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Mon Apr 19, 2021, 01:13 PM Apr 2021

Alex Jones' Podcasting Hecklers Face Their Foil's Downward Slide

CHICAGO — Last year, Alex Jones supplied conspiratorial content to the leader of the free world. This month, he was shamed by a nun.

The Infowars impresario and his camera crew had accosted a man escorting three Latino children and their mothers to a Catholic Charities relief center in McAllen, Texas, on the border with Mexico. “We know you’re smuggling these kids!” Jones yelled. Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities in the Rio Grande Valley, then castigated Jones in a statement for “interrupting the goodwill of someone providing assistance in the form of transportation for three mothers and their children.”

For Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes, the latest contretemps was fodder for something else: Episode No. 547. The former stand-up comedians mock Jones for a living on their podcast, Knowledge Fight, but with the end of the Trump era, the duo wonder how long his conspiratorial carrying on can remain interesting, much less culturally relevant.

“He just feels less and less in control of what he’s doing,” Friesen said. “The presentation is reckless and absurd.”

https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-podcasting-hecklers-face-115332024.html

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Alex Jones' Podcasting Hecklers Face Their Foil's Downward Slide (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 OP
One of my favorite podcasts. nt bbernardini Apr 2021 #1
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