Title: Alex Jones (that Infowars clown) is a stupid retard (as are his supporters)… Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on June 21, 2017, 03:29:37 pm from the Los Angeles Times.... Megyn Kelly infuriates Alex Jones and his paranoid, delusional fans By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM PDT - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 (http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo227/Kiwithrottlejockey/David%20Horsey/latimes_20170620dh_1497944930_zpsojcdndbq.jpg~original) (http://www.trbimg.com/img-5948d367/turbine/la-1497944930-lhpoe3q9pn-snap-image) PRIOR TO the Sunday night airing of her interview with rabble-rousing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly was criticized by people who said she and NBC should not give a platform to such a dangerous demagogue. In my view, Kelly's decision to expose Jones to a broader audience provided an important service to the country. Jones already is a big presence on the right. By some measures, his radio show and webcasts have an audience that has grown larger than that of the Los Angeles Times or The New York Times or The Washington Post. One person who follows his tirades with more than passing interest is President Trump (http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics-government/donald-trump-PEBSL000163-topic.html). Jones has brought extremism to the mainstream in heartland America — and to the White House. Jones fans are also some of Trump's most devoted supporters. Perhaps one reason they willingly believe the president's situational, elastic version of the truth is that they have already bought into the bogus twists on reality that Jones presents on his Infowars media platforms. Kelly bore into Jones about his notorious, venal claim that the mass shooting of 20 schoolchildren and six school staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School (http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/schools/elementary-schools/sandy-hook-elementary-school-OREDU000812-topic.html) in 2012 was a hoax. Jones' response was revealing. He would not admit he was horribly wrong. Instead, he displayed the classic mindset of a paranoid conspiracist who is unable to let go of the erroneous facts and dark speculation that harden in his mind into sick fantasy. Jones is an aggressive, loudmouthed, puffy-faced nutcase who has made himself very rich by sharing his intentional delusions with anyone who will listen. What is deeply disturbing is that he has found a receptive audience among millions of Americans who give credence to his many crackpot ideas (for example, that President Obama (http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics-government/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408-topic.html) is the global leader of Al Qaeda; that Hillary Clinton imprisoned children as sex slaves in a Washington pizza parlor; that the September 11th, 2001, attack was backed by elements of the U.S. government; that the government is trying to turn American kids into homosexuals using chemicals in juice boxes). In the world Jones describes and that his followers accept as real, not only are Democrats and the news media enemies and traitors to the republic, but so are establishment conservatives and many Republican leaders. Prior to seeing Kelly's interview with Jones, I had checked out a column (https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2017/06/13/are-we-nearing-civil-war-n2340246) by veteran right-wing firebrand Pat Buchanan (http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics-government/pat-buchanan-PEPLT00008867-topic.html) on an ultra-conservative website. Buchanan was railing about what he called a “civil war” between establishment elites and the Trump White House. The readers who commented on Buchanan's column apparently were not taking civil war as a metaphor. Fortified with the crazy stuff that has filtered into their brains from Jones and others like him, these folks quickly turned to remedies for the treason that they believe is being perpetrated all around them. Here are a few excerpts from their comments:
Judging by the reaction of Jones' fans to what they describe as her “hit piece,” Megyn Kelly has now joined the list of people who “represent all that is evil.” Nevertheless, I applaud her for giving her audience a glimpse into the minds of their fellow citizens by revealing the man who has gotten into their heads. All their flamboyantly militant rage may well just be loose talk, but the war metaphor is not random. Jones employed it himself when speaking to Kelly. He told her the election of Trump was just a beachhead. “The war has just begun,” Jones said. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-alex-jones-20170620-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-alex-jones-20170620-story.html) Title: Re: Alex Jones (that Infowars clown) is a stupid retard (as are his supporters)… Post by: Donald on June 29, 2017, 09:44:39 pm That must put him in the same category as the Clinton News Network (CNN)... which has now been proven to be a fake news outlet especially for demented lefties...suckers..haha |