‘I feel the need, the need to freak out New Yorkers!’ — Update: Wouldn’t ‘Photoshop’ have been cheaper?
The Obama administration is doing their best to keep New Yorkers on their toes:
An Air Force fighter jet and one of President Barack Obama’s official planes on Monday flew low over the Statue of Liberty in an approved photo opportunity that startled some New Yorkers who have memories of the September 11 attacks.
New York City officials notified some businesses but not all city agencies or the general public. People in New York remain sensitive to such incidents in lower Manhattan, site of the 2001 attacks involving hijacked airliners that destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
Many people left their buildings, and stock prices extended losses at the time.
The U.S. Air Force, which operates the president’s plane, said the “aerial photo mission” involved an F-16 fighter jet escort and one of the Boeing 747s designated as Air Force One when the president is aboard. Obama was not on board.
Police said federal authorities told them not to disclose the information ahead of time but to direct inquiries to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Mayor Bloomberg is reported to be “furious” — either because most people weren’t informed of the fly-by, or that he found out the plane was carrying foods loaded with trans fats.
Look for Obama’s people to claim it was a selfless gesture on the part of the president to take New Yorkers minds off the swine flu.
Click the pic below to watch the CBS 2 story on the ill-timed buzz of Lady Liberty:
As for the environmental impact of this photo-op, we’ll have to consult the “carbon footprint calculator” — though it can’t be nearly as bad as “Hurricane Latrina” that blew through DC on Inauguration Day.
What’s going to be the next Obama administration photo op? My money is on lighting firecrackers next to a group of napping D-Day veterans.
An administration official says a presidential Boeing 747 and a fighter jet flew low near ground zero in New York City Monday because the White House Military Office wanted to update its file photo of the president’s plane near the Statue of Liberty.
Seems to me that a little thing called “Photoshop” could have saved a ton of fuel, not to mention spared a few nerves.
The White House has apologized, and this report says Obama was also “furious” — and this is a president who sat through an anti-American diatribe by Daniel Ortega without batting an eye.
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Could it have been to much to ask that this adminstration (or who ever) scheduled this photo op to spend 5 minutes writing a press release and sending it to all the tv and radio stations in NY?
However, I am glad to see New Yorkers with a healthy dose of concern like the passengers who complained about the imans in Minnesota a few years ago.
Hat tip to NY’s finest in blue and red-Especially Retfireman!
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
One night in BNCOC makes a hard man humble…
traveler49:
Its alright, we are allowed to disagree.
Obama will still be the worst president in american history if we disagree.
He-man democrat in action. I’m surprised that Chicago Thug wasn’t photographed standing on top of the Statue of Liberty with his hands on his hips, chin held high in his best Superman pose during the fly-by. What a thoughtless moron.
Wow, permission to disagree. Thanks
I’m not trying to defend anyone, but let’s look at a reason to not make this public ahead of time.
The Air Force is not in the habit of posting flight schedules of VC-25s. Public notice of this flight could have alerted a terrorist group of the exact whereabouts of a VC-25.
Could you imagine a Al Qaeda sleeper cell in NYC and the publicity of blowing the “other Air Force One” out of the sky?
I imagine that was part of the equation in not making this public.
Drugs can only do so much. I doubt there is a cure for BO.
For some reason I thought of John Belushi in his P-51 Mustang.
Only another 998 days to go…
Hey, HotAir is reporting that Caldera is the bad boy that approved this monstrocity and that ‘Bambi is furious. It was the WH….
Could you imagine if Bush was in office and HE pulled a stunt like this? The left would be calling for impeachment within nano-seconds.
Unbelievable. And as usual, the MSM is shoving this under the rug.
Tenn,
with all due respect you are over thinking this and making silly excuses.
THERE WAS NO REASON TO DO THIS
PERIOD
You should read the apoplectic Obamabots over on sfgate.com. They are in a twit over the rousing comments about Obama’s stupidity in this photo-op. It’s so fun blogging over there!
Maybe the Marines need to be taught to give the enemy’s coordinates when you call in a strike, not your own…..
9/11 + Barack Obama = Photo Shoot
http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/911-barack-obama-photo-shoot/
We overreacted???? Guess you don’t live here. HHHMMM 9/11 and 1 month later plane crashes in Queens and we overreacted!
I will tell you where you can put your humble opinion!
Then here’s a thought: how about not buzzing NYC with it?
xler8, Ha! I was wondering when #109 was going to happen. and you were gentle……
Not to mention the Sully plane going down in the Hudson. I work by Wall St, and we were notified this morning by e-mail so apparently someone was aware that this may cause unease. It was incredibly insensitive. And I wonder what the carbon footprint was for this photo op?
TY! It took a lot of nerve to even utter we overreacted! And of course from someone that doesn’t live here and didn’t first hand experience either of those events. Which I did.
When the plane crashed in Queens NYC was locked down in 5 mins and Nat guard were everywhere. My office was on 42nd street at the time.
stupid is as stupid does!
Maybe this is what we needed to get J-no fired.
Interesting your building knew about it but, no one else knew. Do you now what other buildings may have know downtown?
I just read that Obama is furious over the stunt.Yeah right!I you believe that i have a bridge to sell you. He had to be the one to authorize this photo op probably for the 100 day coronation party.
I’m not sure who knew, I won’t say the name of my company but it is a major financial firm, and we do have an extensive alert system. We are often notified of NYC events, but I don’t know where they get the info from.
The tech-savvy White House never heard of Photoshop? And doing this to NY of all places!
It’s amateur night in the White House.
And as far as press releases, who reads newspapers anymore? Or the NY Times? Or watches network TV?
Dj ,
that is interesting so did obambi and the taxcheat notify TARP companies?
The mayor sure didn’t know
It might have been more apropos if he knocked her over.
What a fargin’ idiot….
DJ,
to be clear you are saying you were notified in ADVANCE or after it took place?
Bingo Bango, Bongo….
His entire admin is in way over their head.
XL,
major hugs cannot begin to comprehend what someone who was in NYC on 9/11 went thru today, I know I have been very upset all day and it pales.
okay I have decided DJ got the WSJ alert AFTER the fact which is what I got as well. extensive alert system my butt
Best to you as well. The complete idiocy of this is just mind boggling!
I can’t explain the fear I felt again.
duh1 is moi stupido
It is nice that you decided that, but I was actually checking my e-mail to give you the correct response. The alert came at 11:17, which may have been during the activity. I don’t think we would have been aware of it if we hadn’t received the notice though. And I was there on 9/11.
And libs say my SUV is wasteful.
Surprised they didn’t drop leaflets proclaiming the first hundred days…
Goebbels would be envious. Strike fear into your country then, soothe them with platitudes. Sure, heads will roll under the bus…thumpity-thump.
This is a great piece that provides some insight to what’s going on right now, and presents a much greater danger to our nation than Swine Flu…
http://townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2009/04/27/the_american_left_attempts_a_bloodless_coup
Please read it.
McCain was, according to his Phoenix staffers, furious with the JaNo documents but, he managed to control himself…What a wuss. We need less polite conduct and much more impassioned debate. Repub’s, unfortunately seem to prefer the Chip ‘n Dale scenario…After you…No, after you…No, I insist after you…Into irrelevance.
Those who think NY’ers “overreacted” are those who think 9/11 was an inside job. See, Bush is no longer in the White House, so of course there is no longer any threat posed by low-flying planes. Doesn’t everyone think 9/11 was an inside job, just like the nutcases do? /sarc off
It’s amazing, the number of people saying the banks are NOT nationalized. When you can fire, or threaten to, the CEO and Board of directors…You HAVE nationalized them. The names have not been changed, to protect the guilty.
Rosie O would not have freaked since, she’s a metallurgical expert and airplanes don’t make buildings collapse.
sarc
Isn’t it fabulous how Obama has reconciled with our enemies and put fear into the hearts of Americans? Does any image illustrate so neatly the wrongheadedness and recklessness of the Obama administration than Americans scrambling in terror from a joyriding Air Force One? You can almost see a cartoon bubble sprouting from the jumbo jet saying, “What me worry?”
