Jim-Bob Jones

Well Jim-Bob, 

Back to your original point, do I think Jones is supposed to be taken as serious journalism? Regardless of how he would answer that question, i have to say "No." But when someone sits in front of the camera and swears that the United States Marines have taken some town in North Carolina and is holding it under Martial Law... that is, that the men and women of our Armed Forces have turned against their own, when he starts screaming that FEMA is running concentration camps to divide the American populace, when Jeff Davis starts telling everyone to take to the streets with firearms because his son got busted by the police... those are points when I raise my voice to question the "wisdom" and sincerity of these people. In particular, i question Jones' sincerity since he's unemployed (to the best of my knowledge) and since he obviously wants... needs people to unquestionably believe his crackpot, unproven theories (if you don't believe me, try to find an episode of his where he doesn't coach people to visit infowars.com and buy his "documentaries"). I question their accountability, their methodology and their accuracy. The question you should be asking yourself, Mr. Jones, is; Why aren't you questioning them?

But if you consider advocacy that the Military and the government of this country banning constitutional rights (without evidence, of course), and you hear someone advocating violent revolution (at least a thinly velied version of one), and you hear someone (Jones) parade his false ideology and paranoia about as politically valid, and you still consider that to be "... local entertainment, right up there with the farm report. " then you are one greviously flawed individual. I mean, the guy goes to San Francisco with his monkey just so he can watch a bunch of men at night perform some morality play and he brings it back and calls it journalism. But i do admit, that was entertaining, watching him schmooze with all those manly men. It was much more entertaining than any farm report that i've seen.

Let it also be noted that I do not always disagree with Jones or his ilk. I will almost always disagree with their methodology, however.

Oh, I was wondering about something; when was the last time you saw one of Jones' episodes? Either the ones on the air, or the other ones?

The fact that you can sit there and see the Mc Carthyist tactics of this guy, that he's attempting to turn people against their police, against their military, against their government... and for what? FOR WHAT? So he can sell more of his "documentaries"? If there were any sincerity to Jones, he'd be more like Michael Moore or Ralph Nader, who viciously and tirelessly try to make corporations accountable for the crimes they commit against America and the world (believe it or not, there's more to the world than the United States and Mexico). So make no mistake about it. This guy is dangerous in the way screaming "FIRE" in a moviehouse is dangerous. He is a lightening rod to those who aren't able to think for themselves, he attracts those disenfranchised, angry white males who think they're victims (blame the Meskins, blame the fags, blame the Catholics, blame the Jews, blame the liberals, but who won't get off their lazy asses to change their situation). And before the year 2000, he claimed the black helicopters would descend upon us all to whisk us away to the FEMA Concentration Camps (or whomever was running the concentration camps back then). In case you didn't notice, it didn't happen. But people like this have a way of making self fulfilling prophecies. People like Jones are most dangerous when no one pays attention to them and hopefully I'm wrong, but it doesn't take me much to visualize someone killing others to get attention or to fulfill their prophecies.

When will these anti intellictual white trash understand that paranoia does not equivocate patriotism?

3) "better educated than the masses." Shucks. Guilty again. See, among other things, I've mastered the concept of the PARAGRAPH. I guess I have this drive to continually grow in my knowledge and in my experience of the world.I'm also pretty sure that my goal in life isn't to just be another high school educated piece of white trash who sits around with all his male buddies to watch cars drive in circles (NASCAR), or a bunch of men hold and grab each other while they play "smear the queer" (American football). I guess I'm just not content to be ignorant, nor ignorant enough to be content.

Oh, the last i heard, the average reading ability of the American was that of a 10th grader. I'm thinking most 10th graders have mastered the concept of the paragraph and know how to identify a run-on.

