The Antics of Alex Jones

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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby mentalgongfu2 » Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:08 am

Jones rant was not unhinged. It was well coordinated. His "losing control" is clearly controlled and coordinated - Including the "when are we gonna go live - oh shit - we're already live?" pretend game. Anyone who still buys that part is too dumb to merit response. He's a lying piece of shit, and fuck him. But somehow he's managed to amass a clique of followers, which is the only reason to pay any attention to him at all - because apparently there are people who smell his bullshit and still sense roses. He wouldn't even be worth responding to otherwise.

I can hope he is sued into oblivion, but sadly, that will not deter the idiot army he has built at Infowars. I'm not sure how you can stop this kind of pernicious lying without stopping free speech. But I do know AJ's fake melodrama is where the rubber meets the road. Any perceived attack on him will be evidence to the true believers to make him a martyr. That's just the way these assholes play the game. The good guys don't always win. Does that justify the good guys getting bad? That's an ethical quandary for another thread.
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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby elfismiles » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:33 am

Alex Jones Breaks Up With Donald Trump Supercut Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBkQJ3OgZqs
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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby peartreed » Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:25 pm

It’s beguiling to behold a bellicose bigot buffoon blowhard broadcaster break up with a bromance buddy who bafflingly betrays the brain-washed boondoggle.

It’s less likely his leader saw the light than the liability lurking in looming legalities and legislation limiting his livelihood as the lunatic interloper elected by loons.

Judiciously, Jones has jumped the juggernaut of jackass jesters justifying judgment.
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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby vince » Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:21 pm

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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby elfismiles » Fri Apr 27, 2018 4:00 pm

Alex having dinner with Roger Stone and others ... including his wife who clearly wishes she weren't there / doesn't want to be on camera.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yci41nczhaU

Meanwhile ... Alex's X reading her OpEd circa Sept. 2017:

Alex Jones Ex, Kelly Jones' Statement on Fake News Daily Mail Article & Megyn Kelly
https://youtu.be/axYoGTR444Q?t=3m37s
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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat May 05, 2018 2:37 pm

‘I have no choice but to go on InfoWars’: Ex-Trump advisor says he is forced to ‘beg’ for money to cover $1 million legal tab
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A longtime political advisor to Donald Trump says he is facing $1 million in legal fees.

Roger Stone complained about the investigations into his conduct during a Friday interview with Fox News personality Tucker Carlson.
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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu May 10, 2018 1:41 pm

Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says

Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.

by Cassandra Pollock and Alex Samuels May 3, 2018 Updated: 2 PM

Operation Jade Helm 15, a military training exercise, began in the summer of 2015 in 12 Texas counties: Bastrop, Burleson, Brazos, Edwards, Howard, Hudspeth, Kimble, Martin, Marion, Real, Schleicher and Tom Green. It was also set to take place at Camp Bullis in San Antonio and Camp Swift in Bastrop County. Graphic by Todd Wiseman
A former director of the CIA and NSA said Wednesday that hysteria in Texas over a 2015 U.S. military training exercise called Jade Helm was fueled by Russians wanting to dominate “the information space,” and that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to send the Texas State Guard to monitor the operation gave them proof of the power of such misinformation campaigns.

Michael Hayden, speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe podcast, chalked up peoples’ fear over Jade Helm 15 to “Russian bots and the American alt-right media [that] convinced many Texans [Jade Helm] was an Obama plan to round up political dissidents.”

Abbott ordered the State Guard to monitor the federal exercise soon after news broke of the operation. Hayden said that move gave Russians the go-ahead to continue — and possibly expand — their efforts to spread fear.

“At that point, I’m figuring the Russians are saying, ‘We can go big time,’” Hayden said of Abbott's response. “At that point, I think they made the decision, ‘We’re going to play in the electoral process.’”

Jade Helm 15 was a planned military training exercise that became a fascination of conspiracy theorists before it even began. The exercise, which spanned several states, began in Texas in Bastrop County in 2015 and was described by federal officials as routine. But some conspiracy theorists speculated that the exercise was a covert effort to institute martial law. Hayden was not CIA director at this time.

Weeks before the exercise began, Abbott wrote a letter to the State Guard asking them to keep an eye on the operation so “Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.” In the letter, Abbott added that he had "the utmost respect for the deep patriotism of the brave men and women who put their lives on the line to fight for and defend our freedom."

