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  1. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    I AM BASICALLY ALEX JONES'S Simon Cowell. I star-spotted him in the late-1990s. He'd been a locally renowned radio talk show host in Austin, Texas, back then, but I gave him the idea that catapulted him to fame. My idea was for the two of us to sneak into a secretive summer camp in the forests of Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where powerful men like George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger were rumored to undertake an annual ritual in which a human effigy was thrown into the fiery belly of a giant stone owl.
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  2. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    Racists and conspiracy theorists are taking succor from Trump's nomination. His fans are frequently caught on camera at his rallies yelling at protesters, "Go back to Africa" and "Allah is a whore" and "Go to fucking Auschwitz" and "Go make my fucking tortilla, motherfucker." They hang effigies of Hillary Clinton from nooses. At a high school basketball game in Indiana in March, white students chanted "Trump! Trump! Trump!" at Latino students. Everyone knew what that meant: It was a new way to be racist.
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  3. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    Alex said this about Sandy Hook in January 2015: "Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn't believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids. And it just shows how bold they are - that they clearly used actors.
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  4. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    In these exciting times for people who thrive on chaos, Trump had emerged from the polluted waters of Twitter like a mutant fish, and the world could not believe its eyes.
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  5. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    SPEAKING OF BURNING HUMANS - actual ones, as opposed to ones who existed only in Alex's imagination - in the late 1970s, a left-wing Filipino journalist named Satur Ocampo was arrested in Manila by President Ferdinand Marcos' soldiers. He was manacled, blindfolded and electrocuted, while soldiers poured cola on him {which apparently makes the electrocution more painful}. His nipples and genitalia were burned. He survived, but thousands of Marcos' other enemies were "salvaged," Marcos' term for torturing and mutilating them before dumping them on a roadside for public display. Ferdinand Marcos was a client of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone's lobbying firm. He paid it an annual retainer of $950,000 to "tamp down concerns about {his} human rights record," according to Politico magazine's Kenneth P. Vogel. Anti-elitism was Alex's thing, but all that seemed pretty elitist to me. Did Alex care about that?
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  6. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    I had to remind myself that it's good for journalists to feel demeaned. It means we're onto a story.
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  7. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    They'll be brought great distances," Trump had said. "We're not dropping them right across. They learned that. President Eisenhower. They'd drop them right across, and they'd come back. Then when they flew them to a long distance, all of a sudden that was the end." Here, Trump was praising Operation Wetback - a 1954 endeavor in which Mexicans were rounded up and dumped in the wilderness, where they were stranded without food or possessions and 88 of them died in the heat.}
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  8. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    Alex is basically the most irresponsible man I have ever met. He uses his powers to inflame paranoia. He boldly makes stuff up to suit his weird agenda. Alex eschews facts and reason and he definitely should not have political sway.
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  9. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    And then there were terrible things, like Alex's assertion that the Sandy Hook massacre of 20 children was "completely fake … they clearly used actors." Inspired by claims like this, Sandy Hook "truthers" had begun bombarding the parents of the murdered children with messages like: "You're a fraud and an asshole. Rot in hell you fucking prick." {That one had been sent to Lenny Pozner, whose 6-year-old son, Noah, died in the shooting.}
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  10. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    I AM BASICALLY ALEX JONES'S Simon Cowell. I star-spotted him in the late-1990s. He'd been a locally renowned radio talk show host in Austin, Texas, back then, but I gave him the idea that catapulted him to fame. My idea was for the two of us to sneak into a secretive summer camp in the forests of Northern California called Bohemian Grove, where powerful men like George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger were rumored to undertake an annual ritual in which a human effigy was thrown into the fiery belly of a giant stone owl."
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  11. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack - fanning the flames of the divisive chaos from which Trump, the Twitter candidate, had risen.
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  12. Jon Ronson _ The Elephant in the Room

    White supremacists were thrilled by Bannon's appointment. One of them declared on a radio show hosted by David Duke, the former KKK leader, "Something astonishing has happened. We appear to have taken over the Republican Party." How"
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