ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
Starring Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann
In Buena Vista in central Colorado, colorful flyers with artful graphic design hang in shop windows, advertising summer festivals. Alongside, a smaller one promoted an event on Friday to “eliminate rigged machines” and “minimize fraud,” with Joe Oltmann, the Denver-area podcaster who claimed he had personal knowledge – and proof – that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Oltmann has never produced any evidence or a smoking gun. He’s just talk – much of it paranoid, hateful and violent.
Oltmann grips tightly this false narrative. Now, Oltmann and others are taking their show on the road in a grassroots effort to keep the lie alive in rural small town America, such as Buena Vista, population 2,988. His tour is a niche market for election deniers and, chances are, they’ll make their way to the Southwest.
