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21 Feb 2022
Alex Jones is lying about the circumstances of Artur Pawlowski's arrest and the scope of arrests in Canada.

Alex is lying about what happened here and why he was arrested, though, and all of the circumstances. For one thing, Alex is claiming this arrest happened not at one of the border blockades, but it did. The border crossing from Coutts into Montana was being blocked, and Pawlowski was arrested at that blockade.

05 Jun 2020
Alex Jones misrepresents the Moderna trial by implying that three out of fifteen participants were paralyzed, when the actual adverse events were mild symptoms like fever and dizziness.

Alex wants to tell the story that three out of 15 people in this trial were paralyzed. That's what he's implying. You want to get paralyzed? But the reality is that there were three participants who had reactions that were things like fever or dizziness or the loss of appetite. This is important and noteworthy because it helps the researchers better understand an optimal dose range. But it's not the sort of thing that's so severe that it ruins trials or is even terrible news for the vaccine being studied. More than anything else, it gives more information, which is ultimately a positive thing, particularly because all those adverse reactions were, quote, self-resolving.

13 May 2020
Alex Jones fabricated the existence of studies showing vaccines lower immunity and falsely claimed they were removed from the internet.

Alex can't find these studies because they probably weren't there to begin with. I imagine he just read some headlines ten years ago and then kept yelling about it and eventually embellished it into being a prestigious study from the most reputable journal known to man, and now when he goes and tries to find it, shockingly nothing comes up. That seems to be what's going on.

01 May 2020
Alex Jones lies about knowing that videos from China were fake and makes false claims about the virus being man-made and Bill Gates financing it.

So, in this next clip, we jump off that unpleasantness, and Alex lies about how he knew that all the videos that were coming out of China were fake. Sure. Because he fucking didn't. He talked about it all the time. Non-stop. And honestly, this clip is just... The way I would describe this is, it's all made up. Everything in this isn't true. Now, from the beginning of this, 11, 12 weeks ago, we knew that a lot of the videos out of China were fake. We knew that they were trying to create as much fear as possible. But we also knew that the virus was man-made. And so we had to take it very, very seriously. We now know why it's man-made. And so Bill Gates, who financed the whole thing through subcompanies on record, can control the rollout of the vaccine because you could never have a vaccine for a cold virus because there's thousands of them in the Corona family every year. Thousands of different mutations. But if you make an entirely new alien and that's what it is, it's an artificial counterintuitive. Legends. Those were just in fabled Greek legends before. Legends. Creatures that were made up of three or more animals. Chimeras. Nothing he's saying means anything. Like, all of that is nonsense. Chimeras have to be... There's a minimum amount for a chimera. Well, I'm actually not positive on what the rules about chimeras are. You should. Are we talking D&D rules? Are we talking version 2? Are we talking version 5? What are we dealing with here? I'd like to stipulate that I don't know the rules of chimera definitions. It seemed pointless. So maybe chimeras have to be three. Don't care. Your research is not as thorough as it used to be, Dan. Your research is just not as thorough. I think I just wasn't as charmed by any of this that I didn't feel like even like... Maybe at a different time I would have danced around and been like, well, technically Chimera is blah, blah, blah. I don't care. I don't care. All of that is not true. Every other piece of that, everything that has any implication in real world is not true. All of that's bullshit.

27 Apr 2020
Alex Jones fabricated a story about China putting coronavirus on test needles to infect people.

However, what Alex is doing is completely fabricating a story about China putting coronavirus on test needles and sending them here to infect people, which is essentially accusing a sovereign state of a crime that requires a declaration of war. He's playing with fire, and he's all just making it up because he's either unwilling or unable to read anything past a headline.

17 Apr 2020
Alex Jones misrepresented a Fox News story as an Associated Press article to support his narrative about the virus's origin.

All that matches is the perception that the headline promotes, which is really all Alex trades in anyway. All the stuff he's saying in that clip is based on this Fox News story, but he's pretending it's an AP article about them getting documents proving the The virus came out of the Wuhan lab and the WHO is covering it up. Yeah. Simply put, that's lying.

