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Re: Whatever, Let's Have A Goddamn Blog Thread, But Try And Keep It Reasonable, pt B
ImRonBurgundy?:
I'm interning at Late Night With Conan O'Brien until March, and today our second guest was the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joe Arpaio. This guy bills himself as "The Toughest Sheriff in America" and seeks to reduce rates of recividism in his county by subjecting inmates in his jails to such indignities as working on chain gangs and solitary confinement. However, this is a county jail, not a prison, meaning that these are people that have not even been convicted of a crime yet. Moreover, his officers have a reputation for being taser-happy, and three deaths have resulted from officers restraining inmates too roughly and applying their tasers too judiciously. During Arpaio's tenure as Maricopa County sheriff, the sheriff's office has paid over $43 million in legal settlements stemming from lawsuits related to cases such as these.
So, anyway, he was on Conan to promote his new reality show, which, after the introductory clip was shown, Conan called "possibly a sign of the apocalypse". For reasons stemming from his ties to various human rights abuses in his jails, we got a lot of people calling into the office to complain, and will probably have many more tomorrow after the show airs.
And he wasn't even a good interviewee. He spoke very softly in aimless, meandering sentences and never seemed to quite fully register what any of Conan's questions were--you'd think a guy who thrives on publicity and his own image so much would be a bit more media-savvy. Conan finally found a pause in the middle of a rambling paragraph to cut him off and end the interview, his body language registering nothing so much as "bored to tears".
So, I'm certainly looking forward to working in the office tomorrow!
Jace:
I don't really understand how Sheriff Joe keeps getting re-elected. I think people think he is making prison worse for inmates. Also, it might be because Arizona is a pretty republican state in general, and most republicans don't have to worry about being in county jail or getting tasered.
Dude needs to stop being sheriff though.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: PantsFTW on 08 Jan 2009, 01:51 ---most republicans don't worry about the welfare of other human beings
--- End quote ---
redglasscurls:
My fucking shower pole won't stay up and crashes down somewhere in the 5-20 minute range after I put it back up. I'm home alone and the crash scares the living hell out of every goddamn time >.<
jodizzle:
Oh oh Manda, that happens with ours too! My bedroom is right behind the bathroom too, so I almost have a heart attack whenever it happens.
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