Comedian Slams Alex Jones for ‘Derailing’ The Onion’s Infowars Takeover

Getty Images The Onion’s planned takeover of Alex Jones’s conspiracy theory-circulating website Infowars has been “derailed” once again—and the comedian the satire site put in charge of its revamped version of Jones’s site has had it with “this motherf---er.” Tim Heidecker, The Onion’s newly appointed creative director of Infowars—when the site can finally get its hands on it—has been mocking Jones online ever since he was chosen for the job. Jones hit back by posting a screengrab of a fake mugshot from one of Heidecker’s shows, circulating to his followers , who he told it was “an actual mugshot of the creep.” Jones has now successfully “temporarily derailed” The Onion’s licensing deal to take over Infowars, Heidecker said on Thursday night. “Some updates on the Infowars saga,” he began in a clip from his web series Office Hours Live, posted to Instagram . “This motherf---er Alex Jones somehow worked his way into the Texas Third Court of Appeals and got some kind of stay, postponing the transfer of the site until another judgment can come in or something.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

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