Memories Pizza orchestrated this fiasco because they wanted the online donations

hotair.com ^ | April 3, 2015 | Allahpundit

[dennisw]

Best Trutherism ever. Nothing else comes close.

Or, alternate theory: The more excitable members of the left’s gay-marriage mob can’t cope with how this Two Minutes Hate for O’Connor and her business played out. So, as conspiracy theorists are wont to do, they’re reaching for an explanation that makes them feel better about it. What I can’t figure out is whether it’s malice or actually some vestigial pangs of remorse about the mob atmosphere that are driving the conspiracy.

Maybe they’re angry that the family hasn’t been utterly ruined for their thoughtcrime — or maybe on some level they think, but can’t bring themselves to admit, that people shouldn’t be ruined for politely dissenting from the new norm on gay marriage.

If O’Connor is some grifter mastermind who engineered this debacle for the money then there’s really no need to feel bad about the abuse she’s taken. She wanted it. She’s making bank off it. The left did her a big favor. In fact, I ran across three examples on Twitter in the past 24 hours of liberals insisting that some or all of the abuse O’Connor and her business have taken is actually the handiwork of homophobic right-wing mobys eager to drum up sympathy for her. The Truther theory is of a piece with that. At some point today, rest assured, O’Connor herself will be accused of trolling her own Yelp page.

Nah. They’re just bummed that she hasn’t been ruined. Cheer up, though: Per Rick Wilson, eventually some extra-virtuous SJW somewhere will end up shooting a gay-marriage opponent in the face for his sins. If you think the current Trutherism is zesty, wait ’til you see what it looks like after that.

[Star Traveler]

HOWEVER ... what I will say about this (even though I see very clearly that this Pizza place did not start all this) ... this will give some other scammers some IDEAS for how to create something in the future.

SO ... from here forward, be on guard for someone who might very well manufacture some fake situation in order to “drive” a funding campaign to support it!

I think the “cat is out of the bag” now and scammers see, now, how profitable this can be!

[dennisw]

SJW = social justice warrior >>>> meant as sarcasm. That SJWs are mindless zombies moving from cause to cause to the hot cause of the day

[dennisw]

Support Memories Pizza
WALKERTON, IN
$710,238 of $200k
Raised by 24,076 people in 1 day

donate here>>> http://www.gofundme.com/MemoriesPizza

[Bob]

My guess is that it’s a social justice warrior.

[Steely Tom]

I do not think these people are guilty of that..but who has a wedding reception at a Pizzeria. Maybe there isn’t much else in that town.

No, I'm not for a second thinking that the O'Connors are running any kind of a scam. I think they are totally sincere and above-board.

I'm worried about the GoFundMe crowd-funding campaign.

If the O'Connors get the money, great. That's why I contributed. It's just that there's no way to know if the money actually gets to them, at least not immediately.

If it is a scam, we'll know about within a day or two I'm certain.

[dennisw]

$710,238

[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

[OttawaFreeper]

Well, like Katie Hopkins in England, the left would want to take these people into Room 101 to torture them until they believe that 2+2=5 and that they are to serve gay weddings without question.

[a fool in paradise]

I do not think these people are guilty of that..but who has a wedding reception at a Pizzeria. Maybe there isn’t much else in that town.

Does Chuck E. Cheese serve bellinis?

[11th Commandment]

Haters! Every time you say these hateful things it just makes us donate more money.

[GeronL]

Somehow I think these leftists are just embarrassed about the fact that they look like a bunch of ravenous dogs following meat thrown out by the media.

[a fool in paradise]

Between the pizza delivery guy murder in NOLA and the public lynching of the pizzeria owner in Indiana, we need a new hashtag #PizzaPeopleMatter

[chris37]

Ooooh, the left is mad :DDDDDDDDDDDDD

[rhubarbk]

YUP!

[Billthedrill]

...but who has a wedding reception at a Pizzeria.

That's the funny part - nobody did. Nobody even asked. The question was a hypothetical one asked by a reporter named Alyssa Marino who was trolling for a story. Her story got in the hands of the Bigotry Brigade and the death threats started to pour in. The actual people involved haven't discriminated against anyone.

[GeronL]

lol

I very rarely ever even go to Twitter and I do not use hashtags as far as I remember

[Salvey]

I’m sure the reporterette who started this whole brouhaha will step forward to confirm that this was not a setup ~sarc.

[rhubarbk]

Let’s hope that it tops a $Million before the COB.

[stephenjohnbanker]

BUMP to 1 million.

[Steely Tom]

Now $723,375!

$13K in ten minutes!