Did Arizona Sheriff's Deputy Really Shoot Himself?

Since officially losing power in 2008, there have been no shortage of crazy right wing conspiracy theories and/or tall-tales used to justify their return to power and the policies they seek. In addition to wanting to repeal numerous Constitutional Amendments they feel burden their ideology, and wanting to reinstate Jim Crow laws to help guarantee their victory at the polls, right wing extremists Republicans have also seized upon immigration as a cause to garner their return to power.

Over the summer it was evil Mexican drug lords had invaded Texas and occupied ranches.  When that lie failed to stir up anti-immigrant hysteria and was without a doubt proven as a complete lie, the right wing moved onto other completely false stories.  Not to be outdone, incumbent Republican governor of Arizona stated publicly that raging Mexican aliens had been beheading people in the desert.  She later admitted she had no proof of that ever happening.

But the one that takes the Idiot Prize for fear mongering in hopes to advance Republican policy has to be Arizona sheriff's deputy Louie Puroll.

Puroll, being in full support of AZ's new immigration policy, used a story that he had been shot in the AZ desert while chasing illegal Mexican aliens who also happened to be smuggling drugs.  It's not that people are coming into this country illegally to do jobs Americans won't do.  It's that evil Mexicans are sneaking into this country to force drugs onto our youth to thwart America's future.  At least that's always the story from Republicans.

As it turns out Puroll's story was so questionable some local media enlisted expert help to collaborate his story.  Yeah, that doesn't prove so well for right wing moonbattery.  Suffice to say the Puroll case has been reopened.