Yet the move prompted significant criticism. Democrats questioned whether Abbott really trusted the military. Even some Republicans — including former Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst — spoke out in support of the exercise. Former state Rep. Todd Smith accused Abbott of "pandering to idiots."

“I think it’s okay to question your government — I do it on a pretty regular basis," former Gov. Rick Perry, who is now U.S. Energy Secretary, told reporters at the time. "The military's something else."

A spokesperson for Abbott did not immediately return The Texas Tribune’s request for comment Thursday, but Democrats are already seizing on Hayden's remarks to further criticize the governor for calling the State Guard to monitor the operation.

“It doesn’t take an intelligence expert to see that Trump Republican Greg Abbott calling the Texas National Guard on the U.S. Military was downright idiocy,” Manny Garcia, the deputy executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, said in a news release, misidentifying the Texas State Guard. “Abbott still owes the men and women of our armed forces, and every single Texan, an apology.”

Hayden was CIA director from 2006 to 2009. His allegation isn't the first one connecting Russian misinformation campaigns and Texas. Last year, federal lawmakers revealed a trove of information from ads purchased on Facebook, including ones showing that two Russian Facebook pages managed to organize dueling rallies in front of a Houston mosque in 2016.

Read related Tribune coverage:

A Russian Facebook page organized a protest in Texas. A different Russian page launched the counterprotest.

Abbott Defends Decision to Have State Guard Monitor Jade Helm 15

In Bastrop, Jade Helm Begins With a Whimper

Perry on Jade Helm: Military is "Quite Trustworthy"


https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03 ... rmer-cia-/




elfismiles » Thu Oct 27, 2016 2:17 pm wrote:
elfismiles » 13 Sep 2016 17:19 wrote:still can't believe he KEEPS GETTING CITED by presidential candidates...

Tim Kaine: Trump Campaign Is Incorporating Conspiracy Theorists Like Alex Jones (VIDEO)
Video ››› September 12, 2016 4:15 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
From the September 12 edition of CNN’s CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin:
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TIM KAINE (DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE): Hillary spoke in a very blunt way and called those views out. And the views need to be called out. They can't just be tolerated. They need to be called out. She said, OK, maybe I got the percentage wrong in terms of who is animated by these views, but it is very clear to all of us that the Trump campaign has given a platform -- you can call 'em whatever you want -- the alt-right movement or others, but when David Duke is doing robocalls saying vote for Donald Trump, and others who are kind of at the very fringe of the conspiracy movement, like Alex Jones, are being kind of incorporated into the campaign in ways or even the recent choices of campaign management -- this is something that is really important. And I think we do need to call it out. Because in a country that we believe should be characterized by respect, there are some views that can't just be -- you can't just be silent in the face of them. Silence in the face of views like this has caused huge problems in the past.


Tim Kaine: The Views of Alex Jones & the Alt-Right ‘Cannot Be Tolerated’ (VIDEO)
Hillary's VP appears to be unaware of the First Amendment
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http://www.infowars.com/tim-kaine-the-v ... tolerated/

Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine gave a speech in Dayton, Ohio during which he asserted that the views of Alex Jones and the ‘Alt-Right’ in general cannot be tolerated.

elfismiles » 26 Aug 2016 13:53 wrote:Can't stand watching PJ Watson but its amazing the coverage that AJ is getting this week: top front page of Drudge, mentioned by name in Hillary speech and by Jimmy Kimmel! :eeyaa


Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head
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By Jonathan Tilove - American-Statesman Staff 181
Updated: 3:16 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 | Posted: 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, 2016
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Alex Jones’s InfoWars broadcasts from Austin have influenced how Donald Trump has conducted his campaign.

Jones has been called out and condemned by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Trump confidant Roger Stone says that Jones is the “model of the future” for conservative broadcasting.

It sounds like the stuff of a paranoid conspiracy theory: A man operating from a state-of-the art studio in an undisclosed location in South Austin is exercising a kind of mind control over the Republican presidential candidate.

And that this gravel-throated prophet of doom — who has been preaching against the New World Order at the very top of his barrel-chested lungs nonstop for more than two decades to what has grown into a vast, subterranean national audience — might be playing a leading role in making this the weirdest presidential race ever.

But, as the 2016 campaign draws to a close, it’s becoming plain that Austin’s Alex Jones — a right-wing broadcast personality and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire who until recently flew under the mainstream radar — might as well be the voice in Donald Trump’s head.

Trump might have heeded little of what he was told by a succession of campaign advisers, but, if you want to know what Trump is going to do or say tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, just tune into what Alex Jones is saying on the radio and online today.

“It is surreal to talk about issues here on air and then word for word hear Trump say it two days later,” Jones said in August. “It is amazing.”
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
Protesters led by radio host Alex Jones, shown here, gathered outside the doors to the Texas Senate Gallery on May 25, ... read more

Jones was still pinching himself this month, what with the Clinton campaign last Sunday releasing a new video — “This is Alex Jones” on “Donald Trump’s disturbing admiration for fringe InfoWars radio host Alex Jones” — and President Barack Obama days earlier at a rally in Greensboro, N.C., replying to Jones’ assertion that he and Hillary Clinton were both demons who, Jones said he had it on good authority, smelled like sulfur.

“Ain’t that something?” said the president, giving his hand a sniff.

“I have to tell you, it’s surreal to realize that Alex Jones, little ol’ me, is one of the main points of opposition against these monsters,” Jones said on a recent broadcast.
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
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Roger Stone signs books after speaking at the annual Lee Harvey Oswald conference in Harahan, La., on Oct. 15. Stone, the ... read more

Hillary for Prison. That’s Alex Jones. Obama founded ISIS. That’s Jones. The election is rigged. Again from Jones. Hillary Clinton is at death’s doorstep. Jones. And only drugs keep her going. Jones. Bill Clinton as rapist and Hillary his enabling enforcer. Jones.

These are heady days for Jones, who, while taking classes at Austin Community College after graduating from Anderson High School in 1993, got involved with Austin public access television.

It was, wrote Patrick Beach in the American-Statesman in 1997, the “weirdest, wonderfulest public access I’ve ever seen,” and Jones was its “current star.”
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
On Oct. 4, Owen Shroyer, left, and Alex Jones, thought Julian Assange of WikiLeaks had sold out when he didn’t release ... read more

“He’s an absolutely riveting television presence, especially when he’s all wound up, which he usually is,” Beach wrote.

“An absolutely riveting television presence,” remains the sole such quote in his media press kit, the one that boasts of his now airing on more than 150 radio stations, of his InfoWars website’s 40 million monthly page views and 6.5 million monthly unique visitors, his half-billion YouTube views, 5 million monthly video views and 1 million monthly podcast downloads.

“He is Rush Limbaugh on steroids,” said Roger Stone, the Trump confidant who brought Trump and Jones together, referring not just to Jones’ persona but to a multiplatform reach that now dwarfs his radio and cable rivals.
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
On Oct. 14, Alex Jones is overcome by emotion as he responds to news reports that suggested that his global conspiracy ... read more

“Alex Jones is cutting edge. He has found the formula. This is the model of the future,” said Stone, who has in recent months emerged as Jones’ frequent guest and political wise man.

Stone saw how ripe Jones’ anti-globalist audience was for Trump’s nationalist appeal.

“The majority of them are under 50, and they are all engaged. They are part of this digital sharing economy. They are willing to get out on the streets and do stuff,” said Angelo Carusone, executive vice president of Media Matters for America, a not-for-profit progressive media watchdog group.
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
Alex Jones from his Austin Access TV show from July 25, 2001, when he predicted the U.S. would use Osama bin ... read more

“Even more so than people in the Fox News bubble or traditional right-wing radio, they are completely inoculated against the news media,” Carusone said of Jones’ following. “They don’t just think they’re all liberals. They think they are part of the globalist conspiracy run by potentially aliens and/or demons, and I’m not even being sarcastic because this is basically what the story line is.”

Jones didn’t make himself available to the Statesman for an interview.

‘Dark heart’
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
On Oct. 8, Alex Jones delivered a message to Donald Trump from above the Pennybacker Bridge in West Austin that the ... read more

Coming into the 2016 campaign, Jones’ fringe bona fides were still very much intact.

What few saw coming was a Republican presidential candidate with a weakness for conspiratorial thinking who prized the reporting of the National Enquirer and had his news consumption curated by Matt Drudge, who in the last five years switched his allegiance for political news of the weird from Glenn Beck to Jones.

“Drudge gave Jones a whole new audience and access to a whole new group of thought leaders, like Donald Trump,” Carusone said.
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
A rotoscoped version of Alex Jones appeared as a street prophet in Richard Linklater’s 2006 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s ... read more

It used to be that there were “two, three, four, five steps” between Jones spinning a conspiracy theory and it gaining broader traction. But now, Carusone said, “It’s not working its way up the food chain any more. Donald Trump is consuming it directly.”

