Right-wing conspiracy psycho Alex Jones thinks Michelle Obama killed Joan Rivers

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Jones is one of the most notorious homophobes-slash-transphobes on the radio — and this time he's outdone himself

You might’ve seen the cartoon floating around Twitter and Facebook. It’s a single-frame editorial cartoon by an artist named Ben Garrison, in which First Lady Michelle Obama is visually compared to Melania Trump. The First Lady is — get ready to laugh out loud — drawn as a man in drag, complete with masculine arms and a strategically placed crotch bulge. Trump is drawn like a pageant winner, with a long formal gown, white elbow-length gloves and a Miss America pose. The caption: “Make the First Lady great again.”

We’re not breaking any news by describing Garrison’s hackish strip as an unequivocally misogynistic and racist cartoon presented without satire or irony. It’s a horrendously unfair jab at the First Lady, who, by all reasonable and objective accounts, is stunningly attractive — especially for a 52-year-old mother of two under tremendous career pressure. In addition to being racist and misogynistic, the cartoon is also transphobic, suggesting that a transgender woman can’t be a “great” First Lady. (Michelle Obama isn’t trans, obviously, but the cartoonist thinks she is, and, in his mind, this somehow disqualifies her from being a great FLOTUS.)

For many years now, Alex Jones has been theorizing how the First Lady is transgender or, in some rants, simply a man who’s clandestinely disguised as a woman because President Obama, Jones says, is a closeted gay man.

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