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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 06:35 AM Jun 2017

Alex Jones needs to be exposed, not ignored

Megyn Kelly launched her new NBC program three weeks ago by interviewing Vladimir Putin. American politicians routinely call the Russian president a “murderer,” and he is universally believed to have meddled in the U.S. election, but there was no protest of Kelly for that meeting.

Not so for her sit-down with provocateur Alex Jones scheduled to air Sunday. Many have asked that the prerecorded interview not be aired, and advertiser JPMorgan Chase has temporarily canceled its support of NBC News.

That Jones is dangerous and a faker is not subject to reasonable debate. The issue is whether it is best for him to be exposed or ignored. My answer to that question is that it depends on how he is interviewed by Kelly.

Consider that Jones was recently a litigant in a child custody battle in Texas. That case said a lot about how our political discourse has been driven into a ditch. Jones was fighting to maintain sole custody of his three children. His ex-wife, Kelly, was seeking sole or joint custody. She said he was “not a stable person,” and part of her argument was his media persona.

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/opinion/columns/alex-jones-needs-to-be-exposed-not-ignored/article_5bbe3f14-bf12-5318-97a4-b3e628ee52dd.html

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Alex Jones needs to be exposed, not ignored (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2017 OP
She told AJ that she would be nice 2 him meaning she was going to normalize him. Not expose him. Madam45for2923 Jun 2017 #1
Precisely. dalton99a Jun 2017 #5
She's a racist, he's an abuser and conspiracy theorist FlightRN Jun 2017 #2
You don't kill a cancer by giving it extra air and putting it in contact with healthy cells Freelancer Jun 2017 #3
Applause!! Madam45for2923 Jun 2017 #6
Don't need to be around evil to understand it, no thanks ebbie15644 Jun 2017 #4
Whenever someone quotes Alex Jones Jake Stern Jun 2017 #7

FlightRN

(194 posts)
2. She's a racist, he's an abuser and conspiracy theorist
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 07:56 AM
Jun 2017

Who put families of Sandy Hook through an unbelievable hell. Exposed to who? Those gullible enough to live on a steady diet of Fox News. Fuck Alex Jones and Megyn Kelly, as well as NBC. These crazies have been normalized enough, they need to fade back in to obscurity or at the very least not appear on the nightly news. This Country is truly a disaster. JC.

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)
3. You don't kill a cancer by giving it extra air and putting it in contact with healthy cells
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 09:43 AM
Jun 2017

You starve it, poison it, and isolate it.

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
7. Whenever someone quotes Alex Jones
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 02:39 PM
Jun 2017

I bring up the words of Jones' own attorney "He’s playing a character. He is a performance artist"

They don't know how to respond to that.

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