typical joe scarborough on the guy in the gyro-copter..."shoot him down!"

[CTyankee]

It was amazing no one on Morning Joe today pointed out that maybe he wasn't shot out of the sky because the authorities didn't know if he could have landed on some people. Those rotors are big and could whack away at anybody nearby.

Knee jerk reaction without thinking...

[democrank]

1. I haven`t watched Morning Joe for months.

Try it and you`ll feel like you just freed your head from a tightly-clamped vise.

[NightWatcher]

4. I stopped watching all the cable news and it feels great

Like Twain said, "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."

If something big enough goes down, you'll hear about it. Aside from that, most everything else is just static anyway.

[Renew Deal]

2. Edit: Found it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026515573

[CTyankee]

3. He was flying it. And I don't like the idea of it falling on someone, esp. with

big rotors turning like that...think about it...

[Renew Deal]

5. Yes. I see

[CTyankee]

6. in the video you can see it partially hidden by trees at some point in the distance.

The police might have not been sure whether there were people in his path or not and made a decision to let him land.

Also they were unsure whether he had a bomb device...the Bomb Squad was called and on the scene after he landed...a crash might have accelerated an explosion. There were no really good options...

[snooper2]

8. If it falls on someone the rotors probably won't be turning LOL

They are kind of what keeps it up in the air

[CTyankee]

9. my thought was of the possibility of malfunctioning rotors.

anyway the whole apparatus he was in would be a formidable falling object and a danger to anyone it fell on...

[Orsino]

7. Considering what happens to Joe's interns...

...Gyro Man got off lightly.

[whathehell]

10. To be fair, I think he said "They could have shot him down",

or they could have said "boot him down".

That being said, Joe did sound overly negative -- big surprise.

[whathehell]

11. My bad -- I just heard Joe Schmuck say "shoot him down"

as a "suggestion" for the secret service. I then turned it off.

[11 Bravo]

12. Then MSNBC could air the footage and Joey Scar could claim that he had "seen combat".

Just like Bill O'Reilly!