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Sheriff who told Obama assassination “joke” now compares his critics to Nazis

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What is it with Republicans telling utterly tasteless, often appalling “jokes”?

Often, “humor” is nothing more than an excuse for some racist or misogynistic bottom feeder to express his hostility and then excuse it by saying it was just in good fun.

The most recent “joke” happened at a Massachusetts Republican Party St. Patrick’s Day breakfast and was “met with scattered laughter”. Why it even got that response is beyond comprehension. Via Blue Mass Group:

Among the speakers was the Sheriff of Plymouth County, Joe McDonald. He did venture into the tasteless. Here’s what he thought was funny - a joke about assassinating President Obama.

McDonald offered a joke about Barack Obama being visited in a dream by three past presidents, who offered advice on how to improve the country. Lincoln’s advice: “Go to the theater.”

Apparently, Sheriff Joe (what is it with vile Republicans named Joe?)  thinks nothing of suggesting that President Obama should be assassinated. What do you want to bet this idiot calls himself “pro-life”?

After getting criticized for his sharp wit and flawless judgment, Think Progress is reporting that he’s doubling down. Not only is he standing by what he said, he’s justifying it by claiming that the joke is 150 years old… and then compared his critics to Nazis:

The irony of it is, it’s perfectly OK for them [liberals] to make those jokes about President Bush or someone from the other side of the aisle. I can imagine what some of this place comes from not 2013 United States, it’s more like Nazi Germany in 1938.” [...]

The basic concept of it has been around since the Andrew Johnson administration…”

See, if a joke has been around long enough, it stops being offensive. Who knew?

Think Progress noted, “as a public safety official who has taken an oath of office, he is held to a higher standard that some unnamed liberals or political activists of the 1860s.”

That would work out better if Sheriff Joe held himself to any standards to begin with.

More details here.

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VIDEO: Rev. Al schools AZ sheriff who calls Obama a dictator, vows to defy new gun safety laws

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Hey kids! Remember the AZ co-chair of the Mitt Romney campaign who stepped down after allegations of a relationship with a male Mexican immigrant? He’s ba-a-ack…

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Sheriff Paul Babeu didn’t’ stand a chance. Rev. Al made mincemeat of this poor slob when he defiantly, and stupidly, tried to fall back on right wing talking points about President Obama supposedly trampling the Constitution by legally proposing gun safety strategies and legally issuing executive orders.

Watch, listen, and learn. The Rev saved his best lines for last.

Excerpts:

Rev. Al:

“An officer of the law who refuses to carry out the law. Interesting.”

“What gives you the authority… to decide what’s constitutional?”

“You’re not a Supreme Court justice are you?”

Babeu:

“These are not lawful anything.”

“The president should not… with a wave of the hand, say this is what we’re going to do.”

Rev. Al:

“You said you would be the decider of what is constitutional. What gives you the authority?”

Babeu:

“I have to enforce the law…. whether I agree with them or not. These are not laws.”

Rev. Al:

“Tell me how these orders violate constitutional freedom.”

Babeu:

“They don’t specifically.” But more laws are bad blahblahblah.

Rev. Al:

“But you’re talking your opinion, sheriff. You’re not telling me how it violates constitutional law.

“So you’re gonna decide…?”

Babeu:

“Not at all. That’s his authority…”

Rev. Al:

“It’s not alright if it’s something you disagree with? And you hide behind it’s unconstitutional?”

Babeu:

 ”The most important person in the land is that of private citizen [sic]…”

Rev. Al:

“Tell me where he has in your opinion made an executive action that is unconstitutional.”

Babeu:

“He doesn’t in those 23.”

Rev. Al:

“You accused the president of acting like a king and a dictator… but you say he didn’t do it.”

Babeu:

“He talks about what he plans for legislation…”

Rev. Al:

Ooooh, so legislation! So you mean now you’re not talking about exec action. You mean if he proposes legislation that is voted by the Congress, you’re going to defy the very laws that Congress may vote on?

Babeu:

“Not at all.”

Rev Al:

“You just said… Legislation means it goes before the Congress. That’s what legislation is.”

Babeu:

Blahblahblah Fast and Furious, hypocrisy blahblah.

Rev Al:

“Wait a minute. You’re trying to go Fast and Furious away from the issue! You just admitted that he is proposing legislation which is the antithesis to him being a king or dictator…

“I can only assume you did this… to get some attention…”

“You started by saying you’re going to defy unconstitutionality that you can’t establish. And you’re the sheriff! People actually depend on you to protect them!”

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Video- AZ’s Sheriff Arpaio sending armed posse to protect schools

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Ah yes, Arizona’s very own racist nutjob is sending his minions out to protect their schools, locked and loaded. What could go wrong? Via.

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Quickie- Hated Sheriff Joe Arpaio wins sixth term

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How does this happen? Is AZ really that f’d up?

Democrat Paul Penzone conceded the Maricopa County sheriff’s race to Sheriff Joe Arpaio shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, but his concession came with a message for the longtime Republican incumbent: the community is watching.

“Our sheriff needs to be transparent, he needs to treat everyone with dignity and respect,” Penzone said to a room full of supporters. “People in this community are going to be watching. They’re going to be holding him accountable.”

Arpaio was hopeful he would be re-elected as he watched early returns at a party in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday night, surrounded by longtime supporters.

“Cautiously optimistic,” Arpaio said of the outcome. “We’re having a good time.”

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AZ co-chair of Mitt Romney campaign stepping down after allegations of a relationship with a male Mexican immigrant

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VIDEO ADDED:

Livewire is reporting that the Arizona co-chair of Willard Romney’s campaign is resigning after these allegations first reported by the Phoenix New Times:

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration — threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his lawyer tell New Times.

Yes, another gay Republican’s hypocrisy comes to light, and right smack in the middle of Romney’s campaign.

Talking Points Memo has details, including this:

They were apparently together during Babeu’s fast rise to becoming a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration. The sheriff first burst onto the national stage in 2010 when he appeared alongside Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) in a now-famous television ad, calling on the federal government to complete “the danged fence” along the US-Mexican border.

Now he’ll have to deal with this “danged” scandal.

ADDED: Lizz Winstead just tweeted:

“I guess his penis didn’t look illegal.”

UPDATE via Livewire: Babeu: “I Am Gay”, But Charges “Completely False” and “Everything that I understand is that he’s absolutely in legal status.”

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Quickie: Rick Perry’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Judgment

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Today’s Quickie:

Inept, bumbling Rick Perry is still running. People still vote for him, give him their money, and trust him to be their commander in chief and feel he’d be a competent world leader. Voters even continue to trust their children’s future to him.

Now presidential hopeless hopeful Rick Perry has selected racial profilersadistic, negligent, failed-sex-crimes-investigator, racist, all-around putz Sheriff Joe Arpaio to serve as his campaign’s Arizona state chairman.

GOP: Opposite World.

That was today’s Quickie. Will you still respect me in the morning?

H/t: Think Progress

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Quick Rant on the Worst Sheriff in the World

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The story about Arpaio and his just heinous administration just put me over the edge. What kind of f’ng country do we live in that the color of a child’s skin makes them more important, more in need of protection than anothers? I’ve heard the stories of “white girl syndrome” before, but what the esteemed and ever on the money Leonard Pitts, Jr said today really resonated with me-

Another white woman has turned up missing. And, as predictably happens in such cases, television news has gone into overdrive, CNN, ABC, NBC providing breathless updates of Michelle Parker’s disappearance, how she was last seen the day she appeared on The People’s Court, suing her former fiancé, who is now the prime suspect in her kidnapping.

This story unfolds in the wake of similar media fixations on Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, JonBenet Ramsey, Jennifer “Runaway Bride” Wilbanks, Chandra Levy, Lori Hacking, Robyn Gardner, Natalee Holloway, all of them young, female, white, pretty — and imperiled. There is, should it need saying, a naked bias in the media’s obsession with white women in danger to the exclusion of pretty much every other cohort of the American demographic.

If all you had to go by was NBC or CNN, you’d never know that over 335,000 men and boys went missing last year or about 230,000 African Americans. You will see no coverage of them on national news. Nor, for that matter, of older people or less attractive ones.

I’m about as pasty white as a person can get, but then if you sit me down next to my sister, you’d swear we were from different continents. Sit her down next to her husband, and you’d think she was the Hispanic and he grew up in Indiana. The exact opposite would be true. So what exactly does skin color signify then? Not a god dammed thing. Is it the illegal part that gets Sheriff Joe’s panties in a bunch then? Who knows, he’s too busy playing paper bag test on anyone and everyone who comes across his path.

Anyone out there knowing what it takes to take this pestilence out of Arizona, let me know, because I’m tired of them doing this to America.

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