I've said "I agree" to so many of these responses it's almost weird to get one I disagree with!

I have to disagree 100% with the idea that Alex Jones and Infowars haven't redpilled the shit out of people over almost two decades. While I agree that there are those who can't think for themselves and go with the herd, there are three levels here: MSM, InfoWars/Drudge level redpill, redpill that people themselves put together over putting together information over the years. There are definitely people who just religiously follow InfoWars and it is their "truth," as they buy their Super Male Vitality and Prosta-guard and whatnot, but to be interested in sites like InfoWars, I believe you have to be distrusting of your current media sources. There's no reason to believe this distrust wouldn't continue to Alex Jones for a good bit of these people. Especially with the many other alternative media sources available these days, many of those distrusting of MSM have sought out as many media sources as possible, having far more than just one citizen news site to visit.

To me, if we look at this from a media attention sort of way, Alex is desperate to hang onto what was a near monopoly on "alternative news" and seeing the likes of Paul Joseph Watson, Mark Dice, and more makes him more worried. He hired Paul Joseph Watson quite a while ago, and recently commented on making him move to his Texas studio so he would start having his own slots on Info Wars. He also told Mark Dice in an interview recently it would be great for Dice to come to Texas so he could have his own time slot on InfoWars. This is more about him retaining the InfoWars brand as THE PLACE TO BE when it came to truth in news, in my opinion, than disinformation. This is the battle he's losing, the battle for relevancy, when PJW, Dice, Cernovich, McInnes, and more, are FAR more interesting and relevant than InfoWars 24/7.

Also, I don't believe Jones is Bill Hicks. I still don't get why people believe this. Why would you want to be one of the time's most visible comedians, disappear off the earth, and then start pushing "conspiracy theories?" Him being CIA disinfo is far more believable than that. And with Alex Jones in the public view for 20 years, you think someone would've confirmed that beyond a doubt by now...

Absolutely agreed, 100%. Alex Jones was never the main source for pizzagate, and he won't be. He's just thrust himself in the middle of the situation after being silent for months for reasons we've all speculated on. I mean, I'm pretty sure he's not even up on the shipping company connections, based on his two recent "reports," why rely on someone who isn't onto months old information?

My big thing is to not throw the baby out with the bathwater he's pissed in, because there's still value there. Him talking about the rest of the pedogate links is reason enough for that.

Except he's making a LOT more money now, to be sure. Plus he dropped ten years or so (though he forgot to tell his face).

I agree that the anger from this statement coming right before the march, which was definitely intentional. The question was, whose will was it that forced the statement the day before the march? Alex Jones will or the demands of a lawsuit/settlement potentially leveraged against him?

I agree with you on it being completely fucky that one of the 50 most powerful men in DC is "a pizza place owner." I don't believe that's all he is either, otherwise he wouldn't have enough money or influence to scare Alex Jones into bending the knee until the rally was over. It was an intentional push for Alefantis to clear his name in combination with the 60 Minutes episode.

Him saying pedogate is real and pointing out everyone else who is connected to this scandal is a big indicator, to me, that it was Alefantis's people specifically that threatened him. Personally, I think pizza places are connected and used for money laundering, but the biggest leads are likely to be shipping companies. Most the big child trafficking arrests have happened in port cities and George Soros inherited a shipping company from Paul Soros.

That's your opinion, and I respect it. I believe InfoWars has been redpilling people for years on years, and losing Alex Jones would be a net loss. If he chickens out, my gut says pizzagate is onto something bigger and more provable than most things he's ever talked about, so much bigger that people would do whatever they could to stop him from parroting the true message.

We are very lucky we have many other journalists rising in this age of free information, people who do the real footwork to prove their points instead of rebroadcasting from a studio with guest speakers and researchers doing the work for him. But Alex still plays a part in information broadcasting. I'm not willing to write him off yet, but I'm taking his info with slightly more salt than I used to.