Can't blame them for being mad. This group had people running around wanting to kill reporters because they were allegedly eating babies.

Why wouldn't they do a set up?

Everyone take away his voice... He'll miss the spotlight... Shine the light in the corners you want - he may scurry to it, unless it's Twitter. Put him in a room full of people who really believe the actual lies and encourage him to keep putting his foot in his mouth... Then apologize and say you don't know what you were thinking.