May 28, 2013 6:05 AM

The Alex Jones Show: Brought you by the makers of Thorazine

(Apologies and full credit to Weapons Grade Stupid)

Conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones explained to his audience today how the government could have been behind the devastating May 20 tornado in Oklahoma…. [A] caller asked Jones whether he was planning to cover how government technology may be behind a recent spate of sinkholes. After laying out how insurance companies use weather modification to avoid having to pay ski resorts for lack of snow, Jones said that “of course there’s weather weapon stuff going on — we had floods in Texas like fifteen years ago, killed thirty-something people in one night. Turned out it was the Air Force.”…. While he explained that “natural tornadoes” do exist and that he’s not sure if a government “weather weapon” was involved in the Oklahoma disaster, Jones warned nonetheless that the government “can create and steer groups of tornadoes.”

I care about Alex Jones and his worldview about as much as I care about the Green Bay Packers…which is to say not at all. The man’s a blithering idiot, a brain-dead meat sack with the intellectual capacity and moral gravitas of David Frey What disturbs me aren’t so much his ridiculous, ill-considered opinions, which I could easily and well enough ignore; it’s the audience of drooling, foaming at the mouth acolytes he’s collected. If you’ve seen InfoWars, Jones’ self-congratulatory paean to mental masturbation and conspiracy theories, you’ve probably found yourself with a variation of the same reaction most lucid people have:

“WTF???”

This time Jones has outdone himself in alleging that the federal government might have been responsible for the recent tornado that devastated Moore, OK (DAMN YOU, Obama!!). Yep, evidently the guv’mint has itself a cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die, double-secret “weather weapon.” What exactly it is and evidence that such a weapon exists is something that Jones has evidently delegated to lesser lights. The mere fact that he KNOWS what the government is up to is proof enough for him and his acolytes, most of whom would believe that Barack Obama drinks the blood of White newborns for sustenance if Jones said it was so.

According to Jones, this possibility hinges on whether people spotted helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things.” He added, “if you saw that, you better bet your bottom dollar they did this, but who knows if they did. You know, that’s the thing, we don’t know.”

Right; it’s the Ted Cruz method of creating doubt: “Who knows if Barack Obama buggers goats in the Oval Office. You know, that’s the thing, we don’t know.” The government hasn’t said that they don’t have a “weather weapon,” so hey, they COULD have one, right?

The worst part of Jones’ brain-dead rambling is that he’s advancing his own prospects by trading on the death and suffering visited upon Oklahoma. With Jones, it’s never enough to accept that sometimes a natural disaster is just that. No, he sees the evil hand of a tyrannical government behind virtually any event. It gets the torches-and-pitchforks crowd worked up, and that brings Jones attention (and with it, money).

It’s not exactly breaking news to state that Jones is a miserable excuse for humanity. What’s truly sad is that Jones seems to revel in it. He wants people to hate and despise him; he DARES them to. It’s like fuel for him. The only thing that matters to him is that people are paying attention to him, because when they do he gets the sustenance he craves. The truth may be out there, but Alex Jones has little interest in it. It’s about making sure that people are paying attention to him, even if he has to traffic in lies and trample on the pain and suffering of those impacted by the Oklahoma tornado. All that matters to him is stoking the flame of outrage and fear so he can collect the money he needs to burnish his empire.

How sad and pathetic.

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