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Blast of Confetti posted:Maybe he's just a very loud crazy that doesn't stop screaming for long enough to realize why everything he does besides eat, breathe, and sleep is a pretty awful idea. I'm actually pretty certain that he doesn't stop screaming for eating and sleeping. He just continues, dropping food out the side of his mouth.
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He has a certain passion about him, that's for sure. Nice rug.
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SquadronROE posted:I'm actually pretty certain that he doesn't stop screaming for eating and sleeping. He just continues, dropping food out the side of his mouth. Pretty much. He rants and eats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RV4xrcqfo4 First comment: 'alex jones is pure cointelpro propaganda. smash the state.' Videodrome posted:The thing is, it's not clear what Alex Jones wants to happen after the oppressed sheeple open their eyes and rise up against our evil overlords. I don't think he knows either, he's an agitator advancing a 'trust no one' narrative that undermines Legitimate Activism.
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Videodrome posted:Not sure who that is, but David Icke is your Alex Jones. It's Alex Jones. The one the thread should be about but isn't. Also, Icke was there first. Alex Jones is your David Icke.
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Maybe someone here who knows more about Jones can explain this to me, but I'm curious, what is Alex Jones's explanation as to why he hasn't just been disappeared for exposing the Illuminati or whoever.
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McDowell posted:Pretty much. He rants and eats. I never realized before, but just hearing the way he talks so fast while taking such tiny breaths almost makes me lightheaded. I wonder how he manages to do a whole show without passing out from SevenSixTwoX39 posted:Maybe someone here who knows more about Jones can explain this to me, but I'm curious, what is Alex Jones's explanation as to why he hasn't just been disappeared for exposing the Illuminati or whoever. Because obviously he's just a ruse. Make people laugh at the idea of the Illuminati and they'll stop believing in it.
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One of my regular customers is always talking about this guy. FEMA death camps, HARP death lazers, big up rising coming, etc Sadly this is in Canada. His crazy is spreading.
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"After you go finish drinking your little juices, you're ready to go out and have a baby!" Man, it's been a long time since I listened to Alex Jones. I seem to be unable to remember just how insane he is, like I block it out or something, because I am surprised every time.
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SevenSixTwoX39 posted:Maybe someone here who knows more about Jones can explain this to me, but I'm curious, what is Alex Jones's explanation as to why he hasn't just been disappeared for exposing the Illuminati or whoever. well now that he called Piers Morgan a hatchetman for the New World Order and ranted about Building 7 and the Reichstag fire he is claiming that he might not get out of New York alive. He will Why didn't the conspiracy kill Mulder? They knew he'd become a martyr 
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Crawley Heat posted:I would say yes, its an American thing. We have a guy here in Australia on the radio. Hes a shithead and THAT gets him in national trouble (Alan Jones). If he was Alex Jones level, he'd be off the air - probably not for being a loon, just for being "stupid crap". That's where Alex Jones was until recently--public access TV and radio shows he paid to have broadcast.
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I can't wait until Dave Mustaine runs in to Alex's defense. Maybe he'll invite Alex over to the music studio to cry on his shoulder and they can record a duet together.
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I'm always amazed at just how well-known this guy has become over the years. One of my friends is an orthodox nun who lives in a secluded monastery out in the Greek mountains and even she has heard of him. I guess it's hard to be on the internet for very long without running into this guy at some point. I used to go to Austin Community College, and a long time ago Alex Jones was a student of one of the teachers I had there. He said that Jones was always pretty loud in class and was really into UFO conspiracies back then. It would seem he hasn't changed much. I used to listen to him on the radio when I lived in Austin and I always had a hard time telling if he was really genuinely insane or just putting on an act. I think it's probably a mixture of both.
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Cheapsteaks posted:I can't wait until Dave Mustaine runs in to Alex's defense. Maybe he'll invite Alex over to the music studio to cry on his shoulder and they can record a duet together. Dave really is off the deep end nowadays, huh. Some rock stars really should stick to drugs, though Megadeth has great songs because of the crazy I suppose. The Stygian posted:Is that just an attempted joke that you're attempting to pass off under the guise of a great conspiracy theory.  (it looks nothing like him  )
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I've mentioned this in other Alex Jones threads here, but it really is my favorite AJ story: When Deus Ex was released there was a lot of rumors that Warren Spector drew inspirations for the conspiracies in the game from listening to Alex Jones (along with the obvious X-Files and Art Bell). The game was basically the nightmare scenario of false-flag operations and one-world-government martial law that Alex loved to rant about. However, when Alex was given a copy he apparently only played up until the scene where Walter Simons, the evil director of FEMA, interrogates a captured NSF "terrorist". This is the point in the game where it becomes clear that the player is working for the bad guys and needs to reconsider his allegiances and start helping in the war against tyranny and oppression and all that jazz. Alex apparently stopped playing right here (after shooting the NSF detainee himself in the game) and concocted in his own mind what the real story of Deus Ex was. On his show the next day he declared that Deus Ex was the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, designed to desensitize children to violence, kidnapping, and torture, and intended to prepare a generation of obedient military thugs to diligently round up innocent civilians, toss them into death camps, and then casually and without hesitation shooting them in the face. In Alex's assessment this game would serve the purpose of preparing American youth to be either complacent to or active participants in the coming global holocaust. Alex spent more time ranting about this game than he did playing it. Not only did he not play the rest of the game before bloviating, he didn't even attempt to research his story. (Keep in mind, at this time he still claimed to be a "journalist".) Deus Ex was written and produced in Austin. Ion Storm's office was located less than 5 miles from the KLBJ studios. With a phone call he probably could have interviewed every single person involved in the creation of the game. He could have gone to their office, said "Hi, I'm Alex Jones" and gotten a tour. Instead he just let his paranoid delusional imagination write its own reality and then opened his mouth. It was awe inspiring. Videodrome fucked around with this message at Jan 8, 2013 around 22:24 |
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VikingSkull posted:
Stop trying to make me fall in love with Alex Jones goddammit!
