At Last: The Convergence of Alex Jones and Fox News

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It’s no secret that Fox News is in the business of mainstreaming far right ideology, but now, at last, the mask of sanity comes all the way off as the Geraldo Rivera show actually hosts swivel-eyed lunatic Alex Jones as if he were some kind of expert on Syria. Predictably, Jones concocts a conspiracy theory, because it’s what he does.

I’d say “shame on Fox News” for promoting one of the most despicable, deranged characters in America, but what’s the point?

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43 comments
1 Randall Gross  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:48:51am

It’s a business model that works for now.

2 Amory Blaine  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:49:07am

Because when nothing but facts will do, Alex Jones is on the case!

/~~woozy~~

3 jaunte  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:51:50am

Alex Jones: “The Germans may be involved in the conspiracy to blame Assad.”

4 b_sharp  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:56:05am

re: #1 Randall Gross

It’s a business model that works for now.

It really is about the business model.

Success is measured in money not accuracy or reliability or knowledge or social benefit.

5 SnowdenBaggerVance  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:56:43am

We Are All Journalists Now

6 Justanotherhuman  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:56:52am

This must be intoxicating for a high schooler like Jones.

Ever notice that the worst of these kind have very little formal education?

Not that the money making schemes they invent require any.

7 darthstar  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:57:07am
8 darthstar  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:57:42am

Context for #7 above:

9 Was Shellie Zimmerman Wearing A Hoodie???  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 10:58:10am

I can now accuse right wingers of being a bunch of anti war hippies. Yay!
What are those hippies Rush and Palin been saying about all this?

10 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:00:17am

DERP HE THINKS HE’S A MINDREADER

DERP, ANOTHER MINDREADER

11 SnowdenBaggerVance  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:00:27am

re: #9 I Earned My Sodomy Merit Badge!

I can now accuse right wingers of being a bunch of anti war hippies. Yay!
What are those hippies Rush and Palin been saying about all this?

As a wise man recently said, all it takes for the GOP to be against war is a black president.

12 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:01:05am

DERP DERP

13 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:02:16am

How many Syrians have been killed the the U.S. military already?

14 b.d.  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:02:55am

re: #3 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Alex Jones: “The Germans may be involved in the conspiracy to blame Assad.”

[dudebro]Why is Germany spying on Syria? They’re not their enemy nor have they declared war on them?![/dudebro]

15 Was Shellie Zimmerman Wearing A Hoodie???  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:06:25am

re: #10 Vicious Babushka

Wow. Is that really what they have been told about Democrats?
It’s like the religious right completely projected their own fanatical faith onto the beliefs of progressives.

I really believe it has gotten to the point where the left and right are completely incompatible.

16 SnowdenBaggerVance  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:06:53am

We need new font for DudeBro mode.

17 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:08:41am

re: #16 SnowdenBaggerVance

We need new font for DudeBro mode.

Here it is.

18 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:10:16am

DERP

19 darthstar  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:10:29am

CNN being CNN

20 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:12:16am

I am feeling really down today. I don’t know why. Coming off the 3-day break from NO INTERNETS?

I’ll go bake some bread.

And there is leftover PIE.

21 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:13:04am

DERP

22 Justanotherhuman  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:13:52am

re: #20 Vicious Babushka

I am feeling really down today. I don’t know why. Coming off the 3-day break from NO INTERNETS?

I’ll go bake some bread.

And there is leftover PIE.

Too many endorphins at one time? : )

23 Amory Blaine  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:15:14am

A pledge drive for a dudebro font.

24 darthstar  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:15:56am

Commit a personal foul, get ejected. It’s about time the NFL started treating assholes like assholes. Weed these idiots out of the league and this might become an actual sport again.

25 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:17:54am
26 b.d.  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:18:01am

[dudebro]OK, it’s ok for Germany to spy on Syria but if Syria tries to communicate in code then Germany shouldn’t try to crack it[/dudebro]

27 darthstar  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:18:13am

Fuck the Sirota.

28 b.d.  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:19:42am

re: #21 Vicious Babushka

DERP

[Embedded content]

Ok which one of y’all gave Sirota the Pixy Stix?

