Indicted Arizona senator steps in it again. This time with a pro-Hitler talk show host

One of Arizona’s indicted state legislators was banned from the Senate’s broadcast studio on Monday after using state equipment to link up with an antisemitic podcaster who doesn’t think Hitler was such a bad guy after all.

Yep, just another day at the Arizona Capitol.

Sen. Anthony Kern, R-potential felon, went on Stew Peters’ podcast last week to talk about the big story in the state.

To wit: “DRAG QUEENS INVADE AZ CAPITOL”

And by DRAG QUEENS INVADE, I’m guessing they meant the one drag king in a sparkly suit who read poems about being gay to roughly 20 adults in the basement of the Arizona House in an event billed as “Drag Story Hour”.

Anthony Kern railed about 'drag story hour'

Kern is one of several far right legislators who fell into foaming-at-the-mouth convulsions upon hearing that a person in drag had come to the Capitol, never mind that there was nothing even vaguely provocative about the adults-only event.

The following day, May 1, he used Senate equipment to go on Peters’ podcast. Curiously, when Peters mentioned (the non-existent) children present, Kern forgot to correct him.

He also didn’t respond to Peters’ monologue wherein Peters wondered whether House Speaker Ben Toma — who like Kern is running for Congress in the northwest Valley’s Congressional District 8 — is a “pedophile” given that the event occurred in the House.

Instead, Kern talked about the outrage of what amounted to a group of adults meeting in the House basement. Or, as Kern called it, a “perv show.”

“I said, ‘Hey, Arizona, this is where your tax dollars are going,’” Kern told Peters.

As opposed to, say, the outrage of using our tax dollars to appear on the show of a Holocaust denier who longs for the good old days of 1939 Germany?

Stew Peters doesn't hide his antisemitism

Peters is a longtime conspiracy theorist who doesn’t even try to hide his rampant antisemitism with coded language about “globalists” and such anymore.. Heck, the lead-in to his show with Kern depicted an Orthodox Jewish man holding the puppet strings of world leaders.

He says Nazi book burnings were “awesome” and Hitler was a “hero”.

None of which apparently was enough to disgust Kern, much less dissuade him from appearing on his show.

In addition to bashing drag queens, Kern used the occasion of his Senate-enabled appearance on Peters’ show to call on Christians to “rise up” and to point out that God appointed Donald Trump to be president.

"God is raising up Donald Trump and Anthony Kern and Stew Peters and people like us to shout," Kern told Peters.

Kern now claims he didn’t even know who Peters was before appearing on his show.

Then he went on a rant to Arizona Republic reporter Ray Stern on a topic popular with antisemites everywhere: George Soros. More specifically, about how the Jewish billionaire is at the center of a sinister plot to defeat Trump.

Kern gets booted for that, but not this

The Arizona Mirror’s Jerod MacDonald-Evoy reported on Kern’s appearance last week, prompting Senate President Warren Petersen on Monday to ban Kern from the Senate’s broadcast facilities.

“The Senate President does not approve of how the Senator chose to use the legislative broadcast resource last week, as a result, his privileges to use those resources for future interviews has been revoked,” the Senate said.

Meanwhile, Kern continues to have the privilege of chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee and making laws for the rest of us to follow. This, as he awaits trial on felony charges of fraud, forgery and conspiracy, having served as one of Arizona’s fake electors.

Yep, just another day at the Arizona Capitol.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Indicted Arizona senator in trouble again, now with a pro-Hitler host