Alex Jones, My 2 Cents

I know very little about Alex Jones, and when the trial started, I had to google him.  "Oh, that guy". He is one of those serial liars feeding misinformation on any number of topics, and from a brief scan, profited nicely off of them.

I sat through his response to his verdict.  He admits to being wrong about Sandy Hook, but stops short of admitting he lied about it for nearly a decade.  He apologized to the parents he wronged, but with the caveat that there were aberrations in the initial reporting of the slaughter of their children that convinced him that ..., well I am not going into it.  

He fully reverts to type in his apology.  It wasn't that he was wrong and hurt a myriad of parents.  His apology focuses on him personally being attacked by the left wing media, the judge, his own lawyers, his own IT staff.  It's all their fault that a judgement in excess of 4 million dollars (now over 40 million) was put upon him.  

But he was wrong and he is sorry.  

His business of perpetrating lies was shut down around 2018, and with it, his income of millions a year shut down.  I'm sure he is sorry.  

When did he know he was wrong? When did he first apologize?  The rest of us knew he was wrong around 2012.  But he repeated his lies up to the time he was de-platformed, and beyond.  At that time, he couldn't admit to being wrong, because if he did, then the question immediately arises to what else is he wrong about?  Like WMD's in Iraq? Vaccines do not work? Democrats mailed explosives to themselves?  Obama's birth location.  

In his response he recounts his apology to the jury, and then mentions he was right about the WMD's in the same breath.  Dude, that was 20 years ago, and you were wrong then as well.

While he was making money on this, and other bald face lies, he was making millions per year, he was not going to admit he was wrong, even when he knew it.  

His response was not an act of contrition, but a reboot of his business.

Following the tactics of our lamentable last president, he is going to raise the money for the judgements from the same flock he has been fleecing for decades.  Then he won't pay it anyway.