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Julian Sanchez | October 25, 2005

Cathy Young sells out to the MSM.

Comments

Dave W.|10.25.05 @ 8:51AM|#

I love it when Cathy allows us to give her FOIA wish lists (she IS a jouralist after all!):

1. Flight 93, full cockpit tape

2. (Brit FOIA) de Menezes: all CCTV tapes, even the ones that are missing

by diligently and daily following the progress on these FOIAs, professional jouranalists will take a large step toward putting the blogosphere in its place. Some interim progress reports on the FOIA's progress is also respectfully requested (a great writer can make even the dullest story interesting!).

Dan|10.25.05 @ 9:21AM|#

Did she actually refer to Michelle Malkin as a "professional journalist"?

|10.25.05 @ 9:40AM|#

Individual acts of terrorism (that media and other types keep insisting are senseless) may very well be the final existential costs of mass democracy, liberalism and compulsory cooperation. I really wish people would stop saying that such suicides are 'senseless', it is in fact because we dont like what they stand for do we say they are senseless.

|10.25.05 @ 10:19AM|#

So, some people say that even if this guy's suicide wasn't a terror attack it should still get lots of coverage because, well, it could have been. And we should discuss the possible terrorism angle because, well, you never know.

Why am I getting flashbacks to those Syrian musicians?

drf|10.25.05 @ 10:24AM|#

Thoreau: what do you have against music?

breathless tales of "shudda, coulda, woulda" sell more papers. it allows fixed positions to be defended and, through the meta dialogue, be ultimately confirmed.

sigh.

|10.25.05 @ 10:51AM|#

But was there any substance to the story? Apparently not.

I look forward to Malkin and the other mental midgets issue their retractions and apologies to the young man's family.

Yeah, I know, don't hold your breath...

|10.25.05 @ 10:55AM|#

Sorry, that should read: I look forward to hearing Malkin and the other mental midgets issue their retractions...

Not gonna happen in any event...

Dan|10.25.05 @ 11:47AM|#

Let's not insult midgets by comparing Malkin's mental acumen to them...

|10.25.05 @ 12:27PM|#

Hinrich's parents found a suicide note on his computer. It seems to verify the official story. The only question is whether he originally intended to take part of the crowd with him.

|10.25.05 @ 1:07PM|#

Speculation as to whether or not Heinrich was a terrorist is redundant. ALL Sooners are terrorists

|10.25.05 @ 3:37PM|#

Speaking of flights and what actually happened:

there was an Egypt Air plane that went down off the coast of west Africa somewhere a few years back. It seemed as though the pilot crashed the plane into the ocean. I was following the case, muslims were angry because they said a muslim would never commit suicide and all this bullshit, then the coverage completely stopped. Seems to me it was a test run for 9/11. I wonder if I can find anything else about it online now, way after the fact...

Dave W.|10.25.05 @ 3:50PM|#

there was an Egypt Air plane that went down off the coast of west Africa somewhere a few years back. It seemed as though the pilot crashed the plane into the ocean. I was following the case, muslims were angry because they said a muslim would never commit suicide and all this bullshit, then the coverage completely stopped. Seems to me it was a test run for 9/11. I wonder if I can find anything else about it online now, way after the fact...

If I remember correctly, somebody regained control of the plane, but it went down anyway die to mechanical stresses caused by the dive (while the main pilot was in the washroom). If this is correct, then it sounds specifically like a precursor to Flt 93. However, I think the entire cockpit tape of the Air Egypt (?) flt was released due to US gov't demands and/or pressure to help determine what really happened, despite opposition from some Muslims (eg, gov't of Egypt, I think).

Nevertheless, with Flt 93, we haven't gotten the cockpit tape. Why is one tape treated one way and the other tape another way? Is there any conceivable, legitimate security-based argument for keeping Flt 93 tape a secret, when the past policy has been to make sure that these things get released? Are there some kind of tort liability concerns here? Why might that be?

btw, if I recall the Air Egypt (?) case correctly, the media reported that there was a lot of evidence that the co-pilot had a lot of personal, money and family problems, but who knows? I always take media reports on this kind of stuf with a grain of salt.

|10.25.05 @ 4:14PM|#

Ah-ha, I found it: Egypt Air Flight 990

It was off the coast of Massachusetts, apparently, and the "relief first officer's flight control inputs" were the reason for the crash into the Atlantic Ocean, but the NTSB did not know why the relief first officer did what he did.

Dave W.|10.25.05 @ 5:15PM|#

Egypt Air 990 wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990