Piers Morgan says Alex Jones' return to X makes him "want to puke"
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Summary
Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist and shock jock in America who made hundreds of millions of dollars by peddling outrageous lies at the Sandy Hook school massacre, claiming it was a hoax. Alex Jones was ordered to pay record damages, more than a billion dollars in total, yet, of course, he declared himself bankrupt to avoid paying a penny.
Transcript
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Well, I'm a passionate defender of free speech.
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There's a massive clue in the name of this show, Uncensored.
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however offensive they are, belong in the open,
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where they can be challenged, debated and exposed.
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I've always said that Alex Jones is a perfect example
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He's a conspiracy theorist and shock jock in America
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at the Sandy Hook school massacre shooting was a hoax.
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For the uninitiated, this is him shouting at me
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And I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again
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It doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there on the street
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In fact, they continued to sell a lot more guns.
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A million new guns get sold in America every month.
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And there are already over 400 million in circulation.
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why there are so many more mass shootings in America
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my guess is there will be a lot more mass shootings.
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Very few of them, in fact, none of them, actually,
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Alex Jones's reaction to this absolute appalling atrocity
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He said the grieving families were all crisis actors.
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Sandy Hook, it's got Inside Job written all over it.
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Erica Lafferty, daughter of the murder principal,
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was chased down the street by a Jones supporter,
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Daniel Barden, says that one of Jones' followers
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Some of these families have successfully sued him now
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for defamation, which is explicitly not protected
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He actually declared himself bankrupt to avoid doing so.
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Nevertheless, Elon Musk has inexplicably decided
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it's time to restore Alex Jones to X, formerly Twitter.
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But this was a profoundly disappointing and wrong decision.
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about reinstating Alex Jones when he first took over.
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I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children
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He literally used dead children for gain, fame and politics.
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Many argue he's right more often than he's wrong,
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when all the evidence points to the complete opposite.
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it wasn't just one little mistake that he owned up to.
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This is a man who repeatedly and deliberately lied
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because his business was about to go to the wall.
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Night after night, day after day, week after week,
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And he knew what was going on to these families