PHOENIX, AZ -- Calling it another attempt by the media to vilify him as an evil racist, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today says he is troubled by reporters who are drawing the conclusion that a murderous character in a film set for nationwide release this Friday, September 3, 2010, is actually modeled after Arpaio.
In a review of the upcoming film, ‘Machete’, The Hollywood Reporter’s online edition published a reporter’s comments about the film which included his belief that a character in the film who kills a pregnant Mexican woman to prevent her from giving birth in the U.S. is a facsimile of Sheriff Arpaio.
“There are certain reporters who take every chance they get to demean this Sheriff in any way possible,” Arpaio says. “I am quite sure that “Machete” producers did not have me in mind when they developed this character. But news reporters who disagree with my tactics on illegal immigration, willingly and irresponsibly publicly link me to a murderous, racist lawman characterized in this film as a means to further their own political viewpoints. I resent it.”