In a major speech in Reno, Nev., at the end of August, Hillary Clinton condemned the influence of the “alt-right” on Trump’s “paranoid fever dreams.”

It is, she said, “what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He even said, and this really is just so disgusting, he even said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there. I don’t know what actually happens in somebody’s mind or how dark their heart must be, to say something like that.”
+Austin’s Alex Jones: The voice in Donald Trump’s head photo
From a video, “This is Alex Jones,” released Oct. 16 by the Hillary Clinton campaign, an image of Donald Trump’s appearance ... read more

For Clinton, it was the latest incarnation of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” that she has long seen as arrayed against her.

But, if the alt right is generally tarred as racist, Carusone said that doesn’t apply to Jones.

“He is not racist,” Carusone said, and unlike many others in the right-wing media, “he doesn’t peddle in racial anxieties. He just doesn’t.”

No matter, Jones wore proudly the “dark heart” Clinton pinned on him.

“When Hillary Clinton attacks him by name, she is only increasing his audience astronomically,” Stone said.

And, Stone said, “let’s go back to Stone’s Rules – the only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring. The guy’s never boring.”

Trump connection

Stone, who in 2013 wrote a book alleging that Lyndon B. Johnson killed John F. Kennedy, first met Jones in passing at a Kennedy assassination conference in Dallas. But he didn’t really get to know him until he appeared on Jones’ show last November while in Austin to talk at Brave New Books about “The Clintons’ War on Women,” written with Austin’s Robert Morrow.

On air with Jones, Stone offered to set up an interview with Trump, saying he thought they would hit it off.

The resulting December interview on Jones’ show was a little odd. Trump was a blurry, back-lit Big Brother from Trump Tower, talking about the need to increase domestic surveillance to fight terror, and bragging, “I’m the most militaristic person there is.”

Jones seemed a bit awestruck.

“My audience, 90 percent supports you,” Jones said, telling Trump that he had been brought along by Stone and Jones’ own 13-year-old son, Rex.

“I know now from top people that you actually are for real, and you understand you’re in danger, and you understand what you are doing is epic, it’s George Washington-level,” Jones told Trump.

But he still wanted Trump’s reassurance that he was not a Clinton “mole.”

“Your reputation is amazing,” Trump said. “I will not let you down. You will be very, very impressed, I hope. And I think we’ll be speaking a lot.”

Jones’ confidence in Trump was nourished by the enemies he made.

“I don’t like Trump because he patted me on the head,” Jones said recently. “I like Trump because the whole New World Order is against him.”

And there was Trump at the Republican presidential debate in Greenville, S.C., blaming President George W. Bush for 9/11.

It was 9/11 that defined Jones.

On July 25, 2001, Jones, who, at the time was still doing his cable TV show in Austin in addition to his syndicated radio show, claimed that the U.S. government was plotting a false flag terrorist attack in the United States that it would blame on the likes of Osama bin Laden as a pretext for domestic repression.

Less than two months later, Carusone said, “On 9/11, on that actual day, he started to attack the United States government.”

Some radio stations canceled Jones.

“He was just too hot,” Carusone said. “His ascent was totally blunted.”

But, Carusone said, “that set in motion the version of Alex Jones that Trump is heralding on the campaign trail.”

In the years since, Jones has built a web presence that could survive the loss of all his radio stations, and mostly bankrolls the operation with direct sales of his own products — from political paraphernalia to survivalist and health products, such as the one he swears by “that blocks the estrogen mimickers that feminize men.”

Unlike his rivals, Jones has no one to answer to.

“He was less accountable,” Carusone said. “It just makes all the difference in the world.”

Prophet with a bullhorn

Until Trump came along, Jones was, unlike his main competitors, never a partisan figure.

He was, said Carusone, more intuitive, more authentic, more consistent and more earnest. A true believer.

He was more or less the street prophet with the bullhorn he played (albeit rotoscoped) in a cameo in Richard Linklater’s 2006 film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novel, “A Scanner Darkly,” accosting authority, whether it was U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, Gov. George W. Bush or GOP strategist and Bush loyalist Karl Rove.

