Last Friday, a Texas jury ordered Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, adding to the $4.1 million he must pay for the suffering he put them through by claiming for years that the nation’s deadliest school shooting was a hoax.
Jones has since acknowledged
that the shooting was real, but has claimed his statements
about Sandy Hook were protected by the First Amendment.
The news of Alex Jones being fined was met with unrestrained
jubilation across liberal precincts.
The New York Times carried a
piece headlined “Why Alex Jones’s Trial Won’t
Stop the Spread of Lies” that headline was altered to “Don't Expect Alex
Jones's Comeuppance to Stop Lies". CNN
carried a piece headlined “Will the Alex Jones
trials change conspiracy culture?”. MSNBC called Jones a 'Sickening
liar'.
CBS News carried a
piece headlined “Alex Jones judgment: The cost of
lies” The WaPo carried a piece with a juvenile
headline “Liar Liar, Alex Jones on Fire”. NPR carried a
piece titled “How Alex Jones mainstreamed
conspiracy theories”. The Associated Press carried a piece headlined “Alex
Jones’ $49.3M verdict and the future of misinformation” “Comedians” John
Oliver and Stephen
Colbert gleefully mocks Alex Jones following the
verdict. Piers Morgan was elated.
The fact that compulsive fabricators in the media failed to see
the irony proves that the self-righteous seldom have any self-awareness
So let’s look very briefly at the record of the mainstream media
on being factual.
When Donald Trump won the Presidential elections in 2016. All of
the mainstream media worked with various government agencies and Hillary
Clinton’s allies to amplify the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
The gist of the conspiracy theory was that Trump had defeated
Hillary by colluding with the Russians. The promoters of the theory couldn’t
explain the details of how Trump and the Kremlin worked together. They couldn’t
provide any proof that any votes were altered by Russian agents. They could
offer any proof that Trump had any connections with Kremlin. Yet they ran
with the story and amplified it every day.
Rogue Democrat operatives such as Adam Schiffer and Eric Swalwell,
frequently outdid each other in the department of outrageousness and mendacity,
as did many pundits in the media. Some even claimed Trump was groomed
by the Kremlin during the 80s. 'Comedy' shows such
as SNL also played their part in promoting the hoax.
The noise got so louder that even cowardly GOP members were
compelled to concur with the fabrication. In the end, it caused the appointment
of Special Counsel Robert Mueller whose team consisted of Trump-hating Democrat
agents. The media carried it with glee, every day they would cite leaks from
unnamed sources that the walls were closing in on Trump and that he may even be
forced to resign.
After 674 Days which is almost two years, the probe was completed
and not even a smidgen of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion was found. Mueller
purposefully worded his report to leave some ambiguity about
Trump's innocence. The Democrats and the media ran
used vagueness to claim that there was indeed collusion, but Trump
was such a master criminal that he had left no evidence despite colluding. To
this day crackpots call Trump an agent of Putin.
This was the most preposterous conspiracy theory in the history of
modern America. Donald Trump has lived all of his life in the public spotlight
for decades and his successes are well documented. To claim Trump is a Russian
agent is ludicrous. Only a loony conspiracy theorist would make such an absurd
claim. Yet the mainstream media carried it with malicious intent.
It not only was a personal attack on President Trump and his
supporters, it also accused Trump of treason – which carried the death penalty.
The relentless lies eroded trust in the foundation of democracy i.e. elections
among a certain section.
It most likely cost the Republicans the House during the 2018
midterms. Once the Democrats took control of the House it was probe galore.
Those charades continue till this very day with the January 6th probe.
The news media thus helped normalized a conspiracy theory and made
it part of mainstream history.
New York Times opinion columnist Brett Stevens recently
conceded that the new media, intelligence
agencies, and the Democrat Party, have waged war on Trump and spitefully spread
misinformation about non-existent collusion and even the “golden shower
tapes.” Even far-left ‘comedian’ Jon Stewart ridiculed the media for
carrying the hoax.
But apart from these two, few have had the civility to even admit
that they erred.
Will anybody in the media who promoted this insane conspiracy
theory be punished or be compelled to pay damages?
We all know the answer to that.
In addition to the Russia collusion narrative,
the media peddled numerous other fabrications about President Trump. They
claimed Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from
the Oval Office. They claimed he called Neo Nazis ‘very fine people'. They
claimed a protest on January 6th that went overboard was a violent
insurrection. On some occasions Trump was branded bigoted, senile, and clueless
on others he was a bigoted evil criminal genius.
Beyond Trump, the media also carried myriad lies about COVID-19
and the effectiveness of vaccines. The media also suppressed information about
the harmful side effects of the vaccine. Perhaps it is time that the relatives
of those who suffered from the vaccine take the media to court.
Back to news media coverage of the Alex Jones verdict.
The WaPo
carried a piece headlined “How Alex Jones was
embraced by Trump, Rogan years after Sandy Hook lies”
This is the reason the media is delighted to see Alex Jones in
trouble. Alex Jones and Infowars were among the first pro-Trump group to
be de-platformed by Big Tech. Some in the media are claiming that Jones
may have lied on
the stand during the trial and hence he could be charged
with perjury.
It would be worth knowing who paid the legal fees of the parents,
it won't be surprising if it is some Democrat ally.
They see him as an ally of President Trump and hence he has to be
silenced and crushed. They think Jones is one of the reasons Trump was elected
in 2016 because he maligned their favorite Hillary Clinton.
Perhaps the media thinks they are the only group that can malign others with impunity.
Make no mistake, this is a witchhunt.
A TODAY show presentation noted that Jones had been emailing former Trump advisor Roger Stone and that the January 6 committee was "looking into" allegations that Jones was involved in the chaotic riot.
Legal egalitarianism that causes all citizens to be equal before
the law is a fundamental tenet of any civilized democracy. There cannot be
dual standards, the penalty for the same offense has to be identical.
If Alex Jones who is perceived as a pro-Trump and an anti-establishment
figure is penalized for spreading misinformation but the Democrat establishment
loyalists who peddle insane conspiracy theories are honored with Pulitzer
prizes something is gravely wrong.
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