Today, Dan and Jordan pick up their exploration of Alex Jones' career back in 2009, and find Alex taking a stand and changing his position about Glenn Beck. He also spends about a third of his show talking to a "doctor," and supporting medical advice that will seriously hurt his audience.
There's a tradition in my family of, like, one of my aunts sends me, every year for forever, they send, like, a tin of Williams-Sonoma peppermint bark every year.
And that is appropriate to bring up, because today we're back in the past.
We're in 2009, and we'll be going over the March 27th, 2009 episode, which is the day after Alex Jones has had the John Birch Society president on the show.
And it's interesting to see what happens in the immediate aftermath of that.
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Like I said, the last episode was our last week's Monday episode where we heard Alex interview John McManus, president of the John Birch Society.
And it doesn't immediately come into any...
That's not really important necessarily at the beginning of this episode, but it's an important context, an important framework to understand moving forward in Alex's...
I don't really understand fully what Alex is talking about, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the idea that the Vatican is a private city country.
So in this next clip, Alex gives something that I think has come to become very de rigueur.
Very normal on our show, and that is him giving a prophetic warning that what they are doing to non-white people, they will soon be doing to white people.
It is just going to get worse and worse and worse.
I mean, we are in for deep trouble.
Because when they get this global financial power and a world ID that will still be a national ID but globally standardized, they'll track, trace, track everywhere you're going, control you, you can't run anywhere.
Then they're going to carry out the one-child policy, the controlled plague releases, and from here on out it becomes Hitlerian.
The dying is going to start.
I mean, it's already starting if you were in Cambodia or Iraq or hundreds of other countries where the globalists are slaughtering people.
With their proxies, but we're going to start dying here and in Europe, so get ready to die.
Anyway, the part at the beginning when I was making a big deal of Alex having the John Birch Society president on the day before, it does show up a little earlier than maybe I made it seem.
Because in this next clip...
Alex Jones goes whole hog against Glenn Beck.
He starts attacking him aggressively the day after he has the John Birch Society president on.
So the feud began whenever Glenn Beck inexplicably chose somebody to pick through the lies of somebody else who was lying about stuff that he's also lying about.
They'll probably say the MIAC report doesn't exist either.
Of course, the state police have now apologized and stopped issuing it, and the lieutenant governor's called for the head of the state police to step down over it.
The MIAC report does exist, but you're misrepresenting them, and your asshole followers and Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin and all those guys got together and, you know, ran with the misrepresentation of it and got the law enforcement to redact it, recant it.
That is why when people critique him, they're not saying that he's making stuff up whole cloth.
It's just that he's making up the interpretation of it in a dishonest way.
Now, the thing that I want to bring sharp focus to here is Alex's complaint about Glenn Beck seems to be mostly he's not extreme enough.
Or, when he's extreme, he's lying about it.
So there's this sense to it that he's like, he came out and he was talking about the New World Order and how you need to be worried about it.
We're going to look into it.
That's the part where Alex is cool with it.
But then, once Glenn Beck is like, we looked into it and a lot of this stuff that's going around isn't true, that's where he's like, he's either just talking about the New World Order in order to trick you into believing him, only to have him say it's not true.
I wrote articles saying black helicopters and urban warfare didn't exist a couple of years before they reversed themselves on the cover about militarization of police.
And I actually saw one of their writers in an urban warfare takeover drill in Oakland.
And he was there and he said, oh, Alex Jones.
And I said, yeah, oh, you're here now witnessing the black helicopters.
And I even sent them an Associated Press article where they tried to bribe the police chief and others, not just my video interviewing him that broke it.
They made it into the San Antonio Express News and AP, but I mailed them that because I saw one of their writers there who'd written a piece saying it didn't exist, but he lived in California, so I saw the writer there.
They published the AP article in their magazine and said, okay, it's true.
Lo and behold.
So, it's like I had McManus in here yesterday, the president of the John Birch Society, which I think does good work.
They're good people.
And I didn't throw any, you know, hardball questions at him because I just wanted to, you know, pick his brain.
Also, I'm incapable of that.
