
In ain't easy being Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) these days...
Which may be why her campaign released a video that uses a singing frog puppet to defend the state's controversial immigration law.
The video, titled "Arizona Sing-A-Long: Read Immigration Law!" features a Kermit-esque puppet who sings that "reading helps you know what you're talking about...," before showing clips of Obama Administration officials such as Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder admitting that they haven't actually read the bill.
"Seriously?", faux-Kermit asks.
A press release by the Brewer camp assails "Washington's comedy of errors," and spokesman Douglas Cole adds:
Arizona is trying to do the job that the federal government has failed to do, and members of the president's cabinet condemn it without even reading it. They have time to apologize to China and give President Calderon a standing ovation, but they don't have the time to read Arizona's law. Just more examples of how Washington is broken.
Watch:


AbqMike
May 21, 2010 3:05 PM
How can that frog be allowed to handle a teaching assignment in Arizona, in English, with such a pronounced accent?
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LonewackoDotCom3
May 22, 2010 7:31 PM in reply to AbqMike
That's cute. Say, if you learned French from someone who's not a native speaker and who's never been to France, or from someone with a pronounced regional French accent, what's going to happen when you go to France? Hint: it starts with "fout", with "vous" as the object.
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Sailormarlowe
May 21, 2010 3:05 PM
Hhahahahah, priceless! Hilarious! Those dinky nerds Stewart & Colbert could never top this. Their granola-brained writers ain't clever enough. Hahahaha. What a hoot! Hahahahah. Great stuff!
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free2bme
May 21, 2010 7:38 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Laugh track
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farnsworth
May 21, 2010 7:42 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
You are really stupid. Therefore your opinions are worthless. But please, keep posting them. Really.
Cue infantile response calling me "Fagsworth."
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Sailormarlowe
May 21, 2010 9:32 PM in reply to farnsworth
Farnsworm! Did you just crawl out of fan der Lube's rotted carcass? You gonna be sick.
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farnsworth
May 21, 2010 10:19 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Ah, so clever! You thought up a new name for me! Your mommy will probably give you an extra cookie!
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GTFOOH
May 21, 2010 3:11 PM
Which one is Brewer?
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AbqMike
May 21, 2010 3:41 PM in reply to GTFOOH
LOL!!
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AJM
May 21, 2010 11:34 PM in reply to GTFOOH
The one who looks like an illegal immigrant -- from Norway!
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itheuser
May 21, 2010 3:27 PM
Conservatives love using puppets, drawings, and shiny things to get their message across to viewers. When blind rage fails, just put on a fun show.
Speaking slowly also helps.
Anyway, the law was such a "duh" decision that they even had to rewrite portions of it to abate reasonable fears that they clearly did not consider, or care about before signing the bill.
But, they've got it all worked out now. We trust them.
Arizona, we barely knew you.
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Sniffit
May 21, 2010 4:19 PM in reply to itheuser
"Conservatives love using puppets"
No shit...just ask Mushmouth Steele.
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LonewackoDotCom3
May 22, 2010 7:36 PM in reply to itheuser
No, they had to rewrite portions of it because the Dems and the far-left (and their buddies in the business community) are extremely strong supporters of illegal activity and they need to make sure that everything's as clear as possible.
P.S. The American Civil Liberties Union is currently suing AZ, and that follows them collaborating with the MX government in an attempt to reduce immig. enforcement. Find me even one Dem leader condemning the ACLU for working with a foreign government in an attempt that enables massive illegal activity.
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31tudor
May 21, 2010 3:29 PM
How is the economy going in Arizona? Hahahaha. What a hoot! Hahahahah. Great stuff!
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CyberDuckie
May 21, 2010 3:30 PM
The commercial deserves no response.
However,...
How can you POSSIBLY call that a "Kermit-esque puppet"? You insult the Muppets that are so dearly loved by doing so. I mean...LOOK AT IT!!!! *shakes head in disappointment*
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Sailormarlowe
May 21, 2010 3:39 PM in reply to CyberDuckie
Yeah, it does look more like Rachel Maddow. Hahahahahaha. What a hoot. Jan Brewer is a comic genius. Hahahaha
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farnsworth
May 21, 2010 7:44 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
It doesn't take a comic genius to amuse a moron. Moron.
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concerned parent
May 21, 2010 3:55 PM
I am confused, which one is the puppet? Apparently the frog has read the law but not Brewer.
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Arcangelll
May 21, 2010 4:08 PM
That's the most stupidest thing I ever seen. Ummmm...TPM. How about posting a link to the new law so I can read it before any MORE amphibians start in with me.
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free2bme
May 21, 2010 4:11 PM
The wrinkly puppet is scary.
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Jasper47
May 21, 2010 4:13 PM
Well, when you cut out school funding, cut out kindergarten funding previously voted on by the citizens, cut out health care for children, stolen funding for Medicaid, cut out ethnic studies programs open to all students, held a gun to the head of voters by means of Prop. 100, a short-term sales tax impacting the poor hardest, pretended to be FOR Prop 100 as a life-saving measure to forestall additional cuts to education, put employees on 4-day weeks with one day unpaid furlough, rejected stimulus funding, pumped up ethnic strife by signing a bill, SB 1070, that didn't pretend to know for whom it was intended, promoted a Sheriff's neighborhood sweeps to the point where the Sheriff is under federal and other investigations, then I guess there is only so much money left in the Governor's single line item for miscellaneous puppetry.
Oh, did I leave out cutting funding for persons with disabilities, unemployment benefits and who knows what else?
Arizona is an abject failure, a joke, an object of ridicule, but nobody is laughing.
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jsdc007
May 21, 2010 4:17 PM
Both Holder and Napolitano had been briefed on the law by DOJ and Homeland Security attorneys at the time of the Judiciary Committee Hearing on May 13. When lawyers talk about having read the law, they usually mean that they've thoroughly researched, and debated the nuances and ramifications of the law, something that Holder SHOULD have done before the committee hearing.
Well, they've all read the law now, and still find it troubling.
As an attorney myself, I believe that the law is a POS that's essentially unenforceable in the absence of blatant racial profiling. It was basically a SOP by a desperate Jan Brewer trying to win the votes of the fired-up JD Hayworth supporters and assorted teabaggers in an upcoming and difficult GOP primary.
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Jasper47
May 21, 2010 4:39 PM in reply to jsdc007
Fair enough. Janet had vetoed similar attempts by Russell Pearce twice before. No doubt she got a PDF of the bill prior to its signing. I would agree with you on the POS and its being unenforceable. I would wish though that it would be phrased in terms of ethnicity, not race. I know it appears to be commonplace to mix the two, but they aren't the same. Having lived in the SW for the better part of 45 years, I've never had an Hispanic person claim to be of another race. That includes my wife.
The most troubling part of this tragedy is that the bill will do nothing good for this state. The same illegal activities carried out by law enforcement will continue. The Sheriff of Maricopa County relishes the endorsement that the bill gives him. It won't bring back the rancher who was killed in a very remote part of the state, won't arrest the guilty party, but it is just enough for those in the majority in the legislature to put together a hanging part nonetheless.
So, we wait for the court's decision on constitutionality. In the meantime, lots of people will be harmed, but few will notice.
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SqueakyRat
May 23, 2010 12:45 AM in reply to Jasper47
Calling it ethnicity won't make it less racist, ya know?
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Sniffit
May 21, 2010 4:18 PM
Fair enough. I was appalled that Napolitano and Holder said what they said...it was pure stupid to admit it even if it was true. They should've read it. I read it. It's what allows me to yell at conservative racist bigot xenophobes and call tham asshats.
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31tudor
May 21, 2010 4:24 PM
Here are some more laughs for Sailorman.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/12/AR2010051203317.html?hpid=topnews
Hhahahahah, priceless! Hilarious!
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Whenwillthisnightmareend
May 21, 2010 4:27 PM
Do Republicans really think that we are all a bunch of gullible children for them to push around with their "family values" like fear, bigotry, and scapegoating for their incompetence which they so proudly displayed during the Bush years and feel so eager to slough off on the Obama administration and the Democrats. Who do they think they're kidding, their base? Give me a break!
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NealMN
May 21, 2010 4:33 PM
Brilliant. But we need another puppet to point out the US constitution has even fewer pages, and makes good reading before passing state laws.
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dal
May 21, 2010 4:52 PM
Wow... what a shitty defence... I just read the bill and it pissed me off more! Did you know, "A PEACE OFFICER MAY LAWFULLY STOP ANY PERSON WHO IS OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE IF THE OFFICER HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION TO BELIEVE THE PERSON IS IN VIOLATION OF ANY CIVIL TRAFFIC LAW AND 23 THIS SECTION."
...so if I, Whitey McWhiteguy, am driving my brown friends Jose and Maria to church on a fine Sunday morning in Arizona; I change lanes and forget to put my blinker on, then I can get pulled over and we're all going to be detained until Jose and Maria produce their papers?
Funk you, frog.
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Jasper47
May 21, 2010 5:28 PM in reply to dal
Let's understand something; this law is only an endorsement of what has been standard operating procedure for years in Arizona. If a member of law enforcement, and that covers a lot of ground, gets you in their control they can basically do anything they want to, and that means anything.
Let's say you are just like all the other folks in Arizona who get , sooner or later, a DUI. Without getting into the little matter of probable cause for such a thing, let's say you want to be a good citizen, plead guilty, pay a fine, and go to spend a night at Sheriff Joe's death camp. You check in, give them all your money (ostensibly to hold for you), put on your best face and wait for a few hours to have the deputy get you a place to sleep.
