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[### Alex Jones

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alex_Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones)

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. He hosts The Alex Jones Show ...

Alex Jones (disambiguation) · ‎The Truth vs. Alex Jones · ‎InfoWars · ‎National File

[### Alex Jones claims InfoWars is becoming a Christian 'self- ...

The Independent

https://www.the-independent.com › Indy TV › News](https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/alex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook-b2137359.html)

Aug 3, 2022 — Alex Jones tried to defend his InfoWars show at the Sandy Hook defamation trial, claiming it's a Christian 'self-help' platform.

[### Extremism Headlines: Alex Jones defamation suit, Faith ...

Southern Poverty Law Center

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Jun 7, 2024 — Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and media company owner, faced potential shutdown due to bankruptcy, but was granted a two-week operation ...

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[### Hallow App CEO Alex Jones On Becoming #1 Prayer & ...

YouTube · The CEO Series

9K+ views · 9 months ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnD_3CuqOrw)

Alex Jones is the co-founder and CEO of Hallow, the #1 Christian prayer app in the world. Hallow offers audio-guided meditation sessions to ...

[### Alex Jones: Five Things to Know

Anti-Defamation League

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Alex Jones is a right-wing American radio host and prolific anti-government conspiracy theorist. Jones rose from public-access television obscurity to ...

[### Who is Alex Jones? The conspiracist and dietary ...

AP News

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Jun 14, 2024 — Alex Jones has pushed many conspiracy theories over the last three decades, including that the US government was behind or failed to stop the Oklahoma City ...

[### "“Alex Jones is a God-fearing Christian”. The last rant I ...

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120+ likes · 2 years ago](https://twitter.com/hughriminton/status/1555835023848120321?lang=en)

Alex Jones is a God-fearing Christian”. The last rant I heard from him he said 90% of Americans “deserve to die.” True. ‍

[### Alex Jones says InfoWars is a Christian 'self-help' show

Indy100

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Aug 3, 2022 — Alex Jones had a tough day at his Sandy Hook defamation trial, and even tried to defend his show InfoWars, by saying it's pivoting into a Christian 'self-help' ...

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[### Who will buy Infowars? Both supporters and opponents of ...

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1 day ago — Alex Jones used these exact materials to exploit his viewers, peddle conspiracy theories, and damage the lives of grieving parents. We want ...

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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article240714426.html

horowitz diss david duke to prove he's not racist.

dd diss aj so debate:

...In the meantime, the argument on the far right about Jones’ ostensible Jewish ties has continued apace.

It all began in mid-August when Jones issued a challenge to Duke, the longtime Klan and neo-Nazi leader, to appear on the air with him and debate him, in part because he and his staff had found instances in which Duke was found criticizing Jones, notably over Jones’ fondness for conspiracy theories about FEMA concentration camps.

“And then he goes into: ‘Alex Jones wants to scare you from being politically involved, and tell you you can be put in prison if you fight back.’ No, I said you’ll be put in prison, or enslaved or impoverished if you don’t fight back,” Jones complained.

“I’m gonna give Duke a chance to even play clips on this show, to show me where I said this and that, but don’t sit there and say something if you don’t have the meat and potatoes,” Jones said.

So three days later, Duke appeared on Jones’ radio show and remained for a full-two-hour interview.

For most of the first half of the affair, Jones and Duke appeared to be largely in agreement in their paranoid view of a New World Order-dominated America. But things started to drift apart when Duke became increasingly insistent on blaming the entire conspiracy on “Jewish supremacists” who he claims are engaging in a race war against whites, and who he said control the nation’s banks, its political officials, and its media.

“All right,” Jones said, “I’ve never had anybody Jewish try to stop me from covering the things I do, going over the things I do.”

Then he brought on his producer, Rob Jacobson, a Jewish man who was sitting in the studio. Jacboson began peppering Duke with questions about the logic and veracity of a number of his claims, pointing out that only one of the participants in the notorious Jekyll Island meeting of 1910 (a centerpiece of many New World Order conspiracy theories) was Jewish.

At that point, Duke became shrill and defensive, and even more loudly insistent in describing the nefarious results of various Jewish conspiracies. He and Jones swapped complaints about how much time he was being allowed to speak, which became a secondary focus of their debate. Duke complained that Jacobson – who kept interjecting with counterfactual material – was cutting him off. And after two hours, the interview ended on a sour and inconclusive note as Jones offered to bring Duke back yet again.

However, that does not appear likely now. Jones’ video of the interview was swamped with comments from Duke fans attacking Jones and Jacobson for having had the temerity to challenge Duke’s assertions about Jews, claiming that the two radio hosts had now proven that they were in the pocket of Jewish interests. Shortly afterward, Jones removed it from his YouTube page.

But the controversy only appeared to step up at that point, at least among the denizens of the conspiracist universe. On YouTube, in addition to copies of the original debate, videos headlined “Alex Jones Exposed as Zionist Shill by David Duke” and “Zionist Alex Jones Attempts to Bully Anti-Zionist David Duke” began appearing.

At the Conspiracy Outpost – a message board where people trade a variety of far-right theories – there was much discussion of Jones’ Jewish ex-wife. One commenter argued that “it is easy to observe that he was controlled by outside forces and possibly did this to Duke as a last ditch effort to save his life. He lost. BIG TIME.”

There was even criticism at the InfoWars community, where one diarist posted that Jones had “disappointed many of his loyal fans”: “Alex Jones must know that although he has done so much good for us in the fight for our liberty, he is failing on the most important topic of our times: Global Zionism.”

But the harshest criticism came from the neo-Nazi right. At The Daily Stormer, editor Andrew Anglin slammed Jones for taking down the video, noting that the comments on Jones’ own websites were running strongly in favor of Duke, even on threads not devoted to the debate: “The comments are all over his YouTube page, all over infowars.com. People are spamming his Twitter and that of [contributor] Paul Joseph Watson.”

Another Daily Stormer contributor, Lee Rogers, then composed an essay titled “Alex ‘Jew Wife’ Jones: The Looming Death of a Corrupt Dick Juice Driven Disinformation Empire,” which concluded: “Either way, unless his operations are further subsidized by Jewish financing, I do not see how he can sustain them for much longer in light of what has happened. I believe we are truly seeing the looming death of Alex Jones and his empire of disinformation.”

At the white nationalist Traditional Youth Network website, the headline read: "David Duke defeats Alex Jones: We Are Destined to Win." The piece credits The Daily Stormer with provoking the debate, adding: "Had it not been for Daily Stormer’s activism, Jones’ listeners would have carried on assuming that Duke is a hateful and ignorant fool who wants to genocide black babies, but truth prevailed."

Duke himself reveled in the fresh shot of attention. At his site, he posted a couple of videos ruminating on the “victory” in the debate, and issued a statement: “I don’t want to go on the warpath with Alex Jones,” Duke said. “But, I am shocked that this great debate that he promoted on his show, has suddenly disappeared from his website and channel. …. He should not [be] trying to send it down the memory hole and hide from his listeners."

Duke, in the meantime, managed to keep up his penchant for making headlines: In Baton Rouge, he was ejected from a meeting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at a hotel on the campus of Louisiana State University. According to news accounts, he was asked to leave the gathering after getting into an argument with someone about the Black Lives Matter movement. He claimed he had been invited to speak, but meeting organizers denied that.

And back at Jones’ site, the only trace of the great Duke-Jones debate that remains is the video of Jones’ challenge to Duke beforehand.

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http://www.spin.com/2017/03/infowars-breitbart-fbi-russia-inquiry/

Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey confirmed in a congressional hearing that the Bureau is investigating alleged Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election. Now, McClatchy DC is reporting that the investigation includes an inquiry into Breitbart News and Alex Jones’s InfoWars, two outlets that worked hard to get Trump elected.

McClatchy’s report, which is sourced to two anonymous people “familiar with the inquiry,” alleges that investigators are interested in a network of apparently Kremlin-controlled social media botsthat published millions of links to articles from InfoWars and Breitbart, as well as known Russian state media outlets like RT and Sputnik News. The key question is whether anyone at the far-right American publications did anything to assist the Russian social media campaign.

The existence of a Russian botnet created to help elect Trump isn’t hard to believe at all–it fits neatly with the Kremlin’s strategy of using a government-funded “troll farm” to influence American internet discourse. And it’s also not surprising that such a network would select InfoWars and Breitbart as publications to amplify, as both unambiguously favored Trump in the election, as did the Russians.What’s harder to believe is that the campaign would have required active assistance or collaboration from the sites themselves. You don’t need a publisher’s consent to tweet out their stories, and conducting a Twitter search for any randomly selected internet article will frequently turn up tweets that look like they came from bots–usually operated for some less nefarious purpose than destabilizing a government. It seems more likely that the Russians correctly recognized InfoWars and Breitbart as essentially pro-Trump propaganda outlets, and co-opted their content for use as actual propaganda.

Jones denied the story to McClatchy reporters who reached him by calling into his show, telling them any allegations about InfoWars collusion with the Russian government are “a (expletive) lie.” But who knows? Either way, there’s a delightful irony in seeing Jones and InfoWars–longtime paranoiacs about covert state operations and shadowy global conspiracies–used as pawns in an actual international government information war, whether wittingly or not.

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http://www.infowars.com/its-time-to-admit-the-911-truthers-were-right/

UPDATE: GOV’T RELEASES [REDACTED] 28 PAGES FROM 9/11 REPORT

Among the numerous views held by those espousing “9/11 truth,” one central idea remains the same: The United States government is complicit in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

An article in the New York Post this week, boldly titled “How US covered up Saudi role in 9/11,” details how the highest levels of the US government not only helped conceal Saudi involvement but assisted the perpetrators in escaping the country....

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/donald-trump-keeps-pushing-alex-jones-conspiracy-theories/

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Donald Trump Keeps Pushing Alex Jones’ Conspiracy Theories

brian-tashman-4By Brian Tashman | February 7, 2017 12:16 pm

Donald Trump Joins Insane Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones, Who Calls Him The George Washington Of Today

Yesterday, President Trump told yet another blatant falsehood, alleging that the media has covered up several terrorist attacks, a bogus claim that became even more laughable when the White House released a list of widely-covered attacks in a humiliating attempt to substantiate Trump’s assertion.

Trump, it seems, got the conspiracy theory that the media won’t report on terrorist attacks from InfoWars, the far-right conspiracy theory outlet headed by Alex Jones.

As Aaron Blake of the Washington Post noted, InfoWars has posted several stories accusing the media of supposedly whitewashing, hiding and covering up terrorist attacks.

While running for president, Trump appeared on Jones’ program where he lavished praise on the bizarre conspiracy theorist, telling Jones: “Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down. You will be very, very impressed, I hope. I think we’ll be speaking a lot.”

Jones is far from the only conspiracy theorist embraced by Trump, but he is among the most influential.

Here are just five additional instances where Trump, himself a pathological liar and unhinged conspiracy theorist, pushed Jones’ wild and baseless claims:

1) Thousands Of Muslims In New Jersey Celebrated On 9/11

In the campaign, Trump repeatedly claimed that he saw on television “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey taking to the streets to celebrate the 9/11 attacks.

When no one could find any evidence or news reports, television or otherwise, backing up his claim, Trump’s campaign accused the media of covering it up.

Trump, as we reported, “cited a post on Jones’ InfoWars website and told Jones during an appearance on his program that his assertion was correct because people on Twitter told him so.”

2) Hillary Clinton Uses Drugs

Suggesting that Hillary Clinton had been “getting pumped up” with performance-enhancing drugs prior to the presidential debates, Trump advocated for drug tests for the candidates “because I don’t know what’s going on with her.”

The comment seemed to come out of nowhere, but the bizarre belief was repeated over and over by Jones and his frequent guest Roger Stone, a Trump confidant.

3) Massive Voter Fraud

Trump made waves when he claimed that he only lost the popular vote because 3 million non-citizens illegally voted for Clinton.

He still hasn’t revealed any data to back up his assertion, recently saying that people should “forget” about data because “a lot of people have come out and said that I am correct.”

The claim that 3 million non-citizens cast ballots in the election came from a conservative activist named Gregg Phillips, who has said that he won’t release any corroborating evidence, and amplified by Jones, who said it is an “uncontrovertible [sic] fact that 3 million illegals voted” in the election.

4) Justice Scalia May Have Been Murdered

Jones was also one of several right-wing commentators who thought that the late Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered.

“All of these conservatives that are fighting back that are real conservatives, they are all being found with pillows over their faces,” he said, while alleging that the murder was covered up.

Trump, naturally, had a similar take.

When radio host Michael Savage asked him if he thought that Scalia may have been murdered, Trump responded that he found his death to be “pretty unusual” because Scalia was found with “a pillow on his face.”

