Miles O'Brien is an idiot.

[smartvoter]

Okay, I usually cut anchors having to fill space some slack, but all of his "expert" insight as a private pilot was wrong -- from the crash itself to plane details to crash details to similar crashes -- his own commercial pilot friend correcting him over and over on facts.

He said no one would make it out alive. Just had a report that everyone made it out as best as they can tell.

He told stories speculating the pilots made bad judgment.

A complete moron. And he keeps shifting positions to try and cover his butt.

[arcane1]

1. he was one hell of a chief engineer, though

I'm just sayin' :silly:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. LOL! Great minds think alike...

[XboxWarrior]

30. is he hitting that

Soledad(sp) on the morning show?

I mean same name and all.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. He managed to get Keiko, though!

That was pretty damned smart!

:P

[senseandsensibility]

4. One of the hardest things for us to accept

is that these "journalists" on CNN and elsewhere are stupid. The evidence all points to the fact that they are blow dried overly made up spokesmodels reading what is written for them. But we don't want to accept it, even as we hate what they are saying. I had an epiphany of sorts when I realized that Judy woofwoof was stupid. Most of them are about at *'s level intellectually and morally.

[arcane1]

5. "Well I could've been an actor, but I wound up here"

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Exactly. I'm not a journalist but I play one on tv

[ClusterFreak]

11. "....I just have to look good....I don't have to be clear..."

:rofl: :popcorn:

[smartvoter]

15. Get the widow on the set...

[ClusterFreak]

17. "we need DIRTY LAUNDRY"!!!!

....nice doin' the duet with ya!!
:headbang:

[HEyHEY]

6. Surprised he didn't ask if there was snow on the runway.

[Stirk]

8. How much Brien is in this newscast, anyway? MILES O' Brien.

[wiley]

9. Kick!

He says some of the most unbelievably stupid things I've ever heard. After the first London bombings he said that the victims were innocent people, at least in this regard. WTF does that even mean?

:thumbsdown:

[ClusterFreak]

10. Did you hear him ask that one eyewitness....

....if he noticed "What direction the wind was blowing??" when the plane crashed.

I shit you not.

:wtf:

[smartvoter]

13. Yes, I heard it. How about Wolf saying the flames and and fireballs

clearly were not a good sign?

What would we do without the cunning insight?

[Alpharetta]

12. I agree he's dumb as a stump

He got kudos for his live interviewing and updating during the Columbia disaster. I couldn't understand why. I thought he did a poor job.

[qanda]

14. I don't know why they think he is so smart

Most of the time he's so busy trying to talk over everyone's head that you know he doesn't really know what he's talking about. I couldn't believe how he had most of the passengers dead, even before the first injury reports were available. I'm sure it was a great comfort to the families. :eyes:

[bluedog]

16. the media lives for this :morbid...

death .crashes bombs.accidents...but they are quite mum when it comes to the soldiers and the Iraqi people being blown to bits........

[smartvoter]

18. It is interesting, isn't it? All eyes on one kind of death while blind to

another.

[HEyHEY]

19. I disagree

As a member of the media I can tell you we do not live for this. It in fact can be very upsetting, I've even fought back tears during my newscasts before, and I consider myself a crusty hardass in this business.

[ClusterFreak]

20. O'Brien and Blitzer are absolutely brutal

...did you notice the Bobsey Twins trying to get that one eyewitness to say the emergency services people and the crew might not have been doing their jobs properly....they were just picking around for something to criticize....when there's NOTHING to criticize at all!!!

This was a combination of unbelievable luck, maybe even Divine Intervention, a plane crew and emergency services team on the ground who did their jobs swiftly and with amazing efficiency under the most trying circumstances imaginable!!!! This was fucking textbook!!!

Fuck off Miles O'Brien!!!

Fuck off Wolf Blitzer!!!

[ClusterFreak]

23. Please excuse my gratuitous cussing....

[smartvoter]

26. I know. Two people said the response teams were there in

less than a minute and they didn't even acknowledge the statements.

[ClusterFreak]

29. Yeah....Blitzer is trying to totally downplay the emergency services

response, and now just say the Air France crew were the ones alone who did a great job evacuating the plane. I hate sounding like someone angling for a pat on the back for my guys (the Canadian emergency services team).....but Wolf, pal, I won't let you diss them by snubbing their amazing work either. Everybody involved - plane crew, emergency services, passengers - totally rocked.

[Pilotguy]

21. How about this...

keen observation from Faux's Sheperd Smith:

"We can only assume that the plane had less fuel when it arrived in Toronto than it did when it left France."

My god are these tv people stupid.

[smartvoter]

24. LOL. You have to wonder... nt

[Carni]

22. I hate to admit this but I actually kind of like him

Now before I get completely trashed over this... the reason I don't mind him, is because I cannot tell where he sits politically (that's at least saying something these days if they don't show their bias)

I have never heard him spew right winged bullshit like Wolf (I hate him) and he is certainly a hell of an improvement over that IDIOT Bill Hemmer!

Now go ahead flame away! (I know I know I should be ashamed lol)

[buzzard]

25. I have often thought the same thing, he is a little obsessed with the

weather and spacecraft though.

[Carni]

31. I agree lol

But I thought well at least he believes in science!
(it's pretty pathetic that belief in science isn't just a given with all anchor people... but these days you never know!)

[RetroLounge]

27. "Bubble-Headed Bleach Blond comes on at five"

RL

[Bluebear]

28. "Was it a low and slow or a hard and high?"

OK OK Miles, we get it. You know some aviation lingo. :eyes:

[smartvoter]

32. Funny part is he was wrong on most of his lingo. His pilot friend kept

correcting him.

[flyarm]

33. as a retired flight crew for a major airline

i found his commentary absolutely insulting and worse ..i found it so disgusting to those who were on board that aircraft..is was just sickening!
he repeated bullshit about wind sheer over and over and over like thats all he fing knew about..it was horrible..and disengenous ..
it was an insult to the people who were fighting for their lives on that aircraft...no one can decern the reason for a crash at this point..without talking to the pilots..and even then a lengthy investigation will have to take place for the full reasons..and at the point of a crash.it is not the time to decide what caused the crash..especially by a news hack...who might fly a small plane..it was total bullshit..and i found it beyond disgusting when people were onboard that aircraft attempting evacuation for their lives!
i don't watch cnn anymore as i find they are nolonger news..but i turned it on to see the crash to see if i could see what was going on on the ground...but i was repulsed by their coverage..i finally turned the volumn off and listened to canadian news while looking at cnn pictures..i could no longer listen to wolf and obriens bullshit!

there was little to nothing factual about what they were saying!