HA HA HA HA Olympic Torch Hilarity
The whole world's watching -- as we make total fools of ourselves over here in the City By The Bay!!! We are literally crying with laughter as we read the coverage of this Olympic torch freakshow online.
So the torch is going from Pine and Van Ness down to the Marina? It's like the Gavin Newsom tour of San Francisco! Will the torch go see Beach Blanket Babylon and shoot some pool at the Tosca next?
And yes, we've gotten it confirmed, the press corps is in fact being ferried after the torch in one of those Bay City Quacker buses shaped like a duck. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
We'll update this post with the hilariousest pieces of news we get from the Olympics coverage, but big ups to the Chron, they deserve a Pulitzer just for the headline "Protestors chase after elusive torch." (alas, it's now gone, or we'd link to it.)
After the jump: Board of Supes pres Aaron Peskin's statement slamming Gavin Newsom for running away from problems instead of confronting them head-on!
Here's Aaron Peskin's statement:
Gavin Newsom runs San Francisco the way the premier of China runs his country - secrecy, lies, misinformation, lack of transparency and manipulating the populace. He misled supporters and opponents of the run. People brought their families and their children, and (mayoral officials) hatched a cynical plan to please the Bush State Department and the Chinese government because of the incredible influence of money.He did it so China can report they had a great torch run, It's the worst kind of government - government by deceit and misinformation."