We already knew that Faux News regular and WorldNutDaily columnist Erik Rush was one of the more unhinged personalities in the wingnutosphere. This is a guy who has called for Democrats and journalists to be jailed for treason not once, but twice and demanded that Muslims be killed after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Well, Rush may very well have outdone himself last week on his streaming Internet radio show, "Full Contact." He claimed that Obama was so desperate to order strikes on Syria that he was ready to destroy the middle of Washington, D.C. with a nuclear weapon. As Rush tells it, when some elements of the Navy got wind of it, they were ready to storm into the White House and arrest Obama for treason. But when Obama found out that he was literally hours from being arrested, he somehow staged the Navy Yard shooting to stop it. No, this isn't snark--People for the American Way got a clip.
Rush claims that he learned about this via a site called "Press Core." I did some digging, and it turns out such a site actually does exist. It's a steaming pile of conspiracy theory and anti-"New World Order" claptrap operating out of Canada. By this site's account of the Navy Yard shooting, the Joint Chiefs had already ordered Obama's arrest, so Aaron Alexis was sent out to kill the high ranking officers who were on their way to arrest the president. All you need to know about this site's credibility is that it claims AIDS is a biological weapon concocted at the UN, the Sandy Hook and Boston Marathon tragedies were false flags, that the financial crisis was concocted by the Vatican and that Queen Elizabeth is a closet Catholic and therefore ineligible for the thrones of the UK and Commonwealth realms (including Canada).
What does it say about Faux News that one of its frequent contributors is a guy who actively trolls in CT?