Day: July 10, 2010

Verbatim

Pensito Editors

A guy is looking to buy an expensive car, tests it out, and comes back to the dealer to complain, “This is an expensive car, but the radio doesn’t work.” The dealer explains, “No, no, this is a high-tech state of the art car radio. All you have to do is say what you want to hear. Say ‘country music’ and country music comes on. Say ‘rock n’ roll’ and rock ‘n roll comes on.” The guy says, “Great, I’ll take it.” The guy is driving it off the lot and turns into the street when another motorist cuts him off. “Jerk!’ he mutters — and Rush Limbaugh comes on.

– Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.)

Study Finds Flat Crime Rate on Arizona Border – GOP Is Lying about Lawlessness to Gin Up Votes

Jon Ponder

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Last week, Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer, the main promoter of the state’s infamous new anti-immigrant law, was caught in a lie when she claimed that her state’s deserts were littered with the corpses of victims of blood-thirsty illegal immigrants. The bodies, she said, were “either buried or just lying there that have been beheaded.”

But local media did a survey of coroners around the state and found not a single instance of decapitation in which an illegal alien was a suspect. Reporters’ calls to the governor’s office requesting documentation to back up her claim that her state was in the throes of an epidemic of decapitations were not returned.

Now the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank reports that a study two months ago by the state’s largest newspaper, the Arizona Republic (see the paper’s report here), found that the entire premise of the new law — that illegals have driven up the crime rate along the border — is a lie:

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