In 2000, documentary filmmaker Kevin Booth did a video compilation — “The Best of Alex Jones” — of some of his favorite moments of Jones confronting the world for its comic possibilities with an eye to interesting Hollywood in a reality series. (It ultimately morphed into the Jesse Ventura series “Conspiracy,” on which Jones appeared.)

There is the old footage of Jones in the 1990s driving into an Austin seat-belt checkpoint — what he characterizes as a Bill Clinton initiative.

“Hello Waffen SS,” Jones greets the cops. He mentions concentration camps being set up in California.

“I’ve been researching this for eight years,” Jones shouts out. “I’ve been laughed at. Now I’m on the front page of the Statesman.”

In 2004, Booth was with Jones in New York when Bush was renominated for president, in the anti-Bush camp.

“This latest twist, Alex for the first time backing a mainstream candidate, that’s what’s been so disorienting to me,” said Booth, who lives in the Hollywood Hills. “I’m trying to wrap my mind around it.”

“Alex has a magical ability to find his way into the center of these cyclones,” Booth said. “How much better promotion can you get than having the people running for president talking about you? How much better can it get than that?”

“I’ve actually lost friends over my friendship with Alex Jones,” Booth said. “He’s actually a very sensitive, intelligent, loyal kind of guy. Then that always leads people to ask me, ‘Does he really believe everything he says?’”

Booth’s answer: “He’s like Orson Welles doing the world is coming to an end broadcast. When you have to tell people the world is ending six times a week, five hours a day for 340 days, 20 years in a row, you know, you’re going to talk about Hillary smelling like sulfur.”

‘The bat signal’

To Jon Ronson, author of “The Elephant in the Room,” a new e-book on Jones’ involvement with Trump in the election, Jones is “a beat poet of paranoia.”

When Ronson, a Welsh journalist who has immersed himself in fringe politics, first encountered Jones 18 years ago, Jones was broadcasting from a child’s bedroom with choo-choo train wallpaper and a staff of three.

“Now,” writes Ronson, “more than 50 people worked for him in a huge industrial space housing three large television studios, four smaller ones, a vast warehouse for his products, and offices for social media people and nightly news reporters and graphic designers and IT people. I noticed quite a lot of diversity among Alex’s staff. This was not a white male enclave.”

When Ronson asked Jones how he communicates with Trump, Jones said, “I put out a video. A message to Trump, and then two days later he lays out the case. It’s like sending up the bat signal.”

On July 30, Jones posted an “extremely important message to Donald Trump,” in which he said that Clinton had stolen the Democratic nomination from Bernie Sanders and, “I want you to seriously think about making the issue of Hillary’s election fraud in the primaries one of the central issues to defeating her in November.”

Two days later, at a rally in Ohio, Trump declared that Clinton had “rigged” the primaries and, “I’m afraid the election’s going be rigged.”

As much as Ronson personally likes Jones, he is aghast at his influence on Trump.

“Donald Trump might be on the verge of becoming the leader of the free world, and it was incredible to discover that he takes Alex seriously — that Alex might be influencing him,” Ronson writes. “Alex is basically the most irresponsible man I have ever met. He uses his power to inflame paranoia. He boldly makes stuff up to suit his weird agenda. Alex eschews facts and reason, and he definitely should not have political sway.”

But, speaking at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 13, Obama placed Trump’s embrace of Jones in the context of a Republican political culture in Texas that last year indulged Jones’ fear-mongering that the Jade Helm 15 military training exercise, which took place in Bastrop County and other rural areas, was intended to be a clandestine federal takeover of Texas.

“This is in the swamp of crazy that has been fed over and over and over and over again,” Obama said

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas State Guard to monitor the exercise. The monitoring consisted of four to five guardsmen keeping tabs on the Army and giving Abbott daily reports that recapped military activities in the previous 24 hours and the schedule for the coming 72 hours, according to Abbott’s office.

An Abbott spokesman said after the two-month exercise has concluded that Jade Helm “operated on schedule and proceeded as planned.”

The second debate

Jones’ influence on Trump reached its apex with a speech the GOP nominee delivered Oct. 13 in West Palm Beach, Fla.

“Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors,” Trump said in language that seemed ripped straight from Jones.

But much of the coverage and reaction also suggested it was straight out of classic “Protocols of the Elder of Zion” anti-Semitism.

Jones vehemently denied the suggestion, saying both his grandfathers nearly lost their lives in World War II.

“I almost don’t exist because of World War II and the Nazis,” Jones said.

