What started out on Sunday as random, kooky claims that President Obama was responsible for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death has now become an all-out outburst of conspiracy theories featuring a bizarre list of suspects.
With the encouragement of the Drudge Report, the fake stories behind Scalia’s demise claim that he was murdered at the direction of Dick Cheney, or Mr. Spock (the late Leonard Nimoy) or Bill and Hillary Clinton. The justifications for these silly allegations are not worth explaining. But one phony claim takes the rumors to the next level by combining two conspiracy theories: The Bush family offed the SCOTUS justice because he was about to expose George W’s involvement in bringing down the World Trade Center.
Caught up in all this nonsense is the owner of the Texas ranch where Scalia died, apparently of a heart attack. John Poindexter offered the right-wing websites all the juice they needed when he told the media that Scalia died in his sleep with a pillow over his head.
Here is the Gateway Pundit’s headline: “Justice Scalia Found Dead WITH PILLOW OVER HIS HEAD at Ranch Owned by Obama Award Winner.”
What was in an Obama Award? Well, there’s no such thing. So, what’s that headline all about? Poindexter was saluted by Obama with a Presidential Unit Citation in a 2009 White House ceremony for securing the Silver Stars and Bronze Stars earned by his fellow soldiers in Vietnam for pulling off a daring rescue of 100 Army troops.
