Jan Brewer Sez, "Stop Making Sense!"

[paft.livejournal.com]

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, June 27, 2010:

Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded.

Christina Boomer to Jan Brewer, September 1, 2010:

Why wouldn’t you recant the comments you made earlier about the beheadings in the desert?

A CNN ticker headline refers to Brewer’s repeated claim tying illegal immigration to desert beheadings as a “quip,” as in, “’Beheading’ quip plagues gov.” This makes it sound as though poor Jan Brewer is being hounded for some off-the-cuff remark she made just once, in jest. As these clips show, it was a bit more than that.

Brewer’s reaction to the questions in the second clip is classic in that she appears to truly consider herself very hard done by. It’s as if she thinks it unfair for anyone to treat words as if they should bear any relation to facts. Those lousy liberal reporters are playing dirty pool by asking her to either back up what she's said or retract it!

The reality-based moonbats have struck again!

This has been a growing trend on the right, especially online. Watching the second clip, I half expected Brewer to burst out with "read what I said," or "look it up yourself!" or "that's a stoopit question!" or any other standard freeper response. Instead, she skipped over that and cut straight to declaring the press conference closed and flouncing away.

It looks as though, in Arizona and a few other places this next election is going to be a referendum on how many Americans actually feel like they have a stake in the real world. That Internet disconnect with reality which enables someone, in the unreal ether of online life, to declare the sky yellow, may or may not work on people who can look up at the offline sky and see what color it actually is. We'll see.


Crossposted from thoughtcrimes

Comments

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

I thought the entire point of the arizona law was to deport illegal immigrants, not imprison them? I'd think this would piss off the people who own private prisons. So how's this have anything to do with private prisons?

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Where do people stay whilst their claims are being processed? Who pays for that? Who gets paid?

[headhouse.livejournal.com]

Are those rhetorical questions, or are we just assuming we already know? 'Cause I don't know yet (I'm looking around), and if you can give me some informational links, I'd like to read them.

Assuming that the conspiracy theory is true, and they do get put in hotel rooms private prisons, given that the barrier to deportation of illegal immigrants would apparently be the federal government, not Arizona (according to this (http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/07/28/sb-1070-arizona-immigration/), anyway), wouldn't that make the feds a much better friend of the private prison owners than Jan Brewer?