July 01, 2010 06:17 PM UTC

At Least She's Not Your Governor

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• by: Colorado Pols

From the “Uh, what the hell are your talking about?” department, via Politico:

Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer claimed recently that law enforcement has been finding beheaded bodies in the desert – but local agencies say they’ve never encountered such a case.

“Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded,” Brewer said Sunday, suggesting that the beheadings were part of increased violence along the border.

But medical examiners from six of Arizona’s counties – four of which border Mexico – tell the Arizona Guardian that they’ve never encountered an immigration-related crime in which the victim’s head was cut off.

Whoops! But those immigrants that do still have heads — they’re all just drug mules, right?

Last week, Brewer claimed that a majority of illegal immigrants are “drug mules” being used to smuggle narcotics into the country.

The claim was widely disputed, including by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and received national mocking by media outlets and in liberal circles.

Oh, shoot. So they have heads, and they aren’t all drug mules. You know what this story needs? A Nazi reference.

Brewer was also caught this month incorrectly claiming that her father died “fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.”

Her father, in fact, died in 1955 in California and worked in a munitions plant during the war.

That’s an impressive run of nonsense for one politician to weave through in just a matter of weeks. Really — we’re hard-pressed to think of someone else who has had the same string of ridiculous quotes in such a short time frame.