greg_patterson_espresso_pundit“Shame on you Dennis Welch and shame on you Jennifer Johnson.”

Those are the lugubrious, choked-up words of soi-disant Espresso Pundit Greg Patterson, driven nearly to tears defending the honor of Jan Brewer after she was caught lying about her father’s military record.

Welch is the Arizona Guardian reporter who quoted Brewer saying her father had died “fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.” Johnson is a state Democratic Party functionary who, like the rest of us, thinks it’s pretty cheap to try to invoke sympathy for yourself by inventing an Inglourious Basterds-style military career for your dad.

Patterson really gets going relating the noble history behind Brewer’s gaffe.

And history it is!

He begins not in medias res but, more dramatically, at the beginning:

Hitler attempts to take over the world and uses the war as cover to launch the Holocaust….

Fortunately, the Allies mobilize! But wait—back in America…

Meanwhile a guy name Wilford Drinkwine leaves a farm in the midwest and takes his family to Nevada to work in a munitions plant….

… and with an O. Henry-like twist, Drinkwine turns out to be Jan Brewer’s father!

No one would mock his death, however he died or whatever caused it. But it’s also a bit skeevy for Patterson to try to get us all worked up about Drinkwine’s death (not to mention the Holocaust) in an attempt to distract attention from what Brewer said, which was …

… that her father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.


Previously in PHXated:

Jan Brewer is Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World”

Jan Brewer and her father: 205 stories and counting….

Brewer doubles down on her misstatements about her father’s war record