Where did CNN get that simulator tech schmo
with the scraggly facial hair and ratty plaid shirt who's supposed to be an "expert" on the 777? Couldn't they have at least cleaned him up a little bit? And couldn't they have found somebody who actually knows what he's talking about? He was nattering on about some asymmetric thrust compensating system that wouldn't have worked without electrical power, which was the actual scenario they've been talking about? I will give Anderson Cooper credit for not asking the same kind of blazingly stupid questions Don Lemon came up with (black holes and shit), but they are beating this thing to death and they are running out of stuff to talk about.
Oh, well, at least is isn't FAUX "News" with Bill Hemmorhoid talking about how it took 2000 years to find Noah's Ark.
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The non stop parade of idiots with theories on the teevee is really something. No wonder we are such a poorly informed nation.
It's the logical extension of the media's false equivalence way of presenting everything. Every half assed nut job with an opinion on something they know nothing about is given airtime, while people who actually know the subject and aren't nuts are ignored because facts are boring.
but I don't know where they got a 777 sim to play with (probably paid somebody a bunch of money to borrow one). They should have cleaned the guy up a bit before putting him on the air; he can't be an airline pilot with all that skeevy facial hair. It's a mixed bag - to be fair, some of the talking heads are actually pretty good (they also had a retired NWA guy who did know what he was talking about) but there is an insatiable demand for information and there isn't any, so they just keep talking.
