Gov. Jan Brewer & Obama’s Heated Exchange on Phoenix Airport Tarmac, Plus Brewer’s Radio Interview (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 26, 2012
VIRAL! Heated exchange on the Phoenix Gateway Mesa airport tarmac with Gov. Jan Brewer & Pres. Obama
Note: For the life of me, I can’t disable the autostart feature of the radio interview below. Scroll down and pause it now, especially if you’re reading this at work. You have just a few seconds before the audio player launches.
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Gov. Jan Brewer spoke with Arizona’s 550 KFYI radio host Mike Broomhead soon after her tense, going-viral encounter on Wednesday with Pres. Barack Obama while standing on the tarmac at Phoenix Gateway Mesa Airport.
Broomhead ecstatically reported that positive emails were pouring in to the radio station from the show’s listeners about her now-nationally publicized heated encounter with the president.
Gov. Brewer said she had awaited the president’s arrival at the airport with the best of intentions, to reach out, but the exchange didn’t go as she had expected. She was taken aback and shocked by his attitude towards her and the serious problems Arizona has with illegal immigration at our southern border. Let’s not even get into Obama’s audacious federal lawsuit against the state for SB 1070, which mirrors the seven-decades-old federal illegal immigration law.
In the radio interview, Gov. Brewer made these observations about POTUS:
“He was somewhat thin-skinned and tense.”
“I thought we probably would’ve talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another. Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around.”
“We’ve got a border that needs to be secured.”
“He just doesn’t get it.”
Brewer gets it. And she rocks it.
Terrific interview. I love this woman. She’s a fighter for Arizona.
Here’s the KFYI radio interview with Gov. Brewer — apologies for the audio autostart:
It seems Obama’s (“snotty” and/or “dismissive”?) attitude was about the governor’s recent book, “Scorpions for Breakfast,” in which he reportedly had been offended by it because Gov. Brewer hadn’t been “very cordial” or some other whiny thing like that. Obama then abruptly walked away from her while she was in mid-sentence. He was fixated on her book, much like he behaved with Gov. Bobby Jindal in Louisiana following the BP oil spill — rather than discuss the state’s crisis, Obama was instead upset with and preoccupied with a letter that Gov. Jindal had written that wasn’t *gasp* flattering and fawning. The Whiner in Chief “was concerned about looking bad.”
Crikey.
From Washington Post, Obama tangles with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer over immigration book:
PHOENIX — President Obama is used to tangling with Republicans in Congress. On Wednesday, he sparred with one on a tarmac.
Arriving in this Southwestern city on the second stop of his post-State of the Union tour, Obama descended the stairs of Air Force One and was greeted by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who was among the local politicians waiting for him in a customary receiving line.
Such moments are designed photo ops designed to burnish the image of the president and the politicians. This time, it quickly turned into a dust-up in the desert.
Brewer attempted to hand Obama a letter, which she later told reporters was an invitation to sit down with her to discuss “Arizona’s comeback” and to tour the U.S.-Mexican border with her.
“I thought we probably would’ve talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another,” Brewer said later. “Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country.”
That’s when things went sour. Obama and Brewer engaged in what reporters described as an “intense exchange,” with the Republican governor pointing her finger at the president and the two appearing to talk over each other.
The exchange ended when Obama abruptly walked away as Brewer appeared to still be speaking, according to a summary provided by reporters in the press pool that shadows the president on his trips.
Jay Carney will probably be given the opportunity to distort what happened at tomorrow’s White House presser, so we’ll have to wait to get the Obama administration’s version of events.
Gov. Brewer tends to talk with her hands, so the frozen photo of her pointing her finger at Barack could be totally innocuous. Or not. There’s no audio of their conversation, so making assumptions are merely assumptions.
Much like the assumptions that could be easily made about this cringe-worthy photo from 2009 at the G8 hoop-dee-lah in Italy:
Was Pres. Barack Obama being a bit of a pervert, checking out a 16-year-old girl's bottom at the G8 summit in Italy in 2009? Sure looks like it, but photos out of context can be misleading
News report of the president’s Arizona visit — the conversation between Gov. Brewer and the president, however, is not captured, nor is there video of the occurrence, so the “finger wagging” can’t be viewed in context:
Reminder of the Gov. Jindal incident last year from The Weekly Standard — Being Obama, It’s all about him:
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig blew up last summer, Obama spent a lot of time on peripheral activities. As the rig was leaking in May, he sat for an interview about basketball with Marv Albert, toured the country promoting the stimulus, and met with Duke’s basketball team. During a memorial service for the workers killed on the oil rig, he was on his way to a fundraiser in California. When he did finally get down to Louisiana, the very first thing Obama did after he walked off the plane—literally—was put his arm around Gov. Bobby Jindal and take him aside. He did not want to talk about the spill in the Gulf. Jindal explains what followed in his book, Leadership and Crisis:
I was expecting words of concern about the oil spill, worry about the pending ecological disaster, and words of confidence about how the federal government was here to help. Or perhaps he was going to vent about BP’s slow response. But no, the president was upset about something else. And he wanted to talk about, well, food stamps. Actually, he wanted to talk about a letter that my administration had sent to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a day earlier.
The letter was rudimentary, bureaucratic, and ordinary. . . . We were simply asking the federal government to authorize food stamps for those who were now unemployed because of the oil spill. Governors regularly make these sorts of requests to the federal government when facing disaster.
But somehow, for some reason, President Obama had personalized this. And he was upset.
There was not a word about the oil spill. He was concerned about looking bad because of the letter. “Careful,” he said to me, “this is going to get bad for everyone.”
However, there are no photos on the Internet of Jindal pointing his finger in the president’s face.
Too bad.
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Vicki McClure Davidson
I'm a conservative frugalist. My priorities: Watchdogging the government, making sure our tax dollars are spent wisely, living within our budgets (at home and in Washington, DC), and adhering to our Constitution and the conservative principles upon which it was developed by our founding fathers. Also, loving God, my family, and my country. Be wise, be frugal. God bless America!Comments
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