By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--October 5, 2016
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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.The New Haven public school district has banned children from dressing up as clowns this year, decreeing them "symbols of terror," much like Nazis and SAT prep books. School officials made the decision on Monday, after photos and reports began circulating on social media about "creepy clowns," "armed clowns," and clown threats in parts of New Jersey and on Long Island. Apparently there were clown-related threats made against New Haven schools on Instagram, and the district has decided to take action. "Any incident in which a student is found with clown-like apparel or other costumes that are perceived to be threatening given this context will be handled on a case-by-case basis," Superintendent Garth Harries announced a press conference yesterday. Good thing there isn't a major holiday revolving around scary costumes this month... In Roselle Park, New Jersey, the police department has asked parents to refrain from dressing their children in clown costumes this Halloween. "Working with the police department and our own security team, we have no evidence that there is a credible threat to students or schools in the district," the department announced in a statement this week. The announcement came after a 13-year-old girl in Washington Township, NJ, was arrested for making clown threats on social media; a 14-year-old male student in the same township was arrested for making separate, but also clown-related, threats.
A 13-year-old girl in Philadelphia was pinpointed for making similar threats on social media earlier this week, and in Parsippany, NJ on Monday, a juvenile was spotted at a QuickChek wearing a clown mask and carrying a plastic machete. "It was determined that this was a misguided prank and no threat to the community exists," police announced in a statement. "No charges have been filed as of this release."Apparently we did have an incident here in the Detroit area that saw a boy "hurt" (whatever that means) by a clown with a knife. Proof that the threat is real, and that it's time to take our focus off ISIS so we can fight the real enemy? Or proof that the media reaps what it sows with all this nonsense? I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count. I hear there's proof on Hillary's e-mail server that Clinton Foundation accepted millions from Insane Clown Posse, and in return Hillary fast-tracked their visas for rendezvous with Putin over control of uranium and a sweetheart deal on oversized shoes. You can expect the details of that one from WikiLeaks any day now. Come to think of it, since this creepy clown thing started, has anyone really seen Julian Assange in public? Outside of InfoWars you're probably not going to get the truth on this. Only suckers believe the official story, you know.
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