Here he is telling his audience of millions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a "false flag," and the children who died there were "crisis actors." /2
And this is Jones' mid-2016 rant claiming that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are demons who smell like sulfur. He appears on the verge of an aneurysm: 'We're gonna have President Linda Blair, people, and I'm not gonna go along with it!!!!' /3
Remember that time in 2017 when Jones went on another red-faced rant claiming that Trump was planning to nuke China? It was all the fault of liberal Democrats, of course. They made him do it. /4 splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017…
The morning after the Oct. 2017 Las Vegas massacre (which Jones of course immediately labeled another "false flag"), he warned his audience that "everybody needs to be packing ... Democrats are gonna be killing people, a lot of folks." Because the Vegas slaughter was a signal./5
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When writing my tribute to Bill Morlin this week, I dove back into the period when we first worked together in 1996, notably the tale of the Phineas Priesthood terror gang that targeted him. It’s a great story that speaks to our present. So here's another absurdly long thread. /1
This story begins in fall 1995, when Morlin was contacted by a secretive militia group that offered to let him and a photographer attend a training session in the northern Idaho woods. Morlin and photog Dan McComb were both blindfolded and taken to the training area. /2
When the blindfolds were removed, Morlin and McComb found themselves surrounded by a group of armed men with ski masks, who proceeded to conduct military-style exercises and plunk at silhouette targets in the shape of Hillary Clinton and federal agents. /3
I am heartbroken at this news. Bill was one of my best friends in this business and my model for covering right-wing extremists. We met in 1996 covering the Montana Freemen standoff, and were partners in crime for the SPLC for six years.
No one had better stories to tell than Bill. An evening with him was always an amazing river of anecdotes. And as Leah says, he was a deeply kind and generous man.
Here’s Bill when we visited the Viola Liuzzo memorial near Selma.
Bill was already a legend among PNW journalists by the time I met him. He covered the Weaver standoff before it was a standoff; he was the first reporter to type the words “Ruby Ridge.” (He told me he looked it up on a Forest Service map.) RWers blamed Bill for the standoff.
Seeing Paul Gosar emerging as a central player in the planning for the insurrection--particularly with his offer of pardons for all involved--reminded me of this snippet from the NYT's devastating video report on how it happened.
It is unlikely that it's merely coincidental that Gosar was dragging his feet and meandering through his speech while the people besieging the Capitol were drawing near to the House chambers. He appears to be trying to create a situation in which the mob overtakes his colleagues.
Palace Entertainment, a company which had zero previous experience in the care of marine mammals, purchased the Seaquarium in 2014. It has been clear from the start they were in over their heads when it came to caring for a killer whale in the tiniest tank in North America.
Here's some video footage from 2015. Listen to the spiel. See, the oceans are scary places, so they need to keep her safe in her tank in Miami!
Actually, Glenn, every journalist worth his salt assesses the credibility of his interviewees. The fact that you refuse to do so in this case really is more of a reflection of what a crappy poseur of a journalist you have become. A thread. 1/
First of all, the person to whom you are tethering your credibility, @DarrenJBeattie, is not a journalist in any real sense of the word. He is a far-right provocateur/propagandist who posed for years as a kind of alt-right pseudo-intellectual academic. /2
Beattie's best-known appearance prior to his current career was in a bizarre Ben Garrison cartoon, sitting on his giant brain while Jonah Goldberg wipes his shoes.
Many of us agree that Beattie sits on his brain, but not in the way Garrison depicts. /3
Well, I am home safe now, but the end of my trip to New York this week ended, um, adventurously.
I had never been stuck on a tarmac during a tropical storm, concerned that the winds might tip our jet over, before.
We were scheduled to fly out of JFK to Seattle at about 6 pm, but a crew member reported sick, so we had to wait two hours for her replacement to arrive. By the time we boarded it was 8 pm and the remnants of Hurricane Ida were hitting the city.