Alex Jones — whose name is practically synonymous with “9/11 Truther” — is known for being one beer short of a six-pack, so it’s unsurprising that he thinks the Aurora shooting was planned by Obama.
Strap on your tinfoil hats, people, and keep your arms and legs in the vessel at all times.
We’re taking a trip to Crazytown, population: Alex Jones.
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300baud
What’s the story with all these must-click-through posts from ABL? I think I missed the origin. I almost never click through just to find out what a blurb is talking about, so I’ve basically stopped reading ABL’s posts.
ruemara
@300baud: Thanks for your input. Your opinion is important to us, please stay on the line.
jwb
@300baud: I think she’s trying to drive traffic to her own site for ad revenue or whatnot. I rarely click through either but tend to think of these posts as more or less open threads.
tam
OT: Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a string of companies behind The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, fuelling expectations that he is preparing to sell the newspaper group.
jwb
Via Roger Ebert’s twitter feed: Tin hat brigade is definitely on the march.
AkaDad
More like five beers short of a six-pack.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Obligatory request that the “crazy” labels be taken out of use. Words like that perpetuate stigma against people with actual brain disorders. On a related note, how did I miss this? It’s really quite unusual for NAMI to make a statement about politics. I mean, WTF? This needs to be widely reported – the Lt. Gov of VA insults not only all supporters of the President, but a huge population of people with chronic illnesses.
NCSteve
Hell, I’m surprised they haven’t figured out a way to blame the drought on him yet. You know they’re trying.
I expect their brains short out when the “Obama is changing the climate for his own evil cryptosharia parasite enabling ends” thought bumps up against “the climate can’t possibly change from anything humans do.”
SmallAxe
@jwb:
Whoa that is down the rabbit hole
wrb
@300baud:
Originally it was that she’d been hired by a paying blog, which required the click-through if she was to be allowed to still post here & Cole wanted her to still post here.
I don’t click through due to the load time, but usually can gather the gist from the comments.
Some are upset to a peculiar degree by the practice.
Oh, to have a sensitive soul.
jwb
@efgoldman: I didn’t say I didn’t read ABL; I said I didn’t click through. I read whatever ABL posts here, and I challenge you to find a place where I have opposed her practice of partial posting. She can do whatever the hell she wants on this blog as far as I’m concerned.
Countme In
Alex Jones, do you hear my voice?
Listen to me very carefully.
Walk into your kitchen, turn on the blender and press the FRAPP button. Now. stick your hand in the blender.
Are we good so far?
Now, provided this is a wireless blender, keep the blender running with your hand arm still inserted and walk to the nursery, and with the other hand, hack your baby up with a cleaver.
Done with step two yet? Yes? O.K., we have more to go, so keep listening.
Still carrying the running blender on the end of the one arm. pick as many pieces of your hacked-up baby with the other, and find the nearest and highest overlook.
Are you there? Jump off a cliff.
______________
This brainwashing stuff is a piece of cake.
I love his invocation of TSA-style groping coming to movie theaters near you. If the TSA’s style of groping at the movies once the feature starts is anything like mine used to be, I expect little to come of it, except that their arms will fall asleep once they have it draped over the back of the gropee’s seat.
My position is that the NRA and Gun Owners of America have been running a fast and furious operation in the United States since roughly the Reagan Administration and it is finally bearing fruit.
Of course, the Denver shooter’s (just a few miles from me) political biases, such as they were, may turn out to be in the vein of bipartisanship and that of an independent voter, given the paranoia from both ends of the spectrum:
dailykos.com/story/2011/01/10/934890/-Stochastic-Terrorism-160-Triggering-the-shooters
I tell you what, though, if enough Hannity and Beck are found in these hopeless romantics’ domiciles, I’d be happy to go with a pogrom to cleanse of the hate-mongers on the Right.
scott
I dunno. There are always nuts. Is this nut especially significant in the big scheme of things?
Tonal Crow
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jurassicpork
Instead of having a substantive, sustained debate on gun control, let’s have, instead, theater security theater.
karen
@jurassicpork:
Theater security isn’t subjects to primarying by the NRA.
Dave
THIS WAS FASCINSTIGN. THAKN YOU FOR THIS PORPAGANDIA ARTICLE, I WILL READ IT WHEN
dance around in your bones
@jwb:
Oh for fuck’s sake, I clicked on that.
Why do I keep hearing
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mdblanche
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Yes, right now suggesting the shooter (I just realized I don’t remember his name and I have no intention of looking it up) is mentally ill is based on as much factual evidence as anything Asshole Jones has ever said.
dance around in your bones
@efgoldman: Damn, gave up a vital piece of info.
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dead existentialist
I blame Reagan for Alex Jones. That guy needs a hospital bed, retroactively stat.
