Arizona GOPer mistakes YMCA kids for undocumented children

Discussion in 'Politics' started by dbphoenix, Jul 16, 2014.

  1. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Before realizing his mistake, the candidate told a reporter he saw "the fear" on the faces...of YMCA campers more . . .
     
  2. Here you go.


    A Republican running for Congress in Arizona snapped a photo of a passing school bus full of children on Tuesday near a housing facility for undocumented minors. He posted the picture to Twitter with a stern warning to his followers: "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law."

    Adam Kwasman later spoke with a local reporter and described seeing "the fear" in the children's faces, urging authorities to abide by the law and enforce the border against the influx of child immigrants crossing into the United States.

    But there was a problem with Kwasman's story. The school bus was carrying local children on the way to a YMCA camp not far from the migrant shelter. A reporter at the scene said he saw the children laughing and taking pictures with their iPhones.

    In an awkward interview caught on camera, Kwasman offered what could possibly be the fastest political walk-back in history.

    "Do you know that was a bus with YMCA kids?" 12 News reporter Will Pitts asked.

    "They were sad, too," Kwasman responded. "OK I apologize. I didn't know. I was leaving when I saw them. People are not happy down the line. That was an error by me."

    "Those were not migrant children. That's fine," he added. "It was a mistake. That was a mistake. That was not correct and that's a mistake."

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/adam-kwasman_n_5591090.html
     
  3. Ricter

    Ricter

    Lol!

    "Before an Arizona television reporter was able to inform Kwasman of his considerable error, however, the candidate seized the opportunity to wax indignantly and self-righteously in front of the camera about how he “was actually able to see some of the children in the buses” and how he could see “fear on their faces.”

    “This is not compassion,” he solemnly intoned."
     
  4. foolish man.
     
  5. Ricter

    Ricter

    He's all fired up with ideology. That short circuits patience and judgement.