Scalia, for the record, was not found with a pillow on his face.

5) Cruz Involved With JFK Assassination

Trump’s obsession with the bogus claim that Rafael Cruz, the father of ex-rival and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy was met with a mix of confusion and amusement.

This was not the case for Jones, who claims that Trump listens to his show.

For Jones, it was a point of pride: “Trump picks up our story, now they’ve got major, major, major freak-outs knowing that he’s pointing out that [Cruz’s] father may have been connected to the CIA and been involved with Lee Harvey Oswald.”

Naturally, Trump reportedly called Jones days after the election to thank him for his all of his help getting him elected president.

Tags: Alex Jones Donald Trump InfoWars

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http://www.alternet.org/media/alex-jones-former-editor-trashes-him-trump-sellout-and-snake-oil-salesman

Kurt Nimmo, a longtime former editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, has been publicly trashing his ex-boss as a “snake oil salesman” who sold out to support President Donald Trump.

Alex Jones and his Infowars.com are known for pushing conspiracy theories, including claiming the government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the tragedies at Columbine, Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon, among others.

The site’s editor, Paul Joseph Watson, apparently has no editorial standards and has repeatedly posted fraudulent information. Jones recently announced that the purported news organization would be attending White House press briefings and that it had hired widely discredited reporter Jerome Corsi as its D.C. correspondent.

Infowars has become one of the leading sources of pro-Donald Trump boosterism. Trump’s presidential campaign repeatedly tweeted out links to Infowars content in 2016. Trump himself tweeted out a link to Infowars.com’s aggregation of a conservative blog post to claim that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks. (In fact, no evidence supports that.) Trump appeared on Jones’ program during the presidential campaign and apparently called Jones after the election to thank his audience for its support. Trump adviser and regular contributorRoger Stonetold The Washington Post that Trump “has watched Infowars.”

Nimmo states on his LinkedIn page that he worked for Infowars.com from October 2008 through July 2016 and “built [the] current website from the ground up in 2008.” He now operates his own website Another Day in the Empire and is a content producer for Newsbud.

Nimmo has repeatedly trashed his former employer for turning into “infotrump.” He tweeted that the site has become “the Trump branch office in Austin” and that Jones "turned over his audience to the #Trump Borg hive." He’s also called Jones a “snake oil salesman” who is “playing the race & religion card.” Nimmo responded to the site’s hiring of Jerome Corsi by writing: “#Infowars hires neocon, joins Republican effort to rekindle Cold War. Imagine my surprise.” He has also suggested that Jones has purged personnel who have disagreed with his new direction.

Here are some of his tweets trashing Infowars.com and Alex Jones:

27 Nov

Fantasy Nugs @FantasyNugs

Do you still write for Infowars? https://twitter.com/kurt_nimmo/status/802946851188211713 …

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@FantasyNugs NO I no longer work for the Trump branch office in Austin.

10:52 AM - 27 Nov 2016

1 1 Retweet 5 5 likes

24 Nov

Robbie Martin @FluorescentGrey

looking forward to the @infowars special where @PrisonPlanet and @RealAlexJones explain how John Bolton & James Woolsey are good guys

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@FluorescentGrey not going to happen they're alt right neocons now. That's where the money is. Alex Jones follows the money.

7:23 AM - 25 Nov 2016

2 2 Retweets 6 6 likes

9 Jan

sinisa majetic @sinisamajetic

@kurt_nimmo only a govt can have possible motive for killing it's own citizens; outside factions?, I just can't see it.

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@sinisamajetic That's what Jones used to believe or said he did. Now he's playing the race & religion card. It's good for business.

10:15 AM - 9 Jan 2017

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Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

#Infowars hires neocon, joins Republican effort to rekindle Cold War. Imagine my surprise. https://twitter.com/jaypsteve/status/827198348801236993 …

9:04 AM - 2 Feb 2017

3 3 Retweets 10 10 likes

28 Jan

Kit O'Connell ? @KitOConnell

White House: #AlexJones Does Not Have A Press Pass http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alex-jones-white-house-press-access … via @TPM

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@KitOConnell @TPM If he did, he would try to sell "male vitality" snake oil.

8:13 AM - 28 Jan 2017

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25 Jan

knight?o'light @pj_reed_407

@kurt_nimmo @Slate oh, you're infowars

you're a propagandist#TheResistance #TrumpLeaks #FakePresident #PropagandaTrollAlert

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@pj_reed_407 @Slate Nope. Infowars supports Trump, I don't. I am against all those in favor or war. including deluded people like you.

8:53 AM - 25 Jan 2017

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21 Dec

INF0STR34M @INF0S7R34M

The election has prompted panicked liberals to stockpile guns & ammo in anticipation of “societal collapse.”

http://bit.ly/2hIJDII #2…

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@INF0S7R34M infowars thinks liberals buying guns is disturbing? This should be good news for 2nd amendment. More left-right fear mongering

1:36 PM - 21 Dec 2016

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11 Sep

FireSVG @detroit1776

@kurt_nimmo why do i believe this had something to do with you leaving infowars. If this is the case, all hope is lost.

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@MrAWFULsuits I felt this way before I left infotrump, er excuse me, infowars.

1:22 PM - 11 Sep 2016

3 3 Retweets 1 1 like

21 Sep

senorchompers @senorchompers

When will @PrisonPlanet reach peak #ZioCuck like these #clowns? ---> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article103038647.html … @NeoconWatson @ChrisRulon @willyloman1

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@senorchompers @willyloman1 @PrisonPlanet @NeoconWatson @ChrisRulon neoconwatson. Lol. If the shoe fits.

3:27 PM - 21 Sep 2016

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Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

No Muslim angle. Canadian responsible for murders in #Quebec. #PamGeller & Paul Joseph Watson will be upset. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38800907 …

3:52 PM - 30 Jan 2017

Municipal police patrols outside the Quebec Mosque

Quebec mosque shooting: Police arrest a suspect and a witness - BBC News

A university student is reportedly considered as the sole suspect in the shooting.

bbc.com

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29 Jan

Brent Russ @brent_e_russ

@kurt_nimmo Trump could shoot Alex and not lose support: https://youtu.be/iTACH1eVIaA

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@brent_e_russ @YouTube No way, he's indebted to him, he turned over his audience to the #Trump Borg hive.

