And the Scalia "murder conspiracy" nuts are off and running

[Cyrano]

From today's Raw Story:

Conspiracy kooks shift into overdrive after learning Antonin Scalia was found dead with a pillow over his head.

It didn’t take long after news broke that Justice Antonin Scalia had died at a Texas hunting lodge before conspiracy theorists came to the “logical” conclusion that the 79-year-old jurist with health problems had been murdered.

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Even before My San Antonio reported that lodge owner John Poindexter said, “We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled,” people began speculating online that Scalia had been murdered.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/conspiracy-kooks-shift-into-overdrive-after-learning-antonin-scalia-was-found-dead-with-a-pillow-over-head/

If the next Supreme Court Justice is appointed by a Democrat, (Obama, or the Democrat who takes the oath of office next January), this latest "murder" will be a rallying point for the Republican Party. My guess is that for the next century, or so, the GOP will regard this as the "Ultimate Liberal Plot." They will resemble sharks in a feeding frenzy any time the issue is brought up.

[dorkzilla]

1. Kooks indeed

FWIW, I cannot sleep unless I have a pillow covering my head. It's been like this since I was a child; I think it's to shield my eyes from light and also muffles noise. My grandmother also had the same odd sleeping ritual.

So I sleep with a pillow over my head and I'm not de

[Orrex]

2. I confess that I misread the original story about how his body was found

Where it actually said "with a pillow over his head," I thought it read "crushed by the accumulated weight of three decades of raw evil inflicted upon the nation."

Silly me.

[dembotoz]

3. conspriacy theories are always fun til we remember that it would require a coordinated effort

and face it....dems are like herding cats to organize