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Claims Tsarnaev brothers inspired by talk show host, who is \u201cgetting paid to be racist\u201d<\/p>\n
MSNBC engaged in one of the most egregious and defamatory hit pieces in its entire history earlier today when Lean Forward host Alex Wagner and guests all but blamed Alex Jones for the Boston bombings, claiming with no evidence that the Tsarnaev brothers were inspired to carry out the attack by the \u201cdeeply racist\u201d Jones and his website.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlex Jones may sound crazy, but he has 300 million people that have watched him on YouTube,\u201d said Wagner, characterizing Jones as \u201cdeeply racist,\u201d despite the fact that Jones has preached a message of peaceful, non-violent inclusiveness for the best part of two decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese folks are getting paid to be racist,\u201d remarked former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, as MSNBC showed a screenshot of Infowars.com. Steele went on to claim that only a \u201csmall percentage\u201d of people read Infowars despite the fact that it gets more web traffic than MSNBC.com.<\/p>\n
Neither Steele or Wagner presented a single example of Alex Jones being \u201cracist,\u201d a shred of evidence that he was \u201cgetting paid to be racist,\u201d nor was any proof offered that the Tsarnaev brothers were fans of Infowars.com.<\/p>\n
On the contrary, Alex Jones and Infowars are renowned for communicating a message of racial harmony, stemming back from the 90\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s whenAlex Jones protested against and bullhorned the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wagner also tried to legitimize convoluted logic that terrorist atrocities are caused by distrust in the establishment, and therefore people like Alex Jones who build an audience based off that premise are somehow to blame for terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n In reality, distrust in mainstream media and government is shared by a huge majority of patriotic, peaceful Americans. Recent polls show that a whopping\u00a077% of US citizens distrust television news<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a073% distrust the federal government<\/a>.<\/p>\n Perhaps MSNBC should take a look at their own biased, defamatory, inaccurate and offensive content if they are interested in figuring out why the network\u2019s viewing figures recently\u00a0plunged to a 6 year low<\/a>.<\/p>\n The clip above represents the very definition of criminal defamation with malice of forethought and intent to do harm.<\/strong>\u00a0Alex Jones is ordering MNSBC publicly to cease and desist and will also make this clear via registered mail. Jones is also demanding that he be allowed to appear on the show in question and defend himself.<\/p>\n Statement from Alex Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNo one should feel safe in this climate. The establishment media\u00a0can put out whatever lie they want and the Republican Party, represented on Wagner\u2019s show by Michael Steele, will just agree with it because it shows the establishment itself is threatened by the awakening that is happening. They\u2019ve identified Infowars.com and the journalistic system we\u2019re building as a major threat. That\u2019s what the MSNBC segment is, a premeditated attack. So anyone who supports freedom of the press needs to get behind Infowars.com and all the other alternative media that is under attack, like investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and whistleblower Edward Snowden, and so many others. This is exactly how countries fall to authoritarianism, because if they can intimidate us, shut us down and defame us, they can defame anybody. If you care about freedom, remember this quote from German pastor Martin Niem\u00c3\u00b6ller, who resisted the Nazis:<\/em><\/p>\n First they came for the communists, Then they came for the socialists, Then they came for the trade unionists, Then they came for the Jews, Then they came for the Catholics, Then they came for me, This meets the precise definition of willful, conscious defamation with malice of forethought with intent to do harm. I have sued people before for defamation successfully. I don\u2019t like to do this, but clearly, if I don\u2019t respond to this they will make up even more outrageous stuff\u2026 will I be a child molester tomorrow? Will they say I\u2019m the bomber? They\u2019re already saying I made people bomb stuff and I\u2019m deeply racist without showing a shred of proof. This is outrageous authoritarianism. So, I am putting them on notice. I want massive retractions right now. This is your tort warning. You are now on notice. Do you guys think you\u2019re invincible because you have the White House behind you? Richard Nixon thought he was invincible, too. The American people are going to stand up against this intimidation against the press.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This is by no means the first time that the establishment media has attempted to use the two accused brothers\u2019 political beliefs as a demonization tool.<\/p>\n Back in June,\u00a0Bloomberg News released a hit piece<\/a>\u00a0which insinuated that Alex Jones and his website were responsible for motivating the bombers and had exploited the attacks in order to make money from gold sales.<\/p>\n Noting that a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and others \u201cobsessed by the violence\u201d turn to Jones for answers, the article quotes the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s Mark Potok, also a guest on the MSNBC segment, who says Jones, \u201cDoes not build bombs, he builds bombers,\u201d a flagrant attempt to smear the radio host as an inspiration for terrorists despite his widely publicized message of peace and non-violence.<\/p>\n The article also overlooked the fact that the Southern Poverty Law Center itself has proven to be a wellspring for domestic terrorists, including would-be mass shooter Floyd Corkins, who told the FBI that he targeted the the Family Research Council\u2019s Washington D.C. headquarters in August 2012\u00a0after reading that the group had been labeled \u201canti-gay\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on the SPLC website.<\/p>\n While MSNBC and Bloomberg have obviously gone to considerable lengths to demonize perfectly legitimate political beliefs by insinuating they inspired Tamerlan Tsarnaev\u2019s attack, they failed completely to address fundamental questions about the Boston Bombing and its aftermath that remain unanswered, such as\u00a0why the FBI violently gunned down witness Ibragim Todashev<\/a>\u00a0during questioning.<\/p>\n Eyewitnesses to the shootout between the alleged Boston bombers and police\u00a0also asserted<\/a>\u00a0that it was the police who ran over Tamerlan Tsarnaev and not his brother, as cops initially claimed.\u00a0According to Tamerlan Tsarnaev\u2019s aunt<\/a>, footage of a naked uninjured man being arrested was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which if true means he was later murdered by authorities.<\/p>\n The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was unarmed before he was caught also\u00a0debunks initial claims by authorities<\/a>\u00a0that he had engaged in a \u201cshootout\u201d with cops while hiding in a boat.<\/p>\n According to authorities, Dzhokhar sustained a throat injury during the incident which left him unable to talk. However,\u00a0photos which later emerged\u00a0<\/a>that were taken during Dzhokhar\u2019s capture show no injuries to his throat.<\/p>\n In pointing the finger at Alex Jones or distrust in government as being the driving force behind domestic terrorism, both MSNBC and Bloomberg have also conveniently sidestepped the fact that virtually every major domestic terror plot in recent years was \u201cfacilitated by the F.B.I.,\u201d\u00a0according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nand I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a communist.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nand I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a socialist.<\/p>\n
\nand I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a trade unionist.<\/p>\n
\nand I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Jew.<\/p>\n
\nand I didn\u2019t speak out because I wasn\u2019t a Catholic.<\/p>\n
\nand there was no one left to speak for me.\u201d<\/p>\n