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    Fail New York Times deletes 9/11 tweet after backlash: 'Airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center'

    By Brian Flood | Fox News




    The New York Times caused an uproar on Wednesday with a now-deleted tweet and now-updated story that originally said “airplanes” were responsible for the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.

    “18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. Today, families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more than 2000 people died,” the Times’ verified Twitter account wrote in a message accompanying a story about 9/11 victims being remembered at Ground Zero.

    The 9/11 anniversary message was immediately met with harsh criticism and was swiftly deleted.

    “We've deleted an earlier tweet to this story and have edited for clarity. The story has also been updated,” the Times tweeted.

    The updated tweet to promote the story said, “18 years after nearly 3,000 people were lost, families of those killed in the terror attacks will gather at the 9/11 memorial. There will be a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., then the names of the dead — one by one — will be recited.”

    The story, by James Barron, was also changed to note that “terrorists commandeered” the airplanes that brought down the World Trade Center.

    The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    “The @NYT says airplanes caused 9/11. Wrong. It was Muslim terrorists who waged jihad on American soil and killed thousands of our fellow countrymen in the name of their religion,” Fox News’ Todd Starnes wrote, while Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee noted that the paper doesn’t seem to “have much grasp on recent history.”

    “Twin Towers NOT brought down because “airplanes took aim” at them, but b/c radical Islamists hijacked planes & took aim at them,” Huckabee added.

    Many users compared the rhetoric in the Times tweet to an infamous remark made by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., earlier this year when she said “some people did something” when describing the 9/11 attacks.

    Many others rushed to Twitter to condemn the Gray Lady with messages ranging from sarcasm to outrage:















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    Thats it.. Time to ban planes...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Thats it.. Time to ban planes...
    Airplanes don't kill people, Muslim halfbreed lunatics kill people

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy View Post
    Airplanes don't kill people, Muslim halfbreed lunatics kill people
    Next you will be saying guns dont kill people..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Next you will be saying guns dont kill people..
    They generally don't, it's normally the high-velocity bullet that comes out of them that kills














    You should know by now i'm one of the only non-US folk here that doesn't get involved in your gun debates....... none of my business

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    Maybe the airplanes were built by Cyberdyne Systems

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy View Post
    They generally don't, it's normally the high-velocity bullet that comes out of them that kills














    You should know by now i'm one of the only non-US folk here that doesn't get involved in your gun debates....... none of my business
    I know, you should also know I'm totally razzing you as well..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Maybe the airplanes were built by Cyberdyne Systems

    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    I know, you should also know I'm totally razzing you as well..

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    dumb cunts






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    I arrived late that morning to work to find the entire staff in the parking lot (over 80 people). They had a fire alarm and it was nothing to do with 9/11.

    I had a smoke with a few coworkers and at that time, around 10:30 am mountain time the world still thought it was bombs.

    There was a little talk on the radio about a plane being possibly seen hitting WT1.

    So as we smoked I casually said - That would be horrifying if someone flew planes into the World Trade Center as a weapon.

    Know it all asshole said - Don't be stupid there's no way someone could do that.

    Same guy the next morning was saying there's no way the towers collapsed because two planes hit them.

    My snarky response without knowing - Those towers have never been hit by commercial airliners before, how do you know what 'would' happen?


    ffs this was before everyone was an engineering expert on the internet comment sections...that guy deserved a punch on the best of days.

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    Here were The President of the United State's commemorative tweets (presented in order):













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    ADHD?

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    Quote Originally Posted by perrhaps View Post
    ADHD?
    He would say "an active mind"

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    I pay no mind. I want to read about what happened, not the snarky meaningless shit. We all know who he is...
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    I pay no mind. I want to read about what happened, not the snarky meaningless shit. We all know who he is...
    Plus, not even sure what Trump's tweets have to do with the story about the NYT tweet

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