Greg Palast Love Alex Jones

I started this blog last year planning to write about weird stuff and conspiracies. It's occured to me I could get this blog off the ground just by linking to analyses of Alex Jones' appearance (and meltdown) on Piers Morgan's show.

I came across Greg Palast recently through a documentary he did on George W. Bush and family. Some parts of it were good, others seemed like a hatchet job. I figured the guy was a leftist.

According to this article I saw on Prison Planet's Facebook feed, he is really into Alex Jones. It's apparently a 4 part series he's writing on Alex Jones, Piers Morgan, and something to do with his penis. I won't be covering that one.

Greg Palast makes this comment in his article, which starts out good, then turns into a subjective Alex Jones love fest:

The yell from Alex’s throat was not his own voice alone – it was the choric cry of his millions of listeners in the forgotten heartland of America. It was the scream of the screwed.

Not sure I buy that one. Alex Jones doesn't do a good job of representing his listeners when he just piles it on, screaming and pointing.

Or, looking at it another way, his listeners may love it. But it's not going to do a thing to convince Piers Morgan's listeners (all 3 of them) to look up Alex Jones and start listening.

Or maybe Alex's behavior does represent his listeners, which makes me glad I no longer am one.

He also recently said he's the "de-facto leader of the liberty movement". No doubt, a lot of Alex Jones' listeners are looking for a leader. But that's the thing with being liberty minded: you don't need a leader. A truly liberty minded man is capable of leading himself. But then, a lot of Alex's calls are for "just tell us what to do, man. What do we do?"

I have some better Alex Jones stuff I'll break out soon. 

This Makes Me Glad I Stopped Listening To Alex Jones...

I listened to Alex Jones faithfully every day for more than four years. Somewhere after the election, I had some hard choices to make in the realm of 3 hours podcasts, so I stopped listening to Alex. I had a few other reasons as well, but mostly it had to do with a lack of time to keep up. Other reasons are:

• His podcast is apparently sentient. Every single time I tried to do something that required my hands not being available to skip through commercials, the podcast cut to a commercial. 
• I got tired of hearing the same commercials every day year after year. I'd heard them all.
• I got tired of hearing about "Tangy Tangerine". 
• And finally, a radio show is a really poor format for a podcast. It might be fine on the radio, but the host has to waste a lot of time repeating information before and after each commercial break and at the top of the hour, plus the bumper music.

I also felt like I'd heard everything he had to say, one of my main reasons for unsubscribing from a podcast.

He was on Piers Morgan at some point in the last day or so. I have no love for Piers Morgan. I liked him well enough on The Apprentice, but I pay little attention to his CNN show. About the only time I listened in was when Adam Kokesh played the audio of Larry Pratt handing Piers Morgan his ass.

Then Alex Jones goes on Piers Morgan and steps off the reservation.

I'm not complaining about Alex's positions. I for the most part agree with him. His tactics, however, make us all look bad.



He breaks every rule in the book. He commits every debate fallacy imaginable. He attacks Piers Morgan with all his pent up frustration against the entire establishment. He won't answer a question. He keeps jumping tracks. Piers asks him about gun crime and he starts screaming about Building 7.

I think Larry Pratt handled Piers Mogan a lot better.


This is the one where Piers Morgan wouldn't answer a question, jumped around, talked over Larry Pratt, and resorted to calling Larry Pratt a "Stupid Man". Basically, everything Alex Jones did. Alex Jones actually made Piers Morgan look reasonable.

Again, I'm not complaining about Alex's information; it's his tactics. I guess he's so used to operating in an echo chamber where everybody mostly agrees with him or he can hang up on them that it translates to his interactions in real life. Mark Dice thinks he has "mean world syndrome". He's been covering this stuff for so long it has wrecked his view of the world.