"Manipulating" facts, figures and statistics, spreading innuendo, generalizations and stereotypes is the bread and butter of politics. Did she truly lie or just bend the facts to fit the agenda as she perceived her constituents wanted to see it, as all politicians do. It's also human nature to find that which validates our individual paradigm. In this light I also agree with Rhet2.
She made up something that wasn't true. She lied.
Okay. I'm (and I assume Rhet) are not making excuses for her. It's called removing the emotive factor and utilizing the analytic to discern the big picture. Or would you rather we emotively rant and rave about a minor side issue distracting from the real issues involved here? Would that make you feel better?
NO EXCUSES
At best, it was damned careless and stupid and definitely misleading -- about an issue of vital national importance, affecting hundreds of thousands of lives.
To divert the discussion to INSIGNIFICANT person-beating and person-bashing is also damned careless and stupid and EQUALLY MISLEADING --and at stake is the stability of our entire electoral process, affecting the entire nation.
We the People get the government WE ACCEPT and CONDONE.
I'm not condoning Brewer at all.
I'm DAMNING EVERY LAST ONE OF THE SO_CALLED "LEADERS" who cannot "get it right" -- who do NOT study the issues and KNOW what they're saying before they open their fat mouths to spew ignorance and bullshit across our faces --
There is NO EXCUSE AND NO TOLERANCE for any of that crap, Brewer or Obama or Pelosi or Ann Richards and Rick Perry and Arnold Swartzie-Butt or Ron Paul ALIKE.
And TRIPLE DAMN the media for fostering, accepting, encouraging and itself committing the exact same bullshit SPIT IN VOTER FACES for the sake of their own BIGOTED politicized and greedy CORPORATE BUTT-HEAD PROFITS.
And, if we do NOT stop with the ad hominem person-bashing snarling dog fight political weasel games among ourselves first and then among the political CRAP LORDS, and among the chief bullshit Bait and Switch MASTERS of Partial Information and Half-Truths, the Republic is as dead as Jefferson warned us it would be.
Brewer screwed up.
And the precept she shit on is the same precept the media (yeah, including FOX) and especially the political crap lords from ALL the parties not only violate but HATE with passion:
Tell the truth
the WHOLE truth
and NOTHING BUT the truth
OR KEEP YOUR FAT MOUTH SHUT.