The saga of Clayton Kelly -- blogger, citizen-journalist, and stalker of dementia patients -- has managed against all odds to get even weirder since they hauled Clayton off to the hoosegow for the crime of "exploiting a vulnerable adult," which, now that I think about it, is a charge that could have been lodged against Sarah Palin every time she campaigned in Mississippi with John McCain in 2008. First, we got our first shred of a motive, and we had to wade through the bones in Breitbart's Mausoleum Of Unemployables to find it. It appears that one of the lines of attack against incumbent Thad Cochran is that he's been keeping company with an aide while his wife has been living in a facility because of her early-onset dementia. So, I guess, what the citizen-journalist was trying to do is get video of Cochran's wife so that the charge against Cochran would look even more grotesque. This is ratfckery that would induce projectile vomiting in Gordon Liddy.

Of course, the campaign of Chris McDaniel, the Tea Party goober who is running against Cochran and who, therefore, would have been the beneficiary of this indecency, scrambled to distance itself from Clayton Kelly, Citizen Journalist. Except that the missus is having none of that.

Tara Kelly said she told her husband "it wouldn't be a good idea to

take pictures of this woman. ... If my grandmother were in there, I

wouldn't want someone taking her picture." But, she said, "Clayton thought this was the big scoop he needed to get his blog off the ground." Tara

Kelly and Camp said the 28-year-old Pearl resident went in to see Rose

Cochran at St. Catherine's Village in Madison like anyone else would.

Tara Kelly had a photo of the parking pass that Clayton Kelly obtained

and used on April 20 - Easter Sunday.

Easter freaking Sunday? Please let there be a hell.

"Now, here's where it gets tricky," Tara Kelly said. "The video was

up for about an hour and a half when Clayton received word, either

through Facebook or the phone, I'm not sure, that 'the big man,' meaning

Chris McDaniel, wanted it taken down. The exact words, I remember

Clayton told me, were 'the big man himself says take it down.' Clayton

was already going to take it down but did so at that time."

Camp,

however, said his client took down the video when the responses were

more about the photos of Rose Cochran than about the message of the

video. Tara Kelly said she and her husband both support McDaniel and "we've met him a couple of times, been to campaign events." But Kelly said some of the McDaniel campaign's initial responses about when it knew about her husband's video don't seem right.

Do continue.

"It seems they lied," Tara Kelly said. "They said they didn't know anything about it, then another guy says that they did."

This is nowhere near as strange as it's going to get.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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