Alex Jones is a loser. A pathetic and vile swine herder of conspiracy theories, hateful rhetoric, and horrid lies of all varieties. Alex Jones is in fifth gear while he’s on air and is always on a terrible tear of some kind - he’s nothing more than an ego-driven and narcissistic showman who just happens to be an incorrigible attention seeker.
He deserves no air time on the radio, TV, or even the Internet.
Alex Jones is best known for spewing his vitriol over the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, in which he claimed top Democratic officials were involved with a satanic child pornography ring centered around Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. This far-fetched and ridiculous set of “alternative facts" burgeoned in a plethora of online forums, and although Alex Jones cannot be blamed for starting this hoax, when this horrid farce became an infamous lie, Jones grabbed it and blew it into a national crisis. Pizzagate’s chitter-chatter and hysteria during and after the 2016 primaries and consequent election became a consummate false and misleading news item and it really took a foothold on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Later, Alex Jones apologized to the owner and workers of the Comet Ping Pong pizza joint for all the hype and hysteria he helped to create; but he said although he was going to give up the ghost on the Pizzagate controversy, he was going to go after real menaces who prey on children. But still, the followers and supporters of Alex Jones keep this Pizzagate conspiracy theory alive. On April 22, 2017, in fact, these pathetic losers posted a YouTube video with the hashtag #PIZZAGATE. The video is about a former northern Kentucky judge and an active Campbell County School Board member involved with alleged “sex trafficking". The local TV news story said nothing about Comet Ping Pong, Pizzagate, or anything having to do with this hideous conspiracy theory that was widely generated on InfoWars. The voice-over here — obviously produced and posted by minions of Alex Jones who are may indeed be on the InfoWars payroll - makes a claim that Alex Jones & Co. were an integral part of 70-year-old Timothy Nolan’s arrest. However, no mention in the News 9 broadcast gives Alex Jones & Co., or his batshit-crazy InfoWars credit for this arrest. It’s odd, too, that Judge Nolan has been a stalwart fixture in the Kentucky Republican Party and InfoWars has a proclivity to go after Democrats.
Although most who heard reports or read accounts of the weird and whacko Pizzagate scenarios probably thought it was nothing more than an outrageous farce, all it takes is one person who buys into such a lie — tax, title, and deed - and let’s just say, he’s a guy with some lethal firearms and plenty of ammo...And well, you have a very serious crisis situation. Anyhow, there was such a guy in the Pizzagate affair and his name is Edgar Maddison Welch. Mr. Welch decided to drop in the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria and “set matters straight.” And luckily, Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, N.C., was arrested on Dec. 4, 2016, after terrorizing customers of the restaurant. Thank goodness nobody was injured or killed by this man, who was wielding a very lethal AR-15 assault rifle and a revolver in what could have exploded into a very violent visit.
Welch admitted to authorities that he drove to Washington with three loaded weapons, responding to the baseless internet conspiracy that Comet Ping Pong was the epicenter of a child pornography ring run by Democrats.
Before leaving, prosecutors said, Edgar Maddison Welch sent this text to a friend: "Raiding a pedo ring, possible sacrificing the lives of a few for the lives of many," according to NBC News. Investigators say when Welch arrived at the restaurant, he went inside carrying an AR-15 rifle and a revolver, sending employees and customers running for their lives. When he found an door he couldn't open, he fired several shots into it. He also pointed the rifle at a restaurant employee.
Yes, Alex Jones is a very dangerous man. When the First Amendment is violated and farcically made a joke of, as this so-called “pundit" has been making a career of, and it skips right down and meshes and mixes in a very dysfunctional way with the Second Amendment, strange and peculiar things start happening. In the case of Comet Ping Pong, a heavily armed young man shows up like the pizzeria is in Dodge City, during the days of the wild, wild west. And yes, he’s very much ready and willing to play "Shoot 'em up, Cowboy!"
Other misleading and false news items Alex Jones is infamous for include his claims that the Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by al-Qaeda was an "inside job” honchoed by the United States government and that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax concocted by those hostile to the Second Amendment. Mr. Jones said Sandy Hook's carnage was a "false flag" attack created by the government and that "no one died" at Sandy Hook Elementary School - no, not at all, according to Jones. Sandy Hook was a video made by the government and the children that died didn't die at all; nope, they were only child actors playing a part in the film, according to sundry reports on the matter.
Some may think of this Jones creep as funny or cute. I don’t. We’re living in Trump World these days and we don’t need this guy with an outrageously loud and far-reaching megaphone cheering on Donald Trump through his pig pen of hogwashed jargon and mistruth. Giving Alex Jones a mic is the same as handing this man a WMD.
Yes, I hate right-wing conspiracy theorists but I hate left-wing conspiracy theorists even more. After all, they claim they’re on our side, these left-wing nutjobs, but they take away from a lot of what we’re all about. And they also chip away at our credence and respectability, making a skeptical viewing and reading public even more skeptical and critical of us all. Their spouting off an endless harangue of conspiracy theories and tacking them with “progressive” or “liberal" news is a slap in the face to us. We don’t need these idiots around. They aren’t journalists, they must rely on fake news or what the Trumpenfuhrer’s lady friend, Kellyanne Conway (or whatever she is to him) refers to as “alternative facts”. They undercut our efforts, stretch and sometimes even eclipse the truth, and create a hostile environment for much-needed fair and accurate journalism.
