Video: Choir boys jumped by San Fran punks after singing Star-Spangled Banner
posted at 2:46 pm on January 10, 2007 by Allahpundit
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That’s how AFP is spinning it…
Members of the a cappella Baker’s Dozen were performing at a party in San Francisco at the new year when their rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” apparently sparked taunts and threats from fellow partygoers.
…but it seems the truth is more nuanced. It wasn’t the anthem that set them off; it was the “attention” they were getting at the party.
As gay as a slapfight between a Yale glee club and a gang from San Francisco sounds, it actually ended up being pretty bad. See for yourself by clicking the image to watch.
Update: Now that’s a gang.
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Uh, wouldn’t this be considered a hate crime? Oh wait, that only applies to gays, blacks, and Muslims.
dalewalt on January 10, 2007 at 2:53 PM
A bunch of punk SF yoots , Book em Danno!
Oh wait, they will probably get away scott-free in the land of the libtards.
BTW I live there .
bbz123 on January 10, 2007 at 2:56 PM
WtF?
Jaibones on January 10, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Just once I’d like to see a report of such punks running into someone with a concealed carry permit. Nuff said.
Buck Turgidson on January 10, 2007 at 3:04 PM
As a young Kidlet growing up in ungentrified late 70s Williamsburgh, I was always taught that teh geys always carried razor blades under their tongues, and thus were not to be trifled with. Those poor Yalies never had a chance.
Kid from Brooklyn on January 10, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Well, they were mostly white anyway, so they were kind of asking for a beating. And as for the Middle Eastern student who now has two metal plates in his skull – well, what did he expect for selling out his cultural identity to the Man to the extent of joining a frigging glee club?
I imagine that’s the general opinion in SF right now.
mikeomatic on January 10, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Buck, you don’t really see that kind of nonsense in a CC state, do you?
F.S. 766, Bitches!
Kid from Brooklyn on January 10, 2007 at 3:06 PM
That doesn’t appear to be a gay slapfight to me. Seems the police are a little slow on the uptake. Maybe because the victims are Yalie out-of-towners.
archon2001 on January 10, 2007 at 3:06 PM
Pink on Pink?
BohicaTwentyTwo on January 10, 2007 at 3:11 PM
Correction: F.S. 766 should read Florida Statute 776. Sorry.
Kid from Brooklyn on January 10, 2007 at 3:15 PM
Don’t know why the San Fran boys were upset with the Yalesters. You would have thought that the Frannys would be hitting on them for their phone numbers instead.
Guardian on January 10, 2007 at 3:18 PM
I wonder how many of them turned “conservative” that night.
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GT on January 10, 2007 at 3:19 PM
I don’t like the way you’re dressed! That tie makes you look too professional and well-mannered! I must break your jaw!
Stupid.
Black Adam on January 10, 2007 at 3:20 PM
I feel so badly for those kids. You have to be hit extremely hard to have your jaw broken.
CrimsonFisted on January 10, 2007 at 3:31 PM
What, were they wearing clothes, in SF?
Is that a criminal act there? Pelosi? Anyone?
fogw on January 10, 2007 at 3:33 PM
well, in all honesty, aside from the actuall subject of the gang beating, I had to chuckle when the word Gay was used in the subject matter then immediately below that in the comments section is the logo “BLOWBACK”.
Maybe THAT is the retailiation this gang is yearning for? ;)
Bearhopi on January 10, 2007 at 3:33 PM
What likely pissed them off
1. Well dressed
2. Rich (go to yale after-all)
3. White
4. Male
5. Same university as President Bush
6. Getting girls because they don’t look like dirty hippies
Defector01 on January 10, 2007 at 3:37 PM
I think the out of town out of sight out of mind thing is pretty pitiful.
INvesti mo gation…my Aunt FANNY.
Oh…and GREAT national news coverage, eh?
One FRANNY with his lipstick smudged and he’d be ALL UP OUR @$$e$ about “his civil rights”!!!!!!!!!!!
seejanemom on January 10, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Geeze, what the hell is wrong with those people out in SF? I’m glad that I was able to see this on all the national news networks (sarc).
Just another reason not to visit the City by the Bay no matter how wonderful Journey used to make it sound about the lights going down in the City and the sun shining on the Bay.
Catie96706 on January 10, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Heh, I’m with Rush on this one. The real surprise here is that anyone from Yale was actually singing the Star Spangled Banner.
Cary on January 10, 2007 at 4:05 PM
Gang? Yeah, the Nob Hill Posse is scary for sure. Bet it’s a bunch of rich snotty kids who listen to hip hop and think they are so tough. Hope the better dressed rich kids got some licks in, too.
RW Wacko on January 10, 2007 at 4:19 PM
That’s pretty scary, but hey, it’s all part of the Socialist revolution, right??
Rick on January 10, 2007 at 4:44 PM
Being San Francisco…this would make FAR more sense:
There, that’s better, and far more believable.
tickleddragon on January 10, 2007 at 4:48 PM
Does this really sound like a witness comment? More like a professional mouthpiece. I don’t believe this story can be unlinked from the National Anthem. Dollars to donuts a real investigation shows that the taunts and threats began after they sang it.
