Snark, Critic and Pop!

If you’re like me, and I know I am, I usually wait for various celebrities to weigh in on news items and political elections before I make up my own mind. For example, I only voted for John McCain after Jon Voight told me it was a good idea. And my rabid support for the great communist politician who shuts down media he doesn’t like, Hugo Chavez, was after Sean Penn’s well thought out endorsement.

Enter Megadeth’s lead singer, Dave Mustaine. Megadeth is a band that plays some manner of music, I’m told. Mustaine uncorked the mother of all idiotic and unfounded conspiracy theories the other day. Various shootings around the country are being faked to pass a gun ban — it’s so obvious, why hadn’t I thought of it! Mustaine from the stage said that President Obama is “staging all of these murders, like the Fast and Furious thing down in the border, in Aurora, Colo. all the people that were killed there, and now the beautiful people in the Sikh temple.” Don’t believe it’s true. There’s video: