Title: Hot new liberal theory: Memories Pizza orchestrated this fiasco because they wanted the online donations Source:
HotAir URL Source:http://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/ ... y-wanted-the-online-donations/ Published:Apr 3, 2015 Author:Allahpundit Post Date:2015-04-03 17:41:35 by Tooconservative Keywords:pizza police Views:3676 Comments:33
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 OConnor. As usual, shes 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. Its 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. Shell retire by 40. Watch the clip below and youll see what I mean. No one as slick and comfortable on camera as OConnor is could have possibly stumbled innocently into this culture-war clusterfark. Shes the Gone Girl of religious liberty.
Or, alternate theory: The more excitable members of the lefts gay-marriage mob cant cope with how this Two Minutes Hate for OConnor and her business played out. So, as conspiracy theorists are wont to do, theyre reaching for an explanation that makes them feel better about it. What I cant figure out is whether its malice or actually some vestigial pangs of remorse about the mob atmosphere that are driving the conspiracy. Maybe theyre angry that the family hasnt been utterly ruined for their thoughtcrime or maybe on some level they think, but cant bring themselves to admit, that people shouldnt be ruined for politely dissenting from the new norm on gay marriage. If OConnor is some grifter mastermind who engineered this debacle for the money then theres really no need to feel bad about the abuse shes taken. She wanted it. Shes 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 OConnor 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, OConnor herself will be accused of trolling her own Yelp page.
Nah. Theyre just bummed that she hasnt 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.
#24. To: cranky, redleghunter, CZ82, TooConservative (#12)
THE perfect graphic.
Glad the pizzeria re-opened. But what's the Under/Over for a brick getting tossed thru the storefront? (I's handicap that number at 7 days.) OR, yet -- what are the Under/Over odds of another curious "request" for catering another Big Gay Wedding?