Petruna and Airtran Flight 297: It's scary how DUMB right wingers are.
by Pravin, Sat Dec 05, 2009 at 02:40:06 AM EST
Here is a summary:
This is about another right wing viral hot topic that eventually got debunked. Petruna, supposedly a NASA employee at one time, started circulating emails about witnessing a dry run by islamic terrorists on Flight 297(Atlanta-Houston) but the whole account was being suppressed. The right wing community would add to the silliness by adding comments that are imbued with over the top gravitas of how each one of them either worked in the aviation industry, or knew the guy personally and was a stand up guy who wouldnt lie, or were in the CIA or government and how they can tell that this is true. This is a cheneyesque tactic where instant credibility is demanded just by saying "well, come on, how can you question serious people like us?" .
Anyway, here is that link:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/13158/ano
ther-muslim-hijacking-dry-run-if-true-te
dd-petrunas-my-new-hero/
Glenn Beck supposedly showed similar enthusiasm for this topic on another site. I love how Debbie Schussel, one of those idiotic talking heads I feel like going all Gallagher like on her watermelon head, goes on about how she personally checked out this source.
** UPDATE, 9:41 p.m. ET: Earlier today, I contacted Tedd Petruna, the brave passenger on AirTran Flight 297, who-with another Texan-saved the day from apparent Islamic terrorists, leaving him a voicemail message asking for confirmation of the e-mail and events below. Mr. Petruna called me back, tonight, and confirmed that he did write the e-mail below and that it's all true. WAKE. UP. AMERICA. We are under siege. **
This is an update by Debbie which is postdated after an initial caveat by her which claims that she is not 100% sure it is true but she is willing to believe this account. So at the time of the update, whatever little doubts she has are gone.






