Update: 5:40 p.m. ? The entire position of the Alex Jones article I quote below has changed. See update #2 below.

I just finished my post speculating on how the kooks would respond to the small-plane crash into the New York City high-rise: “The FAA is LYING about 10/11! Eyewitnesses report seeing black helicopters hitting the buildings! We’re living in a wag-the-dog police state! It’s time to panic!”

Just for the sheer heck of it I went to Kook Central, Alex Jones’ web site, and here’s what I found:

Manhattan Plane Crash Simple Accident Or Suspicious Psy-op?
Images invoke 9/11 sentiment, government psy-op at work?

The FBI and Homeland Security are now labeling a small aircraft hitting an apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at 72nd Street and York Avenue, as a probable accident. Is this a government psy-op intended to invoke memories of 9/11 as the mid-term elections approach?

The fact that this area is controlled airspace and that no aircraft are allowed to fly into the area makes the crash of an aircraft very suspicious if that turns out to be the case. Visibility in New York for pilots is said to be eight miles at the moment.

Early reports that the crash involved a helicopter have now been dismissed. The FBI have confirmed two people are dead but say there is no “indication of terrorism.” …

Will the apartment building collapse in its own footprint like the twin towers? We know that’s what happens when planes hit buildings so we’ll wait and see what transpires.

More updates to follow.

No doubt the imaginative Mr. Jones still thinks I’m “CIA funded” ? or that Bigfoot sightings are news.

**Update 1**: The pilot was New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who died in the crash.

**Update 2** The Alex Jones article I just linked has changed. Jones’ latest version is even more hilarious. He still keeps the “psy-ops” conspiracy in the first paragraph (the late Yankees pitcher was a tool of the Neo-Cons? is he perhaps alive and well in a Secret Gummint Bunker sharing drinks with the 9/11 hijackers and Elvis and Amelia Earhardt too?) while accusing others of hysterical reactions:

Fox News Spins Plane Accident; Says It Could Affect Election
Hysterical reactions invoke 9/11 as baseball star confirmed as pilot, passport found on street

The FBI and Homeland Security are now labeling a small aircraft hitting an apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at 72nd Street and York Avenue, as a probable accident. Is this a government psy-op intended to invoke memories of 9/11 as the mid-term elections approach?

On Fox News’ Your World With Neil Cavuto, Cavuto suggested during a conversation with Republican Congressman Peter King that the event would possibly affect the upcoming mid-term election by reminding Americans of the horror of 9/11.

It has now been reported that the pilot or one of the occupants of the plane was New York Yankees baseball star Cory Lidle. The fact that the accident involves a celebrity means the networks can justifiably talk about it for another three weeks and in that sense – invoking memories of 9/11 – it could impact the election.

Reports that Lidle’s passport was found on the street is also being seen as suspicious by some 9/11 truthers – because it would seemingly prop up the inconceivable notion that Mohammed Atta and other hijacker’s passports survived and were discovered. However, in the case of Lidle this could easily be explained by eyewitness reports that most of the plane debris did not enter the building and ended up on the street below. This is how investigators have already been able to identify the plane in just the short time after the crash.

**Update 3** Jones fixed his lead paragraph finally. It had to be embarrassing to be accusing Fox of being “hysterical” and “bizarre” by discussing the plane crash “in the context of how it would affect the upcoming mid-term election” ? when your top paragraph is speculating that it was “a government psy-op intended to invoke memories of 9/11 as the mid-term elections approach.”

I found it necessary to take screenshots of the edit yesterday just in case Jones tried to hide his hysteria. Following is the article before and after Jones’ full revision:

Before:

After: