John McCain's 'outrageous' Arizona fires explanation (illegal immigrants)

[steve2470]

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/john-mccains-outrageous-arizona-fires-explanation-105200810.html

The GOP senator claims illegal immigrants may have started Arizona's massive blaze, but his lack of evidence is drawing howls of protest and mockery

As the Wallow wildfire charbroils more than 500,000 acres of Arizona, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is blaming illegal immigrants. "There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally," McCain said Saturday, while declining to offer any such evidence. (Watch the video below.) Meanwhile, Randy Parraz, McCain's 2010 Democratic rival, accused McCain of recklessly fanning "the flames of intolerance" and U.S. Forest Service spokesman Tom Berglund insisted there's "absolutely" no evidence the fire was started by illegal immigrants. So what is McCain going on about?

McCain has hit a new "outrageous" low: Blaming undocumented Latinos for the fire, especially without any proof, isn't just the "most disgusting, reprehensible, and irresponsible" thing McCain has done in his career, says Stephen Lemons in the Phoenix New Times. It's also "patently racist." Just replace illegal immigrants with "'the Jews' or 'blacks,' and see how far that gets you before you receive a much-deserved smack in the jaw."

Don't dismiss the possibility of "illegal alien arsonists": McCain may not have produced proof, but it can't just be coincidence that "wildfires often occur along the invaders’ favorite routes," says Brenda Walker at VDARE. It's time we offered some rare kudos to the one-time immigration softie McCain for saying what the squeamish media is loath to admit.

[DesertFlower]

1. no one knows how this fire started.

someone could have thrown a lit cigarette from a car.

[JDPriestly]

2. Have they ruled out old fashioned lightening.

I used to work with a woman whose husband was in the forest service in Arizona. She told me that a lot of the forest fires there start from a random lightening bolt.

[DesertFlower]

3. that's true. i live in arizona.

we do get some amazing lightening bolts especially in the summer during the monsoon season.

[damntexdem]

5. No, it was more likely new-fangled lightning.

Old-fashioned lightning is so ... yesterday.

[TygrBright]

8. Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Service established that the source of the fire...

...was most likely human, probably an abandoned campfire.

http://www.kold.com/story/14900035/report-persons-of-interest-sought-in

helpfully,
Bright

[damntexdem]

4. And don't dismiss the possibility of Al Qaida terrorists, space alien invaders, ...

or Weiner's tweets.

Hey, maybe we shouldn't dismiss the possibility that it was Sen. McCain who started it.

;-)

[gratuitous]

6. Xenophobia: An old Arizona tradition

Didn't Jan Brewer conjure up the specter of illegals beheading folks in the desert as a rationale behind Arizona's version of the Nuremberg laws? Sure, there was a little problem with her narrative, in that except for the illegals and the beheadings it wasn't true, but the fact that substantial portions of Arizona are desert was sufficient to ensure Brewer's truthiness. McCain's just walking a well-worn trail trod by many who went before, including Barry Goldwater, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor.

[Whisp]

7. what a twisted ugly person McCain is.

:puke: