Well, well, well.
Two former employees have filed complaints against Infowars founder/right wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, accusing him of making racist and anti-Semitic comments, as well as grooming a man for gay sex and groping a female staffer.
Surprised? Us neither.
Rob Jacobson worked as a video editor for Infowars for 13 years. He just filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing Jones of singling him out for being Jewish and for referring to him as a “beefcake” over a four year period.
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“I felt like this was intimidating and harassing and a form of sexual harassment in that he was grooming me for homosexual sex,” Jacobson writes in his complaint, which was obtained by the Daily Mail.
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Jacobson also claims that Jones allowed his friend to enter the video editor’s office and share gay porn on his computer.
The complaint also claims that Jones, who had a number of other nicknames for Jacobson, including “Resident Jew,” “The Jewish Individual,” and “Yacobson,” once photoshopped his face onto the body of a Hasidic Jewish man and circulated it around the office.
Another employee, Ashley Beckford, says Jones and producers repeatedly made comments about her race, calling her a “coon” and creating a a “hostile, sexually offensive work environment.”
Beckford also says Jones once groped her butt and asked, “Who wouldn’t want to have a black wife?”
“I felt embarrassed and nervous, but I knew that he had specifically touched my behind at that moment as a sly come-on that other people may not notice,” she says in her complaint.
“It’s my opinion that it was his intention to see if he could groom me for sexual exploitation,” she adds.
Of course, Jones vehemently denies the allegations, calling them “completely, totally false.”
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Luc
Honestly, it sounds completely believable. But also, if the guy doesn’t have evidence, he’ll have a tough time in court, I’d think.
grethomory
@Luc, I think the guy has a case if he photoshopped his pic onto that other body and distributed it around the office. Everyone who rec’d that pic is a witness.
Brian Lange
Am I the only that says hey it took you 13 fucking years to say something…anything.
One thing that really sucks are these perverts all have gay sex so a gay male looks like some sex drive cock pig, I do in fact know several guys that do fit that description can any one get an application from Alex so a sex crazed faggot can get his holes filled while at work.
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Aromaeus
I believe it. Alex Jones is one of the loudest blowhards for the reich wing and the loudest ones usually end up being the ones with the most skeletons in their closet. Projection/Deflection. He had a pretty big anti-semitic outburst on his show not long ago and we all know he’s no friend to black people.
That aside why any black person would work for that a-hole is beyond me. I get it if your a black republican but even in sane republican circles that guy is considered a nut.
Brian Lange
Why does the lunatic fringe on any issue eventually get caught being a cocksucker?
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Gay grooming! “beefcake”! Does he not own a mirror? Clearly rightwing professional victims don’t get irony any more than do SJW professional victims. You knew perfectly well the nature of the organisation you were selling your soul to, loser.
Brody
I’ll ask it yet again:
Why do gays believe the worst insult they can lay on their “oppressors” is to be secretly gay?
DCguy
Notice how the Anti-lgbt troll is trying to deflect attention from the fact that Jones is credibly accused for being anti-Semitic and racist?
Juanjo
How interesting. Are you claiming that Jacobson is a gay man working for Jones? Because all I am seeing here is a report of a lawsuit filed concerning complaints of sexual harassment filed by an employee against Jones based upon highly inappropriate sexual language in the workplace. Of course, there are also claims of groping a female employee as well as racial and anti-semitic misbehavior as well.
So Brody, just how does this baseless allegation of yours about gay people insulting Jones by calling him gay work in these facts?
jpcolter
“Gays”? Oh, of course, I forgot that all gays have the exact same agenda. You moron.
Mark
it’s the hypocrisy.
Heywood Jablowme
@Brody:
Why do you ask that? (“yet again”) – because you’re secretly straight? That would explain a lot! Since you put “oppressors” in quotes, apparently you don’t have any. Because you’re straight?
dwes09
I’ll ask the question yours suggests:
Why are regressives like you so deficient intellectually thart they fail to understand so much?
It is not that his being closeted is considered an insult, you dullard! It is the hypocrisy of his public persona vs his private self! the insult is his hypocrisy…His hypocrisy…Get it? Or is that still too difficult for you, child?
startenout
And I’ll answer it once again: it’s not an insult; it’s a fact. The insulting thing is that these closet cases talk down to gays while actively being gay.
gayjim1969
I didn’t get the impression that Jacobson was gay; for instance, I don’t know any gay man who says things like, “I felt like…he was grooming me for homosexual sex.” You also conveniently glossed over the fact that the ostensibly straight as an arrow archconservative Alex Jones reportedly let his friend into the video editor’s office and share gay porn–actions not consistent with his on-air persona–not for the first time, either.
Lacuevaman
right on…. we literally eat our own.
JaredMacBride
No patience with the nut job Alexis Jones but sympathy for Jacobson. He worked at the company for 13 years and put up with being called beefcake for four years. Get another job.
JaredMacBride
I meant NO sympathy for Jacobson. If it’s that bad, leave.
gayjim1969
So, your answer when experiencing sexual harassment is just to move on and ignore it happened? Are you the same person who complains about those who leave a job and later find the courage to speak up? “Why didn’t they say anything about it then?”
Why should someone be forced to leave a job because their boss is a pig and let them do it again?
CanadianGuy62
Why would a Jewish guy or a black woman (or ANY woman for that matter) even work for this guy? I know people have to put food on the table, but to sell your soul? How unfortunate to have been in that situation. 🙁
specialpurposes69
This is FAKE NEWS. I don’t believe a word of it. I watch Alex Jones and Infowars regularly, he’s not a homophobe. Watch the show and don’t believe the MSM brainwashing and propaganda. MAGA!
dwes09
I would never trust anyone who watches that fool to have the judgement necessary to criticize anything correctly.
Are you also stupid enough to buy his supplements and “nutritional aids”?
You would not be able to tell fake from real if your life depended on it. Sadly, if you are a gay person (as opposed to a hetero troll, which is more likely) your life might.
tham
Haha, you are really working hard for your bot money.
prarie pup
LMAO! You said you regularly watch InfoWars, then referred to THIS article “fake news” all in the same sentence, and I’ll bet you don’t even get the irony.
Kheft
It has been alleged that Jones was involved with a cult called The Church of the Subgenius in the 1980s. On the surface that cult was a parody of other cults but underneath the veneer of humor, libeally laced with sex & UFO lore, is a core of extreme racism, misogyny and homophobia. Rather unpleasant people spouting a dumbed-down and outrageous elitist philosophy, with a corresponding perception of outsiders which is contemptuously exploitative at best. Their figurehead is a cartoon-like character based on the founder’s father. This character cheerfully exploited the fears & paranoias of others to make himself wealthy, and is regarded in that cult as exemplifying their ideal. While I have not personally investigated these allegations I found them interesting, and if accurate, potentially revealing.
kuma6963
Bob Dobbs, if I remember
dwes09
The Church of the Subgenius was a satire of Scientology and other cults. Can you possibly be that stupid in actuality!!
Jaxton
For Pete’s sake, stop complaining. You worked for him for 13 years, didn’t you?
tham
Huh?
gymmuscleboy
Simply because he was referred to as a “beefcake” over a four year period he was therefore “groomed for homosexual sex”??? This is bull. What a loser.
mhoffman953
@gymmuscleboy
After reading both complaints, both claims seem to be without merit. Sure, Alex Jones might be nutty at times and things he has said have proven true (i.e. mass surveillance, deep state, Bohemian Grove), but to say that men at work gave this guys a nickname of “beefcake” for 4 years and only now does he feel harm from it and feels he was “groomed for homosexual sex” is ridiculous.
The black woman’s claim probably won’t hold up in court either. She claims she was throwing some of her food away at night with the lights off and a producer turned the lights on and said he thought it was a raccoon going through the trash, she feels he called her a “coon” in that incident. Other claims are that she had to work long hours and weekends.
tham
No shocker with these two post.
Notright
Alex Jones is a little on the crazy side. I know its part of his act but it doesn’t appeal to me. But anyway for those of us who do lean right I found this quiz to take to see whether or not you fit in more with conservatives or libertarians https://www.therainbowright.com/are-you-a-conservative-or-libertarian/ . It’s kinda cool actually.
tham
Lean right…or lean Russian?
jcoberkrom
I’m not sure these employees, for the most part, have a case. You get a job as a Playboy bunny and the complain that Heff sexualizes you?
You work for a self loathing anti semitic, racist blowhard and then you complain about it??????
tham
You know the difference between Freedom of speech and Occupational safety and health…right?
prarie pup
I don’t know, jcoberkrom. I knew a “straight” guy who worked for a gay porn studio, did a little “stunt dick” work in a multiple dick glory hole scene, then tried to sue the company for sexual harassment. Not a lawyer in town would take his case.
CarlIsle
This part had me scratching my head: “Jacobson also claims that Jones allowed his friend to enter the video editor’s office and share gay porn on his computer.” If true, how is that his business?
Kris
That horrible man and show have been on for 13 years???
DrewD
He’s an Austin staple…a crazy one at that. I rode with him in an elevator once and he was huffing and puffing so hard I thought he was going to have a heart attack. I kept thinking, “Should I resuscitate if something happens?”
Zeke_Krahlin
No, you should not.
jack512
I loathe the insane Alec Jones, but these complaints seem like just more complaints from snowflakes that are so common on the right and left today. Everybody just wants to be a victim.
Dakotahgeo
What pigs, these Alex Jones conservatives are! Farmyard animals all!
LilMesican
I’d like to know more about this “groomed for sex” thing. That’s a term usually used for cults or religious sects, if I’m not wrong. When young people are being prepared for a polygamous marriage or underage wedding or such.
My question: if you are anything but a ‘White-Christian-Straight-Male’, why would you work for him? It seems that anyone else is just looking forward to being attacked in some way or other.
Now, Alex Jones isn’t a bad looking guy. I dated several guys that looked like him when I was younger.
If I go work for him could I be groomed for sex?
Truthteller1234
So now “grooming a man” is now considered gay sex?
Thanks for the nice dose of fiction this morning. Get back to me when you actually print a real news story and are not just functioning as yet another media outlet subsidiary of the Democrat party.