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Fox Gives Sheriff Joe Arpaio His Own Show

By Jeralyn

pobject width="350" height="275"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KGx4ke9eeBoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1;showsearch=0"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KGx4ke9eeBoamp;hl=enamp;fs=1;showsearch=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" showsearch="0" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="275"/embed/object/p pMaricopa County (Phoenix, AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who instituted such ridiculous shaming punishments as forcing male inmates a href="http://www.pww.org/article/view/4786/1/202/"to wear pink underwear/a, making juveniles a href="http://www.talkleft.com/story/2002/07/31/615/30272"serve on chain gangs and bury the dead/a, and requiring inmates to a href="http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/27/tough.sheriff/"sleep in tents/a, and who is the subject of a class action suit by the span class="caps"ACLU /spana href="http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/7/17/12731/7708"for racial profiling/a of latinos in an effort to enforce federal immigration laws, is being given his own tv show on the Fox Reality Channel. /p pThe show is called "a href="http://www.foxreality.com/show.php?storyid=83242"Smile, You#39;re Under Arrest/a". [More...]/p pThe video above is by a group calleda href="http://www.americasvoiceonline.org/" America#39;s Voice./a Watch the video and sign the petition./p pThis takes reality programming to a new low. /p pAll of our Sheriff Arpaio coverage is available a href="http://www.talkleft.com/search?string=arpaio"here/a./pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=7J6TRRvP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=o1B1D6kY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=x22dwbjg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?i=x22dwbjg" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=zZoRbUPE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=gN8qKQ8y"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=52" border="0"/img/a /div

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).