Now picture said ex then rooting on your rival to do something that makes them your rival. Boy, if we were a drinking man, it would be things like this that make us drink.
We actually spent some time looking for the transcript or the video of it but couldn't find it. It being Fox News, we could find tons of stuff on the Peterson Case, Natalee Holloway, or whether Democrats are worse than Osama Bin Laden, but nothing on this.
In other news, the LA Times weighs in on the story with catty comments everywhere. After the jump, some choice quotes:
Sharyar Aziz on Heather Fong's insistence that there was nobody around after the fight to make a statement: "I found her statement shocking... I was in a state of disbelief [that] the chief of police of a major city would make public comments I knew in fact were untrue."
Leanna Dawydiak on Gavin's comment that she served alcohol to minors: "Who the heck does he think he is? Talk about kids drinking! Here you have a guy who's over 40 taking underage girls to bars where they're drinking stuff that sure looks like alcohol."
Ross Mirkarimi making a big deal out of this: "His outrage needs to be re-proportioned toward the most severe crimes and less to those that affect his own political image outside San Francisco."
And finally, Peter Ragone in response to Mirkarimi's quote: "Ross Mirkarimi can't walk and chew gum at the same time. What he doesn't understand is that the mayor of a major American city has to be able to focus on more than one thing at once."
Mee....oooow.
And finally, the Chronicle went to Yale to see what Yalies think about the case. As much sympathy as we have for the members of the Baker's Dozen, we stopped reading the article after reading someone with the name Wookie Kim said this about the incident: "I couldn't believe that anyone could do that to a Yale student."