Sarah Wasko / Media Matters

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars website recently posted a video that showed a young girl telling Infowars reporter Owen Shroyer -- who has pushed toxic conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook mass shooting and “Pizzagate” -- that he is a “fucking idiot” before giving the camera the finger:

Kids telling Infowars they're fucking idiots is my favorite kind of content pic.twitter.com/dRneam1BWm — Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) September 7, 2017

The clip went viral and Shroyer responded on an Infowars show last night, calling her a “vitriolic, petulant child” and claiming that she didn’t “defeat” him in “any debate”:

Owen Shroyer wants everyone to know that “vitriolic, petulant child” who called Infowars f-ing idiots “didn't defeat me in any debate” pic.twitter.com/E1LW3okoj1 — Timothy Johnson (@timothywjohnson) September 8, 2017

On his show today, Alex Jones came to his employee’s defense, saying the girl sounded like “John Belushi on PCP” and “acts basically like some thug woman.”