conspiracy-theories

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists Are in Love With Fall’s Hottest Benghazi Apparel

Ashley Feinberg · 09/03/15 10:12AM

Over the course of the past few years, the Benghazi “scandal” has evolved from tragedy to right-wing conspiracy theory to internet sensation to even more insane right-wing conspiracy theory, and everywhere in between. But nowhere has the Benghazi phenomenon been quite so prolific (and profitable) as it has on one of the internet’s most unlikely corners: The world of online custom apparel.

How a Sesame Street Illustrator Became the Truther Scene's Golden Boy

Ashley Feinberg · 07/15/15 10:43AM

Screaming children run from oversized vaccine death needles. Barack Obama shows off a handwritten birth certificate bearing the words “KENYA” and “FIRE ME.” Swastika-inscribed fluoride tanks empty themselves into lakes beneath a sky full of chemtrails. It’s every overblown conspiracy theorist’s nightmare, and there’s not a drop of irony in sight.