3. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, Press Conference, Tucson, January 8, 2011
When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.
So, you agree that a US Law Officer should, in an official media conference, to brief the media on updates in the investigation - should go ahead and blame the incident on a specific group - with absolutely no actual evidence to back that up? You think that a police officer should name Rush Limbaugh as being responsible for the shooting? You think it is ok to mix fact and opinion from a police spokesperson?
Really?
You might agree with the sentiments. But what you are saying is that you think it's ok for him to have come from this particular source. Personally, I find that worrisome.
In that paragraph, he's not blaming a group and not naming Rush Limbaugh. I agree with that paragraph.
And let's not forget, Sheriffs are Elected. They are political. It's not some pius position.
True, he is political, a democrat, he stood up before god and everybody and before the facts were in and accused the Right Wing Rhetoric for the shooting of the congresswoman. The only decent thing to do now is to apologize for his stupidity or pay a political price for his political move.
I can agree with this, and he did go on to blame specifics, but in this paragraph quoted I agree with his statements 100%.