Best line on the Question Time comedy: We rented a chicken suit?
I have to admit the stuff that the SF Bay Guardian, SFIST, and even the Chron, has done on the Question time comedy has been hysterical. But my favorite posting yet was on YouTube where Marc Solomon confronts Angela Alioto , the Mayor’s tsarina on homelessness, about her anti-chicken comments during the Townhall meeting in the Richmond. Doug Comstock, one of her former political consultants, chimed in and reminded her that she had rented a chicken suit during her last Mayoral campaign in 2003 because Gavin Newsom refused to come to the first Mayoral debate. Doug also complained that he had to wear the suit all night at which point Angela remembered that they did indeed rent a chicken suit. God I love San Francisco.
But then when I thought I had seen it all, I went to Gavinwatch and saw, as SFIST put it, the gift that keeps on giving.
Memo to Jon: We agree. When you are at a political meeting, always follow the people in chicken suits.
God I love San Francisco.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:49 am
And notice Alioto’s quick and uncomfortable getaway as she pleads ignorance.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am
The best part of this was that all of the players in the fowl drama knew each other and had a basis of trust. When we told Wade Crowfoot that we wouldn’t disrupt, he believed us and we kept true to our word.
All we did was “be chickens” in the room and that was humorous enough to get our point across and them some. At one time, Peter Ragone began to go all Arthur Evans on me to which I replied: “Sir, you are arguing politics with someone dressed in a chicken suit. Can you imagine how you look right now?”
But Angela is great if not a bit mashugana. We’ve known one another for years and have a great relationship. So it was possible to stick the knife in without her knowing that it was even there, keeping it funny enough so that we punk’ed her cordially.
I’m Ashton Chicken and you, Angela Alito, are PUNK’ED, and I am AWESOME.