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Thursday, May 23, 2013

UNITED STATES "WEATHER WEAPONS"

THIS ACCORDING TO RADICAL GOPers IS A WEAPON CREATED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT


Conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones explained to his audience today how the government could have been behind the devastating May 20 tornado in Oklahoma.

On the May 21 edition of The Alex Jones Show, a caller asked Jones whether he was planning to cover how government technology may be behind a recent spate of sinkholes. After laying out how insurance companies use weather modification to avoid having to pay ski resorts for lack of snow, Jones said that "of course there's weather weapon stuff going on -- we had floods in Texas like fifteen years ago, killed thirty-something people in one night. Turned out it was the Air Force."

Following a long tangent, Jones returned to the caller's subject. While he explained that "natural tornadoes" do exist and that he's not sure if a government "weather weapon" was involved in the Oklahoma disaster, Jones warned nonetheless that the government "can create and steer groups of tornadoes."

According to Jones, this possibility hinges on whether people spotted helicopters and small aircraft "in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things." He added, "if you saw that, you better bet your bottom dollar they did this, but who knows if they did. You know, that's the thing, we don't know."

INFOWARS




In April, Jones garnered attention for labeling the Boston Marathon bombings a "false flag" event staged by the U.S. government. Over the years, Jones has endorsed a wide array of paranoid conspiracies, including alleging that the U.S. government carried out or was somehow involved in the 9-11 attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, and recent mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary school and the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

Despite his well-publicized career of pushing conspiracies, Jones is regularly validated by media figures and conservative politicians. Jones' biggest ally has been Matt Drudge, whose heavily trafficked Drudge Report website has linked to at least 244 different articles at Jones' Infowars website since April 2011.

In the midst of the controversy over Jones' comments about the Boston bombings, Drudge announced that he had "privately told friends" that 2013 would be the "year of Alex Jones."

Like Dana Loesch et al, Jones is carny, and what worries me is not the bullshit that these radical GOPers spew, but it is the number of Rubes on the Midway who are buying what they are selling!


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Thursday, April 25, 2013

PLAYING WITH FIRE




Rachel Maddow opened her show last night taking on the conspiracy theories coming out of the woodwork to claim the Boston Marathon bombing was an inside job by the U.S. government designed to strip Americans of their liberties. Ordinarily fringe conspiracists wouldn't be worth giving credence to, but Maddow noticed how the conspiracies and those pushing the conspiracies are being embraced by elements of conservative media, including one of the most influential sites on the internet. Maddow argued that influential conservative media now are just abandoning all pretense and “full-on embracing the conspiracy theorists.”


MADDOW 





Maddow brought up the false flag, government destruction theories being pushed by InfoWars and its star figure, Alex Jones. You remember Alex Jones, the crazy guy who went ballistic on Piers Morgan? Well, he’s been out in full force again, but this time it’s coupled with an endorsement by none other than Matt Drudge.

Let it be clear readers, the asshat named Drudge; as Maddow says, "Drudge isn't just some fringe guy, he’s in charge of perhaps the most influential conservative website on the internet."

With regards to Alex Jones, he is clearly off his rocker, having written about this douche bag numerous times, he is the guy who bashes his country in one breath and in the next is the first when in a situation - to have his testicle tucked under his posterior hiding behind the government he despise so much. [See Maddow's clip of Jones touting a bizarre NASA conspiracy involving multitudes of dead astronauts.]

But the madness is not just limited to Jones, and Maddow showed off the ramblings of one teapublican New Hampshire state representative who posted a link to Jones’ conspiracy on Glenn Beck‘s Facebook page. This is an elected official who thinks it’s worth asking if the government bombed Boston.

Glenn Beckistan is barely a step up from Alex Jones, and Faux News -  just a tick mark above Beckistan,  all of their fans are the same sort of preppers and doomers - the unlettered dimwits that we all have come to know and love and see on Faux News on a daily basis.

