I’ve followed Alex Jones for a looooong time. I first heard of him around 2002, and have followed him off and on since then. I listened to his podcast daily from about 2008-2012. I only quit because his radio show is a poor format for a podcast. He spends too damned much time going to break and coming back, then repeating information. Plus, on the podcast, when he goes to a commercial break every 20 seconds, I had to keep fast forwarding. I got sick of this after 4 years and unsubscribed. I still subscribe to his YouTube channel, where I can watch his videos and adjust the speed to 2x. I’ve listened to Alex Jones at 2x for so long, he doesn’t sound right at normal speed.
The way to judge whether Alex Jones is speaking from evidence or out of his ass is whether he can support it or not.
Alex Jones has some subjects where he had a stack of documents. Usually, these are from “mainstream news”. He has a document camera and can speak to his subject and support it from “mainstream” news articles. Normally, when he does this, you can trust him and take him seriously.
But there are some topics in which Alex yells and freaks out and screams “We have the government documents!”, but never puts one of those government documents under the document camera, nor does he give you a reference for which government document he is referring to so you can look it up for yourself. When he does this, you can safely assume he’s talking out of his ass and ignore him.
There is a certain theological issue in which I disagree with Alex Jones. I won’t go into it here because I consider it minor, but there is some disagreement among Christians about it. He claims it’s a conspiracy, and that he has shitloads of “government documents” to support his claim. But in the last 16 years I’ve followed him off and on, he has yet to give me a name of a single “government document” that I can look up for myself to verify his claim. In that case, I assume he’s talking out of his ass and ignore him.
Like him or not, Alex Jones is here to stay. He’s a man, and just as fallible as any other man.
