How to Deal With a 9/11 Truther Conspiracy Theorist (If You Must)

“Now, how would Hunter S. Thompson even know about such a substance [adrenochrome] or that you get it from Satanists? . . . They probably still do it, I would imagine. . . . High-level Illuminati and Satanists like to take DMT or other hallucinogens because they think they can communicate with entities in other dimensions . . . So it makes sense that these Illuminati, high-level Satanists would want to do that, since they’re ultimately questing after power . . .”
— Mark Dice of “The Resistance Manifesto”

This moron’s assertion that the late Hunter S. Thompson was the unofficial pornographer of the international conspiracy deserved an appropriate response:

Of course, they’re all in on it, you see? Hannity, O’Reilly, Limbaugh—conspirators sworn to maintain the secrecy of the powerful pederasts who RULE THE WORLD! And only Mark Dice is intelligent enough to penetrate their web of deceit and courageous enough to Tell America The Truth.

Read the rest of that. Apparently this dimwit Alex Jones wannabe is shrewd enough to understand one basic principle of journalism: You can’t libel the dead.

I pointed that out to Andy Warhol a few years ago during one of our Bohemian Grove get-togethers, while we were dining on raw human flesh and watching Ted Kennedy sodomize a goat . . .

Livestreaming from Southie

Here with the 73Wire crew live from South Boston until . . . well, midnight, at least. . . .

UPDATE 12:42 a.m.: I’m told that, with more than 1,300 unique visitors, this was the largest audience for a 73Wire livestream EVAH!

Thanks to all our readers and Twitter friends for making this such a huge success. It’s now Election Day in Massachusetts. Time for two famous words:

LET’S ROLL!

We’ll see you online throughout the day and will be live from Scott Brown HQ in downtown Boston tonight.

Polls, Robocalls, Snow, and Other Distractions in Massachusetts

FITCHBURG, Mass.
This afternoon, I was on the Ken Pittman show on WBSM in New Bedford and Fairhaven and the subject of the Tea Party movement came up. There can be no doubt that Tea Party activists — “far right teabaggers,” as Chuck Schumer calls them — are making a difference in Massachusetts. Think about that Vietnam veteran who drove 1,600 miles to volunteer for Brown — that’s the kind of people-powered activism that has energized the Scott Brown campaign.

Which kind of explains why I haven’t been sweating the polls the past few days. Who cares about polls, when I can talk to the people directly? Sunday at St. Anthony’s and on Huntington Avenue, I got a lot better feel for the trend of the campaign than Ross Douthat is ever going to get up there in his ivory tower.

We’ve had about a foot of snow here in Fitchburg today. There was another Scott Brown robocall here earlier today, with one of his daughters telling Da Tech Guy and his wife to make sure to vote, and just this very minute there was a live phone call with the same message. Obviously, the Brown GOTV operation is in high gear.

Speaking of high gear, Da Tech Guy and I have to hit the road for Boston to attend a pre-election meeting with bloggers and campaign operatives. Here are some photos to look at while we’re on the road. 

Local dead-tree media coverage of the campaign.

Sicilian tradition requires that Da Tech Guy celebrates his Instalanche with pizza and lambrusco.

Employing his trademark Sicilian hand gesture, Da Tech Guy interviews Vietnam veteran Randy May.

Inside the lobby of the posh Park Plaza hotel in downtown Boston, Election Night HQ for the Scott Brown campaign and potential site of the Tuesday Ace-a-Palooza.

Garrett Quinn of the Red Mass Group blog, who has promised to buy all the beer Tuesday night and recruit local blog groupies for Ace.

Massachusetts Democrats for Brown?

Believe me, I saw and heard this myself:

One elected Democratic official — although required by the state party to support Coakley publicly — privately admitted over the weekend that he will vote Tuesday for Brown, as will his wife.
Coakley was “mailing it in” on the senatorial campaign trail, the official said, relating how in his own election, he had gone door-to-door “seven days a week” soliciting votes. After winning the Dec. 8 Democratic primary, however, Coakley seemed to shift into neutral, expecting to coast easily to victory in the general election. . . .

That’s from my latest American Spectator column, “The Scott Heard ‘Round the World.”

David S. Bernstein: Progressive Genius!

In less than two weeks, when Massachusetts voters elect Martha Coakley to the US Senate — let’s not pretend that Republican state senator Scott Brown has any chance of pulling off the monumental upset — they will trigger a massive domino effect that has the state’s political class buzzing with anticipation.
— David S. Bernstein, Boston Phoenix, Jan. 8

How’s that Inevitable Triumph Of Coakley working out for you guys?

Riding the subway around the city Sunday, Da Tech Guy picked up the Phoenix, one of those predictable free “alternative” weekly papers that infests every big city. 

Bored on the train, I thumbed through it and laughed out loud when I turned to Page 8 and saw Bernstein’s idiotic prediction. Unfortunately, I threw away the Phoenix before thinking to check their astrology column:

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) – You will soon be re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano.

It’s destiny . . .

Michael Moynihan Doesn’t Link
Here Often Enough, But . . .

. . . that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person. The Reason magazine senior editor was at Northeastern University in Boston for the Obama-Coakley rally Sunday, and was amazed by the turnout of Scott Brown supporters outside Cabot Center:

Here are a few photos of the Brown supporters who lined Huntington Avenue in front of the Obama-Coakley event.

Libertarians? In Boston? Who knew?

Poster slogan of the year?

Somebody told them it was Rule 5 Sunday.

A Tea Party activist sports an Obama-as-Joker T-shirt.