Dear Republicans: Don’t Get Your News From “Infowars” (Please!) | Vol. 3 / No. 49.3

Tim Murphy has an article up today in Mother Jones about the strangest of Trump campaign bedfellows, the conspiracy-theory-peddler Alex Jones and his fearmongering site Infowars. I don’t like linking to it. It doesn’t deserve the traffic. But it’s easy enough to find if you want to go down that rabbit hole. I did. I wish I hadn’t.

Infowars is a cesspool of racism, sexism, and instigation of fear. It’s so full of reasons straight white men should be afraid of things, it’s like watching this year’s Republican National Convention look in a mirror and call itself sexy. Here’s a sampling of today’s “headlines,” just for reference:

  • Russia tells citizens ‘nuclear war with the west could happen soon’
  • Fears new ‘birth of a nation’ film could incite racial attacks against whites
  • Exclusive: the truth about Bill Clinton’s abandoned black son banished by Hillary
  • Pieczenik: Clintons behind deaths of 10,000 Haitians

Weekly World News, eat your heart out.