Out of boredom, I just listened to an hour or so of Alex Jones and within a few minutes he was ranting about Christians not being allowed to put up Christmas trees or something and then moaning about paganism and the one world religion.
Jeez! This guy is so fucked up he is starting to fuck me up. For a moment or two, I thought I was following his Amerocentric donut [sic] logic. Jones is whinging about the forthcoming one world religion which, if it is true, is a fair point - though I am generally pretty agnostic. And I personally loathe Christmas because, in my opinion, if Jesus Christ was the son of God, I am pretty goddam certain that he wouldn't want us celebrating his birthday with the grossest festival of consumerism, gluttony and covetousness.
But surely any fule kno that the 'Christmas' tree has its origins in German paganism, no? So Jones is bleating that he isn't allowed to celebrate Christmas in a pagan way whilst complaining about the pagan way that Christmas is celebrated. Or what?
And that notwithstanding, there is a long running assertion that hacking down trees, decorating them and lauding them is prohibited in the Bible, Jeremiah 10 1-10, to be precise.
Jones evidently wants his Christmas cake and eat it.
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Train Crash Radio
What is the strange compulsion to watching something which actually repulses you?
In the case of Alex Jones, it's something like trying to figure out what the agenda is - and I confess that frequently I have wondered if Alex Jones is an agent of cointelpro or disinfo. Is Beyond Tangy Tangerine in reality the Kool Aid that Jones blabs about metaphorically - to which he now jovially says he is addicted?
There is one area where he fails any test to determine how genuine he is (and never believe anybody who is so aggressive in their claims to be genuine) and that is his (and frequently others at Infowars) fidelity to the truth. I have already made it quite clear that the claims of Paul Joseph Watson that he cannot get an appointment with a private doctor in the UK are utter bullshit - either on his part or on the part of Jones. The story has recently morphed into Watson's inability to get an appointment with a specialist but this is equally mendacious.
Recently, there has been the sensational claim that 'Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics' Homes' which Alex Jones has repeatedly reported as a call to set fire to skeptics' homes. Now, I am neither a climate skeptic or alarmist - I actually find the subject quite fascinating if confusing - but I tend to believe that there is something extremely fishy about the whole global warming agenda which is obfuscated by an abundance of contradictory information. So, in essence, I am a climate change doubter - and as such I reserve the right to have multilateral doubt. As far as the claims made in the story and Jones' rants are concerned though, there is not a shred of truth to the allegation that anybody called for the burning down of anybody's house - merely that nobody should take action to put such a fire out. Now, to Alex Jones and his army of devotees, there is no difference between dropping a stone and not picking it up but to those who have an adequate degree of discernment, there is a gulf of difference. Making such claims is blatantly dishonest and actually taints everything else that he and his claque propagate.
Then there was the call from a pastor who objected to Jones' repeated assertions that all the clergy are government informants - and in effect turning people away from the church. In this instance, Jones played dumb and made out he didn't understand what the pastor was saying and played his usual game of muting the caller whilst he went off on a rant which took a circuitous route away from the topic and returned with the explanation that it is necessary to scare people with the truth. The caller was audibly exasperated if not beaten into submission by Jones' bullying censorship and slipped away with a few polite words.
During his evasive rant, Jones made claims that he is a good actor and a comedian. He is neither - he is just the star of his own show - and his dearth of thespian ability was recently exhibited in the painfully awful production, New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen.
When you are part of an industry which depends on sensationalising issues in order to sell products, you are very likely to over-egg the pudding. And when you have a carpet bombing approach involving multiple websites, podcasts, live broadcasts, DVDs and a raft of merchandise, cranking it up to squeeze out more juice is inevitable. There is no difference between Alex Jones' wilful and perfidious exaggeration and the 'sexing up' of the case for war against Iraq.
You cannot lie and claim to stand for truth.
In the case of Alex Jones, it's something like trying to figure out what the agenda is - and I confess that frequently I have wondered if Alex Jones is an agent of cointelpro or disinfo. Is Beyond Tangy Tangerine in reality the Kool Aid that Jones blabs about metaphorically - to which he now jovially says he is addicted?
There is one area where he fails any test to determine how genuine he is (and never believe anybody who is so aggressive in their claims to be genuine) and that is his (and frequently others at Infowars) fidelity to the truth. I have already made it quite clear that the claims of Paul Joseph Watson that he cannot get an appointment with a private doctor in the UK are utter bullshit - either on his part or on the part of Jones. The story has recently morphed into Watson's inability to get an appointment with a specialist but this is equally mendacious.
Recently, there has been the sensational claim that 'Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics' Homes' which Alex Jones has repeatedly reported as a call to set fire to skeptics' homes. Now, I am neither a climate skeptic or alarmist - I actually find the subject quite fascinating if confusing - but I tend to believe that there is something extremely fishy about the whole global warming agenda which is obfuscated by an abundance of contradictory information. So, in essence, I am a climate change doubter - and as such I reserve the right to have multilateral doubt. As far as the claims made in the story and Jones' rants are concerned though, there is not a shred of truth to the allegation that anybody called for the burning down of anybody's house - merely that nobody should take action to put such a fire out. Now, to Alex Jones and his army of devotees, there is no difference between dropping a stone and not picking it up but to those who have an adequate degree of discernment, there is a gulf of difference. Making such claims is blatantly dishonest and actually taints everything else that he and his claque propagate.
