Alex Jones (born Alexander Emerich Jones, February 11, 1974) is a right-wing, conservative American talk radio host and filmmaker. Jones, however, views himself as a libertarian, not a right-winger, and calls himself a paleoconservative. In a promotional biography he is described as an "aggressive constitutionalist." His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show, based out of Austin, Texas, airs via the Genesis Communication Network over 60 A...
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Alex Jones (born Alexander Emerich Jones, February 11, 1974) is a right-wing, conservative American talk radio host and filmmaker. Jones, however, views himself as a libertarian, not a right-winger, and calls himself a paleoconservative. In a promotional biography he is described as an "aggressive constitutionalist." His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show, based out of Austin, Texas, airs via the Genesis Communication Network over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet. His websites include Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com.
Mainstream news sources have referred to him as a conspiracy theorist. Journalist Michelle Goldberg has stated in The New Republic that Jones represents "an old strain of American conservatism--isolationist, anti-Wall Street, paranoid about elite conspiracies--that last flowered during the John Birch Society’s heyday."
Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the suburb of...
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