Watching City Hall #449
(3-2-06)
Chronicle gives 100K in ads to Pelosi!
(Demo’s panic early & often)
Krissy Keefer is a force to be reckoned with.   In an unprecedented move, the local Democratic Minority Whip of the established oligarchy (Nancy Pelosi) received over a hundred grand in free publicity disguised as puff piece bad journalism in an SF Chronicle series that aired today (Sunday) & will continue through Tuesday.  Get ready to see the de rigueur pieces with shots of the woman who gave Dione Feinstein’s hubby Duck Bloom a billion dollars in Iraqi war contracts in one month … get ready to see her with … ?? … of course, JFK himself!  I mean, c’mon, this guy’s body’s been dug up so many times by Democratic party hacks that there must be little left of his limbs.   For God’s sake, Nancy, leave Kennedy in his grave.
The Baltimore rich girl is in trouble and Downtown San Francisco knows it.   Dragging the cold corpse of Kennedy out in March is a bad, bad sign.   Fact is, this is happening because Nancy Pelosi simply is no match for Krissy Keefer on any level and her handlers are moving early and with little concern for cash in rolling a huge propaganda campaign out for the beleaguered congressional mouthpiece for big money Democratic defense contractors and consultants and management companies.   When you have a candidate who has sold out national parks, has yet to take a position on gay marriage and was just handed her ‘anti-war’ sound byte cards last week … you got yourself a problem if you’re a consultant.   Clearly, she doesn’t represent San Francisco and never has.    So, if you’re a consultant billing the Downtown interests she represents a million a year, how do you hype her?
Oddly, they’ve chosen to emphasize her wealth and privilege in their initial attack upon Keefer.   “Because Nancy has so much money and so many connections to billionaires, she should continue to represent them … uh, ‘you�.  That bullshit won’t fly in San Francisco.   Just watch.
What’s pissing me off is that Pelosi’s people can spend this hundred grand in advertising without declaring a dime of it.   After all, this isn’t PR for Nancy, this is ‘news’ say the Republican Hearsts who are footing the bill for this one.   Willie Brown profited from a couple of million by this kind of anti-journalism ads-disguised-as-news in his campaign against Ammiano in ’99 and Newsom got even more ads-disguised-as-news bucks when Gonzalez kicked his ass in ‘04.  Now, watch Pelosi take the ads-disguised-as-news bucks to a new high.
Look at the numbers.   A full page ad in the Chronicle will run you 10 grand or whatever for a legitimate advertiser.  If the Hearsts were to frame the pieces they’re running on Pelosi honestly: ‘Political Advertisement’ … that’s what they should say.
If the Pelosi forces were honest, they’d have to post a hundred grand or so for the ads and reporters and staff and all that with the Ethics Commission … hell, face it, the Chronicle is a Republican advertising agency when we get anywhere close an election … and always, as regards candidates and issues.   No Hearst paper ever told the truth on purpose.
Watch it unfold.  Keefer, the impresario works on a show with her troupe for presentation down the Peninsula next month.  She’ll campaign in earnest after the June Green primary.   Pelosi is out there with wheelbarrows of money already.  Can you be bought?
we’ll see:
