Knowledge Fight’s #349 dissects Alex Jones’ April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing coverage, exposing his immediate false flag claims—blaming globalists, right-wingers, or "Patriots"—despite no suspects identified. Jones falsely tied the attack to Tax Day protests and cherry-picked media distortions, like CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, to push narratives while ignoring victims’ suffering. Belzer and callers amplified baseless theories (e.g., numerology, Family Guy edits), prioritizing fear-mongering over facts. The episode reveals Jones’ manipulative pattern: exploiting tragedies to reinforce conspiracies, even when evidence contradicts him, and weaponizing skepticism as a tool for control. [Automatically generated summary]
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There's kind of a little bit of a panic of some kind that we're marketing things to children, and then you restrict everybody's access to fun stuff.
Like when I was, I would call it 1920-ish or so, I smoked cigarettes, and Camel came out with a line of cigarettes that would come in a tin, and there was a vanilla flavor.
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But I do also understand that there are problems that are possibly coming to light about vape use that we just didn't have enough time to really understand some of the dangers about them.
So, Jordan, today we are getting into the long-awaited and highly anticipated and anxiety-provoking episode of the Alex Jones Show from April 15th and 16th.
We'll be going over today where the Boston Marathon bombing happens.
And we get to see how Alex responds to it in real time.
And I sincerely think that this is one of the grimmer looks at a man.
Along the way, I have a lot of very fine points to make.
And it's one of the things that I think is really the most difficult and most rewarding of doing this podcast.
And that is that whenever there's something like this, the tragedy happens or news breaks, you really get to see how Alex spins his wheels in real time.
And I think deconstructing how the ball moves forward, especially in the immediate point, I think is really revealing.
And then also, I lost respect for someone that I previously had respect for.
So we'll get into all that, and I think there's a lot to learn, a lot to discuss today.
But before we get to that, you've got to take a moment to say thank you to some people who have signed up and made this anxiety-provoking episode possible.
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So only have a tiny little speech here just to write down some of the stuff.
So we're starting on April 15th, and on April 15th, 2013, at 2.49 Eastern Time, a bomb detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
14 seconds later, a second bomb placed 210 yards away went off.
Three people were killed, but at least 264 were wounded, 14 of whom required amputations.
The high number of injuries was the result of the homemade bombs being packed with nails and ball bearings, meant to be shrapnel to hit as many people as possible.
The bombs themselves were very rudimentary, which led authorities to believe that this could easily be the work of amateurs.
Their basic construction of the bombs was just a pressure cook uh pressure cooker filled with gunpowder, a little wiring, and the shrapnel.
The gunpowder came from fireworks that were purchased and emptied into the pressure cookers, which is just chilling to think about.
A person with really terrible intentions could do so much damage with pretty easy to get materials if they're so motivated and drawn that direction.
When this all happened, I was working a terrible temp job at an insurance company that I had no business being in the underwriting department for.
It was just a very weird circumstance.
They had very little work for me to do, so a lot of my time was spent reading conspiracy message boards to pass the time.
I remember April 15th, 2013, very clearly, and I remember how everyone in the conspiracy world was following Alex Jones's lead.
So many of the narratives that I heard listening back to these episodes were taken as concrete fact on the sites that I was killing time reading.
And when posters on those sites would be pushed to provide a source, it was very regularly Infowars links.
I struggled with how to present this episode since everyone listening knows how this plays out, at least in the real world, or at least they know the basics of it.
Our episode today is going to cover exclusively April 15th and 16th.
And I kind of feel like if I lay out everything that happens with the aftermath of the bombing and how things progress, that'll leave us with very little to deconstruct and talk about when the later events come around when we cover future episodes.
So I apologize if that's unsatisfying, but I assure you we'll cover all that stuff as it unfolds.
For now, by the time Alex goes off air on the episode on April 16th, no one knows anything about who did the bombing.
No one knows what their motivations could have been or if they were even working with a terrorist group.
Here's all the information that had come out by the 16th.
Within minutes, it was clear that this was not an accident, since there were two explosions a ways apart from each other, and video footage showed explosions inconsistent with a gas main explosion or something along those lines.
It was clear very quickly that this was an attack.
Initially, a whole lot of the media coverage was about people who saved each other's lives.
In the absence of any concrete things to report, that seems like the next most important story to tell, reassuring people.
People were embodying that Mr. Rogers spirit of looking for the helpers.
Obama's press conference mirrored this with him highlighting the bright parts of humanity that come out in a tragedy.
The people selflessly helping each other, the runners continuing to run to the hospital to donate blood, inspiring and unifying images, basically, just as like we gotta tell people something.
Which we'll touch on a little bit down the road on this episode.
The FBI was quoted by the BBC as calling it a quote potential terrorist investigation that they were engaged in.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis held a press conference and announced they had no specific intelligence that something like this would happen in advance.
The country, but Boston in particular, was in a very fucked up place.
Something that had such positive connotations, a marathon, had been turned into something terrifying.
Marathons were the sort of thing that you associate with being the culmination of hard work and dedication, with family and friends cheering you on to make it those last steps to get across the finish line.
The bombers had taken those associations and replaced them with blood trails and missing limbs, which is very hard to deal with as a country.
And even if you're watching it on TV, even if you're away from it, particularly for the people immediately associated with what happened, but everybody is reeling to an extent.
And on top of that, the culprits were still on the loose.
And there wasn't a lot of clues about who'd done this.
Boston was on high alert with heightened law enforcement levels on the streets.
No one knew if this person or persons were going to strike again.
No one knew what to expect.
No one knew anything except that a lot of people got hurt and that it was intentional.
This is an incredibly tense situation.
It's one of elevated anxiety and one where people crave any information to help them make sense of what happened.
It's the kind of situation where someone like Alex Jones is at his most dangerous.
Because no one knew what the story was of what had happened, Alex was free to craft a story all his own, and no one could really prove that he was wrong.
It was a very definition of that metaphor I always use about Alex needing to act fast.
He needs to act while the concrete is wet.
Until that concrete dries, he can easily put his initials in there forever.
But if he waits too long, he's going to need a jackhammer to make an impression.
I try to approach this show, our podcast, from a position with a bit of objectivity and elevating myself above stuff and not let myself get too mad.
But I can't sit here and pretend that what we're going to go over here today doesn't infuriate me.
For one, my family lived in Boston and Cambridge from just after I was born until I was six years old.
And while I don't remember much of that time too vividly, nor can I really claim any kind of big association with the city, it's still a part of my life.
I've always held a real fondness for Boston, and I was a huge fan of the Mighty Mighty Boston's growing up, but ultimately that has little to do with my anger.
And I'm not trying to personalize this to myself.
What makes me angry is that if you pay attention to Alex during the immediate aftermath of this attack, you can very clearly see that what he's doing is intentional.
We often discuss the stupid versus evil question, and I find his behavior that we're going to look at squarely on the evil side.
I hope by the time we reach the end of this episode, you'll see what I'm saying and realize that Alex is making calculated decisions in order to maximize his outcome.
This episode will take us straight through to the 16th, and like I said, by that point, the world really doesn't know that much.
We're a full two days away from the FBI releasing photos of the suspects and three days away from an arrest, but those are all things we'll cover on a future episode.
At this point, we know that the bombs were pressure cookers.
We know it was an attack, and that's about it.
At least, that's what we know by the 16th.
As Alex's show begins on the 15th, the attack hasn't even happened yet.
He has no idea what's going to happen by the end of the time he's on air, and thus we begin today's show very familiarly in the sense that the show, you know, it's in a very serious holding pattern, and we hear the familiar things that we've heard over the past couple weeks.
Right.
But knowing what we know and knowing how his show, before it goes off air, is going to have this giant curveball thrown, it's very surreal to hear the completely normal thing at the beginning.
The globalists can do whatever they want at any time, whenever they want it, but they're mostly worried about kind of like inconveniencing a lot of people.
So in reality, if you consult more grounded, data-driven sources like the International Business Times or Forbes, the picture is really clear what's going on and post-mortems that were done after the fact into 2014.
The first variable is that gold mining companies were having a particularly bad year around this point, which is an indicator to investors to be worried.
These companies took out expenditures and loans to establish new mines like Nova Gold did in Alaska, and they were not coming through.
The picture looked a lot like a lot of these companies that provide a lot of the supply of gold were in trouble, and that's a bad sign downstream.
The second factor was automated commodities trading.
Tons of trading entities had set up algorithms, but they also set them up with very similar or the same buy and sell points.
So when the market veered in one direction, you had a number of groups who were following the same pattern.
This wouldn't have had too much of an effect on the larger price of gold if it were just one or two entities automatically buying and selling.
But as commodities analyst Jeffrey Christian told the International Business Times, quote, it was more than 1,000 entities trading in a 10-minute period, which has a severe impact.
You see this in a lot of commodities markets, and it's probably something that we should fucking regulate super heavily.
And maybe isn't even a healthy thing to allow, quite a bit.
Michael Lewis has wrote a book about the automation and how people are like the larger banks are trying to set up their servers as close as possible because even an inch of fucking fiber optic cable means one one trillionth of a second faster.
And since all of this stuff is automated, that means that you win one one trillionth of a cent more than your competitors.
Point is that Alex is lying about the gold situation in 2013.
Now, honestly, I think it's a factor in this whole thing that I hadn't considered too much about this escalating rhetoric that he's been putting out.
I mostly didn't consider it because he hasn't talked about it much until this episode.
The price of gold dropping is a huge part of his financial collapse narratives.
So it would make sense that he would latch onto it as a sign of the implosion that's coming ahead.
And whether or not it's spoken, I feel like this has been in the background for at least these April episodes that we've been listening to, just as a ghost.
I'll say that he kind of gets distracted by something a little later in this episode.
It doesn't factor too much into the coverage of the bombing, but I wanted to bring this up here and make a point out of it because I have a strong suspicion it's going to get incorporated into his narratives moving forward because it does not stop.
Gold has a bad year in 2013, but a particularly bad April.
That's when things really start to dive.
And it does make sense from all of his hustle narrative.
I can hardly do this radio show because even doing this radio show is just like everything's business as usual.
It's not business as usual.
I just am so worried about my children.
I watched my five-year-old daughter go off to dance class this morning with my mother, who took her.
And there's just my mother's innocent, even though she's a very smart person who knows history, is a history-obsessed buff.
She's still, she's, I mean, what is my mother supposed to do to fight the new world order?
What's my five-year-old daughter supposed to do?
I'm the man.
I'm supposed to do something about this, and I don't know what to do because you got crazy criminals running wild.
You can go out in Austin, Texas, or San Diego, California, and every person you talk to in trendy areas says put all gun owners in forced labor camps, ban water.
I mean, they're just a sick cult of sick freaks who are not connected to history or reality and have no idea what they're going to do to everybody.
And second of all, I just really think that the escalation in his rhetoric that we've seen over the past couple of weeks of his show, where it's really very seriously getting to the point of like, we are fucked.
We got to like, they're going to destroy us imminently and all this stuff.
When Alex has moments where he's getting really emotional and saying, I don't know what to do, you are like derelict in your duty because you have riled your audience up into a frenzy and you're saying, look, I know I'm the captain, but I don't know how to steer this fucking thing.
I don't want to be talking about Lady Gaga, but Kesha, GZ, all of it.
And again, the guys were showing me this weekend some of the Kesha videos where they're teaching young girls how to commit suicide and how beautiful it is to be married to the devil.
So in this next clip, Alex is continuing his obsession with Mark Dice's Man on the Street reports.
And one of the things that I think is really interestingly revealed in this clip is he's talking about the videos that Mark's putting out, but then he starts discussing plans of a video of a man on the street thing he wants to do.
I guarantee that I can craft a narrative that I will present to you and show as universal agreement that we should be put in camps.
Dude, that is not how this works.
You can't allow yourself to pretend that that's reporting or means anything.
I think that that clip is trivial in many ways, but I think it's important because what we're about to witness with his coverage of the bombing, that clip is him very clearly saying, Mark Dice did such a great job.
He created amazing perception here with this video.
I'm going to go out and create my own perception as well.
When you see the way that he crafts a narrative out of this bombing, you see, before the bombing even happened, he was talking about doing a very similar thing around another topic.
It's an M.O.
So, Alex, another thing, another little bee-in-his bonnet is he's complaining about how all the normalization in the media and the TV.
So what I think is really interesting about this is Alex keeps saying New Haven instead of Newtown.
This is at least the second or third time I've heard him make that mistake, which indicates kind of disinterest.
Second, I don't give a fuck if he thinks some real kids died, if he thinks that some people there were actors, because he could believe that, or he could make all of the accusations that he makes, like Robbie Parker is an actor.
Right.
You know, all the other parents are actors that are suing him or whatever, and still think some kids died.
In essence, what he's doing is picking and choosing who he wants to accuse.
And accusing one person whose child died in that shooting of being an actor is equivalent to saying everyone was.
To me, at least.
At least from a moral standpoint, it's all the same game.
And he's passed the line.
Even if he's saying some kids died there, he has crossed the line into actor territory.
He's being unspecific about it, but he's saying some people are actors there.
He's argued that people like Robbie Parker are acting like actors.
The conclusion that you have to make is that he thinks at least some people are lying about their family.
I mean, for his purposes, or I suppose for ours, if you want to make that argument as though it's a real thing, then you have to go line by line, name by name.
All the egomaniacs and narcissists out there that think they're patriots, who all they do is infight and stuff all day?
This is a life and death situation.
This isn't a game.
And they're going to fire first by blowing stuff up and saying we did it.
That's why we've got to expose who really does the font fast and furious.
And of course they did Aurora.
And of course they're up to their eyeballs.
I mean, shooters in the same outfit from nearby hostage team, SWAT teams from a nearby federal special unit, local police who were federal special event police caught in the woods.
It wasn't just one.
It wasn't just two.
There were three of them seen.
One of them arrested.
And then they tried to cover it up and say it didn't exist.
Even though it was confirmed in the police reports, and we have chopper video.
Okay?
I mean, we're in trouble, folks.
They grease little kids boom right in the head to get our guns.
So, yeah, all that stuff was the Sandy Hook conspiracy that he's screaming about there at the end.
And so his saying that they're going to blow stuff up and blame us on the day that there is a bombing, he will deem that to be like, I said it earlier in the show.
But as people who listen to his show regularly, you know that he's all of the time.
Well, this time period specifically, he has been talking about nuking Chicago.
But more to the point, no matter when you look at Alex's show, he's going to say that there is about to be something.
It's a very standard feature of his broadcast style.
Because I'm a guy who, in a past relationship of mine, one of the things that we did a lot was watch tons of Law and Order Special Victims Unit real high.
So, first things first, the Spotlight is the publication with the strange editorial habit of Holocaust denial run by the Liberty Lobby.
It's the same place that Big Jim Tucker, Alex's chief Bilderberg source, worked at.
It's a trash publication.
It doesn't exist anymore.
As for this lawsuit, Richard Belzer is playing fast and loose with the details.
Spotlight had just published that E. Howard Hunt had been in Dallas on the day of the JFK assassination.
And as Hunt said that he was in D.C. at the time, he decided to sue them for libel.
The question of his involvement in the assassination was a matter that wasn't germane to the case and in no way was decided by this case at all.
The first lawsuit over this, Hunt won, and he was awarded $650,000 in damage.
But that verdict was overturned due to the jury getting incomplete instructions on how to give their verdict.
In 1983, the case was retried, and in this instance, the Liberty Lobby was able to win.
But it's important to consider what winning this case means, or perhaps more importantly, what winning this case doesn't mean.
Being cleared of libel doesn't mean that the thing that you wrote is true, which is to say that this jury trial doesn't even establish in court that Hunt was in fact in Dallas.
All that's necessary for this to be deemed not libel is that Spotlight had to have reason to believe this was true at the time of publication, which is what the jury decided was the case.
A lot of this was probably based on the Liberty Lobby building up a good case that doesn't prove that Hunt was in Dallas, but that they weren't just making it up.
That's not the hardest thing to show in court, sometimes even if you're just making stuff up, which is why it's important for these libel laws to be pretty lenient towards the media.
The fact that Belzer doesn't understand this is a massive red flag, and it makes me care very little about any other information that he's putting forth.
All other information that puts Hunt in Dallas that day either traces back to Soviet propaganda campaigns or the alleged deathbed confession Hunt made to two of his sons.
Although it's important to point out that Hunt's widow and their other children say this was a hoax and that the sons coached Hunt to say what they wanted so they could profit off of it.
So all this is to say that Richard Belzer thinks that that court case determined that E. Howard Hunt was involved in the assassination, which means to me that he doesn't understand what he's talking about.
His first instinct, not even knowing any information about it, thinking that, eh, maybe it's a gas leak explosion or something like that, because he doesn't have all the information.
He doesn't know anything.
His first instinct is to guess who they'll blame, and the people that he thinks they're going to blame are Iran, the Patriots, or a veteran.
Two of those are based on his big narratives.
They're going to bomb something and blame it on us.
This explosion happens.
His first instinct is, I wonder if they'll blame it on us.
And one thing that is really important to point out is that it very quickly just becomes assumed that veterans and right-wingers are going to be blamed for this.
I convinced the show I'm on, Law and Order, Special Victims Unit, to do an episode about a vet who had PTSD and they tried to disparage him on the stand because he was having flashbacks and stuff.
But he gathered himself and helped us convict somebody.
But the only reason to pull this story out and tell it now is to reinforce the idea that everyone wants to make veterans look bad, which is in service of Alex's narratives that he's been building up for weeks and months of they're going to blame Patriots and veterans.
Let's just fade up the communist news channel more like the corporate news channel.
Let's fade this up.
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There's a whole process underway right now, but the reality of the situation is it is almost impossible to protect an event, especially one that is over a protracted space, as a marathon is.
And, you know, I hate to say it, but these are the times that we live in.
So Alex takes sort of umbrage at the idea that they're saying that this was an attack already.
And that's because they have information that he doesn't have because he hasn't kept up with the story as it's evolved over the half hour that information is coming in.
This is information that CNN already had that Alex wasn't aware of.
So when he went to them in the first place and he's like, oh, they're already calling it an attack, as if they didn't have some reason to be looking at the situation that way, that's only based on his own ignorance.
Within a minute, he's like, oh, that's why.
He needs to calm down.
That's really the bottom line.
When you look at a lot of this stuff, when there's crisis reporting on Alex's show, he needs to.
Yeah, I mean, he's uniquely in a position to fuck up crisis reporting in a way that, you know, when you're so unfiltered as a job, I guess, like, his entire job is to react with certainty that that level of crisis reporting then is almost impossible for him because he can't wait.
He can't wait for a second.
He cannot say, like, oh, we're going to wait until more information's out.
Yeah, you know, I'm going to predict that the hook for them is going to be, these are the times we live in, you know, and everyone will just surrender and let them, you know.
Interestingly, though, too, what you're saying is like he doesn't have to be on air, but Alex recognizes the lack of information that he can exploit here.
So he, what he does, in the middle of the fourth hour, he announces we're going six hours today.
So the only, like I said, the only real substance that's going on between Belzer and Alex for a good stretch is that they're just sort of guessing who's going to be blamed for it, which isn't, I don't feel, is very productive.
So it's real funny that he's complaining about the swift boating of John Kerry considering Alex's best friend and future Washington, D.C. Bureau chief Jerome Corsi, the guy who did it.
He's very deeply involved in that.
Like, just know where you are.
Know what the people you're talking to have done and are involved in.
Like, even in 2013, Corsi is an associate of Alex's.
He's working for World Net Daily at the time, but he's been on the show a bunch, and the two of them, like, he's considered an expert in shit.
If you're going to complain about the demonization and swift boating of John Kerry, don't show up and be like, hey, you never make things up to the guy who promoted the very thing.
So they've been building up this insinuation of who's going to be to blame.
And a lot of it has been steering towards them being like, well, it's probably going to be, especially Alex, steering towards it's going to be the new enemy of the Patriots.
There's a whole lot of that.
Then, in mid-sentence, Alex realizes one way that he can best hang his hat on that.
I think that that clip fully displays how Alex is not spitballing on this episode.
He's actively trying to come up with any piece of information he can find to make it look like this fits the demonize the Patriots narrative.
It's crystal clear how excited he is about this realization that it's Patriots Day in Massachusetts.
Patriots Day was not celebrated nationally on April 19th.
It used to be on April 19th, but since 1897, it's always been the third Monday of April.
And the Boston Marathon has always been on that day.
They're basically the same thing, in Boston, especially.
More importantly, though, there are a lot of other things that could have been attacked if this were somehow Patriot-related.
You know, there's a lot of reenactments.
There's the standing tradition of the Red Sox playing at home on that day.
I think it's even like Fenway's opening day every year, or most years.
This is a tenuous connection, but it's one that feels super important to Alex because he's engaging in a behavior known as motivated reasoning.
Alex has a predetermined conclusion that he needs to arrive at, namely that the globalists are blaming this bombing on the Patriots.
He needs to get there because for months he's been warning of a big attack coming meant to demonize the Patriots, and this is a huge attack.
He knows he's probably not going to get a better chance to validate his narratives and rhetoric and in the process make a bunch of money, so he knows he needs to get to work at crafting this and make it make sense.
The behavior you see from Alex is exactly what you would expect from someone who is not interested in reality, but interested solely in manufacturing a perception.
It's been consistent since the news of the bombing broke out.
It's all been an attack on media coverage, but it's not an attack that's based on substance.
It's based on instinct.
You have Alex shitting on CNN for assuming it was an attack when they only did that because video they knew about that Alex didn't know about.
He doesn't have any information about the attack itself, nor the media coverage of it.
And yet here he sits with goddamn John Munch rambling about who they think the globalists are going to blame.
Alex doesn't want to guess who they're going to blame.
He wants to establish, first of all, that someone is going to be erroneously blamed.
And secondly, that no matter who actually gets blamed, this is all about getting at his dumb fuck gun buddies.
I didn't know exactly what I would find looking at this episode.
And on one level, none of this is surprising.
But on another level, like I mentioned at the beginning, this is making me a lot more angry than I expected.
As Alex is grasping at straws to find a way to make this tragedy about himself and his show's worldview, people are fucking bleeding on the street.
Other people are putting themselves in danger to help their fellow citizens.
People are scared.
Some people don't know where their loved ones are.
This is a disgrace, and it's very transparent, and it's willful.
And it's an affront to the pain that the people of Boston were going through at the exact time he's on air spreading this bullshit.
This is a perfect encapsulation of Alex Jones.
Brainstorming ways to spin a tragedy into being profitable for him while the victims of the tragedy bleed.
Like, one of the viewpoints that I take to try and understand this kind of, I don't know, idiocy and lack of empathy as something other than just this guy's a psychopath is the size of the states.
The size of the United States is such that if you are living in fucking Belgium and a bombing happens in Paris, that's a different country.
And so you don't treat it as though this is an attack on Belgians also.
But that is one way of trying to understand this kind of behavior is because if you're, you know, just like if CNN is reporting on a terrorist attack in Senegal.
I really love the idea that you can just crowdsource narratives to your conspiracy theory.
Well, I mean, it's so that's such fucking transparent bullshit of just like, well, I don't have time right now to come up with a complete story, but you guys give me a bunch of ideas, and I'll cherry-pick some to put into the narrative later.
So Alex gets pretty severe here, and he makes an if-then statement that I want to really nail down and talk about because I think that this is kind of it really gets to the heart of what he's trying to do on this April 15th episode.
Again, within 20 minutes, half an hour after news broke of this.
Right here, we have perhaps the most dangerous way possible for Alex to frame a conditional statement.
If they blame libertarian patriot groups, that means we're in big trouble and they're moving ahead with it.
Alex is injecting a classic if-then statement and expecting his audience to accept this assessment as reality.
So if you see blaming of patriot libertarian groups, then it necessarily follows that the globalists are making their move and there will be bombings all over the place and the march to the FEMA camps is imminent.
This is a pure logical statement that he's putting forth.
The problem with this is when you frame an argument this way, you need to be pretty careful about how you present what the media is saying.
With this if-then argument in place, every time you argue that the media is blaming libertarian patriot groups, you're actually arguing that the globalists are about to send Ron Paul and all your gun weirdo buddies to a camp.
It just necessarily follows from the if-then argument.
You can't get around that based on how words work.
One of the essential elements of formal logic is that truth cannot lead to falsity.
If you have a valid argument and the premises are true, then your conclusion cannot be false.
The actual form of the argument that Alex is making is this.
Premise one, if the media blames the Patriots, then they're moving ahead with it.
Premise two, the media is blaming the Patriots.
Conclusion, therefore, they are moving ahead with it.
