New Brewer ad: The fundamentals

Is this cheesy? You bet. One doesn’t normally see frog sock-puppets in political commercials doing sing-alongs about the virtues of reading. Then again, one doesn’t usually see an outbreak of illiteracy at the highest levels of government. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer takes aim at Washington elites who leaped to criticize the state’s new immigration-enforcement law by using a children’s educational television approach to remind people to actually read something before opining on it. That way, critics can actually know what they’re talking about — and may just find that their criticisms are unfounded before they start sharing them with the world:

How hard is it for a bunch of lawyers to read a law before commenting on it?  In the Obama administration, apparently … impossible.  And that makes this a very sad little froggy.

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