At the Bipartisan Report, Carissa House-Dunphy reports in Say What?! The Newest Obama Conspiracy Theory Is One You Have Got To See To Believe!:
The passing of Justice Scalia on February 13 brought out some very strange reactions among the GOP. Most notably, GOP leaders were especially quick to politicize their hero’s death. This was surprising, but not necessarily shocking. Most of us probably expected it but were annoyed and found it crass when it actually happened.
Some of us joked that crazy right-wingers would probably try to figure out a way to blame Obama for Justice Scalia’s death…but no one actually could have predicted the insanity of that conspiracy theory as it all went down.
Therein follow a series of tweets along the lines of "Scalia murdered by muslim group at isolated resort in Texas under unbrella of Obama secret police force."
Such speculation trickled down to the personal Facebook page of freshman Minnesota state representative Joshua Heintzeman, R-Nisswa who shared his grief and a Huffington Post article about Scalia's death with his online friends. We post the screengrab at the top of the post.
The third comment raised fears about Scalia's death and potential successor:
Mary Tuomi You wonder if it was a natural death... And you wonder if he will replace him with a Muslim...
George Selvestra Mary Tuomi, I doubt that Obaqma will get an apointment through the Senate.Noah Frederick Wright Looks like Sri Srinivasan (born in India) is going to be his pick. The longest appointment up to this point has been just under 150 days with a large scandal around it and Obama has roughly a year. I doubt the GOP would hold it up until the next president because it might make moderate voters lean left in the general elections.
George Selvestra Noah Frederick Wright The Senate Majrity leader has already stated that an Obama pick will likely not be approved.
To his credit, Heintzeman doesn't join in the discussion, although he has in past posts joined in with speculation about whether Black Lives Matter is a front organization controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood. He attended an anti-refugee resettlement presentation in Baxter by former California Minuteman Civil Defense Corps member Ron Branstner last month.
One of the commenters mentions Sri Srinivasan, widely reported to be on the top of President Obama's short list for nomination to the court Sri Srinivasan was confirmed as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuitby the Senate by a vote of 97–0 on May 23, 2013.
At his formal swearing-in ceremony in September 2013, he took the oath on the Hindu holy book Bhagavad Gita. He was born in India, but moved to Kansas in the last 1960s; his father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas, and his mother taught at the Kansas City Art Institute, according to Wikipedia.
Screengrab: Fear and loathing in the Brainerd Lakes area.
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Interesting that Sri took the oath with the Gita (aka Krishna's Counsel in the Time of War). I think the only conspiracy there is that Sri never took the time to read the full Mahabarata.
Posted by: Jonathan Marchand | Feb 17, 2016 at 11:01 AM