There are good Sheriffs in Arizona--like Sheriff Joe Apaio. Then there are dolts with badges who call themselves Sheriffs like Clarence Dupnik. Dupnik has made the worst decision of his life while expressing his opinion to the mainstream media on a case he is working. He blames Rush Limbaugh, not Jacob Loughner, for the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.
"The kind of rhetoric that flows from people like Rush Limbaugh, in my judgment he is irresponsible, uses partial information, sometimes wrong information," Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said today. "[Limbaugh] attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior in my opinion is not without consequences."
Last I looked, a sheriff is one of the last lines of defense against the federal government, which means he should be defending the First Amendment and keeping his mouth shut. Apparently, Dupnik needs his hearing aid checked, because he has ignored all the rhetoric from the left which went on for more than 24 hours before Rush even went on the air. All Rush was doing was responding to the vitriol the left produced in trying to push the blame from liberal pot head Loughner and move it to the right in faces like Sarah Palin. Of course neither Sarah Palin nor Rush Limbaugh had anything to do with this, and if Dupnik was a good investigative reporter, he would see that Loughner's favorite reading was Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, not See I Told You So.
Dupnik is obviously an idiot.