And I’m sick of it!
I’m tired of it right now!
I can’t handle it anymore! AGH!
That’s Alex Jones.
Found and host of 'InfoWars,'
the internet’s premier source for conspiracy theories
and this tissue box that doubles as a gun holder.
Oh, yeah....
If you’ve ever heard someone from your high school yell,
“9/11 was an inside job,” you can thank Alex Jones for that.
I’m a pioneer, I’m an explorer.
My hear’s big!
It’s got hot blood going through it fast.
And oh yeah, he has friends in high places:
I just want to finish by saying, your reputation’s amazing.
I will not let you down.
You will be very very, uhh, impressed, I hope.
But long before he had the soon-to-be President on his program,
we have to go back to Texas where a baby conspiracy theorist was born.
Jones was born in 1974 in Dallas, but grew up in a small suburb called Rockwall.
He moved to Austin in 1991 where he played on the high school football team before graduating in ‘93.
He’s now popular in certain conservative circles,
but most of Jones’s formative years were reportedly spent in the sack.
I’d already had probably—I hate to brag, but I’m not bragging,
It’s actually shameful - probably 150 women, or more,
that’s conservative.
Separating himself even further from other adolescents in Texas,
Jones picked up Gary Allen’s 1971 book “None Dare Call It Conspiracy”.
That’s where his interest in outlandish theories all began.
And then he discovered his talent for… whatever this is.
God, look at this!
[Laughing]
[Screaming Laughing]
Before dropping out of Community College,
Jones began subbing in for hosts on Austin’s public access station.
His earliest conspiracy cases include the Waco Siege.
Jones claimed the government was behind the attack.
You oughta be ashamed of yourself—you don’t stand up for the constitution,
you stand for zip, nada, zero.
Another early case Jones sunk his teeth into
was the 1995 Oklahoma city bombing that was carried out by domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh.
Jones, again blamed the government.
And yes, it was a government building that was destroyed.
And he wasn’t alone on that train of thought,
his mailbox began overflowing with fan mail,
and soon after he was given his very own show on ACTV,
a public access station in Austin.
I come on public access and hang out. I’m on 24 hours a day they say.
Haha yeah, pretty close.
Well I can assure you, I don’t make any money off of public access.
At the same time, he was doing three hours of radio a day.
[Singing] In my arms...
Yeah, it’s Alex Jones, baby.
Jones worked his way up conspiracy ladder and today hosts a syndicated show titled “The Alex Jones Show,”
where he espouses conspiracies that stretch from Joan Rivers being murdered by Michelle Obama
to… this:
I’ve been told this by high-up folks,
they said ‘listen, Obama and Hillary both smell like sulfur.'
I’ve never said this because the media will go crazy with it,
but I’ve talked to people that are in protective details—
I mean, they’re scared of it.
They said, ‘listen, she’s a frickin’ demon,
she stinks and so does Obama.’ And I go, ‘like what?’ ‘Sulfur.”
President Obama denies being a demon.
There’s a guy on the radio who apparently—Trump’s on his show frequently,
he said me and Hillary are demons,
said we smell like sulfur.
Ain’t that something?
[Audience Laughing]
Hillary Clinton has yet to comment.
After InfoWars.com launched in 1999,
he began to build his empire of lies and bogus dietary supplements.
Infowars helped spread the ‘Pizzagate’ scandal,
and posts headlines like “Obama Caught Running Isis,”
and “Why Obama Brought Ebola To U.S. Exposed”.
Although that is clearly million dollar content,
this isn’t where the money is.
Most of his income comes from selling dietary supplements
and other junk on the site’s store.
This is the best toothpaste out there—
The toothpaste may be fluoride-free,
but some products have been found to have high levels of lead in them.
Jones also continues to make a hefty chunk of change
of change from the ‘Hillary for Prison” shirt,
which quickly infiltrated the Republican base.
[Chanting] Hillary for prison! Hillary for prison!
