This is priceless.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has finally done a story on Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West and her cluelessness about Arizona and its borders.
Rather than report on the shocking nature of West's comments, the Journal Sentinel reports on the fact that her comments have become part of the national discussion.
County supervisor's geography gaffe gets replay nationwide
Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West became a national phenomenon Friday, though not in a way she'd like.
West's misstatement about Arizona geography, part of comments she made at Thursday's County Board meeting, wound up on local television and quickly became an Internet phenomenon.
In supporting a proposed county boycott of business with Arizona, she said Arizona did not share a border with Mexico. The gaffe was captured by WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
West made a "misstatement."
Her "gaffe" received nationwide play.
So the story becomes about West being a "national phenomenon," rather than an incompetent fool unfit to be voting on the County Board's proposed boycott of Arizona.
Why isn't the Journal Sentinel giving West the Sarah Palin treatment?
Where is the "West is so stupid that it's scary" stuff? Where is the "West is too stupid to serve in public office"? Where is the mocking and ridicule?
Nowhere to be seen.
No, West isn't stupid according to the JS. She just misspoke.
That, of course, is absurd.
West clearly was confused about the location of Arizona and Mexico. Her own words, her relatively lengthy remarks explaining her position on the measure being debated at the Board meeting, attest to that.
It was no gaffe.
...West's faux pas spread across the Web, got picked up by a host of Arizona media outlets, and then became fodder for talk radio hosts. The County Board switchboard on Friday was inundated with calls from around the country.
West's "faux pas," her little boo-boo, became a national story.
"Faux pas"?
No. No way. It wasn't a "faux pas." It was her incredible stupidity that made Peggy West nationally known overnight.
The Journal Sentinel doesn't address that reality at all. There's no discussion of that important aspect of the story whatsoever.
I contend that is as embarrassing as West's ignorance.
1 comment:
Man, I am so glad that I moved away from Milwaukee many years ago.
It's obvious that it is now being run into the ground by uneducated morons!!!
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