… at a press conference yesterday found some reporters barely refraining from suggesting that the sheriff is getting out of control. The EVT:

“It’s all politics,” said Arpaio, who spent much of an afternoon news conference Tuesday wagging his finger, waving his arms and snarling at reporters.

Stephen Lemons:

Looks like the journos at today’s Joe Arpaio presser practically had to jump out of the way of the spittle flying forth from the sheriff’s kisser. As I suspected it would be, the whole show was an excuse for a tirade on the part of our spoiled lawman, a fit thrown by a puerile 77 year-old after someone took away his new toy and stuck him in a time out.

The Republic story, by contrast, doesn’t mention anything about Arpaio’s demeanor at the appearance. I can’t link to it because I can’t find it on the AZCentral site … it doesn’t come up when you search for Arpaio.

(I"m reading it off the rain-soaked terrestrial edition I got on my driveway this a.m. The Arizona Republic sucks at delivering the news in so many ways.)

The JJ Hensley story from before the press conference, however, has a weird little link to the right that gives you a slide show, apparently from the conference itself.

So I went to the AZCentral front page to hunt for it. A fiery Joe Arpaio press conference would be there somewhere, right?

I noticed a button for “”http://www.azcentral.com/news/“>Arizona News.” Aha! Here’s what I got:

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Here’s a closeup of the story links:

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Nepal … Anna Nicole Smith … Dinosaurs in France … and Saudi sex talk.

That’s Arizona news?