Radio Feuds

There have been some inquiries into an alleged Jones vs. Rivero feud, as well as conflicts that have arisen between Alex Jones and other alt/talk radio hosts in the not too distant past.

Other than the announcement posted on Mike Rivero's website and the terse comments from John Stadtmiller on his show Tuesday, there is little available about what's going on with Mike beyond the speculations and suspicions of fans.

There was and is little that I know definitively about any of these affairs. Most of what has been written and said on-air by the primary parties involved could potentially be dismissed as self-serving mendaciousness. Commentary by parties once or more removed might be dismissed at best as hearsay, at worst willful fiction meant to support "their horse in the race."

I have devoted some time in the past two days to an attempt to gather some information that might be worth posting and I have not yet found much.

I did come across what appears to the the text of an email written by Jeff Rense to a fan, detailing some of skirmishes with Alex Jones. It was posted to TheDailyPaul, a discussion forum for Ron Paul fans and the like. The URL is http://www.dailypaul.com/node/88061, but is unfortunately unreachable now, as I write this. Google's webcache, however, has available this version of the page.

The Rense vs. Jones feud seems ideologically based, with [as is alleged with Jones and Rivero] Rense being assertively anti-Zionist, and viewing Jones as an apologist ["shill"] for the Zionists.

Jack Blood is an Austin, Texas-based radio host who some years ago was a close associate of Alex Jones, even to the point of occasionally guest-hosting for him. On February 24th of this year on his own show, Deadline Live, Jack spent the bulk of two hours detailing his rocky relationship with Alex Jones. I was a regular listener of his show at that time and heard it all the day it aired. It was visceral stuff.

A 32K bitrate recording of that show [with commercials] is still available at the American Freedom Radio archive: http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Jack-Blood-32k-022410.mp3. Jack has very recently moved from American Freedom Radio to Rense Radio. He explains the reasons for that move in a video shot in his home [note, the first couple of minutes are a virtual commercial for EnerFoods]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsljazcAsvY.

I think it's safe to say that Jack's feud with Alex had more to do with personalities than with ideology, but not exclusively so.

That's really all I have toward which to point you at this time. If anyone knows of material available related to these conflicts that is not all heat and no light, please let us hear from you.