Posted on 08/12/2018 2:51:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Alex Jones — conspiracy peddler, provocateur, Texan — lost easy access to millions upon millions of followers this week when Facebook, YouTube, Apple and Spotify banned much, if not all, of his content.
Thinking of Jones’ empire — built on provably false theories and predictably wrong predictions — I wondered about those followers.
Who are they? What brings them to his pages? Why do they seem willing to accept fantasy and conjecture over fact? Do they, as Jones’ lawyers have suggested, think the whole thing is a bit for entertainment? Would they tell me — a longtime member of the mainstream media? Would they just scream at me?
I went into this with the reality-based conclusion that the conspiracies Jones promotes don’t hold up to the most basic scrutiny. Among them:
The 9/11 attack was an inside job by the U.S. government as a pretext for going to war.
The Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
The true cause of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death was covered up.
The government uses “weather weapons,” including tornadoes, to murder people....
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Because we’re all right-wingnuts who aren’t as smart as they are, of course.
Just about everything on that list was taken out of context and distorted. Alex sues and wins all the time, but you never hear about that.
Jones has been cut from the herd for a trial run. If he’s taken down, it won’t be over.
I was a regular listener of Art Bell for several years. He got me through all the feedings and other issues with babies and toddlers in the wee hours until my youngest was past all of that.
I subscribed to Jones’s newsletter. Not because I will read it. But because I want to poke my finger in the eye of the Leftist Tech Moguls.
How politically-incorrect and insensitive to Obama’s dreams you are!
WELL DONE!
Trump appeared on any show that would have him...which was just about everyone. Nothing wrong with that.
I mean Jones is full of it. How can look at all his nut job claims and believe he has anything serous to offer?
Bet you believe in Q too..
I bet infowars is more accurate than CNN.
Alex is a good man. The same press that smear Trump, Limbaugh, etc., smear Alex. You’d think some could figure that out.
Haha!
That is the equivalent of lsaying how is Trump different from Hillary?
If you really are that much in the dark, then you have the same mindset as your average deranged ANTIFA memeber.
Exactly!
Lots of Shills and Trolls in this thread.
Why do people watch spike lee movies?
Why is spike lee’s blatant racism celebrated but Alex Hones is crucified because “hate speech”
[I bet Infowars is more accurate than CNN.]
It certainly couldn’t be any worse. CNN and friends hide anything bad about Obama and Hillary.
AJ, whatever one thinks of him (and some are not wrong) does NOT like Obama - NOR Hillary.
I’ve never listened to him. I downloaded his app because Big Tech decided to deplatform him and tell me I shouldn’t listen to him. F them.
In some sense Art Bell was the P.T. Barnum of the airwaves. By his own open admission, he didn’t believe or endorse all of his guests. His purpose was to give them a forum they would not otherwise get and let the audience make JP their own minds. IMHO, he was a gifted interviewer and would call BS on some fantastic claim, sometimes jokingly, sometimes very directly.
After what Sarah Palin was crucified by her own party Bush RINOs, I don’t trust any source at all without deep vetting.
(Something we all should do.)
But FReepers here discovered Charlottesville was a hoax, that the “alt-right” perps were CNN employees and Obama State Dept employees...
... so Alex Jones’ overall theories..
...that the Uniparty is basically trolling us with fake news and paid fakes...
,,, is absolutely sound.
We need to vet our news diligently, as Palin used to advise.
Where was Alex Jones when Palin was getting accused of perpetrating the Tucson mass murders, by the way?
That would tell you a lot about who Alex Jones’ puppet masters are.
You’re kinda out there dude.
What are these foks afraid of?
Alex can have his soap box and shout his story for all that it is worth.
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