“Will a full-scale economic embargo devastate the Copper State? Who knows? It’s not clear to me what San Francisco imports from Arizona. Chaps?”
Mark Steyn’s latest column feels a bit like the Hollywood films Traffic or Crash (albeit with much better dialogue of course), as he cross-cuts between the otherwise disparate incidents that occurred this week:
- Police in riot gear march through a Quincy, IL Tea Party filled with harmless middle age voters, as if they’re auditioning their dance moves to see who will be chosen to be the next cop in the Village People.
- England’s Gordon Brown meets a leftwing, Labourite supporter — and dubs her a bigot.
- Arizona makes it slightly more illegal to be an illegal immigrant in their state, and the left gets both the vapors, and an enormous case of liberal fascism.
As Mark concludes:
Travis Nichols may be joking about “the drink of fascists,” but, in the same way as Gavin Newsom and Keith Olbermann, Gordon Brown genuinely believes that Gillian Duffy has drunk deeply from the drink of bigots for so much as raising the subject of immigration. How dare she! Ungrateful bigot!
Gillian Duffy lives in the world Gordon Brown has created. He, on the other hand, gets into his chauffeured limo and is whisked far away from it.
That’s Arizona. To the coastal commentariat, “undocumented immigrants” are the people who mow your lawn while you’re at work and clean your office while you’re at home.
As Mark writes, “Smart Guys In Limos [Are] Able To Flee Dangerous World That They Made”; read the rest here, and don’t miss Peter Robinson’s video interview with Steyn here.
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