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PHOENIX — It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory.
Gov. Jan Brewer stumbled and stammered through her opening statement during a televised debate Wednesday night, suffering through an embarrassing, cringe-eliciting pause that lasted more than 10 seconds.
With her hands clasped in front of her, she looked at the camera, then down, possibly at notes, and back up at the camera. She smiled, let out a loud exhale, then resumed her statement with a pronouncement of her record as governor.
"We have, uh, did what was right for Arizona," Brewer said, using a grammatical misconstruction she uttered twice during the debate.
Then, she bolted from a post-debate question-and-answer session with reporters after refusing to respond to queries about a past statement about bodies supposedly found beheaded in the Arizona desert.
Video of the pause and the post-debate walkoff from the media scrum quickly became an Internet sensation as Brewer was skewered on political blogs Thursday.
"Jan Brewer: Bumbling politician of the year," salon.com headlined its post. "The rising star governor of Arizona gives a painfully awful debate performance."
Some called it her Stockdale moment, a reference to James Stockdale's bumbling debate performance as H. Ross Perot's running mate in the 1992 presidential race.
Brewer herself acknowledged Thursday during an interview on a talk show on Phoenix radio station KTAR-FM that she could have done better.
"It certainly was the longest 16 seconds of my life," Brewer said of the pause. "I'm human, I'm human."
She said the post-debate questioning by reporters was unfair, but added that leaving as she did might have been "the wrong thing to do. "
"But that's how I felt at the moment," she added.
Brewer became governor in January 2009 when her Democratic predecessor resigned in midterm and the Republican drew national attention when she signed the state's controversial immigration law on April 29.
The immigration law turned her into a popular politician among Republicans around the country as she runs for a full term against Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard. She is heavily favored to win.
Not surprisingly, Brewer said she doesn't think she'll debate Goddard again. He previously challenged her to six debates across the state and his campaign renewed that call Thursday.
Goddard said Thursday that Brewer's debate performance "unquestionably" would help him. "The unfortunate result is she's now afraid to do any more debates," he said.
The debate itself was peppered by heated give-and-take jabs by Brewer and Goddard over immigration, the state's budget troubles and a recent prison escape, often with the candidates talking over each other.
Goddard also took Brewer to task over her comments about beheadings in the desert. He said such comments are false and hurting the state's image and economy. That could help neutralize the immigration issue, and Goddard is also attacking Brewer on economic and budget issues.
Patrick Kenney, an Arizona State University professor of political science, said Brewer's stumbles could hurt her, especially with the clip of the pause being replayed all over TV and the Internet.
"That clip and that part of the story is being replayed," Kenney said. "It's not the kind of image that any politician wants."
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Heads will roll!
Source: [url]http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/7184241.html[/url]
I thought she actually fell.
[QUOTE=Mikesword221;24554549]I thought she actually fell.[/QUOTE]
I guess you could say you stumbled upon a double meaning.
One mispronunciation in a debate and she falls below Palin?
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And that debate isn't going to do shit for Goddard. AZ's mostly red.
[QUOTE=Jack_Thompson;24554727]One mispronunciation in a debate and she falls below Palin?[/QUOTE]
She also had that awkward silence in the very first minute of the debate. Also, we had a Democratic lesbian governor for two terms.
[QUOTE=Jack_Thompson;24554727]One mispronunciation in a debate and she falls below Palin?[/QUOTE]
Did you watch the video? I'm no great public speaker but damn.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;24554970]Did you watch the video? I'm no great public speaker but damn.[/QUOTE]
Meh, she came back.
As far as bumbling goes, she's still no Palin.
A public speaker messed up her speech and got back on track afterwards. There are so many videos of this on the internet of every politician out there that I find it hard to believe this even makes the news. Get on youtube and look up Obama. He's done it too. When you make hundreds of speeches it's pretty much unavoidable.
Yea but she's a dirty bigot whore so it's fun to make fun of her.
[QUOTE=Jewsus;24556146]Yea but she's a dirty bigot whore so it's fun to make fun of her.[/QUOTE]
Lol because she wants to stop criminals from committing criminal acts?
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;24556247]Lol because she wants to stop criminals from committing criminal acts?[/QUOTE]
Well she did claim illegal immigrants decapitate people or something.
Which is hilariously wrong
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8&feature=player_embedded[/media]
Here's the video for people too lazy to click the link
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;24556247]Lol because she wants to stop criminals from committing criminal acts?[/QUOTE]
She criminalized illegal immigration and tried to withhold the rights of the accused from illegals. She also campaign contributions from private prisons.
