Ex-Infowars Staffer Admits Making Up Stories

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Ex-Infowars Staffer Admits Making Up Stories

December 5, 2019 at 12:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 88 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/12/05/ex-infowars-staffer-admits-making-up-stories/

"SNIP....

Josh Owens, a former staff member at Alex Jones’s far-right conspiracy site Infowars, admits in the New York Times to making up stories for the site about the threat of Shariah law within the United States.

Writes Owens: “The information did not meet our expectations, so we made it up, preying on the vulnerable and feeding the prejudices and fears of Jones’s audience. We ignored certain facts, fabricated others and took situations out of context to fit our narrative.”

.....SNIP"

[Dr. Strange]

1. I am shocked. Shocked, I tells you!

[Initech]

13. *pretends to be shocked*

[malaise]

2. Duh!

Whipping up fear is a business venture

[applegrove]

3. Cut and paste in emails to your lost Trump republican relatives.

[FM123]

6. Yep. Pass it on....

[Va Lefty]

4. "Preying on the vulnerable and feeding the prejudices and fears of Jones's audience"

Kinda like televangelists

[SergeStorms]

12. Or....

FOX Noise hosts (who actually believe they're journalists!). The entire reich-wing propaganda Wurlitzer does the same damned thing, from Rusty Limbaugh all the way to Hannity Insanity.

[Va Lefty]

16. That works too

[Turbineguy]

5. Dog bites man.

I saw an INFOWARS bumper sticker on a contractor truck. "Hire me! I'm a moron!"

[Jirel]

7. Not that we didn't already know that...

But thanks for admitting y’all are liars and scammers.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Bookmarking. nt

[gratuitous]

9. Will this startling admission seep into the mainstream media?

Sure, a bunch of dirty fucking hippies have been saying it for years, and the evidence is right in front of people's eyes. But the media have been reluctant to call Infowars a toxic waste dump because . . . helefino. And the toxins spread, but nobody seems to know where the poison comes from.

[underpants]

10. 👀

Reading later

[Celerity]

11. an ode to Jones

[Hortensis]

14. Could this mean Hillary doesn't really eat children's faces?

[Blue_true]

15. Like anyone with half a brain didn't know that already.

All a person had to do was listen to out takes of their shit, or have the misfortune of driving behind an InfoWars fan while out and about.

[ck4829]

17. Kick