Peter, How can you say that? She was our governor, we are a border state !!!! she protected us from the illegal invasion !!! Arizona is a model for the nation as far as border security, surely , she must be capable of protecting our homeland !!!
Well Jack, apparently your governor isn't interested in keeping all your citizens safe. GOP "death panels" in Arizona Countdown with Keith Olbermann dedicated its first two segments Friday night to Arizona's AHCCCS transplant controversy -- budget cuts made by the Republican-dominated legislature and signed by governor Jan Brewer ending transplant coverage for people on AHCCCS because no insurer will insure them. It was a cold cost-benefit analysis: so few people successfully obtain a transplant organ that only a "few" people will die as a result of not funding transplants. Only the information provided to the legislature was flawed (false). (The state forgoes $15 million in federal Medicaid funds as a result of eliminating transplant coverage -- to save approximately $5 million in state funding). Jan Brewer is still sitting on top of approximately $30 million in discretionary stimulus funds that she gets to dole out and claim credit. The state of Arizona is now making the decision to let people die because it does not want to pay, just as insurance companies have been doing for years. The "death panels" that Sarah Palin falsely claimed were in the Affordable Care Act do exist in Arizona's AHCCCS program for transplant patients. And if our shadow governor, Sen. Russell Pearce gets his way, those death panels will be expanded to other areas when the state of Arizona opts-out of the federal Medicaid program. The poor will be on their own, left to die and to "reduce the surplus population."
By Fox News' standards, Napolitano "should be fired immediately" for being a 9-11 Truther November 24, 2010 1:03 pm ET by Ben Dimiero Yesterday, Fox Business host and Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show and joined Jones in pushing conspiracy theories about the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Napolitano announced that "twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us." In the past, we've noted that Napolitano has lent his credibility -- and, by extension, Fox News' -- to Jones' show by helping Jones promote bizarre anti-government conspiracies. Jones is widely recognized as one of the leaders of the "9-11 Truth" movement. He also, among many other outlandish theories, believes a "New World Order" is going to exterminate 80% of the world's population. While Napolitano's appearances with Jones have been problematic in the past, his foray into pushing 9-11 Truth conspiracies should - but, based on the network's refusal to reprimand on-air talent, likely won't - spell the end of Napolitano's Fox News career. Back in September, during the five-alarm freak out over the planned Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, Fox News (and many other conservatives) attacked Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf over the fact that one of his "former associates" is a 9-11 Truther. Nevermind that Rauf himself had repeatedly and explicitly stated that the 9-11 attacks were perpetrated by extremist Muslims; Fox News found the mere fact that he used to work with someone who held that belief worth attacking him over. Attacking Rauf on ABC, Bill O'Reilly exclaimed that it "doesn't matter" if Rauf is a truther, because "his pal" was one. Fox Nation proclaimed that Rauf "Pals Around With Truthers." Glenn Beck called for the government to "investigate" Rauf. And that was far from the first time that Fox has hyped controversies over people's (tangential) connections to the 9-11 Truth movement. In September 2009, when it came to light that White House adviser Van Jones' name appeared on a 9-11 Truth petition, Glenn Beck and other Fox News personalities repeatedly attacked him and the White House (Van Jones has stated that he believes Al-Qaeda caused the attacks and that he was lied to about the petition, which was "something that I never saw and never signed onto"). Sean Hannity said that Jones' connection "should provoke not only concern but outrage among all Americans" and added that "this 9-11 Truther thing really drives me insane." He also asked his panel, "Do you agree with me that he should be fired immediately?" Based on the network's treatment of people with far less solid links to 9-11 Truth conspiracies in the past, Fox needs to address Napolitano's comments. In fact, based on their standards, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and co. should all be attacked over this. After all, they "pal around with Truthers."
'Do as they say, not as they do' is the mentality. You won't catch anyone on the right making any consequential statements against their own here...not in this forum. Fox/right wing/conservative/hypocrite/wealthy/anti-gay/ pro God and guns all the way, all in lockstep. (individual thought not required and non lemmings need not apply). Napolitano's words and actions need to be evaluated very carefully..after all, Fox is what he represents. His role with Fox/right wingers may be to "appear to be" outside the normal Fox/right bubble as to gain future credibility when the whole 911 fiasco finally comes tumbling down (no pun intended), an "insurance policy" so to speak for Fox.
