There Are Some Booking Standards At Infowars
It can often seem like just about anyone can be a guest on Alex's show, but as it turns out, there are some people who are not welcome
When I think back on the cadre of terrible guests Alex Jones has welcomed onto his show in the past, it’s really a remarkable list.
He’s had folks like David Duke, Richard Spencer and Ye on for fake debates.
He’s welcomed Nick Fuentes on the show many times, and even given him a channel on Banned Dot Video.
He’s had Steve Pieczenik on the show for years, presenting him as the world’s greatest expert in all subjects, which allowed him to inject tons of toxic narratives into the Infowars space, notably Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Las Vegas shooting denialism.
He’s had white identity preacher Texe Marrs on many times, and actually said that he attends Marrs’ church, and studied from the books in Marrs’ library. Marrs was even featured as an expert in Alex’s film about Bohemian Grove.
He’s had Mel Gibson’s antisemitic father Hutton on the show, and introduced him as a close personal friend.
The list could go on and on, but there is no shortage of bad booking choices in Alex’s past. There are countless bigots who he’s buddied up with, and even more people who were just frauds, selling the audience misinformation.
As such, it could be easy to imagine that they just don’t care about who comes on as a guest. If you’re willing to come on and have a story to tell, that’s all that matters.
But that is not the case, as we learn from this email sent by one of the high level producers at Infowars, Daria Karpova.
I am not in the business of assessing the credibility of this Rebekah Roth character. She’s someone who Infowars was going to book about 9/11 truth, so I suspect what she has to say isn’t that great.
However, what is interesting with this is the fact that Daria is sending out an email to Nico and Alejandra (who do a lot of the guest outreach), telling them that Roth is not a booking option in the future. This illustrates that there are some standards, but what makes this actually worth noting is her rationale for banning Roth.
The first name that is cited as someone who has raised concerns about Roth is Jim Fetzer, which apparently carries some weight.
As a reminder, Fetzer is the guy who wrote the book Nobody Died At Sandy Hook, who Alex and Infowars were supposed to be well aware was a lunatic by 2016, when this email was sent. A month prior to Daria’s message, Paul Joseph Watson sent this email, referring to Fetzer as “batshit crazy” and showed an awareness that promoting these conspiracies was “align[ing] with people who harass the parents of dead kids.”
By this point in time, Fetzer’s name being attached to a piece of information should be cause to very seriously distrust what you’re being told, but instead of raising alarm bells, his work is seen as credible by Daria, a person in a high-ranking position within the company.
This has troubling implications, and calls into question how many of the “anomalies” that Alex covered about Sandy Hook knowingly came from Fetzer. In the trials, they tried to disassociate from him as much as possible, because his information was clearly defamatory, and Fetzer had just lost $450,000 in a civil case brought by Lenny Pozner, one of the parents of a child murdered at Sandy Hook. They seemed to feel that they could get away with pretending to have been duped by Wolfgang Halbig, but that it would strain credulity to say that you saw Fetzer’s work and decided it was in any way worth reporting on.
But it looks like Fetzer’s word was pretty respected, at least by producer Daria, as late as 2016. He’d already published his Sandy Hook book by this point, so that clearly didn’t diminish him in Infowars’ estimation as a source.
In more recent days, on March 22, 2024, a caller recommended Alex speak to a person based on them having made predictions about false flags on a podcast with Jim Fetzer. Instead of this being a red flag for him, Alex immediately reached out to them and had them on the show that day.