Charles Barkley is in the Basketball Hall of Fame, but he is going to be notably absent from the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 16. That’s because the game is going to be played in San Francisco, and even though Barkley is now a generally consistent leftist after flirting with common sense and patriotism in his earlier years, he doesn’t want to spend even a minute in Nancy Pelosi’s city. Barkley is unwilling to play along with the left’s charade by affirming its claims that San Francisco is just as scenic and safe as it always was; he sees it for what it is and is unafraid to break out of the left’s lockstep and say so.
Fox News reported Saturday was speaking on TNT’s “Inside the NBA” about the Detroit Pistons’ Cade Cunningham. “He’s going to make the All-Star Team,” said the Hall of Famer, adding: “I’m not going. I’m not going to that rat-infested place out in San Francisco.”
Barkley said much the same thing last year, referring to the undesirability of “being around a bunch of homeless crooks in San Francisco.” WNBA player Candace Parker answered that by saying, “We love San Francisco,” but Barkley stuck to his guns, responding: “No we don’t. You can’t even walk around down there.” Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors, who play in San Francisco, came back “Yes, you can walk around,” but Barkley shot back: “Yeah, with a bulletproof vest.”
This time, Fox noted that as Parker and Green had done the previous year, one of Barkley’s colleagues (left unnamed for some reason) affirmed his leftist bona fides by disagreeing with Barkley’s accurate assessment and calling San Francisco “beautiful.”
Barkley, however, was having none of it and declared: “San Francisco is not a beautiful city. Rats. Cats.” Cats? “Y’all are not gonna make me like San Francisco. No. Nope, nope, nope.” If Republicans had been governing San Francisco for the last few decades and were responsible for its destruction, Barkley wouldn’t have had to dig in his heels and get defensive about disliking the city: the establishment media all over the country would be running breathless feature stories about how much the once-great city had deteriorated under Republican misrule. […]
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