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Tue Jan 8, 2013, 02:42 PM Jan 2013

Just how Loonie Toons is Alex Jones? [View all]

Courtesy of "Media Matters:"

■The Oklahoma City Bombing was "carried out by intelligence agencies" with "Bill Clinton's involvement."

■The government is using products like juice boxes to "encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children."

■The U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks. Jones describes himself as being on "the front lines of the growing global information war from ground zero to the occult playgrounds of the power-mad elite. Jones predicted the attacks on September 11th, 2001 and is considered one of the very first founding fathers of the 9-11 Truth Movement."

■The government has set up FEMA concentration camps in America, and "the military-industrial complex is transforming our once free nation into a giant prison camp."

■President Obama is transforming the United States into "something that resembles Nazi Germany, with forced National Service, domestic civilian spies, warrantless wiretaps, the destruction of the Second Amendment, FEMA camps and Martial Law."

■The BP oil spill "could have been manufactured."

Jones has also pushed numerous conspiracy theories about weather control, mass sterilization, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. In June 2012, Jones' Infowars.com promoted the myth that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was using drones to spy on Midwestern ranchers. Finally, the radio host has declared that Obama's birth certificate is a fraud.


I'm hoping that with this, both Alex Jones and Piers Morgan have jumped the shark, and are headed for the obscurity they both deserve.

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The rationalwiki page on Alex Jones is pretty good too... SidDithers Jan 2013 #1
Got it ... GeorgeGist Jan 2013 #40
who is he? n/t EC Jan 2013 #2
Sounds like late night AM talk show fodder to me... WCGreen Jan 2013 #3
Even Art Bell would have avoided Jones. Archae Jan 2013 #4
Funny you would mention Art Bell... Lone_Star_Dem Jan 2013 #10
Correct. Archae Jan 2013 #25
LOL! That's not all now, is it? regjoe Jan 2013 #5
So Alex Jones makes some sense, eh? ellisonz Jan 2013 #6
Sometimes, yes regjoe Jan 2013 #7
"IMO, people fear him because they agree with a lot of what he says." zappaman Jan 2013 #9
So I'm a liar? ellisonz Jan 2013 #20
Do you consider all of his claims to be "nonsense?" regjoe Jan 2013 #23
Yes. ellisonz Jan 2013 #24
Since conspiracies do exist and happen, if you label EVERYTHING as one NYC Liberal Jan 2013 #35
jones employs the bullshit scatter gun... Javaman Jan 2013 #29
There's a saying that.... rppper Jan 2013 #31
Broken clocks syndrome. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #8
He uses a tiny pebble of truth and build a mountain of bullshit out of it. And then tries to pass it Erose999 Jan 2013 #11
This is how I see him as well. Any demagogue is going to do essentially the same thing. Poll_Blind Jan 2013 #12
Post removed Post removed Jan 2013 #21
Like he's not trying to make a buck off the fearful. nolabear Jan 2013 #13
he's out of his fucking mind...they're showing him on cnn right now spanone Jan 2013 #14
Then you're just as sucked into his shtick as his fans are. Poll_Blind Jan 2013 #16
wind me up? try makes me ill. john wayne gacy had a schtick too. spanone Jan 2013 #18
Nah. See John Wayne Gacy was a serial killer. A serial killer. Not a media celebrity talking head. Poll_Blind Jan 2013 #22
I was listening one day when he had Jesse Ventura on Redford Jan 2013 #15
He surpasses "Guano" level. Behind the Aegis Jan 2013 #17
how does a responsible media agency put this man on their station? Johonny Jan 2013 #19
Sounds like a pretty normal wingnut to me. Turbineguy Jan 2013 #26
He is a con man like Glenn beck riverbendviewgal Jan 2013 #27
Loony toons or an average Right Winger? Kalidurga Jan 2013 #28
Why did a jury vote to hide this? former-republican Jan 2013 #30
What we should do is find a different source. Archae Jan 2013 #32
I don't trust anyone to be accurate , that includes most of the talking heads former-republican Jan 2013 #37
You've only been here since last August, so let me break it down for you. Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #33
Then why have a thread about him if everything he says is dismissed former-republican Jan 2013 #34
Probably the same way people can talk about how stormfront is full of racist shitwits Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #36
gotcha .... it makes sense former-republican Jan 2013 #39
Wiley Coyote thinks Alex is insane ... that is how Loonie Toons Alex is. JoePhilly Jan 2013 #38
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