Can this on-again, off-again trucker protest in D.C. get any fucking weirder than it already is? Yes, because anything is possible with speed. Despite one of the protest's organizers saying yesterday that the "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" rally was all a lie from the start, a rival organizer now says the protest is moving forward as planned. Oh, and President Obama is Osama bin Laden.
This morning, Louisiana news stationWAFB9 published an interview with protest co-organizer Zeeda Andrews, who said unequivocally that Truckers Ride for the Constitution is still happening. Andrews' remarks fly in direct opposition to those of Earl Conlon, who only yesterday told theWashington Post that the protest was all a hoax designed to get a rise out of "the mainstream media." Like the Hatfield-McCoy rift of old, there now exists in Truckers Ride for the Constitution warring factions, and Andrews says Conlon is a jumped-up pretender. "Earl has never been authorized as a spokesperson," Andrews told WAFB9. "As a matter of fact, he's not riding in the convoy."
In conjunction with Andrews' latest comments—and her recent Fox News appearances—Media Matters has put together a closer look the former country singer's political activism, which seems to be a nice mélange of right-wing shouting, Islamophobia, and crackpot conspiracy theorizing