Arizona’s goofiest state senator faced off on John Stossel’s Fox show with Nick Gillespie, the longtime editor of Reason magazine, the leading Libertarian publication, and now the head of Reason.TV.

After Stossel asks Pearce about the Phoenix police chief Jack Harris’s opposition to SB 1070, Pearce starts sputtering that Harris is a political appointee “of an open-border, anarchist mayor.”

Hilarity, as they say, ensues:


Later Gillespie and Stossel try to get Pearce to address the plain fact that crime in the state has been dropping steadily for a decade.

If you listen carefully to Pearce’s sputterings in response, you can hear him assert that “child molesters” are coming over the border.