On March 22, 1996 the usual hourly one-minute summary of the news came on national radio. The last headline was the death of a former major-league baseball player, Pete Whisenant. His career stats are 988 AB, 37 HR, and .224 BA. He was too insignificant a player to ever be mentioned on a broadcast, even on a sports broadcast, which this wasn't. What was this about? I had only heard of him because I collected baseball cards back in the 50s. Besides some secret message, which I don't even know ever happens, I can think of two explanations. But people ought to be more logical about accepting just any explanation that makes something sound normal after all. I'd really like to get the official explanation of why the station broadcast this insignificant story. It was so out of place that it shocked me at the time. Even the deaths of All-Star players go unnoticed most of the time. It wasn't "a slow news day." This was a summary, which means that they left out stories from the full-length broadcast. Taking wild guesses, I could see the explanation being something like (1) he was the father-in-law of a radio executive who wanted his wife to think her Dad was important nationally, or (2) the family called the local newspaper after he died, the calltaker was ignorant about sports and thought that "pro baseball player," must mean that Pete was a star, he passed it on to an equally incompetent local radio guy, who passed it on to another dummy at national radio. Can you understand how abnormal this story is? Can anyone think of other possible explanations for it?
Typical Netwit childish answer. Any fact not on a highly financed news source is dismissed. That's why I'm sure that if extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth and were seen, we'd never hear about it. The sites that believe in that stuff either entirely make up stories or only listen to "witnesses" who describe the aliens under acceptable UFO guidelines. Another example of your slavishness to professional sources is that none of the Truthies ever bring up the two facts that September 11 in 1683 was the high point of the previous jihad and that on February 23, 1973 the Israelis revealed that the terrorists were thinking about hijacking an airplane and flying it into a heavily populated building. Because you don't know how to make conclusions but only parrot the illogical conclusions the fake Conspiracy sites give you, I have to explain that, in a consistent conspiracy mindset, those two facts would mean that our government knew the date and method of the attack.