They did do a lot of the groundwork on exposing this whole thing, and a lot of us wouldn't even be here today knowing about this if it wasn't for them.
So you hear, I mean, that is a convoluted story, but it's important to hear, like, from the base elements of that clip are, at the beginning, He's talking about how the John Birch Society had this guy there who was reporting on stuff that Alex knew wasn't correct, and so he got in touch with them, and then they corrected their behavior, and it's a very positive version of this not being extreme enough.
He talks about how he accidentally found this book that set the course of his life when he was a child or whatever, and then gets to talking to McManus.
McManus disagrees on him on the extremeness of the position they should take, and Alex gives him this article.
And he now is assuming that John McManus is going to make his position more extreme because of the influence that Alex has exerted on him.
These are parallel situations.
His feelings about Glenn Beck and his feelings about the John Birch Society run almost similar tracks.
I suppose my question would then be, like, so his view on these guys is that they don't go, not always, but for the most part where he's coming from now is you guys aren't extreme enough in your the New World Order is going to kill everybody stuff.
I just want to pause for a second to point out that that's exactly the inverse of the logic that he uses about Margaret Sanger giving a speech to the women of the KKK.
And so one of our biggest problems is you have the mainstream media spinning, lying, obfuscating, pushing propaganda.
We're trying to analyze that.
Then you have the general public wrecked by the system, wrecked by the establishment, a large portion of it, who are even awake to the New World Order, but they won't spend any other time actually fighting the globalists.
They spend all their time critiquing each other and ninnying and bitching and witch hunts.
So he doesn't get that his complaint is they're complaining about him, and he's complaining that they're complaining, and there's too much complaining going on, and he's complaining about that.
In the instances of what he's complaining about about Glenn Beck and the John Birch Society, those aren't complaints that they're making about Alex complaining about them.
In the instance of Glenn Beck, it's not complaining.
It's discussing misinformation that people like Alex are perpetuating.
So not to defend Glenn Beck in any way, but the complaint that Alex has about him is he's pushing back on my nonsense, whereas Alex's, you know, his complaint is people complain to.
I don't know.
Alex's version has much less substance to it, if only because Glenn Beck is talking about, like, oh, this is a misrepresentation, misreading of this bill, or whatever.
It's not so much that he has a circular thought process as he just doesn't have one.
It just starts with a, here's a thing that I don't like, and I don't like that thing, and even though it's a thing that I'm doing that I like to do, I think it's a bad thing.
And, you know, I called this months ago, Glenn Beck on his radio show, then on his TV show in the last month, and I never really come out against Glenn Beck.
I said, the guy's a neocon, you know, he says put Ron Paul supporters in FEMA camps.
I'd criticize him for that, but I'd say he's just a discredited minion.
He's not that big of a danger to the people.
Then in the last six months, he started saying there's a global government being set up, but then he would always sandwich that in with Al-Qaeda, and they're going to get us.
It was psychological manipulation.
And then for the last month or so, he's been saying, I'm going to expose the FEMA camps, whether they're real or not.
In-depth investigation.
And he'd promise every night to do it and have folks tune in, and he wouldn't do it.
And then he'd kind of laugh at it and discredit it.
Well, now he's had the head of Popular Mechanics on, remember, Hearst Publishing are the folks that were run by William Randolph Hearst, who's in the Spanish-American War, said, you supply the pictures, I'll supply the war, making up that Spain was attacking people in Cuba.
And they're the folks with the fake red scare.
They're the folks that are always calling for a police state.
He was a big robber baron.
And in the Encyclopedia Britannica, under yellow journalism, it says Hearst Publishing.
So, I mean, you cannot have a more discredited, more nasty group of individuals.
But if you want to play that game, then fine, Alex.
You have a show that's distributed by Genesis Communications Network, which is owned by Ted Anderson, who owns Midas Resources, who in interviews has said that he created Genesis Communications Network as a...
Advertising arm of Midas Resources, where he sells gold.
You have people on all the time who just try and create panics to sell gold.
So, I mean, we can play that game.
Genesis Communications is a thoroughly discredited outlet.
And if you want somebody who runs fucking propaganda, one of your guests regularly helping you sell gold is a fucking South African rapist who believes in Rhodesia.
And I think you should probably give a pass for Hearst Publishing owning Popular Mechanics unless you have specific complaints about the specific person or anything like that.
The thing that he brings up there as his specific example of FEMA camps being real, the civilian inmate labor camp program, it really is just about creating the private prison industry and about the idea that you can make inmates work.
If he wants to talk about that in a realistic way, I would really appreciate it.
But if he wants to fold it into this FEMA camp nonsense, then what it does is diminish the ability to work against the actual evil that he pretends to be complaining about.
So, that to me is a problem.
The other problem here is, see, what I think is going on, and this is just my theory, And it's...
I didn't know about this episode when we recorded the episode about him interviewing the John Birch Society president.
And we talked about the connections between the Koch brothers, FreedomWorks, Citizens for Prosperity, Americans for Prosperity.
But I do think that it appears to be a strategy where you have two people who are ostensibly saying similar things and you have a petty argument of some sort.
And what you do is you create a radicalization ping pong game.
It's a perfect chamber wherein things only get worse.
Because it's easy if you're like a Fox News watcher or you're somebody who has inclinations towards the right.
It's really easy to fall into Glenn Beck.
It's more difficult to fall into Alex Jones.
He is much more extreme.
He yells about shit all the time.
He references documents that he wants you to read that you'll never be able to find.
All this stuff is very confusing to the immediate viewer.
Glenn Beck is very easy.
So, the baby step from sort of normal, well-meaning conservative can be to go to Glenn Beck.
If people are leaving from Glenn Beck to go to Alex Jones, enjoying the incredibly hot water, then Glenn Beck is going to heat up his own water in order to get those people back.
Because if he gets too hot, then he isn't a good entry point anymore.
Which may actually accidentally have been what happened.
I don't know.
I don't think that this is necessarily what happened, but I would not be surprised at all if the same people who were paying for Glenn Beck and his rise to prominence were also eventually paying Alex Jones to serve as the more extreme version of him.
I feel uncomfortable about the sort of speculative nature of what I'm saying.
But at the same time, I find it very difficult to look at the picture that we have in front of us, knowing what I know.
Like, for example, I know...
That Alex Jones' dad lost a ton of oil revenue from the lands that he owned in Texas pretty recently before this.
I know that Alex Jones moved into a new studio where the rent was higher around this time.
I know that he just had the John Birch Society president on and changed a number of his positions mid-interview with him.
I know that FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity funnel tons of money and they are run by the children of one of the founding members of the John Birch Society.
I know that a couple months after this episode, Alex Jones has a money bomb.
So I know a number of things that make it look really difficult for me to not think, there's something up here.
And the fact that the day after the John Birch Society president was on the show, Alex...
He pivots his position on Glenn Beck from being someone who, eh, he's like an annoying fly.
You shoo him away.
He's inconsequential, but probably not great news.
I don't want to hang out with him, but I'm not going to get into a fight with him.
But the facts on the ground lead me to think this is something I've got to keep my eye on.
And look into a little bit more.
So we'll see as time goes on.
But, like, he's straight up just doing a show where he's going, he just ends up, keeps on dunking on Glenn Beck.
Here, at this point, he invites Jason Bermas onto the show, and the two of them have a little bit of a shit on Glenn Beck session.
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I think the best thing about this, Alex, is we are continuing to expose Glenn Beck as a wolf in sheep's clothing.
I mean, we've had a lot of pressure.
Over the last few months in this office alone, email's telling us, no, Glenn Beck is coming around, he's telling us the truth about the financial institutions.
Well, they put a little piece of wood and they have the MIAC report hanging by a little string and he keeps trying to run towards it and he just can't get there!
But that reflects, too, the fact that Alex is in sort of a tough situation, is that his entire show on Sunday, the 29th of May, is all just an interview with Webster Tarpley that serves as almost an infomercial for the Obama deception.
And that's because he has...
Wider distribution on his Sunday shows.
So he's using that as a platform to put out the...
So this reflects the pivot and the change that happens over time, where now Sunday shows are kind of like an afterthought, whereas before they were where you could actually get much more marketing done.
Although that, bringing that up, that actually, like if we're talking about Tommy Robinson, you take a look at where his money comes from, it kind of reinforces your theory on Alex Jones and these guys getting so much money.
Why would the same groups that were so used to seeing fund all these right-wing lunatics also fund an out-and-out Nazi in Britain?
With this, I don't know if this is necessarily indicative of any, like, oh, this is clear that...
Someone's influencing him.
But he's been made aware of UKIP, and he plays a long compilation of just completely out-of-context clips of Nigel Farage yelling at Gordon Brown on the floor and stuff like that.
And it's interesting, because he does know Lord Moncton at this point.
And if you talk about what you just heard, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest of them come out and say you're a kook, all we do is watch the European Parliament.
Now being folded into Alex's world, again, immediately after the interview with the John Birch Society guy, we see the introduction of the presence of the UK Independence Party and Nigel Farage being someone that Alex is not saying by name because I don't think he knows his name at this point even.
He never says Nigel Farage.
He doesn't give any names of these politicians.
If he watches all this and reads all the bills, you'd know who he is.
He's just like, these guys are really giving it to the idea of a greater Britain being in the world.
You should know.
You should be able to talk about this more if you're as much of an expert as you think.
But it's here.
And it's a huge part of his stuff moving forward.
The resistance to globalism in the EU is Nigel Farage and UKIP for Alex.
It's tough for me to do this as a show because I don't want to put out into the world something that would lead one of our listeners to think that we're demonstrating that this is now a broad conspiracy of all these things.
Well, just think about all the theories we had during our 2015 investigation.
Oh, totally.
The entire time we're doing that, we're speculating, we've got all these different things, and we're like, this makes sense, and this goes on, and then two days later we're like, well, that's fucking stupid, that doesn't make any sense now.
About nine countries studying those healing sciences over in Africa and Asia, bringing them back to America and using them and applying them and getting phenomenal results with everyone I come in contact with regarding their particular condition.
Actually, that's not fair, because in this next clip, he does explain, Whitaker does explain, that there are some instances wherein you should go to a hospital.
And really fucked up for Alex to be signing off on, because...
There's so much more that hospitals do.
Just because you want to demonize science because you're afraid that, you know, I don't know, regulations are going to start popping up that make your scams untenable or illegal to pull off.
But then, you know, there's so much preventative medicine that has saved millions of lives over the years that have nothing to do with crisis emergency medicine.
Like, this is a ludicrous thing for someone to be saying.
But there was, I believe, like an old Loveline episode, Dr. Drew made a nice point, and that was that, like, if all of this herb-based sort of natural healing worked, there would be no reason that medicine would have ever developed.
A lot of the natural cures and stuff probably did help a lot more in earlier times in human history.
But since we've created more...
That sort of stuff, though, as societies have changed, the conditions that we have changed because of the sort of human-world interactions that we have introduced.
Half-sick, half-healthy from a worldview standpoint in order to constantly keep them on board and scared enough that they are motivated to buy things properly.
So wait, so the fake doctor with a fake degree from his own fake school is saying that the body naturally gets rid of HPV, which is some sort of callback to the body naturally gets rid of rape pregnancies.
And then Alex is like, yeah, see how not real it is?
The problem with it is that it's a precursor for cervical cancer in women.
This is why creating a vaccine for it is very important, because as recently as the 1950s, cervical cancer was a leading cause of death in adult women.
In the 50s, the pap smear was introduced, which led to much earlier diagnosis of the condition, and the number of deaths...
No, it's just turning our girls into sluts, Dan.
And it's killing them.
Whitaker says, I believe it's a sterilization thing.
So Alex trots out that only 3,000 deaths occur annually from HPV.
And while it's true that the number is closer to like 4,000 or 5,000, and that only reflects the United States, That's only because of the advances made in screening and detection in the years since the 1950s.
Since which time, the incidence and death rate for cervical cancer has dropped about 60%.
The drop that we've seen wasn't thanks to holistic medicine or naturopaths.
