@ Visitor 55, Ruthless Rupy spends most of his time flying on his private plane to Australia, U.K., Los Angeles and other places having meetings with top suits at his properties.

Ruthless needs to go.

From Homeboy Halligan’s post:

“…Right now on radio Hannity is all over this. He thinks its the Iranians…”

Naturally. PFC (Privileged Fascist Chickenhawk) KKKlannity has been banging the Iran war drums ad infinitum for at least the last six years.

This old goat is delusional. He needs to step down as CEO of News Corporation/21st Century Fox before he goes completely senile.

Thanks, Ellen. Somebody on MSNBC just pointed out Pan AM 103, the flight that blew up over Lockerbie, is the highest-profile event that nobody ever took credit for. I don’t even remember al Quada taking “credit” for 9/11, either, until many, many months later. Did anybody take credit for the first WTC attack, or the USS Cole bombing?

From the info we have, I don’t see how it could have been an Egyptair or Silk AIr type pilot suicide situation since the plane apparently just suddenly disappeared from all contact, transponder and radar, at 35,000 feet.

The radar status is very unclear as a result of crappy reporting, but if there was radar contact, the radar would have followed the plane down to whatever the limit is before losing it, and it didn’t. Same with the transponder, etc. It appears to all have just quit, poof, simultaneously at 35,000 feet. It sure does appear as if something blew this plane to pieces in mid-air, and unless it was another one of those fuel tank explosions, which seems unlikely, there isn’t anything else that could have caused it other than a bomb.

Of course, the reporting may be incomplete and/or wrong, but I can’t for the life of me come up with any other scenario based on what’s been reported so far.

Twice on Fox tonight I saw the host (Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity) make the “If it’s terrorism, why hasn’t anyone taken credit for it?” argument and each time the expert said, basically, what Jane S said.

One of them seemed to think that pilot suicide was a real possibility to be considered as well.

Joseph, that’s a common misconception. There have been any number of Islamist terrorist attacks in which nobody has claimed credit. In the case of possible Chinese terrorists, who knows how they think. It’s also a bit early yet. (And fwiw, one group has claimed credit for this, though nobody seems to believe it’s a credible claim.)

But if it were a Bojinka-style test, they would not announce it. I rather lean towards the Bojinka model, if that’s what this was, and it’s hard to imagine any other scenario than a bomb for the few facts we know in this case.

If the intention was, as in Bojinka, a test prior to a huge economic hit as a result of planes starting to blow up in midair and people stopped flying, there’d be no need at all to announce who dunnit.

A fair number of these people are now nihilists looking to inflict as much damage on their perceived enemies as they can just because, not people hoping to make a political point to somehow influence policy.

Well, the only problem with a terrorist attack as even a remotely unlikely theory is it goes completely against the purposes of a terrorist attack: To instill terror.

Part of a terrorist attack, especially involving an airplane, is SOMEONE has to claim credit. So far, if any terrorist organization has taken credit, the media is sitting on it. As long as no one takes credit for the incident, there’s nothing to gain from the terrorist aspect.

It’s actually not a far-out possibility. In fact, it’s one I thought was not unlikely when news of this first came across. Remember that Uighur terrorist gang that killed something like 25 people in China with a knife attack not long ago? Why would anybody else blow up a plane full of Chinese nationals?

The other possibility is that it’s a “trial run” ala Bojinka.

He’s of course a total fool to assert it as if it were established fact, but it’s not loony tunes as a theory.

Rupert sez
I wanna penetrate the Chinese market on an ever larger scale!!!!!

I want to play I know too, Rupert.

ONE word: Space Aliens.

Wrinkled Murdick don’t need no stinking facts. He is the “some” in the Fux Noise phrase “some say”.

But who needs reporters when you’ve got Murdoch’s musings?

And who needs actual investigation when you’ve got innuendo — especially on Fox . . .

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Newsflash…Right now on radio Hannity is all over this. He thinks its the Iranians which means he will be able to blame this on Obama. His theory will be something like this. Obama paid an Iranian terrorist with taxpayer money to blow up the plane so people would stop talking about Obamacare! Oh Sean, you’re so smart.

Do you think he hacked someone's voice mail to get this "scoop?"