Rachel Maddow Cracks Up Over What InfoWars Will Now Be ‘Selling’ — Because It’s So Dumb | EUROtoday

Revenge is a dish greatest served foolish.

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow was significantly tickled about how the satirical publication The Onion plans to get again at Alex Jones.

On Monday, Ben Collins, chief govt at The Onion mother or father firm Global Tetrahedron, introduced that after practically 17 months, his firm has made a deal to run InfoWars.

The Onion tried to purchase Jones’ web site, which is riddled with bogus right-wing conspiracy theories — most consequentially Jones’ obvious perception that the 2012 Sandy Hook taking pictures was a hoax — in 2024 as a part of its chapter plan. But that deal ended up in a messy authorized battle.

The plan for The Onion has all the time been to show InfoWars right into a parody of itself.

Maddow invited Collins onto MS NOW so he may share a few of the parody web site’s plans to mock and tarnish Jones’ legacy, assuming the deal to license the location is accepted by a choose.

“We will be selling supplement-adjacent stuff,” Collins mentioned of the faux adverts that may substitute InfoWars’ actual ones that largely peddle phony dietary supplements. “Maybe water that cures everything, or I believe we’re selling omega-3 fish oil [made from] exclusively conservative fish.”

When Maddow requested Collins in the event that they acquired all of Jones’ dietary supplements within the deal, Collins mentioned it was “still up in the air” however famous that The Onion was initially alleged to get them.

“We were going to boil it all down into one big pill,” Collins mentioned, which resulted in Maddow utterly cracking up.

A web site created by The Onion to seem like InfoWars exhibits adverts which might be meant to mock Jones’ MAGA base. It features a package that guarantees to “flip your piss into gold” and one other that claims it could possibly flip “gold into piss”; a “Demon Guard” patch formed because the cross that claims it’ll present 24-hour safety towards “all dark entities”; and an advert that exhibits a person flying over a meadow of grass and reads “learn to float” and “discover the secret.”

For now, Jones continues to run InfoWars, and even when a choose approves the brand new deal, he nonetheless may attraction.

Collins informed Maddow that a very powerful a part of The Onion buying InfoWars is that they get to take over Jones’ identify and attempt to undo a few of his injury.

“And we look forward to infesting your social media feed with caricatures and grotesqueries of the very people who have ruined our media ecosystem over the last 10 years,” Collins mentioned.