Alex Jones: The Great Manipulator

Before I get into tonight�s main story, I want to start off with something that I haven�t addressed yet on this blog. The most commonly asked question I get from people is, �Why did you start this blog?� The answer is pretty simple. Last December, I reached out to the Summerville Journal Scene to write an opinion piece about the dangers of fake news and its effect on the election. The editor granted me that request. So, I wrote the article and it was published about a week before Christmas. Based on the positive reviews that the article received, he asked me to write periodically for the newspaper (one article every 3 months). I took the opportunity and immediately began to pump out articles on a variety of subjects. However, when I started sending in those articles, I did not get a response. I emailed the editor about once a week for a month, asking for a response. There was never a reply. By that point, I had already started this blog. In fact, the first few articles that I published on this blog were the ones that I sent to the Journal Scene. From then on, I continued to write an article once a week. That�s how all of this came to be. Needless to say, I am not happy with the Journal Scene. However, that is in the past; I am now looking to the future.

            Tonight�s main subject is about an angry man. This man is ridiculous, yet a genius in how he manipulates his audience and turns them against the outside world. This man believes that the shooting at Sandy Hook in 2010 was a �false-flag� and was a political ploy to get gun reform legislation passed. This man inspired the �Pizzagate� fiasco last year by claiming that an underground sex trafficking ring, led by Hillary Clinton, was taking place in the basement of a pizzeria in Washington DC. The pizzeria in question did not even have a basement. He is a man full of conspiracies and rage. This man generated hysteria by claiming that the �social engineers� put sodium fluoride in public drinking water to brainwash American citizens. If you dare criticize him, he will portray you as a �global elitist� and determined to install a �New World Order.� He accused Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of being Satan-worshippers and prostitutes. He is also an ardent supporter of Donald Trump. He is talk radio show host, Alex Jones.

            Now it�s easy to discredit Jones as crazy and ridiculous, because it�s true. But it�s not that simple. He has a massive audience. His show reaches up to 2 million people daily. And many of those people believe what he says, which makes him dangerous. And he wants to be seen as dangerous and unstable to society. I found myself fascinated with the man after watching a few of his most famous rants (which I highly recommend). Over time, I began to understand how he was able to captivate such a large audience. The key is buzzwords. Jones uses buzzwords relentlessly. It�s like a tornado of words that don�t make any clear argument or point. But since these words are getting thrown around so rapidly, a viewer who doesn�t understand the topic will start to believe Jones because he sounds like he knows what he is talking about.

For example, if Jones were talking about the war in Syria, it�s plausible that he would mention the Arabs, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, oil, the Gulf War, nuclear weapons, and something about the �globalists.� He would speak calmly and in a knowledgeable way and act as if he was making some profound analysis of the situation. When in reality, everything he just stated meant no more than the words spoken by an adult on Charlie Brown. Then he would somehow connect the situation to some scheme determined to create a �New World Order.� If you are lucky, you might even get to view a rant. And these are no ordinary rants. These rants are a work of art. It is the combination of relentless rage materialized in the ferocious yells of a bulky 40-year-old man. These rants will most likely be accompanied by strange voice changes (he is probably imitating the �globalists� of which he so often references) along with desk-slamming and heavy, foaming breaths. I cannot even imagine the levels of testosterone present in the room when these rants start. It is a miracle that so much anger can fit in one single person.

Recently, Jones has been in the news over the custody battle he has been involved in with his ex-wife. Reasonably, Jones� ex-wife has argued that he is not fit to have custody of his children because of his rage and instability. Jones� lawyer responded to that argument by saying that Jones was a �performance artist� and that he was �playing a character.�

One would presume that Jones� audience would turn on him after learning that he had been acting and deceiving them. However, while there has been a minor drop in ratings, Jones is not going anywhere. He defended himself by taking the situation out of context and claiming that the corporate media was desperately trying to dethrone him. His audience seemed to believe him based on the positive comments that I read. I guess this goes to show that Jones has attracted people that have determined that ideology is more important than facts. It is truly a strange world that we live in.