▪️When I saw this meme I instantly knew it was false. But was curious how the dazzling minds at Feminist News came to this conclusion. Turns out they actually linked to a news story in the comments, which quoted an FAA report saying, “one air traffic controller was doing the work normally assigned to two people”
▪️Feminist News misunderstood this to mean there was only one controller in the tower, which was most certainly not the case.
▪️Anyone familiar with aviation knows that controllers frequently take on multiple frequencies or jobs. Often clearance delivery will also be ground control, sometimes one controller will even handle everything; tower, ground and clearance, depending on workload. This is nothing new or remarkable, and it does NOT mean there’s only one person in the tower, certainly not in an airport like Reagan.
▪️Whether or not this was a factor in the accident remains to be seen. From this report it’s not even clear which controller they were referring to (was it tower or ground?) Generally, controllers are quite competent and can handle working two jobs. Listening to the ATC audio before the crash they didn’t sound particularly overwhelmed or rushed.
▪️From what I can tell, the controller asked if the helicopter had the CRJ in sight, they said yes, and were told to maintain visual separation with the CRJ. It’s likely they confused it with another aircraft, or lost visual, and that lead to the tragedy. So many (who know nothing) are trying to come up with alternate theories that align with their politics.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