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Videodrome posted:Instead just let his paranoid delusional imagination write it's own reality and then opened his mouth. It was awe inspiring. Or he's a media huckster who just latched on to the sensational narrative of the time (video games training people to be killers - he brought it up along with pills in the Morgan interview). Why promote something that you aren't going to make money from? Of course this leads to the  that Deus Ex is frighteningly prescient.'Without Due Process we truly live in an Age of Terror' - JC Denton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COwfIhvRtNw
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VikingSkull posted:
There is more to it, though. Kevin Booth (who along with Bill Hicks started Sacred Cow Productions, specializing in conspiracy theory videos) produces a lot of Alex Jones's videos. Also, claims that there are no photos of Alex Jones before Hick's death in 1994, their similar mannerisms and outbursts (Wake up, people!), the fact that Alex looked way older than his early 20's in the mid-90's, and the fact that Bill Hicks died from cancer...just like Andy Kaufman who also totally faked his own death. It's all bullshit, but Alex's fans aren't really known for their fact-checking.
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Jones is all volume and cadence, volume and cadence. volume and cadence. volume and cadence. Doop dee doop dee doo. (Just posting to see how my new avatar looks. Does it further encryptify my shimmering enigmatude? I think it does.) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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How do guys like this get so popular? I can barely even sit through 3 minutes of his ranting and raving in one of those linked video clips.
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Modus Operandi posted:How do guys like this get so popular? I can barely even sit through 3 minutes of his ranting and raving in one of those linked video clips. He is an authority figure (access to half decent production equipment) who confirms people's worst fears - especially that 'legitimate' authority figures (commercial media) aren't to be trusted.
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VikingSkull posted:
I dunno... add another 40 pounds to Bill Hicks and the resemblance is pretty uncanny. It's a conspiracy, man.
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Modus Operandi posted:How do guys like this get so popular? I can barely even sit through 3 minutes of his ranting and raving in one of those linked video clips. As loco as he is, he's charismatic. Think Hitler. Only crazier. Weak-minded people look for something to latch onto, and he flatters them by telling them that they're smarter than the rest of the sheeple.
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SevenSixTwoX39 posted:Maybe someone here who knows more about Jones can explain this to me, but I'm curious, what is Alex Jones's explanation as to why he hasn't just been disappeared for exposing the Illuminati or whoever. Modus Operandi posted:How do guys like this get so popular? I can barely even sit through 3 minutes of his ranting and raving in one of those linked video clips. McDowell posted:He is an authority figure (access to half decent production equipment) who confirms people's worst fears - especially that 'legitimate' authority figures (commercial media) aren't to be trusted. He also gathers a lot of guest that his audience can readily associate with. Pretty much every time he begins by propping up their credentials and presents them as an authority on the subject then proceeds to endorse their views and fits them into his NWO/conspiracy narrative while pushing their product. He also rallies his base to do his advertising for him by telling them to go do poo poo, donate to poo poo, buy poo poo and spread the word and so on. I think it's just the result of networking and setting up infrastructure (as McDowwell mentioned) over 13? years he's been doing the show. He's on the DrudgeReport right now, and has been +180 times according to ThinkProgress. He's also on the frontpage of CNN and Politco. It all just builds up over the years, I guess. Civil posted:As loco as he is, he's charismatic. Think Hitler. Only crazier. He takes live calls too which is double crazy considering his audience.
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Homeless Friend posted:The narrative never gets that far. It is pretty much 24/7 "I'm going to be killed!", "They are after me! I saw them on the way here!" or "I could die any day!" so he can tell his audience he is the real deal and is risking his life to get the information out. I think a fair number of his listeners tune in actually hoping Today Will Be The Day and they'll get to catch him being killed on air.
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"Look I feel like I'm being raped here" -AJ on having to submit to a thumb scan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0RprI5J_5k
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Tarq posted:^^ Wow it is the second coming of Sam Kinison So the difference between him and you is that he's ok with gays and blacks?
