If it weren’t bad enough that Arizona is now associated with SB 1062 and the Center for Arizona Policy’s attempt to legalize religious-based discrimination, we also get the worst of our politicians showing up on news programs trying to justify their terrible decision-making. Tonight it was Cap’n Al Melvin, the man who seemingly can’t find a law he actually understands, wildly outmatched intellectually on Anderson Cooper. You might want to pour yourself a drink before pressing play. Consider yourself warned.
Part two of the unedited trainwreck of an interview:
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2014.
what an idiot. thanks for embarrassing the state on national TV you moron
Don’t let ’em gitcha down, Al! That’s jis’ th’ com’nist mainstream media tryin’ to discredit us sensibull tea party people! They’s-a-gonna do whatevur it takes to keep on givin’ away our money to th’ abortionist ‘n’ illeguls ‘n’ atheist ‘n’ unuvursuty perfessers! But you’ll show ’em Al! Show ’em that thay cain’t take our freedumbs!
Caption for the still on the top video:
Anderson Cooper: You’re, uh, kidding me, right?
Cap’n Al: I never kid.
Melvin makes a strong argument that Arizona needs to adopt the common core standards.
Cap’n Al makes the skipper on Gilligan’s island look smart. He’s stupid, ignorant and paranoid to boot.
Painful to watch. And this man wants to represent us in Washington. SMH.
The bottom line is the ultra right wing tea nuts are almost exclusively old white guys, trying to wall themselves off from changing society, by whatever rationale they can manufacture. Rosa Parks would not be a member of the Center for Arizona Taliban.
The problem is not idiots like Melvin. There will always be idiots like him. The problem is with the idiots that voted him into office. They love him. They think he is right for Arizona. Where do these idiots come from? Who are these miscreants? Take a drive through SaddlebrookE and see for yourself. These people are drunk, stupid and playing golf in very ugly pants. And these people are mostly running this state! What to do? I think exploding golf balls would be a good place to start.
Al Melvin is at the top of the heap of a bunch of mostly idiots, who have a very twisted UN-Christian view of the world, although they apparently aren’t intelligent enough to realize it. They are the Pharisees of our time, the very people who Jesus spoke against.
Melvin is running for Governor so I suspect the people of AZ will elect him. They love to have a radical controlling the state, keeping it at the bottom of the 50 states. Arizona is too nice of a state to continue to be controlled by radicals who chase out visitors and businesses. When will it stop?
The last two lines of the first stanza say it all.
THE SECOND COMING (W.B. Yeats)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I was waiting for Cap’n Al to scream “DEY TURK ERR JURBS!”
It’s hard to tell if Melvin is obtuse, ignorant and mindlessly bigoted or dumber than a rock!
It’s positively frightening that this amazingly worthless waste of skin is in any Legislature anywhere!
It’s also frightening to know that this interview probably won’t cost Melvin a single vote here in bat-crap crazy Arizona…
Al Melvin, “Arizona — Number One in worker exploitation…”
Al Melvin, “Arizona is a borderline bat-crap crazy state!”
A reading of history (if Al could read and comprehend English) would show that those Deists who crafted the 1st Amendment were DEATHLY afraid of established religions having any say in a Secular society.
(PAINFUL TO WATCH THIS IDIOT!)
The chances of Al Melvin being elected governor are about as good as his chances of besting Anderson Cooper in an on the air discussion of this stupid, stupid bill. I will take any bets with persons posting here regarding Cap’n Al winning the governorship of AZ – I’ll offer ya 5-1 odds.
Way to go Al. We think u did a great job.
Sam Smith, don’t be so sure we’ll elect Melvin. We’ve been fooled twice before, and on realizing our mistakes, we impeached them. Hopefully we’ve learned from our mistakes. If not, there’s always the impeachment process (again).
@Al Melvin For Governor Committee: What you just did here was awesome.
Are people here really just discovering what an idiot Al Melvin is and the brand of crap he spews? He has been elected/re-elected three times, apparently the people in his district (11) support his views. Anyone who has a problem with this clown should familiarize themselves with the AZ legislative map and not spend a dime at any business in his district. Kind of ironic that the Arizona Lodging & Tourism Association contributed to Melvin’s campaign in 2012 when tourism is the business that gets hurt most by nonsense like SB-1062.
Melvin’s top contributors from 2012:
Pinnacle West $1,736
Arizona Association of Realtors $1,300
Salt River Valley Water Users Association $1,000
Arizona Lodging & Tourism Association $700
How do people like Mr. Melvin become a part of state government? If he does become governor, God help us….
Nobody “set” him up on anything. It was his own words that showed him he was ignorant.
Al Melvin as governor would make us long for days of real intelligence in the governor’s office, you know, like Ev Mecham.
It’s a major drawback to show up for a major TV interview with nothing but a steam powered brain and a firebox fueled by treated pallet wood. I’m pretty sure Al just ran a little too hot and sheared some teeth off of those pot metal gears that were bouncing around in that big skull of his, which unfortunately resulted in a major malfunction. I swear I heard a loud metallic CLANG just before the black smoke poured out of his ears.
Why are you people upset?
There is nothing in the bill – at all – that specifically mentions or is discriminatory towards LBGT people.
This is another left wing media frenzy, fueled by 21st political correctness.
It sounded like he hadn’t read the bill. But he did read the talking points:
1) When in doubt, use the words “defending,” “religious freedom,” “strong families,” and “under attack,” close together.
2) Blame the media for distorting the truth
At least he was polite. Was he playing dumb when he said he didn’t understand the Catholic/divorce connection?
wow, Al Melvin is sort of pathetic. Is he really the voice for these people?
Al Melvin seemed quite disoriented during his discussion with Anderson Cooper. Something was really unsettling in watching him stumble so badly.
Don’t expose Senator Melvin too soon, it may be the Democrats only chance of electing a Governor again. Think about this, not one statewide office in Arizona is held by a Democrat. It must be people like Melvin fit the voters. Poor Barry Goldwater, with the likes of Al Melvin running the state these days. Next the Legislature will be wasting their time on trying to repeal Martin Luther King Day or taking funds from State Parks again so they have to close and lose those tourist sales tax dollars.
I am not an Arizonan; I live in DC. I’m very familiar with stupid politicians making even stupider statements. But this interview…. Classic.
You have a beautiful state with many lovely people, but this barf bag needs to be retired. .
I live in the district that sent Cap’n Al to Phoenix, and I have consistently voted against him since he told Arizona Illustrated that he would fully cooperate with the Maricopa GOP during his first campaign against Pete Hershberger. I am glad to see him running for Governor as we’ll get a different senator come November. As the song says, “… when will they ever learn …” Don’t think that he will ever see these comments, because he demanded a restaurant remove this newspaper from its premises.
This would be funny if it weren’t so darned tragic! Hey, Al, now just stand in line…you’ll notice first in line is Christie (but then, again, he always was the front runner in the idiots brigade) followed by some Republican fool who made a spectacle of himself yesterday (can’t remember the name — they are almost interchangeable) now it’s time for Melvin to line up and be counted. Did we (self excluded) actually vote for these guys?
I can’t believe they let him have nearly 20 minutes of airtime. But, God bless him, I hope Cap’n Al wins the primary. He is the only one running who can make us look back fondly on Jan Brewer’s time as governor.