Shuttle Cover-up? (kook alert)

NewsMax ^ | 02/03/03 | John LeBoutillier

[mhking]

Les Nessman doing his black helicopter routine comes to mind....

"I swear, with God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

[Focault's Pendulum]

How was the weather on Saturday noontime?

There was some. But then again....I think there's weather pretty much 24 hours a day.

[richardtavor]

I musta been in on the conspiracy as well, I was watching it also.

[Willie Green]

We'll never get to the bottom of this until we find out who hired Craig Livingstone and how he managed to get NASA clearance.

[Phantom Lord]

The loonies at DU think that NASA and President Bush knew right after the launch that the shuttle was doomed. That along with many other comments and threads over there will make you wonder where these people came from. A large portion of them actually believe that President Bush knew the shuttle was doomed and purposfully let it explode on return for the expresss purpose of using the tragity to up his popularity and to distract the nation from Iraq.

In fact, minutes after the Shuttle tragedy they had threads over there talking about how horrible it was. But not because of the tragedy of the loss, but because Bush would be able to have a Reaganesque moment and use the tragedy go boost his popularity. Some even think it was planned for this purpose!

They truly are sickos over there who need serious mental health evaluations and treatment.

[agrace]

Obviously this author does not understand the concept of "500 channels, and nothing on..."

LOL!

[TomB]

"I swear, with God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

The single funniest sitcom episode in the history of television.

IMHO

[Catspaw]

I loved that show--and even now, I still laugh like hell when I hear that line.

[My2Cents]

The fact that the White House chief of staff is even watching the landing of a space shuttle on a Saturday morning - while at Camp David in the middle of the Iraq crisis - raises a big red flag.

Please....Andy Card's watching NASA TV on an early Saturday morning at Camp David makes about as much sense as me watching NASA TV while I was on a business trip to Eureka, CA, back in October (an early morning broadcast then, too). It was the first time I'd seen NASA TV on a cable service, and I watched the return of the shuttle live. The fact is, I'm a space program nut, and gravitate toward that kind of information. On my return home, I wrote my cable provider and requested that they look into providing NASA TV to their customers.....Not everything that is weird to some is necessarily weird to others.

[Revolting cat!]

(kook alert)

Kook alert? And what about this?

[MindBender26]

Author only demonstrates his own paranoia and lack of understanding of government operations.

WH, DOD, OPM, CIA, FAA, and many others routinely monitor all news, (regular nets, all 11 CNN feeds, FNC, MSNBC, Weather Channel, Bloomberg, BBC, Sky News, NHK, and many other 24/7 news feeds. They also monitor special feed channels, such as NASA Select, Limbaugh on radio, the network regional feeds, etc.

#1. It is a good pulse on the country and world,

#2. POTUS/CINC needs to know about anything important ASAP. Feeds are often best to find out.

This was entirely routine, and author knew it, or should have known it.

[My2Cents]

A large portion of them actually believe that President Bush knew the shuttle was doomed and purposfully let it explode on return for the expresss purpose of using the tragity to up his popularity and to distract the nation from Iraq.

They think this way because this is the way their hero -- the Human Stain, Bill Clinton -- operated.

[Shermy]

Tinfoil?

I've been looking for such stories. The UFO stuff is very weak so far, not up to the usual `quality.' ;)

But here's a sort of paranormal story:

Israeli Astronaut's Wife Says Daughter Had Premonition

"...Rona Ramon, spoke to the media for the first time since Saturday's tragedy.

"The only thing that haunts me now is that during the take off, while we were all in 'high', because it was such a wonderful and perfect event, my youngest daughter yelled 'I lost my daddy' and apparently she knew," Ramon said. "She is five years old. And that's the only thing that hurts."

[Chuzzlewit]

Just waiting for the Newsweek headline : "Bush Knew!"...

[richardtavor]

As the "Big Guy" said: As G-d as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!

[Pokey78]

I almost never go over there, but Saturday afternoon I did.

And I thought we hated Clinton! hehe

[EggsAckley]

You're so right. This maroon writer is grasping at some very thin straws to foment anger in his readers. He knows better, no doubt. He's just counting on the "stoopids" to jump on his scandal bandwagon.

[Guillermo]

Agreed.

Joseph Farah is one hell of a stupid freak.

Limbacher and Ruddy aren't too far behind, the bozos that they are.

[aristeides]

How was the weather on Saturday noontime?

I think it was still misting then, but the weather didn't seem that bad to me (looking out the window of my apartment at the time, listening to the news of Bush being driven to the White House.) I left home in my car shortly after 1 PM, and had no trouble driving.

I suspect the whole excuse of the weather is a smokescreen for security reasons. Remember those "anthrax" searches in the Catoctin Mountains the past couple of weeks. Somebody commented on a thread about seeing F-16's headed in the direction of Camp David at the time of Bush's return. Bush got to Camp David somehow on Friday. Presumably he was driven. Why couldn't Blair go that way too?

Speaking of questions about Saturday morning, not only was Card allegedly watching NASA TV at Camp David around 9 AM. The Joint Chiefs were able to get together for a domestic incident meeting by 10 AM or so. I commented on a thread at the time how strange that seemed to me.

[Billthedrill]

It's all coming together now - Bush, the shuttle, Phil Spector, and THIS STORY. It's all part of a pattern. What did they know and when did they know it?