CNN Just Revealed It Was a B-52 That Dropped A bomb on Nagasaki in 1945!

CNN at aprox. 9:20 PM, CDST

[Tacis]

By accident, I stopped on CNN just as they were doing a story on the anniversary of the successful peace action at Nagasaki in 1945. They showed some older Japanese people as the female announcer, in a voice deep and wet with concern, told about today's moment of silence at 11:02 in commeration of the time in 1945 when "a B-52 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki."

[Tacis]

On the "news" side of CNN, they should run this tape every 30 minutes or so. It is well worth the effort to catch it to see an example of the left wing media being far more concerned with the revisionist emotional picture they can present for today's lefties than they are about basic factual accuracy. Maybe some of the failed NYT folks have moved to CNN.

[squidly]

Everybody knows it was really an F-117.

[glasseye]

Boy...that B-52 must be one FAST plane....hehehehe

[Steely Tom]

they can present for today's lefties than they are about basic factual accuracy. Maybe some of the failed NYT folks have moved to CNN.

Wasn't Hiroshima the first time depleted uranium was used as a weapon?

(steely)

[Ford Fairlane]

I thought it was a B58...LOL

[FreedomCalls]

Boy...that B-52 must be one FAST plane....hehehehe

Time warp. It's like when Captain Kirk and the crew of NCC-1701 were shot around the sun and went back in time to 1967 and met Gary 7.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times CNN Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

cnn lo

[polemikos]

Maybe some of the failed NYT folks have moved to CNN.

I think she's trying to burnish her resume to get a job at the NYT.

[lmr]

That is like saying the Space Shuttle put men on the moon. I have seen glaring inaccuracies in the media, but they don't care. A Story is more than just facts to the left-wing media.

[Jokelahoma]

This just shows how good our military was, and is. They can fly planes 9-10 years before those planes even go into service! Of course, it also shows that details and facts are not the strong point of leftists, but I think we already knew that.

[JimVT]

It's a wonder they didn't castigate the pilot. George Bush!

[duk]

I thought it was the Martian with his PU36 HIGH EXPLOSIVE SPACE MODULATOR, and an earth shattering KA BOOOOM.

[Bobsat]

CNN's never been shy about making up "facts" to fit their version of the story....

[Snake65]

Which bomb got dropped on Nagasaki, anyway? Was it "Person of Size, Self-Identified as of the Masculine Gender" or "Stature Challenged Pre-adult Male"? I can never remember.

[Ford Fairlane]

Wasn't Hiroshima the first time depleted uranium was used as a weapon?

Thats another thing that pisses me off about the liberal media - IT"S DEPLETED FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!!!!!

I've handled it, I'm still alive, & I'm still firing on both nuts, so what the heck is it supposed to do to you???

[mhking]

Figures. But who cares about facts when you can make them up as you go on?

[/sarcasm]

[martin_fierro]

Another example of CNN brilliance

[FlyVet]

LOL wouldn't surprise me. As G. Gordon Liddy would say, "They don't even know which end of the gun the round comes out of!"

The only thing worse than CNN I've ever seen is ABC World News Tonight. Cheesy. The local newscasters are better, and that ain't saying much.

[Alouette]

"a B-52 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki."

Did they mention the pilot was an Israeli Air Force officer?

[Eala]

Of course, it also shows that details and facts are not the strong point of leftists

Never stops them from forcing policies on us based on their "facts," though.

[VOR78]

Although its a seemingly harmless mistake, its such an obvious error that it makes a person wonder what other mistakes and half-truths exist in the media. Of course, it is CNN...

[SolidSupplySide]

9:20 PM, CDST

I see you got the time covered regardless if we are on daylight savings time (CDT) or standard time (CST).

You do know, though, that there is a difference between the two, don't you. While most of the central time zone is currently on CDT, some Indiana counties don't observe daylight savings time. Those counties are on CST all year.

So which is it?

[martin_fierro]

And yet more CNN brilliance

[Rome2000]

It was an F-22 with an "assault rifle" attachment.

[SAMWolf]

BS! I know it was an F-117 that went through a time warp and was stolen by the Nazis! They did it to make us look bad.

[katze]

The B-52A first flew in 1954, and the B model entered service in 1955. A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962.

But then, leave it to CNN to screw it up.

[Eala]

Wow! Nearly 18 times the speed of light!! LOL... (dimwits)

[TomGuy]

FoxNews just reported that it was a B-29.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Obviously got confused by Dr. Strangelove.

[Ford Fairlane]

More like 20 years in this case

Of course the B58 went fast enough it could have caused a time warp - after all, Jimmy Stewart (as a Brig. Gen) was even checked out in one

[Focault's Pendulum]

I thought it was the Martian with his PU36 HIGH EXPLOSIVE SPACE MODULATOR, and an earth shattering KA BOOOOM.

You fool! You're in violation of the confidentiality agreement.

You have put us all in danger.

Uh...all you Barsoom people...we can contain this....I think.

[South40]

And they look so innocent.

[Eala]

LOL again! (Or hovering somewhere in-between?)

[stboz]

They're using Million-Man Math...5+2 = 7 and 9-2 = 7. If it works for Calypso Louie, it'll work for CNN.

[rabidralph]

Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson are awesome pilots. What do you expect?

[F.J. Mitchell]

We had B-52's in 1945? That was the best kept secret of WWII.

[StatesEnemy]

today's moment of silence at 11:02

I hope they thought REALLY HARD on the atrocities committed throughout the South Pacific in the name of the Emperor.

[ConservativeLawyer]

Was it "Person of Size, Self-Identified as of the Masculine Gender" or "Stature Challenged Pre-adult Male"?

Funny!

[SAMWolf]

Bye-bye Nagasaki!

[Mr. Mojo]

B-52, B-29, B-17, B-2, B-1 .....The libs at CNN not only don't know the difference, but they don't want to know the difference. To them it's all the same --- big bad planes flown by mean people who get pleasure out of bombing the little brown peoples of the world.

[Mr. Mojo]

Which bomb got dropped on Nagasaki, anyway? Was it "Person of Size, Self-Identified as of the Masculine Gender" or "Stature Challenged Pre-adult Male"? I can never remember.

LOL!

[microgood]

It wasn't a B-52. It was launched from a Trident Submarine, Silly CNN.

[wimpycat]

[Ford Fairlane]

You mean this guy?

[Ford Fairlane]

beat me to it...

[motor_racer]

Well I saw the movie with Martin Sheen about an aircraft carrier going through a time warp to Pearl Harbor, and we know the libs favorite pastime is historical revision, so why not?

[Mr. Mojo]

Did they mention the pilot was an Israeli Air Force officer?

And that Ariel Sharon was behind it all.

[FourPeas]

Yup. Bockscar. It's at Wright-Pat.

[South40]

It wasn't a B-52. It was launched from a Trident Submarine, Silly CNN.

Actually...it was launched from a Schwinn.

[aristeides]

The conventional cover story until now was that the Fat Man A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by a B-29 named Bock's Car piloted by Maj. Charles W. Sweeney. But that's because it could only now be revealed that it was in fact dropped by a B-52 moved back in time by a time machine.