Infowars founder Alex Jones has been ridiculed live on British television by host who called him an 'idiot' and 'the worst person [he'd] ever interviewed.'
Jones was on BBC One’s Sunday Politics with The Times columnist David Aaronovitch to discuss the secretive Bilderberg Conference, which has been taking place over the past week in England.
The controversial radio host began outlining some of his more outlandish theories of governments plotting to 'disappear people' when he was abruptly cut off.
As Neil, 64, and Aaronovitch discussed the oft-maligned meeting of the world's most influential and elite power players, Jones, 39, ranted loudly about his conspiracy theories until Neil cut him off by ending the segment.
But not before Neil shared his own feelings.
'You are the worst person I've ever interviewed. David, thank you for being with us. It's gone half past 11. You're watching the Sunday Politics,' he said.
The presenter then added, ‘We have an idiot on the program today' and circled his ear indicating that Jones is crazy.
Okay now let me warn you that the video below is incredibly irritating. Jones is a certifiable lunatic.
However I am sharing it with all of you, because THIS is who Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are devolving into, and in fact on certain days they "out Alex Jones," even Alex Jones.
And the GOP is listening to this group of nutjobs, and in many cases getting their talking points from them.
Now you can rationalize and say that Rush and Beck are not yet this batshit crazy, but there is at least ONE potential presidential candidate that Jones already has on speed dial and that is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Which means that once he throws his toupee into the ring we can trot all of these YouTube video and essentially his campaign should implode in record time.
Anyhow get your tinfoil hat firmly strapped to your head, get a BIG glass of wine (Or two), and take a look at this:
Well, BBC One Sunday Politics can do better than that for displaying the nutcases from the USA. Sarah Palin can out crazy anything the BBC has had.
ReplyDeleteI know I'm repeating myself here, but don't ever forget that "Dr." Rand Paul couldn't pass his board certification after his first ten years in practice, so he set up his very own board to certify himself. Its headquarters is a P.O. box in his hometown, and his wife is an official of this accrediting outfit.
ReplyDeleteHe says that it started his own board certification group because of some small dispute with the long-standing American Board of Opthalmology. But that's a sham. He couldn't pass his boards, so he took himself out of the running, and now labels himself as "board certified" -- certified by himself as head of the "National" Board of Opthalmology.
This is the mark of a truly audacious flim-flammer, and should be first and foremost in any depiction of Paul if he ever tries to weasel his way out of Kentucky and into national politics. He's a great big con artist, and would do anything and everything to get elected, and, once elected, to achieve his own agenda.
And, if you live in Kentucky, think long and hard before having any eye surgery performed by "Dr." Paul.
Maybe he's safer being in Congress. Heaven knows how many people that has saved from being blinded by his incompetence.
DeleteFrom a 2010 article in The Daily Beast. You can read the whole thing by googling National Board of Opthalmology:
ReplyDelete"It gets even more complicated, but hang in there; Rand is hoping the distinctions are just too subtle for anyone to really care about. In the 1980s, American medicine decided that it should police itself. A little. So the Grand Old Men of the various fields decided that already certified specialists should recertify once a decade. Rand initially did the right thing and became certified; but when his 10 years were up, he decided he’d had enough and chose not to recertify. Rather, he organized his own certifying program for ophthalmology based right there in his hometown of Bowling Green. He then appointed himself president of the group, which he named the National Board of Ophthalmologists, and better yet, declared his wife (not a doctor) VP and his father-in-law secretary. Talk about convenient! It remains unclear what the NBO criteria for certification are; the organization appears to have no website or easily located documents (though it is registered with the state of Kentucky as a nonprofit and claims to have certified a few hundred eye doctors)."
I suspect the criteria are having successfully graduated from medical school with a specialty in Opthalmology and sending in a check. Bingo! You're certified.
DeleteIt's more complicated than that: after your residency, you take a test and you're licensed to practice medicine, any medicine, in the state which has granted you the license.
DeleteBut to have admitting privileges at hospitals, and to have the imprimator of "board certification," you need to prove that you've passed rigorous tests in your field -- internal medicine, neurology, orthopedic surgery, opthalmology, etc., etc. Each of these specialties have rigorous examinations every ten years to make sure the specialists are up-to-date on the latest techniques, procedures and research in their specialities.
"Board Certification" not only allows you to practice in a hospital, it shows that you are truly well-qualified to practice your speciality.
Rand Paul is licensed by the State of Kentucky to practice medicine. To claim that he's also qualified at a much higher level, and has admitting privileges, means he must be board certified.
