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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:45 PM Aug 2018

Alex Jones is begging Sandy Hook parents he smeared to stop quoting him bc that's just mean.

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/08/14/alex-jones-threatens-sandy-hook-parents-cease-and-desist-letters-if-they-keep-talking-about-his/220989

So I’m asking the families: In the memory of your children and the memory of the truth -- you say it’s super hurtful to hear these things, I agree. So I’m saying how do you continue to say that and say I said it if it’s so hurtful? I’m asking you to quit in my voice saying your children didn’t die. I’m asking in my voice and my name to quit saying I’m sending people to your house. I’m asking you through my name, like [late-night talk show host] Conan O’Brien with a cut-out of somebody saying things, to stop saying that I’m doing this because I’m not. I’ve apologized, I’ve done it all. So, at a certain point, do cease and desist letters have to go out? With a letter and videos and everything so it’s on record?

Because people take the families of victims, and they should, hold them up. I remember talking about the deadly dust killing people in the World Trade Center and they covered it up for decades and now it’s admitted. They do that and they hold it up. But the First Amendment’s pretty important but I don’t know how they’re going to say Alex Jones is mean, he’s making people come be deposed, Alex Jones is mean, he’s put P.I.’s on the street. Alex Jones is mean. Because see, I’m the one under assault. I’m the one being misrepresented. I’m the one that people are speaking through my voice, holding a picture of me up, and then saying I’m saying these things and all I’m saying is metaphysically I didn’t create this, I didn’t start this, so I can’t give you quarter. But I’ve tried to give the whole thing quarter and have been your biggest ally for years in saying, “No, I think it happened.” And if I’m so dangerous and so bad and so many people listen to me, so many dangerous people, then please don’t say that I’m saying your children didn’t die or that mass shootings don’t happen or that Parkland didn’t happen or any of this because you know that’s not what I’ve said, lawyers. And you know I didn’t sue the families. And you know I waived attorney’s fees that no one has ever done. But, see, just like [special counsel Robert] Mueller does these fake indictments, that’s the proof of collusion, it’s the same thing. File a suit, say the things in the suit, and then say that all of it’s true.




Umm, Alex? You said that. On tape.

https://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2018/apr/18/true-alex-jones-said-no-one-died-sandy-hook-elemen/

Starting from a story in The New Yorker magazine, we zeroed in on posted video of Jones telling a caller to his program in January 2015 that in his view, "Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn’t believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids. And it just shows how bold they are, that they clearly used actors. I mean they even ended up using photos of kids killed in mass shootings here in a fake mass shooting in Turkey -- so yeah, or Pakistan. The sky is now the limit."

We also found that in another episode, in December 2014, Jones called the shootings "a giant hoax."
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Alex Jones is begging Sandy Hook parents he smeared to stop quoting him bc that's just mean. (Original Post) DetlefK Aug 2018 OP
Alex Jones is worried about losing the lawsuits that are pending Gothmog Aug 2018 #1
Of course he is SCantiGOP Aug 2018 #2
Juanita Jean's son is representing two groups suing Alex Jones Gothmog Aug 2018 #4
He is lower than shit on a shoe. Squinch Aug 2018 #3
I hope he is lawsuited into oblivion SHRED Aug 2018 #5
The blubbery blowhard bircher commences to blubber. Mc Mike Aug 2018 #6
Big boob made a big booboo; boo hoo lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #13
Red leather yellow leather. Mc Mike Aug 2018 #15
Hey Alex, here's an idea gratuitous Aug 2018 #7
Alex Jones should just go fuck himself MrScorpio Aug 2018 #8
He didn't give a crap until it started to cost him money. redstatebluegirl Aug 2018 #9
Hey Alex - womp womp NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #10
Thoughts and prayers Fullduplexxx Aug 2018 #11
Enjoy being penniless soon Alex. JDC Aug 2018 #12
And Trumpism won't die with Trump elias7 Aug 2018 #14
I don't really care, do u? ReformedGOPer Aug 2018 #16
Why is it, that when right wingers say stupid, untrue things, and get people to pay them... Caliman73 Aug 2018 #17

SCantiGOP

(13,869 posts)
2. Of course he is
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 12:49 PM
Aug 2018

and he will likely lose. He will be a trivia question in about 5 years since he will have no way to spread his filth on the internet.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Hey Alex, here's an idea
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:11 PM
Aug 2018

Instead of further antagonizing your victims, why don't you use your vast media empire to go after the people who parrot your rantings about Sandy Hook? You may have apologized (I don't recall that) and you may have "done it all" (whatever that means), but it seems your fans continue to propagate the hurtful things you said. Why don't you go after them? Why don't you tell them to stop repeating your demented rantings, which you now are trying to disown? Would that take a lot of time? Probably. Would that cost you personally a lot of money? I sincerely hope so. Would it teach you a little lesson in taking responsibility for the irresponsible things you say? That's entirely up to you.

Otherwise, fuck off, Alex.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
8. Alex Jones should just go fuck himself
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:14 PM
Aug 2018

Really, he exhausted any and all sympathy for himself a long time ago

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
9. He didn't give a crap until it started to cost him money.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 01:18 PM
Aug 2018

Don't feel sorry for this low life one single bit. He deserves what is happening to him.

JDC

(10,127 posts)
12. Enjoy being penniless soon Alex.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 03:11 PM
Aug 2018

I give zero, and i mean zero shits about his woe-is-me garbage. He is lower than shit on a shoe.

What he did and said repeatedly is unforgivable.

elias7

(3,997 posts)
14. And Trumpism won't die with Trump
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 05:09 PM
Aug 2018

Jones, Trump, Hannity and their ilk have poisoned weak minds for a generation

Caliman73

(11,736 posts)
17. Why is it, that when right wingers say stupid, untrue things, and get people to pay them...
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:27 PM
Aug 2018

they are so bold, but once the opposition uses market forces to battle back, they start whining and saying that it isn't fair to use their own words against them. They start, FALSLEY, saying that their rights are being trampled. It isn't your rights idiots, it is the market speaking about you being provided a platform and audience to spew your crap. That is not a right. I don't have a radio show or television show. I can't just go on Fox and start talking about progressive values, because it isn't a right. I can go to my city council meeting, to a political forum at my representative's office, my state and US Senator, etc.. and redress my grievances there because that is a RIGHT.

I may have the opportunity to do a radio show or TV show, but it certainly is not my right to have one. The GOVERNMENT is not stopping you from speaking, it is the majority of the people who are willing to stop patronizing your sponsors or visiting websites, or using social media because they no longer want to put up with your shit.

It is private citizens using their right to sue for the damages your vile messages have caused them that are causing your advertisers or people who let you spew on their sites to have second thoughts.

That is democracy, not infringement.

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