Basically she said
"Hey private prison firms, how about you contribute to my campaign and I'll pay you state money to lock up Mexicans. Oh but make sure you don't afford them any constitutional rights. Since they're not American citizens, they shouldn't even be treated like criminals. I'll make sure I also cut prison oversight so you can really get the job done. Kthxbye."
[QUOTE=Lambeth;24556546]Well she did claim illegal immigrants decapitate people or something.
Which is hilariously wrong[/QUOTE]
Don't take things out of context.
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[QUOTE=Jewsus;24556648]She criminalized illegal immigration and tried to withhold the rights of the accused from illegals. She also campaign contributions from private prisons.
Basically she said
"Hey private prison firms, how about you contribute to my campaign and I'll pay you state money to lock up Mexicans. Oh but make sure you don't afford them any constitutional rights. Since they're not American citizens, they shouldn't even be treated like criminals. I'll make sure I also cut prison oversight so you can really get the job done. Kthxbye."[/QUOTE]
haha evil capitalist pig-dog overlords oppressing the brown people
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;24556716]Don't take things out of context.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbbIinH8Is&feature=player_embedded[/media]
As an Arizonan, I'm ashamed of the reputation she's giving us.
I stubbed my toe pretty badly this morning. Can I be on the news?
[QUOTE=Lambeth;24556911][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTbbIinH8Is&feature=player_embedded[/media][/QUOTE]
Everybody here told me the only bad illegal immigrants are cartel members, which, yes are cutting the heads off people in Mexico...
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She can't think of anything else to say, laughs at her incompetence, makes a series of grammatical errors, and then asks for your vote. Genius.
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Hopefully fixed
[QUOTE=Ridge;24559324]Everybody here told me the only bad illegal immigrants are cartel members, which, yes are cutting the heads off people in Mexico...
VERY GRAPHIC PIC
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She's claimed that illegal immigrants (not cartel thugs) are beheading people in the United States and has refused to recant that very false statement.
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[quote]"Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded," she said.
But officials with six county medical examiners offices in the state, including four from counties that border Mexico, say they have never heard of such attacks.
The Arizona Guardian contacted the coroners' offices in Yuma, Pima, Pinal, Maricopa, Santa Cruz and Cochise counties. All of them said they'd never investigated an immigration-related crime in which someone's head had been head cut off within their respective jurisdictions.[/quote]
[url]http://www.arizonaguardian.com/azg/index.php?catid=937:campaigns-a-elections-fp&id=2201:county-coroners-cant-back-brewer-beheadings-claim&option=com_content&view=article[/url]
At least she recovered.
[QUOTE=lulzbocks;24556716]haha evil capitalist pig-dog overlords oppressing the brown people[/QUOTE]
This is one of those situations where capitalist pig-dogs are most certainly oppressing brown people, yes. Normally that type of phrase is reserved for exaggerations but it fits perfectly here.
[QUOTE=Ridge;24559324]Everybody here told me the only bad illegal immigrants are cartel members, which, yes are cutting the heads off people in Mexico...
VERY GRAPHIC PIC
[url]http://a.imageshack.us/img214/147/fourmenbeheadedmexico01.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]
That War On Drugs sure is working great huh.
Disastorious
jan brewer is such a dumb cunt
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tbh the libertarian was the most well spoken, but nobody is going to vote for him
and i don't even like libertarians
[QUOTE=Prismatex;24559914]She's claimed that illegal immigrants (not cartel thugs) are beheading people in the United States and has refused to recant that very false statement.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL5KQ4Ao0ro&feature=player_embedded#at=147[/media]
Watch how many times she ignores the question
[QUOTE=Jewsus;24556648]She criminalized illegal immigration and tried to withhold the rights of the accused from illegals. She also campaign contributions from private prisons.
Basically she said
"Hey private prison firms, how about you contribute to my campaign and I'll pay you state money to lock up Mexicans. Oh but make sure you don't afford them any constitutional rights. Since they're not American citizens, they shouldn't even be treated like criminals. I'll make sure I also cut prison oversight so you can really get the job done. Kthxbye."[/QUOTE]
She...made it criminal to be an ILLEGAL immigrant...and didn't want to give ILLEGAL immigrants (who don't pay taxes) government given rights?
[QUOTE=siberpredaht;24571021]tbh the libertarian was the most well spoken, but nobody is going to vote for him
and i don't even like libertarians[/QUOTE]
This was probably your first good post I've read
and I don't even like you
Also this lady looks like evil incarnate.
Why do you people "not like eachother" because of their different opinions? You should like them because they at least try to defend their position, something most people don't really do on FP
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