Alex Jones is such a pathetic waste, however, far, far on the right, and there may be an argument that could be made that he makes the progressive and liberal left look good. His online persona is so weirded-out, even revolting, his lies and conjectures so far-fetched and ridiculous that most people wouldn’t consider him a "newsman". Anyone with a bit of sanity and common sense would see this guy as nothing but a fruitcake. The rotten kind of fruitcake you get around this time of the year that was supposed to be delivered around Christmastime but it got lost in the mail shuffle somehow. So now it’s sitting in its box, smelling like an elephant in heat, and you’re wondering whether to throw it in the dumpster or call the fire department to have it inspected as a container carrying some sort of poisonous and highly lethal matter.
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InfoWars is a fake news site. There’s nothing wrong with Google blocking InfoWars because Alex Jones is a hideous fraud, and the way he’s always making up such egregious and outrageous lies, well, it can be argued that InfoWars deserves to be totally shut down. If Google and other Internet search engines and platforms do not give InfoWars any Internet space, it would not be a violation of the First Amendment. But where do the censorship police stop? That’s the big problem. And that’s the curse. But if viewers and listeners don’t call Alex Jones’ YouTube offerings up, if they don’t listen to his radio show, this would amount to the same thing in a healthy Constitutional way.
Alex Jones claims to be a satirist and an actor. Well, it should be clearly evident when Alex Jones is being satirical and when he is acting. There is no line of demarcation when this emotive nutjob is being an actor, a satirist, or when he’s trying to pontificate the news in his know-it-all, obnoxious way. After watching a countless number of Alex Jones’ InfoWars YouTube offerings, I have come to the conclusion that Alex Jones the emotic nutjob, the wanna-be newsman, the satirist, and the actor are thrown together like a bipolarized tossed salad of madness and mayhem. Yes, after watching and listening to hours of this nitwit blowhard’s YouTube videos in preparation of writing this article, I have come to the conclusion that Alex Jones has no way of articulating himself; that this Alex Jones animal uses the most profane language imaginable — because his own pathetic vocabulary is so dwarfed and miniscule - and that he Is a mean-spirited, perhaps even an evil and menacing force in the media. Let’s put it this way: Calling Alex Jones a political pundit would be like calling Donald Trump an esteemed statesman. It would be like calling Flo the Progressive Girl a Shakespearian actor. It would be like calling the Sheriff on Squidbillies a fearless lawman. It would be like calling Vanna White an emeritus professor of letters. It would be like calling Howard Stern an investigative reporter. It would be like calling the drunken guy at the end of the bar who’s spouting off about this, that, and the other, a sage and a philosopher….
To fully appreciate this vile vampire’s crudeness and profane vernacular, you really have to watch him in action here. I am not going to write what he says in this video. It’s far too vulgar and hideous to encapsulate in a news story. It’s clear that this pathetic waste of a man cannot articulate anything so he uses the most foul of language possible to try to enhance his argument. What that argument is, well, it’s really not so clear. By watching the video, though, the watcher and listener will come to realize, I think, that this horrid poser of a “pundit”, Alex Jones, disdains U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). There is even some talk and speculation that this nitwit hothead's banter and threats toward Schiff may indeed be deemed felonious and that Alex Jones, in all his red rage, may be arrested for felonies for what he said on InfoWars.
Unfortunately, however, this madman, this Alex Jones werewolf, will most likely never get into any real trouble since all his witless conspiracy-theory-driven hyperbole sort of, kind of, is good for the Trumpensteinian Monster who now inhabits the White House but spends most of his time on the golf course or at his private club in the Sunshine State, Mar-a-Lago. Just like Hannoi Hanna constantly bombarded our troops in Vietnam with her propaganda, Alex Jones is spewing the same sort of filth and lies right here, in Trump Land now.
So the best way we can all fight Alex Jones is just to shut him off. Don’t watch him. Don’t play into his sickness and madness. Let’s just totally ignore this troublemaking impaler of actual news, this incorrigible attention-seeking lunatic. And although Alex Jones claims to use satire as a tool in his thoughtless “meanderings” on-air, like all proliferators of fake news, it’s nearly impossible with Alex Jones to decipher where the fake news ends and the actual news begins. This is the earmark of a proliferator of fake news — real news has a bit of a place in it all, but the fake news windowdressing is so overflowing and stifling in this mess that real news loses all focus and importance. Yes, Alex Jones is a fake news artist, plain and simple as that — to call him a mere proponent of conspiracy theories would be a lie. He creates and flaunts fake news galore. That’s his main gig on air and online — he is a fake news proliferator.