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Has anyone listened to Jones' interview w/ Noam Chomsky? That pretty much convinced me that he was a piece of poo poo, calling Chomsky a shill for the NWO and call kinds of crap because they had a disagreement on gun statistics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSXFX8bM6s8
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Flesh Forge posted:I think a fair number of his listeners tune in actually hoping Today Will Be The Day and they'll get to catch him being killed on air. Becoming a martyr to his own audience live would be a bittersweet thing because they wouldn't be able to listen to him cry about it the next day. Edit: Oh my god, that reminds me of his insane excerpts of the analysis he did of the latest Batman movie. VVVV Homeless Friend fucked around with this message at Jan 8, 2013 around 23:49 |
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I'm certain Alex Jones is just an act. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQt-dyPKzxA
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Draws An 8 posted:Has anyone listened to Jones' interview w/ Noam Chomsky? This is especially interesting because it predates 9/11 and the Iraq invasion. This really seems to suggest that part of Jones' funding comes from groups that want to stifle dissent by making it ridiculous. It's a pretty effective technique to turn the political spectrum into democrat/republican/Alex Jones. People like Chomsky never get a second of airtime in commercial media today, while Jones gets his fifteen minutes to rant and rave. If Alex's hits on the New World Order, the pharmaceutical industry, and Building 7 make CNN producers cringe they would probably keel over if Adam Curtis got onto US airwaves: http://archive.org/details/AdamCurt...enturyOfTheSelf
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At my house we have a summer tradition of always putting Alex Jones on the shortwave and listening to him rant while we have a barbecue. Ho idea how that started but now when I think of Alex I inevitably think of nice summer evenings, eating a good steak, drinking beer and thanking gently caress I don't live on the same continent as that guy. One time his guest was Richard Stallman. Alex Jones and Richard loving Stallman. It was a perfect storm of what the gently caress.
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Homeless Friend posted:"After you go finish drinking your little juices, you're ready to go out and have a baby!" And still subscribes to the fluoride being communist mind control substance theory.
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Civil posted:As loco as he is, he's charismatic. Think Hitler. Only crazier. It's also a different thing listening to him during a 15 second clip when he's absolutely freaking out, and listening to him for an hour. He's on the radio three hours every single goddamn day, and like Hitler, the fly-off-the-handles loco stuff is only part of a bigger package. Videodrome posted:The thing is, it's not clear what Alex Jones wants to happen after the oppressed sheeple open their eyes and rise up against our evil overlords. This is why you can't ascribe a particular ideology to him. He was just as anti-Bush as he is anti-Obama. He literally condemns ALL world leaders and governments. Does this make him an anarchist? But he doesn't really talk about anything post-uprising, so I have no idea if he expects an utopian anarchy, or his own personal dictatorship, or just a biblical Armageddon followed by the second coming and god's rule on Earth. Is he an anarchist? No. He's an extreme nationalist, for sure. He condemns all governments around the world because he hates internationalism and foreigners. The world and the elites are threats to American national sovereignty. And the traitors/globalists/elites in our own country need to be summarily killed and replaced by a revolutionary regime that hearkens back to the nation's origin in 1776. I have to say that nationalism, a very extreme form of it, is just as predominant in his thinking as the conspiracy stuff. Maybe even more. I would call it a very particularly modern American form of fascism. I also suspect his listeners share a similar class basis (dispossessed lower-middle class whites mainly). His ideology is anti-socialist, anti-liberal, anti-conservative and anti-elitist, while also being a revolutionary kind of right-wingism. We tend to focus on the loco conspiracy stuff, but he's promoting an ideology that'd fit right into the mouth of Willis Carto. Omi-Polari fucked around with this message at Jan 9, 2013 around 00:46 |
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spiralbrain posted:Oh man, that Piers interview is gold. The same reaction when your dog realizes the mailman is walking up to the door.
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As a socialist Marxist reptilian government banker stooge, I feel threatened by Alex Jone's rhetoric. Not to worry, though; I have already tripled the amount of arsenic in his water and have tapped into his internet and television connections. There is no escape from the NWO! ...What the hell is wrong with this man? Maybe there was a time when this paranoid lunacy that grips him was merely a part of his radio and TV persona. He's been doing it so long that his persona has infected his being. Or maybe he's crazy as gently caress.
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I always thought it took a lot of energy to be a wingnut and I was right. Piers looks like he could have taken a nap during that tirade.VikingSkull posted:
Hold on one loving second! Conspiracy theories indeed
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AJ is like the guy I knew in high school with major interpersonal issues who made up stories about living out movies he had seen so he would have something to talk about and just didn't understand why he was shunned for doing this.
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Bill Hicks was awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98vpdWZDarg
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Did he used to be all about UFO/bigfoot/ghosts in the 90's or was that a different radio DJ?
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NESguerilla posted:Did he used to be all about UFO/bigfoot/ghosts in the 90's or was that a different radio DJ? etalian posted:Bill Hicks was awesome: I remember being something of a Bill Hicks fan years ago, but I was put off by his homophobic streak after going back and listening to him again. I think I'm less misanthropic now too.
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