White House Military Office director Louis Caldera issued a brief statement: “Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision,” he said. “While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, its clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused,”
In other words, Caldera was ordered to fall on his own spear to spare Obama from embarassment, as usual for his staff. For Obama, the buck stops There. Call it friendly fire. I just hope we have enough troops to sacrifice to cover Obama’s screw-ups.
Fortunately, this was not an act of terror, only a man-made disaster. The problem lies not with President Obama, of course, but rather with all those poor, deluded people at Ground Zero who didn’t get the memo that the Global War on Terror is over, downgraded to overseas contingency operations. There is nothing to fear but fear, right? Right?
It’s almost as if the people of Manhattan, Obama’s core constituency, don’t really believe his Smart Diplomacy will protect them.
While this plays now as farce, it will be seen later as foreshadowing tragedy.
Okay, during the Obama administration, 4,000 gallons of jet fuel was ignited to form a 10,000 foot long wall of fire to celebrate a Marine air base’s anniversary and now Air force One cruises around with an F-16 just because Obama wants an up to date picture with the Statue of Liberty. That’s a lot of CO2. Somehow, I just can’t work up enough guilt to switch to CFLs.
I didn’t say that it wasn’t stupid to do the flyover. It was stupid.
However, I was speculating on why they might not have advertised that they were doing it. No more-no less.
Right Guard??
I read that THE ONE’s little jaunt to Iowa on Earth Day expended on the order of 8000 to 10000 gallons of fuel. That might be low.
Amazing hypocrisy, is it not…???
Idiots. Where they really expecting anyone to get binoculars and say “oh, it’s AF1, it cool” when they see a large passenger aircraft flying around NYC landmarks and high rises.
Morons.
How about a touch o’ Irish Spring ?
*P-BO and the Clown Cluster; Ya gotta love em; Better than Ringling Bros for an everyday pick-me-up; The P-BO supporters must be well pleased with these first 100 days, not a man-made disaster in sight, and nirvana on the way; That is until things get worse, as they will; Dark days on the horizon may wake them from their slumber.
*Hey Doug, please say hey to your cousin Austin for us.
If you zoom in to the jet’s port side windows, you’ll see two faces staring out. They both have dopey grins, and droopy, blood-shot eyes…and have shockingly resemblances to Bill Clinton, and Barry O…you don’t suppose they went for a fly, got high, and asked the pilot to “buzz” the city, do you? Nah!
Just kidding…but what if….?
Just channelling Hunter S. Thompson…
Fear and Loathing in New York…
So we’re supposed to believe planes meant to serve as Air Force One can be taken out for a joy ride without the President’s knowledge?
Either complete BS, or the Deity-in-Chief is even more clueless than I could have imagined.
Obama’s furious? It was HIS plane. You’d think he would’ve had final approval for such a stunt. Maybe he’s furious it didn’t go over as planned.
Excellent point, I wish someone would ask all these people from one of the hopiest changiest places on earth who they voted for, and if it was zero, why they were so scared!
I am sick and tired of you nitpicking conservative reactionaires. You make me want to puke. The Air Force photo file on Air Force One was totally ignored for eight years by the Bush administration, who preferred to spend money on things like Gitmo and library searches.
The Obama admiistration finally takes some steps to repair this photographic travesty and YOU have the AUDACITY to criticize him for it.
***** So how was my rant? You think Daily Kos would syndicate me?
You’re hired!
Wild Bill Kelso flew a P40 in “1941″
Point ot Order Question:
If someone has to take the spear for this incidnet will Obama throw him under the bus or under the plane?
P.S. Nice to know we can slash the h**l out of the Defense budget, but have plenty of money for this. I wonder how many training hours of fuel Air Force One burned up?
It really is George Bush’s fault! After all, didn’t Obama inherit Air Force one from him?
[/sarc]
GASP! You said “spear” and “Obama” in the same sentence, you, you, you, RAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!
