Bombing Suspect #1: Alex Jones Fan

Another non-surprise:

The AP reported on Tuesday that Tsarnaev "took an interest" in Infowars and was also interested in getting a copy of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the anti-Semitic fraud that purports to show a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.

Alex Jones Explains It All

He clearly gets one thing right (around 3:50):

"The point is it just gets crazier by the minute."

Jesse Ventura Embraces the Space Beam Nuttiness

Jesse Ventura, on the Alex Jones show, goes from mostly nutty to completely nutty. Admittedly it wasn't a very long trip.

Alex Jones: No Tolerance for Anti-Semitism?

At least, that's what Rolling Stone assured its readers in its coverage of the Truther In Chief in the article James linked last week:

Unlike many of his conspiracy-minded predecessors — Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, the militia movement — Jones has no tolerance for racism or anti-Semitism. "There is no globalist command center, and I never make it about certain groups," says Jones, whose wife is of Jewish descent and whose adopted sister Marley is Asian-American. "All humans do the same stuff. Class solidarity should transcend race and religion in the fight against the globalists. Everything they touch turns to mutated death."

Perhaps the writer, Alexander Zaitchik, just took Old Leatherlungs' word for it? Because emailer Jonathan Leman just pointed out to me that Jones sure seems to tolerate some anti-Semitic nonsense on his site. Like this:

The other subtext is that Jews (and Israelis), who are prominent in the banker-run New World Order, are special people, incapable of wrongdoing and immune to criticism. Anyone who opposes their political agenda is a Nazi.

And this:

Jews think Israel was created as a refuge from anti Semitism. In fact, the Jewish holocaust was engineered to induce Jews to build Israel, intended as the capital of the New World Order.

"Inside Zionism", Chapter One of Jewish historian Alfred Lilienthal's The Other Side of the Coin (1965) documents how Zionists had no use for their fellow Jews except as Israelis. Zionists vetoed plans to rescue people like Hana Brady. For example, FDR had a plan to rescue 500,000 Jews but said: "We can't put it over because the Zionist movement won't stand for it."

The same author previously wrote an article for Jones' site on how the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was not a forgery.

We are told that The Protocols of Zion is a hoax, a "proven forgery" concocted by the Tsarist Political Police (the Okhrana) to incite anti Semitism and discredit revolutionaries.

But the "proof" is far from convincing.

With Jewish bankers coming up, can the Jewish-run media be far behind? Nope:

As Jewish-dominated media increasingly persuades the public and government to agree with this stereotype, it will become easier to pass Christian-restricting hate crime laws. All who adhere to the Bible on homosexuality or Jewish complicity in Christ’s death could be subject to state-sponsored prosecution.

None of these articles were written by Alex himself. But they are clearly tolerated on his website. Several of them were written by Henry Makow, who is third on the list of Independent Contributors to Prison Planet, after Alex himself and top flunky Paul Watson.

The Most Paranoid Man in America

Rolling Stone magazine has a rather in-depth profile of Alex Jones in this month's issue. I have to admit. The drawing of him is pretty good.

It's just past 9 a.m. when Alex Jones pulls his Dodge Charger into a desolate parking lot in Austin. From the outside, the squat, single-story office complex that Jones calls his "command center" resembles a moon base surrounded by fields of dying grass. But inside, blinking banks of high-tech recording gear fill the studio where he broadcasts The Alex Jones Show, a daily talk show that airs on 63 stations nationwide. Jones draws a bigger audience online than Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck combined — and his conspiracy-laced rants make the two hosts sound like tea-sipping NPR hosts on Zoloft.

Alex Jones on the View

It is bad enough he shows up on FoxNews from time to time, now he is on the View defending Charlie Sheen and promoting the troof.

For the Paranoid Nutjob Who Has Everything

I was rather amused to find out that Alex Jones has his own i-Phone app. Wait until Alex's fans find out that we have installed a hack that tracks all of the users through their GPS and forwards the data in real time to the black helicopters at the FEMA death camps....

Nightline Covers Alex Jones

And copies my porno for paranoids observation from a few years back.

This Will Surely Get Me Booted from the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

But I love this post by Will Bunch at Media Matters about Rand Paul appearing on Russia Today, or, as I call it, KookTV.

Where is Russia Today getting its wacky ideas about America and 9/11? It could be from a U.S. commentator that it frequently invites on the air to explain what's happening here -- radio's conspiracy-theorist-in-chief, who makes even Glenn Beck look sane, and that would be Austin-based Alex Jones. You can see some of Jones' TV commentaries for Russia Today here and here and here and here and here, promoting his "Obama Deception" documentary that claims that "America has become a puppet in the hands of private bankers working towards a new world order."

Yep, if you appear on Russia Today, you're pretty much an anti-American nutbar. Particularly revealing is the fact that Rand chose that outlet rather than a teeny, tiny American news program called Meet the Press.

You know how it is. I like the article for the way it bashes the Truthers; I am sure that plenty of conservatives will hate it for the way it bashes Rand Paul. But this is a well-deserved bashing. Any candidate that appears on Russia Today needs to understand that they're appearing on KookTV. It's hilariously "Truther-friendly", features nincompoops like Alex Jones, Luke Rudkowski and Max Keiser, and other so-called "Patriots" who appear to think that the best indication of their loyalty to their country is to get on Russian TV and bash it.

Hilarious Alex Jones Parody Site

Over here (moderately NSFW). Lots of amusing takeoffs on Old Leatherlungs, like these:

Sibel Edmonds, 9-11 Truther

Well, well. Brad Friedman assured me in a telephone conversation about a year and a half ago that Sibel was not a Troofer, but it looks like that no longer applies.

