Media Jumps On Alex Jones In Desperate Attempt To Connect Infowars To Bomb Suspects
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Steve Watson
Following unsubstantiated claims by the Associated Press Tuesday, the mainstream media jumped on Infowars and Alex Jones like a pack of wild dogs, suggesting that the suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a fan of the Austin, Texas based radio host.
In its article, concerned with Tamerlan becoming “radicalized”, AP quotes Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan’s sister, Ailina, who claims that the suspected bomber “began opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq” and “turned to websites and literature claiming that the CIA was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Jews controlled the world.”
Within the same article, the AP says Khozhugov claims that “Tamerlan took an interest in Infowars, a conspiracy theory website.”
Within the same paragraph, the AP then states that “Tamerlan was interested in finding a copy of the book ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ the classic anti-Semitic hoax, first published in Russia in 1903, that claims a Jewish plot to take over the world.”
The AP then quotes Khozhugov as saying that “He never said he hated America or he hated the Jews… But he was fairly aggressive toward the policies of the U.S. toward countries with Muslim populations. He disliked the wars.”
The insinuations and accusations here are manifest; that Infowars propagates anti-semitic and anti-American material that appeals to extremists and terrorists.
Regardless of the fact that Infowars has NEVER disseminated anything even approaching such material, and is for the most part a new aggregator, like The Drudge Report, and despite the fact that Alex Jones is routinely attacked for refusing to overtly criticize Israel and/or the Jewish faith, beyond expressing disdain for the state’s military aggressiveness, the fix was in for the mainstream media repeaters.
Salon, the publication that in the hours after the attack was willing and praying the bomber to turn out to be a white American, published a smear piece simply entitled “Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan”.
Within the piece by Alex Seitz-Wald, who routinely attacks Infowars presumably just so someone will actually read his work, suggests that the information “underscores how dangerous and seductive conspiracy theories can be,” adding that “Even the extermination campaigns of the Third Reich were essentially built on a conspiracy theory.”
Again, the same subtle accusation against Infowars is bandied around without a shred of evidence to back it up.
It’s the same classic smear-by-association attempt that Infowars has become accustomed to whenever we provide ahead of the curve information on an event, and all eyes become focused on the website.
In April 2009, several media outlets were forced to issue retractions following claims they made attempting to assign blame to Alex Jones for being an influence in the tragic shooting of three Pittsburgh police officers by one Richard Poplawski.
Even the New York Times parroted the claims, before it emerged that Poplawski had openly criticized Jones’ anti-racist political viewpoint.
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2013-04-24 06:15:18
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