Undoubtedly, this flyover was planned by the previous administration. How can any reasonable person blame Dear Leader for this? They inherited this photo-op program, so clearly the fault lies with George Bush.
OH BOY! If I am going to work for them, I am going to need a new box of crayons and some tin foil (nothing like a new hat).
I’m so sorry….. I am ashamed. I didn’t realize Obama was a Spartan.
ROTFLMAO! Another keyboard goes into the trash again.
Now if I caused you to spew a really good beverage, I apologize. THAT would be a tragedy!
Who, later in the war, upgraded to a P-51 while fighting the Lufwaffe, and revenged the Germans’ bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Unfortunately there is no Right Guard anymore. They have all turned into a bunch of liberal lite wimps.
Audacity…I love the English language…
I don’t believe for one nanosecond that Obama was anything other than pissed that it caused such a reaction from the public. Next time he leaves the country, let’s change the locks!
Next time he leaves the country, let’s
change the lockscheck his birth cert. and passport upon re-entry!Michelle, these shots have to go in the “hero shots” file, right?
Masterlock puts out a great heavy duty padlock
I know this has been pointed out, but New Yorkers and people in New Jersey overwhelmingly supported Obama. So what gives? They have said that they support a man who holds on to the view that the war on terror does not exist, then they run around like little girls shrieking in fear over a 747 and an F-16 whose pilots were having a little bit of fun? Gird your loins New York, stop wetting your pants, even DHS doesn’t call them terrorists anymore. Sheesh.
Since no one linked it yet and the media failed to show what exact picture this costly stun was done for.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/air_force_one/
I guess President Obama or someone on his staff didn’t like the photo going over the Grand Canyon. What I can not understand is there are 10,000’s of photos in the archive and why they didn’t just pick another from there if they didn’t like the present one.
The real issue for me is why they Obama administration thinks it is okay to spend over $100k for a photo shoot to replace one website picture when we have an outrageous deficit.
Actually, he’s more of a self-absorbed narcissist.
Obama has finally gotten all “Mavericky”, just like in Top Gun.. Maybe he’s considering a Palin cabinet position?
Naaaahhh….
I think Obama wants the Sheriff role in Blazing Saddles II.
Congress has decided to deny you that choice, effective in a few years. And the need to stock up on food, water, and ammo will prevent you from having the space to stock up on incandescents. Besides, it isn’t as if electricity will be cheap and plentiful as Barack America takes shape.
When is the little boy in the White House going to quit playing with his shiny new toys over the NY skies and learn to step aside for some grownups?
Who, later in the war, upgraded to a P-51 while fighting the Lufwaffe, and revenged the Germans’ bombing of Pearl Harbor. That must have happened after he escaped from the Jap sub. LOL
I’ve seen the YouTubes and I can’t imagine that ANYONE would be able to tell that plane was Air Force One!
I didn’t live in NYC when 9/11 happened and seeing those videos brought my heart into my throat and tears to my eyes. I can’t imagine what New Yorkers must have felt seeing that.
There is NO WAY anyone can tell me hussein didn’t know about this. And to not warn people is just OUTRAGEOUS.
The people of New York City did NOT overreact!
All this to get a ‘better photo’ of Air Force One?!?!?! GAH… what is it going to take for the left to see what a DISASTER this narcissistic idiot is.
I pray everyone who had the living daylights scared out of them today will be able to sleep in peace tonight.
And the liberal statists said that the Bush administration was “out of touch,” and moronic. The New York Post released a 100 days, 100 mistakes list, and the list grows every day, sometimes two to three mistakes a day (making up for rare moments that Obama and his cronies AREN’T behaving like complete idiots.
We’re being ruled by total mouth-breathing inbred idiots. I can’t fully express the disdain I have for these people. They belong in a mental institution, NOT in seats of power with the future of a once-great nation in their filthy hands. They literally belong locked up for the good of decent, sane society.
And with all due respect, I don’t think it matters if they voted for hussein or not.
It would have been more appropriate of this administration to have SAM 27000 (The call sign of any VC-137 {executive 747} when flying without the president) photographed flying over a sewage treatment plant.