I wonder, which group would Peace Mother Sheehan side with, the victims of physical violence, or those poor Frannys subjected to a disturbing display of raw patriotism?
Freelancer on January 10, 2007 at 4:54 PM
It is going to get worse. The liberals think they can do whatever they want, look at what happens to conservative speakers on college campuses. UC Santa Cruz won’t have a job fair because they cannot protect the military recruiters from being harmed. It is going to get worse.
right2bright on January 10, 2007 at 6:12 PM
No mention at all of them defending themselves, what’s up with that? Just because you’re musical doesn’t mean you have to be a wuss. Just ask Lynyrd Skynyrd or Motley Crue.
infidel4life on January 10, 2007 at 6:17 PM
As the Baker’s Dozen left the house they were ambushed. Five, six, seven assailants attacking each member.
Even against choirboys they don’t have the cojones for a man to man fight.
packsoldier on January 10, 2007 at 6:28 PM
* Whoever made the guest list is a sh*thead.
* It seems an elite that can’t fight isn’t elite in the crucial sense.
* It seems parents who neglect training for their children to enable them to beat an assailant have left their children’s treatment up to an assailant.
Kralizec on January 10, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Only you (or Ace) would pick that quote out of the article… I actually read that earlier when I first followed the link at Drudge and just found the “my boys” part annoying… but not in a gay way, and never where you took it.
RightWinged on January 10, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Question: Do these kinds of punks show up at a Professional Bull Riders Competition?? Even 20 deep ?
DoctorDentons on January 10, 2007 at 7:15 PM
“So far San Francisco Police have arrested no one.”
That is so typical and so repugnant.
I was born in San Francisco, but on my 14th Birthday my parents gave me the greatest present ever. We moved our Family to San Jose.
I have never looked back.
I would not drop one tear if that festering slimepit of a city was swallowed up by the bay. That is, of course, after we move the 49ers to San Jose.
:)
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 10, 2007 at 8:23 PM
Also. If a Moderator or Admin reads this, how do I change my name? It is supposed to be “JayHawk” not “JayHaw”.
Although, I must admit it’s funnier this way, I want my “k”.
:(
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 10, 2007 at 8:25 PM
This board needs animated smilies!!!
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 10, 2007 at 8:25 PM
Sad. My guess is that these punks (NOT the singers) were probably wasted and looking for a fight. SF being what it is, the singing of our National Anthem was probably all the excuse they needed to try and pick one. From what I can read, the Baker’s Dozen DID NOT back down (good on them) to the verbal taunting and that’s when that particular sh*thead decided to call his “boys.”
By the way, the singing of the Anthem was not necessarily motivated by patriotism (though I would like to think it was), but rather might have been because there are some truly beautiful arrangements out there and they had one they were a)truly proud of and b)knew VERY well from constant repetition. My High School choir had one of those and it was the FIRST song we learned and we subsequently preformed it about once a week (or so it felt). It was the one song we could sing well tired, worn out, drunk, high, or even (quite possibly) three days dead. If their choice of music WAS patriotically motivated, it’s a lousy situation to get pummeled for loving your own country (but the martyr thing makes it bearable). If it was because it was a song they could sing while the entire bass section was three sheets to the wind… well, sorry folks, but that’s San Francisco.
Militant Bibliophile on January 10, 2007 at 9:10 PM
Yeah KB, actually, we do have glee clubs here too. And they might be packin’.
Buck Turgidson on January 10, 2007 at 10:18 PM
Oh, I get it. The people at the party requested the “National Anthem” and were expecting their National Anthem:
But all they got was the ol’ “Star Spangled Banner.” I guess that might be enough to push those “San Francisco” values folks over the edge. How dare those “conservative dressed” Yale boys sing an American nationalist song in San Francisco!
mojojojo on January 10, 2007 at 11:22 PM
Free JayHawk! Don’t make him come for the k.
Buck Turgidson on January 11, 2007 at 12:10 AM
As I watched the video, I remembered how the California delegation led the boo-ing of the Eagle Scout color guard at the 2000 National Democratic Party convention in Los Angeles.
This was clearly much more serious and while it sounds like a typical “gang-banger” thing, I cannot quite disconnect the link to the singing of the national anthem. However….
Last week, I was in San Francisco and except for a formal occasion where I wore a suit, I openly wore a bright red United States Marine Corps hat, complete with the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor logo. I wore that hat every day, just like I wear it every day here at home. On the flights out and back, in the SF International airport, while shopping in San Ramon and Alamo (liberal hotbeds), while wine tasting in Napa Valley (which went 3 to 1 for Kerry in the 2004 election). And on the streets and to some of the trendy restraurants.
I got EXACTLY the same response that I get here at home. ‘
NOTHING.
No slurs.
No insults.
No nasty comments.
No “baby killer warmonger”
Nothing.
So, I’m not quite prepared to equate this incident with a bunch of SF leftist Brownshirters going after people who sing the national anthem. I am prepared, however, to call it what it was — felony aggravated assault — and to call shame on the San Francisco police for NOT doing their duty. As usual.
georgej on January 11, 2007 at 4:08 AM
hey georgej… consider the difference between threatening a marine … and some college boys dressed in suits.
One Angry Christian on January 11, 2007 at 11:35 AM
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