Rolling Stone Gets Alex Jones Wrong

Saman Mohammadi
The Excavator
March 3, 2011
Rolling Stone has a new piece on radio host/patriot Alex Jones, casting him as a paranoid, fringe conspiracy theorist who attracts lunatics in Hollywood and across the land. It is not a total hit job, though. Alex gets to speak his mind, and the writer lays out the history of Alex’s rise into the mainstream pretty well, but like other media portrayals of Alex, the buzzwords “conspiracy theory” and “paranoid” are used, almost automatically, to describe Alex’s special brand of populist-constitutionalist political speech. Salon’s Alex Pareene called Alex an “all-American nut-job,” on March 1st, saying that he is “about as fringe a character as exists in our politics.” ..........       read the entire article here