It’s a story that, by all accounts, shouldn’t have flown.
Anchors at the Fox News national morning news show “Fox and Friends” reported Tuesday that the city of Los Angeles had ordered 10,000 jetpacks for its police and fire departments. The price tag: a whopping $100,000 per unit. For those doing the math at home, the cash-strapped city of Los Angeles, which is regularly sending its police detectives home because it can’t pay all their overtime, allegedly shelled out a billion dollars on space-age transportation that it has never used in an emergency situation, much less tested.
“We certainly haven’t bought any jetpacks,” said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. “We haven’t bought [squad] cars for two years.” As Gawker.com was the first to note, the “Fox and Friends” report appeared to contain material taken right out of a story from the Weekly World News tabloid, which bills itself as “The World’s Only Reliable New Source.”
Apparently taking that slogan — and ruse — to heart, “Fox and Friends” reported that the jetpacks can reach speeds of 63 miles an hour and reach an altitude of 8,000 feet. And then came the questions. Co-host Gretchen Carlson said that while she was “all for buying stuff up and helping the capitalism and all that” she wondered whether the costs would be prohibitive in a bad economy. Brian Kilmeade wondered about possible safety issues.
“You gotta make up some rules,” Kilmeade said. “Because you’re going to have jetpacks flying into choppers!”
HAR!! Real good verifying!
Of course, this pales in comparison to MSNBC, where Rachael, Keith, and Ed spew unverified stories – and they don’t even care!
perhaps…this is just part of a larger psyop playing out in plain sight.
“Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations”
-i think jetpacks will be the least of our worries.
now might be a good time to turn off your tv.
-s
Faux News gets pwned again. Ha-Ha!
#1, really? Then give us an example that will pale this one.
#5 Oi Vey –
1. You are comparing wingnuts to douchebags.
2. News programs are supposed to verify their output. For Op-ed, not so much, but it helps in viability.
3. Just because your oponnent does the same thing you do doesn’t make it all ok.
4. Your bias skews your ability to accept this.
#7 pedro – Oh? What way was I leaning there? Could you cite the comment that shows the bias?
#8 Alpo – You still have a little Limpbaugh on your lapel.
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg269/jordiegirl_photos/Gifts/News-Dumb-Fux-Button-0787.jpg
The reputation of the entertainment cable show known as MSNBC has become so bad, that the news website MSNBC.com is considering changing their own name.
http://nyti.ms/cM5T4m
That shows how deranged it has become with the likes of Olby and Tingles.
This just in: Ah_Yeah and Baggins to host a new show called: “Who Dogma is Better?” -film at 11
-s
In FOX NEWS defense, their show is about sheeple entertainment during the day and scaring during the evening.
This performance now gets reassigned as entertainment (but not in rural areas).
This just in… the usual suspects at DU hate the Fox News network.
Likewise, the usual (but, uh, different) suspects don’t.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog …
Ah Yea==pull your head out of your ass and pretend you know the difference between reporting the news vs stating an opinion.
does show the depth of Republitard thinking though. When you have been caught being stupid, just call the other side the same.
Fifth grade expertise for an 8th grade audience.
Har! Bobbo, don’t be a Moron.
So now you are defending MSNBC for intentionally LYING to us under the misdirection of “opinion”?
Didn’t you even look at the links? Oh wait, I forgot.
Talk about being a tool…
Ok, Bobbo, let’s get this straight. It’s ok for MSNBC and it’s minions to lie to us straight to our face repetitively and brazenly, treating each and every MSNBC acolyte as the naive and brainless stooge they apparently are allowing themselves to become as long as their deceit is under the guise of “opinion” even as it is presented as Fact.
So that is ok with you bobbo? Or should I call you by your alter-ego baggins?
Ah Yea==lying in an opinion piece is wholly different than lying as a news report. There is a difference. Lying in an opinion piece is most often a difference of opinion. Lying in a news report is most often a difference of fact.
I CHALLENGE YOU AH YEA, or any other Republitard: state the exact issue that you think MSNBC “lied” about. Not a link to a page with a bunch of additional links with the challenge to find the dots.