1:40 PM - 29 Jan 2017

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27 Jan

Anti-Media @AntiMedia

Alex Jones’ InfoWars Offered White House Credentials http://bit.ly/2j8I9ct pic.twitter.com/0hk2spgrxD

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@AntiMedia Of course. When he screams, he looks exactly like Donald Trump. The similarity is amazing. They're both faux Republicans. $$$

6:46 PM - 27 Jan 2017

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27 Jan

Beauskiis Tremblay @beautremblay

@kurt_nimmo @AntiMedia so is AJ just a hack? I liked him before Trump and now have problems with his whole mantra.

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@beautremblay @AntiMedia His mantra is snake oil.

6:59 PM - 27 Jan 2017

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27 Jan

Beauskiis Tremblay @beautremblay

@kurt_nimmo @AntiMedia good to know. He seems to purge anyone who disagrees with him yet preaches that his staff can have free thought.

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@beautremblay @AntiMedia LOL! I am contractually obliged to say nothing but yr on the right track.

7:06 PM - 27 Jan 2017

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Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@DropikD infowars does not "announce" when employees are terminated. they merely disappear as if they never existed.

5:19 AM - 3 Aug 2016

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Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

#Nixon "black arts" op fills in for Alex Jones. How does this Republican insider & Karl Rove wannabe fit the liberty movement? Suspicious. https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/811667306518638597 …

12:35 PM - 21 Dec 2016

1 1 Retweet 2 2 likes

21 Dec

20below @_20below

@kurt_nimmo that ship sailed a LONG time ago, infowars is now foxnews for people under 50 #buildaburger pic.twitter.com/0aQ0Flg2Jx

Kurt Nimmo @kurt_nimmo

@_20below More a hybrid of Breitbart, Drudge, & other altright propaganda outlets.

12:53 PM - 21 Dec 2016

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Eric Hananoki is a research fellow for Media Matters. He was previously a staffer for the Al Franken Show.

Hurricane Matthew truthers

In early October, as Hurricane Matthew approached the southeastern United States and officials ordered mass evacuations, a group of right-wing commentators alleged that the Obama administration was conspiring to exaggerate hurricane forecasts in order to scare the public about climate change. On Oct. 5, Rush Limbaugh said hurricane forecasting often involved “politics” because “the National Hurricane Center is part of the National Weather Service, which is part of the Commerce Department, which is part of the Obama administration, which by definition has been tainted.” He added, however, that Matthew itself was “a serious bad storm” and hadn’t been politicized.

The next day, Matt Drudge took the theory a step further, tweeting, “The deplorables are starting to wonder if govt has been lying to them about Hurricane Matthew intensity to make exaggerated point on climate.” He added, “Hurricane center has monopoly on data. No way of verifying claims.” Drudge’s tweets were widely condemned as dangerous and irresponsible. They also caught the attention of conspiracy kingpin Alex Jones:

A day later, Limbaugh also went full Matthew Truther, declaring it “inarguable” that the government was “hyping Hurricane Matthew to sell climate change.” Matthew would ultimately kill more than 40 people in the United States and hundreds in Haiti. It caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage.

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/16/alex-jones-deletes-video-which-he-had-told-his-audience-personally-investigate-pizzagate-restaurant/214846

Alex Jones Deletes Video In Which He Had Told His Audience To Personally "Investigate" "Pizzagate" Restaurant

Deletion Came After Listener Seeking To "Self-Investigate" Comet Ping Ping Fired Shots Inside

Blog ››› December 16, 2016 2:51 PM EST ››› ERIC HANANOKI

Alex Jones suggested last month on his radio show that “something’s being covered up” at the restaurant that’s been falsely accused in the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory and “it needs to be investigated.” Days later an Alex Jones listener attempted to "self-investigate” Comet Ping Pong and ended up firing his gun inside the restaurant. After the shooting -- and after media began reporting that the shooter is a fan of Jones -- Jones deleted the YouTube video.

Jones is a radio host who has pushed the conspiracy theories that the U.S. government perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the tragedies at Columbine, Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon. Jones has also repeatedly accused the Clintons of murder. He has been elevated from the fringes to the mainstream by President-elect DonaldTrump, who appeared on his show in December 2015 and praised his “amazing” reputation. Trump adviser Roger Stoneis also a regular Jones guest and contributor.

Jones and his Infowars website have promoted the false conspiracy theory dubbed "pizzagate," which alleges that top Clinton associates such as campaign chairman John Podesta are trafficking children through the Comet Ping Pong restaurant.

On his November 27 program, Jones spent roughly half an hour pushing pizzagate conspiracy theories and told his audience that they “have to go investigate it for yourself," claiming, "Something’s going on. Something’s being covered up. It needs to be investigated.” From that program:

ALEX JONES: Now I want to be clear. Not everybody in the WikiLeaks is involved in this. Clearly. You have to go investigate it for yourself. But I will warn you, this story that’s been the biggest thing on the internet for several weeks, pizzagate as it’s called, is a rabbit hole that is horrifying to go down.

[…]

Let’s go ahead and go to the report, Pizzagate Is Real. The question is: How real is it? What is it? Something’s going on. Something’s being covered up. It needs to be investigated. To just call it fake news -- these are real WikiLeaks. This is real stuff going on. [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 11/27/16]

Jones then aired a previously taped video titled “Pizzagate Is Real: Something Is Going On, But What?” During that video, Infowars producer Jon Bowne stated that Clinton allies were “using a code to communicate child sex trafficking as casually as ordering a pizza.” The video then claimed that Comet Ping Pong “may be competing for the lucrative Washington, D.C., pedophile market right out in the open.”

Jones also suggested that he himself would be “getting on a plane” to visit Comet Ping Pong. He stated: “I couldn’t sleep last night and you know, people may look into it. I may take off a week and just only research this and actually go to where these places are and stuff. In fact I’m looking at getting on a plane -- it’s just like Bohemian Grove and stuff, I can’t just say something and not see it for myself. They go to these pizza places, there’s like satanic art everywhere.”

Later in the program, Jones backtracked and said that he “can’t go out there and investigate it myself. We’ve had reporters on that have been there. They say it’s really creepy because -- I don’t have the self-control to be around these type of people. So you want us to cover pizzagate, we have covered it. We are covering it. And all I know is God help us, we’re in the hands of pure evil.”

Days later an Alex Jones fan decided to “self-investigate” the conspiracy theory at Comet Ping Pong.On December 4, Edgar Maddison Welch entered the pizzeria and, during his attempt to uncover the supposed sex ring, fired an assault rifle inside while scaring patrons and staff.

