August 17, 2007
Oh No, Ed Jew!: The Savage Jew Nation
Springing forth from SF's thigh, a new power couple is born: Savage Jew.
Wednesday, Ed Jew appeared on hyperbolic grandpa/genius performance artist Michael Savage's show, The Savage Nation.
Jew discussed why left-leaning views also deserve First Amendment protection and his decision to vote against Sandoval's proposed resolution to get Savage to use his inside voice. Along with his attorney Steven Gruel, Jew also blathered on about his own legal woes. (Maybe you've heard about them?)
Naturally, steam shot out of Sandoval's ears after hearing word that Jew went on Savage's show, saying that Jew "seems to be oblivious to a lot of things going on around him." Dude, totally.
On Monday, Jew will announce his plea on the nine felony counts brought against him, or drive while Vicodin swims through his veins, or slap a meter maid, or...who knows he'll do next!
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Rumor has it that Ed Jew will team up with Carole Migden and buy the Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland. They'll sell the usual YBMB bakery goods and section off a portion of the selling area and put in a hair stylist booth (wo-MANNED by CM, of course) called Bad Hair Life.
maybe that dude at City Hall could sing this:
"If I should call you up invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
And ease my mind
Imagine how the world could be
So very fine
So happy together."
Sadly, the oblivious master of his own universe Ed Jew, is going to be missed on that board as the sole voice of reason.
The fact that he is often the only "No" vote shows how wacked and out of touch with reality the SF board of supervisors really is.
Goddess help us all...
The public relations tone-deafness of Ed Jew is simply staggering. First there was his hilarious inability to keep his mouth shut to the press about taking the $40K in cash, then there was turning himself in to the Burlingame Police, and now an appearance on the Savage Nation? Are you freaking kidding me??? What's next? A resolution honoring Michael Vick for drowning and hanging under-performing dogs?
I appreciated yesterday's debate about free speech vs. hate speech and whether the Supervisors' symbolic resolutions are worthwhile (although I didn't appreciate SFist censoring my links to FogCityJournal. WTF is up with that? You know I love you, SFist, but petty blog war crap like that shakes my faith in you.), and I realize there's a lot of gray area in these debates.
But a San Francisco Supervisor appearing on the Michael Savage show? I think that's crossing the line. Most rational adults (even right-wing talk show types) dismiss Savage as nutball, and marginalizing him is probably the best way to deal with him. For an elected official to legitimize Savage's garbage by appearing on his show is outrageous.
P.S. At least we got another fun Ed Jew quote out of this. "And I want to basically say that I don’t agree with my wife, and she has her own perspective.” The Ed Jew drinking game: drink every time he says "basically."
P.P.S. Savage's website is as pathetic as his URL.
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/ really? 2.3 million hits a month and this is the best you can do?
Totally agree with you on his awful site, Jer_notsfist. I had 4585445 seizures just looking at the thing.
I don't think it was censorship; the blog software just doesn't know that url's don't need quotes around them in most situations, especially in html tags. This is irritating because the specification was quite clear about whether quotes are needed, and what distinguishes an url from the surrounding text, and how programs should behave.
From RFC 2396:
...(long sex scene deleted)...
In this case the previewer actually works correctly, while the posting process does not and strips out unquoted url's, even though angle brackets are sufficient to delimit them per the spec.
Maybe I didn't include the quotes around the URL in my first comment, although I'm about 97% positive that I did. But my second comment was clearly edited by Brock or someone else at SFist. I pasted the URL straight into the comment below the line "Hmm, I coulda sworn I put a link in that last comment."
The URL was hotlinked in my comment when I reread the comments yesterday afternoon, but it was gone today when I looked back again while I was writing the comment above.
Jeremy_notSFist, SFist is not involved in any blog wars, petty or otherwise. We recommend you avoid commenting on any website in which you have no faith.
Brock, are you're saying that my comments weren't edited?
Jeremy_notSFist, you're confused: See, I'm very much pro-censorship, pro-police state, pro-FGM, pro-ANA, and even pro-puppy drowning.
Now, let's not fight.
I guess I am confused. I had to do some googling to figure out what pro-FGM and pro-ANA are. I'm not really looking to pick a fight. Last week I said that I thought a dance off was the best way to settle a blog war.
I'm just wondering what's going on. Did you edit my comments? Have any other comments on SFist been edited? I see on the gothamist comment policy that you reserve the right to delete comments, but it doesn't say anything about editing comments.
Jeremy notSFist, let it go. If you don't like how they run things on SFist, don't read it or comment on it. In fact, since you think FCJ is so freakin' awesome, why don't you go comment there, instead? Oh, wait, you can't.
