Can't a Utah Republican open his or her mouth without being offensive?Utah's Attorney General Mark Shurtleff flew to Vegas to speak as a surrogate for Sen. John McCain at the Clark County GOP convention. Shurtleff and Gov. Jon Huntsman were early and steady McCain supporters in a state that went overwhelmingly for Romney.
To rev up the crowd of 3,000, Shurtleff launched into some parisan stand-up that included ridiculing Democratic candidates' names:
"Barack or Hillary -- my apologies to the Baracks or Hillarys in the audience, but even their names sound liberal," Shurtleff said.Cheered on by the crowd, Shurtleff lambasted Hillary Clinton's TV spot that asks who has the experience to handle a crisis:
"When Hillary gets the call at 3 a.m., the call is, 'Do you know where your husband is?'"Haha.
Then, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Shurtleff pointedly referred to Barack Obama's parentage:"Obama's fathers — one was African, one was Indonesian," said Utah's attorney general.
(It's no secret. Obama's biological father was a Kenyan. His mother's second husband was Indonesian.)
OK. Here's my question for Shurtleff: The first two jokes were just lame — but what was the point of the last comment? That Obama is African-American? That he's got Asian roots? Or that he grew up in contact with a non-mainstream religion? (Remember, Shurtleff is Mormon.)
If I recall, Shurtleff was the go-between in trying to straighten out the dust up between Sen. Chris Buttars and the NAACP. No wonder that was never resolved.
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Hey, it always could be much worse. For a bone chilling example, take Kansas' former AG, Phil Kline. This article talks about his latest exploits.
http://www.pitch.com/2007-06-21/news/the-dimwit-d-a/full
Shurtleff is taking too many pain pills.
Why didn't he do his job when Brother Lewis, our last county commissioner, got $500K out of our school district to defraud 600 other school districts out of a total of around $114M?
Both Lewis and his son were convicted in Minnesota and sentenced on 40 counts of bank fraud and money laundering. Part of their sentence was to repay $39M in restitution.
Where's the money Mark?
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595075741,00.html
I love when guys like Shurtleff get out on the road somewhere, then let loose with whatever slam they like. They think, what, that no one back in the home town will get wind of it? Or they simply don't care. What a passive-aggressive person he is.
And then along comes Jean Hill. The "terminated" becoming the "terminator." The karma contest.
These comments betray a dark side to the AG. Dark and ugly and black. Man those babies were dark,black and ugly. How could he make such comments. He could be black mailed over this. This is a black mark on the state of utah.
talking about o-dogs parents. Where is Free Speech Janetta Williams and the NAACP when you need them.
Ths is a grat opportunity for the sl trib and channel 4 to launch a new media lynching, thhis time against shurtleff.
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