Sheriff Joe showed up Monday night as part of the Arizona State University Cronkite School of Journalism’s “First Amendment Forum.” The Phoenix New Times‘ Feathered Bastard Stephen Lemons did a great write-up of the event here.
I still can’t figure out what was more odd—Arpaio putting on a Wilbur Wildcat hat as soon as students in the audience began to heckle the Maricopa County sheriff, or the fact that students sang a revised version of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”? Take a look at video from the ASU student paper here, or the AP video below.
Is this legitimate? Is this atrocity? Caught up in politics. No sense of reality. Open your eyes. Look down to the south and see…The border stops brown folks, they cannot cross the line. But its easy come, easy go, for the rich, n’ their cargo. Anyway the migrants flow, doesn’t really matter to me …
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2009.
I can’t imagine how anyone expected anything but a circus. What? Some first-rate journalist was going to break Arpaio on human rights issues? C’mon. The man has no secrets; he’s a sadistic asshole and Maricopa County loves him with all their hearts, anyway. I think I read recently that he out-polls all the declared candidates for governor, too. I don’t blame those students a bit for calling the whole thing down. I’m surprised the Cronkite School ever even considered cloaking him in their dignity.
“What? Some first-rate journalist was going to break Arpaio on human rights issues?”
In fact, yes, they already have. And the first-rate journalists won the Pulitzer for their reporting on Arpaio.
http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2009-Loca…
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/page/reas…