Jan Brewer: "You're trying to make a liar out of me!"

The governor lets loose on the Arizona Guardian, which has been at the forefront of reporting on her tall tales about her father’s military service.

You’ll recall Brewer said her father “died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany”—whereas he spent the war in Nevada and died more than ten years after it ended.

In a new story on the Guardian site, the governor, interviewed while still in D.C. gets combative with reporter Dennis Welch:

Brewer said the story was unfair and hurtful.

The governor said her father did help fight the Nazis because of his work and sacrifice at the ammunition factory. That should not be diminished, she said, “just because he didn’t go overseas.”

“There is no way I have ever misled anybody,” she said. “You’re trying to make a liar out of me.”

Obviously, no one’s trying to “diminish” her father’s service. Just as obviously, when Brewer added the words “in Germany” to “Nazi regime,” she wasn’t trying to distinguish it from Nazi regimes in other countries. She was plainly saying that that’s where her father died.

The story wasn’t unfair at all. She was obviously fabricating not just service overseas, but a noble combat death. Isn’t that more than a little cheap?