SFist: Fowler Hate

SFX

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:02:00 -0800

amen. i've been waiting for the "stephen fowler speaks for me" group on facebook for over a week, now.

The Angry Young Man

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:33:38 -0800

I'm not sure where this local indignation is coming from. Everyone I know in this city is more or less like the Fowlers. Being a San Franciscan and having a superiority complex go hand in hand.

giant fur diaper

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:52:57 -0800

Stephen makes Stephen look bad. He's a Brit. They can take responsibility. Through all this brouhaha my surprise is that nobody is concerned about the kids. I distinctly remember the mother saying she doesn't spend much time with them because it "doesn't fit with her personality" and it *sniff* makes her cranky. No shit.

travin

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:29:17 -0800

As long as it makes ad-buy quotas it's ok. Isn't it?

Greg

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:15:23 -0800

fowler comes off as a douche, to be sure, but it is a cheap shot by the media to slur an entire city and suggest the entire City is being populated by folks like this. I mean, I could go to some other part of the country, pick out their worst representatives and make a sideshow out of it, but that would be, um, being a douche. ah life in the cultural down cycle...so....so....

SYFer

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:01:42 -0800

But what stokes the hate are web sites like SFist which continue to keep the story alive long after it should have died. Hey, I lapped up the original story as much as anyone, but I think you're re-running this a second time now (on a rather weak premise) because you saw the huge surge in Fowler hits on Google yesterday and you want your piece of the action. I'm guessing that your last Fowler story was the #1 draw of the week last week, am I right? The much-flogged AA story is, after all, too local. Finally, as a hook for today's link bait, you accuse your gentle readers of behaving like an angry mob? How positively Fowleresque of you.

travin

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:20:41 -0800

2009 is the year to get your hate on. But not to worry. Obama will kiss it and make it mobetta.

thisis_

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:00:19 -0800

He says what we are all thinking, right?

MalcoveMagnesia

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:35:21 -0800

Noe Valley resident, not Now Valley :-) Snobs like Stephen make San Francisco look really bad, but any blue-state demographic watching reality t.v. probably already has a poor opinion of Baghdad by the Bay.