Alex Jones Crashes an Austin Libertarian Rally? What the Heck?

[Humanae Libertas]

He can be an idiot at times, but he says a lot of good things. With that said, I don't trust him.

 

[ForeverAlone]

Alex Jones is hilarious. He trolls people in real life.

 

[specsaregood]

It was bad enough that he ruined the event, but what really pissed people off is the way he arrogantly disrespected them afterward. As if everyone else was a cockroach and he was the only one that mattered.

Wasn't it Catherine bleish that he was yelling at the event and said was co-intelpro on the radio the next day?

 

[Mach]

This was one of the things that made me look at him a different way, for-ev-er!

He is not a very grassroots kind of guy, he seems to be nothing but an opportunist.

 

[Todd]

Wasn't it Catherine bleish that he was yelling at the event and said was co-intelpro on the radio the next day?

When two strong attention seeking personas clash...that is what you'll get.

 

[Elwar]

Well, I just know that if I was in the Bilderberg group I'd be shaking in my boots if there was some guy outside of the meeting rallying people behind him to yell into a blowhorn...

...or would that make me feel safer knowing that all of the hatred was being controlled and I didn't have to worry about being over-run...

hmm

 

[Travlyr]

Alex Jones is all about Alex Jones.

He'd walk over his own mother to get in front of a camera. He has no problem ruining a pro gun rights rally (it wasn't just the Libertarian Party, there were a lot of pro-gun and pro-Ron Paul speakers there).

Once you realize that, his actions are completely understandable.

This ^^^

Alex Jones is a defender of liberty. He has a show and he needs ratings. He is simply boosting his ratings using controversy. He understands that if you want to be heard, get a louder microphone.

This is a bad video of bouncing sidewalks, whiners, and complainers. If you don't like Alex Jones, don't watch him. Silencing him is not a positive for liberty. I can't wait until the Alex Jones haters grow-up. Sheesh.

 

[Fredom101]

This is exactly why the freedom-lovers in Austin hate Alex Jones. He detracts from the message of liberty by pulling stunts like this.

Alex Jones is all about Alex Jones. How sad.

 

[ericsnow]

Why would Alan Watt say this in 2006 and then repeatedly go one Alex's show and write articles for infowars?

He obviously changed his mind since then.

 

[ericsnow]

This is exactly why the freedom-lovers in Austin hate Alex Jones. He detracts from the message of liberty by pulling stunts like this.

Alex Jones is all about Alex Jones. How sad.

LMAO at the freedom lovers in Austin hating Alex Jones when he's on every radio station in town.

 

[ericsnow]

This was one of the things that made me look at him a different way, for-ev-er!

He is not a very grassroots kind of guy, he seems to be nothing but an opportunist.

Look at this opportunist spewing his nonsense back in the 90s! He's just doing it all for the money!




Oh wait... The content of those videos totally conflict with the theory Alex Jones is an opportunist and not a grassroots kind of guy. Alex Jones was saying the same things he's saying now before it was mainstream and before there was big business around it. Maybe he DOES care about his country and is just a little eccentric?

 

[crazyfacedjenkins]

Alex is a serious talk show host.

 

[ericsnow]

Alex is a serious talk show host.

You do realize every time you post an out of context video of Alex Jones you are only lending him more credibility?

 

[Churchill2004]

Guys, it's entirely possible that Alex Jones is both a sincere, committed anti-authoritarian who wants to educate people and a raging asshole whose net influence on the liberty movement has been at best zero, and quite plausibly well into the negative. His conspiracy obsession would be bad enough on its own, but when you add his noxious personality to the mix I don't care how many friendly Ron Paul interviews he does, the man is poison to libertarianism.

See also: Beck, Rockwell, Assange

 

[ericsnow]

Guys, it's entirely possible that Alex Jones is both a sincere, committed anti-authoritarian who wants to educate people and a raging asshole whose net influence on the liberty movement has been at best zero, and quite plausibly well into the negative. His conspiracy obsession would be bad enough on its own, but when you add his noxious personality to the mix I don't care how many friendly Ron Paul interviews he does, the man is poison to libertarianism.

See also: Beck, Rockwell, Assange

If it weren't for Alex Jones millions of people would still be stuck in the left/right paradigm.

 

[Churchill2004]

If it weren't for Alex Jones millions of people would still be stuck in the left/right paradigm.

And he's moved most of them right into the equally useless conspiracy-theory paradigm. I'd frankly rather have an unenlightened liberal or conservative than someone who's been converted to the Alex Jones school of thought and goes around making people think that's what libertarianism is.

Has Jones done some good and brought some people in the right direction? Sure. But his insanity and abrasiveness also marginalize him, and rightfully so, and that marginalization can quite easily bleed over to his fellow travelers and those who advocate the good ideas AJ has picked up on.

 

[ericsnow]

And he's moved most of them right into the equally useless conspiracy-theory paradigm. I'd frankly rather have an unenlightened liberal or conservative than someone who's been converted to the Alex Jones school of thought and goes around making people think that's what libertarianism is.

Funny because Alex Jones and Ron Paul agree on almost everything.

Has Jones done some good and brought some people in the right direction? Sure. But his insanity and abrasiveness also marginalize him, and rightfully so, and that marginalization can quite easily bleed over to his fellow travelers and those who advocate the good ideas AJ has picked up on.

Is Alex Jones abrasive? Yes.
Is Alex Jones insane. No.

 

[specsaregood]

Is Alex Jones insane. No.

Are you a doctor? A psychologist or psychiatrist?

 

[Churchill2004]

Funny because Alex Jones and Ron Paul agree on almost everything.

Which would be great if Alex Jones actually talked about policy issues and the evil things the government does out in the open for everyone to see, and not how the Trilateral Bilderger NWO Council is responsible for 9/11, faking the moon landings, shooting JFK, the Oklahoma City bombings, chemtrails, global depopulation, and any other endless number of real and imagined evils.

Alex Jones is probably not an anti-semite, at least I've never heard anything explicitly as such from him. But his thought patterns and the worldview he preaches is straight from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It's counterproductive because most people just hear the paranoid ranting and don't stop to think about whether or not he's taking a reasonable position on monetary policy or the war in Iraq. And those who do like him don't care about his positions on the issues, either. He could just as easily be a Trotskyist with the exact same style and he'd have 90% of the same followers.

 

[ericsnow]

Are you a doctor? A psychologist or psychiatrist?

No but I've taken psychology classes in college. If Alex Jones was insane he would have broke down from the stress years ago.