Alex Jones responds to the Pittsburgh Police Shooter liking his show

[RamboLiberal]

He denounces the violence then says:

"When the police and the military attempt to come for the guns, which they're going to do, it's not going to go well."

He also complained that his views were being conflated with extremists that recruit people with legitimate concerns reflected on his own site and program.

"It's almost like I wake people up and they just get handed over to the nuts," he said.

Mr. Pitcavage(director of investigative research for the ADL) today said Mr. Poplawski's comments bear out a growing concern by extremist-watchers in the wake of the election of President Barack Obama.

"We've been concerned about the possibility of an upsurge in right-wing extremist violence due to two possibilities: the vitriolic reaction of the extreme right to the election of Barack Obama and the severe economic recession that the country is in," he said.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09096/960938-100.stm

[WeDidIt]

1. Alex Jones is no longer a professional tinfoilhat nutter

He's an amateur compared to the PUMAs and the Birthers.

[NightWatcher]

2. jones is a red-faced nutball who got his bones in the militia movement

he has a very decent sized following and should be considered dangerous. He used legitimate questions re: 9/11 to get a lot of otherwise normal people on board to his revolutionary radio, then dropped the hammer with the gun grabbing dialogue.

[sufrommich]

3. How delusional do you have to be to convince yourself

that "the PUMA's" (an internet invention if ever there was one) pose more of a danger than someone like Alex Jones.

[PM Martin]

4. "PUMA" is/was most likely part of the propaganda

campaign that the infamous Karl Rove was waging to divide the Democratic party.

[sufrommich]

5. I agree, but it didn't work. They are a trivial mini group

confined to the internet of political junkies.Birthers and right wing gun nuts( usually one and the same) are a very real threat.

[PM Martin]

6. But many around here thought PUMA was real.

Remember, Hillary's supporters came on board for Obama in the end.

[sufrommich]

7. I don't doubt that, my point is that they're hardly dangerous

and definitely not relevant.

[Bolo Boffin]

8. "I wake people up and they just get handed over to the nuts"

OMG. Who does Alex Jones think the nuts are?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7922309189642659130

Offered strictly as an example of Alex Jones' utter insanity.

[sufrommich]

9. I only was able to watch about 2 minutes of that. What a creep. nt

[Bolo Boffin]

11. Oh, that's enough for the point.

But he really gets to scary ranting right before 5:00.

[sufrommich]

14. OK, my curiosity got the better of me. That's some

right wing kookery right there.

[kctim]

10. I have listened to Jones for about 10 years

and this was not an example of "an upsurge in right-wing extremist violence."

[Democracyinkind]

12. Oh, that means you heard the December 31, 99 show...

....where PUTIN NUKED AMERICA and all the american nuclear plants were melting and people went batshit crazy and then it was like january first 6 am and shit no red dawn anyway have a nice day you hick....

I'm sorry.. But it's just so insane.. How will historians interpret people like Alex Jones - (hell even (antisemitic)nut moderates like Bill Cooper will make use look so idiotic. It's just so... American.. I hopes theres another America.

[sufrommich]

15. Jesus, if this guy doesn't strike you as an example of

encouraging extremist violence, who does?

[Democracyinkind]

13. One man's crazy gunnut copkiller is another man's....

... revolutionary hero in the fight against an imaginary misinterpretation of the term "new world order".

[TwilightGardener]

16. "When the police and the military attempt to come for the guns, it's not going to go well"--

praytell, when and where did this happen? This is exactly the kind of irresponsible fictitious paranoid RW bullshit that leads to crimes like this.