VIDEO: Jan Brewer’s Debate Fail
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The idea that this woman is at the tip of the spear for conservative action against immigration makes so much more sense now.
But it was 13 seconds or so of silence that is being talked about more than anything else.
During her opening statement, Ms. Brewer began by defending her stewardship: “I have, uh, done so much and I just cannot believe that we have changed everything since I have become your governor in the last 600 days. Arizona has been brought back from its abyss. We have cut the budget. We have balanced the budget and we are moving forward. We have done everything we could possibly do.”
At that point, she stared down at the papers in front of her, clutched her hands together, laughed nervously but struggled to come up with anything more to say. It was painful to watch.
Finally, though, she recovered and said: “We have did what was right for Arizona.”
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“WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH JAN BREWER?”-Matt Drudge
Wait a second. Surely she wasn’t relying on… a teleprompter!?! Only crazy liberal socialists do that kind of thing.
“We have did what was right for Arizona.”
Can’t argue with that.
She fits in with Arizona politicians. They have a history electing racist morons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Mecham
She should have written her notes on her hand.
It’s hard to talk at length when your whole political career has come down to four or five talking points. You have to have Palin’s talent for maze-talking – you have to talk in circles until you can work in a reference to “the troops,” then you just take that and ride it to the end.
It’s a skill not everybody has.
It’s good to be here with Larry, Barry, and Carrie?
This is parody, right?
That’s my governor!
Sadly, this really won’t make a difference here. She’ll still get elected.
Sadly, this really won’t make a difference here.
C’mon, Burn, it’s sad that you think something like that should make a difference.
Fixed, OW.
She’s not…she’s not smart.
Found on the Washington Post comment board:
C’mon, Burn, it’s sad that you think something like that should make a difference.
True Dennis. The worst part of her performance was that when she did manage to say something it was an inarticulate mixture of plastic and feces. Totally devoid of any thought or substance. But that’s the sort of person wingnuts vote for these days. Very sad.
For thirteen seconds there, she didn’t say anything that was either false or stupid or both.
I guess Mary, Gary, and Jerry couldn’t be there.
I used to think that America had the smartest people in the world. I wonder, when did I stop thinking that?
No I am not talking about Jan Brewer, but the many Americans that vote for that kind of leader.
Leader??
Why don’t they talk about Jan Brewer and CCA. This woman is a crook and she is pulling a fast one over the people in Arizona.
Was she drunk?
I’m sure it’s difficult to talk when nothing but BS is coming out…perhaps her brain finally started to work for a second and she realized what she was going to say; hence, the giggle. But, unfortunately, it dropped back into a coma so she could start rambling again…how sad.
Another mouth-breather with an (R) after her name. Thinking on your feet is not required to get the wingnut vote. That would be elitist.
“C’mon, Burn, it’s sad that you think something like that should make a difference.”
Dude, WHAAAAAAA? How often, when you know what you’re talking about — and I’m talking about you, or me, or everybody — do you just stop talking in the middle of a sentence for 13 seconds?
And when you answer, honestly, ‘really not very often’, ask yourself why? How is it that, when you’re saying something, you manage to, you know, keep saying it?
Imagine this was a conversation at a bar — one where the speaker didn’t have the chance to *rehearse their remarks* — this wouldn’t make you wonder what was wrong with the speaker?
I don’t know if it’s dumb, but it’s fucking weird, and that’s pretty charitable. Now, Arizona might not mind, but they also traded Max Scherzer for Ian Kennedy, so, you know, I’m just saying. This was a major, substantive fuck up.
No, it’s not hnice. And at a bar, if the other person forgot what it was they were going to say, the other person chimes in, or if they were even listening, would remind them what it was they were talking about. It happens. You’re thinking about what you’re going to say, then something else pops in your head, you decide not to say that, then forget what it was you first had to say or lose your train of thought. The guys that are good at not letting that happen are the ones who know how to pause for effect, like Clinton does, or guys like Biden who will just say something completely idiotic…..or racist, or whatever.
This means nothing other than a chance for you guys to have fun, which there’s nothing wrong with that, but it is who you are and what you do.
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Also, Word of the Day: “ObamaBoom”.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Unemployment-rate-rises-as-apf-780694354.html?x=0&.v=8
“have fun, which there’s nothing wrong with that, but it is who you are and what you do.”
