The Onion bought InfoWars — or tried to — and Alex Jones somehow came out of it looking like the winner after leftist comedian Tim Heidecker FLOPS in his attempt to parody Jones.
After being ordered to pay $1.4 billion to Sandy Hook Shooting families for calling the shooting a hoax, the courts started liquidating his assets. The Onion swooped in, won the auction, got blocked by a judge, came back with a lease deal for $81,000 a month, got blocked again by a Texas appeals court, and now it’s sitting with the Texas Supreme Court while Jones does his last show and immediately fires up a new stream at alexjoneslive.com with 129,000 live viewers.
The Onion’s big plan to parody InfoWars is being led by Tim Heidecker from Tim and Eric, and SugarTits and I watched the preview. He drinks fake blood and does an Alex Jones voice. That’s the bit. The problem is Alex Jones is already at eleven out of ten — you literally cannot parody a man who predicted 9/11 on tape several months before it happened and named Osama bin Laden specifically.
They’re paying half a million dollars over six months to lease a website to do an impression of a guy who is funnier than any impression of him could ever be, while the man himself just moved studios, kept his audience, and is already back on air. They tried to silence Alex Jones and created a Streisand effect. Classic. Here’s more from Bearing.
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