by Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
"Even among right-wing radio hosts, Alex Jones is a standout. Where Rush Limbaugh offers a torrent of conservative views that largely align with Republican policy preferences, Jones labels 9/11 an 'inside job.' Where Mark Levin touts radical constitutional theories that, nonetheless, have grown popular in Republican circles, Jones ties same-sex marriage on 'the eugenicist/globalist view.' Jones is the king of fringe conspiracy theories. Among other things, he may be the nation’s most prominent proponent of the view that the Sandy Hook shooting that killed 26 people an elementary school was a 'synthetic, completely fake — with actors, in my view — manufactured' hoax. And one hour before another terrible mass shooting occurred in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, Jones hosted a very special guest on his radio show — Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
"Alex Jones' website, Infowars, already has an article suggesting the San Bernardino shooting was a false flag operation: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/672235629577682944." --ThinkProgress.org
The night of,
we go out
to look at Christmas lights. There:
snow
made of white flashes
on a lawn; a bony
reindeer.
Pale fog drifts in sweaty
heaps
across the windshield.
On the radio,
a man says
the attacks
are a false flag,
that he will not allow himself
to be
oppressed.
Does this make sense?
Down the street,
flashing blue lights
surround a door.
Jesus looks up
from a manger
on a roof
at distant stars.
Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California's Central Valley. Her work has appeared in TheNewVerse.News, The Potomac Review, Paper Nautilus, The Tule Review, and the Kentucky Review, among others.