4) "...elitism found in most university towns that most of America finds obnoxious." Personally, i am impressed that you somehow magically know what most of America thinks, Mr. Jones. This magical, mystikal wonderful gift might be put to the tremendous use for which it was intended. Namely, if you could tell us all where Slobadan Milosovich (sp?) is, and how to best bring him to justice, it would be appreciated. If you could also take the time to tell us how to best go about releasing Prisioners of Conscious in places like China, Iran, Peru or at the very least, let us know how to go about ending the sham known as the "War on Drugs" and freeing those who are being held without parole for the simple act of smoking a plant? Maybe if you could bring those in our government to justice for supporting the Shah and his repressive regieme in Iran, or maybe those who were responsible for the Death Squads in Central America who killed peasants, nuns and priests alike. I know this is a lot to ask, but since you took a good hour or two to write that lovely collection of run-ons, i figure the least you could do would be to spend a sunday afternoon doing something revolutionary for humanity. Or maybe you can just watch more access television and believe that FEMA has concentration camps.

Oh, my opinion on the subject? Let's assume you're right. If so, it's a perceived obnoxiousness based on envy and envy only. If it's your dream to grow up to be some reactionist luddite or plebian, that's fine, but please do not take it upon yourself to criticize those who have ambition to be more educated than your average ball peen hammer.

"By the way, why don't you include some pictures on your web site, it's boring."

Hmmm, well HELLOOOO... Sailor! Why didn't you just admit that you were more interested in pictures instead of those boring old, dull words? By your own logic, you only read books with pictures in them. Blueboy maybe? NASCAR magazines? Maybe a few lovely shots of some guys with mustaches and "daisy dukes" to keep you feeling warm and excited tonight? I do have to admit, it hardly surprises me at all to see that you want more pictures and less words. But it does clarify something for me: you, Mister Jones, are either insincere or an outright liar (or perhaps both). You claim that my web site is boring, but you take the time to write me? No matter. Skippy the Twink is here to help you out.

 

So, which is it? Are you a liar or just insincere?

Okay. MY turn to play profiler.

You're white, though you don't know your ancestory. You're just white and you wouldn't know if you're slavic white, anglican white or Latin white. But that's okay. You're white and right.

Male, divorced at least once, or about to be. Kids: probably.

Education: above high school, but probably not ambitious enough to get your Masters. You might have earned your Bachelors degree, but you might have quit before graduating, saying to yourself that "I'm too smart for school." If you did finish, you probably have a background in some area that advocates social retardation. Of course, I'm talking about electronics or computers here. Even if I'm wrong, you're working with electronics and or computers now.

You watch mainstream news.

You go on about how much you hate Bill Clinton, but you have no problem sleeping at night knowing that Ronald Reagan and George Bush encouraged Death Squads in Central America to kill every man, woman and child that they could put a bullet into.

You enjoy that time of year when men wearing tight pants hold each other in a circle and chase and play with each other. You root for the Cowboys.

You're still in Texas. You don't like to go beyond the borders unless you have to. You live in the suburbs and you probably live or work in or near a city like Dallas, where conformidity is prized. You might live in Plano, but it is doubtful that you can live in Garland.

How did I do, Jim-Bob ?

Oh, I was wondering... when was the last time you did anything for your community? When was the last time you gave blood? When was the last time you gave a donation to help bring aid to Albanians being hunted and persecuted in Serbia? When was the last time you cut a check for a family that you didn't know, because you knew they weren't going to have enough to eat at Christmas? When was the last time you gave solice to a stranger because they were lonely? Because they were confused? Because their family had judged them unfit to be a human because they loved someone of the same sex? When was the last time you did anything, Mr. Jones? I'm not saying that I've been all of those things, by the way. I am saying that i've been most of those things and a few others. I'm saying that you can sit there in your little ivory tower and shout at me all you want, but for all the good it does, you might as well scream at the ocean to turn back the tide. I've seen anti-intellectuals like you try to tear down people like me for as long as I've been alive. Whether you and your ilk are called "Mc Carthyist's" or "Red Guard", "The Moral Majority", "Taliban" or "The Christian Colalition", the reality is that I'm here trying to make a difference in the best ways i know how. And you... you sit in your ivory tower of anti intellectualism and cast stones at me because you don't like the fact that i point out that Jones is incapable of distingushing fantasy from reality and is to be questioned and discredited for each of his lies?

It must be nice to be you.

    -shelly