29 simoom  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:20:21am

I see your Alex Jones and Fox News convergence and raise you Michele Bachmann, Steve King and Louie Gohmert:

washingtonpost.com

The video, posted below, is a doozy. Bachmann, presumably supported by King and Gohmert, offers fulsome praise for the coup and the military-led government’s subsequent actions, describing its crackdowns against sit-ins and demonstrations as “the front lines” in “the war on terrorism.” She described the Muslim Brotherhood as a common enemy and a “great evil,” implying that it had been responsible for the attacks against the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. King and Gohmert offered similar but more tempered remarks.

…

Bachmann’s remarks appeared deeply consistent with Egyptian state propaganda that has portrayed the Muslim Brotherhood as a secret terrorist organization and an internal enemy.

…

She added, “Many of you have asked, Do we understand who the enemy is? We can speak for ourselves: We do. We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed, here, for the people of Egypt. We’ve seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We remember who caused nine-one-one in America.”

Youtube Video

30 darthstar  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:21:27am
31 Targetpractice  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:22:45am

Anybody wanna bring up to Fox the irony of the calls from the wingnuts to let the UN inspectors have more time and to let diplomacy work?

32 Justanotherhuman  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:23:23am

Another story on that village…

Syrian rebels seize control of Christian village

hosted.ap.org

“After days of clashes in and around Maaloula, rebels captured the village following fierce fighting late Saturday, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group. Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said the assault was led by Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaida-affiliated group, as well as by the Qalamon Liberation Front.

“He said around 1,500 rebels were inside Maaloula, while the army had the village surrounded.

“Syria’s state news agency provided a dramatically different account of the battle, saying the military reported “progress” in its offensive in Maaloula.

“The army continued its military operation against terrorist elements in Maaloula village and its vicinity, inflicting a heavy casualty in the ranks of the terrorists, including their leaders,” the news agency said.”

Hard to decide what to think…

33 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:23:39am

Seahorse babies

Youtube Video

34 Amory Blaine  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:25:44am

re: #3 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Alex Jones: “The Germans may be involved in the conspiracy to blame Assad.”

Forget it he’s rolling.

35 Eventual Carrion  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:25:59am

re: #23 Amory Blaine

A pledge drive for a dudebro font.

I’ll give my .02, it looks good.

36 Decatur Deb  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:32:54am

re: #32 Justanotherhuman

Another story on that village…

Syrian rebels seize control of Christian village

hosted.ap.org

“After days of clashes in and around Maaloula, rebels captured the village following fierce fighting late Saturday, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group. Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said the assault was led by Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaida-affiliated group, as well as by the Qalamon Liberation Front.

“He said around 1,500 rebels were inside Maaloula, while the army had the village surrounded.

“Syria’s state news agency provided a dramatically different account of the battle, saying the military reported “progress” in its offensive in Maaloula.

“The army continued its military operation against terrorist elements in Maaloula village and its vicinity, inflicting a heavy casualty in the ranks of the terrorists, including their leaders,” the news agency said.”

Hard to decide what to think…

Think that anything that comes from a government or rebel propaganda font is mostly bullshit. All sides, all wars.

37 sattv4u2  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:33:38am

re: #32 Justanotherhuman

Hard to decide what to think…

As always in situations like this, somewhere in the middle

i have no doubt that the “rebels” have taken the town (or at the least, major portions of it) and also that the gov’t did inflict heavy casualities. THE question will be if the rebels can hold the town and if so, will they start slaughtering villgares

38 Decatur Deb  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:34:42am

re: #31 Targetpractice

Anybody wanna bring up to Fox the irony of the calls from the wingnuts to let the UN inspectors have more time and to let diplomacy work?

It would be lost on them.

39 Pavlovian Hive Mind  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:52:20am

re: #21 Vicious Babushka

DERP

[Embedded content]

Nope.
You guys have already been calling anti Snowden people nazis/mafia/fascists.
Projection.

40 Was Shellie Zimmerman Wearing A Hoodie???  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 11:54:25am

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s how all births should be, and then just swim away.


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41 chadu  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 1:55:08pm

re: #20 Vicious Babushka

I am feeling really down today. I don’t know why. Coming off the 3-day break from NO INTERNETS?

I’ll go bake some bread.

And there is leftover PIE.

I made a pasta thingy, with photo!

42 JustMark  Sun, Sep 8, 2013 2:07:34pm

re: #17 Vicious Babushka

Here it is.

I thought it was Comic Sans

43 Pygmalion  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:15:39am

Alec Jones! The only Nazis are the people who want to sit by and let others get gassed to death! How anyone could do that, I don’t know.


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