{"id":34814,"date":"2017-06-03T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34814"},"modified":"2017-06-03T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T22:45:39","slug":"trumps-infowars-pals-are-paying-their-crazed-fans-to-wear-cnn-is-isis-t-shirts-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34814","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Infowars Pals Are Paying Their Crazed Fans to Wear ‘CNN is ISIS’ T-Shirts on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the one thing that Donald Trump will be best remembered for after his inevitable fall from grace is his relentless and dishonest war on the media. The President’s disrespect for the First Amendment is unprecedented. He has called the media “the enemy of the American people,”<\/em> while smearing reporters as “sleazy”<\/em> and “liars.”<\/em> His press office, led by Sean Spicer (Fibby Spice), is a chaotic mess. That may be why they have floated the notion of eliminating the traditional daily press briefings altogether.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s idea of a credible press corps consists of anointing members like Breitbart News and Alex Jones’ Infowars. These rabidly rightist conspiracy mongers are the perfect emblems of the crapola that Trump regards as journalism. And stepping up to prove the point, Infowars just launched a campaign to recruit paid goons to malign a real news organization. On his website, Jones introduced an initiative<\/a><\/strong> to recruit his fans to get on TV wearing “CNN is ISIS”<\/em> T-shirts:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are launching a new contest to stand up to the Left\u2019s calls for violence against the president and against other Americans for simply exercising their right to promote Americana. Infowars is launching a new $200,000 contest to expose CNN\u2019s Kathy Griffin and mainstream media\u2019s call for violence. We will expose the media\u2019s terrorist campaign.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To collect the prize, Jones’ for-hire hoodlums have to appear in a live broadcast wearing the shirt and audibly plugging Infowars. Each successful clod will earn $1,000 with a total of $200,000 in the pot. The purpose, according to Jones, is to expose CNN as a terrorist organization by virtue of their association with Kathy Griffin. Never mind that Griffin’s over-the-top stunt had nothing to do with CNN, or that she has profusely apologized. And forget that CNN quickly dismissed her from their New Year’s Eve special. The suggestion that Griffin had actually intended anyone to behead Trump is patently absurd.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Jones is determined to proceed with his own offensive publicity stunt because, well, because that’s his whole shtick. In fact, he recently sweetened the offer to $10,000. The new prize calls for “the first person to say ‘MSM is fake news or terrorist media’ on live television.”<\/em> And, of course, the all-important Infowars plug is still required.<\/p>\n

This is what Donald Trump believes is journalism. He has personally appeared on Jones’ webcast and praised him adoringly saying “Your reputation is amazing.”<\/em> And Jones has been rewarded for his sycophancy with a White House press pass (at least according to Jones<\/a><\/strong>). Just today Trump sent an email to his supporters bragging about pulling out of the Paris Accords on Climate Change. That email featured a link<\/a><\/strong> to an article on Infowars.<\/p>\n

Let that sink in. The President of the United States sent his followers an official communication that cited Infowars as a credible source for more information. This is the same Infowars that says 9\/11 was an inside, government operation. It’s the same Infowars that believes the murders at Sandy Hook were fake and staged by actors. Jones has also called the Boston Marathon bombing a hoax. It’s the very same Infowars run by a conspiracy spewing fruitcake who admitted<\/a><\/strong> in divorce court proceedings that he is just a “performance artist.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It may not be surprising that Trump has an affinity for Jones. They both share a pathological compulsion for lying. Trump, after all, thinks that millions of people showed up for his poorly attended inauguration. He believes he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9\/11. He brags about his long-standing personal relationship with Vladimir Putin, whom he claims he’s never met. And while he stubbornly clings to the absurdity that Climate Change is a hoax, he never acknowledged that his obsession with President Obama’s birth certificate was one of the most ludicrous hoaxes of all time.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We’ll see if anyone manages to collect a prize from Jones’ contest. Last year he attempted a similar stunt where he tried to get fans to appear on TV shouting “Bill Clinton is a rapist.”<\/em> There may have a been a couple of winners, but the project failed to achieve anything. The same fate is likely to befall this nonsense. In fact, it may provide some pretty good advertising for CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the one thing that Donald Trump will be best remembered for after his inevitable fall from grace is his relentless and dishonest war on the media. The President’s disrespect for the First Amendment is unprecedented. He has called the media “the enemy of the American people,” while smearing reporters as “sleazy” and “liars.” His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,16],"tags":[875,554,1185,95,1208],"class_list":["post-34814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-alex-jones","tag-donald-trump","tag-infowars","tag-media","tag-sean-spicer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/infowars-jones-e1500765636459.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-93w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34639,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34639","url_meta":{"origin":34814,"position":0},"title":"Trump is Frantically Looking to Hire Fox News People to Staff His Flailing Press Office","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/13\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The controversy over Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey continues to unfold. 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