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

Caught lying, a politician has three choices.

He or she can, for example, acknowledge the act and apologize …

But, let’s face it—they almost never do that.

So there’s really only two alternatives. One is fudge and obfuscate.

The other is just get all defiant and insist that the lie isn’t a lie.

That’s the tack Jan Brewer has taken after, let’s face it, telling a whopper about what her father did in World War II.

She was trying to get sympathy for allegedly being called a Nazi by opponents of SB 1070. She told the Republic:

The Nazi comments…they are awful. Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that…It hurts. It’s ugliness beyond anything I’ve ever experienced.

“My father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.”

Well, no. Her father worked in a munitions plant in Nevada, never went to Europe, and died ten years after the war.

It’s no big deal having a rosy memory of one’s parent. But it’s cheap to use that in a sympathy dodge, particularly when the truth is she’s using a hateful and unconstitutional law to play to the state’s massive political cheap seats.

How did Brewer respond? First, her office tried to dodge questions from the biggest news operation in the state:

Paul Senseman, the governor’s spokesman, did not immediately return calls or e-mails from The Republic seeking comment. But he told another local media outlet that Brewer has been very clear in the past about how her father died.

“She wasn’t embellishing the story at all,” he told The Arizona Guardian, referring to the governor’s comments in The Republic. “You’re reading something into this that isn’t there.”

“She wasn’t embellishing the story at all.”

Well, no.

And now, Brewer herself is insisting what she said was correct, too:

“I’m proud of my father and I have no reason to embellish,” Brewer told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Washington. “Everybody was fighting for the freedom of America. He did fight … and I will say it until the day I die.”

“He did fight.”

Well, no, he didn’t.

PHXated’s father, for example, spent the 1950s and 1960s doing defense work, and died some decades later from a cancer most likely brought on from chemical exposures during that time. But he didn’t die fighting the Cold War, for crying out loud.

Deomcrats lie a lot too, of course, but Republicans are so sanctimonious about things like truth and honor and supporting the troops.

Here’s a case where right-wing hypocrisy hits the trifecta. Or a hat trick. Or something. I’m not good with the sports and betting metaphors.

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