It’s no surprise that Jones, whose site garners 30 million visitors a month,
has this much influence.
But sometimes the testosterone is so much that his words just won’t cut it:
But ever since Jones popped his shirt back on,
he’s been taken a little too seriously.
He’s pushed several non-evidentiary claims into existence,
such as Sandy Hook being a hoax.
Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors—in my view manufactured.
And his baseless claims have real effects.
Influenced by Jones's non-factual rhetoric,
a Florida woman sent death threats to a parent of an innocent child killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.
In 2016, Jones promoted the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy.
Jones said there was a child sex-abuse ring
at a Washington pizza parlor that involved John Podesta and Hillary Clinton.
They go to these pizza places, there’s like satanic art everywhere,
there’s art of these people where they’re shoving children into women’s vaginas.
After Jones pushed this theory on the millions who tune in, one took action.
Inspired by Jones’s words, a gullible dummy brought an AR-15 and other weapons into the D.C. pizza parlor
and fired shots inside.
The gunman said he wanted to “self-investigate” the conspiracy theory.
No one was hurt, but Jones later apologized to the owner of the pizza joint for
influencing the violent attack under false pretenses.
I made comments about Mr. Alefantis that in hindsight I regret,
and for which I apologize to him.
Aside from prompting his viewers to investigate these absurd, baseless claims,
Jones also used his platform to influence them to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election,
a relationship that had been brewing ever since his buddy and InfoWars contributor Roger Stone introduced the pair.
Obama...
B, U, K, K, A, K, E—some Japanese thing—
Bukkake!
And our president is apparently a big fan of his.
Trump has ushered many of Jones’s most baseless theories into circulation.
Like, this, about Ted Cruz:
His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald being — you know, shot.
Well, he picked that up from InfoWars.
And when Trump raised suspicions about Judge Scalia’s death...
You know, I just landed and I’m hearing it’s a big topic,
that us is the quetstion,
and it’s a horrible topic—
they say they found the pillow on his face which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.
Scalia found, it’s natural, nothing going on here. He just died naturally.
And you’re like, ‘Whoa. Red flag.'
Then you realize that Obama is one vote away from being able to ban guns,
open the borders and actually have the court engage in its agenda
and now Scalia dies.
I mean, this is hard core.
Just days before Trump first questioned Hillary’s mental fitness,
InfoWars released a video, “The Truth About Hillary’s Bizarre Behavior”
Weird seizures, psychotic facial tics,
over-exaggerated reactions,
coughing fits, strange lesions on her tongue.
Trump appreciated content like this so much
that he reportedly called Jones after winning the presidency to thank him for his support.
On my way here, Donald Trump gave me a call.
True or not, Jones helped get Trump elected,
possibly more than any other news outlet.
His good buddy Roger Stone even said so.
The role that you played,
the role that InfoWars has played in fomenting this new American revolution should not be underestimated.
He may have played a big role in the election cycle,
but his lawyers claim he is playing an even bigger role
each time he dishes out one of his infamous red-faced rants,
The role of a character actor.
In a battle for custody of his kids, Jones’ lawyer claimed the InfoWars host was much different off-camera.
Saying he is nothing more than a “performance artist,”
and claimed he’s claimed he’s “playing a character” on the show.
During a deposition,
Jones said he couldn’t remember what grade his kids were in
because he had just eaten
“a big bowl of chili”.
He lost the case.
And he may even lose more.
Jones claimed that several survivors of the Florida Parkland school shooting are actors.
He’s on thin ice with YouTube,
who has given his channel a strike,
only two more and his account will be terminated.
But even if he loses everything, he has a lot to show for.
During the heat of the 2016 race,
nearly 4 million people visited InfoWars to see what Jones was up to.
Leaving us with little doubts that this guy played a large hand in crafting our current world.
A year into office, you’ll be saying, 'wow,
I remember that interview, he said he was going to do it, and he did a great job"