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Friday, June 15, 2001

This relates to the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, husband of Sharon Stone, during whose tenure the paper has lost subscribers in huge numbers. His idiot wife who used her notoriety got him a gift for Father's Day: an opportunity to spend time in a cage with a Komodo Dragon. Before he went in the keeper told him to remove his white shoes because the Dragon would mistake them for his regular food: live white rats. So, idiot Bronstein took off his shoes, went in, and with his wife watching outside the cage, had his big toe almost torn off along with severe tendon damage and assorted broken foot bones. By the way, the Dragon was imported illegally and after confiscation was given to the zoo where this happened. It was supposed to be tame. So here are their comments:

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"I only wish the person who suggested Mr. Bronstein remove his shoes had advised him to go in naked," Mayor Willie Brown offered, cackling. "What everyone wants to know is, is it true that he tasted like chicken?" hooted Michael McCourt, who tends bar in the Marina District and who is the brother of Frank and Malachy McCourt, the authors. "What were the last words Bronstein heard before he stepped into the cage? 'Tom Cruise would do it!' " reported San Francisco Weekly staffer Peter Byrne. "Geez, I hope the dragon's OK," worried Clint Reilly, the former political consultant who, in 1993, walked into Bronstein's newsroom to complain about one of his reporters and left with a broken ankle.