Just watching MSNBC. Plane diverted to Bristol, TN.

[spanone]

Maybe they are just late for the NASCAR race???

The plane was enroute, I think, from Philly (?) to Houston.

Watch folks, everyday until the election there will be nothing but terror, terror, terror, terror, and did I mention terror??

No links, just reported.

edit for link. http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/home.html

[Beelzebud]

1. You can tell it's election season.... How pathetic.

And people like us are Tin Foil Hatters for pointing out the FACT, that the last time we were bombarded with terror threats was in 2004, oddly enough, an election season...

[spanone]

3. You don't have to don a til foiler to see the obvious.

[bdamomma]

2. this plane diverting is becoming very common now isn't it???

fear, fear, paranoia and more paranoia.

[gratuitous]

4. Don't forget to be wet-your-pants scared, America!

If you're not terrified, the terrorists will win.

[MrModerate]

5. Rove, et al, have lost it. All they'll get out of this is . . .

Terror fatigue, which will turn into terror alienation, which will turn into terror apathy.

They're killing the goose that lays the golden tabulator totals.

Go Karl, Go!

[NanceGreggs]

13. Agreed!

Think of every person on a flight, meeting an incoming passenger, etc., that is going to be incovenienced as a result of this crap -- and you can count their votes for a Democrat in November.

They've over-played their hand -- and they're too stupid for it to have sunk in yet.

[Beelzebud]

6. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Remember when we used to have real leaders?

[LSK]

7. I wonder how many planes are diverted in nonelection years

Im sure it happens a lot, but its not politically useful to report at that time.

[izzie]

8. Had enough FEAR yet?

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

9. It would be ironic if someone on the plane was really traveling to Bristol

but had to go through houston first, as there were no direct flights...

[Nostradammit]

15. Yeah - lucky for them, huh?

You are a glass half-full kind of person, I take it.

:)

[ncrainbowgrrl]

29. Yeah- most convienant for them.

And no- I'm more of a "there is a glass, liquid is in the glass. I will probably spill the liquid on myself, Thus, I will not move the glass" type of person. :-)

[azurnoir]

10. So now FWA (flying while Arab)

is the neurosis du jour? These chicken littles better watch out lest the sky does fall and no one believes them.

[TheFriedPiper]

11. I'm not SCARED enough to vote Republican

C'mon people, we can make all this fear-mongering backfire on the Republicans.

Only cowards vote for Republicans.

Say it with a bumpersticker:

[gully]

19. This implies that Republicans are better on terror doesn't it?

I don't get it, but it looks nice.

[TheFriedPiper]

27. No, it says Republicans are WEAK

Republicans think America is too WEAK to defeat terrorists without giving up freedom.

But mostly it goes to dissuading their base from voting Republican. This is a frontal assault on the 'macho' insecure male that votes Republican because they don't want to be associated with the party they see as associated with 'queers'.

This is how you play politics in the modern world. You go after their base. You attack them where they are strongest: among joe sixpack types that are uninformed but will vote Republican for the same reason they buy a big pickup truck: it makes them FEEL a little less like a vulnerable little wimp.

It is all about projection with them.

[AirmensMom]

12. That's strange ...

they didn't break into any of the local programming to mention it. Usually, they'll interrupt programming if it's going to rain. :shrug:

Edit: Forgot to say ... all this fear mongering should backfire sooner or later. I mean, either we're safer under bush* or not. If we ARE safer, why are there so many new "threats"? Maybe someone could point this out to the repugs?

[spanone]

14. I've yet to see it reported anywhere else. It was Breaking News on MSNBC.

[AirmensMom]

16. Well, I'm just south of Bristol.

Hmmm .... makes you wonder what MSNBC is up to.

[spanone]

18. Not even a mention on their website, yet. Hmmm is right.

[AX10]

17. This will be a daily occurance from now until election day.

[Eurobabe]

20. Not on Chicken Noodle News yet

eom

[spanone]

21. Here we go....link

BREAKING NEWS: Flight diverted to Tri-Cities airport following bomb threat
Monday, August 28 2:00 PM
U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Houston has been diverted to the Tri-Cities Regional Airport after authorities said a bomb threat involving the flight was made

http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/home.html

[walldude]

22. Saw it on CNN as well.. Diverted because someone

found a "suspicious" note. Of course CNN runs the story of yesterdays crash along with it. :eyes:

[spanone]

23. Yes, that is the perfect scenario, Human error or bomb threat all the same

This is the illness of our media.

[longship]

24. What? Was somebody shampooing in the rest room?

Lather... Rinse... Repeat.

Damn! If I hadn't done the Repeat part they wouldn't have caught me.
:evilgrin:

[SutaUvaca]

25. Sounds like a rookie "event" planner at the helm

on this one. Else the plane would have been diverted to a place where more media could descend into than little ol' Bristol, TN.

[spanone]

26. But, if it can happen in lil ol Bristol, you big boys best be real scared!

[spanone]

28. Now it's up on the CNN webpage. Not 'Breaking' just 'News Alert'

www.cnn.com