Welch also told The New York Times that he listens to Jones, and he reportedly "liked" Infowars on Facebook. The FBI said that Welch shared a separate video headlined “Watch PIZZAGATE: The Bigger Picture on YouTube” with a friend. “Pizzagate: The Bigger Picture” is the headline Infowars used for a December 1 article -- still online -- promoting a video from Infowars producer Jon Bowne that also pushes the pizzagate conspiracy theory.

Jones has been scrubbing his pizzagate content from the internet following the shooting. The November 27 report that called for people to “investigate” pizzagate was originally uploaded to Jones' YouTube channel under the headline “Down The #Pizzagate Rabbit Hole - Warning! Soul Sucking Info.”

He has since removed the video. According to the Internet Archive, the “Down The #Pizzagate Rabbit Hole” video was online as of December 6 but “removed by the user” by December 7. A tweet by Jones promoting the video is still online; it captures roughly 10 minutes of the video and links to the removed YouTube page. Non-Jones YouTube accounts have re-uploaded the “Down The #Pizzagate Rabbit Hole - Warning! Soul Sucking Info.” The video is roughly 30 minutes long.

Jones also removed the Jon Bowne video that Jones played during his November 27 program. On November 23, Jones’ YouTube channel posted the video with the headline “Pizzagate Is Real: Something Is Going On, But What?” The video was removed “by the user” shortly after the shooting, according to the Internet Archive.

Jones posted a December 15 video in which he lied about his prior promotions of the pizzagate conspiracy theory. He claimed that he actually said there’s “probably nothing going on there” and his lawyers reviewed his coverage and found that he’s been the “most restrained of all the coverage” in the alternative media.

Jones also said in the recent video that that he warned his staff that pizzagate was “probably a setup” and that unnamed adversaries are “probably going to shoot that place up or something” and then blame Jones. He then claimed that they were setting him up so they can ban “free speech” and have him “taken off the airwaves”.

NBC

SETH MEYERS (HOST): Here is the crucial question Republicans will have to ask if they want to fix their party. How did this happen? One culprit they might want to look at is the right-wing media bubble that fed their audience a mix of conspiracy theories and racial resentment, and discredited all mainstream news sources as untrustworthy.

[...]

Trump has encouraged his followers to ignore the mainstream media altogether and rely on a different source for their news.

[...]

So if Trump's supporters were to only read the internet this week, what stories would they have been exposed to that the mainstream media ignored? Well, there was one bombshell story that was extremely popular on right-wing websites like The Drudge Report this week and it came from The National Enquirer. The story was titled, "Hillary Hitman Tells All!" and claimed among other things that Hillary "is a secret sex freak who paid fixers to set up illicit romps with both men AND women!"

[...]

[Sean] Hannity and [Rush] Limbaugh aren't the only right-wing media personalitiesTrump has courted. There's also radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has interviewed Trump on his show, and who this week offered a fascinating new theory for how that tape of Trump bragging about sexual assault with Billy Bush in 2005 came into existence.

[...]

That's right. He thinks Billy Bush is a CIA agent who goaded Trump into bragging about sexual assault in 2005, knowing he'd run for president 11 years later, in the famous operation Zero Dark Talkin' Dirty. But this kind of paranoid thinking is becoming all too common in the right-wing media, and now they're trying to paint Hillary Clinton as an election-rigging, criminal sex freak in order to make her look illegitimate from day one, just like they tried to make President Obama look illegitimate. Some right-wing groups are already talking about impeaching her.

Previously:

Trump Ally Alex Jones: Billy Bush Was A “CIA” Operative, “Set Up” Trump With Sexual Assault Comments

Sean Hannity Brings Supermarket Tabloid To Life By Inviting Clinton “Fixer” To Fox News Prime Time

"*The National Enquirer* Has Become *The New York Times*": Here Is The Man Hannity Hypes As Clinton's Fixer

mma

Alex Jones

Alex Jones is the proprietor of InfoWars.com, a fringe conspiracy website that promotes the idea that the government was behind the 9/11 attacks. Jones also believes the Brussels attacks were “the ultimate false flag,” Beyonce is funded by the CIA to create mayhem, and the government uses estrogen-mimicking chemicals in juice boxes to turn children gay. Jones also warned listeners of transgender people “vomiting and crapping all over the place” if protected by non-discrimination ordinances.

For more about Alex Jones, click here.

Alex Jones' Influence On The Trump Campaign

Jones Praised For Playing An “Important Role” Supporting Trump,

Used His Website To Help Campaign.Trump surrogate Roger Stone commended Jones for playing an “important role” in the Trump campaign. On his website, Infowars, Jones also took credit for “devastating the Trumpian opposition.” Jones has bragged about his private conversations with Trump, claiming the presumptive Republican nominee “listens to what we have to say,” and has claimed that Trump based his support for auditing the Federal Reserve on Jones’ beliefs. Trump has lavished praise on Jones’ “amazing” reputation, and the campaign previously partnered with Infowars to get out the vote. [Media Matters, 12/2/15, 2/10/16, 2/22/16, 3/22/16, 5/4/16, 5/4/16]

Media Have Noted Jones And Trump’s “Relationship”. Chris Hayes noted that Jones and Trump’s relationship “is not a one-way relationship” on the May 5 edition of MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. Hayes highlighted a December 2015 interview between Trump and Jones in whichJones defended Trump’s claims that New Jersey Muslims celebrated 9/11. [MSNBC, All In with Chris Hayes, 5/5/16]

Alex Jones: Conspiracies, Transphobia, Homophobia, Violence Promotion

Jones Promoted Conspiracy Theories About The Brussels Attacks, 9/11, Aliens, Beyonce, Joan Rivers, And More. Alex Jones’ site Infowars formerly described him as “one of the very first founding fathers of the 9-11 truth movement.” Jones has also called the Brussels terror attacks “the ultimate false flag”, accused Beyonce of spreading “CIA propaganda”, and warned of “an alien force” “attacking humanity.” Jones also accused Obama of “basically running ISIS” and intentionally “letting Ebola in” America “to start a civil war.” Recently,Jones accused Michelle Obama of murdering Joan Rivers because Rivers exposed Michelle Obama as transgender. In the wake of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL, Jones hosted Roger Stone on his show to assert that “Hillary’s girlfriend” Huma Abedin is a “Saudi spy.” [Media Matters, 10/14/14, 12/3/15, 3/17/16, 3/22/16, 4/25/16, 6/14/16; InfoWars.com, 2/2/11 via Internet Archive; YouTube, 5/16/16]

