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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: 11466
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.
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
Alex Jones: It was made emphatically clear by Sarah Sanders, the White House Deputy Press Secretary that Alex Jones was not offered credentials. However, you of course can feel free to spin it anyway you want to …
Kanaries need to die!
Dead? Pssst - The only thing dead….is you are DEAD WRONG. This canary is alive, well and beautifully singing out TRUTH …
#34. To: Gatlin (#31)
Cute, Attracted the attention of a couple of our cats. LOL I am curious though, what is that band, or whatever, on the canary's right leg ?
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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?
#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”
#23. To: A K A Stone (#22)
(Edited)
Here’s the deal, I know I get White House credentials, we’ve already been offered them.
Sarah Sanders, White House Deputy Press Secretary: The White House Press Office has not offered him [Alex Jones] credentials.
Then Alex Jones walked back his original statement: 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.
A K A Stone: He was offered them [White House Press Credentials]. Now they apply.
Gatlin:
Like hey do you want this job. Yes I want it. So go apply. When Alex Jones said he took “something as a, yeah, we can get press credentials”….that was simply some wishful thinking on his part that he let become an aspiring expectation. It was not a committed offer “to get White House credentials.”
Definitions:
An aspiring expectation assumptively made by one person should not be construed to be a committed offer made by another person.
EXPECTATION: A belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.
OFFER: Present to accept or reject as so desired.
#24. To: Gatlin (#23)
#30. To: buckeroo (#24)
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Kanaries need to die!
#31. To: Deckard (#30)
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