Did Governor Brewer even know what her “biography” said about the meeting with the President in 2010?
Posted by: Donna
Per WaPo Politics:
“He didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially” in the book, Brewer explained to reporters Wednesday. “I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt.”
A White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a private conversation, said that Obama told Brewer he would be happy to meet with her after receiving her invitation. However, the official added, Obama “did note that after their last meeting, a cordial discussion in the Oval Office, the governor inaccurately described the meeting in her book.”
The book is what the book is. The meeting is what the meeting was. The two don’t seem to agree.
Accounts of the June 2010 meeting on immigration between President Obama and Governor Brewer right after it happened are in accord with the White House official’s description. Here’s Tucson Sentinel reporter Dylan Smith’s report from June 3, 2010:
The media lead-up to Thursday’s meeting between Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Obama would have you believe that some sort of ultimate showdown was about to occur.
The Washington Post said that the pair “brace for a tense meeting.”
ABC called it a “face off.”
Over at Fox, it was a “showdown.”
“A very cordial discussion,” was how Brewer described the meeting afterward.
So much for a Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Two Tribes”-style throwdown over illegal immigration, then.
“We agreed to try to work together in order to find some solution” to border security issues, the Arizona governor said after the meeting.
But that doesn’t make for good hagiography slingin’, does it? That meeting was turned into a showdown in Scorpions for Breakfast and Jan Brewer was transformed into a cross between Gary Cooper and Penelope Pitstop.
“We sat down and started with some chitchat,” she writes. “But after a few minutes, the president’s tone got serious – and condescending.”
Brewer’s magnum opus was ghostwritten by Jessica Gavora, wingnut welfare recipient, who had distinguished herself prior to Scorpions by contributing a wingnutty essay about the horror of unmarried women to a collection of wingnut welfaristarian diatribes about threats to freedom.
Obviously Gavora, a writer with so prodigious a talent for right wing spin, wasn’t going to let a meeting between President Obama and Governor Brewer taking place at the height of the SB1070 hubbub escape with a mere “cordial” description. Oh no. It had to be so much more epic than that. It looks like Governor Brewer wasn’t prepared for the possibility of President Obama being briefed on Gavora’s embellished account of their meeting in 2010. Not that it will matter to her fans but it should matter to people who report on political matters here.
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Brewer is waiting for her book to come out on audio to “read” it. Of course her lips will still move.
Once again, Brewers paint by numbers approach to her Gooper philosophy catches up with her. “Consequences? Chuck, what does that word mean?”
Keepin’ it classy, wagging your finger at the President of the United States.
She’s an embarassment to the state.
Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww!
Gavora is married to Doughy Pantload?! And they’ve spawned?!
???? !!!!
Yuck! Who would let that thing…on..top…(stop it cat!)
“I felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude that he had, because I was there to welcome him,” she said.
The governor describes the final part of their exchange Wednesday as disrespectful towards her.
“I believe that when we were in the conversation, I was in the middle of a sentence and he walked away,” Brewer said
Brewer haz victim here! “He wuz rude too, so my rudness haz OK.”
Oops!
Mayor Scott Smith of Mesa, Ariz., declined to say exactly what he heard Obama and Brewer talk about during their now-infamous tiff next to Air Force One.
But the mayor said he was standing right next to the governor when the exchange took place and Obama didn’t seem to be in any kind of hurry to leave.
“There was no sense that he was running to or from anything,” Smith told TPM. In fact, he said, the president stayed and had a pleasant conversation with Smith, who’s a Republican, and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat
Brewer has officially jumped the shark.
I believe that if an elected official “writes” anything for profit, they should be required to read it before it is marketed. That way they will know what it is they said when called to account for it.