Alex Jones: So you wouldn't be surprised like many others, because of the evidence and the cover-up you've seen, if 9/11 was an inside job?

Sibel Edmonds: At this point, I'd have to say no, I wouldn't be surprised.

Alex Jones: Do you think the evidence is leaning towards that?

Sibel Edmonds: Well, again, considering the level of cover-up and the length at which they have gone to gag people and prevent information-- this information from coming out, I would say yes.

Hat Tip to Debunking the Debunkers. No matter how much John-Michael dances around the point, the fact is that Sibel lied to the 9-11 Commission about the contents of the Chicago Tribune article she cited in her letter.

Just Alex Being Alex

It was a nice, peaceful protest rally before Mr Jones poked his snout in. Note in particular that these people are natural allies of Alex; there's even a bunch of "We Are Changing Diapers" members there.



Some great entertainment value here.



While we're on the topic of Alex, I can add a tidbit of information from Matt Brown. One of the things that always amazed me (and came up in several radio interviews with Dylan) is that while Jones was an executive producer of Loose Change Final Cut, he had no involvement whatsoever with Loose Change 9-11 An American Coup. Dylan refused to explain the circumstances, but apparently Jones failed to include reasonably standard language in the contract giving him a claim on derivative works or sequels. Jones apparently blustered and threatened lawsuits when he found out about AAC, but never followed through.

Hat tip to my poker buddy Shane, who mentioned this to me last night just prior to getting his Aces cracked twice in succession. That was painful to watch, even if it did put me in the money!

ADL Warns About Alex Jones

Pretty good article on old leatherlungs here:

Though popular among anti-government circles in the 1990s, Jones reached prominence in the years after the 9/11 terror attacks, as he became one of the most energetic of the “truthers,” the conspiracy theorists who believe that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” by the U.S. government. He has also collaborated with “celebrity truthers” such as actor Charlie Sheen, and far-right icon Ron Paul, a U.S. Representative from Texas, has often been a guest on his show. In March 2008, media figure Lou Dobbs was a guest on Jones’ show.

Article on Alex Jones

Over at the New Republic.

But it’s really only since Barack Obama’s election, when Jones turned the full force of his apocalyptic imagination toward the new president, that his ideas have found purchase in the conservative mainstream. Several Republican officeholders, from state representatives to congressmen, have appeared on his program to trade wild theories about Obama. Glenn Beck has brought his fear-mongering about the New World Order to network television, and an online Fox News show collaborated with him on a joint broadcast.

To be sure, sundry leftists, as well as some Hollywood types, appear on Jones’s show, as well. Dennis Kucinich and Noam Chomsky have both been on. It’s where actor Charlie Sheen goes to spout his 9/11 Truth theories. But left-wing craziness tends to stay sequestered on the fringes of politics, while the right-wing fringe increasingly is the Republican mainstream. According to a recent Public Policy Polling survey, only 37 percent of Republicans believe that Obama was born in the United States. Jones has become politically salient because much of the right is as unhinged as he is.

I think she's right about how unhinged parts of the right are currently (the Birther nonsense is every bit as stupid as 9-11 nuttery), but I doubt that Alex himself will get much purchase because his past is too well known. Judge Andrew Napolitano deserves to get smacked down for referring to "the great Alex Jones" on the simulcast he did with the Profit of Doom, and any GOP politicos should get the same treatment, although I note that despite the comment about several Republican officeholders appearing on his show, the big name (aside from Ron Paul) that she mentions is Texas GOP congressman Louie Gohmert.

She doesn't mention some of the most offensive stuff that Jones believes; on one show he talked about how all the Mexicans in the US are just waiting for the orders to kill all us gringos.

Hat Tip: Cartman in the comments section.

Luke Describes His G20 Arrest

Some pretty good entertainment value here; note that Alex talks about the FEMA camps again, but somehow Luke didn't get sent there. Perhaps the cops know that Luke requires "special handling".

Update: Troy meets Luke:



Luke may not be a sheeple, but he sure seems sheepish in that video.

Richard Gage Explains Explosives

Both Richard Gage and Steven Jones were on Alex Jones radio show yesterday. Box Boy was so entertaining I had to make a short You Tube video of him.

Charlie Sheen Gets 20 Minutes With the President

No, he didn't. This is just a fantasy post by Charlie. Predictably, he focuses on the NORAD issue:

CS – You’ll notice sir on page one of the dossier dated August of ‘06 from the Washington Post, the statements of John Farmer, senior council to the 9/11 commission, his quote stating, “I was shocked how different the truth was from the way it was described.”

PBO – (as he glances down at the report, almost inaudible) …. um hmm….

CS – He goes on to further state “The [NORAD Air Defense] tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years….”

Aside from that, it's the usual melange of factoids, like Willie Brown was warned not to fly, Mineta describing the Cheney neck whip, Bellone and DeMasi found the black boxes at the WTC, explosions, Barbara Olsen's phone calls, etc.

Update: If you thought the gullible Troofers posting on that thread were funny, check out the firestorm that went on at the Prison Planet Forum when the disclaimer was added (see around page 8).

The Alex Jones Deception is Here!

I picked the wrong day to go out of town, I guess because the Alex Jones Deception has arrived on YouTube:





More here. Outstanding production values from what I've seen so far, and devastating to old leatherlungs. I do note that there is some profanity in the videos, so maybe NSFW. But great entertainment value. Terrific jobby job, Troy!

Alex Claymation

Remember, this was apparently put together by an Alex Jones fan.

Moron Alex As the Joker

I prescribe more thorazine.