Posted on 10/13/2006 10:50:53 PM PDT by SmithL
Kevin Keeshan, news director of ABC 7, spoke with Wilson about the controversy Wednesday and Wilson apologized for his "inappropriate comments," Keeshan said.
"Beyond that, nothing is going to change. In the five years of working with Pete Wilson as a news anchor who also does a talk show, we've never experienced anything like this. It's highly unusual and highly out of character for Pete and, by his own admission, he crossed the line."
Four members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors had called on Wilson -- who has been in television news in the Bay Area for 35 years -- to resign as the anchor of ABC 7's 6 p.m. newscast after he criticized Supervisor Bevan Dufty for his co-parenting relationship.
Dufty, who is gay, fathered a child with his friend Rebecca Goldfader, who is a lesbian. Their daughter, Sidney, was born last week, and Wilson said during his radio show Tuesday that he believed it is wrong for a couple who are not romantically involved to have a child.
Wilson stood by his opinion, but apologized for the harsh language he used in expressing it, including calling the child a "travesty."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Stating the obvious truth is now un-PC.
It has been for quite a while.
LOL "Bevan Dufty"...you can't make this stuff up. Go Pete! Whatever upsets these freaks (that surround me) is OK by me.
LBT
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...and hurtful.
I listen to Pete every week at some point, and in general I like him even though we disagree on some key points. He is, however, an old school reporter. You cannot discern his viewpoint during a news broadcast.
He's spoken against PC-ness that's run counter to common sense - after all, he is from Minnesota. I wonder what his point of view will be now that he's run into the PC buzzsaw directly.
Anyway, they can't fire him. His head is too big. (grin)
He shouldnt have to apologize. Can people be people anymore ? Do we all have to be PC robots ?
Gosh, I would love to see someone in the MSM point out the 'groupthink' of the left. The left never admits to being Big Brother. This guy stated his opinion, not politically correct but a valid opinion. When are we, the people, going to say ENOUGH to the mind control of the left? When will a loud voice proclaim 'we are aloud to have a different opinion and should not be denigrated for wanting to keep morals and values important'?
Smells like the 'confessions' required of the victims at Communist show-trials!
Sorry, too late at night. That should read 'allowed'.
It is funny.
In San Francisco, if you say something bad about lesbians or gays, you are a bigot. If you say something bad about christianity, if you trash your country at a time of war, you are just using your constitutional rights. freedom of speech.
These people do not want the constitution to apply to traditionalists.
I am a christian. I do not agree with gay marriage, does that make me a bigot ? I have gay friends and a gay family member I love a lot, but in the eyes of the loony left in SF I am a bigot because I am against gay marriage and believe in Christ.
... a... where's the problem? This child is going to have to use a friggin pointer and a bar chart to describe her family tree to her kindergarten class ..
Truth and those who state it will always get villified by the MSM and liberals.
Let's hope that is her biggest problem. Let's pray that she doesn't become a victim of other deviant behavior inherent with that lifestyle.
Multiple Independently Targeted Sarcasm Torpedoes ARMED..
FIRE AT WILL!!
Sounds like they BOTH need a sex change.
Not Married, but Not to Each OtherTM
"Heather has Two ..." (WTF??)
"I'll show you mine if you'll show me hers..."
Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (21st century remake...)
Can you imagine the *fights* when the news got out?
Her partner: "You...you animal! You had sex with a man! Am I just not well enough endowed for you?"
His partner: "That's just disgusting. What is California coming to when a couple can't even have a loving, perverted relationship without someone trying to introduce 'family values' !!"
Worse is that there are so many who actually applaude this perversity.
Yet another attempt by Faggie Fascism to silence a critic.
People have been doing that for ages. It's called arranged marriage.
Mr. Wilson should have said it is wrong for unmarried couples to have children.
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