Because you didn't think anything freakier than the presidential election was possible this year, I've got good news! Apparently people can go absolutely ape-s*** insane over weirdos dressed up in grease paint and wigs just as much as when they walk into a primary voting booth.
Brain-teaser: Which is easier? To manipulate the news media in this country? Or to be manipulated by the media? I don't know who made the brilliant decision to start covering the sightings of random creepy clowns as if it was serious news, and but I do know this: Once the media trendsetters do their thing, the rest follow like sheep. And I know this too: If it's being covered everywhere, you take it seriously. It's everywhere!
So here we are. The only thing that could make this bigger news now would be if we learned that Donald Trump gave a clown an eating disorder 20 years ago by telling him he was fat. Stand by for disburbing new details out of the Hillary campaign on that one. But in the meantime, you had to know it was only a matter of time before the bans started.