A typical story
Wired started
a recent article with this anecdote:
In mid-October I wandered
into a Trump field office in Youngstown, Ohio and met Coni Kessler, a
kind 75-year-old Youngstown native with penciled-on eyebrows and a Women
for Trump button on her Trump 2016 t-shirt. She sat me down in a chair
just beside her, and for more than an hour, explained why she detested
Hillary Clinton and was ecstatic to vote for Trump this year.
Clinton, she told me, is an atheist who wears an earpiece during
debates so billionaire George Soros can feed her talking points. The day
Clinton collapsed into the back of her van when she was sick with
pneumonia? According to Kessler, the Clintons hired a young actress to
run up and give Clinton a hug for a staged photo after the collapse.
Kessler also said she’d seen videos of Bill Clinton raping an underage
girl but that the video had mysteriously disappeared. She wondered why
no one was talking about Bill Clinton’s illegitimate, half-black son.
And she said that whenever she talks negatively about Clinton online,
“they”—presumably the technology overlords—shut her phone down.
At some point, I stopped Kessler to ask her where she’d gotten all these
stories, stories I knew were false Clinton conspiracy theories. Her
answer: “It was on my Facebook page.”
4 comments:
must be Katesy's mother!
Some people at such events often believe in weird stuff. I don't think she's the representative of the Republican Party that this article may wish to make her out to be.
Actually, Tim, the next paragraph of the article does note that she is "extreme", but argues that the "fringe" she does represent was bigger than the author realised.
So you can blame me for being unfair, more than the article :)
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