There were so many lies and so much misinformation coming from Jesse Watters, the documentarian sent on behalf of Fox News' Bill O'Really? into my city, San Francisco, that I didn't even know where to begin as far as debunking and deconstructing it. This is not to say that there are not a lot of homeless people in San Francisco, nor to deny that there are mentally ill people and drug addicts on the streets here, either. But to imply that this is commonplace all across San Francisco is a lie. To imply that this is not a NATIONAL problem is a lie. To make it sound like we're creating or breeding schizophrenic homeless drug addicts is a bit of a stretch too. And by the way, has Watters or O'Reilly been to downtown Kansas City? Talk about not feeling safe -- it's a danger zone. Or Detroit? Or Los Angeles. Or a number of other American cities suffering the same problem. And oh by the way, mentally ill people in the streets - you can thank in large part your hero Ronald Reagan and his Republican successors for helping to shut down a lot of mental hospitals and mental health care programs in California, and elsewhere.
And the implication that it's not safe to go to the Presidio or the park or many other places in SF is a sham, too. Sure, no place in an American urban area is 100% fool-proof safe, but there's so much hysteria in that piece and BOR's BS that followed it that it's hard to even think of a rational response.
Anyway, Phill Bronstein points out a lot of other stories and places the Fox Folks missed, just for starters.
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