OK, 1, ‘what we do’ is ‘have fun’ — oh noes. How awful — but I’ll agree. Our side of the aisle does pretty much have fun cornered. We feel really awful about it, too, so thanks for the validation that there’s nothing wrong with it.
2, sorry, no. Not sure how things work in your peer group, but in mine, 13 second of silence is pretty strange and would definitely garner a ‘wtf is wrong with you?’
My point is, in a group, you wouldn’t give the other person 13 seconds. You’d give them mabye 3 or 4 depending on how much coffee you’d drank that morning how much caffeine was still lingering in your system, and then you’d chime in.
But that’s *exactly* the point, Dennis — this looks *much stranger* than the bar behavior, fairly or not. No one *ever* sees this behavior in the actual world, so this looks even stranger than it would in real life.
Plus, she presumably had notes and the chance to rehearse.
Now, I’m willing to give on the notion that this might not have an effect because everyone already thought she was weird and stupid, so the impact wouldn’t be incremental, but this looks weird and stupid.
Are we still talking about this? Shouldn’t we just go watch the video? It’s a train wreck.
If you aren’t prepared to make an opening statement for a debate, what the hell are you prepared for? Especially when that statement includes nothing but vague assertions of having did some good stuff and things.
This essentially a job interview. Pause for 13 seconds in a job interview, and the next thing out your mouth better be something seriously awesome.
I’ll echo what tim just said. This is a job interview. One she’s had more than ample time to prepare for. And the opening statement, more than anything else, should go without hitch because it’s scripted.
She may rehearse her talking points for any questions and discussion that comes up during the rest of it and have to modify them a bit on the fly to fit into the discussion. But the opening statement is, or really should be, already set in stone word-for-word.
If she couldn’t get that right. If she wasn’t prepared for that part. If her nerves got to her and she lost track of what she wanted to do, what does that say about her readiness for the job?
What is she going to do when something more nerve wracking than a scripted statement comes her way? I’ve heard governors have to deal with those kinds of things sometimes.
Many years ago she could have been a good Miss South Carolina.
Having embarrassed herself once, “Dammit” Janet Brewer has canceled all future debates.
Typical Palinista bitch…when the going gets tough, they run like hell.
My point is, in a group, you wouldn’t give the other person 13 seconds. You’d give them mabye 3 or 4 depending on how much coffee you’d drank that morning how much caffeine was still lingering in your system, and then you’d chime in.
Morbo, do you have something to say?
“FORMAL DEBATES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!”
Dennis, man, c’mon. My 10 year old speaks better than this.
Are you really saying that she didn’t get enough of a break by the moderator? That’s the best you got? (Come to think of it, that is the best that could be mustered against this epic level choke).
BTW — does Obama, or any Dem, get the benefit of this “moderator break” convention you so strongly and puzzlingly advocate? Would you EVER say — hey, tough speech, musta been a bad day, the moderator, galdurnit, shoulda done somethin to bail you out!”
In the last four months Jan Brewer has been caught lying, three times and counting.
The comments made on June 16, 2010, and June 27, 2010, clearly indicates that the Brewer says that immigrants are beheading people in the United States desert. She first ran away from the question and the press when confronted with the question. She finally when to FOX/ FAKE News to recant her lie.
When Brewer was confronted with the fact the two of her top Advisors (Paul Senseman, Chuck Coughlin) are lobbyist for “Private Prisons” giant CCA she first ran away from the question and the press.
In an attempt to gain sympathy, she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (which ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that her father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. Do you see a trend here?
Brewer signed into law SB 1070 Bill (Did she even read it?), lied about the crime rates in AZ (even Janet Napolitano knows that all crimes rates went down), and now we find out that she is in the pockets of PRIVATE PRISONS who stand to benefit with the increase Federal jailing, and thus they will pay her back, I wonder if it has to do anything about the fact that her son was transferred to a brand new prison, he was convicted for rape and sexual assault, I guess the fruit does not fall far the tree.
“Private Prisons Lie”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMcgXxzcBeY
“AZ Crime Rates”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eb4mMk6XgQ
“Father Lie”
http://vodpod.com/watch/3771595-charles-krauthammer-rips-jan-brewer-for-lying-about-her-father-dying-in-ww2