Even The Wingnut Arizona Republic ...

[babylonsister]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/even-wingnut-arizona-republic.html

Even The Wingnut Arizona Republic ...

by digby

... has become a dirty hippie:

Arizona Republic Editorial – 4.24.10

A fundamental principle of law is that it should protect the innocent. Of all the damage made possible by Gov. Jan Brewer's signature on Friday to Senate Bill 1070, the worst is not the harm to the world's judgment of Arizona or to this law's economic consequences.

The worst effect is its grave potential for causing harm to innocent, taxpaying American citizens who no longer can feel certain of the law's blindness.

That is the terrible harm of it. SB 1070 lifts the blindfold of Lady Justice and commands her to see one different from the other, irrespective of innocence. Brewer's televised signing ceremony for this harsh, unnecessary legislation constitutes the low point of an administration we have come to admire for its often surprising grit in the face of hard times. We held out hope for more.

Whether Arizona pays a price for indulging the whims of state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, is no longer the issue. We are paying a price. Not since the dismal days of our nationally infamous fight over a holiday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has the profile of Arizona descended this low.

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I'm fairly shocked by this. This is a very conservative paper. They're worried.

[LiberalLoner]

1. Wow, that is shocking, from that paper...it is very conservative...n/t

[Vincardog]

2. They should be worried. Call your local Baseball team and tell them to boycott the Cactus league

[Xipe Totec]

8. Arizona Diamondbacks will be playing the Red Sox in Boston on June 17th

FYI to Red Sox Nation.

[Hawkeye-X]

13. I'll be rooting for my Rox to sweep Arizona tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday

May Arizona Diamondbacks be cursed to finish dead last every year until the law is repealed.

Oh yeah, the Suns are not gonna make it to the Finals either.

Hawkeye-X

[Soylent Brice]

3. wow.

that is shocking, coming from them.
not sure what to say.

[DesertFlower]

4. they see the outrage that not just happening

here, but throughout the country.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. they should be. They even contacted me for more info

to print my LTTE I sent.

I wrote that I was canceling my trip to the Big Ditch with my partner (she's never been) because although she is a legal resident, she clearly is not a Wasp, or whatever flavor that AZ finds to be "American" enough.

It may even make it into the print edition.

[JuniperLea]

6. Good! It smacks of more government...

That alone should flip their switches in a bad way.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. LOL

you are so cruel.

I love it.

[JuniperLea]

15. I'm loving the Latino bloggers...

And the baseball boycott threats when the Diamondbacks play.

Now, I love baseball... it's the only professional sport I continue to follow (fed up w/the rest) and I stand with my Latino peeps in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula!

A baseball boycott... now THAT is cruel!

LOL!

[Cleita]

9. What was done by the Arizona legislature and Jan Brewer is

not conservative but anti-American and unconstitutional. Apparently, the Arizona Republic still has enough journalistic integrity left to recognize the difference.

[gratuitous]

10. Shocking? Maybe not so much

After all, an economic boycott of all things Arizona is going to hit the Arizona Republic and its major advertisers pretty hard. The giveaway (to me) is their remembrance of "the dismal days of our nationally infamous fight" over MLK Day; I don't know how the paper stood on that fight, but they sure as the world remember convention cancellations and other hits to commerce and the state coffers thanks to short-sighted bigotry.

[yellowcanine]

11. My favorite quotes from the comments to this editorial.......

"Jan Brewer put herself in the company of governors like Orval Faubus and George Wallace." -tireiron chef

[Union Yes]

12. Did Repigs embarrass their editors?

They need to own what they helped create.

But, I'm glad they wrote this op-ed. Thanks for posting it.

knr

[BlooInBloo]

14. They're sorry because they're getting caught.