17 Feb 2020
Alex Jones fabricated a story about Somali migrants being released by judges to justify a xenophobic rant.

I saw a story yesterday where two Somali migrants went on a spree robbing, stabbing, attacking for days. Well, you got to give it up to him. The judges said, you can go free. It's a religious virtue signal sacrament. And you say to yourself, why are they doing that? It's a plan to bring down the civilization. So I think this is a perfect example of how bad Alex is at his job. Like, what is he talking about? No clue. You hear him telling a story about some Somali immigrants who went on a spree of crimes, but were let go because, you know, the left is into letting non-white people get away with crime so as to bring about the end of civilization. Absolutely. That's what Alex, you know, always does. But when you take a step back, what do you know about the underlying story that he's telling? Nothing. Based on the details Alex provides, we don't know anything about this. I don't know where they're at. We don't know what country it took place. No clue. This isn't covering a story. This is gossiping about a headline he might have skimmed, or more likely, it's just Alex making up a story in order to justify him going into a xenophobic rant, which is what he was going to do, whether or not he had a story to base it on. Yeah, I know. Why are you even pretending anymore? You can't track down this story based on the details Alex provides, and that's intentional. He doesn't want to portray reality or help his listeners come to a better understanding of the world. He wants to reinforce and harden their fear of the left and people who don't look like them. I decided to see if I could trace down the story that Alex is covering, you know, for fun. InfoWar's website was no help. There wasn't any story like this on there. So I started Googling. I just like that sentence. InfoWars website was no help. Yeah. Yep. Put that on my Tuesday. Agreed. So here's the most recent story that matched some keywords. From February 2nd, 2020. Quote, judge refuses to vacate Somali pirate sentence. Hmm. Got to give it up to him. This was a story from the Elko Daily Free Press covering a federal judge's ruling in Virginia that a Somali pirate could not have his sentence thrown out, which he was seeking because he claimed that his lawyer was ineffective in the underlying trial. The judge said nope, and that Somali man is still in prison. And they let him go free. Wait, what? So that's kind of the opposite of the story that Alex is telling. A little bit. You'd think that based on the narrative that Alex is selling, this pirate would be exactly the sort of person the federal judge would release as a perfect religious virtue signal sacrament. But it looks like the reality is the opposite in this case. So I kept looking. And there's only one Somali pirate, I believe. I don't know. I just kept looking. I couldn't find any evidence of judges releasing any Somali immigrants for stabbings. So I started searching for Somali and spree, those words, to see if anything came up. And there was one story from September 2019 out of Minneapolis. But this wasn't about a Somali immigrant going on a stabbing spree. It's about a guy named Harlan St. John getting arrested for going on a vandalism spree, smashing out the windows of Somali-owned businesses because as he told the police, quote, Somali people are selling meth and heroin to native people. So that's not the case Alex is talking about. I also don't think that guy was talking about First Nations. No, I don't think he was. No. I think he was talking about a different kind of, quote, native people. Yeah. I wanted to be cute about this, but honestly, I have no idea what story Alex is talking about. And that's kind of my main point. If I, someone who's actively trying to figure out what story Alex is talking about, have no idea, people who are just passively listening have no clue what's going on and what's real and what Alex is just making up. When people in positions like Alex are vague, it's because they're making things up. If Alex really had a case of a small spree stabber who'd gone free because it was a religious sacrament of virtue signaling for the left to let immigrants commit crimes, it would probably be in his interest to actually cover the details of the story. Go over that. What's the name of the stabber, the alleged stabber? What's the name of the judge? What city did it happen in? Fuck, what country did it happen in? What are the circumstances of the case? He doesn't do any of that because he's not covering the news. He's creating a feeling, and that feeling is supposed to be purely anti-left and anti-non-whites. Details just get in the way of that.

10 Feb 2020
Alex Jones falsely claimed that the ABC News article was about Anthony Fauci calling for scientists to investigate if the coronavirus was a bioweapon.

So, Alex believes that this entire article is about Anthony Fauci, and he is the one who called for the scientists to... This is funny. This is actually really funny. It's sad, but it's funny. And yes, we've got the White House main spokesperson, the main scientist, president... Trump didn't appoint him like John P. Holdren Obama did, the eugenicist who called for population reduction. That was John P. Holdren, not Anthony Fauci. So Trump didn't appoint an official science czar, but Fauci is his chief science advisor. So, Anthony Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His chief science advisor, correct? He's just someone who was interviewed to provide a little extra to that ABC News article. The person in the White House who called for the meeting of experts was the head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

10 Feb 2020
Alex Jones is reading new lies about the coronavirus from Zero Edge and pretending he has known about Anthony Fauci for months.

It's getting laborious that Alex won't stop coming up with new lies that he's reading on Zero Edge about the coronavirus. But I think, if nothing else, that Anthony Fauci stuff I think is fucking hilarious. The way Alex is pretending that he's known about him for months and he's looking into it.

20 Jan 2020
Alex Jones reinforces conspiracy thinking by connecting independent events like the shooting hoax and gun bills without factual basis.

It's two disconnected events that are easily explained on their own and actually become pretty nonsensical when you try to connect them. At least they are if you think even a little bit. But Alex's audience and Alex aren't big thinkers. They both kind of have to do with guns, these two things, and Alex has trained these dum-dums in his audience to think that everything that happens is part of a grand conspiracy. That snapshot, Alex saying isn't that convenient, perfectly captures what an idiot he is. He has no idea what this caller is talking about. He doesn't know anything about this story. Yet he's perfectly happy to reinforce this kind of thinking. The kind of thinking that just randomly connects independent things in order to build conspiracies.

08 Jan 2020
Alex Jones uses misleading statistics by conflating various fire-related offenses with deliberate arson to create a false narrative.

Alex is citing this number of almost 200 people who are arrested for arson, but that's not even in this article that Paul wrote. So maybe he wrote another one. Or maybe he just made up 200 people. No, I guess he could have written a second article on the topic. I'm not sure. But I decided to try and track that down. This comes from right-wing blogs like Zero Hedge and Post Millennial, who are covering an article in The Australian, which purports that since the beginning of November, 183 people, quote, have been charged or cautioned for bushfire-related offenses. However, the article also says that only 24 have actually been arrested for deliberately setting fires. The rest of them were probably given a ticket for flicking a cigarette butt in a high-fire hazard area, which of course is not good, but not the same as arson. No. An article in MSN seems to indicate that 47 of these people were exactly that situation, discarding a cigarette or match inappropriately. And 53 of them were people cited for not following the complete fire ban. So they might have been making a campfire or grilling or something like that. These numbers Alex is using are completely misleading. They're meant to make it seem like there are tons and tons of arsonists out there, and that's all that's going on. That's not the case.