My Favorite Headlines from the NY Times of the Last Couple of Days

Pope's Butler Arrested in Leaks Investigation

 

The Debate at Cannes Rages (as Always): What to Boo?

 

Arizona’s Government by Crackpots

Ok, this isn't the headline from a news story; it's from an op-ed piece.

 As regards this last one, we learn that the Arizona Secretary of State, Ken Bennett, has backed off from his threat to keep Obama's name off the ballot unless Obama could prove to Bennett's satisfaction that he was born in Hawaii.  "If I embarrassed the state, I apologize," Bennett said.  By the way, he is also the co-chair of Romney's campaign in Arizona. 

I believe Bennett's original justification was not that he, personally, believes Obama is a Kenyan, but that several people had asked him to investigate.  Before he backed off from his ridiculous position, apparently 17,000 people signed an on-line petition requesting that Bennett investigate whether Mitt Romney is a unicorn.

In the meanwhile, everyone's favorite lunatic, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who even old-fashioned conservatives are going to have to finally admit is over the top, has sent a deputy to Hawaii to investigate:

 “We feel that document is a forgery,” he said of Obama’s long-form birth certificate, in an interview with the Republic. “We’re trying to figure out who did it. That’s good police work.”

 As the authors of this piece point out:

There’s no mystery what a nation run by the Tea Party and talk-radio zealots who’ve taken over the G.O.P. would look like. It would be Arizona.