CNN analyst blames 'crossfire' on Iran shooting down airplane, gets pummeled on Twitter

Fox News ^ | January 9 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

[knighthawk]

A CNN analyst claimed on Thursday that "crossfire of reckless escalation" resulted in Iran firing a missile at an airplane, leading to the death of 176 people.

The Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran’s international airport Wednesday was shot down by mistake by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile, Pentagon officials told Fox News.

Officials said U.S. intelligence increasingly points at the airliner being accidentally struck by a Russian-made missile, killing all those on board the flight, just hours after Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles targeting two military bases housing American and coalition troops.

[knighthawk]

These people really hate the US

[Billthedrill]

CNN, NBC, and Atlantic all took up the magic word "crossfire", shortly after they all chimed in with the magic word "off-ramp" describing the de-escalation. It's very clear that they're not independent voices but merely megaphones for talking points developed by others who (1) hate Trump, (2) hate the United States, and (3) don't mind telling lies to advance their narrative.

The actual military activity at that point consisted solely of Iranian shooting - first at the bases across the border in Iraq and second at a civilian airliner operating from a busy international airport. If that's a "crossfire" it's an Iranian one. To try to twist this one into moral equivalency is simply evil.

[justa-hairyape]

As someone else posted, why allow passenger planes to take off within a few hours of launching a missile barrage on a neighboring country ?

[Mark17]

As someone else posted, why allow passenger planes to take off within a few hours of launching a missile barrage on a neighboring country ?

Maybe it was not a mistake at all? We might never know for sure.

[SunkenCiv]

The Partisan Media Shills always regurgitate the DNC talking point.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3807029/posts?page=2#2

[calenel]

Perhaps the downing was executed prematurely, before the aircraft had travelled far enough to be able to blame the shoot-down on the US.

[TigersEye]

#CNNQuizlings

[GaryCrow]

The distance from where the missile attacks took place to Tehran is over 500 miles. These network nitwits are acting as if there was a war going on over Tehran when the plane took off, that’s just incorrect. They need to look at a map before they spout off nonsense.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

The CNN analyst wasn't the only journalist who expressed that sentiment. NBC News correspondent Heidi Przybyla said that the plane crash was "at minimum, related to crossfire." The Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum similarly wrote that Ukraine was "sucked in to a geopolitical conflict created by others" and that plane was caught "in the crossfire."

So, who gave them their tragedy talking points???

[Widget Jr]

Because the Iranian government didn't think their SAM launchers were run by complete idiots.

Iran warned Iraq and Finland of the attack several hours in advance, they warned the U.S. All U.S. personnel had several hours to get themselves and vital equipment out of the way.

If Iran did not give warning and was really trying to kill people, any U.S. retaliation would have been several hours away, not instantaneously.

[wardaddy]

Susan Klein Hennessy

Red diaper baby

No surprise

[Gene Eric]

CNN is ATT

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Susan: Drinking too much of her own whiskey? Somebody take the bottle away from her. The only Fifth she should have any connect with is “The Truth”.

[justa-hairyape]

Finland ?

[justa-hairyape]

Definitely a possibility. Alternatively, those were Russian made rockets. If it’s like Syria, there are thousands of dual citizen Russians living in Iran. Weather is nice. A little vodka, being upset when you realize Iran is standing down....accidents like this seem to happen a lot in that part of the world, unfortunately.

[Widget Jr]

Yep. Finland, as a neutral intermediary.

[cpdiii]

It is normal for SAM installations to track all aircraft. It is just part of training. I suspect an idiot launched a missile in error. If not in error I am puzzled by this action.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I don’t want to know what CNN’s “analysis process” consists of.

[jmacusa]

Typical of stupid liberals who have absolutely no idea about the nature of weaponry and shooting. "crossfire'' is when someone is shooting at you and you're shooting back. Moving in between those two converging lines of fire is getting caught in the crossfire.

[SanchoP]

The journolist is still going strong.

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