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Who on DU thought that Alex Jones (Original Post) War Horse Jan 2013 OP
I used to listen just to hear how weird he would get. shenmue Jan 2013 #1
I've met the guy a couple of times CE5 Jan 2013 #2
Yeah, but it's HIS act! immoderate Jan 2013 #4
Nope. zappaman Jan 2013 #3
Had never heard of him until he went ... tledford Jan 2013 #5
I'd heard of him but hadn't heard him speak until that csziggy Jan 2013 #8
^^ Ditto^^ ... DonViejo Jan 2013 #9
No. LeftishBrit Jan 2013 #6
I used to be a short wave radio fanatic and he would broadcast there 17 years ago. Lint Head Jan 2013 #7
Awww, I used to love Rense... OneMoreDemocrat Jan 2013 #13
He used to be a darling of the anti Dubyas War Horse Jan 2013 #10
He was a nut then, is a nut now. Conspiracy theorists & followers are like cultists graham4anything Jan 2013 #11
Not me NoPasaran Jan 2013 #12
Never followed his crap AND never believed the official account of 9/11 whatchamacallit Jan 2013 #14
Not me. I've known for years that he's crazy. proud2BlibKansan Jan 2013 #15
I never heard of him until he made a fool of himself sad-cafe Jan 2013 #16

tledford

(917 posts)
5. Had never heard of him until he went ...
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:18 PM
Jan 2013

... off on Piers Morgan like a raving, slavering lunatic. I'm not sure I've ever seen ANYONE so unhinged on television as he was that night.

LeftishBrit

(41,209 posts)
6. No.
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:19 PM
Jan 2013

Never listened to him, but looked at the sites from time to time, and found them horrifyingly bad. He was always a right-libertarian and full of bizarre theories. The first time I came across him, he was suggesting that the Clinton government had organized the Oklahoma City bombing in order to restrict 'state rights'.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
7. I used to be a short wave radio fanatic and he would broadcast there 17 years ago.
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:19 PM
Jan 2013

I knew from the moment he opened his mouth there was something wrong with him. He is delusional. Then I heard him tell stories using news reports that I was familiar with locally. He would twist the stories to look like the government was using local police to institute a one world government. The word pathetic does not even come close to what this cowardly idiot is about.

Another one is Jeff Rense. Look out for him. He'll be the next big mouth to try to mainstream his image.

War Horse

(931 posts)
10. He used to be a darling of the anti Dubyas
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:32 PM
Jan 2013

Myself included, for a short while there.

While nuts, he wasn't quite as unhinged as now, though, back then.

But nobody here bought into W's FEMA camps and W never stepping down? Never quite bought into that myself, though I'll admit to having some doubts during my weakest moments.

I come in peace here, folks

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
11. He was a nut then, is a nut now. Conspiracy theorists & followers are like cultists
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 08:07 PM
Jan 2013

very easy to get caught up in it, and see things that someone spewing one of the CTS say

because if you believe in the person saying it, you see what they are saying and it all makes sense

until their real agenda and angle comes out

and the spell is broken and you realize that the end of the breadcrumb trail was put there by the CTer in the first place

the CTer sees the end, and makes a path from the start to that point

I.E.-
deep throat in watergate
(I have said this before).

I never understood all these years why Woodward & Bernstein were W&B on everything but Deep throat, which was just Woodward and NOT Bernstein.
Until later on and we know what type of person Woodward was and Bernstein wasn't.

Deep throat led directly to what DT and those involved with DT wanted Woodward to be led to.And it happened.

The big picture was missed, but the outcome was a given, once people believed those breadcrumbs to be true.

Which was to use the shortcomings of Nixon to achieve the overthrow of Nixon.
(that democratic voters and the media hated him, just made it all easier.
Without that overthrow, the Bush's themselves never would have achieved their power.

With the Alex Jones & CTers out there, it is very easy to achieve what is wanted

one realizes soon, that they make their living spewing these things


In everyman terms, anyone remember the Kolchak the Night Stalker series?
The two movies, then weekly episodes
One person discovers a wacked up thing every single week?
Yet it spawned the David Duchovney show X factor.
again, finding one CT after another.

NoPasaran

(17,291 posts)
12. Not me
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 08:17 PM
Jan 2013

I've been following Alex Jones since he was an up-and-coming young crackpot on Austin Public Access. There's never been a tinfoil hat he hasn't tried on for size. Nothing he has ever said or will say in the future has a shred of credibility.

whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
14. Never followed his crap AND never believed the official account of 9/11
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 08:57 PM
Jan 2013

Sorry if that breaks anyone's syllogism

 

sad-cafe

(1,277 posts)
16. I never heard of him until he made a fool of himself
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 09:44 PM
Jan 2013

on Morgan. Granted I never watch Morgan either, but just had to view the clip of the 1776 crap.

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