Tag: Alex Jones

Damning CNN Supercut Reveals Who Tucker Carlson Really Sounds Like Now

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The Fox News host sounds a lot like America’s most notorious conspiracy theorist.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is starting to sound a lot like right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. 

CNN on Sunday played a supercut of Carlson’s rhetoric matching that of the Infowars host — Both think the government is spying on them, both have pushed conspiracy theories about the coronavirus vaccines, and both have claimed the FBI was behind the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was carried out by pro-Trump insurrectionists. 

The network’s Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy also found a clip that suggests the two may be coordinating: Continue reading.

Alex Jones Says He Coordinated With White House On January 6

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Before Donald Trump’s presidency, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars was considered a fringe outlet in right-wing media circles; even former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly dismissed Jones as a buffoon. But the Trump White House treated Infowars like a serious news organization, and according to Free Speech TV, Jones “is now claiming that he coordinated with the Trump White House on the events of January 6.”

Free Speech TV, in a page for David Pakman’s show, explains, “The Infowars host made the claim last week that he even put up $500,000 of his own money to make it happen. Jones said, ‘The White House told me three days before: We’re going to have you lead the march.’ He went on to say that 30 minutes before the end of Trump’s speech at the Rotunda, the Secret Service planned to take Jones out of the crowd to the spot where the march was supposed to begin. He went on to say, ‘Trump will tell people: Go, and I’m going to meet you at the Capitol.’ Jones’ statements are basically a full-on admission about his involvement in the riots, although he can always hide behind saying he did not intend for the rally to get violent.”

Pakman, however, stressed that Jones has a long history of lying. Continue reading.

Before the insurrection, Alex Jones told MAGAites Biden is a ‘slave of satan’ who ‘will be removed one way or another’

InfoWars’ Alex Jones, a notorious conspiracy theorist who has been kicked off multiple platforms for his extremism, was welcomed onto the stage at a Dec. 12 “prayer rally” organized by religious-right supporters of former President Donald Trump’s effort to stay in power as well as a Jan. 5 rally in Washington, D.C., the day before the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Jones was in sync with the rallies’ themes of Christian nationalism and rebellion intertwined with the persona and presidency of Donald Trump.

At the Dec. 12 “prayer rally,” Jones said that God had raised up Trump and that Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and other “miserable globalists” are “slaves of Satan.” Jones said he didn’t know who would be going to White House in January, but he did know this: “Joe Biden is a globalist, and Joe Biden will be removed one way or another.”

At the Jan. 5 rally on the eve of the insurrection, Jones said that God had sent Donald Trump as a “deliverer.” He said the following day would be “Waterloo” for the “globalists” he said were behind the election fraud. He concluded by screaming, “The globalists are in fear! The globalists want to play God! They are not God! And the answer to their 1984 tyranny is 1776! 1776! 1776! 1776!” Continue reading.

Alex Jones threatened to name a Roger Stone juror. Experts say that might be jury tampering.

Washington Post logoOn the first day of political consultant Roger Stone’s trial in federal court in Washington, D.C., on charges of false statements and witness tampering, Judge Amy Berman Jackson cautioned people in the courtroom against releasing jurors’ names.

But Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was undeterred, the Daily Beast first reported. Ignoring her warning, Jones broadcast on his show the name and face of an individual who he believed had been seated on Stone’s jury, calling the person an anti-Trump “minion” and launching a flurry of witness tampering and obstruction of justice allegations.

Although Jones held up a photo of a person who had no connection to the Stone trial, legal experts maintained the effect was the same as if the person had been a juror.

View the complete November 7 article by Deanna Paul on The Washington Post website here.

After Roger Stone was released from custody, his first stop was The Alex Jones Show

Stone: “There is no circumstance under which I would plead guilty to these charges. There’s no circumstance in which I would bear false witness against the president.”

President Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone’s first media appearance following his departure from a courtroom — where he was charged with several crimes related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — was on Alex Jones’ Infowars outlet, which employs Stone as a show host.

During his appearance, Stone denied committing crimes, repeatedly promoted his legal defense fund, and promised that he would never testify against Trump.

Stone was arrested the morning of January 25 and charged with five counts of making false statements, one count of obstructing a proceeding, and one count of witness tampering. He had been under investigation by the special counsel’s office over whether he had inside information about emails hacked by Russia and then released by WikiLeaks in the 2016 election cycle.

View the complete January 25 article by Timothy Johnson on the Media Matters website here.

Neo-Nazis hope to leverage Alex Jones controversies one year after Charlottesville violence

The following article by Matthew Sheffield was posted on the Hill website August 9, 2018:

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White nationalist activists are seeking to leverage a series of social media setbacks experienced by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones by encouraging even more technology companies to ban Jones’ Infowars website in the hopes of radicalizing his dedicated fanbase.

In a post on his Daily Stormer website, neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin wrote that Jones’ banning from Facebook, YouTube, and elsewhere could encourage Republican elected officials to create laws which would prevent private technology firms from cancelling the accounts of users, including racist groups.

Last August, Anglin’s publication was banned by many internet domain providers after a rally organized by white nationalists and other hate groups in Charlottesville, Va., descended into violence that eventually ended in the death of three people.

View the complete post and video here.

Falsehoods, Sandy Hook and suing Alex Jones

The following article by Enrique Armijo, Associate professor of Law and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Elon University, was posted on the Conversation website June 1, 2018:

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Alex Jones, a well-known media personality, falsely claims you were an accomplice in faking the murder of your own child.

You sue him.

It seems such a case should be easy to win, given the nature of those statements. But defamation law does not provide an equally easy answer. Continue reading “Falsehoods, Sandy Hook and suing Alex Jones”

Megyn Kelly’s Alex Jones Interview

Didn’t have a chance to watch Megyn Kelly’s interview (many of us didn’t)? Much of what he state is hateful and obnoxious, but he has the ear of our current president and many of his supporters, so it’s important to understand this man and his relationship with these people.

The NBC News website has posted the entire interview by visiting this site:

http://www.nbcnews.com/megyn-kelly/video/megyn-kelly-reports-on-alex-jones-and-infowars-970743875859

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