Then sometime in the night, you are told you are not who you are. What, you say? That's right, they know you better than you do. You don't get the privilege of being right. So, you wonder, what did I do? Fact may be that you didn't do anything - they just say you did. They got your information wrong, they entered it in their system incorrectly, and nobody knows. Now, people are at home waiting for you to get out, expecting you to do your time or whatever, and walk out the door in the morning.
You just don't show up. You've gone incommunicado. Your family doesn't know, and there's no way to find out. Your mother and father know who you are, but the Sheriff knows better. So, you can't leave.
And it was all because someone didn't believe your name was your name, since that name couldn't be YOUR name, judging by the way you look.
Get it? Your money is gone. You can't prove anything. Your parents don't know what happened, where you are or why. You just disappeared.
All because somebody didn't believe you could be you. You just look, you know, mexican or something. You know?
Too bad. It happens all the time, but not enough people know it happens every day.
So, this law that isn't a law as yet is just wallpaper, making an ugly room a little brighter than it really is.
By the way, true story. Not me, but a loved one.
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NotBornEveryMinute
May 21, 2010 6:02 PM in reply to dal
Your partial quote is from the section of the law concerning the "smuggling of human beings for profit or commercial purpose." And you left off the beginning of the statement. Here's the full sentence: "E. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW, IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS SECTION A PEACE OFFICER MAY LAWFULLY STOP ANY PERSON WHO IS OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE IF THE OFFICER HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION TO BELIEVE THE PERSON IS IN VIOLATION OF ANY CIVIL TRAFFIC LAW."
Maybe you should listen to the frog more closely. He recommends reading the law.
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Jasper47
May 21, 2010 6:39 PM in reply to NotBornEveryMinute
Law enforcement have to redesign their forms, along with boxes already checked like "odor of alcohol", "bloodshot eyes", and the rest, there will no doubt appear, "illegal turn", "broken headlight", "deceptive appearance", "speaking in Spanish", "reading books on Romance Languages", "in possession of George Lopez DVD", and lots more, to be sure.
That way, it is easier to prosecute.
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barth
May 24, 2010 12:27 PM in reply to dal
You can say whatever obscenity you want, but, as a member in good standing of the progressive community, I do not see anything wrong with the police pulling you over for changing lanes without signaling and then holding you while they ascertain whether you are in the country legally. I am not sure that your "brown" friends can be held for your traffic violation, but if one of them was driving, they could be.
A decade ago, New York's highest Court, in an opinion written by an African American Judge with the most impeccable progressive credentials one could find, said: "We are not confounded by the proposition that police officers must exercise their discretion on a daily basis. Nor are we surprised at the assertion that many New Yorkers often violate some provision of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. But we cannot equate the combination of police officer discretion and numerous traffic violations as arbitrary police conduct..."
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LiberalRedneck
May 21, 2010 5:16 PM
A clear sign of incompetence is being unable to distinguish between what is funny and what is not.
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Jasper47
May 21, 2010 6:42 PM in reply to LiberalRedneck
You mean the Frog isn't funny?
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The Ouroborus
May 21, 2010 8:44 PM
Really?!
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jonez
May 22, 2010 12:11 AM
why didn't Reagan do anything about it, or Bush 1, or Bush 2. Why all of a sudden the Feds have failed to do anything about immigration? Reason: we have a black president, and mexicans are not white.
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lin
May 22, 2010 7:12 AM
Look look look www.tnta.us/
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sherifffruitfly
May 22, 2010 10:34 AM
Heckuva job there, Arizona electorate.
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SaintGenesius
May 22, 2010 5:51 PM
Someone pull that frog over and check its papers. It looks foooorrrrrreeeeeiiiiiggggnnnnnn!
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AJM
May 23, 2010 12:45 PM in reply to SaintGenesius
Maybe, French?
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Leftflank
May 22, 2010 8:53 PM
To return the favor, the frog had the knock-off governor, Ms. brewer, speak on behalf of toads.
Janet still has just as many critics & the boycotts will go on for years, but she has at least successfully deflected attention & placed all the blame on the Federal government. With this problem solved, Janet will move on to her next issue, getting the Federal government out of states business. Then, bring back the frog, rename the blame, blah, blah blah, blah blah.
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humanmancalvin
May 23, 2010 1:27 PM
If the cute little singing frog was stopped by the Az police for hopping while being green, he would be deported back to the pond where he was born. Now of course if he had been a white frog..
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Tosh
May 29, 2010 12:42 AM
Conservatives love using puppets, drawings, and shiny things to get their message across to viewers. When blind rage fails, just put on a fun show.
Speaking slowly also helps.
Anyway, the law was such a "duh" decision that they even had to rewrite portions of it to abate reasonable fears that they clearly did not consider, or care about before signing the bill.
But, they've got it all worked out now. We trust them.
Arizona, we barely knew you.
m65 kamagra
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