Here’s how fake news works: You take a few snippets of actual news from the real world and dress it up in the trappings of totally far-fetched and peculiar “fake news” circumstances, surroundings, and situations. The lie created is so unbelievable that the watcher or listener is shocked by seeing the stuff and this victim of the propaganda thinks, “Man, that’s so weird that it has to be true.” Yes, this is fake news Alex Jones style. Bad stuff. Really bad stuff meant to sway and manipulate the masses. Sure it’s far-fetched, ridiculous, and even unbelievable, but that’s the key that makes fake news, Alex Jones’ style, so believable.
According to a writer, Edward L. Winston, who has made a case study of Alex Jones, “One of the things that makes discussing Alex Jones harder than discussing Zeitgeist is that he makes many vague statements and statements with blind sources -- such as "The UN is going to take over the world", without any discussion of how or why. I'll do my best to discuss all I can in the various articles related to him, and if I can't find the origin for a statement he makes, I'll say so and attempt to discuss his statement without any sources - I'll be sure to note I do not have any sources if that case comes up….One important issue I've found when researching Alex Jones is that he sees what he believes and not the other way around. Meaning he wants to see something so he sees it, instead of what's actually happening.”
And here’s what RationalWiki has to say about Alex Jones: “Alexander Emerick Jones (b. 1974—imminent FEMA takeover) is a batshit crazy radio entertainer who specializes in making up conspiracy theories to amuse his audience. He is the world's most powerful conspiracy pusher: his shows draw millions of views daily. Any time anything interesting happens anywhere on Earth, there's a 100% chance that Jones has found “proof" that it is either (1) a false flag operation by the New World Order (NWO) or (2) a "massive cover-up operation" run by the New World Order (NWO). No exceptions.”
“Like all good showmen, you must understand his early work to truly appreciate his art: Jones got his start in 1995 on Access TV in Austin, Texas. He first tasted the limelight with Y2K. And he was ready: grunting about the end of money, reporting on millions of deaths worldwide, and shilling for his survivalist’s shop called "The Hardware Store": (where he promoted sales of) guns, ammo, MREs...,” and 8-stage water filtration systems,” RationalWiki, a watchdog site for fake news proliferators and conspiracy theorists, and an affiliate of Wikipedia, posits.
RationalWiki continues, “And we all awoke on 01 January 2000 to... absolutely nothing. Most Texans assumed he was done. Then 9/11 swooped in and bailed the charlatan out. Then Obama became the antiChrist of choice. (Literally.) Then Trump became Jones' best pal. In short: Jones has been predicting the end of the world for 22 years. And it gets worse from there. Goat help us all.”
Well, I really don’t know who “Goat” is that RationalWiki refers to in the above passage, but according to a Roman Catholic priest that I knew growing up, the goat is the animal that takes center stage in Satanism and the worship of the devil. I think I’ll pass on this blessing. I really don’t want any help from the grand deceiver and the head guru who manipulates and spreads lies and other forms of deceit.
What Malcolm X said about still holds true today: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Well, a lot of what freaks like Alex Jones say on air and on digital footage fall into this category. But as liberals and progressives, we have the same sort of proliferators of conspiracy theories, fake news, and outright lies propagandizing and operating on our side of the fence, too. It is our obligation, as responsible citizens, to filter out the filth these so-called ‘news sites’, ‘editors', and ‘reporters' are offering to the reading and listening public. We cannot just focus our efforts on the right without clearing our side of the street, as well.
Especially paramount to this effort will be the fight for news rooted in reality and fact by progressive and liberal journalists. And please be aware that I am not advocating that the First Amendment be violated, but rather, those who hold the sanctity of the First Amendment near and dear must work in unison to call out proliferators of fake news on the left, even more so than those on the right. We cannot let these manure spreaders pollute the field of political reality. The times are too demanding and each passing news day too urgent to allow for this sort of propaganda and lying. We are living in the days of Donald Trump. It’s clear that he likes Alex Jones and Trump will tell his faithful things like “Watch Alex Jones since he offers real news. Don’t watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC or CBS since they are `fake news’ sites. Don’t read The New York Times...”
The most recent “occurrence” in the world of Alex Jones has to do with the radio personality’s custody battle over his children with his estrange wife, Kelly Rebecca Nichols, 48, with the trial expected to last for the next two weeks in Austin. Alex Jones lawyer makes the legal claim that Alex Jones should not be judged by his on-air “persona” since much of what Jones does is mere acting and this is not the “real” Alex Jones that the public sees when they watch or listen to his bombastic blowhardisms and verbal butcheries. The lawyers for Kelly Rebecca Nichols, however, maintain that Jones’ public outbursts suggest he is not a fit parent. Or, in other words, they’re playing devil’s advocate and saying the nutjob that Alex Jones is on air is the real Alex Jones.
I could care less what happens in this nutcase’s private life. But if a court of law in his current custody battle decides that Alex Jones is actually acting on his so-called news show, InfoWars, this means Mr. Jones is not a journalist at all, but an actor. And actors have no place in the world of journalism. And if the case ends up dictating that Jones isn’t acting at all, but the person you see and hear on InfoWars is the real-deal McCoy, well, there’s a lot to be said about this, too. Think about it.