On the evening before the second presidential debate, it was a wrathful Jones sending the bat signal up for Trump: “I’m Alex Jones from InfoWars.com and I’ve got a message for Donald Trump — attack Hillary or drop out.”

Jones said the message was delivered from “a literal 400-foot cliff” above the Colorado River at Austin’s Pennybacker Bridge for a reason, the video spliced with images of lemmings racing off a cliff.

Whether or not Trump heard Jones’ message, he delivered the performance at the second debate that Jones demanded.

After the final debate Wednesday night, Jones, completing 13 hours of live InfoWars coverage, talked with Stone about how Clinton was on the run and about how his own audience numbers were through the roof in recent months.

Jones repeated his mantra that Trump’s internal polls show him winning in a landslide and that all those public polls you read about that show Clinton ahead were disinformation to make a Democratic theft of the election look plausible.

But then he said something that sounded new.

“If they steal it, we win,” Jones said. “Don’t freak out if they steal it folks. Maybe it’s not supposed to happen.”

“Go ahead and steal it, because it’s going to blow up like Mount St. Helens,” he said.

For Alex Jones, that sounds like something to look forward to.


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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby elfismiles » Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:35 am

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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:43 pm

Antics is far too kind for this blowhard, who by the way looks 20 years older than he claims and like he soaks in a daily bath of cholesterol and bile. Natural causes is going to drop him dead inside of four years 10 months, hope his ex-wife takes everything.

But where were we? Ah, yes right:

Meet the face of the Alex Jones that Alex Jones has always been: a motherfucking know-nothing hate-mongering fascist John Birch spewer, a self-obsessed youth-abusing everything-poisoning unhinged liar always longing for a spark of life to extinguish, a would-be destroyer of movements and earth and people, a humorless Type T (for Trump) personality. At heart, a species of mind rapist (not suggesting nor do I know if he'd qualify as a literal one -- he doesn't strike me as that type, maybe with a gun). Fuck this monster.

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What has he achieved? Note that Hannity (see Ocasio thread) actually reported truthfully on this socialist menace, not making up shit but attacking her for the things she actually says and supports. Jones has achieved that he is worse than Hannity! How is that even fucking possible?

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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby 82_28 » Sat Jun 30, 2018 7:30 am

It may be a very moot point among the choir, but "what has he achieved"? Everything. This time fate had us slated to live through for some reason, the absolute fucking worst time to be alive. (Just the rise of pseudoscience alone!!!)

NOW! Don't go crazy with that notion.

I say this that way because "nothing bad has happened to us yet". But, we are citizens of a fucking empire that still has some wilting and vanishing vagaries of those who came before us and fought for the rights for their fellows yet to come that we all "enjoy". Those "rights" now exist because we are non corrupt, honest, heartbroken on a fucking daily basis and honestly we are beginning to have no choice in matters. It's now the time to do everything in your power to preserve that is only a hair's breadth away from going away. All of the history we have learned, friendships made etc were all made and done for a reason. We are living that reason right now.

Sadly, allies need to be embraced right now with every fiber of your being. . .
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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby Spiro C. Thiery » Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:13 am

"Alex thinks I'm defendin' the New World Order because I don't think George Soros is Nazi."
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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby elfismiles » Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:02 pm

YouTube issues a new strike against Alex Jones’ channel over hate speech and child endangerment
The video site removed four of Jones’ videos on Tuesday
By Casey Newton@CaseyNewton Jul 25, 2018, 1:38pm EDT

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ YouTube channel received a strike on Tuesday for violating the site’s community guidelines, The Verge has learned. YouTube removed four videos from Jones’ channel, which has 2.4 million subscribers, that contained instances of hate speech and child endangerment, sources familiar with the matter said. YouTube channels are deleted if they get three strikes in a three-month period.

Two videos contained hate speech against Muslims, and a third contained hate speech against transgender people, sources said. A fourth showed Jones mocking a child who was pushed to the ground by an adult man, under the headline “How to prevent liberalism.” All four of the videos are currently posted on Infowars.

The offending videos do not include Jones’ threatening rant about Robert Mueller, which stirred a controversy earlier this week after it was posted on Facebook. That video does not appear to have been uploaded to YouTube.

A post on Infowars said the videos had been posted “in a news, documentary, scientific or artistic context.” The Verge reached out to Infowars for comment and will update this post if we hear back.