Jones Wished Violence On Political Opponents. Alex Jones has a history of wishing violence on his political opponents and their supporters. On the night of Trump’s victory in the Indiana primary, Jones posted, then deleted, a YouTube video in which he called George Will a “piece of filth,” and told him to “look in the mirror, realize you’re a traitor, and do the right thing … blow what little is left of your brains out all over yourself.” Jones threatened to “slap” supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “upside your moron heads until you wake up.” Jones later told Sanders supporters they “need to have [their] jaws broken.” Jones subsequently claimed he was speaking “figuratively”, but added “I don’t apologize overall.” [Media Matters, 2/11/16, 4/5/16]

Jones Used Transphobic, Homophobic Language To Oppose LGBT Rights. Jones warned of the “globalist mafia” forcing the transgender community’s “fake rights” on Americans and claimed it would lead to “transvestite[s]” going into bathrooms “hopped out of their brain on drugs vomiting and crapping all over the place.” Jones also claimed to “have the government documents” proving federal authorities “encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don’t have children.” In response to the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL, Jones blamed “the LGBT community in general for endangering America.” [Media Matters, 2/25/11, 5/1/13, 6/13/16]

Jones, Infowars Repeatedly Accused Marco Rubio Of Having A Secret “Gay Past.”Jones frequently used his radio show and website to allege that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was secretly homosexual. The Alex Jones Show featured a segment speculating that in the ‘90s Rubio engaged with gay prostitutes in a Miami park that was “a haven for drug dealers and gang members.” Infowars also ran reports claiming Rubio was “a very extroverted homosexual” in college, and that the Republican establishment is trying to “bury” his secret “gay past” of parties with “scantily-clad men ... covered in suds to camouflage homosexual acts.” On the March 1 edition of Jones’ show, Jones insinuated that Rubio was “obsessed with Donald Trump’s package.” [Infowars, 1/27/16, 3/1/16, 3/1/16; Right Wing Watch, 3/1/16]

Conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones has been one of Trump’s loudest and most passionate supporters. And the feeling is :{apparently mutual:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:. In addition to promoting Trump on his show incessantly, Jones hosted Trump for an interview, praised him as a “George Washington” figure, and encouraged listeners to donate to his campaign. (During the appearance, Trump :{praised}: Jones for his “amazing” reputation and promised, “I will not let you down.”) Trump confidant Roger Stone has also become a regular on Jones’ show, and the two worked together to organize protests on Trump’s behalf at the Republican convention. After Trump essentially clinched the nomination, Stone went on Jones’ show and :{told}:the host, “Trump himself told me that he has seen so many of your supporters and listeners at his rallies,” adding, “I’m certain that he is grateful for your support.”

What You Need To Know

Alex Jones is a self-described “founding father” of the “9/11 truth movement” who :{believes:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: that the terrorist attacks were a “false flag.” Jones also :{has promoted}: conspiracy theories alleging that events like the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Aurora movie theater shooting were all government-orchestrated attacks.

Jones publicly asked Trump to raise the conspiracy of the general election being “rigged,” which the candidate did days later. He praised Trump as being “totally synced” with the conspiracy theory movement and said it is “surreal to talk about issues here on air and then word-for-word hear Trump say it two days later.”

2x ferguson

http://www.salon.com/2015/08/11/far_right_extremists_patrol_ferguson_oath_keepers_militiamen_descend_on_city/

had chris hedges sacrifice zone book talk 40 min (pine ridge, coal country; produce fields)

aj: RAND corp plot to crash economy, poverty for pol control: pvt citites for elite to live in;

globalist model is to shut down world economy until freedom lovers give up; rolls into ads on survivor gear, which funds out good info war work)

DOD spy on activists. NDAA suit by CH

The Lunatic World Of Gun Rights Radio

Blog››› May 29, 2013 1:24 PM EDT ››› BEN DIMIERO & MATT GERTZ

How Gun Activists Team Up With Fringe Conspiracy Theorists

As the debate over gun legislation has raged in recent months, prominent gun activists have been appearing on the radio and TV shows of fringe conspiracy theorists to push their message.

The hosts of these shows believe in a range of absurd conspiracies, including that the U.S. government perpetrated the 9-11 attacks; that the recent mass shootings in Newton and Aurora were somehow staged; and that impoverished black men are gearing up to kill "white heterosexual Christians."

Despite regularly uniting with fringe conspiracy theorists -- and often joining them in espousing outlandish conspiracies -- Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt, longtime National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent, and former NRA president David Keene represent organizations that still wield considerable influence in the debate over gun legislation.

The NRA says that it has millions of members and annual revenues in excess of $200 million, and their annual meetings regularly draw leading Republican presidential candidates. Pratt's group Gun Owners of America has also become an important player in the gun debate; an April article by The New York Times highlighted how GOA was "emerging as an influential force" over then-pending Senate gun legislation, while ignoring Pratt's own record of extremism.

In recent weeks, extremist radio host Pete Santilli has made headlines for violentcomments he made about Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and the Bush family. (Santilli's inflammatory comments include saying the he wants to shoot Clinton "in the vagina and let her suffer right before my eyes" over her supposed "treason.")

While it's tempting to dismiss Santilli as just another crackpot with a microphone and an Internet connection, his show has been validated by appearances from major gun activists like Pratt and Nugent.

Nugent and Pratt's appearances on Santilli's show are not an aberration; they're symptomatic of how prominent gun activists have teamed up with fringe conspiracy theorists to oppose gun legislation and spin fantastical theories about the government disarming (or going to war with) American citizens.

Working with these fringe hosts may be a deliberate strategy; during an appearance with infamous conspiracy theorist Alex Jones last year, Pratt praised Jones for helping increase GOA's exposure, saying "thank you for having me on, because we have a much bigger voice because of you, my friend." (During that same interview, Pratt suggested the government may have been behind the mass shooting in Aurora.)

In this report, we look at gun activists' appearances with:

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Alex Jones

Alex Jones is perhaps the most well-known conspiracy theorist in the country. For years, he has spun any number of current events into elaborate conspiracies, usually involving a secretive New World Order of global elites that are supposedly running the world behind the scenes.

Jones believes the government actively carried out or was otherwise involved in the 9-11 attacks, the Space Shuttle Colombia disaster, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the mass shootings in Newtown and Aurora. (He also recently suggested a government "weather weapon" could possibly have created the devastating tornado in Oklahoma.)