He didn''t want to go through the --possible -- embarrassment of losing his certification, so he just made up his own professional qualifications, and tested himself on them. Voila!
He's board certified by his very own family-owned board.
That's the scandal. He isn't who he says he is.
I watched only the last thirty seconds and it was pretty funny. Very entertaining.
ReplyDeleteWell at the risk of sounding...gullible?...I've never seen this guy before, only recently heard of him...but he didn't sound so crazy to me. I know nothing about stuff he referred to, and maybe that's the problem, but in light of the recent spying stuff (which I sort of don't care about personally), is he that wrong? I don't know, he obviously was shouting but it wasn't like what he was saying was necessarily crazy. I don't know.
ReplyDeleteRecent spying? Where are you living? The government has been spying since forever. The Patriot Act legalized it. Jones is a nut. You are woefully uninformed.
DeleteAlex Jones does nothing but scream and shout, ever, even on radio. And you really believe in his FEMA camp conspiracy, do you? Please proceed...
DeleteAnonymous @5:50 pm: Obviously you don't appear to know much.
DeleteHowever, I find it difficult to really believe that you don't know who the id'jit Alex Jones is.
Next, you will be telling us that you never heard of that other id'jit Sarah Palin.
This is a big shock... " I Worked With Sean Hannity, He Knows Nothing" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/richard-bey-sean-hannity_n_3392885.html
ReplyDeleteAlex should have discussed things with his lizard pal.
Yep - we Commonwealther's don't take kindly to rude rantings...
ReplyDeleteThere's a fool born every minute and money to be made in conspiracy theories.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/alex_jones_conspiracy_inc/
While I pretty much don't "get" ANYTHING this lunatic spews, the thing I *really* don't get is the motive. He claims there is a secret cabal of super rich, super powerful people who are conspiring in the shadows to reshape the world to suit themselves.
ReplyDeleteBut... THEY'RE SUPER RICH AND SUPER POWERFUL! They ALREADY own and control the world and have more wealth than they or their next hundred generations could ever spend! So what exactly is the point of this "conspiracy"?
If anything, the kind of mass upheaval that would occur in a world-wide coup would only serve to make the world a shitty place for even themselves to live in and render all their wealth essentially worthless. What fun is it to shuttle back and forth between fortified "green zones" in the chaos when you could just leave things the way they are and go freely anywhere your greedy heart desires?
Let's say they succeeded in creating this one-world tyrannical government. If everything is unified and there's only one economy and currency, where are they going to find the third-world sweatshops to make their stuff? And if the answer is that we ALL become those third-world sweatshop workers, then who is left to buy their crap?
It seems to me, the world is already set up perfectly for the Bilderbergers. I can't imagine why they'd want to change it.
And I don't know whether Nazis really invented the Euro, but I'm pretty sure the point of it is to unite the fragmented European nations economically so they can compete with the U.S. and Presumably China.
At any rate, I cannot fathom how anyone could give any credibility at all to a guy who suggested that the tornados in Oklahoma were the result of "a test run of secret government weather weapons".
Personally I think Alex Jones is to logic what professional wrestling is to the Olympics. The only thing missing is the folding chair...
Well said.
DeleteI'd like to thank BBC One's Sunday Politics for doing what no one in U.S. media apparently has the balls to do.
ReplyDeleteCall an idiot and idiot. Or moron. Or nutjob. Or lunatic. Or whatever the politically correct term is now for someone so intellectually challenged and mentally unstable as to warrant being ignored and locked away for their own good, and I might add for the good of the nation. Apparently we in the U.S have a much higher tolerance for fools that in the U.K. Thank goodness they can call a spade and spade and will willingly announce when the Emperor has no clothes. Or brains.
I imagine after this, the likelihood of Rush, Beck or Rand Paul agreeing to go on BBC One's Sunday Politics is shrinking fast.
My niece lives in the UK, and sometimes watches Fox on her daughter's cable channel. She is disgusted with the lack of respect shown the President. What is it with these chubby guys with multiple chins, Beck, Jones, Limbaugh? Maybe they resent President Obama because he is fit, slim and handsome (apart from his one big flaw - black!)Too bad we do not have any REAL journalists left in this country to actually speak the truth to some of these politicians. I used to watch the Sunday shows, but not anymore not for several years. They are nothing but propoganda for the "right"
DeleteAlex doesn't even believe the crap he spews, but he did find a niche in the market with the crazies just like Palin. He was never like this earlier in his life. It's all a show or $$$$$$$
ReplyDeleteAlex Jones would even clear out the ranters' corner in London's Hyde Park!
