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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYEEE-HAWWWW!!! Let the baseless speculation begin!!!
Here's my advice. Shut off your TV and get off the internet for the next 24 hours.
What you're about to hear is another news cycle dominated by people who have no fucking clue what they're talking about, but they're not about to let a little detail like that keep them from talking.
Seriously. Wait.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)the vast world of speculation.
Remember the speculation in the Iran Air commercial jetliner shot down by an American navy cruiser missile? The speculation at first was Iran did it.......
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Boston Bombing had suspects in custody....what? A whole 48 hours before the suspects were actually in custody?
They're just spreading rumors.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)shot down that Iranian airliner by mistake. I don't recall anyone speculating that Iran shot down their own airliner.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)It has already begun right here on DU.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)So, you know. You should pay attention to me.
I was also AWESOME at the old "Missile Command" video game. So there's that...
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)The timing is real strange
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)You'll be admonished for being "reasonable". I was just castigated in another thread for daring to say that this wouldn't lead to the next world war.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)all sorts of unintended consequences are possible.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024582939
War is almost like an aphrodisiac for some. I think the chips will fall where they should and we don't have to lift a finger. Those who own this... well, they own it. Sorry you were given a bad time. I got tired of trying to calm people the last few times we did not go to war as they thought.
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Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)But a lot of the more ridiculous rumors who have been purged by then.
...and now you've made me want to watch "Airplane!" again. Darn it!
Iggo
(47,565 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Mayor's wife: I wish there was a way I could vote for you a hundred times.
Bob Roberts: There is....Just kidding!
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)I do understand the desire to know what's going on, but we just can't know that right now. No one can.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)in this tragedy whatever the catalyst/cause.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)Thanks for reminding me.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)The cease fire?
The Malaysia plane?
The shoutout in CA?
Oh all of them. Gotcha.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)It's a half a planet away. Crews are probably only just now arriving on the scene.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)I had to search to find what this post was in reference to. Much better on the blood pressure this way.
NJCher
(35,729 posts)It took reading a few posts to figure it out. OP, kindly remember some of us ignore the TV, so give us a little context.
Thank you.
Cher
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)the downing of Malaysian flight MH17 are connected.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Geez, people. It's so obvious!!
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)LoL & Best Answer award goes to: ToxMarz
RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)THEY did it!!!
-- Dick Cheney
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)But this has Hugo Chavez' name ALL OVER IT!
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Criticize BEFORE it happens.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,797 posts)💣
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Where you press a button and there's this show all about a container full of food turning slowly in a circle...
Wait. That's the microwave. Never mind.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Baseless conspiracy theories really annoy me.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Ukraine did it as a false flag by sending SAMs to Donesk to shoot it down. Ukraine jets were following the plane and shot it down. The plane actually crashed in the west and they're saying it's in the east to blame the separatists.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)There's a least a little entertainment value to a really looney conspiracy theory.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)Patrick Smith doesn't jump to conclusions and he has open contempt for conspiracy mongers.
He's been dissed and dismissed several times by the CNN people - they'd have him in for an interview, but somehow, his segment would end up on the cutting room floor. Not sensationalist enough for them.
libodem
(19,288 posts)I watch some real crap. Reruns are the best of what I see.
It couldn't hurt to leave it off. I'm sure we are about to enter another cycle of speculation, opinion and outright lying.
Lead around by the nose as if we were bulls with rings through our noses. That ring is the fucking tv.
As an 8 year old I remember being told that the Soviets were not allowed to hear real world news. They received propaganda approved by the government. We were shown an accompanying photograph of a group of peasants, crowded around a power pole with a speaker wired to it. I felt so sorry for the sad proletariat.
We could NEVER do that in America.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)The last thing I need in my life is a bunch of blow dried bobbleheads who don't know anything more than I do try to gin up rage and fear so they can deliver more bodies to corporate sponsors.
There is a good reason I stopped watching any of it.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)meanwhile, there is actual news not covered. HAZAH!
matt819
(10,749 posts)Boy, Malaysia's having a bad year.
rock
(13,218 posts)Since anecdotal evidence just barely beats out lying, they could be right.
Tierra_y_Libertad
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Warpy
(111,339 posts)I will not bother with the next 72 hours (at least) of bafflegab, verbal diarrhea from blow dried spokesmodels who know even less than I do.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Any news I get is usually from DU anyway.
If I didn't have a wife I wouldn't have cable.
Well, that isn't really true, I watched all but one of the World Cup matches. I could not have done it without cable.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Not that I'm making fun of the tragedy (and you can rest assured I'm not before anyone accuses me of doing so ), but CNN completely humiliated themselves with the coverage of flight 370, this one probably won't end well either. Never the less, I've got plenty of butter if anyone wants some.