Saturday, January 08, 2011

Arizona sheriff opines

I'm watching the interview with Clarence Dupnik, Pima County, Arizona sheriff and I am shocked that although he claims to know nothing about the deranged shooter of a Congresswoman and a judge and 18 others, he seems to believe the cause is vitriol, prejudice and bigotry on radio and TV. Hmmm. Since people never see themselves in those accusations, I guess that's code for Rush and Glenn, but not for all the TV shows and movies that depict politicians and police and military as criminals at best, or the personification of evil at worst. Apparently, his calling the Arizona immigration law racist isn't considered vitriol. Think of all the Law and Order type shows where the theme is a corrupt judge or politician, or a religious person, or a respected member of the professional community. Are we to think that this genre that brings in millions of dollars has no effect on unstable people? The sheriff would seem to be in favor of limiting free speech because some unstable person might hear. This sheriff keeps saying in response to questions, "I'm not at liberty to talk about it," and if so, I wish he'd keep his hyper-opinions about "vitriol" to himself until he has some evidence. It could be this shooter-idiot is a fan of Katie Couric and Jon Stewart and hates Sarah Palin! He was rejected for military service--maybe the sheriff should look into that as his reason for hate.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

They could start at the top with the preseident who could stop calling Republicans and capitalists names.

Anonymous said...

And the violent music lyrics? Did that have an effect on him?

Norma said...

Instant fame for people who knew him.

Twitter antderosa: As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy.
.@antderosa he was a pot head & into rock like Hendrix,The Doors, Anti-Flag. I haven't seen him in person since '07 in a sign language class
.@antderosa He was a political radical & met Giffords once before in '07, asked her a question & he told me she was "stupid & unintelligent"

Three Score and Ten or more said...

You probably got that from "Redneck" where I read it just before I got to your blog. I read your post and was going to post those twitter comments, and you beat me to it.

Norma said...

Actually, Richard, I don't visit Redneck as often as I used to because he changed his comments template and I can't get in. But I'm guessing most conservatives noticed that about the sheriff (and Jane Fonda, that paragon of patriotism). The hypocrisy about vitriol is hypocritical. No one gets more flack than Sarah Palin.

Norma said...

"Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos, the largest left-wing community online, put Gabrielle Giffords on a target list with a bullseye. Just as Sarah Palin removed her post, Markos has removed his.

Another Daily Kos writer, just the other day, penned a post saying Congresswoman Giffords was dead to him.

But then there is the real culprit — the shooter himself."

Erick Erickson, Redstate.com

Anonymous said...

Dupnik repeated the same nonsense today, plus he said things were better when all the mentally disturbed were kept locked up in institutions like when he was young. This many needs a long sabbatical--retirement.