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May 4, 2015 at 1:03 pm
The short answer, in this case, is: Alex Jones radio/web/multi-media conspiracy news show happened to Texas. He’s based in Austin. And he’s at the bottom of this particular cesspool, the very reason it’s happened. You have to pay attention to the details. The fringe is mainstream in much of America and it got there with a lot of help. It’s been monetized and Alex Jones’ paranoia show is a money-maker. He has a big audience, almost all on the far right.
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May 4, 2015 at 3:16 pm
But what if Alex Jones were in Rhode Island?
I suspect Texas would still be crazy. I think that Alex Jones is effect, not cause.
May 4, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Nah, he pushed this one until the zit popped. One of the newspapers actually got it and mentioned him as a focus. In Rhode Island it wouldn’t have happened because, well, you know why. It’s not politically part of “the secesh” although I’d assume he has an audience there, too. Just not one big enough to put a group together that would get the governor’s attention.
A better story would have been to ask the military man who was tasked with answering questions locally: “What do you think about what’s happened in your country while you’ve been running around the middle east with Special Operations Command black-bagging people? Do you feel something has gone wrong?”
May 5, 2015 at 10:51 pm
Two words.
Dan Bidondi.
He’s from Rhode Island.
All snark aside, when you strip away the BS, it’s all about race. Texas may be nuttier, that is, less “genteel,” than South Carolina, but not by much.
This is the United States of America; everything always comes back to race.