You figure if The New York Times sends a scribbler to Arizona to pen a story about the race between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and challenger Dan Saban, he or she’d get it right, right? After all it’s the frickin’ New York Times we’re talking about. The Gray Lady. The veritable…
MCSA firebrand Randy Parraz, who was arrested today outside the BOS auditorium. In what will surely be viewed as a black day for the Maricopa County Supervisors’ relations with the public, Randy Parraz, an organizer with the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, was arrested outside of the Supervisors’ auditorium…
Why won’t Joe debate Dan Saban? In this video, the Sheriff tells us it’s none of our business. While reporters in this town are busy feeding into the myth of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s invincibility and writing off rival Dan Saban, the anti-Joe activists out there are putting Phoenix’s Fourth Estate…
The now-famous photoshopped image of Palin. For some reason, I never tire of it. I haven’t cracked up like this since the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie was released. I’m talking about these parody blog posts written by the wags at the comedy Web site Something Awful after the manner…
The fun begins about 3:40 in… Well, if this doesn’t knock the shine off Sarah Palin’s star, I don’t know what will. In the latest YouTube video of Palin worshiping at her hometown church Wasilla Assembly of God, Palin is prayed over by a witch-hunting Kenyan pastor by the name…
Did Sarah cheat on Todd? So saith the National Enquirer… During the Clinton years, they used to call them “bimbo eruptions.” Now that the National Enquirer has finally published its tell-all tale of Sarah Palin’s alleged affair with a former business partner of hubby Todd, I guess we’ll have to…
Arpaio has a senior moment in this footage from yesterday’s Wells Fargo protests. C’mon, Joe, you know who The Bird is… Sal Reza and his merry band of anti-Arpaio protesters scored this hi-larious footage yesterday of our corrupt top constable paying a visit to the protests taking place every day…
A photo from the anti-Arpaio protest at Wells Fargo last week. See more from pics of the demo by photographer Bill Carpenter, here. The clang and ring of the trolley in this video informs you that you’re not in Sand Land any more. Indeed, the setting for this demonstration documented…
PUENTE’s Sal Reza and MEChA’s Sandra Castro, outside Wells Fargo on Wednesday. You don’t expect two hour protests in the mid-day heat of a Phoenix September to be energizing and fun, but that’s what I found the anti-Arpaio protest outside the Wells Fargo building downtown to be when I walked…
MCSA’s Randy Parraz and Raquel Teran address reporters after the BOS lockout. It was a Magic Mountain-size roller coaster ride at the Board of Supervisors today, with the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability taking over the meeting from Supervisor and acting Chairman Max Wilson, and walking out when it…
The kids ain’t the only ones who need to lay off the Snickers, Joe. While Democrat and sheriff’s office candidate Dan Saban was laying out a plan today to put more deputies on patrol and reduce response times from the 16 minutes it sometimes takes for the MCSO to get…
The anti-Arpaio protest at the Well Fargo building, that pricey pad Joe’s upper echelon calls home, continues into its third week amid a virtual media blackout. Well, save for in this blog and in the current Bird column. Last week there was reportedly a similar demonstration at a Wells Fargo…
Dan Saban making his case before a Sun City crowd in August. So I’m watching a repeat of Friday’s KAET Horizon roundtable of local journos — mainly because I’d heard that they’d mentioned last week’s Joe Arpaio fake poll controversy (reported in this blog with the help of you the…
The Wing-nut from Wasilla, reporting as unfit for duty. Anyone who hasn’t watched the Sarah Palin interviews by ABC News’ Charlie Gibson should log onto YouTube or the ABC News web site and tremble in fear. That’s what I did after missing the initial broadcasts, as I was out both…
The gang was all there, and then some, to hear Ventura speak in Mesa. You’ll have to await next week’s Bird column for a full accounting of Jesse Ventura’s appearance at the Mesa Convention Center Thursday night. As you can see from the photo above, the Peter Boyle-lookalike packed the…
Since I reported yesterday on the fact that Sheriff Joe was losing his own fake poll on his own Web site, all kinds of shenanigans have been goin’ down at the loony lawdog’s campaign site sheriffjoe.org. First they take the poll down, then they put it back up. And now…
Hey, you know it’s bad when nearly 70 percent of those responding to an online poll on your own reelection site say they’re not going to vote for you. That’s the case with Nickel Bag Joe Arpaio, who has a poll on his campaign site sheriffjoe.org,*** which asks the question,…
What’s fair for John Edwards should also be fair for Sarah Palin… Glenn Beck just can’t leave poor ol’ John Edwards alone. Seems like every time I tune into the wing-nut lip-flapper, he’s pummeling the Edwards stallion like the story of the pol’s infidelity broke yesterday, bewailing how the MSM…
Dennis Gilman’s latest on the protests at Wells Fargo… The anti-Arpaio protests at the Wells Fargo bank building in downtown Phoenix are in their second week, and so much is happening on a daily basis that I think the organizers of the action should have their own blog just to…
C’mon, Jesse, rock the boa, for old times’ sake… Do the reporters who pen the Political Insider column for the Arizona Republic know how to use Google? Does their editor? I wonder this after reading this Sunday’s edition of the Insider. The column talks up the fact that the former…
More effective than a bucketful of Sominex… A colossal yawn. That’s what a CSPAN cameraman caught one of the GOP delegates in the middle of last night during John McCain’s speech, and it pretty much summed up my experience watching it. A real snoozer. I could barely keep from flipping…
Since Huffington Post published the story a couple of days ago of McCain’s Veep choice Sarah Palin’s association with the Assemblies of God church in Wasilla, Alaska, nearly 750,000 people have read the item, and presumably watched the video of Palin at the church she attended for many years, giving…
