Tag Archives: InfoWars

The Hill reports: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday blasted the Trump administration after Infowars said it had been given White House press credentials. “I want to throw up,” Murphy tweeted. “@POTUS has granted legitimacy to a group that believes Sandy Hook was a hoax carried out by paid actors.” Infowars claimed on Monday it had received the credentials in …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Alex Jones backed down. Again. The far-right conspiracy theorist agreed Wednesday to settle a defamation lawsuit filed against him by Greek yogurt manufacturer Chobani. The key component of the settlement agreement required him to retract inflammatory comments about refugees and the company he made on his Infowars broadcast last month. “During the week of April …

Via Mediaite: Roger Stone, one of President Donald Trump’s oldest and closest advisers outside the White House believes the Trump presidency is in great danger from within. Appearing in a bizarre outdoor YouTube video with InfoWars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Stone said that Trump enemies were going to claim that his recent leaking of classified information to senior …

The Austin Statesman reports: In a stunning verdict, a Travis County jury has awarded Kelly Jones, the ex-wife of Alex Jones, joint conservatorship of their three children with the power to decide where the children will live. That means that the three children, age 9, 12 and 14, who have been living almost exclusively with Alex Jones, will now live …

The Associated Press reports: Greek yogurt giant Chobani filed a lawsuit Monday against right-wing radio host Alex Jones, accusing the conspiracy theorist of publishing false information about the company. Chobani says that Jones and his InfoWars website posted fabricated stories earlier this month that linked Chobani owner Hamdi Ulukaya and the company to a sexual assault case involving refugee children. …

“When I was 16, I didn’t want to party any more, I didn’t want to play games any more. I grew up. I’d already been in the fights, all the big rituals. I’d already had, probably—I hate to brag, I’m not bragging, it’s actually shameful—probably 150 women or more, that’s conservative. “I’d had over 150 women, I’d already been in …

Rolling Stone reports: Stephen Colbert continued to mock “conspiracy radio host and furious hard-boiled egg” Alex Jones Friday as the Late Show host offered more updates from Jones’ legal battle with is ex-wife, who argues that the Infowars yeller is “too unstable” to have custody of their children. In addition to name-checking Colbert during court proceedings, a fact that the …

Raw Story reports: Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday told a jury that he believes George Soros is somehow behind a plot to make the effects of smoking marijuana stronger than ever before. As reported by BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel, Jones was asked about his drug and alcohol use by attorney Bobby Newman, who is representing Jones’ ex-wife Kelly in …

Another reason why he and Trump get along. The Daily Beast reports: Infowars founder Alex Jones was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder in a psychiatric evaluation, the divorce case manager confirmed during his custody trial in Austin on Wednesday. Austin psychologist Alissa Sherry said that a different doctor compiled the report, part of what she said was the most time-consuming …

Ho hum, another insane teabagger who has no idea of how the First Amendment works. Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, spoke with InfoWars broadcaster Paul Joseph Watson today about the campaign to have Fox News fire Bill O’Reilly for his years of sexual harassment of women. Fox News officially fired …

The Never Trump crowd at Reagan Battalion, who gained national headlines with their takedown of vile homocon Milo Yiannapoulos, has rushed out a video compilation of outraged reactions to Trump’s Syrian strike from his racist alt-right troll army. Watch below for anguished takes from David Duke, Mike Cernovich, InfoWars, Laura Ingraham, and more. The frog breakup. pic.twitter.com/Nc8mfMsEyE — The Reagan …

Mediaite reports: Longtime political operative and Donald Trump consigliere, Roger Stone, visited Joe Piscopo on AM 970 THE ANSWER radio show Wednesday to talk Russia. “Pardon me, I had Vladimir Putin on the other line,” Stone quipped. “Let me get rid of him.” From there, Stone launched into a spirited denial of claims that he secretly colluded with the Russian …

McClatchy reports: Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories — some fictional — that favored Donald Trump’s presidential bid, two people familiar with the inquiry say. Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as “bots,” to …

Purely for the LULZ, here’s what InfoWars claims: Trump adviser Roger Stone was involved in a hit-and-run T-bone car accident Wednesday, the Republican operative revealed on the Alex Jones Show. “I was driving on my way to a speech in Orlando later this afternoon, and my car was T-boned by a car coming out of nowhere, the windshield so darkly …

“I don’t care if the media makes fun of me, I don’t care what they say, whatever. I’m telling you folks, I look out at the crowds I see the people they are possessed by something. I don’t know what it is — most of the planet believes in demons and possession for a reason, in fact every culture does. …

“Here’s the deal, I know I get White House credentials, we’ve already been offered them, we’re going to get them, but I’ve just got to spend the money to send somebody there. I want to make sure it’s even worth it. I don’t want to just sit there up there like ‘I’m in the media, look our people are there.’ …

Buzzfeed reports: A man based in Scotland has revealed to BuzzFeed News how he tricked the right-wing conspiracy site Infowars into publishing a completely fake report about president-elect Donald Trump. Markus Muir, a 27-year-old marketing professional from Glasgow, sent direct messages on Twitter to Infowars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson claiming BuzzFeed News and CNN were due to release harmful footage …

Donald Trump’s favorite conspiracy nut Alex Jones is trying to distance himself from the so-called Pizzagate fake news controversy by deleting his YouTube video in which he accused Hillary Clinton of being involved in a murderous child sex ring. Jones’ action comes after a self-proclaimed “evangelical Christian” fired his assault rifle in the DC pizza shop in an attempt to …

Regular InfoWars guest and insane conspiracy theorist Mark Dice has gone with viral with a YouTube clip in which he claims (with utterly no proof, of course) that Starbucks is trying to silence him by buying the rights to a 2015 video in which he denounces them for hating White Jesus. The pro-Trump Nazi site Daily Stormer plays right along: …

Media Matters reports: Conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones, who believes the government was involved in the 9/11 attacks, numerous school shootings, and the Oklahoma City bombing, says President-elect Donald Trump personally called him to “thank” Jones’ audience for its support during the campaign. According to Jones, Trump said he plans to appear on Jones’ radio show “in the next …