Three days ago in Birtherism in Brewerstan, I covered Crazy Joe Arpaio’s attempt to resurrect the absurd Birther conspiracy theory. Spreading GOP lies may not be the only motive for this move. It has turned out to be a test for the financial gullibility of the sheeple in the InsaniTEA wing of the Republican Party. It’s fleecing time!

By his own account, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigation into the president’s birth certificate is far from over. But already, the supposedly volunteer investigator leading the sheriff’s probe is raking in a profit from it.

Michael Zullo, the investigator who took center stage at Arpaio’s news conference last week, has already co-authored an e-book about his investigation and is selling it for $9.99 on Amazon [Teabuggery delinked] and Barnes & Noble [Teabuggery delinked].

The book gives Zullo a financial motive to continue stoking the flames of a conspiracy theory that has been debunked numerous times by an array of independent investigations.

On Thursday, Arpaio and Zullo took to a podium in Phoenix to declare that after six months of investigating they believe the president’s birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery.

In doing so, they joined the ranks of a fringe group of writers and activists who generally believe Obama is ineligible to be president because they doubt he was truly born in the United States.

The pair stopped short of saying they believe the president is illegitimate, but Arpaio said repeatedly that the investigation is “not over.”

A day before the grand announcement, Zullo’s e-book quietly went up for sale online. It was first spotted on Friday by a journalist for Phoenix television station KTVK… [emphasis added]