you can't make up...

[acroyear]

...the fact that they're just making shit up...
Daily Kos: State of the Nation:

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is so upset that some have invoked Godwin's Law when discussing her state's new Latino ethnic cleansing law.

"The Nazi comments . . . they are awful," she said, her voice dropping. "Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that . . . and then to have them call me Hitler's daughter. It hurts. It's ugliness beyond anything I've ever experienced."

Compelling! Except that she's pulling a Mark Kirk.

Gov. Jan Brewer said in a recent interview that her father died fighting Nazis in Germany. In fact, the death of Wilford Drinkwine came 10 years after World War II had ended.

During the war, Drinkwine worked as a civilian supervisor for a naval munitions depot in Hawthorne, Nev. He died of lung disease in 1955 in California.

[...]

Officials with the governor's administration said her statement should not be taken to mean that she was claiming her father was a soldier in Germany during the Nazi regime.

Ah yes, claiming her father died fighting Nazis in Germany should, in no way, be construed as implying that her father died fighting Nazis in Germany.

Comments

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

Add Richard Blumenthal to this, and this is getting to be a very bad habit by politicians. I don't know how they think that they can get away with such comments in this day and age. I guess they assume that people don't watch the news or read the internet.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

no, they assume (generally correctly, sadly) that even if they hear the correct version of history that calls them a liar later, they won't care because the emotional impact of what they were getting across will have already sunk in.

[klytus.livejournal.com]

"Ah yes, claiming her father died fighting Nazis in Germany should, in no way, be construed as implying that her father died fighting Nazis in Germany."

That has to be my favorite quote in the whole article.

[chameleon613.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of the whole Kirk thing? On his blog for May 27 he posts a link to a picture of his receiving whatever award it was to clear the air....and the plaque he's receiving has illegible writing on it (the glare makes it looks solidly dark).

D'oh!