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Hot new liberal theory: Memories Pizza orchestrated fiasco because they wanted the online donations
Hotair ^ | 04/03/2015 | AllahPundit

Posted on 04/03/2015 8:57:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Best Trutherism ever. Nothing else comes close.

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It adds up. ABC57 reporter Alyssa Marino walks through the door of the pizzeria during a Category Five news-storm over RFRA and asks, “Anyone here got a problem with catering gay weddings?” The pizzeria employees slink away, knowing what a “yes” would mean for their careers. But not Memories CEO Crystal O’Connor. As usual, she’s one step ahead of the game. Instantly she recognizes that if she says yes to Marino, the left will go apesh*t, flooding her business with crank calls, death threats, and nasty online reviews. The business will close temporarily. And then enraged conservatives will rally to her side, showering her with solidarity cash beyond her wildest small-town dreams. The GoFundMe take as I write this: $528,000 and counting. It’s a scam, engineered by an unassuming but quietly brilliant pizza-shop owner whose ability to anticipate partisan strikes and counterstrikes really should have her in charge of a Fortune 500 PR company. Coming soon: The Barbara Walters interview and then a bestselling book. She’ll retire by 40. Watch the clip below and you’ll see what I mean. No one as slick and comfortable on camera as O’Connor is could have possibly stumbled innocently into this culture-war clusterfark. She’s the “Gone Girl” of religious liberty.

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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Indiana; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; indiana; memoriespizza; mikepence; rfra; scottwalker; wisconsin
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To: mulligan

“Liberals are as evil as Muslims.”

Worse, and since they don’t wear head diapers or scarves, they are harder to pick out of a crowd, until they open their mouth.


21 posted on 04/03/2015 9:14:17 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: cripplecreek

I don’t have a “care/don’t care” meter on my iPad ... SO ... I don’t care ... LOL ...


22 posted on 04/03/2015 9:15:58 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: pepsionice

The reporter, unable to get a usable sound bite, asked a hypothetical question if they’d cater a gay wedding, they said no.

Ask the reporter where she came up with that question. Still not sure if the pizza would act as the cake or the meal...


23 posted on 04/03/2015 9:15:59 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Talk about a bunch of idiots. Its not like they called the TV station.


24 posted on 04/03/2015 9:17:32 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEALY CRUZ 2016)
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To: MrB

Yeah, the newsbabe is getting a cut of the haul!


25 posted on 04/03/2015 9:17:42 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: GilesB

Limbaugh is talking about the as he says “infobabe” from a small UHF station that setup the pizza owners. Saying the infobabe thought this was her ticket to the big networks....


26 posted on 04/03/2015 9:19:55 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: GilesB

Rush says the real story is that in 5 to 10 minutes thousands of “insane lunatics” wanted to burn the place down....


27 posted on 04/03/2015 9:20:56 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal Timeline

1. Overplay your hand
2. Have it blow up in your face
3. Blame somebody else


28 posted on 04/03/2015 9:22:45 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: kjam22

These are awfully violent people! And that’s getting to be a very real problem in our society ... way too many people indicating that they want to do violence on you, just because of a difference they have with you. This “violence aspect” is across the board, it seems!


29 posted on 04/03/2015 9:25:25 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: kjam22

The REAL story, according to Rush, is those “thousands of insane lunatics” were a handful folks with a robot algorithm that spewed out various messages, seemingly from different people.

Rush says he gets the same thing, and they have traced 80% the “reaction” to 12 or 15 individuals.

Astroturfing at its finest.

Oh - BTW - Rush also said that George Soros is funding some of the 12 to 15 people.


30 posted on 04/03/2015 9:30:20 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: Star Traveler

“These are awfully violent people!”

These are awful, violent people!

Fixed it for you.


31 posted on 04/03/2015 9:32:08 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: GilesB

I guess it works both ways ... :-) ...


32 posted on 04/03/2015 9:32:55 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: cripplecreek
This has nothing to do with gay marriage. This is about the hatred of Christianity.

White Christianity specifically. I'm curious what would happen if someone went into a black-owned business and asked them to cater a gay wedding?

33 posted on 04/03/2015 9:33:15 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: GilesB

Sounds like the pizza owners have taken sound tax advice. Invest the money back in the business so they don’t have to give it to the government....


34 posted on 04/03/2015 9:33:40 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: SeekAndFind

The fag Nazis appear to all be in need of a diaper change.


35 posted on 04/03/2015 9:34:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I want to be America's first, historical, male first lady." - Slick Willie)
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To: pepsionice

Being gay is what they do, not who they are.


36 posted on 04/03/2015 9:35:07 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: cripplecreek
Nobody here cares about your psychotic slobbering insanity over this.

No beating around the bush, now. Be direct, please. Say what you mean. ;-)

But seriously, now...I have to agree with you in that ST's efforts to protect the would-be donors to this particular cause from self-induced financial harm bordered on hysterical mania...almost as if he was mental patient who neglected to take his medicine.

What made the whole thing so comical was that here he was, screeching at the top of his voice about how this could be a scam, when one only needed about five minutes of investigation in the form of reading a couple of websites (which he himself apparently failed to do; otherwise, why all the panic) to determine that donating $10.00 or some similar amount presented essentially no risk to anyone so inclined.
37 posted on 04/03/2015 9:36:33 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Drew68

Crowder could have really confused the left if he had gone to middle eastern Christian owned bakeries in Dearborn.


38 posted on 04/03/2015 9:37:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Milton Miteybad

A couple of things here ... one is that all of people’s donations will NOT go to the Pizza place. And then the second thing is that I believe it’s preferred to always “go direct”. And then the third thing is that you can personally “guarantee” your funds, and 100% of it, by going direct and you never have to even be concerned if the middleman is a fraud (you don’t have to read a thing). Namely ... it’s a “methodology”.

One more thing on the “going direct” ... people give money to United Way and are not concerned about it being a scam, but there is still overhead for them handling your money, and even if you’re designating the donation to a particular recipient, money can still be shifted around so to actually get around your designation. If I see something worthwhile from United Way, I never go through them, but go direct! Then I know exactly what is happening, and that ALL my money is going to the recipient!


39 posted on 04/03/2015 9:54:52 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did you read the first entry? IOW the owners learned their lessons well from the lunatic libs.


40 posted on 04/03/2015 10:01:34 AM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
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