-By Warner Todd Huston
The left loves to hate Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but one usually left-leaning TV host just announced her gratitude to the country’s toughest sheriff. Arpaio, Nancy Grace says, saved her life.
Grace hosts a little seen crime-themed show on the Headline News Network but during her August 5 broadcast she formally thanked Arpaio for arresting a stalker who was on his way to Georgia to do God knows what to Grace and her family.
“I want to personally thank Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona,” Grace said gravely. “I was apparently followed for four years by a bad New York man. He then repeatedly threatened my life. He was apprehended en route after quitting his job and selling all of his belongings. He was stopped thanks to Arpaio–stopped with a car loaded with guns, knives, handcuffs, zip ties, a police band radio and more. He could have ended my life. But more important, he could have harmed my children. Sheriff Arpaio, Detective Mackowitz, and New York officials, I want to thank you especially on behalf of my children.”
The East Valley Tribune reports that David Lee Simpson, 48, of Bath, N.Y was arrested after posting multiple death threats to Grace and her family.
The threats against Nancy Grace and Jane Velez-Mitchell, both hosts of shows on Turner Broadcasting’s HLN network, grew more serious June 12, the same day Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said he planned to try again to secure the death penalty for Arias.
County authorities said Simpson told them late Wednesday “he was on his way to Georgia to kill Nancy Grace.”
Simpson also told police he had “placed several pipe bombs in rural northern Pennsylvania.”
An Arizona grand jury indicted him July 18 on three felony counts of computer tampering and two counts of stalking, the paper said.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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