I'm glad I'm not the only person who has been thinking this state has gone to hell in a handbasket...
"Arizona has been getting a lot of national media attention this week because of the controversial immigration bill and the so-called “birther” bill.
The White House dismissed the effort, with spokesman Bill Burton saying, “I can't imagine Arizona voters think their tax dollars are well served by a legislature that is less focused on their lives than in fringe right-wing radio conspiracy theories.”
Here’s a roundup of other reaction:
• Comedy Central said Arizona passed some “groundbreaking anti-brown person legislation” only to follow up with the bill requiring presidential candidates provide a birth certificate before getting onto the state ballot. “I guess this means that Arizona is gonna start forwarding all of us every crazy conspiracy email it gets, and we'll all be nice for a while and just quietly delete them until we can't take it anymore and end up responding angrily to one of them. And then Arizona will act all mad at us on Thanksgiving.”
• Wonkette had Arizona winning “America’s Dumbest State” contest. Calling Arizona “America’s Wingnut Paradise for half a century,” the site notes even Barry Goldwater was too subtle, so Evan Mecham became governor and moved to kill the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. “Then a lot of other ridiculous stuff happened: Walnuts McCain releasing Sarah Palin upon the nation, the sheriff of Phoenix running pogroms against Latinos, the state officially endorsing racial profiling to finally clear its territory of Mexicans. What could come next? Oh yeah, birthers.”
• Politico’s David Mark noted “A couple of buzz-worthy news stories have emerged from Arizona in recent days — appalling or admirable depending on your opinion, or somewhere in between.” Borrowing a characterization by Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, he asked readers to weigh in on whether Arizona qualifies as the laughingstock of the nation.
• Robert Schlesinger, opinion editor at U.S. News and World Report, wrote on his blog that “members of the Arizona state House have made a strong bid for this year’s coveted “nuttiest legislative body” award, voting to enshrine birtherism as state policy (would that make it the state's official neurosis?).” Before Arizona’s bold move, Georgia appeared to be leading the pack, he said, for their efforts to stem microchips being involuntarily implanted in people. While “the Arizona House is blazing a trail into the fringe,” he noted similar legislation has been introduced in a few other states."
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Posted on the Star's website
I'm glad I'm not the only person who has been thinking this state has gone to hell in a handbasket...
"Arizona has been getting a lot of national media attention this week because of the controversial immigration bill and the so-called “birther” bill.
The White House dismissed the effort, with spokesman Bill Burton saying, “I can't imagine Arizona voters think their tax dollars are well served by a legislature that is less focused on their lives than in fringe right-wing radio conspiracy theories.”
Here’s a roundup of other reaction:
• Comedy Central said Arizona passed some “groundbreaking anti-brown person legislation” only to follow up with the bill requiring presidential candidates provide a birth certificate before getting onto the state ballot. “I guess this means that Arizona is gonna start forwarding all of us every crazy conspiracy email it gets, and we'll all be nice for a while and just quietly delete them until we can't take it anymore and end up responding angrily to one of them. And then Arizona will act all mad at us on Thanksgiving.”
• Wonkette had Arizona winning “America’s Dumbest State” contest. Calling Arizona “America’s Wingnut Paradise for half a century,” the site notes even Barry Goldwater was too subtle, so Evan Mecham became governor and moved to kill the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. “Then a lot of other ridiculous stuff happened: Walnuts McCain releasing Sarah Palin upon the nation, the sheriff of Phoenix running pogroms against Latinos, the state officially endorsing racial profiling to finally clear its territory of Mexicans. What could come next? Oh yeah, birthers.”
• Politico’s David Mark noted “A couple of buzz-worthy news stories have emerged from Arizona in recent days — appalling or admirable depending on your opinion, or somewhere in between.” Borrowing a characterization by Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, he asked readers to weigh in on whether Arizona qualifies as the laughingstock of the nation.
• Robert Schlesinger, opinion editor at U.S. News and World Report, wrote on his blog that “members of the Arizona state House have made a strong bid for this year’s coveted “nuttiest legislative body” award, voting to enshrine birtherism as state policy (would that make it the state's official neurosis?).” Before Arizona’s bold move, Georgia appeared to be leading the pack, he said, for their efforts to stem microchips being involuntarily implanted in people. While “the Arizona House is blazing a trail into the fringe,” he noted similar legislation has been introduced in a few other states."
"Arizona has been getting a lot of national media attention this week because of the controversial immigration bill and the so-called “birther” bill.
The White House dismissed the effort, with spokesman Bill Burton saying, “I can't imagine Arizona voters think their tax dollars are well served by a legislature that is less focused on their lives than in fringe right-wing radio conspiracy theories.”
Here’s a roundup of other reaction:
• Comedy Central said Arizona passed some “groundbreaking anti-brown person legislation” only to follow up with the bill requiring presidential candidates provide a birth certificate before getting onto the state ballot. “I guess this means that Arizona is gonna start forwarding all of us every crazy conspiracy email it gets, and we'll all be nice for a while and just quietly delete them until we can't take it anymore and end up responding angrily to one of them. And then Arizona will act all mad at us on Thanksgiving.”
• Wonkette had Arizona winning “America’s Dumbest State” contest. Calling Arizona “America’s Wingnut Paradise for half a century,” the site notes even Barry Goldwater was too subtle, so Evan Mecham became governor and moved to kill the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. “Then a lot of other ridiculous stuff happened: Walnuts McCain releasing Sarah Palin upon the nation, the sheriff of Phoenix running pogroms against Latinos, the state officially endorsing racial profiling to finally clear its territory of Mexicans. What could come next? Oh yeah, birthers.”
• Politico’s David Mark noted “A couple of buzz-worthy news stories have emerged from Arizona in recent days — appalling or admirable depending on your opinion, or somewhere in between.” Borrowing a characterization by Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, he asked readers to weigh in on whether Arizona qualifies as the laughingstock of the nation.
• Robert Schlesinger, opinion editor at U.S. News and World Report, wrote on his blog that “members of the Arizona state House have made a strong bid for this year’s coveted “nuttiest legislative body” award, voting to enshrine birtherism as state policy (would that make it the state's official neurosis?).” Before Arizona’s bold move, Georgia appeared to be leading the pack, he said, for their efforts to stem microchips being involuntarily implanted in people. While “the Arizona House is blazing a trail into the fringe,” he noted similar legislation has been introduced in a few other states."
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Laelia Watt said...
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I don't understand why they think it is so ridiculous to make sure presidential candidates were born in the US? It states clearly in the US Constitution that a President is required to have been born a US Citizen. It is neither a Conservative nor Liberal matter-it is a COnstitutional one.
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April 24, 2010 at 2:32 AM
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I don't understand why they think it is so ridiculous to make sure presidential candidates were born in the US? It states clearly in the US Constitution that a President is required to have been born a US Citizen. It is neither a Conservative nor Liberal matter-it is a COnstitutional one.
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