More MSM stupidity.......

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More MSM stupidity.......

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Linky

Here's the part that hit my "Gee, ya'll are stupid" button about the MSM.
"Two Russian Tupolev-162 strategic bombers -- each capable of carrying 12 cruise missiles armed with single 200-megaton nuclear warheads -- carried out exercises in Venezuela last month."
This made my BS detector go off, big time, because I just can't imagine a cruise missile big enough to carry a 200MT warhead, especially loaded onto a plane WITH 11 MORE SIMILIAR CRUISE MISSLES. So I did five minutes worth of Google research. Apparently the MSM is not only stupid, but damn lazy as well, because looky here what I found:
"Tsar Bomba (Царь-бомба), literally "king Bomb", is the Western name for the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (codenamed "Иван" (Ivan) by its developers) — the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT; however that was reduced by half in order to limit the amount of nuclear fallout that would result. Two bombs were built, a mock bomb and the real bomb, with the real bomb being tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.[1] Despite testing, the weapon never entered service; it was simply a demonstration of the capabilities of the Soviet Union's military technology at that time. The mock bomb was stored in the Russian Nuclear Weapons Museum in Sarov."
From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

Now I KNOW Wikipedia isn't as perfect as it's originators try to pretend it is, but I bet in this case it is pretty damn accurate.

Bloody MSM morons....... :x And they wonder why we think that they are full of shit. :roll:
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It appears to be an AFP story.

:roll:

We know how reliable they are.
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Termite wrote:Bloody MSM morons....... :x And they wonder why we think that they are full of shit. :roll:
Not to denigrate your investigative efforts, (good work, by the way) but I don't think the MSM maroons know and/or believe that we think they are full of shiite.

I get my news from three sources: The Lehrer News Hour, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the internet. (Of course, that requires some ability to think and reason.) I think many of us here might be surprised at just how many of the government-school-educated mouth-breathers think The Daily Show is actually a news show...... :roll:
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my guess... they meant to type 20 megatons
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