Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff famous for his tough stance on illegal immigration, appeared at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication's interview series for students and journalists Monday. He took questions for more than 40 minutes before open-borders advocates joined the event, singing over Sheriff Joe until he and interviewers left the stage, unable to quiet the crowd.
Roughly 48 minutes into the conversation, Sheriff Arpaio was cut short while talking about his stance on immigration by a group of protestors singing to the tune of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." After efforts to quell the crowd failed, Sheriff Arpaio and the panel of journalists interviewing him promptly removed their microphones and exited the stage of the First Amendment Forum. As soon as the protestors were exiting, Dean Christopher Callahan of the Cronkite School took to the stage in an attempt to calm the crowd. "I understand your passion about this issue," Callahan said, "But it seems to me, misplaced."
I'm sure, at any moment, network news will do three or four in-depth reports on the "rowdy," "disrespectful," "raucous," behavior of open-borders activists that is an imminent threat to the very existence of the Republic. After all, there's better evidence for that storyline than there is to justify the end-of-the-world coverage of town halls this summer. Flashback to the level-headed, non-violent protest of Columbia students against Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist in 2006: