Alex Jones and Charlie Sheen
I don’t know if any of you caught Austin radio talk-show host Alex Jones’ appearance on The View several weeks ago. He was on, I assume, because of his earlier radio interview with his pal Charlie Sheen in which Sheen pretty much eviscerated the entire staff of Two and a Half Men and the CBS television network.
Jones is a serious black-helicopter type conspiracy theorist who has a cult following in Austin and other cities. How he and Sheen became friends is not clear but listening to Sheen’s rants as of late, it appears that they are philosophically and politically compatible.
What amazed me is that the non-stop Jones managed to turn his 7 minutes on the View into one of the more bizarre moments in the show’s history. He rambled on, most plugging his Info Wars website, rarely staying on topic, and comparing Charlie’s recent issues with Building 7 at the former site of Ground Zero and stating that Sheen didn’t steal 3 trillion dollars or kill a million Iraqi citizens. (Huh?)
Stranger still is that the view’s producers failed to research Jones’ background so they could prepare the hosts. I will never forget the slack-jawed Barbara Walters staring helplessly at Jones as he completely took over the show with several salvos of intense mumbo jumbo. Even Whoopi Goldberg or the acid-tongued Joy Behar couldn’t shut him up. It was one of the most hysterical moments I’ve seen on network TV in ages: but probably nothing to those fans who watched Jones rant for years on Austin Community Access TV.