You've said that you're not down with blog wars, so here's a tip -- STOP TRYING TO START ONE. Brock has given you a lot more time, attention, and consideration than you deserve.
wrong #12. if Jeremy's comments were edited by brock -- and for now i'll take brock's silence as an admission of guilt -- that's just bullshit. jeremy is a regular, thoughtful contributor to SFist and he deserves to not have his frickin' comments altered by the editor. simple as that.
#12 you have no business telling jeremy to "let it go." none whatsoever.
now to the matter of michael savage. ed jew is the most laughably idiotic supervisor this city has ever seen. and that's saying a lot.
here's a taste of michael savage. . .
SAVAGE: Alright, so you're one of those sodomists? Are you a sodomite?
CALLER: Yes, I am.
SAVAGE: Oh, you're one of the sodomites! You should only get AIDS and die, you pig! How's that? [off-screen crew can be heard shouting 'Whoa!'] Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig? You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage? You got nothing to do today? Go eat a sausage and choke on it. Get trichinosis. OK, do we have another nice caller who's busy and didn't have a nice night in the bathhouses, angry at me today? Huh? Get me another one, put another sodomite on! No more calls? I don't care. Let's go to the next scene. I don't care about these bums, they mean nothing to me. They're all sausages. Next scene; onto the next scene on the 'Savage Nation'.
You know, not for nothing, Adolph Hitler was also a genius performance artist. All those swastikas. Midnight rallies. Bracing speeches. All great political theater.
Right up until it wasn't.
Well, at least Brock fessed up to me in a private email:
> From: Brock Keeling
> To: ***@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:55 PM
> Subject: a dance off?
>
> that does sound fun. although i need good, low lighting.
>
> we have the right to edit our comments. hope that helps. hope there's no hard feelings.
I guess that's better than nothing, but why not just say it publicly in the comments? Some friends have asked me what's up with this whole thing, and I feel like I should share your email on this thread.
The only other time I've seen comments edited is to disemvowel hateful comments. Deleting links to a rival site is bush league--especially when they had posted their story about the Sandoval-Jew-Savage thing before you did.
What other comments has SFist edited in the past? Maybe you guys should update your comment policy. It doesn't say anything about editing comments. For the last year or so, I've considered SFist to be the "blog of record" in San Francisco. It kind of sucks that now I'm not sure how much I should trust you guys. Would any of the other SFist writers care to weigh in? (Rita, Jon, MattyMatt?)
And as for the dance off, that could be some embarrassing fun. Good, low lighting is a great idea. And I could use some time for a montage sequence of hardcore dance training. ("he's a maniac, maniac on the floor . . . ")
" Would any of the other SFist writers care to weigh in? (Rita, Jon, MattyMatt?)"
I find it patently offensive that you didn't ask me, namesake. Anybody else I'd forgive them, but from a fellow Jeremy, it just breaks my spirit. Time to go grab another beer to wash away the pain of anonymity.
And, for the record, Jeremy, the only time I've ever edited a comment was in an effort to stand up for an FCJ writer -- remember? I guess not, though I seem to recall you were on that very thread.
I don't understand what exactly was edited from a comment, but I agree with Jeremy_notSFist - the comment policy should clearly state that you reserve the right to edit comments, without any visible evidence that it has occurred. Otherwise there is no way to tell if words have been put in a commentor's mouth, or taken away.
DOH! Mea culpa, my namesake. I guess I must have been thinking of the SFist writers who usually cover political-type stuff. I in no way meant to snub your fine contributions. Thanks for your clarification. I think I remember the thread your talking about. Was it one of the disturbing threads where anonymous commenters were making vaguely menacing and misogynistic threats to (formerly)SFist_Elaine?
To [17]'s question about what was edited, Brock didn't alter the text of my comments, but in this thread he twice deleted my links to the article. It seems like SFist has been giving FCJ the cold shoulder recently. I don't know if it goes back to when SFist fired Elaine or when FCJ contradicted Brock's report that Gavin and Jen Siebel had broken up. But whatever's going on between you two, I'd rather not be caught in the middle of it. Don't be like one of those ex-couples who make their friends choose between them.
links removed to avoid overwhelming external site.
also, i already explained to you that there's no "war," one which you do in fact crave, jeremy_notsfist.
that said, watch it. and try staying on topic.
"links removed to avoid overwhelming external site." Seriously? That's your excuse? Are you sure you cat didn't walk across your keyboard? I'm sure SFist gets quite a bit of traffic, but I assume FogCityJournal's servers can handle the handful of hits that would result from a link in a comment (not even a front page story). That is so completely disingenuous. What other links have you removed to avoid overwhelming external sites? (And nice passive voice, by the way. Were mistakes made?)
And "watch it"? Is that a threat? I'm trying to remain civil over here. I'm counting to 10 and rereading my comments before posting and everything. Are you going to ban me for asking questions about your commenting policy?
yes, that's it. because you dared to speak the sacred truth.
bye.
Jeremy_notSFist, today's San Francisco Chronicle
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