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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Tucker Carlson Is Defending Alex Jones
Earlier this week, Fox News Channels Tucker Carlson, the host of the top-rated news show on cable, rose in defense of the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Jones is often mocked for his flamboyance, Carlson said, but the truth is he has been a far better guide to reality in recent yearsin other words, a far better journalistthan, say, NBC News national-security correspondent Ken Dilanian or Margaret Brennan of CBS.
Flamboyance is a rather interesting word to apply to Jones; there are others.
Last month Jones, the host of Infowars, was found liable for damages in a defamation lawsuit brought by parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, whose victims included 20 young children. Jones claimed that the shooting was a false flag operation carried out by crisis actors. He mocked grieving parents, saying, Ive looked at it, and undoubtedly theres a cover-up, theres actors, theyre manipulating, theyve been caught lying, and they were preplanning before it and rolled out with it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/why-tucker-carlson-defending-alex-jones/620906/
ShazamIam
(2,575 posts)dutch777
(3,044 posts)The sad thing is that there are probably a good number of people that think the judgements against Jones just PROVE there is a giant anti-right or some such conspiracy. I do hope the $$$ judgements against him are huge!
Bristlecone
(10,135 posts)marble falls
(57,270 posts)... misled and apologizes for anyone he or his employees and venue may have inadvertently offended.