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 ...
Some news is meant to be one part hard news, and three parts rowdy, unsettling, unprovable info-tainment. Most in the audience already know that, but listen anyway, because it’s interesting and unpredictable.
I used to be that way with Art Bell’s Coast to Coast.
It’s a suspension of disbelief to satisfy a very strong assumption. In other words, Red Meat to the hungry crowds!
... sifting through the news memes to establish bona-fides. Trump is today's standard to judge fake news or someone's bona fides. Yesterday it was Palin.
I’ve tried to listen to him, especially in the weeks after the 2016 election.
It’s hard to take him seriously, and he puts things out that are not backed up, except by his secret sources who are feeding him deep-background information.
Sometimes his predictions come true, but most of the time they don’t. It’s hard enough to keep the facts straight without the sensationalized overgloss.
Ok, so I don't listen to CNN either.
I don’t listen to Alex Jones. But he should be able to express an opinion. Just like anyone else.
Still waiting for the nuke to go off in DC that Jones and Stone promised was going to happen on Inauguration Day
I think Inforwars if literally more accurate than CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, and about 80% of the time than FOX.
I have heard Jones put out a lot of things that I had never heard before, and which were provably accurate. He is right about the big things that all of the MSM avoid like the plague.
There is a globalist plot to destroy America for the benefit of the banksters. DC and London power circles are rife with pedophilia and occult practices, and YES there is a war on for our minds.
Oh, Art was fun. You could tell when he thought the guest was a whack job and he played along.
Alex believes his own bullshit.
There was a big difference.
He is hard to listen to because of the commercials and a little too much dramatic effect for my taste, but he has a place in the world of staying informed.
No listening to art bell was about being entertained. He didn’t consign everything his guests said. His idea was to present folks to the listening audience. He expected you to make up your own mind
“Why is spike lee’s blatant racism celebrated but Alex Jones is crucified because “hate speech””
Can you point me to Jones being a racist? Any statements of his to back that up? I have never heard him utter a word of racism.
No. That’s what his lawyer claimed
Jones reaction to DJT bombing Syria was all you need to know
I actually like what he has to say about liberals and capitalism and govt. in general. But then he always takes this turn into the stupidest cringe-worthy conspiracy crap. He starts out good but he always ends up being nuttier than Glenn Beck. I’m just not going to listen to 9/11 “truther” garbage and his Sandy Hook hoax tripe. The US govt. is the worst liar on the planet and could never pull off stuff like this. No matter how clever it is up-front, somebody always talks.
Still waiting for Jade Helm to be the take over of the country
I have heard Jones put out a lot of things that I had never heard before, and which were provably accurate. He is right about the big things that all of the MSM avoid like the plague.
Exactly!
Me too.
I’ve concluded Alex Jones, as a Time Warner employee, is simply part of the controlled opposition.
But FReepers should not shame other FReepers for listening to other viewpoints.
You said you have never listened, yet you are telling us how bad he is.
That’s a little bit out there, I’d say.
You must be the type that forms your opinions based on how some person or event is described by the radio network news at the top of the hour and by maybe a listen to Rush or Fox.
Jones isn’t the press for starters
His product was banned on privately held companies that decided they didn’t want his product anymore
I was just going to post the exact same comment.
Do you know him personally?
If not then you are not a valid reference
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