Raven
Some of you motherfuckers whine and cry worse than a goddamn teabagger. If you don’t want to click on the fucking link, don’t click on it. No one gives a rats ass what you think about it.
namaste
Brian S
I have an alternative theory for Mr. Jones. I think this was planned by the RNC as a way to get Mitt Romney’s taxes out of the news cycle. I’m basing it on roughly as much evidence as Jones is providing, which means it has to be true, right?
dance around in your bones
@Raven: Isn’t that why we are here? To say what we think about shit?
Your fish was beeyoutiful.
Raven
@dance around in your bones: Sure, I’m just hot. Mowing in this humidity after letting it go for 2 weeks was a bitch!
dance around in your bones
@Raven: I once let my lawn(s) go for a month when my husband was overseas. Had to rent a huge weed whacker and a male friend to cut down the 3 foot tall grass.
Heh, I said ‘rent a male friend’.
I fuckin’ hate humidity. Namaste, indeed.
freelancer
The Paultard I work with is also an Alex Jones devotee. He’s got an infowars bumpersticker on his car and whenever somebody brings up the word “government”, he launches into left field about government only being good for killing people, enslaving them, or giving your money to corrupt corporations.
It’s a potpourri of insane, contradictory ideas fueled by paranoia.
debbie
The anti-Obama ads are back on tv already. So much for respect for others. I’d almost call this … disgusting.
David Koch
Actually I thought it was a Romney operation to change the white hot media intensity off his twin felony scandals
James E. Powell
@debbie:
Whoever paid for those ads would love to have his money back. Those ads are directed at a population that is not currently paying attention.
whidby
We’ve had that debate – the one about gun control – for decades.
Villago Delenda Est
No.
He’s six cans short. He’s the plastic thingy that holds them together.
He’s missing everything in the happy meal but the bag it came in.
Yutsano
@Brian S: Well it’s out there now, we HAVE to talk about it, amirite?
Jamie
Truck nuts.
Except that this is even sillier, with less of a purpose. Do they have to keep him in an ice bath to keep him from overheating between takes?
ABL
@300baud: –> balloon-juice.com/2012/07/19/why-is-the-mainstream-media-covering-for-ann-romney/#comment-3467583
300baud
@efgoldman:
Personally, it’s because I asked a question asking what was up with the new posting style. I used to read ABL with frequent enjoyment, and I wanted to know what happened. Sorry if you feel that’s a waste of your time.
300baud
@ABL:
So basically it’s so you can make a profit?
No offense meant, but I’ve seen what trolling for revenue-enhancing eyeballs and clicks does to content quality. One of the things I like best about Balloon Juice is that the posters have not been trying to make a living off it, instead writing when the spirit moves them.
I’m sorry you’ve chosen this path. Especially at a time when CPM and CPC numbers continue to decline with no floor in sight; it’s a terrible time to be starting an ad-supported content business. I look forward to reading you again when you return to doing it for your audience, not your advertisers.
Jamie
Tha fuck?
If you don’t like ABL, don’t click.
Changey things on the inter tubes change, yo. Check out Netflix. I know it hurts, but you’ll likely be back.
r€nato
Last I checked in at Alex Jones’ House o’ Crazy, within hours of the JT Ready murder-suicide in Arizona Jones was claiming it was a government wet job to cover up something or other.
Rather than, you know, some neo-Nazi scumbag loser who couldn’t hold a day job who went nuts and offed a family and then himself because he was getting kicked out of the house.
nope, that couldn’t be it. Better to put one’s faith in a conspiracy theory without any empirical evidence whatsoever, other than the voices in your head.
Ever try to argue with a conspiracy nutter? Don’t bother unless you are in the mood to just fuck with someone to the point they completely lose their shit. Conspiracy nutters do NOT like being told they are fucking nutters who are out of touch with objective reality.
300baud
@efgoldman:
Sure, everybody’s entitled to make a living. Everybody’s entitled to their opinions, too. My opinion: ad-supported web content is a lousy way to make money these days. And it’s a lousy way to make content as well; he incentives are too perverse. I’ve been doing web stuff since before the invention of the banner ad, and I have friends making a go of on-line content to this day.
300baud
@Jamie:
I like ABL just fine. And I like Balloon Juice. Which is why I’m saying something. But yeah, I probably won’t click on her posts until she gets over the urge to profit from BJ.
required
alex jones does not believe any of the crap he spews. he is a complete fraud and quite possibly an fbi informant.
required
alex jones does not believe any of the crap he spews. he is a complete fraud and quite possibly an fbi informant.
r€nato
@required: I kind of figured he’s cynical as fuck. He’s got a good little racket going, and he’s got to keep it going to pay the bills.
Just like the hate radio jocks.
Kimberly Smiths
Theater security must be intense not only in theaters but elsewhere..when there are public.