ReplyDeleteHe would definitely draw a crowd of hecklers. The Brits LOVE our President, hated W. Not so much "hated" as were amazed that someone so dumb was actually the President.
DeleteSo now Alex Jones is riding them horses and ringing them bells warning the British.... oops, wrong nutjob!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the Brits are laughing AT him along with us!
Speaking of lunatics...
ReplyDeleteWe were watching "Network" (the 1976 film) today. I haven't watched that in years. I was astounded at how much it looks like the Operating Manual for Fox News.
The only thing missing was a chalkboard.
I don't follow Alex Jones, nor do I listen to what he says, except for what others report about him. Now and then he says something of interest, but I generally ignore him.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the term "conspiracy theorist" is way overused, usually in a derogatory manner, in an attempt to portray the person being described that way as unbalanced, some sort of nut, with nothing useful to say or write. "Tin foil hat wearer" is also used for the same purpose.
But conspiracies are everywhere. The most charged of all crimes is conspiracy. It simply means "a secret plan by more than one person to do something unlawful or harmful." Two people agree to rob a liquor store. That is a conspiracy. To be a conspiracy theorist should not be an insult or a putdown. How many people now actually believe that JFK was killed by the lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald? If you believe there was more to that story than we were told, then you are a conspiracy theorist. The U.S. Government's version of the events of Sept. 11, 2001 entail a conspiracy theory, and not a very plausible one at that. If you believe that version, you are a conspiracy theorist.
To be a conspiracy theorist should not be an insult. One should strive to determine the truth wherever it resides. Most crimes are conspiracies; most criminals are conspirators. Drug cartels are huge conspiracies. Illicit arms dealers are part of conspiracies. Most law enforcement investigators are conspiracy theorists. Many prosecutors are conspiracy theorists. Just because people like Alex Jones propound crazy ideas does not mean all conspiracy theorists are like him, and that all theories about conspiracies are crazy.
When someone uses the words "conspiracy theorist" in a derogatory manner, he or she is propagating a term that is imprecise, and usually is not adding anything to the subject being discussed, and instead exhibiting the person's own lack of intellectual curiosity. I am certainly a conspiracy theorist, and happy to be one.
Sorry, regardless of the denotation of the meaning of the phrase "conspiracy theory", it has a connotation with a specific meaning.
DeleteYes, two people planning a convenience store robbery are conspiring. But someone who suggests that two suspects worked together to plan the robbery is not a conspiracy theorist in the common meaning of the term, because it is a logical theory to pursue.
People who spout conspiracy theories about the President's birth certificate are called conspiracy theorists, and it is intended to be derogatory because logic, facts, etc., are missing. For every hole in their theory that is pointed out, they involve another co-conspirator.
Whether you like it or not, conspiracy theorist in common usage equals whackjob and will continue to do so.
Using the term has nothing to do with a lack of intellectual curiosity. And seeking truth is not the same as falling for every nutty "theory" that comes along.
I believe your desired usage of the phrase "conspiracy theorist" is intended to put nutball theories on the same footing as logical theories. It will not work.
Nefer: I disagree with your analysis and reply. Theories do not have to be "logical." They should be based on facts and evidence.
DeleteTheory: "a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, esp. one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained."
Prosectors and police investigators are by definition "conspiracy theorists" because they develop theories of conspiracies based on the evidence and facts they have adduced. That does not mean they are "whackjobs." You are essentially repeating the obvious; that in common parlance, "conspiracy theorist" is a derogatory term used for those who propound what others consider to be crazy ideas about a particular subject.
"Whether you [I] like it or not, conspiracy theorist in common usage equals whackjob and will continue to do so." is not much of an answer to the issue I raised. And I do not fall for "every nutty theory that comes along."
The problem is that there are many "crazy" conspiracy theories that are actually true, i.e. killings of JFK and MLK, or Sarah Palin's false birth of Trigg Palin. So just because one person thinks the theory is "crazy" when it is in fact true should not be cause for labeling the person a "conspiracy theorist."
You want to use the imprecise and insulting term, just be sure you choose your subjects carefully, so as not to make a mistake in labeling.
Check this out on the topic of conspiracy theories, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration.
Deletehttp://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/20/conspiracy-theory/
Has Palin called Alex Jones a Patriot yet?
ReplyDeleteI learned years ago to spot cons by how rapidly they speak. Urk!
ReplyDeleteWhat a frightening, certifiable man. He and the Palin's are birds of a lame duck feather.
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