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"Mr. Jones’s Sandy Hook commentary went on for years. Here is a small sampling of what he said:

“My gut is, with the timing and everything that happened, this is staged. And you know I’ve been saying the last few months, get ready for big mass shootings, and then magically, it happens.”

“Folks, we got to get private investigators up to Sandy Hook right now. Because I’m telling you this — this stinks to highest heaven.”

“We’re sorry for everybody’s losses, whatever. We’re investigating this, though.”

“It’s as phony as a $3 bill.”

“You’ve got parents laughing — ‘hahaha’ — and then they walk over to the camera and go ‘boo hoo hoo,’ and not just one but a bunch of parents doing this and then photos of kids that are still alive they said died? I mean, they think we’re so dumb.”

“Why did Hitler blow up the Reichstag — to get control! Why do governments stage these things — to get our guns! Why can’t people get that through their head?”

“I watched the footage, and it looks like a drill.”

After Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie died at Sandy Hook, gave a news conference the night after the shooting, Mr. Jones said:

“You know, after you lose your daughter, they put you on some antidepressants or something, but I thought those take a month to kick in. I mean, it’s like a look of absolute satisfaction, like he’s about to accept an Oscar.”

“It looks like he’s saying, ‘OK, do I read off the card?’ He’s laughing, and then he goes over and starts basically breaking down and crying.”

Alex Jones called the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax on his radio show "Infowars," claiming it was "staged" by the government so they could "go after our guns” and “start a civil war.”

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Jones called the shooting “completely false” and accused grieving parents of being “crisis actors," or people acting as victims of a tragic event to sway public opinion.

Mr Jones has now repeated his comments, including about what he says never happened at the elementary school in Connecticut, in an interview to NBC’s Megyn Kelly.

Ms Kelly told Mr Jones that his response was “a dodge”. He denied it, adding: “I looked at all the angles about Newtown, I made my statement before the other media picked it up.”

Josh wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:05 am A chilling case for free speech; we aren't a country that really honours the First Amendment anymore. Of course, pornographers are free to claim they need to distribute their filth far and wide and local communities are left powerless to stop it, with the courts siding with the pornographers, but a talk-show host who has always had kind of far "out there" ideas isn't allowed to engage in what is clearly political speech.

Ken wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:17 am

Josh wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:05 am A chilling case for free speech; we aren't a country that really honours the First Amendment anymore. Of course, pornographers are free to claim they need to distribute their filth far and wide and local communities are left powerless to stop it, with the courts siding with the pornographers, but a talk-show host who has always had kind of far "out there" ideas isn't allowed to engage in what is clearly political speech.

Willful and malicious slander has never been protected by the First Amendment. Defamation law actually predates the American Revolution. This is nothing new.

Truth is always a defense against charges of libel and slander. In this case it turns out that Alex Jones had no defense. Because he knowingly, repeatedly, and maliciously lied for profit.

Josh wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:36 am

Ken wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:34 am

Josh wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:43 am I would be opposed to Trump securing a multimillion judgment against someone engaging in political speech against him.

However, why do you always need to bring Trump into every discussion?

With conservatives, it seems that every accusation is actually a confession. If you want to claim that defamation lawsuits are on the rise, fine. Then it is reasonable to ask who is doing the most of them. It's not some anonymous and mysterious "global elites". We can actually put a name to who is doing it the most: https://firstamendmentwatch.org/tag/tru ... efamation/

The Ken Challenge: discuss any political topic without brining up Trump.

Josh wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:36 am

Ken wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:34 am

Josh wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:43 am I would be opposed to Trump securing a multimillion judgment against someone engaging in political speech against him.

However, why do you always need to bring Trump into every discussion?

With conservatives, it seems that every accusation is actually a confession. If you want to claim that defamation lawsuits are on the rise, fine. Then it is reasonable to ask who is doing the most of them. It's not some anonymous and mysterious "global elites". We can actually put a name to who is doing it the most: https://firstamendmentwatch.org/tag/tru ... efamation/

The Ken Challenge: discuss any political topic without brining (bringing) up Trump.