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Title: Alex Jones' InfoWars Offered White House Credentials
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Zero Hedge
URL Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017- ... ffered-white-house-credentials
Published: Jan 26, 2017
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2017-01-27 12:49:59 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 11474
Comments: 34
Things sure are changing in the White House press corps. According to a video posted on Wednesday, radio show host Alex Jones’s website Infowars, which has been accused of being "conspiracy theory and alt-right" by much of the established media, has been offered White House press credentials. In the clip Jones explains: Here’s the deal, I know I get White House credentials, we’ve already been offered them, we’re going to get them, but I’ve just got to spend the money to send somebody there. I want to make sure it’s even worth it. I don’t want to just sit there up there like ‘m in the media, look our people are there.’ People don’t understand this paradigm, we’re devolving in a good way, power from the federal government back to the people, back from the centralized MSM to the people, just like Trump said in his speech. On Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that four "Skype seats" would be made available to some journalists who are outside of a 50-mile radius of Washington, D.C.. It is not known when the Skype seats will be deployed during daily press briefings. He contined: “[Trump]) keeps saying CNN is fake, and I'm not going to any of your fake news. What’s CNN doing in the front row, when [White House press secretary Sean] Spicer keeps going to them? And then the reporter yesterday goes, “Oh, maybe Trump wasn’t even elected. That’s why you say there’s fraud.” So they’re like little kids up there. These aren’t real journalists. Meanwhile, it’s just crazy, you should see Breitbart and Drudge, and also just reporters that are known to tell the truth from mainstream, whatever, promoted and put up at the front of those briefings, to bring up real questions, not just a battle where they’re just attacking with fricking lies" Jones, a supporter of President Trump, is the owner and operator of popular web sites Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com. He is also the author of "9-11 Descent Into Tyranny" and "The Answer to 1984 is 1776." The White House has not confirmed Jones' statement. Meanwhile, members of the press on the opposite ideological spectrum were quick to mock the announcement, starting with Salon which said "Truthers in the briefing room: Alex Jones claims Infowars has been offered White House credentials. Donald Trump has long been cozy with the notorious conspiracy theorist, and now it seems to be paying off" Trump and Jones have a relationship going back a long time. Despite being notorious for claiming that major American tragedies were actually part of sinister government-orchestrated conspiracies — including the Oklahoma City bombings, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings and the Boston Marathon bombing — Trump has appeared on Jones’ show, even saying, “Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.” Trump has also adopted many of Jones’ own beliefs when they’re politically convenient for him, such as his current claim that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for undocumented immigrants. One thing is certain: should InfoWars have a presence during the daily boring White House pressers, it will certainly boost their Nielsen ratings overnight, something which to the ad-savvy president is surely first and foremost on his mind.
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#3. To: Deckard, Alternative Facts Trumpanzees (#0)
Published on Jan 26, 2017 Alex Jones fires back at the mainstream media's claim that he is somehow lying or inflating facts about Infowars being part of The White House Press Corps. He's backed off of the "offered credentials" alternative fact, in this later video.
“BACKED OFF?” That “code” for….ALEX LIED. Right?
Why are you calling Alex Jones a liar on this? He isn't lying.
Jerome Corsi MAY obtain White House credentials after he NOW APPLIES for them to represent Alex Jones….it is possible, we shall see.
#20. To: A K A Stone (#19)
From a January 26 YouTube video : ALEX JONES (HOST): When in a Facebook Mentions, talking about the fact I don’t even know if I want a Washington bureau, now that Trump says he’s going to try and let in independent media, I don’t even know if I want to send people up there, I’m not even sure I have the money. Then I’m saying, do I just want to sit around with the press corps asking their stupid questions, and then I pointed out that not once but twice, while I was in D.C., people that – let’s just say worked for President Trump, or had been involved in his election – said, “Hey we love Paul Watson, he’s a rock star, he ought to be up here in the national press corps. Are you going to be moving to D.C.? Are you going to open a bureau? Alex, you ought to be part of this.” So I took that as, yeah, we can get press credentials, in fact I said in the piece Breitbart ought to be there, Drudge ought to have a correspondent, it was more of just a -- wargaming in my mind, and pointing out that wherever I go, members of the press who aren’t globalists, like Ann Coulter run over – that was in Cleveland at a separate event – and say, “Hey, Paul Watson’s a rock star, we love him. Boy he’s great.” So what I was talking about was that, but they took the fact that I don’t read off a teleprompter and the fact that I just as a gestalt talk about larger issues that “Oh, he said he was getting press credentials, but he hasn’t been given them.” What I said was, “We can get them if we want them, guaranteed.” [NO, what you said, Alex, was that you were OFFERED them….and that was a LIE]! So, there you have it. Alex Jones, “walked back” [Code for: He Lied] his statement that: ”We’ve already been offered [White House credentials].”
Ronald Reagan, Roger Stone Roger Stone is a frequent guest on Alex Jones. Roger Stone and Alex Jones crash the set of the Young Turks If Alex wants WH press credentials, he'll have them.
You answered your own question. He was offered them. Now they apply. Like hey do you want this job. Yes I want it. So go apply. O
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#5. To: hondo68, Deckard (#3)
He’s “backed off” of the "offered credentials" alternative fact, in this later video.
#17. To: Gatlin (#5)
That “code” for….ALEX LIED.
#19. To: A K A Stone (#17)
Why are you calling Alex Jones a liar on this? He isn't lying.
Alex Jones: Here’s the deal, I know I get White House credentials, we’ve already been offered them, we’re going to get them …
A day after Jones published that “we’ve already been offered White House credentials” in an online video, Sarah Sanders, White House Deputy Press Secretary said: He [Alex Jones] is not credentialed for the White House. The White House Press Office has not offered him [Alex Jones] credentials.
If Alex Jones was not lying and Alex has already BEEN OFFERED White House credentials….then why did Jerome Corsi report two hours ago on Twitter that he [Jerome Corsi] “will NOW APPLY for White House Correspondence credentials” to represent Alex Jones in Washington?
Replies to Comment # 19. Today I get off the air at like three o’clock and they come with a big stack of news, out of -- New York Daily News, The Hill, and I go online and there’s hundreds of ‘em saying Alex Jones lied, Alex Jones wasn’t given White House press credentials, Alex Jones claimed he was, Alex Jones has been caught – like I’m not up there with the beauty queen and beauty king in high school. Man, I got out of high school a long time ago and look he’s lying, he didn’t really get credentials.
#21. To: Gatlin, lyin tater (#19)
#22. To: Gatlin (#19)
If Alex Jones was not lying and Alex has already BEEN OFFERED White House credentials….then why did Jerome Corsi report two hours ago on Twitter that he [Jerome Corsi] “will NOW APPLY for White House Correspondence credentials”
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