The Daily Show gives the Los Angeles Missile story the ending it deserves.
Turns out that the California missile was a passenger jet. The first clips looked like a missile. The heli pilot says he tracked the thing for 10 minutes, a point that Jon Stewart ridicules for the rather obvious clue it is. Makes you wonder if the gang at KCBS in Los Angeles is quite that stupid.
The news media – gotta love Fox News – and a few others blame the whole thing on the government for not knowing.
Sounds oddly familiar.
Aircraft misidentified, hysteria ensues fuelled by local news media speculation. Gotta love local Faux News. Even the Mother Corp went after the Faux News title on this one.
The truth is a lot less spectacular, of course.
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