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Glenn Beck/Alex Jones - Turf War In Austin?

I see Alex Jones name come up now and then, but he is pretty much a stranger to me. So I went to the link to see the video of him. I get the idea he isn't fond of Glenn Beck? Did I get the drift of things correctly?

I did three years of talk radio in the late 1960s. What has just a few years earlier looked like a good, wholesome development for Post TV radio was beginning to show signs of being a "defective product" while I was involved so I did not pursue trying to build a broadcast career around it. (Shoot... I could have been The Man... but no, I walked away and Rush developed the genre!)

In that three year period I spotted some trends that I thought were troublesome at the time. Those trends have grown up to become Alex Jones and Glenn Beck and others who scare me today. I think it was somewhere around 1990 that some radio cuck was proving how bad things were because the government was building secret gas ovens at the Railroad Repair Facility in Beech Grove, IN.... and amassing large fleets of dreaded stealth black helicopters at Fort Chaffee, AR.

That was real easy to accept as scary and proof of evil in high places.... unless you lived near the Railroad Repair Facility in Beech Grove and had regularly driven past for for 25 years and could see for yourself the place was becoming a ghost town and there was no sign on contruction, or construction supply trucks.

That was real easy to accept as scary and proof of evil in high places.... unless your ancestral home was so close to Fort Chaffee AR that the practice rounds of Howitzer training rattled the windows regularly in the house. And I had been to Summer Army Reserve training at Fort Chaffee and drove past the place on my twice or three times a year trips back home. Chaffee was not a place where you could hide several hundred or several thousand menacing Stealth Black helicopters form the public and from the civil aviation pilots flying in and out of the Ft. Smith AR civilian airport.

After watching the Alex Jones video, I conclude he need to find a new laundry service. His current vendor is using too much starch in his underwear.
 
An Alex Jones fan asked me to check out his report that the United Nations was amassing a fleet of white military vehicles on the grounds of a federal prison in Bastrop County for an impending takeover of the United States. I went out there and found the General Services Administrations buys vehicles at fleet prices, stores them there and then distributes them to various federal agencies as needed. Why are they all white? They're cheaper in white. BTW-- This was 1993. Still no UN invasion. Still no One World Order.
 
Alex is good at adding up one and one and coming up with six. Either that, or he just lies. Me, I'm betting on the latter.

Over the years, the lies have gotten more and more absurd. Well, I think it was Goebbels who said “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Alex has learned this lesson well, but his lies are so outlandish that they haven't spread beyond his little cult.
 
So Jones is only airing on Sundays on KLBJ while Beck is on every weeknight. Is that really a turf war? Shouldn't we consider Alex Jones' primary Austin affiliate to be the unlicensed commercial station in the non-commercial band pirate on 90.1 that the FCC chooses not to bust?
 
jd said:
Shouldn't we consider Alex Jones' primary Austin affiliate to be the unlicensed commercial station in the non-commercial band pirate on 90.1 that the FCC chooses not to bust?

Yes.
 
Conservative talk radio has become a haven for the paranoid mentally ill and their like followers. They may as well be broadcasting from an asylum.
 
Ah, but what a lucrative psyche-graphic. If those listeners will buy that, they'll buy anything.
 
Manny Michaels said:
Conservative talk radio has become a haven for the paranoid mentally ill and their like followers. They may as well be broadcasting from an asylum.

You think of that all by yourself?
 
Alex has made a lot of money selling fear and paranoia. I think if somebody gave me a signal, I might start a crazy right winger talk format with Alex as the star. Add in Glenn Beck, Coast to Coast AM, whatever this show is that KLBJ-AM is running in the evenings now. Maybe Micheal Savage...

I'd design the studio to look like a bunker with sandbags and razor wire. Probably call it Freedom Talk or something like that. I would hate myself all the way to the bank.
 
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