If this wasn't enough, four teapublican congressmen wrote a letter to Homeland Security to request they investigate what basically amounts to another conspiracy theory. The American Taliban [GOP] has always coddled this ideal, but now it’s slowly seeping into more mainstream outlets. The American Taliban embraces conspiracy theories like a crack head does crack.

Faux News is no angel in this process, and while I wish I could say they have taken the right-wing nut jobs to a new low - but we need to realize that nothing is beneath these unlettered sociopaths, nor is there anything beyond their pale.

Matt Drudge, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck and Fox News, you are today's asshats of the day.



NFTOS
Editor-In-Chief
Roger West

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

OCTOBER SURPRISE: GOP Just Learned That YouTube Has A Search Function.

Sean Hannity Exposes Years Old Video Equates to "Nontroversary"


Matt Drudge:
“@DRUDGE: Curious tape dropping tonight. NOT from MOTHERJONES. Will cause controversy, ignite accusations of racism -- in both directions!” tweeted at 2:03 p.m. Tuesday.
"The veneer stripped away revealing the hollowness and rot inside." says one "EOD" over at the dead Breitbart's website. If only this was the case. It's nothing Mitt, just go back to your zingers, Governor. Not Breaking news, as Hannity is showing old Obama footage.

Sean Hannity, The Daily Caller [Tucker "I snooker you" Carlson], and Drudge Report spent hours hyping a racially explosive secret video of President Obama. But the bombshell clip turned out to be a public speech from Hampton University on June 2007 that was covered by you know who [fixed noise] on Tuesday, June 5, 2007. 6:00 PM EST. It was also covered by other major networks.

Excerpts of the open press speech to historically black Hampton University were already easily available (and quickly discovered by reporters after Drudge teased the clip on his website hours before the “new” Daily Caller/Hannity clip even aired). But Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson claimed the video was relevant because it contained additional ad-libbed portions that went off the prepared remarks.

Let's not forget readers, that Carlson is a sneaky diabolical shit from way back, on November 9, 2010 Huffington Post writer Jack Mirkinson exposed Carlson for sending emails while posing as another - that other, my mentor Keith Olbermann. Just Google Carlson with words like 'unethical" and "diabolical" and view the plethora of disgusting stories that pop up. For added enjoyment, go to YouTube and search ” Dangerous Conversation with Tucker Carlson" parts one, two, three an four.

Among the sinister revelations Drudge, Hannity, and Carlson cited: Obama’s use of what they considered an overly African-American cadence to his voice in front of the majority. “This accent is absurd. This is not the way Obama talks,” Carlson said on Faux. Drudge Report teased “THE ACCENT” [Maybe we should hand out free copies of Rosetta Stone] and “THE ANGER” as scoops.

"THE VIDEO"



If the Romney campaign isn't embarrassed by this, I know why they're losing. Let's take a moment of silence for the ostensibly self-aware Romney flaks who will have to answer questions about this video today. What's funny is the GOP is running the exact same campaign as 2008, and is now wondering how they can possibly be losing like in 2008. Maybe we should give Faux News a break. They've only had five years to figure out how to run against Obama.

What can we take away from this bomb shell one day before the first debate:

Desperate times call for desperate measures - Faux News, Drudge Report and The Daily Caller all are still full of more fecal matter than a Christmas Turkey.

Lessons Learned: Having your own media outlet isn't always helpful in elections where lots of people vote.
 
Hint to Sean, Matt and Tucker: It isn't "breaking" if it's been on YouTube for more than 96 hours. 

On the scale of nontroversies, years old YouTube videos, are a step up from the birther stuff......I suppose. I honestly thought the GOP couldn't get any worse...guess what, we have been bamboozled again - to once again see that the bottom feeders still run rampant in the party of "know-nothings", the party of ignorance, the party that is aptly named, "The American Taliban".


NFTOS
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Roger West