Be specific. You know what specific is don’t you? Pull your head out of your ass, put your lips together, and blow.
I’m betting you can for the first time google something up that is tangentially in the ballpark but no where near responsive.
Prove me wrong, or show yourself to be a dittohead.
Har!!!
There you go again misdirecting and asking other people to do your homework for you instead of simply looking at whatever has already been provided.
How about actually looking at the videos and links, which are extremely specific.
Or possibly look at this:
http://minddisorders.com/Br-Del/Delusional-disorder.html
Now get some help and stop wasting our time.
Hey Ah Yea==while you are googling to cover your ass, if you come across any info on how a modern jetliner is different from a B-25 can you link it for Breetai? Another failed emoticon.
Ah yea = fail.
And you won’t even learn anything from it.
Sad.
And here is another one for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex
Seriously, you need help. You really do. I finished my psychological observations here at DU with you. You are most in need of help, and least likely to get it.
Good luck.
Oh, and another very important link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_personality
You and baggins should sit in front of a mirror together and go over this one…
Ah Yea, flailing around Limpdick colon: yes, we all see you can find a direct link to the word “delusion.” Ironic you would pick that word as a reply to the reasonable request that you provide a link to the factual lies on MSNBC. You can’t/haven’t done that. It would be similar to your providing a link to “On Line dictionary” when asked to link to a definition of delusional–except not even as close.
Where is your link to a factual lie by MSNBC?
A link to more links and the claim the answer is there is just too Alfie.
Be a man.
I apologize. That was sexist.
Be an adult homo sapien.
MSNBC lies:
http://bit.ly/c1GSKz
JB, to the rescue. Thank you. Such an easy thing to do.
So, do you or Ah Yea want to pick ONE to review?
Bobbo (aka Baggins)
Thank you. We’re all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. Considering how often you post your rather odd comments on DU, I wonder how much of a kickback you get from Dvorak to continue trolling.
Geez you guys are arguing about Fox and MSNBC like it’s that important. They’re both opinionated networks with their own agenda. The only non-opinionated news is something like BBC America but most Americans won’t watch it because it’s boring, it doesn’t have flashy graphics, hot anchors, or opinion included in the news story. People want opinion in their news and they want an opinion that agrees with their views, whether they are leftist views or conservative views. They want someone to be on the TV screen that they can associate with. How many times do you see on MSNBC, CNN, or Fox the anchor starts talking about something like their opinion matters. It’s almost like they’re reading one of these “opinion” comments off an internet-based teleprompter. What angers me is that people believe all this opinion because they are too lazy to do their own research and make their own decisions and opinions. And then you have people that don’t understand what they’re talking about… talking.
JB, always focused on the cents==not one penny. Ain’t it a shame?
My reward/payment is the occasional laugh, more rarely a new idea, but constantly the godsmacking realization of how stupid the Republitards, who vote against their own self interests, actually are.
You just don’t get that from reading the news.
Simon, doesn’t say===focus. The issue is the bias/errors/lying distinction between opinion pieces on MSNBC and supposedly fact reporting on Faux. Course the discussion meanders here and there when the republitards think a reference to “use google” is a direct link.
We can all do better.
#29 How can you possibly say “The only non-opinionated news is something like BBC”
Holy cow! I nearly fell off my chair when I saw that doozy. I didn’t bother to reading the comment any further.
Not only do many in the media point out the BBBC’s one-sidedness, the BBC itself even admits they are biased.
http://bit.ly/9tpD6O
It could be true about BBC, but I was talking about “BBC America”, which seems to be more or less unbiased. They might have bias in their European news stories, but I wouldn’t know for sure because I’m not in Europe. For example they constantly talk bad about Berlusconi and how Italians don’t like him but I was in Italy last year and everyone I met there liked the prime minister, so the B.S. flag went up on that one.
I usually just catch the 10PM local news in my area so I don’t watch many of the 24-hour networks unless something major is happening.