Alex Jones

[barack the house]

This guy bothers me really. In the MN vote he backed the 3rd party candidate Berkley, I think without his support we wouldn't even be seeing a recount in MN and Franken would be the next senator. Alex has a bit of following but trys to put out he's not partisan and tons of misinformation about climate change saying to his listeners that addressing climate change will be like a Gestapo on business. I think more progressives should contact his show with true information about our climate. What he's putting out there is dangerous an ludicrous. The more we put the record straight on shows like this by phoning in the better things get on these issues and the better barack's safety becomes. He's only independent radio so it's not like going up against the big right wing syndicate.

[paulk]

1. alex jones is an idiot

threads linking to his site used to be routinely locked around here

the best thing progressives could do is to ignore him completely...

imo

[Occam Bandage]

2. Alex Jones is a nut who is only listened to by nuts. nt

[olkaz]

3. Alex Jones is the least of our worries.

Although the guy is hilarious. I should sign back up for the podcast. Good times.

[cooolandrew]

5. Yeah, but it's the nuts that I am most concerned about. I'm hearing a lot of his stuff floating>

around now and a lot of it is scare mongering against barack started on his show. When Berkley polled around 20 something percent in MN off Alex's backing it's worth taking notice what nonsense he's putting out there against Barack. He previously asked reasonable questions about 911 but now he's just putting out clear and dangerous misinformation about barack before he's even entered office.

[jobycom]

4. Someone turned on his Access Channel show at my work once.

It was a customer waiting in the lobby. They turned the volume up full, and my boss didn't know what to do, not being the confrontational sort. I just sat in my office and chuckled as Alex screamed loud enough to rattle the windows.

So when the guy's car was fixed and he left, the counter guy screamed "Joby!" and asked me who Alex Jones was. For some reason they think I'm the local conspiracy nut, even though I'm less into conspiracies than the average person. They know so few liberals they just automatically associate any nutjob with liberals. I had to explain that no, he wasn't liberal, and he probably agreed more with them than me, but that he was just a lunatic, really.

The experience rattled them as much as Jones rattled the window panes. :rofl:

[Bullet1987]

6. I admit, I used to listen to him around 2004-2006 before I got into Randi Rhodes

His obvious Right-leaning bias against Climate Change is what was the nail in the coffin for me. He believes both political parties are corrupt and controlled by the Illuminati or whatever. I haven't listened to his show recently, but he probably believes Obama is some elitist ploy to push global government...knowing his style.

[DeepBlueDem]

7. Alex Jones is a fear-mongering fraud

[Warren DeMontague]

8. I don't use the term "fruitcake" much, but...

well, I actually think he's a businessman. But he's got a corner on certain slice of the fruitcake market.

[marlo]

9. I grew up in Austin, Texas.

Went to the same High School that Alex Jones did though he was a few years ahead of me. I remember watching his Austin access show and listening to the radio show that he had on KJFK before he got fired with my friends for laughs. That was about a decade ago. I can't believe the following that he's built up nationally.

[Zombie2]

10. He's a DISINFORMATION AGENT!

:hide:

[happychatter]

12. gmta... nt

[happychatter]

11. jones is a disinformation agent... there REALLY is some crazy conspiracy stuff going on

and agents like jones are there to make sure the truth is hidden in obvious crazy shit

so the truth will look like crazy shit

get it?

Jones is not worth talking to, and his devotee's have to be worked with individually

their hysteria is born in logic... the powers that be ARE machiavellian and secretive... they DO have malign intent

They (his supporters) don't need our ridicule and abuse... (and you would abuse them, fess up), they need intervention