Sandy Hook hoax? Newtown 'Truthers' video goes viral

Sandy Hook hoax theories have been persisting on the web, beginning right after the Newtown school shooting and gaining momentum as Americans.

On various websites and blogs, some Sandy Hook truthers crow about the “smoking gun” they say proves the shooting was a hoax — a photo of President Barack Obama, backstage at a Newtown vigil two days after the shooting, a young blonde girl sitting on

Yes, you're reading right: The so-called Sandy Hook "truthers" believe the murder of 20 children was a government plot to strip Americans of their guns, a way for Obama the dictator to consolidate his power. Or, alternately, it didn't happen at all

If you don't know what a Sandy Hook Truther is, take a moment to read Max Read of Gawker's illuminating look into their strange world. Basically, they are people who believe that the Sandy Hook shooting was actually some kind of elaborate hoax

The Sandy Hook Truther Movement, like so many conspiracy theories before it, weaves trivial details together to create a thin — but for some, believable — tale of fraud perpetrated to nefarious ends by the U.S. government. There's Emilie Parker, a 6