The Indiana Memories Pizza Fundraiser Is A Conservative Media Scam

[Skidmore]

Article needs to go viral.

By now, most of you have heard about the Indiana pizza shop that announced it would refuse to cater same-sex wedding ceremonies. I’m pretty sure most self-respecting gay couples wouldn’t serve pizza at their wedding receptions or rehearsals, but Memories Pizza went ahead and put their bigotry out there for everyone to know about it anyhow, and they promptly felt the collective wrath of the Internet.

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Not so fast. While the outrage toward their announcement was certainly legitimate, the GoFundMe campaign that was launched to support Memories Pizza and has currently raised over half a million dollars is about as genuine as a three dollar bill. Yesterday, Glenn Beck’s website The Blaze gushed over the fundraiser, calling it the “Greatest Thing I’ve Seen In Years” as their blogger Jason Howerton wrote.

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As you notice, The Blaze admits that the page was set up by Lawrence Jones, a contributor to their TV program anchored by Dana Loesch. Seems transparent enough, right? Not really. It’s already obvious that the campaign was started by an employee of The Blaze, but that’s not all there is to the story. Lawrence Jones isn’t just a contributor to The Blaze, Lawrence Jones is also a political operative who has worked with James O’Keefe from Project Veritas as an “investigator.” Yes, that James O’Keefe.

Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/the-indiana-memories-pizza-fundraiser-is-a-conservative-media-scam/

[malthaussen]

1. cave donator, I guess

Priceless.

-- Mal

[shraby]

2. Isn't taking money under false pretenses illegal? Seems someone has to pay the piper

on this if it's a scam.

[Rex]

3. Make ya wonder how they sleep at night and wake up the next day feeling good

about themselves.

[hifiguy]

4. What a surprise. I am shocked

that the reichwingers would scam people so blatantly.

[Sheepshank]

15. Extremist alarmist rightwingers, scamming other right wingers

I was just over at FR and they are all over themselves about how they were able to donate to the gofundme page for glory holy pizza shop people. How many libs are donating? The only people wrapped up in this are the baggers and other Christy fundy extremists.

Must be driving Rim Job insane since this donation thread is smack dab in the middle of his fund raising looking to raise $80K....and ya know there is only so much money to go around.

Good.

[hifiguy]

16. Oh, that is RICH. Conflicting with the Fweepers' fund-raising drive.

Gonna have to squeeze another couple months outta those dead-tired hamsters, Rim Job.

[Contrary1]

5. "the real victims are the over 1,700 people who’ve donated ..."

I wouldn't call them victims. P.T. Barnum case studies would be a more accurate description.

[hifiguy]

17. Every con man finds their mark eventually.

There are plenty of both to go around.

[yeoman6987]

6. Oh my God! Horrible!!!!

We need to find that journalist who went to the restaurant to find the bigots at the beginning. Maybe the reporter is from The Blaze or one of James O'Keefe's reporters. We need to investigate that reporter ASAP. Hopefully someone is doing that as we speak.

[PoliticAverse]

9. You could have just watched her TV report. She's a reporter for a TV station. n/t

[yeoman6987]

14. Oh....I get my news here exclusively.

Maybe the news person was conservative and set this in motion.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Is wrong to think the pizza dude and these operators might have been in cahoots from the get-go

Why am I thinking Astroturf?

[appalachiablue]

11. That occured to me when I thought about the lame interview in the pizzzeria, then the funds.

For people who live in a town of 2,000 how likely is it they'll be asked to cater a gay wedding, and how did the reporter know to go that town. Strange.

[DebbieCDC]

19. My thought exactly

When I first read about it I thought it was a scam set up by this pizzeria (with one star on Yelp before they outed themselves as gay bashers). The pizzeria maybe was going under. What better way to get attention and raise money from baggers than by flying your anti-rainbow flag on TV?

[tularetom]

26. Hey, it's a lot easier and safer than torching the place for the insurance $

It was probably going under anyway. Did you see all the religious crapola they had on the walls? Nobody wants to eat pizza in a joint that looks like a combination of a church and a Hallmark store.

[MerryBlooms]

8. There's really no low too low, is there? Putrid.

[hifiguy]

18. At the rate the reichwingers are digging they will

pop out in Tasmania sometime this summer.

[MerryBlooms]

20. .

[pintobean]

10. How does that make it a scam?

A young black conservative set up the GoFundMe page for the pizza shop owners. His ties to the Blaze and O’Keefe don't make it a scam. This accusation seems way too complicated to be realistic.

[BojackFan]

21. An employee at some news station made an allegation

http://www.mediacircus.com/2015/04/alix-bryan-of-cbs-files-fraud-on-memories-pizza-gofundme-page/

And to see how this was received, go to this person's twitter page.

[pintobean]

22. "He or she is actually bragging about filing the false fraud report on Twitter"

[BojackFan]

24. Apologize for the source. n/t

[onenote]

12. I think the people who donated are idiots, but I don't see how its a scam

It would be a scam if the money wasn't going to the pizza shop folks as those donating intend.
And it would be a scam if the pizza shop hadn't, in fact, "felt the collective wrath of the Internet" as the article indicates and as many people (me included) thought was great when it happened.

It's just stupid people supporting stupid people.

[sheshe2]

13. KnR

[Jester Messiah]

23. You know what they say about fools and their money.

They were lucky to get together in the first place.

[alcina]

25. They're now close to $1 million

http://mic.com/articles/114560/that-anti-gay-pizza-place-in-indiana-made-almost-a-million-bucks-off-homophobia

Those good Christians sure could feed a lot of poor people with that kind of money. Can't help but wonder WWJD?