Despite Jones' widely-known endorsement of absurd conspiracies, his show has become a favorite of gun activists, particularly Pratt and Nugent.

Pratt has also been visiting Jones' show for years, including several appearances so far in 2013. As recently as May 20, Pratt was on Jones' show labeling President Obama a "full-bore Marxist" who stole the 2012 election.

Pratt has also used appearances on Jones' show to endorse bizarre conspiracies about mass shootings. In a July 2012 appearance with Jones, Pratt suggested the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, may have been staged. Discussing the shooting, Jones asked Pratt, "am I wrong for being suspicious?" Pratt responded: "I don't think you're wrong," citing as evidence the failed Fast and Furious program. Pratt elaborated, saying that while he does "think the evil of the human heart is sufficient to account for somebody that wants to go and shoot people at random," nonetheless "we have to admit that maybe this is something that our government is capable of. Because this is only 12 people murdered -- they were good for 400 in Fast and Furious."

Later in the same appearance, Pratt thanked Jones "for having me on, because we have a much bigger voice because of you, my friend."

Nugent has also visited Jones' show to push back against efforts to strengthen gun laws (he has made at least three different appearances on Jones' show this year), and the two men share an apparent admiration for each other. In February, Nugent called into Jones' show and praised the radio host for doing "God's work." During that appearance, Nugent told Jones, "what you are sharing with the radio listeners out there is indisputable, it's irrefutable." Jones returned the favor, lauding the NRA for "getting hardcore."

When they aren't showering each other with niceties, Nugent and Jones' conversations regularly veer off the rails. Nugent has used his spots on Jones' show to call forObama's impeachment and engage in conspiracies about government attempts to seize Americans' guns.

During a characteristic appearance on Jones' show in April, Nugent suggested that the recent epidemic of suicides among veterans and active duty military on their supposed frustration with President Obama for "violating" the Constitution:

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ALEX JONES

David Mayer de Rothschild on Alex Jones FULL Global Warming Debate (2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5B5Kmb4nnY

one child policy, "saving the earth" Gore drug arrest; pledge frontline jihadis neo-feudalism, phoney war on terror; all major studies say it's sun; we just report facts, no ax to grind; gmo and tox waste dump IS bad; Murdoch has rothchild backing, buys Dow Jones

death star music: Published on Jul 16, 2012

On July 6th, 2007, Alex Jones interviewed David Mayer de Rothschild — heir of the global banking crime syndicate, British adventurer, environmentalist and head of Adventure Ecology. During the interview, Rothschild said the radical climate change agenda will not be a tax on humanity.

TError storm book/video 911 truther?

chems in your shampoos, organic soap ad 7/7/07

http://www.infowars.com/agenda-21-for-dummies-new-world-order-depopulation-exposed/

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media matters:

UN Climate Treaties Are "Very Orwellian." Morano claimed in July that the goal of UN climate negotiations is "global governance" and wealth redistribution, adding: "Its very Orwellian... This is stuff Orwell couldnt conceive of, your home energy use, your travel, your train travel, airline travel all monitored by international agencies. It`s not the stuff of science fiction." [Fox News, Your World With Neil Cavuto, 7/6/12, via Nexis]

The "Global Warming Apocalypse... Isn't Happening." In April, Morano claimed that renewable energy is unnecessary because the "global warming apocalypse... isn't happening." He added that "even the big green gurus are reconsidering ... the reason we have the wind mandates which is fear of manmade global warming." [Fox News, Your World With Neil Cavuto, 4/30/12]

Morano Often Appears On Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones' Show. Alex Jones is a radio host who thinks that a "New World Order" of secretive elites is trying to take over the world, impose an authoritarian government and "exterminate 80% of the world's population." Jones, who was one of the most prominent 9/11 truthers, has made outlandish claims, including that the government is trying to "encourage homosexuality with chemicals" in items like juiceboxes, and that Bill Gates is promoting vaccines because he is a eugenicist trying to sterilize people. Morano often appears on Jones' show to promote conspiracy theories of his own:

Morano Agreed Obama "Might Start A War" To Win Re-Election. After Morano predicted that Romney would win the election, Jones said that Obama might "start a war" to win re-election. Morano responded, "they could try to do that, yes, that's always possible." [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 9/1/12]

Morano Fearmongered About UN Establishing A "Global EPA." Morano claimed that the UN climate summit in Rio was pushing a "global EPA" that is "going to be able to police the world." He added, "Think of our own EPA that speaks French. If that doesn't send chills up your spine, I don't know what will." Morano's fearmongering played into Jones' New World Order conspiracy theory. [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 2/7/12]

Morano Denied That July Was The Hottest Month On Record. Morano claimed scientists used "data that had been monkeyed around with"to state that July 2012 was the hottest month on record in the continental U.S. [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 9/1/12]

Morano Accused Scientists Of "Cover[ing] Up" "Dropping" Sea Levels. Morano claimed that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a leading body of thousands of scientists assessing climate change, is a "small group of scientists" that was "blocking studies that disagreed, blocking data that disagreed, and then essentially, sometimes, generating studies that did." He later added that scientists are trying to "cover up the fact that sea level not only isn't accelerating, it's dropping." In fact, sea levels have been rising for decades and have studies indicate this rise is accelerating. [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 2/8/12] [Columbia University, accessed 12/17/12]

Morano: UN Climate Panel Trying To "Contro[l] The World." Morano said that those concerned about global warming are attempting to exert "a level of control that George Orwell didn't contemplate," adding: "He who controls carbon, and controls land use policy, and even the oceans, controls the world. And that's what they're going for. And this isn't conspiracy talk, this is in their documents." [YouTube video posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, 12/10/11]

against patriot act/ tried to rebuild branch davidiian?

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anti-nuke:

At 1:20 in

I’m sorry folks, I’m what you call a libertarian constitutionalist. Back when I was more ignorant 15 years ago I was all about nuclear power, but now they are rotting and falling apart and the corporations don’t care, they’re crazy.

At 2:45 in

People say well why do you have a guy on, an environmentalist, when you’re talking about the green movement… because they attach all this real reasonable stuff to something run by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan that is a taxed based-system and so if we just fight the environmental movement, #1 it makes us look stupid and it’s not sophisticated. There’s a real environmental movement then there’s a clone of it, a counterfeit. http://enenews.com/conservative-host-all-about-nuclear-power-believe-one-greatest-threats-facing-humanity-theyre-going-kill-family-video

then goes to an ad for clear water b/c of china flouride?!

