Welcome to another mind-blowing edition of This Week in Crazy!
• Last week, a woman called and left me a message—sadly, without a name or a phone number to use to call her back—and ranted that we shouldn’t be complaining that state Sen. Al Melvin called us a leftist newspaper. (See “Al Melvin Doesn’t Want You to Read This,” The Skinny, Nov. 25.)
If I would have had the joy of talking to this caller, I would have informed her that we weren’t complaining that Melvin called us a leftist newspaper; we were noting that he had a snit at a restaurant because the place dared to carry the Tucson Weekly. That’s all. Trust us; we’ve been called worse than “leftist newspaper.”
Then she went into Crazytown, ranting about canceling her advertising with the Weekly because we’re so damn liberal … and then claiming that we know Jesse Kelly really beat Gabrielle Giffords, and that (County Recorder F.) Ann Rodriguez’s office just flipped the results.
OK then!
• Last week on The Range, our daily dispatch (daily.tucsonweekly.com), Jim Nintzel chronicled the adventures of one Sharon Lin, who keeps commenting on TucsonWeekly.com—usually in response to coverage of something that a Democrat or a liberal has done (i.e., the conspiracy to rig the election for the re-election of Gabrielle Giffords and Raúl Grijalva)—that she has decided to not retire in Tucson as a result of such leftist crap.
Look for Nintzel’s story in our archives from Nov. 22.
It’s … crazy!
Next time on This Week in Crazy: The chemtrails conspiracy!
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.
Jimmy, as a devoted reader of TW (and occasional commenter), I feel a bit agitated today after reading Jim Nintzel’s Sharon Lin story, and your recounting of that mystery woman’s phone message. I’ve made it a personal crusade to vocally protest to the management whenever I enter a business and find they have a TV hanging on the wall, broadcasting Fox News. I find it offensive to go into a medical office, or any public venue for that matter, and be subjected to right-wing political propaganda masquerading as “news.” I won’t patronize such an establishment, and won’t hesitate to leave the premises after expressing my viewpoint. Also, my wife and I, after living in Arizona for a decade now, are seriously contemplating a move to the west coast in order to escape the poisonous partisan atmosphere typified by the clowns who lord over us in Phoenix. Have I also unwittingly succumbed to the temptations of “Crazytown”? (Of course, I DO live in Sierra Vista, where a majority of folks seem to think Jesse Kelly is the Second Coming!) Am I being irresponsible by wanting to live somewhere else where there is a more progressive populace? Or should I stick around, maybe move into the city of Tucson, and help bolster a dwindling minority of rationalists? Reactionary conservatism seems to be spreading these days like a virus. And the very thought of a Sarah Palin presidency fills me with a horror that can only lead to the inevitably leaving Arizona, but fleeing the USA altogether!