Rants on the Right

This story about a New Hampshire Republican State Legislator Stella Tremblay.

Last Friday, Rep. Stella Tremblay, R-Auburn, posted the following comment on conservative pundit Glenn Beck's Facebook page:

"Just as you said would happen. Top Down, Bottom UP. The Boston Marathon was a Black Ops 'terrorist' attack. One suspect killed, the other one will be too before they even have a chance to speak. Drones and now 'terrorist' attacks by our own Government. Sad day, but a 'wake up' to all of us. First there was a 'suspect' then there wasn't."

From the New Hampshire Republican Party.

 "It is hard to believe that just days after the cowardly acts of terror took place in our backyard that Rep. Tremblay would thoroughly discredit herself with her bizarre, embarrassing and unfounded comments," said Matthew Slater, executive director, N.H. Republican State Committee. "New Hampshire Republicans strongly reject her outlandish views and believe that anybody who holds such bizarre beliefs should not be taken seriously."

Wired Magazine has a run-down on the fringe conspiracy theories

• The government wants to impose martial law.  Boston was the catalyst.
• world-spanning conspiracy of Michelle Obama, a network of Russian oligarchs, and an army of stagehands armed with fake blood. Oh, and deceased suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev? He was taken alive. Naked.
•  Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi, a student and Saudi national who was injured in the bombing is part of a wider Saudi plot, Michelle Obama again has a sinister part.
• “Uncle” Ruslan Tsarni, the suspects’ uncle, as a member of the conspiracy. Tsarni’s accomplices? “Halliburton executives, suspected CIA assets, Chechnyan crime bosses, oligarchs stealing billions from banks and laundering money with seeming impunity, fire-eaters, peacock-feathered stilt-walkers, and a girl swinging on a trapeze pouring vodka into ice sculptures shaped like naked male and female torsos,”.  It’s not clear what the swinging girl had to do with this. 

And finally, the Urban Legends folks at Snopes.com have a page devoted to debunking the lunacy.