Then there was the call from a pastor who objected to Jones' repeated assertions that all the clergy are government informants - and in effect turning people away from the church. In this instance, Jones played dumb and made out he didn't understand what the pastor was saying and played his usual game of muting the caller whilst he went off on a rant which took a circuitous route away from the topic and returned with the explanation that it is necessary to scare people with the truth. The caller was audibly exasperated if not beaten into submission by Jones' bullying censorship and slipped away with a few polite words.
During his evasive rant, Jones made claims that he is a good actor and a comedian. He is neither - he is just the star of his own show - and his dearth of thespian ability was recently exhibited in the painfully awful production, New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen.
When you are part of an industry which depends on sensationalising issues in order to sell products, you are very likely to over-egg the pudding. And when you have a carpet bombing approach involving multiple websites, podcasts, live broadcasts, DVDs and a raft of merchandise, cranking it up to squeeze out more juice is inevitable. There is no difference between Alex Jones' wilful and perfidious exaggeration and the 'sexing up' of the case for war against Iraq.
You cannot lie and claim to stand for truth.
Friday, 16 March 2012
InfoPuppy waits four weeks to see a doctor in England? Huh?!
If Paul Joseph Watson claims to have had to wait four weeks to see an NHS doctor and told Alex Jones that you cannot see a private doctor in the UK without Government approval, he's a fucking liar!
If he didn't, then Alex Jones is a fucking liar!
If he didn't, then Alex Jones is a fucking liar!
Thursday, 2 February 2012
I can't take it...
That's it! I can't listen to it anymore.
For about the third time this week, Alex Jones has been 'interviewing' a fairly knowledgeable guest only to persistently interrupt them mid-sentence to bark out something he has yelled out many times before - probably because he cannot bear the thought that an expert guest might think that he doesn't know everything already.
I say 'interviewing' because what Jones does is anything but. He endeavours to engage his guests in the kind of banter which takes place whilst propping up a bar when in fact they have far more interesting information than they ever get the opportunity to share. Good interviewing technique is actually the polar opposite of what Alex Jones does - allowing the interviewee more than just a moment to draw breath and in fact sometimes artificially creating a pregnant pause in order to allow the other person to extrapolate, explain or even digress.
I don't delude myself into believing that Alex Jones reads this or that he would take any notice if he did but he is not going to be able to reach beyond those who are already in his grasp if he arrogantly believes that people outside his catchment are going to adapt to his style because it would require the antithesis of what he preaches, i.e. the dumbing down of the potential audience.
He rails against the sports watching public for caring more about their team's results than the erosion of liberty but yells at those who listen as if they are ogling at the sports channel. He actually would be more suited as a wrestling commentator.
Maybe it's the American WWF mentality which drives or demands this kind of presentation - let's face it, US documentaries, whether it's National Geographic or Jesse Ventura, never allow the viewer to pause for thought and they all repeat the tantalising lie, 'coming next...' a dozen times or more so that when 'it' comes 'it' is either no surprise or worse a great disappointment.
At the final debriefing when the planet is in rubble and those with a ponderous nature wonder where it all went wrong, the inability of those with the ultimate power - the billions of inhabitants who gave political power to the privileged elite - to raise their consciousness above the level of the constant noise of game shows, 'reality TV' and children's television will be a primary cause and Alex Jones' inimitable style will have contributed to either maintaining a dumbed down audience or repelling those who must struggle to keep their chins out of the swamp of idiocracy.
For about the third time this week, Alex Jones has been 'interviewing' a fairly knowledgeable guest only to persistently interrupt them mid-sentence to bark out something he has yelled out many times before - probably because he cannot bear the thought that an expert guest might think that he doesn't know everything already.
I say 'interviewing' because what Jones does is anything but. He endeavours to engage his guests in the kind of banter which takes place whilst propping up a bar when in fact they have far more interesting information than they ever get the opportunity to share. Good interviewing technique is actually the polar opposite of what Alex Jones does - allowing the interviewee more than just a moment to draw breath and in fact sometimes artificially creating a pregnant pause in order to allow the other person to extrapolate, explain or even digress.
I don't delude myself into believing that Alex Jones reads this or that he would take any notice if he did but he is not going to be able to reach beyond those who are already in his grasp if he arrogantly believes that people outside his catchment are going to adapt to his style because it would require the antithesis of what he preaches, i.e. the dumbing down of the potential audience.
He rails against the sports watching public for caring more about their team's results than the erosion of liberty but yells at those who listen as if they are ogling at the sports channel. He actually would be more suited as a wrestling commentator.
Maybe it's the American WWF mentality which drives or demands this kind of presentation - let's face it, US documentaries, whether it's National Geographic or Jesse Ventura, never allow the viewer to pause for thought and they all repeat the tantalising lie, 'coming next...' a dozen times or more so that when 'it' comes 'it' is either no surprise or worse a great disappointment.
At the final debriefing when the planet is in rubble and those with a ponderous nature wonder where it all went wrong, the inability of those with the ultimate power - the billions of inhabitants who gave political power to the privileged elite - to raise their consciousness above the level of the constant noise of game shows, 'reality TV' and children's television will be a primary cause and Alex Jones' inimitable style will have contributed to either maintaining a dumbed down audience or repelling those who must struggle to keep their chins out of the swamp of idiocracy.
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