Arizona’s Birtherpalooza Canceled Over Low Ticket Sales

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

Not even the promise of crooner Pat Boone singing oldies from a spinning stage could save what was intended to be the premier birther event of the year later this month in Arizona.

Organizers of the gala, which would have featured Boone alongside Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and some of the nation’s other prominent conspiracy theorists, broke the news online Friday that it was canceled “due to inadequate ticket sales.”

The Sept. 22 event was meant to bring together people from throughout the nation who believe Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake and therefore he is ineligible to be president. Organizers planned to use it to call on Congress to take up Arpaio’s yearlong investigation into the documents.

The announcement was disappointing to the few people who did plan to attend, as evidenced by a handful of web postings about the cancellation. It didn’t take long for true believers to spin elaborate conspiracy theories about why the event was called off.

One theory could be found on the Facebook page of Linda Bentley, an Arizona tea party activist who had been promoting the event. A visitor to her page wrote that it had been doomed because Arpaio was unwilling to take his probe even further and investigate the president for murder.

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[Jennicut]

1. Conspiracy theorists believe a conspiracy made the birther show be canceled.

Now that is hilarious.

[louis-t]

2. There are no words to describe this insanity.

[Roland99]

3. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

4. Orly Taitz must be heartbroken. Assuming she was invited.

n/t

[Hissyspit]

9. She probably wasn't. Too grounded in reality for these people.

[Ezlivin]

5. Birtherpalooza Aborted

To save the life of the nation.

[DippyDem]

6. Bwahaha ^this^ Now I hope someone gets creative and photoshop an image of this.

[RevStPatrick]

7. That's the funniest thing I've seen all day.

Just it's been a day just chock full of funny...

[Iliyah]

8. No Donald Trump?

Hell he alone could buy many tickets to the event and then bus the people there, y'know, like what Mittens does. Like that RW movie too and like the RW books. RW conservative groups buy in bulks so why not this?

[LynneSin]

10. Perhaps if they called it what it really was - a KKK rally

Then they might have gotten higher turnout.

[riverwalker]

11. maybe afraid Debbie Boone would sing

I hate that commercial for facelifts with Debbie Boone.

[oldsarge54]

12. Poor Babies

Birthers are proof that PT Barnum was right.

[ruffburr]

13. roflol

[relogic]

14. What a far-right tool

PB has become. He's a disgrace to the name Christian (if it has any meaning left). To be associated with the likes of the hate-filled, misuser-of-law-enforcement-power, bigot-Arpaio tells you so much about the condition of extremism in the USA moneyed church.

No one rides the wave of ancient celebrity-ship (of their youth) better than Pat Boone. He chose his sides a long time ago and doesn't further the cause of charitable humility with whom he purports to follow.

[Norbert]

15. I had a buddy tell me this summer that Pat Boone is cool

I told him he hasn't been cool since the Beatles were on Sullivan.

[A Simple Game]

16. He wouldn't have been cool even if Elvis hadn't been his main competition. n/t

[booley]

17. Even Superman hates Pat Boone

[freshwest]

18. So instead of the Kenyan Kommie killing Breitbart, it's gay lovers now? What dumbfuckery is this?

They need to stop mixing the meth and hillbilly heroin, bath salts or whatever they're on, right now!

[tabasco]

19. Why didn't the Koch Bros. pay to bus people in?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[BlueStreak]

20. Because it is too late.

The whole birther thing was just a way to try to get Obama disqualified. That obviously is not going to happen. He is going to be reelected and then he can't stand for election again, so there is no point in continuing the birther thing.

[Monk06]

21. After the election the birther movement will turn into the impeachement movement.. Count on it.

[NJCher]

23. that was my question

What's next? You just answered it.

Effing morons. Ooops, morans. There's never any insight--just the next sparkly thing.



Cher

[Rain Mcloud]

22. The funniest part is that the corporate sponsors A La Freedomwerkz

is still spending good money after bad here and taking it out of the 1%'s hands and placing that money maybe it could foresee ably create a job or two.
Ha Ha Ha,he who laughs last....................................
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