San Francisco Blog

Girlie Action Media reports (thanks Ben Westhoff):

Wednesday night in San Francisco, a Good For The Jews concert at the Great American Music Hall was disrupted by a Nazi protester outside the venue, who eventually drew the attention of five police cars. The protester -- who identified himself as Joe Webb, a former corrections officer in his 60s -- was dressed in a red, white and blue Uncle Sam hat and carried a sign, adorned with skulls, which claimed that U.S. troops were dying in Iraq in defense of Jewish interests. He also handed out pamphlets suggesting that American foreign policy was dictated by Jewish conspiracies, and that Jews would be the cause of World War III. Neighbors in the Tenderloin neighborhood heckled Mr. Webb with insults as they passed by, and Good For The Jews fans took photos of him as he shouted at them on their way into the club. When the manager of Great American Music Hall asked the protester to not block the venue entrance, Mr. Webb called the police and asked them to arrest Rob Tannenbaum (one of two Good For The Jews band members, and the music editor of Blender magazine), who had been speaking to Mr. Webb outside the club before the band's performance.

The police insisted that Mr. Webb not block the sidewalk, and asked him to remove the skulls -- which were swinging on pieces of rope and hitting people in the ticket line -- from his protest sign. "Do you have a knife I can use?" Mr. Webb said to the officers, who declined to provide him with a weapon.

Good For The Jews were playing the sixth date of a thirteen-city "Putting The Ha! In Hanukkah" tour, sponsored by Heeb magazine. Their music can be heard at MySpace.com/GoodForTheJews and GoodForTheJews.net.

Nazis give the best pr. —David Downs