Conservatives Blame Obama for Missing Malaysian Airplane…No, Really (Audio)
by Richard Rowe
Conservatives
like simple answers, and simple scenarios, the two most popular of
which being "God did it" and "Blame it on the Devil." Life is so much
simpler when everything comes down to one guy's decisions, and you don't
have to account for anything else. That's especially true of those with
heady cases of Obama Derangement Syndrome. In these cases, the simple
and popular thing to do is replace "Devil" with "Obama," and call it a
day.
At
12:41 a.m. on Saturday, Flight 370, a Boeing 777 took off from Kuala
Lampur, Malaysia, and was supposed to arrive in Beijing 2,700 miles away
some five hours later. At 1:30 a.m., air traffic controllers in Subang
lost contact with the airplane. Radar data collected just prior to the
disappearance suggests that the airplane might have turned back toward
Kuala Lampur shortly before disappearing. As of right now, the aircraft
and all 239 people onboard have disappeared, and are expected to be
sitting somewhere at the bottom of the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.
As
of right now, nobody has the slightest idea what might have happened to
the plane; no wreckage has been recovered, and theories for the crash
(which there almost certainly was) run the gamut from sudden
decompression, to pilot error, to mechanical and technical problems, to a
bomb. The 777 is one of the safest, largest and most advanced passenger
planes in the sky, and has no record of major safety issues.
In
this clip from his radio show, Sean Hannity and guest Fox contributor
Angela McGlowan do their best to pin the disappearance of the aircraft
on Obama. This particular conspiracy theory revolves around the presence
on the plane of two Iranian men, who were traveling using stolen
Italian and Austrian passports likely purchased in Thailand. The two men
had itineraries that would have taken them to Denmark and Germany.
Malaysian
officials believe that the two Iranian men were using the stolen
passports in an effort to emigrate from Iran (via Malaysia and China) to
Europe. The plan, they believe, was for the men to disappear in
Malaysia and begin new lives in Europe without leaving a paper trail.
This might sound convoluted, but it's not as uncommon as you might think
in this area, particularly since Thailand is a known hot spot fake and
stolen passports.
Hanity
and McGowan believe though, that the airplane was definitively "blown
out of the sky" by the two Iranian men. McGowan goes on to make a
fascinating "logical" leap from a plane crash outside of Vietnam to
Homeland Security and Obama. "I believe that this administration doesn't
really have a foreign policy plan and they're really, uh, a failure in
Homeland Security. I'm gravely concerned," he said.
Speaking
of the scenario of the two men being Iranian suicide bombers who blew
up the airplane, Hannity said, "By the way, would this then stop all the
payments that we're now giving all the money we had locked up for Iran?
Would the world then reunite the world if there's potential that an
Iranian could be involved in this? Wouldn't it be right to put the
sanctions back in place, Richard?"
His
second guest, the (well-named) Richard responded as the voice of
(attempted) reason."Well, I think that point one, Shawn, is that we're
not really sure. We can't blame this on the president at all.
Hannity
responded, "Did I blame this on the president? Did anyone here blame
this on the president?" Richard responded, "Angela just tried to blame
it on Obama's foreign policy!"
Hannity
replied, "No, no she did not." Quickly changing the subject away from
McGowan, Hannity continued the conversation that didn't just happen,
going on to say Obama was naive about Iran, and his arrangement with the
Iranians was "a bad deal."
So, there you have it. A plane crashes in Vietnam, and it's Obama's fault because he lifted sanctions on Iran.
There's your dose of Fox "logic" for the day.
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