The adorable face of the modern left, as portrayed by the ineffable Fortney Hillman “Pete” Stark, D. Calif. With his peerless combination of arrogance, stupidity, resentment and sneering contempt for the people who pay his inflated salary, it’s hard to beat Congressman Stark, among whose dubious claims to fame is that he’s the first openly atheist member of Congress, so help us God.

Stark has a long history of making absurd and offensive statements, including rank anti-Semitism. He’s a disgrace to the East Bay, to the state of California and to the United States.

So you’d think the media would be all over this clown but of course they’re not: as a Democrat, he’s viewed as “eccentric” rather than what he is: a mean-spirited timeserver who’s been in Congress since 1972 and has long since passed from an entitlement mentality to outright loathing of his constituents. As Noah Cross says in Chinatown, ”whores, politicians and ugly buildings” all get respectable if they last long enough; we know Stark is not an ugly building, so that narrows it down a little.

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A week ago, news began to break in San Francisco about a targeted gay-bashing crime that allegedly occurred on February 26.

Three cousins from Hayward have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime and assault for allegedly firing a BB rifle at the face of a man they believed was gay, an attack the men videotaped, authorities said Wednesday.

Investigators believe the assailants chose the victim because he appeared to be gay. When the men were pulled over, police found a video camera that was used to film the shooting, investigators said.

Clearly, of course, this had to be a Christian right-wing, tea party, anti-government, bigoted homophobe from the South. Right?

Wrong.

The three men, Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Sayed Bassam, 21, and Mohammad Habibzada, 24, the driver, were arrested. (more…)

Starting Feb. 1, Michael Savage, host of The Savage Nation, returns to the air waves in the Bay Area on XTRA Sports 860 AM in San Francisco from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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