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Right Suddenly Embraces Truther King

Alex Jones is like Glenn Beck, only moreso

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 8, 2009 1:25 PM CDT

(Newser) – It wasn’t long ago that the right wing hated Alex Jones. A top voice in the 9/11 Truth movement, he was repeatedly ridiculed on Fox News, and Michelle Malkin said Ron Paul’s association with him should disqualify him from the GOP primary debates. But Jones is a non-partisan paranoiac. These days he’s turned his imagination on Obama—surely the front man of the global one-world government conspiracy—and Republicans love him, writes Michelle Goldberg in the New Republic.

Jones’ influence looms large over the tea parties and Glenn Beck’s show. He even appeared on Fox News recently, touted as “The great Alex Jones!” Though sundry leftists have appeared on Jones’ radio show over the years, it’s now a destination for even mainstream Republican officeholders—one congressman recently nodded along in agreement as Jones declared that Obama wanted to put “stuff in the water to sterilize us,” and create Mao-style “youth brigades.”

Alex Jones freaks out about the girl scouts, who are spying on you apparently, in this YouTube screenshot.
Alex Jones freaks out about the girl scouts, who are spying on you apparently, in this YouTube screenshot.
Alex Jones appear on his show in this YouTube screenshot.
Alex Jones appear on his show in this YouTube screenshot.
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Alex Jones interviews David Icke in this segment from his show.   (michaelkatz1000)

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Jones has become politically salient because much of the right is as unhinged as he is. - Michelle Goldberg

His radio program and websites, infowars.com and prisonplanet.com, occupy the shadowy territory where the far right curves around and meets the far left. - Michelle Goldberg

Jones claims to have uncovered the interconnected plots behind the JFK assassination, water fluoridation, and the recent economic crisis. - Michelle Goldberg

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COMMENTS
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dax
Oct 9, 2009 12:39 PM CDT
Wow. Watching LibertyMan and Johnitor debate is like watching inmate on inmate violence. Puzzling and disturbing.
dax
Oct 9, 2009 12:34 PM CDT
LibertyMan heal thyself first.
dax
Oct 9, 2009 12:32 PM CDT
LibertyMan (wrote): "I am trying to de-program this person now with facts" ---- Sorry buddy, I would appear that you just aren't up to that task.

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