#2. To: TommyTheMadArtist, scrapper2, christine, Jethro Tull, Original_Intent, abraxas, mirage, Horse, Prefrontal Vortex, Cynicom, James Deffenbach, farmfriend, All (#1)
You tag line says a lot in view of these videos.
Jones spends too much time exulting at the "sun and the trees and the sky and the wonders of the universe" and in his own "wisdom" and not enough at what is before him.
What he did here is an extreme discourtesy to the folks.
Like I said, he puts out some good, or at least thought inducing/interesting stuff, but he puts out about as much misinformation, and the reasons for that are not completely clear.
It's to discredit the VALID information he puts out.
I started out to write an article about an ominous attack on Second Amendment rights which took place here in Austin recently, but on viewing videos of the subsequent protest at city hall as part of my research I got sidetracked with more overwhelming evidence that Alex Jones is a narcissistic douchebag and really no friend of liberty, facts which I have observed before but which just become clearer with each new incident.
Earnest and passionate local advocates for individual liberty led by John Bush of Texans for Accountable Government organized a peaceful protest rally on Monday afternoon in opposition to the Austin Police Department's involvement with the BATF in attempts to illegally shut down private gun sales at gun shows in Austin. They had a good turnout and a schedule of speakers including Darwin Bedecker, who was the most recent target of this persecution campaign, and notable local liberty advocates like Jerri Lynn Ward and Catherine Bleish. It was organized on short notice, but it was a well-planned and effective rally presenting a legitimate grievance to the city government with a permit and everything.
Then, in the middle of it all, Alex Jones shows up with a bullhorn and what can only be described as a gang of thugs, and proceeds to disrupt the entire rally, shouting over the speakers, shutting down the program, and ultimately driving off most of the participants with his obnoxious antics. Not only that, but Jones was rude to everyone, including those who tried to invite him to become a program participant, called Catherine Bleish a "cointelpro" agent provocateur and ranted on and on about the NWO and various issues completely unrelated to the purpose of the protest, while surrounded by his personal videographers and thuglike followers.
Apparently Jones is incapable of allowing a protest to go on where he isn't the center of attention, and in order to get that attention he is willing to undermine the effectiveness of the protest, offend potential sympathizers and generally behave like a penis with legs. It's not surprising that by the end of the event people were accusing Jones of working for the statists to discredit legitimate protesters, and a lot of people came away from the event cured of any prior attraction to Jones' particular brand of anti-government paranoia. As I've said before, Jones is his own worst enemy and he lost a lot of supporters Monday because of his boorish behavior and an attitude which was widely described as "divisive."
Jones clearly has Narcissistic Personality Disorder and has all the earmarks of a little Hitler in the making and that type doesn't like to be left on the sidelines. He has the "rule or ruin" attitude where if he's not in charge and doesn't have all eyes focused on him then he will cause chaos and destruction and to hell with everyone else and the important issue which they may have been protesting. For Jones the cause of liberty and the truth are secondary. His goal is self-promotion and probably personal profit as well. Jones can't just cover a story or add his voice to protesting an issue, because he has to be the story and he has to define the protest or it is of no value to him.
For more video of this event taken by Catherine Bleish see here and here.
Jones clearly has Narcissistic Personality Disorder and has all the earmarks of a little Hitler in the making and that type doesn't like to be left on the sidelines. He has the "rule or ruin" attitude where if he's not in charge and doesn't have all eyes focused on him then he will cause chaos and destruction and to hell with everyone else and the important issue which they may have been protesting.
Thus his attack on Jeff Rense and getting Rense, who has a huge audience which was coming close to rivaling Alex's, and having him kicked off of Genesis before he did have an equal or larger audience thus pre-empting Alex's leverage over Ted and his indirect control of Genesis and what it broadcasts. Although he may well be a narcissist I suspect the motivation was more a matter of Rense actually being a purveyor of the truth which conflicted with Alex's disinformation operation.
Thus his attack on Jeff Rense and getting Rense, who has a huge audience which was coming close to rivaling Alex's, and having him kicked off of Genesis before he did have an equal or larger audience thus pre-empting Alex's leverage over Ted and his indirect control of Genesis and what it broadcasts. Although he may well be a narcissist I suspect the motivation was more a matter of Rense actually being a purveyor of the truth which conflicted with Alex's disinformation operation.
what were the circumstances surrounding the fallout with Rense? i can't remember now.
Thus his attack on Jeff Rense and getting Rense, who has a huge audience which was coming close to rivaling Alex's, and having him kicked off of Genesis before he did have an equal or larger audience thus pre-empting Alex's leverage over Ted and his indirect control of Genesis and what it broadcasts. Although he may well be a narcissist I suspect the motivation was more a matter of Rense actually being a purveyor of the truth which conflicted with Alex's disinformation operation.
what were the circumstances surrounding the fallout with Rense? i can't remember now.
Brother Nathaniel wrote an article questioning Alex's being soft on Zionism and in the process mentioned that Alex's wife was Jewish asking the question as to whether that was the cause, and whether Alex's behavior towards Israel and Zionism was the effect. Jeff linked to the article and Alex went off in a foaming rage calling Rense personally and threatening to "Destroy Him" (per Jeff) and then contacted Ted Anderson who under pressure from his meal ticket for Genesis immediately canceled Jeff's program. (Given the speed with which Rense was cancelled - within 24 hours of the linking I am inclined to believe Jeff's account. I have never caught him in a lie and I have been listening to him almost continuously since he first came on the air - he originally had more of an Art Bell Schtick but intellectually superior. I was on the "frequent caller plant" as at that time he took calls. Interestingly Art, Clear Channel, Bell has attacked Rense as well.)
Just reading between the lines I think that there was already some bad blood there. Alex had been doing a monthly slot with Jeff, which I enjoyed immensely as they balance each other - Jeff is too mellow and Alex too bombastic - and that suddenly, without any warning or comment by Jeff, ceased. Now the last day that he was scheduled I happened to be listening to Alex's show and he set up the break by saying he had too many commitments and was going start cutting back some beginning that night - the night he was scheduled to be on Rense. Jeff made no comments about it but just scheduled someone else for the slot. I would note that Jeff has a large audience and I believe it was growing significantly while he was on Genesis. Up to that point Jeff had increasingly been getting censored and shut out of markets because of his tough stance on Zionism. He was, I believe, the number one show in his slot in my area and on a 50,000 Watt Station which abruptly cancelled him to put the strictly second tier Phil Hendry on in his place.
While I sometimes find Brother Nathaniel a bit "over the top" he nevertheless raises some interesting questions which have some backing - at least circumstantially.