Oh God! Stolen Jets! Let's All Panic and Hide Under the Bed!!!
In the last few hours, in a superb example of the wingnut noise machine's ability to generate panic from nothing, a story involving the theft of perhaps a dozen passenger jets by militant Islamists has spread like wildfire around the right wing media. Here's an example from Newsmax:
Naturally, there is not one single story about this from anything but right wing sources on Google. That ain't stoppin' these guys, oh no. It's such an easily disproven lie that this particular wingnut outrage will probably not have legs, but we'll see.
Update: Hours later now, but still not a story about the theft of all of these passenger planes in the regular media. It's still spreading around in wingnut world- let's just see how long they go with it before dropping it for a new lie.
Update: Hours later now, but still not a story about the theft of all of these passenger planes in the regular media. It's still spreading around in wingnut world- let's just see how long they go with it before dropping it for a new lie.
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As of this point, the top hits on Google go to Newsmax, Twitch, Fox News, World Net Daily, the Washington
Times, and on and on...right wing lie factories, all of them. I can't find a single mainstream news source that has given this preposterous lie a shred of coverage.
Why not climb back into your hole and stop bothering rational people?
This is just one more conservative lie, to add to the thousands that conservatives tell every day.