As you know, the media have been working overtime when it comes to headlines and posts about the cockpit stabbing and attempted hijacking of a commercial airliner going from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The plane was carrying mostly Israelis but thanks to some passenger and crew heroics, ended up landing safely in Saudi Arabia.
Even given what we now know, some outlets are still trying to frame the story this way.
A pilot brawl, then a rapid descent: passengers recount chaos on flydubai flight https://t.co/KJ9HVlTbvx https://t.co/KJ9HVlTbvx
— Reuters World (@ReutersWorld) September 30, 2026
"Pilot brawl"? Wow.
After the hijacking attempt, it's like a memo went out to all media outlets containing key words to use in their headlines and posts.
@EndWokeness has a collection of six here.
Muslim co-pilot stabs pilot and tries to take down plane with 180 passengers
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 30, 2026
Media: pic.twitter.com/2sfYv2nI2M
Simply amazing.
On top of that, outlets like The New York Times have been digging their hole even deeper by attempting to spin the reason they're softening what really happened.
If 9/11 happened today:
— Bob (@BobDC2018) September 30, 2026
“An altercation between some passengers and the flight crew caused an American Airlines flight to crash into the North Tower”
What the hell is going on? Why is the entire global establishment machine covering for radical Islam????
— Horizons96 (@Horizons96wgv) September 30, 2026
Zero surprise that the media is protecting a terrorist. https://t.co/lvm9Xv0BCq
— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) September 30, 2026
We'll now wait for much of the media to take the inevitable next step, which is to do their best impressions of the Norm Macdonald meme.
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