Exclusive: Latinos Are Punch Line at Joe Arpaio Roast
The 澳彩开奖 has obtained exclusive audio of Saturday night鈥檚 roast of Maricopa County . The roast was the finale of last weekend鈥檚 at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Arizona State Rep. , a Republican from the Scottsdale area, had conservatives chortling with one joke after another about racial profiling, 鈥渞ounding up Hispanics鈥� and much more. For good measure, he mocked the controversy around SB 1062, the so-called religious freedom bill, taking a shot at Muslims in the process. And he mocked the appointed to oversee Sheriff Arpaio鈥檚 operations after a judge that his department engaged in racial profiling and illegal detentions of Latinos.
It鈥檚 not uncommon for roasters to push boundaries. People joke about things that might otherwise be off-limits 鈥� sex, old age and a person鈥檚 personality and appearance. This was different.
Kavanagh, who made headlines last year for trying to by transgender people, used Latinos as a punch line in one racist joke after another, and the crowd lapped it up. The jokes and laughter, caught in an unguarded moment, reveal why conservatives have such a difficult time connecting with Latinos 鈥� there is a fundamental lack of respect. :
Then he pivoted to an immigration joke, 鈥淪heriff Joe is the kind of guy that you gotta love. As long as you have papers.鈥�
Soon he was making light of the controversy around the 鈥渞eligious freedom鈥� bill , which would allow businesses to refuse service to gay and lesbian couples. Kavanagh, who the bill, dismissed the criticism with a joke at the expense of Muslims and Arpaio:
Now a lot of people claim that SB 1062 is gonna cause discrimination based upon religion in Arizona.
And I scoffed at that until tonight. When a Muslim waiter serving up here walked up to Sheriff Joe, wouldn't give him his dinner 'cause he said 'I don't serve swine.鈥�
The crowd reacted with some shock, but not about the Muslim remark. Arpaio covered his face with his napkin. Kavanagh quipped that it 鈥渨asn鈥檛 quite a burka.鈥�
Further along, Kavanagh made what could have just been a funny joke about Arpaio鈥檚 advanced age: 鈥淪heriff Joe served in the Spanish-American War.鈥� But he couldn鈥檛 resist taking it in a racist direction and making light of the racial profiling and unjustified detentions carried out by Arpaio鈥檚 department:
Oh, Korea? See, all these years I figured he was rounding up Hispanics because he had a grudge from the Spanish-American War.
So if you were in the Korean War, how come you鈥檙e not rounding up Asians?
And he just kept at it, saying that when he goes out to eat with Arpaio, 鈥渕ost of the waitstaff and cooks dive out the back window.鈥� 鈥淎nd when they don鈥檛, I never know what the hell鈥檚 in my food,鈥� he continued.
Later in his routine, Kavanagh dismissed the federal monitor overseeing Arpaio as 鈥渇ederal overreach鈥� resulting from a 鈥渒angaroo court.鈥� He said it was like 鈥済etting a detention in high school.鈥�
He seemed to strike a nerve when he directly asked the sheriff, 鈥淚s the federal monitor still gonna let you do them sweeps?鈥� 鈥淚鈥檒l respond to you when you get done, that鈥檚 enough,鈥� Arpaio responded dryly after a long pause. He then hinted that Kavanagh should wrap things up.
But Kavanagh got a show of support from the audience to continue and proceeded to joke about changes that the federal monitor would enact. 鈥淛ust to show you how unreasonable the federal monitor is,鈥� they鈥檙e demanding that 鈥渨hen Sheriff Joe sends his new deputies to the academy, he will no longer just train them to do the Miranda warning in Spanish, he will have to teach it in English too.鈥� And, he continued, 鈥渢he sign over the booking intake door in the jail will have to have 鈥榳elcome鈥� and just not 鈥榖ienvenido.鈥�
鈥淎nd with that, adios,鈥� Kavanagh concluded. Adios indeed. Conservatives can say goodbye to a growing voting bloc if they, like Kavanagh and Arpaio, continue to dehumanize immigrants and treat Latinos like second-class citizens.