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Alexander Emerick "Alex" Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American talk radio host, actor and filmmaker. His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show, based in Austin, Texas, airs via the Genesis Communication Network over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet.^[2] His websites include Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com.^[3]

Mainstream sources have described Jones as a conservative^[4][5][6][7] and as a right-wing conspiracy theorist.^{[8][9][10][11]} Jones sees himself as a libertarian, and rejects being described as a right-winger.^[12] He has also called himself a paleoconservative.^[13] In a promotional biography he is described as an "aggressive constitutionalist".^[14][15] Alex Jones has been the center of many controversies. Jones has accused the US government of being involved in the Oklahoma City bombing^[16] and September 11 attacks.^[17]

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Biography

Jones was born on February 11, 1974 in Dallas, Texas,^[18] and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall. His father is a dentist.^[19] He attended Anderson High School in northwest Austin, Texas. Jones was a linemen on his high school's football team.^[19] After graduating high school he briefly attended Austin Community College.

He began his career in Austin with a live, call-in format Public-access television cable TV program. In 1996, Jones switched format to KJFK, hosting a show named The Final Edition.^[20] In 1998, he released his first film, America Destroyed By Design.

In 1998, Jones organized a successful effort to build a new Branch Davidian church as a memorial to those who died during the 1993 fire that ended the government's siege of the original Branch Davidian complex near Waco, Texas.^[21] He often featured the project on his Public-access television program and claimed that Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the ATF during the siege.^[20]

In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year's "Best Austin Talk Radio Host" poll as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers.^[22] Later that year, he was fired from KJFK-FM. According to the station's operations manager, Jones was fired because his viewpoints made the show hard to sell to advertisers and he refused to broaden his topics.^[20] Jones argued: "It was purely political, and it came down from on high," and, "I was told 11 weeks ago to lay off Clinton, to lay off all these politicians, to not talk about rebuilding the church, to stop bashing the Marines, A to Z."^[20]

In early 2000, Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, an open seat swing district based in Austin, Texas. Jones stated that he was running, "to be a watchdog on the inside."^[1] He aborted his campaign and withdrew before the March primary when polls indicated he had little chance of winning.

Legal issues

In July 2000, a group of Austin Community Access Center (ACAC) programmers claimed that Jones used legal proceedings and ACAC policy to intimidate them or get their shows thrown off the air.^[23] Also in 2000, Jones and assistant Mike Hanson infiltrated Bohemian Grove and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, claiming it to be mock child sacrifice in front of a 40-foot-tall (12 m) stone owl of Moloch.

On June 8, 2006, while on his way to cover a meeting of the Bilderberg group in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Jones was stopped and detained at the Ottawa airport by Canadian authorities who confiscated his passport, camera equipment, and most of his belongings. He was later allowed to enter Canada lawfully. Jones said regarding the reason for his immigration hold, "I want to say, on the record, it takes two to tango. I could have handled it better."^[24]

On September 8, 2007, he was arrested while protesting at 6th Avenue and 48th Street in New York City. He was charged with operating a bullhorn without a permit. Two others were also cited for disorderly conduct when his group crashed a live television show featuring Geraldo Rivera. In an article, one of Jones's fellow protesters said "It was ... guerilla information warfare."^[25]

Media

The Alex Jones Show syndicated radio program is broadcast nationally by Genesis Communications Network to more than 60 AM and FM radio stations in the United States, and to WWCR Radio shortwave. Live-broadcast times are weekdays 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CST and Sundays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. CST. The Sunday broadcast is also broadcast by Emmis Communications' KLBJ Radio.

Alex Jones is also the operator of several web sites centered on news and information about civil liberties issues, global government, and a wide variety of current events topics. Several of these sites are www.infowars.com, www.prisonplanet.tv, www.prisonplanet.com, and www.jonesreport.com.

Works

Jones has directed and produced a number of videos detailing his theories of a "New World Order" and his concerns that U.S. national sovereignty and constitutional rights have both been eroded as a result. They also address his views concerning the misuse of government power, corporate deception and cohesion between disparate power structures.

Films

Alex Jones and fans at the Première of A Scanner Darkly

Alex Jones with 9/11 truth on September 11, 2007 in downtown Manhattan

Year	Film	Notes
1998	America: Destroyed by Design
1999	Police State 2000
1999	Are You Practicing Communism?	Produced by Mike Hanson
2000	America Wake Up or Waco
2000	The Best of Alex Jones
2000	Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove
2000	Police State II: The Takeover
2001	Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports: Exposed
2001	911 The Road to Tyranny: Special Emergency Release
2002	911 The Road to Tyranny
2002	The Masters of Terror: Exposed
2003	Matrix of Evil
2003	Police State 3: Total Enslavement
2004	American Dictators: Documenting the Staged Election of 2004
2005	Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State
2005	The Order of Death
2006	TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism
2007	Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement
2007	Endgame 1.5
2007	TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism - Second Edition
2007	Loose Change: Final Cut by Dylan Avery	Executive producer
2008	The 9/11 Chronicles: Part 1, Truth Rising
2008	Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas	Producer
2009	DVD Arsenal: The Alex Jones Show Vols. 1—3
2009	The Obama Deception: The Mask Comes Off
2009	Fall of the Republic: Vol. 1, The Presidency of Barack H. Obama
2009	Reflections and Warnings: An Interview with Aaron Russo
2010	Police State IV: The Rise Of FEMA
2010	Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined by Jason Bermas	Producer
2010	The Fall of America and the Western World by Brian Kraft	Featured

Author

Year	Book	Publisher
2002	9-11: Descent Into Tyranny	Progressive Press

Film subject

Year	Film	Notes
2003	Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11	by Stephen Marshall
2009	New World Order	by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel

Acting

Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as a supporting actor.

Year	Film	Role
2001	Waking Life	Man in Car with P.A.
2006	A Scanner Darkly	Street Prophet

Jones, Alex

NRA board member Ted Nugent responds to anti-fraud lawsuit: “I’m Schindler but I got a whole bunch of more Jews that I’m saving”

Among the numerous views held by those espousing “9/11 truth,” one central idea remains the same: The United States government is complicit in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Hurricane Matthew truthers

The Lunatic World Of Gun Rights Radio

Blog››› May 29, 2013 1:24 PM EDT ››› BEN DIMIERO & MATT GERTZ

How Gun Activists Team Up With Fringe Conspiracy Theorists

Alex Jones

Biography

Legal issues

Media

Works

Films

Author

Film subject

Acting

See also