Raj Mathai was interested. Very much so. He's pretty much done his thing in San Jose and he's semi-bored. Not in the literal meaning but professionally-speaking.
Mathai is in his second decade working at NBC Bay Area and he, not so long ago, was offered by the mighty peacock: a multi-year deal to anchor NBC's various platforms, including NBC News, MSNBC and a potential digital endeavor that is on the front burner.
But Raj, who's raising a family and loves the Bay Area, said no. Maybe when he's older and leaner, who knows. The company can wait.
The mayor gets major ass-kissing in this town but Friday's deluxe, tour-de-force stood out and given the international headlines of the mayhem, was particularly offensive.
Your photo above shows what’s wrong with the city.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, disgusting leadership
DeleteStatistics may lie, but the same statistics show 3 TX cities with higher murder rates than San Francisco’s; plus Austin is neck and neck with us in violent crimes. It’s not a liberal vs. conservative thing. It’s just very sad facts.
DeleteSan Francisco crime rate lower than most major cities.
ReplyDeleteLies, damned lies, and the BS liberals claim. Look at how they compile statistics. They no longer have any meaning.
Delete@10:07-So what's your point? We should just accept all the horrible things going on because other cities are worse? We keep electing the same people over and over and things keep getting worse and worse but hey, it's a beautiful city, nothing to see here!
ReplyDeleteIt’s a ghost town at 3rd and King too, thanks to a jerry-rigged team of AAA players, only 8 miles from the AA team in Oakland.
ReplyDeleteThat said, it is Easter and one if the nicest days of 2023, so not everything is lousy. Hopefully there is a nice light awaiting us at the end of the tunnel🙏
Raj is the Bay Areas cookie cutter Don Lemon.Things not looking so hot for the latter? The picture of the two idiots on display spells one one word: HUBRIS. An empty stadium and empty city does not revenue generate. Enforce laws and prosecute crimes? Puhleeze!
ReplyDeleteHow can there be no cameras where man was stabbed? Only after of him walking. Also, if SF IS doing something about crime and homelessnes, why doesnt mayor use her contacts in media to highlight that stuff? Currently looks likeSF does nothing even though numbers show crime numbers have dropped.
ReplyDelete"...if SF IS doing something about crime and homelessnes, why doesnt mayor use her contacts in media to highlight that stuff?"
DeleteBecause she's lying. She's too interested in sitting in her office and getting high all day.
"Currently looks likeSF does nothing even though numbers show crime numbers have dropped."
If you know how to read statistics you can see they show no such thing. They just parse them differently and feed them that way a media so dumb that last night they named "Denmark" as one of the five cities in the world with good public transportation. (Both KTVU and KGO ran this.) Today's reporters are stenographers who cannot interpret facts and cannot tell when they're being fed bullshit, and don't care. As Rich points out, there is no journalism in the Bay Area anymore. Literally none.
I had a friend whose mother worked in the mayor's office. She quit because she couldn't stand the smell of weed coming from LB's office constantly.
DeleteNo one can get anything done as mayor in SF. That’s a fact. Conservatives who live here should recognize that. And they should do us favor; move to either Mississippi, Alabama, Texas or Wyoming, where there are plenty of angry, white, middle aged white guys who hate the fact that the majority of clear thinking folks, (most women and citizens under age 30 and minorities,) will continue to send criminals such as Trump and racist hate-mongers down to defeat.
ReplyDeleteAmen! I’m so tired of these whiney conservatives in the Bay Area. Don’t like it? Get the hell out you bums
DeleteThe problem is the Bay Area doesn't have any news with meat on it's bones - when I worked for the Washington Examiner in 1982 we had stories like 'Headless Body Found in Topless Bar'. You don't see any stories like that around here, except when they found that Go-Go dancer and the manager of The Condor club lying under the piano that was suspended by wires from the ceiling which had broken loose and fell on them while inflagrante delickto...
ReplyDelete@1:00 Thanks for the laugh! Be careful when you point a finger at someone, there's always three pointing back at you.
ReplyDeleteHe/she/them/they/whatever pronoun they use sure did have some excuses didn't they. Whoa boy.
DeletePeople need to realize San Francisco is a city. Things do happen in an urban place...good and bad. These high earning tech people normally would be living in places like Atherton...yet choose SF and think crime should be like Atherton. Sorry...can't have it both ways.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who lived in the City in the '60s and '70s, San Francisco is way safer now. If the Tech folks find it too dirty and unsafe...they should leave. Suburbia awaits...or some other 'safe' city (good luck).
"As someone who lived in the City in the '60s and '70s, San Francisco is way safer now."
DeleteAs someone who lived in the City in the '60s and '70s, I'll tell you you're full of sh*t.
Obviously 11:21 AM never spent time in the Fillmore, Hayes Valley, Hunters Point, Visitation Valley or the Mission back in the '60s. Most all of these places have since been gentrified. Is that good? That's a different conversation. Are all those places safer today? Absolutely.
DeleteEvan Sernoffsky did a live shot on the Jasper Woo protests this noon and he was SO AWFUL. Didn’t even know what he was saying. You’re right, reporters today can’t do live shots to save their life.
ReplyDelete> If the Tech folks find it too dirty and unsafe...they should leave.
ReplyDeleteThey are. Haven't you been paying attention? SF's tax base is shrinking, shrinking, shrinking.
Might be true: Raj does not want to leave his buddy’s behind.
ReplyDeleteI don't get the supposed Raj appeal. I have never felt the need to watch NBC 11 because he was there. In fact, I've probably watched him under 10 times in my life. Also, I asked around. Nobody, and I mean nobody...cares about Raj Mathai outside this blog.
ReplyDeleteface it SF is a shithole !!!
ReplyDeleteI’ve been telling people for over 15 years that’s it’s a shit hole also.
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