Discussion: CNN Boss Thought Don Lemon's Malaysian Airline Conspiracy Theory Was Idiotic

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calls it “swarming

So…Instead of mindlessness he’s suggesting hive mind direction by a single bloated queen? OK.

Catastrophic on board event (fire/smoke), pilot aims for nearest airport that can take plane, pulls busses to find short (disables transponder), plane and passengers overtaken with smoke, plane flies for hours until fuel expended, then plunges into deep and vast Indian Ocean. Search continues, may take years, especially considering depth and size of ocean. Pretty simple.

Yet all the nuts were out with their “Diego Garcia” nonsense, or that the plane would be used in an attack, etc. And CNN and the rest of the media were glad to give them a stage, but in this case CNN seemed to be by far the worst. I think they kept it as the lead story thinking it would be found quick. Then when they realized it would not be, they had to “milk” the story. That requires letting the conspiracy madness fly…and that they did.

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Yes, but was it good for ratings?

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Why didn’t he fire the looser?

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A statement that could be broadly applied to almost everything he reports on these days…

What’s truly cringeworthy is that some of his remarks make Wolf Blitzer look rational and smart.

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Lemon even wondered if the mystery was the result of a “supernatural” event, a suggestion he may well have taken from a random Twitter user.

Name of Fox Mulder.

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Through the stable wormhole they went to the Gamma Quadrant. Currently being subjected to several cycles of mind correction by the Argrathi.

Yes Don Lemon is an idiot! Fire the dumbazz already and find a smart african-american like Dorian Warren, Joan Reid, etc, etc. Snooty little man with his “affectations”, telling black youth to pull up their pants…

Ted Baxter.

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Ratings.

Donald Trump would be my first guess.