“We have longstanding policies against child endangerment and hate speech,” a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement. “We apply our policies consistently according to the content in the videos, regardless of the speaker or the channel. We also have a clear three-strikes policy and we terminate channels when they receive three strikes in three months.”
"“We have longstanding policies against child endangerment and hate speech.”"

The video showing the child being shoved was posted to dozens of channels and was removed in each instance, sources said.

Jones’ channel previously received a strike from YouTube in February after it promoted the false theory that survivors of the Parkland shooting were actually trained “crisis actors.” That violated YouTube’s policy against harassment and bullying. But strikes expire three months after they are issued, meaning Jones’ channel currently just has one strike against it, sources said.

While YouTube removed four videos, they were bundled together into a single strike due to a quirk in how the system manages violations. Creators are asked to acknowledge strikes the first time they log in following one of their videos being removed. If more than one video receives a strike, they can be “bundled” into a single violation.

The system was designed that way so creators can take action on other videos on their channel if they think they might violate the community guidelines, sources said. But as this case shows, the system can also ironically offer more protection to creators who violate the community guidelines multiple times within a short period. Had Jones’ channel posted these four videos at longer intervals, it very well could have been deleted from YouTube.

With an active strike against his account, Jones’ channel cannot broadcast live on YouTube for 90 days.

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Re: The Antics of Alex Jones

Postby elfismiles » Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:53 pm

Facebook suspends personal profile of InfoWars founder Alex Jones
by Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy July 27, 2018: 11:45 AM ET

Facebook suspended the personal profile of controversial InfoWars founder Alex Jones on Thursday, and removed four videos associated with his namesake page and that of InfoWars, a spokesperson for the social media company said.

"We received reports related to four different videos on the Pages that Infowars and Alex Jones maintain on Facebook," the spokesperson said in a statement provided to CNN. "We reviewed the content against our Community Standards and determined that it violates. All four videos have been removed from Facebook."

It was not immediately clear which videos Facebook removed, but the spokesperson said that the company's community standards "make it clear that we prohibit content that encourages physical harm [bullying], or attacks someone based on their religious affiliation or gender identity [hate speech]."

Jones had previously been sent a notice that he had violated Facebook's policies and that his personal profile would be subject to a 30-day suspension the next time he did so, the spokesperson said.

The suspension means that Jones cannot post content to his personal profile, or use it to post content to the Alex Jones and InfoWars pages.

However, Jones' personal profile remains online, as do the InfoWars and Alex Jones pages. The Facebook spokesperson said the pages were "close" to meeting the unspecified threshold of violations that would result in Facebook unpublishing the pages, but that for now the pages had not crossed that line.

As a result, the pages remain up and other administrators can still post content to them. As of Friday morning, content continued to be posted to both pages.

The Facebook spokesperson said that three of the four videos were reported to Facebook Wednesday. The other video was reported a month ago, but was not taken down at the time, the spokesperson added. The spokesperson said the company made a mistake when it initially reviewed the video and corrected it upon reviewing the content again.

Related: Facebook's rhetoric on misinformation doesn't match its actions

InfoWars is an organization notorious for spreading demonstrably false information and conspiracy theories on a host of issues, including suggesting that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, and that the September 11 terrorist attacks were an inside job orchestrated by the US government.

Facebook's action against InfoWars came one day after YouTube removed four videos posted by Jones. YouTube issued Jones a "strike," meaning he is unable to livestream content for three months.

CNN reported last week that the InfoWars Facebook page has skirted a number disciplinary measures that Facebook has in place to enforce its community guidelines.

Related: YouTube deletes four Alex Jones videos and gives him one strike

For weeks, Facebook has suffered a public relations crisis over how it handles misinformation and false news on its platform.

The trouble started for Facebook when it invited reporters earlier this month to its Manhattan offices to tout the various ways in which it combats misinformation. Asked by CNN how they can claim to be serious about tackling the problem of misinformation online while simultaneously allowing InfoWars to maintain a page with nearly one million followers, company executives struggled to provide an answer.

Last Wednesday, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attempted to explain Facebook's position on the matter, he gave new fuel to the controversy by saying he did not know if Holocaust deniers intended to deceive others when sharing Holocaust-denying material. Zuckerberg later walked back his comments.

Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that Alex Jones' personal profile was suspended for 30 days. Facebook's initial statement to CNN incorrectly suggested that the profile had only been given a notice warning of a possible future suspension.

CNNMoney (New York) First published July 26, 2018: 11:55 PM ET

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/26/media/ ... index.html
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