In this clip, we're seeing the first premise and the conclusion introduced, which is why this is super dangerous.
Alex still needs premise two in order to have this construction of an argument work.
And if we see him manipulating things in order to establish premise two that the media is blaming the Patriots, then what you're really seeing is him lying and manipulating to justify the conclusion that they're moving ahead with it and there's going to be bombings everywhere.
This is pretty basic deception stuff.
And Alex does variations of this kind of thing all the time.
I just felt like pointing this one out was particularly important because it's very glaring.
And when we get through some more of this stuff, you'll see why this is very important.
He needs premise two to be established, or else this doesn't work.
He no longer has a good argument if the media isn't blaming the Patriots.
He needs that to be there in order to justify, facilitate, and make his arguments look as extreme as he's making them.
That is the thing that when you deconstruct and break down his argument that he's trying to make, it makes it so much clearer these actions are in service of propping up the flimsy part of his argument in order to make it all look real.
Well, I mean, you know, it's really easy for him to use this one because he's not burdened with that ability to understand words.
I think that this is one of the cases of which is why I do think he's innocent, according to his own belief in innocence, meaning you don't know anything.
So one thing that's important to remember, Jordan, is that marathon running is a big sport, and that the Boston Marathon is one of the biggest annual marathons in the world.
Some one-off events have been way bigger in terms of number of runners, but the Boston Marathon is huge, and it's been run since 1897, making it the world's oldest annual marathon.
Like, the marathon got brought back to the Olympics in 1896.
The next year after that, the Boston Marathon started.
It's been going ever since.
It's a huge deal in the international running community.
So people come in from all over to take part in this event.
The second winner ever in 1898 was a Canadian.
In 1907, a Canadian member of the First Nations named Thomas Longboat won the race.
It has a very rich history.
It was mostly Americans and Canadians until the late 40s.
And then you see the list come to life with winners from South Korea, Japan, Guatemala, Sweden, Finland, and then in recent years, a lot of Kenyans.
Only one American won the marathon between 1946 and 1967.
The only American to win in that time span was named John Kelly, which happened to be the same name and same spelling as the last American to win it in 1945.
There's some bad aspects, but also some good ones.
There's a wheelchair division and record holders and everything.
It's awesome.
When you see that line of flags at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, that's not a UN station or anything like that.
It's a recognition that this thing that could just be people running a long way is so much more than that.
It's a celebration that crosses cultures and communities and brings people together.
According to the Boston Marathon's official Facebook page, quote, each year about 100 nations are represented by runners in the Boston Marathon, and their flags are displayed along the home stretch of Boylston Street.
It has nothing to do with the UN.
Rather, it's to honor and celebrate each of the runners that takes part in the race.
Alex is taking a physical representation of cross-cultural celebration and togetherness, and he's using it to create suspicion around the bombing by just making shit up to attach it to one of his big bad guys, the UN.
This is shameful shit.
And really, if you get down to the bottom of it, all Alex is saying is that he views any kind of multicultural unity as a UN plot.
You know, it is almost like he is taking, let's call it the strength of the Boston Marathon, which is a cross-cultural event celebrating how, regardless of where you're from, we are all people and we all care and we are all humans and we are all empathetic.
Because the thing I hear is a genuine surprise at himself for being correct, which suggests to me he doesn't even think about it when he says things are going to blow up.
It's automatic.
It's just part of it.
And then one of his crew members, like they're all going, they're all freaking out because he did it.
And they have to tell him, remember, you predicted this.
If you make, it's the same thing they do with the financial collapse shit all the time.
Like, if you say every day the financial collapse is coming, then when the 2008-2009 crisis hits, you look like a genius until you review the tapes and see you saying it all the time.
Now, first of all, for someone who does a show like Alex does, you really should be worried about revealing that his news director's dad is in the FBI and his brother-in-law is high-level military intelligence.
That's the sort of thing that really makes conspiracy theorists suspicious.
Personally, I don't really believe these credentials, or at least I think they're intentionally exaggerated in order to create the appearance of proximity to legitimate information.
Alex does this all the time.
It's why he believes Steve Pieczenik's fake resume.
It's why he calls Christopher Monckton Lord.
And it's why he pretends that Leo Zagami isn't a raving lunatic.
It's all just what works best for the brand, and the brand is deception.
I'm inclined to believe, considering that Rob and Alex offer no evidence to the contrary, that Rob's brother-in-law did legitimately have signs of dehydration.
April 15th, 2013, was a fairly cool day in Boston, with temperatures around 48 degrees, which under normal conditions would lead you to think that a person in good shape would have no real trouble finishing a marathon.
Generally, the finish rate is pretty high for the Boston Marathon, with about 95% of entrants completing the marathon in 2018.
However, if you have over 20,000 entrants, that's at least 1,000 people who, for one reason or another, don't pass the finish line.
And a pretty good number of those people, you kind of have to assume, didn't finish because of medical reasons.
It seems unlikely that they would train, go through the steps to qualify, plan ahead, register, and show up for the marathon, only to realize halfway through they had a meeting they'd forgotten about or some other.
It's not super uncommon for people to be unable to finish the race.
And three people have actually died running it before.
One thing that makes the dehydration or exhaustion story a lot more possible to me is that it's pretty common for enlisted persons to sign up for these marathons, but run them in honor of their fallen brothers in the service.
They do this symbolically by participating in what's known as the tough ruck, which involves them doing the marathon in full uniform and carrying a military backpack that weighs about 40 pounds.
That added variable could make it far more likely that someone would have a difficult time finishing the full marathon.
Now, I have no idea if Rob Dew's brother-in-law was doing the tough ruck, but there definitely were enlisted persons doing that at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
It's literally impossible for me to figure out if any concrete information exists on this, since the guy, you know, it would be Rob Dew's sister's husband or whatever.
And they don't offer any, because of course they don't.
All this is to say that there's possible explanations for him being advised to leave the marathon that have nothing to do with conspiratorial paranoia.
The best thing I can say for this is that Dew's information doesn't prove anything.
The worst I can say is that Dew is allowing Alex to use his brother-in-law's medical situation to be used as part of his attempt to hijack and capitalize on the deaths of three people and injuries of 250 plus others, which I find to be an immoral act.
So there's not a ton more information that's come out since the 15th to the 16th.
There is information that's come out about the bomb being a pressure cooker.
Those little bits of information have come out.
But in terms of a lot of concrete reporting, I went back through and was looking through articles posted in that day, and a lot of it is just the very standard little bit of information that they had.
And the globalist always train police and others for the narrative they're going to carry out, whether it's staged events, provocateur, or organic, which are very rare.
These terror attacks are rare, period.
The system will use this to roll out TSA in the malls on the streets of America and basically a rationing up of the overall martial law type atmosphere.
Before I went live, Obama spoke, and we're going to find that clip.
It was about 30 minutes ago.
I watched his press conference.
It's Obama's new press conference.
It's up at WhiteHouse.gov.
He was wearing a really ugly tie, black and white speckled tie.
People that want to be able to find which one of the fear-mongering press conferences it was.
He has tons of evidence that concretely makes his point, but he's sure you've seen it already.
So he's not going to bore you with proving his case.
This, to a right-thinking person, should be a strong indication that he does not have a ton of evidence.
Based on what he's shown so far, I think he's manufacturing a perception.
He's clearly distorted Wolf Blitzer's words in the closing segment of the April 15th episode.
So that's one instance of something he thinks is proof of blaming Ray Wingers for the bombing.
That's complete bullshit.
And now his second example is a comment by David Axelrod that Obama thinks the bombings could be related to tax day.
Axelrod's comments were regarding the fact that Obama didn't immediately call this an act of terrorism, explaining that, quote, the word has taken on a different meaning since 9-11.
He went on to say, quote, you use those words and it means something very specific in people's minds.
And I'm sure what was going through the mind of the president is, well, we don't really know who did this.
It was Tax Day.
Someone who was pro, you know, you just don't know.
And I think that his attitude is, let's not put any inference into this.
Let's just make clear we're going to get the people responsible.
It's really tough to parse exactly what Axelrod was saying there.
A possible reading of it is that Axelrod thinks that Obama might think that tax day had something to do with the bombing.
But another reading of it is that Axelrod himself just thinks that.
Another reading is that the fact that it was tax day was just an example Axelrod came up with to express that there are a ton of motives that could be behind the bombing.
And at that point, no one really knew what the situation was.
