So this happened yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Nation.” Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who lied about “headless bodies” in the desert as she signed SB 1070, one of the more racist and offensive laws on the books in the 21st century, said President Obama’s remarks are “offensive” when he talks about Donald Trump:
Obama “always comes tearing after Republicans constantly, calling names, and calling people bigots and racists ... and it's absolutely ridiculous … To see a president speak like that is offensive.”
I’ve never actually heard the president call Trump a “bigot” or “racist,” even though he fits the mold, given his over-the-top comments about Mexicans and Muslims, just for starters. And Republicans never “come tearing” into Obama, do they?—as long as we disregard every day since he won in 2008.
If President Obama simply repeats what Donald Trump actually said about Mexicans, that to Brewer is offensive—but not Trump's original bigoted comments. If President Obama points out that a travel ban on all Muslims is unconstitutional and counterproductive, that to Brewer is offensive, but not Trump’s original xenophobic statement.
And get this: she’s upset that Obama is “calling names”? Seriously?! Jan, have you even listened to the candidate you’re supporting (and sucking up to for that career-ending VP slot)? Since Trump entered the GOP primary a year ago, have we ever heard more name calling in the political arena? Last week the New York Times tried to capture much of it with an article, “The 229 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted.” Sheesh, in Trump’s universe half the world is pathetic, ugly, a loser, a failure, a bore, a liar, a dope or a dishonest crook. And Brewer is pissed that Obama is name calling?!
On the same show former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley asked Brewer about Trump smearing a judge of Mexican heritage:
Brewer, smiling, retorted, "In that respect, I think that Judge Curiel has a stunning reputation, and I don't believe that Donald Trump meant it in the manner that he said it."
Right, his racist comments weren’t “meant … in the manner that he said it,” which is why he said it over and over to any reporter with a microphone. All those times he didn’t really “mean” it that way—it just sounds racist to anyone with two brain cells to rub together. What the fuck else could he mean when he says a judge can’t be fair because of his ancestry?
Turns out Gov. Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, another Trump flunky who of course has never said or done anything “offensive,” couldn’t deliver last week in Phoenix, when they were the warm-up act for Trump. It looked great on TV, with the big flag, signs waving and crowds cheering behind the orange buckethead, but here’s the actual shot—not that a little thing like the truth ever got in the way of Donald Trump.