It was thanks to the development of the pap smear, the dedicated researchers who figured out how HPV causes cervical cancer in the 80s, and the folks who have now developed a vaccine.
The only reason Alex can flippantly pretend that 3,000 annual deaths, you know, you can just toss that around in order to make it seem like it's not a big deal, is because of the work of the very people him and Whitaker here are trying to demonize.
it's very very stupid and it's dangerous it's a severely dangerous uh mentality to Well, but that's the process by which this shit...
It is a massive problem, and we spend all this time and effort trying to fix it, and as we get closer and closer to a solution, it stops being a massive problem, and the people for whom it was a massive problem are dead, so the next generation is like, see, it's not a problem, and it never was, and nobody's ever fixed it, and yada, yada, yada.
So, like, when he's saying the idea that, like, the body takes care of cervical, I'm sorry, HPV, what he might be expressing is just the idea that for men it doesn't really matter.
See, you would need to do a study of people who were brought flowers and vases and cut flowers, but you could never do that study because you'd be endangering the people who you're bringing cut flowers to.
no doubt because all the court systems are under the British Admiralty regulations anyway, Barr, and most of the gold, most of the flags have gold fringes.
When you go in, if you're going, I know some of you are still using your HMOs and your PPOs and all these different health management systems because that's what they are.
They're there to manage your disease.
You've got to be aware that when you go in, it's like a recruitment scheme to scare you.
They create fear, F-E-A-R, false evidence appearing real, and then they got you.
So he brings up a very good point, and that is that this is dangerous.
This is what you're putting out into the world.
Unless you can back this up with some kind of, like, study, some research that you've done, some peer-reviewed information.
And I'm telling you...
We don't have a ton of clips of this, but this doctor who calls in is incredibly fair.
And he keeps saying, like, I believe that there is a place for holistic approaches.
There are people who incorporate it really well and have shown some techniques do have some appropriate applications.
He's not coming in and being like, you're full of shit.
He's just saying that, like, hey, listen, if someone who could be helped with early detection of a cancer, let's say, doesn't do it because he believes this guy, he might die.
What makes me more concerned about it, though, is that Alex isn't concerned.
Not at all.
And that Alex is getting defensive and trying to back up Dr. Whitaker because he has the anti-vaccine arguments that Alex loves and that sort of thing.
So when you have this, like, it's clear that most of the world believes X, you believe Y. And all of the sources that you can get to back up why are people like him?
And like that lady, Dr. Rebecca Carley, who got her license taken away.
If those are the only people you've got to back up your worldview, you're in trouble.
You've got a really bad worldview.
Because if the legitimate, respectable scientists did not believe mainstream science, and they believed the things that Alex believes...
It would not be hard to get people who knew what they were talking about to come on your show and have a conversation about it.
It wouldn't be hard.
And the fact that you get people like this, it just means that the pool is shallow.
But the reason I didn't want to get into it is because it's kind of comical, but at the same time it's like, There's a chance he did go to Berkeley, and there's a chance he did meet some Native American guy who got him off on his weird natural health path.
All that stuff is possible.
I don't know.
I'm not going to try and suss out his college transcript or anything.
I'll leave that be and only talk about the stuff that I can sort of talk about.
He's condemning the very idea of the scientific method in terms of repeatability of studies, confirmability, excluding extraneous variables, that sort of thing.
He's like, they just are so trapped in their scientific ideas.
You go to these colleges, and if you don't think a certain way, you know, like with facts or whatever it is they call them, then they're like, no, you're not allowed to go here, so you invent your own fake school.
So, we've come to the end of this adventure, and what we see is an interesting prospect for the future with Alex's rhetoric sliding towards anti-Glenbeck involving UKIP.
Weird constellation of things starting to happen.
I think the ball might be starting to roll.
It feels like it's starting to roll.
Now, that makes it worthwhile that we've spent so much time going over the last couple months of Alex's...
Because once the ball starts rolling, it'll become so much more apparent the changes that are happening in real time as they're happening.
So I'm excited to see that, and we will see where the trend takes us and what conclusions we can make based on that.
As for Alex having this fucking doctor on, that's just, uh, look at this asshole kind of business.