I'm inclined to err towards that last one since he also says, quote, let's not put any inference into this, which seems to indicate he's trying to avoid putting inference into it.
But no matter what it is, it's not blaming someone with a tax motivation.
It's not concrete in any way.
On a scale of total bullshit to their blaming the Tea Party, I'm going to give this a one or a two.
It's easy to see how it could be spun to say that they're pointing the finger at tax protesters, but it's entirely unconvincing to me and only works if you take it completely out of context.
Absolutely.
So Alex is convinced this is a false flag by the 16th.
He is very certain of that.
And he has something that runs through this entire episode, which is he believes that media, like Media Matters, MediaIte, these sorts of places, are attacking him for saying that they're going to blame right-wingers.
And then they go on to blame right-wingers, thereby proving Alex right for the thing that they demonized him for saying.
Ladies and gentlemen, while we are busy analyzing what really happened at the mystery false flag, we playing Doctor Who behind him?
While we're busy watching the White House surrogates come out and say, oh, it's a right-wing Tea Party person.
That was very predictable.
I was attacked just minutes after it happened by known White House front groups like Salon and others.
Known White House front, of course, Media Matters, which isn't actually run by the White House, for saying, hey, they're going to blame it on the Tea Party.
And then minutes later, they did in those very publications.
I mean, this is the magnitude of, I say, watch, they're going to blame us or they're going to try to.
And then they go, look, you're a crazy conspiracy theorist, but yes, we are going to try to blame you.
But you're wrong because you're right, and you're crazy because you're right.
So I searched everything posted on Media Matters from the time of the bombing to the point Alex is on air now, and I think I might have a sense of what he's talking about.
On the morning of the 16th, Matt Goertz published an article titled, The Worst Conservative Reactions to the Boston Bombings.
The first entry was Alex with a screenshot of his Twitter, rest in peace, saying, quote, our hearts go out to those that are hurt or killed.
There's nothing about criticizing Alex for saying that they were going to blame the Patriots or anything like that.
There's another post from the 16th titled, quote, Alex Jones and His Enablers.
But this too doesn't seem to be critiquing him for saying that the globalists are going to blame the Patriots for the bombing.
It just seems to be people rightfully and rightly responding with disgust to how quickly Alex tried to turn a tragedy into a narrative by calling it a false flag.
That article probably had him more worried, though, since it was discussing the people who validate Alex, despite him being consistently wrong and a disgrace.
That article specifically calls out Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Lou Dobbs, Judge Napolitano, Belzer, and all the other supposedly credible mainstream people who willingly or unwittingly elevate Alex's stature.
If I were Alex, I would probably see that as an attack, but it still doesn't fit with what Alex is describing.
I really can't find any evidence that Media Matters was condemning him for saying that they were going to blame the bombing on Patriots.
I think they were just kind of offended that he called it a false flag within minutes with no information.
And he actually wrote an article there saying, quote, obviously it's possible that perpetrators will turn out to be Muslim, just like it's possible they'll turn out to be the extremist right or right-wing activists or left-wing agitators or Muslim-fearing Anders-Brevik types or lone individuals driven by apolitical mental illness.
He even calls out a few Democrats on Twitter who made suggestions it was a right-winger, along with calling out Islamophobes, insisting it must be a Muslim.
His take on it was pretty even-handed, in no way suggests that it was a right-winger.
Jank on the Young Turks had a conversation on his show about different reactions people might have depending on who the bomber was, saying that if it was a Muslim, people will call for war, but if it's a right-winger, those same people will say it's just a crazy guy.
The conversation's pretty speculative, but it's not at all saying that the bomber was a right-winger or pointing the finger.
It's hypothetical in nature.
Looking over the mainstream reporting in the immediate aftermath, the day and the day after, I didn't really see a lot of people blaming right-wing extremists at all.
There's some suggestion that some such group could be a suspect based on the timing and amateurish nature of the bomb, but all those suggestions were accompanied by disclaimers that we have no idea who was behind this, and it's too early to say.
Alex's rhetoric does not seem to match up with the media, which to me is an indication that, like I keep bringing up, he's trying to build premise two of his argument in service of proving his conclusion that the globalists are about to bring this whole thing down, panic, everybody.
He needs premise two.
So even if the media doesn't do what he's predicted they will, he's going to go out of his way to make it look how he needs it to.
On a very basic level, this is purely designed to cause panic and fear and put his audience in a near-apocalyptic state.
And it's disgusting to see someone respond to a legitimate tragedy like this because it's very unhealthy.
And to see him use this, like, these outlets are responding to what I did like humans might, saying this guy's a fucking asshole.
And then they blame the Patriots.
Like, adding that wrinkle into it to sort of invalidate other people's correct criticism of you is just even worse.
Like, all this is just a psychodrama he's forcing on his audience.
What always kind of weirds me out about these idiots whenever they're talking about like, oh, it's Muslim terrorism or anything like that, is then they just try and inspire more fear in their audience, which that's the whole point of a terrorist attack is to make people afraid.
So why are you, so if you're saying that you're condemning them, but then exploiting it and playing into their hands?
And you can see in this next clip that what he's doing is using all of the narratives that he had built up over the past couple months and applying them to the current situation.
You see, none of us are allowed to be involved in the narrative.
None of us are allowed to speculate, ask questions.
Like, gee, it's Patriots Day in Boston.
Gee, do you think they're going to try to blame a right-wing group?
They were only putting out Southern Poverty Law Center and ADL memos last month saying domestic terror attacks are imminent.
We warned you right before the Oklahoma City bombing.
We warned Bill Clinton.
And now we're warning you, Obama.
The attacks are imminent.
You can look that up.
And you've got all these dramas and sitcoms in movies with propaganda placement saying the Tea Party is going to bomb people at public events and they're the new enemy, not al-Qaeda.
And then you have this happen where the country started.
We're the Revolutionary War.
We're 1776.
Started in 1775.
Lexington, Concord, Boston.
Patriots Day, April 15th, in Boston.
The real Patriots Day is the 19th.
Stuart Rhodes is on his way there driving right now.
He's going to be joining us later in the broadcast.
What you see there is a fine-tuning of the old narratives that Alex had been building.
Now that the payoff has come, he chisels them down.
Instead of they're going to nuke Chicago in order to blame us, it's they are they'd been saying that uh veterans and patriots are going to put IEDs everywhere.
You take whatever is functional out of the myths and the narratives that you've built and apply them to the present situation and pretend all the other shit never happened, all the other dumb bullshit you've been talking about.
Ollie Stevenson, the marathon coach, University of Mobiles cross-country coach who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a series of explosions went off, said he thought it was odd there were bomb-sniffing dogs at the start in the finish lines.
They kept making announcements to the participants.
Don't worry, it's just a training exercise.
Now, our own Dan Badondi said Ali Stevenson on local 15.
That is nowhere in the national news unless it's the alternative news of Infowars.com, PrisonPlanet.com, PrisonPlanet.tv.
I remember this being parroted very heavily in the days right after the bombing.
And what it was was they turned it into a perception that there were announcements like just before the explosions or in the aftermath that this is a drill.
That's how the story gets twisted.
And that's sort of the way Alex is presenting it.
And like I said, whenever he wants to portray something as a false flag, the only arrow in his quiver he chooses, the one he feels is like unassailable evidence, is to argue that there was a drill going on at the same time as the event, meant to provide cover for the actual attack.
If you look throughout his career, it's almost universal.
It's part of almost every conspiracy he's ever promoted.
And generally speaking, what he does is he finds something that seems a little weird, but only weird because there was a tragedy, and he ascribes greater significance to it than is merited.
In this case, he's taken a local Boston news article about a runner saying that there were bomb-sniffing dogs at the race.
This is meaningless evidence, as is his supposed pictures of people on roofs and hoodies.
None of that proves a damn thing.
It's just titillating bullshit.
I consulted some running forums to see what kind of chatter there was there in the aftermath of the bombing, and I found a lot of accounts of people who claimed to have been there.
Granted, these are just posts on message boards, but they do seem pretty consistent with that they with the situation is that they were told not to pet these dogs and that there were dogs that were there for training purposes.
The dogs were being trained, which might seem slightly weird, but that's only because there was a bombing.
If it hadn't happened, you just look at that and say, well, I guess it makes sense to get the dogs acclimated to a setting where there's a lot of bustle and noise, tons of people around, and tons of stuff that could distract them.
