Megyn Kelly Buys Into The Drone Frenzy

Back when Megyn Kelly was being eased out at Fox with a consolation book deal, having failed at her assignment to bring Trump down, Sundance at Conservative Treehouse began calling her MeAgain. It looks like those days are back.

At 1:20 in the video above, she embeds footage of a supposed New Jersey "drone", which is clearly a commercial jet. If nothing else, the roar of the engines gives it away. The Jerseyite comments,

It looks likea a [redacted] triangle. They look like a traiangle.

Er, that's because of the swept wings the jet's lights are mounted on. In a later sequence, another Jerseyite says,

It looks like a spaceship, right? Like, that doesn't look like a drone, right? . . . It's like a small plane, it really is! It's like a small plane. These are all drones in the sky.

Well, somebody better get on the case if all these drones are disguising themselves as planes! Megyn adds,

All these are going from dusk to around 11:00 at night, they say. Look at this. Another eyewitness told the New York Times the drones show up one after the other following the same flight path!

Well, that's what happens at busy airports, day or night. What if some enterprising observer tried to discover where the drones went after they saw them and found out they were carrrying humanoids, who disembarked? Hundreds of them! Maybe thousands? Are they zombies? Space aliens? What's going on?? MeAgain goes on,

They don't know where they take off from, or land. They do believe they're coming from the water, at least according to some of the officials. They say that they're not drones, they're not drones being flown by hobbyists, or related to DHS, this is what they're saying. . . State leaders told constituents they don't pose any threat to the public, no threat whatsoever. They don't know what the hell they are, but don't panic.

This is beyond comical. Even the people taking the videos think gee, they almost look likle planes, not drones, but because the media says they're drones, and the officials say they don't know what they are, they must be something else. Even the editorialists at the Wall Street Journal are furrowing their brows:

[N]o one in Washington seems to be able to convincingly explain the sightings. A joint statement Thursday by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said: “We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.”

The statement added that “Historically, we have experienced cases of mistaken identity, where reported drones are, in fact, manned aircraft or facilities. We are supporting local law enforcement in New Jersey with numerous detection methods but have not corroborated any of the reported visual sightings with electronic detection. To the contrary, upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully.”

For whatever reason, nobody so far has come out and said, either at the White House, DHS, the FBI, or any responsible news organization, anthing like,

This doesn't explain every sighting, but let's try to eliminate all the reports we can explain, which will be 99.9% of them. This is what a commercial jet looks like from below as it's coming in to land at hight. [insert video] This is what a lineup of commercial jets ready to land in sequence at an airport looks like at night. [insert video] This is what a helicopter looks like at a distance at night. [insert video] If you have video or other evidence of drones that you think don't look or act like these commercial jets or helicopters, please send it to [e-mail address] at [DHS, FBI, CNN, whatever].

This is the piece that's been missing, the James Kallstrom crisis manager with the credibility to put things in perspective and focus attention where it belongs.

Insteead, as I've been saying, John Kirby at the White House has been typical of rthe bureaucrats who are issuing non-specific boilerplate claiming no threat to public safety but we don't know what they are. The fact is they absolutely do know what 99.9% of them are, and the only thing I can think is they're too lazy to explain it clearly, or their bosses are too timid to let them do it.

I almost think that sometime around the Orson Welles War of the Worlds panic, somebody drafted boilerplate that would cover a space invasion using words like no threat to public safety but we don't know what they are, filed it away, and made it known that this was what should be released in any such contingency. Any bureaucrat who deviated from that established policy risked their career.

The other problem is that the news organizations are exhausted (so they say) -- and that includes the Wall Street Journal, which could easily run a story showing that all the videos showing the "drones" are showing jets landing at La Guardia, and clear up the mess, but they won't, because it sells papers and generates clicks at the WSJ, CNN, NewsNation, and even MeAgain Kelly on YouTube.

MeAgsin has been trying to rehabilitate her reputation all year covering Trump's comeback on YouTube, but a stunt like this is going to set her back a long way, a shallow, self-absorbed, ditzy blonde.