A PBS Frontline program profiles and eviscerates the conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones screams into a megaphone as protesters against the state's extended stay-at-home order demonstrate at the Capitol building in Austin, Tex., on April 18, 2020.Free speech: What good is it? The question makes many of us dazed these days.
It’s a profile/biography, really, and perhaps the only understatement in it is this: “As a boy in Texas, Jones was known as a trouble maker.” The program opens with footage of Jones on air on election night in 2016, with Roger Stone at his side, gloating about the election of Donald Trump. From there it goes back to explain his ruse and ruse again, and his influence on U.S. politics.
Many radio stations dropped him when he asserted that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were “an inside job.” Undaunted, Jones took his conspiracy rants to the web, and thrived. Across multiple platforms he spewed his theories about secretive government forces working to control people’s minds, government actions to control the weather and the U.S. government’s work using chemicals to turn people gay – something called a “gay bomb” had been devised by the Pentagon.
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