Hornendämmerung

Via AZCentral.

Sometimes you just look away for a second and they're gone! One of the blog's favorite conservative characters, Arizona attorney general Tom Horne, who just lost his primary yesterday, according to Ed Kilgore, and will presumably be passing at last through that semifinal revolving door to a consulting career:

Young Horne with the Man

Horne warming up for the Rachmaninov second piano concerto, from America's Own Espresso Pundit, who notes that "Rach II was Ayn Rand's favorite piece.  So it's a cult favorite among Conservatives..."

Did Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne really attend the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, as a fresh graduate of Mamaroneck High School, on August 28, 1963? He certainly enjoys saying he did:

I grew up in the civil rights era. In the summer of 1963, having just graduated from high school, I participated in the march on Washington, in which Martin Luther King gave his famous speech, that his son should be judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin. I have held onto this ideal in the face of subsequent fads: political correctness, identity politics, racial preferences, and "ethnic studies." (Letter to the editor, Arizona Republic, 2/3/2007)

Or then,

Mississippi gosh darn

Per Think Progress, the Tucson Unified School District must close down its Mexican-American Studies Program in keeping with the new state prohibition on ethnic studies in public schools:

 Insisting that the Mexican-American program taught Latino students “that they are oppressed by white people,” [state Attorney General Tom] Horne equated the program to the Jim Crow era. “It’s just like the old South, and it’s long past time that we prohibited it,” he said.

Hey, that explains the whole civil rights movement! It was all the fault of the teachers in those segregated schools--they told the black kids they were being oppressed! I mean, how else would they have been able to find out?

Oh, wait...