That seems like a tough environment to artificially create.
And honestly, I don't think there's any reason to assume that the dogs were there for bomb-sniffing training purposes, more for huge crowd desensitization purposes.
I don't understand all the ins and outs of training police dogs, but I can imagine how this might go.
Pretty universally, this was the position of people on running forums.
The people who were there and actually heard the announcement, it was an announcement not to pet the dogs.
Be calm around the dogs.
Don't startle the dogs.
It wasn't be calm while there's a bomb going off.
Even after surviving the bombing, like these people are reporting this, they didn't think it was anything weird.
Alex makes this narrative out of their announcements that this is a drill and you need to stay calm.
And before we break down even a little bit more about this, I want to talk about why this is stupid on its face.
Alex is trying to argue that the bombing was a drill that went live.
And he's arguing that a piece of evidence is that someone announced on the speakers for people to stay calm it was just a drill.
This would tend to imply that the person making the announcement was involved in the drill, since they knew or believed it to be a drill.
If they were actually running a drill, they would be doing so to gauge police preparedness or response strategies.
And in order to accurately gauge those things, it's important that people act as if the drill were actually real.
It would 100% ruin the drill if someone were to convince everyone to stay calm, as it would completely alter the crowd's reaction to what was happening.
I guess that could be a good drill if you're trying to test police response to a group of people who don't believe an attack is actually happening.
But I feel like that scenario isn't very useful to prepare for in the real world.
The idea that someone got on a PA system and told people not to panic is actually some incredibly strong evidence that this was a real bombing.
If it did happen, which I don't think it did, it could have been misguided advice, but the sort of thing you would expect a well-meaning person trying to help in a crisis to say, like, everyone calm behind it.
It would still be hard to explain if someone did make that announcement, why they said it was a drill.
And like I said, I don't think I need to explain that since I don't think it happened.
If you read the actual post in the local 15 news out of Boston, it does interview University of Mobile coach Allie Stevenson.
And he says that there were announcements that this was a training exercise.
However, there's literally no indication from the text or anything Stevenson says that these announcements happened after the bombs went off or just before or anything.
If you read his words and compare them to other accounts of people who were there, he's just describing the announcements not to pet the dogs in a more suspicious way than other people might have chosen to.
There were something like 20,000 people running in that marathon, and all of the claims about an announcement that there was a drill or to stay calm all come from paranoid conspiratorial interpretations of comments of this one guy, Ali Stevenson.
It's very hard to take this too seriously when there's tons of videos people captured on their phones and this announcement doesn't show up in any of them, when there are literally tens of thousands of witnesses and no one has put forth an account that backs this up other than ones that are like, don't startle the dogs.
I don't know this to be the case from listening to his episodes, but I remember that he finds a piece of information that proves to him drill stuff, and it's far, far more complicated, but we will get to that in the future.
There's literally no context, even if you're talking about a Family Guy episode, that I can think of that makes it even close to acceptable behavior.
And I describe that as monstrous.
Alex is talking about an episode of Family Guy that had been released on March 17th, 2013, called Turban Cowboy.
In the episode, Peter has a skydiving accident and meets a guy named Mahmoud in the hospital.
Small point.
Peter Griffin is not a Tea Party guy.
So much so that they actually made an episode that aired on May 13th, 2012 called Tea Peter, where the whole joke is that Peter joined the Tea Party and succeeded in shutting down the government.
The whole point of that episode was that the Tea Party is an AstroTurf movement funded by big corporate interests who want to get rid of regulation.
Peter gets roped into a plan to blow up the Quahog Bridge, but tries to back out.
The plot gets disrupted, but as the episode is ending, Peter uses a cell phone to call the drunken clam to have them get his table ready, which seems weird because it's just a fucking bar.
But the phone is rigged, and it causes the bridge to blow up.
The sort of weird muddiness of some of the messages.
What's important is the claim that Alex is making.
He's saying that this episode predicted the Boston bombing, saying that Peter used the cell phone to blow up bombs at the finish line of the race.
And that is absolutely not true.
The cell phone was linked to bombs at the Quahog Bridge.
What Alex is doing is combining the end of the episode, where bombs are triggered by cell phone, with a cutaway joke from the beginning of the episode.
When Peter is skydiving before he has his accident, he says, I haven't felt a rush like this since I won that marathon.
And it cuts to him driving through a crowd of people in the Boston Marathon with his car.
It's unclear if it was someone at InfoWars or even Alex himself who did it, but someone edited together the clip of this cutaway joke from the beginning of the episode and the cell phone gag from the end of the episode to make it look like Peter used cell phone-triggered bombs to attack the Boston Marathon.
It may have been created in-house, might have been, might not have been, but even if it wasn't, InfoWars was the first outlet to widely circulate this, and it's a complete misinterpretation and misrepresentation.
The only reason someone would push something like this is if they're desperate to create a counterreality to the one the rest of the world is experiencing.
It's an abusive act of media, and Alex should be profoundly ashamed of this.
Also, another important point, even if Alex's complete misrepresentation about this family guy episode was accurate, he still at this point has literally no idea how the bombs were detonated.
The initial theories were that they were on a timer.
But by the end of April, the House Intelligence Committee had determined that they were triggered by a remote control similar to one you'd use for a toy car.
It's really important to look at stuff like this because Alex has already decided that this absolutely was a false flag.
And the defense he's giving of his theories are really weak.
If you look at them, you find consistent intentional misrepresentations.
Misrepresentations that would only be made to try and steer people towards the conclusion that it was a false flag, which Alex has decided already.
When you have to resort to that kind of an approach to make your argument, that is a bad sign.
Yeah, I don't think he's doing a great job so far.
His Boston bombing coverage is, you know, I halfway think on the 15th, whenever he got the news that it happened and everybody's freaking out and they tell him that he said that there was going to be an explosion and he was like, oh my God, I did.
I halfway think in his head, he's like, the coverage that we're going to do is going to win us the first Pulitzer that InfoWars has ever had.
So I think he does give his audience one good piece of advice based on sort of a fictional reality, and that is that you should never be involved at all in bombing.
But let me tell you, one out of a hundred drills or so, they're going to blow it up.
They're going to tell you, leave it, and then you're going to get arrested.
You're going to get dropped out of every time.
You're going to get tortured.
You're going to get electroshock therapy until you go before the military tribunal and say that you bombed the Sears Tower or you bombed the mall or you bombed the school.
I'm going to tell you, it's just like Arlington Road.
The professor's trying to stop it, and they trick him to be on the news and then run into the parking garage when it goes off.
I mean, they're telling you how they do it right there, okay?
I'm getting chills.
And I told you this was going to happen yesterday before it happened.
And now that our own Dan Badondi in two different press conferences with the police chief, the mayor, and the governor, our own East Coast reporter Dan Badondi, made national news just asking real questions about, hey, now there's the Huvington Post.
Boston Marathon bombing brings out conspiracy theories.
That means people that are willing to go, hey, there was a drill, and the police say, no, there wasn't a drill.
Coming up and down at the start line, and Melni said there was bomb-sniffing dogs at the finish line, but they kept making an announcement saying to the participants, do not worry, this is just a training exercise.
Well, evidently, I don't believe they were just having a training exercise.
I think they must have known they must have had some kind of threat for suspicions called in.
And a lot of the stuff that Stevenson is saying in that clip, if you just listen to it through the prism of there was a dog training exercise, where would the places that those dogs be?
They'd obviously be at the beginning and the end of the race because that's where tons of people are.
So I do think this is really interesting how excited he is about Dan Badandi, particularly considering, like I said, in the present day, he's really trying to distance himself from this dude.
And I wanted to, like, I went back and I watched a little bit of Alex's Sandy Hook deposition video and prep for this episode because I remember that Badandi comes up in the questioning about that at that day.
And I think I noticed something really interesting.
The opposing counsel shows Alex a picture of Dan Badandi, and Alex's first response is to get a huge smile across his face and laugh.
He very quickly realizes that this is a strange response, and he regains his serious composure really fast.
But there's a good 10 seconds where Alex is looking at this picture of Dan Badondi, and there's a sense of nostalgia in his smile, a feeling of wistfulness for the days gone by.
Better times when he could make buckets of cash just sending pro wrestler to go yell at people and disrupt events.
I might be reading more into that than I need to or is appropriate, but his big laugh and smile that quickly recedes as he realizes Badanti absolutely did harass the citizens of Newtown.
