WorldNetDaily has a bit of a thing for Alex Jones. Joe Kovacs wrote in a July 13 article:
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s weekend comments about the Jeffrey Epstein files, investigative journalist Alex Jones is saying: “This is the mother of all scandals.”
“President Trump now claims the Epstein list is real, but the Democrats have doctored it,” Jones said on X, along with a video clip expressing his perplexity.
“After years of saying they were releasing the Epstein file or list, suddenly they’re not going to. We’re told it doesn’t exist,” Jones said.
We’ll pause for a bit while you laugh heartily at the idea that far-right fearmongerer Jones is an “investigative journalist.”
Kovacs focused on issues closer to home in a Sept. 2 article:
Alex Jones of Infowars erupted on air Tuesday in graphic fashion as he slammed his star reporter Owen Shroyer who is leaving the media operation over purported disputes that Shroyer had become “too anti-Trump” and “negative.”
“You stabbed your brother and this operation in the back and you’re a f***in’ liar! F***in’ a**hole, piece of sh**!” Jones said on the air.
[…]Shroyer made national headlines after his 2023 guilty plea for entering restricted grounds at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, mayhem, for which he served 60 days in prison.
Note that Kovacs wouldn’t call what the “mayhem” of that day actually was: a riot.
An anonymously written Oct. 13 article complained about the looming legal judgment against Jones:
It is the next step in the war against InfoWars, the Alex Jones organization that was sued over his comments about the Sandy Hook school shooting and the families involved. And it’s gone to the Supreme Court.
Jones, who was declared liable for more than a billion dollars in damages in default judgments from two different judges, is challenging those rulings.
Jones has submitted an appeal to the high court that centers on a judgment in Connecticut.
He charges the default judgment was improper because it presented an incomplete picture of his statements about Sandy Hook, it made too much of “trivial” discovery issues, and it undermined Supreme Court precedent on the First Amendment rights of media defendants, like him, according to a blog that focuses on the high court and its issues.
“Viewed in full context, Jones expressly affirmed that deaths occurred, while using the phrases ‘staged’ or ‘hoax’ to characterize media and governmental scripting. It is therefore contextually impossible to construe his remarks as denying deaths, as the Complaint did by selective editing. Precisely to guard against such distortions, this Court has required independent judicial review of the entire record in First Amendment cases,” said the petition.
But the record — as admitted in the WND article itself — betrays that version of events:
He repeatedly has addressed “conspiratorial claims about major world events, such as that the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 was staged or that the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 were an inside job,” the report said.
In this case, after the 2012 shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead, Jones repeatedly criticized coverage and suggested parts of the events were staged to push for new gun limits.
Family members of victims sued, both in Connecticut and Texas.
Both judges ruled against Jones by default.
It was not explained how these two versions of history can be reconciled, nor why Jones should not have mounted a defense, which caused courts to rule against him not once but twice.
When the Supreme Court rejected Jones’ appeal the next day, Bob Unruh took up the defese baton:
A report on the Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal from InfoWars founder Alex Jones of an incredible $1.4 billion judgment over his comments regarding the Sandy Hook school shooting years ago turned blunt in confirming that he will “lose everything.”
“It appears that our 1st Amendment rights have been decimated by SCOTUS,” explained the Gateway Pundit’s report on the Supreme Court’s decision to let stand decisions by leftist judges who ruled against Jones.
The report said, “Alex Jones owed families who lost their children that day $1.4 billion for claiming the massacre was a hoax. Regardless of his remarks how is $1.4 billion a reasonable punishment for speaking your opinion?”
[…]In this case, after the 2012 shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead, Jones repeatedly criticized coverage and suggested parts of the events were staged to push for new gun limits.
Family members of victims sued, both in Connecticut and Texas.
Both judges ruled against Jones by default.
After the judgment, the companies filed bankruptcy petitions and that process has not yet yielded a final result.
Unruh di not explain why he relied so much on the discredited Gateway Pundit for his report.