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MSNBC Analyst: Explosion Sound Could Be 'Gas-Filled Balloon'
newsbusters.org ^ | May 22, 2017

Posted on 05/22/2017 9:11:22 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Early Monday evening as details of a loud explosion at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester England were first rolling in, something obviously very wrong as MSNBC’s chyron was reporting “at least 20 dead.” But for the network’s Law Enforcement Analyst Jim Cavanaugh on Hardball, the terrifying noise could have been anything, including a very loud balloon popping as he told host Chris Matthews.

"The police have not told us the cause of this loud explosion. There was some reports of smoke, but we could have people injured in an accidental explosion, some kind of event in there with equipment, loud noise, you know, sometimes these concerts use fireworks, so there's reports that there's large gas filled balloons there."


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; mediabias; msnbc
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To: Helicondelta

Looks like he was sucking on a gin filled balloon!


41 posted on 05/23/2017 1:12:49 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Helicondelta

WTF?


42 posted on 05/23/2017 1:14:29 PM PDT by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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