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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 08:51 AM Jun 2016

Busted: Trump Is Taking Ideas Directly From America's Most Famous Right-Wing Crackpot, Alex Jones

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-stealing-alex-jones

Then, however, reporters moved on to the next story, with no time to Google from whence Trump derived this crackpot notion about water taken from farmers and “shoved out to the sea.” The answer, apparently: InfoWars, the website of lunatic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Who believes, for instance, that the school shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, was staged by the government, using actors, in order to force gun control down the American people’s throats.

The theory that California’s water shortage is all the fault of the Environmental Protection Agency is, like most conspiracy theories, grounded in an actual fact. The EPA has, in fact, caused 800,000 acre-feet of water annually to be flushed into San Francisco Bay to maintain its marine ecosystem. The program, however, dates to the early 1990s, and California’s water system, all told, manages over 40 million acre-feet a year. The practice that Trump describes so darkly involves 2 percent of that—and an economically vital 2 percent at that. California fisheries produce jobs in the hundreds of thousands. But not in Fresno.

The notion that rules governing 800,000 acre-feet of water are the cause of the much larger problem, and that business about the “three-inch fish,” dates—word for word—to an April, 2015, InfoWars article entitled “Environmentalists Caused California Drought to Protect This Fish.”

Since last year, Rachel Maddow has been on the case of Donald Trump’s deep ties to Alex Jones. On the morning of December 2, she wrote in a syndicated column, Jones hosted Trump for an extended live interview. “After about 30 minutes of mutual compliments, and Jones telling Trump that ‘about 90 percent’ of his listeners support him, the presidential candidate wrapped things up by telling Jones: ‘Your reputation is amazing.’”
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Busted: Trump Is Taking Ideas Directly From America's Most Famous Right-Wing Crackpot, Alex Jones (Original Post) gollygee Jun 2016 OP
He speaks his mindlessness Bucky Jun 2016 #1
Trump is a crackpot himself. Whether a real one or an opportunist is the question, and it is frankly Mass Jun 2016 #2

Mass

(27,315 posts)
2. Trump is a crackpot himself. Whether a real one or an opportunist is the question, and it is frankly
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 09:44 AM
Jun 2016

not important.

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