It's particularly in the context of him congratulating Badandi on this episode for harassing the people of Boston.
This image is really, it has a meaning to me whether or not I can prove that my reading of it is accurate.
While Badondi was in Boston doing all the reporting that he's doing that Alex is talking about here on this episode, he had an InfoWars microphone that he used for his reports.
And in at least one video I can find, he has a laminated press pass, which I can't zoom in on enough to confirm, but you kind of got to assume he got that through InfoWars.
He's there in an official capacity, not just as some guy whose videos Alex covered.
So Alex's big narrative on this episode about Badandi is that he got two press conferences shut down by asking the hard questions that the media and the establishment couldn't handle.
So I've read a bunch of articles about Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's press conference, which Badondi asked the first question in, but none of them say that the conference ended abruptly after his question.
I found video of it, and Badandi asks his rambling, is this a false flag question?
And Patrick just replies, quote, no.
Next question.
The next question that's asked isn't a question that Patrick can answer.
It's about whether or not there are specific leads or suspects.
After the question is asked, Patrick steps aside and lets the police representative field the question.
If you edit the footage just right, though, it kind of looks like Patrick is leaving the press conference after Badanti asks his question.
And that's absolute bullshit.
Also, it's kind of surreal because as Badandi is prattling on, the camera pans across the stage and Elizabeth Warren is there.
I mean, of course she was, but it's weird.
But it's still weird to realize she had to listen to Dan Badanti.
I strongly suspect that this whole thing is about trying to create the perception that the powers that be are afraid of the words false flag being uttered.
And saying them in their presence is the equivalent of telling a judge Dubalcan.
It's purely an attempt to convince his audience that all these people have something to hide.
And that thing is the truth that Alex is disseminating.
Alex wouldn't do stuff like this if he were making a real argument.
This is pageantry.
This is manipulation to trick his audience into accepting a fraudulent version of reality.
And it's not something you'd accidentally do.
It's intentional.
Because that press conference didn't end after Badanti's question.
If he made that argument, it would be closer to real, but he doesn't.
He just makes a false version of it that it ended after Badondi brought the truth.
So here's another Alex talking about that family guy episode.
And I'm going to play some things that are a little bit repetitive, but one of the things I want to nail down in people and really drive home is that he's being repetitive because it's intentional.
Like constantly reinforcing the same talking points in order to get this in your head.
And Family Guy apparently is a big piece of evidence they have.
Now, up on Infowars.com, the Family Guy, this aired Sunday, first aired back in March, Where the Boston Marathon is bombed with not one, but two bombs by the family guy, the Tea Party guy, at the Boston Marathon at the finish with two bombs.
So it's essential to lie about multiple things about this in order to make it fit Alex's narratives.
Peter Griffin has to be a Tea Party guy in order for him to satisfy his narrative that the media is telling you the Tea Party people are going to turn into Islamic terrorists.
That is satisfied by lying about the character.
He has this fucking crazily edited video in order to prove the bombing was in the TV show before.
It's layers of manipulation that he's using this for.
And then Stuart Rhodes, who's actually driving on his way to Boston right now for the Oath Keepers event on the 19th, the law enforcement and police military organization that swears to uphold the Bill of Rights and Constitution that they swore an oath to, how incredibly evil that the media has been demonizing and claiming might be involved in terrorism.
Need I remind Alex of Matthew Fairfield, the Cleveland Oathkeeper, who was arrested in April 2010 when police found a napalm bomb in his house?
Or what about Chris?
Sorry, Charles Dyer, who was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old and was found to be in possession of a fucking grenade launcher.
There's plenty of evidence that the Oath Keepers are not just some troop of do-gooders out there trying to uphold the Constitution.
Certainly, you know, just these actions of these couple people isn't demonstrative of everybody in the group, but their ranks definitely have included people who seem to have been plotting or actually doing some horrible shit.
So he's referring to here an interview on CNN that Jake Tapper did with security analyst Peter Bergen.
Allow me to read to you from a media article that Alex has referenced.
Quote, CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen told host Jake Tapper on Monday that the explosions in Boston could be the work of al-Qaeda terrorists as much as they could have been a planned assault by right-wing extremists.
That is not blaming right-wing extremists.
That is saying that either of those sorts of terrorism were possibilities, and the situation is still unfolding.
Legitimately, listen to this.
Quote, Bergen said that hydrogen peroxide, a hydrogen peroxide device, would signal that foreign-based terrorist groups are behind the attack.
However, if there was another explosive used, that may signal right-wing terrorists were involved.
Quote, we've seen a number of failed bombing attempts by Al-Qaeda, Bergen cautioned, but we've also seen other extremist groups.
Right-wing groups trying to attack, for instance, trying to attack the Martin Luther King parade in Oregon in 2010.
He said that he thinks that hydrogen peroxide bomb was more likely used here, signaling that Bergen believes that foreign-based terror groups are likely or are more likely behind this.
So even this article and this interview that the CNN analyst said, based on what he believes the bomb to be, he believes that foreign actors are more likely.
File this underlying file this under the heading of they have more in common than a yeah, that's that's what I was thinking.
But that actual article that Alex is talking about there, which he's presenting as the media blaming the Patriots and the Tea Party, comes to the conclusion that foreign-based terror groups are more likely behind the attack than right-wingers.
His source literally and completely contradicts his narrative, but it doesn't matter.
Bergen entertained the possibility that Alex's militia weirdo buddies might be suspects.
And any insinuation that right-wing terrorism exists is really just a plot to demonize the good guy Patriots in an attempt to start a civil war or something.
And that's more than enough for him to be like, well, maybe he's not blaming you for this one, but he's setting you up to say that the right-wing is doing the next one.
If they do arrest someone who's, I don't know, part of a 3% or a group or some militia extremist group or even somebody who was a part of that group, but the group itself wasn't involved, just went on his own.
Like this has a real utility in terms of preemptive damage control.
No, My worldview was not involved.
This is fake.
They're blaming it on us.
You get the sense when you start to look at these things and you see like, those don't say what you say they're saying.
So this article in The Independent is just explaining why some people have theorized on Twitter and online that the bombing was either Islamic or right-wing terrorism.
It doesn't say that it's either.
It's really just what you might call an explainer for possibly non-U.S. readers of the dynamics involved that have led some people to think one of the two groups could be behind the attack.
On the right-wing side, they point out that it was the anniversary of the Waco standoff as well as Patriots Day and Tax Day.
On the Islamic side, they also point out that it's the 65th anniversary of the independence of Israel.
So that date also holds significance for groups all over the place.
Honestly, a fair reading of this article would lead you to think that they were making the point that Islamic terror is more likely.
The part about the possibility of right-wing groups being behind the attack is just informational.
Whereas the part of the possibility that it was Islamic terrorism includes an interview with a professor of security studies from King's College and references to someone at the Boston Globe speculating that it was Islamic terrorism.
There's a bit more weight behind the section about that than the right-wing possibility.
Alex, again, I sound like a broken record, but this article is not blaming right-wing extremists at all.
But again, to Alex, anyone pointing out that right-wing extremist groups exist, that in and of itself is basically a crime.
And it's still a long way from being what you might call good work.
The Examiner headline is, quote, FBI following up on a variety of leads to Boston bombing.
And then it discusses some of those leads.
They reference a counter-terrorism expert named Richard Barrett, who says that, quote, the incident had hints of a right-wing attack.
But he also says, quote, it was too early to say who was to blame for the marathon blasts.
The article isn't about who did the attack, really, or even pointing blame.
It's about how the FBI is getting a ton of tips and working through them.
Inasmuch as the article does contain an expert saying it was too early to say who did it, but he suspects it could be right-wing extremists, fine.
If Alex wants to base this conspiracy of patriot demonization on a bunch of shit he's lying about in an article in the Irish Examiner, he's more than welcome to.
The problem I have with it the most is that every expert, that everybody, every reporter that went for a quote, every one of them is looking for you to speculate.
All of that is the same thing from that Mediaite article where the guy said that based on the hydrogen peroxide bomb that I believe it to be, foreign terror is more likely.
So he's used that three times in this list of articles.
They all are about the same interview with Jake Tapper on CNN.
This is how he does this.
This is how he creates the illusion of there being tons of people saying that the Patriots are to blame when three are the same source that doesn't say that.
That is why the right-wing's media severe is so powerful.
They're so good at that.
They created this, I mean, monolithic, unstoppable force of reinforcement just because they can always create that feedback.
Luke, one guy on CNN says something one time: Town Hall, fucking Fox News, Breitbart, fucking name it.
They'll all write a story about it, and then they'll all reference how so many people are writing stories that it must be a bunch of different things going on.
Like, it's brilliant and evil and going to end the world, but you got to give it up to the Somali pirates.
And all of this is to reinforce premise two in the argument.
That's all this is doing.
And I know that I probably sound like I'm making too big of a point of the construction of this argument, but it's how Alex set things up in the immediate minutes and maybe like half hour after news of the bomb broke.
He established it almost as a thesis.
And in this next clip, he reiterates it after he's already done this manipulative, disingenuous work to establish premise B or premise two.
He now gets back to trying to reframe the argument now that he has the second premise with him.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, they are setting up to have these all over the country.
If we accept this, get into the fear, the media is hyping it.
This is the whole paradigm shift to go into total martial law to stop the Tea Party bombing everybody and to get Republicans to apologize for what the Tea Party's done.
If they blame it on the Tea Party and Republicans apologize, it's over.
Total communist takeover, run by foreign offshore banks.
So every time he believes he's proven an argument, he's going to have to add another little caveat so people don't actually follow through with the whole civil war.
Obviously, and it sort of indicates exactly what the goal he wants is when he shifts this narrative or this argument from its original form to now including the right wing and the GOP not apologizing for the Tea Party.
What he's more saying is, I want my weirdo extremist friends to be more ascendant within the GOP.
I want them to be accepted.
And if they are not accepted and they allow this demonization that I'm imagining is happening to stand, then it's all over.
Yeah, I was just sitting here, and a buddy of mine, he has a federal job, and he told me, I got to stop by your shop.
And I said, sure, why not?
So he comes over here and he tells me, you know, we talk about the bombing and whatnot.
And then he tells me, okay, there's reasons I can't give you, but I feel bad if I didn't give you a warning.
Buy as much ammo as you can.
The only thing I can tell you is buy as much ammo as you can.
His friend in the Pentagon is not, he will not give me any critical information as to why, but he just told me, buy as much ammo as you can, double it.
I don't care if you have 21 shotguns or whatever, you double that by the end of the month.
You could almost make a pretty cogent argument that people constantly calling things false flags only allows the government more easily to commit a false flag.
Well, in the same way that if I were like, this would be a great time for Iran to attack somebody because fucking Trump says everything is done by Iran.
Why would I believe anything that Pompeo says about what Iran does?
You know, like, you guys are fucking lying so much they can get away with it because you're giant fucking liars.
Like, he's not just making up some abstract possibility.
He's imagining a cop telling that kid who specifically did die in this bombing to sit on a duffel bag in order to kill them so they can use him for publicity.
That's what Alex is fantasizing about.
I imagine this is what they do.
That's fucking insanely disrespectful to the parents, to the child, to everyone.
This is disgusting shit.
He should be deeply ashamed of himself.
This is not how, like, this isn't asking questions.
This isn't journalism.
This isn't exposing truth.
This is a monstrous person hurting people more.
Like, there's no value to this.
It's disgusting.
I don't know how to put it any more concretely, but this is why this stuff infuriates me more than I expect it to.
It's because you hear shit like that.
And that's not the only time he uses this flight of fancy.
So he has Doug Hagman on, and in this intro that he's giving for him, we get a little glimpse at somebody who should also be ashamed of themselves for enabling Alex's bullshit.
This is one of the reasons and one of the things about that show is so fun and fanciful with all of its paranormal talk, but it has a dangerous place that it also occupies.
And it's by mainstreaming, by platforming, by helping disseminate the messages of someone like Alex Jones the day after the Boston bombing when all of his rhetoric is counterfeit.
I want to say, in fairness to Alex, which isn't even in fairness to him, like he does constantly evoke past acts, like the 7-7 bombing and Oklahoma City.
But, Doug, the most devastating evidence is that Rob Dew, my news director, I knew it!
Constantly argues with his defense intelligence brother-in-law, who is actually pretty high up in it, and he's on the Arnie Marathon team, and he can run 24 miles in his sleep.
He was running.
He was pretty much fine.
And they came over and said, you're dehydrated.
We're pulling you out because he was up towards the front, coming up to the finish line right before all this happened.
I don't even know if that's true, but Alex says it.
I'm like, all right.
So Doug Hagman says something that I think, if there's anything to take away from this episode, I think it's this mentality that Doug Hagman is expressing.
Yeah, Alex pretends he has high-level sources, and one of them is Doug fucking Hagman.
These two dipshits are sitting on this show that pretends itself to be like it.
They don't present this show as like it's just commentary-based.
It's just one man's opinion.
They do not present it that way.
When they spread their shit, they have an expectation that their audience believes them.
So they have a responsibility to not fall back on excuses like, how can we not just assume the bombing was the government was a government plot to make our friends look bad when it feels like that to me?
Jesus Christ.
When you're someone like me and you listen to hours and hours of this bullshit, there's a lot of really maddening things that get expressed.
And this is right up there in the upper echelons.
Doug Hagman runs a website called the Northeast Intelligence Network.
It's not the we said it because we're jaded network.
It's an intelligence network reflecting the bullshit notion that he's working off intelligence.
I'm probably overly pissed off about this, but it's just such a clear moment that demonstrates how aware these people are that they're running a con.
Again, based on my source, I think the most important, if I can say nothing else today for today's broadcast, is expect more and look at these as diversions.
And that's pretty frightening as far as I'm concerned.
Diversions from what to do what should you be looking out for if that's diverting you from what's vague enough that you can make it mean whatever it needs to mean to you and I get to pretend I have high-level sources.
So I told you earlier that Skousen said that Alex's caller sounds like someone making stuff up, and Alex turned heel on his listeners and was like, oh, some of these calls are clearly people fucking with us.
You know, that sort of thing.
And so now Alex gets into the idea that there's misinformation being spread online because that's the only place that a lot of stuff is getting theorized and posted as if it's real.
He starts reading it and he finds himself agreeing with the troll post that he is already indicating as like, this is the sort of shit that's getting posted.
So Alex at the this is the last clip of Alex on the 16th because he leaves a half hour early.
He does three and a half hours.
And then David Knight and Jakari Jackson and new hire Leanne McAdoo take over for the next hours of the show.
But this last clip is Alex sort of indicating that he doesn't like that people are saying that the right-wing or Islamic terrorism, those are the groups that keep being brought up as possible folks.
According to all reliable sources, no bombing ever carried out by the Weathermen was an attack on humans.
It was always property.
There were some copycat attacks that were carried out by unaffiliated groups that did kill or hurt people, but the right-wing types, you know, they're pretty consistent in going ahead and blaming the weathermen for those two.
Leaving that aside, even if the Boston bombing was anywhere near the MO of the Weathermen, at the time of the bombing, they hadn't been a group for a full 36 years.
Alex Jones was three years old when they disbanded.
I do like the idea now, though, of like the weathermen aging are all like old dogs like Tim Allen, and they're like, let's get the band back together for one last ride or whatever.
So that's the last clip of Alex from the show, but I had two more clips because I want to demonstrate to you that everyone at Infor is complicit.
Everyone that I can see.
If you are there and you're witnessing this clear misrepresentation that's going on of all these sorts of things and you're allowing this to happen, you don't walk out.
Okay, so that all feeds into the narrative that they're trying to get you on because they keep saying that it's going to be your right-wing extremist even yesterday.
And you see that that's sort of the political radicalization and extreme pushing towards the extreme is kind of what's at the bottom of his agenda and his motivation.
And that is kind of, I think, while I have some other issues with certainly Adam Corolla's late career, and maybe in hindsight, some of that earlier part of the career.
But I think that that's such a good model for how to be ethical and stewards of the public airway in a sense.
You have a responsibility when you have an audience and you're a daily live radio show.
You can't take the day off or whatever.
You have to come in and do something.
You have to care and nurture people because if you don't, you're disrupting a process.
And Alex is deeply disrupting a process here.
And the only motivations can be nefariously political or nefariously personal.
And I don't respect either of those.
I honestly think there are a bunch of episodes that keep re-upping my hatred of him.
It's interesting because I fall into a lull of like these episodes will come up where he's like trying to get people to move to West Virginia because there's no 5G there.