Good approach by Gladnick here.
You don’t need transparency when you have Pravda.
Pray for America
Did anyone else catch the cost of this flyover? Over $350K?
We need to give Time, Newsweek and the rest of the MSMs a break. After all, when most of their personnel are still trying to become potty trained, they are not likely to spend much time actually reporting the news.
“We now know thanks to WCBS in NY that the feds knew the “mission” would cause panic and that they went ahead with the secret plans, anyway. There are still a lot more unanswered questions about what happened in the skies above New York City. I have filed two FOIA requests with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff FOIA Requester Service Center seeking more info, including the flight manifests; communications that would shed light on the origin of the “mission,” and copies of any and all photos taken on the taxpayer-subsidized journey. Let’s have some of that vaunted transparency Barack Obama is always talking about.”
So glad they have filed FOIA requests! We should not let this go until we get the truth. There is a scandal here.
Is Time close to going belly-up yet?
Is it possible there could be more to the story? Could this have been President Obama's idea? Is he punch drunk?
‘Sounds to me like the 0-thing was aboard.
Anyone have a story on what happened in the UN during that flyover?
Actually, for Bush it was the USS Greenville, and given the enormity of the scandal it represented, it was pretty quickly swept under the rug.
Except, of course, for the families of the dead.
I’d like to waterboard Gibbs, but he probably doesn’t have any high value intel.
New York to White House: Are You %$#&*^& Nuts?
April 27, 2009
By Paul Bertorelli
No, make that the entire country to the White House.
Monday’s flyover of New York for a photo op of the 747 that serves as Air Force One was the most stunningly stupid decision by a group of adults authorized to use government airplanes that it’s possible to imagine. On a scale of 10 for utter idiocy, it’s a 13. It makes those clueless guys who busted the Washington ADIZ in a Cessna 150 a couple of years ago look like Lindbergh finding Paris with a compass and a watch.
The most disgusting part of it—it’s damn near evil—is that the FAA and the White House notified the NYPD of the flyover ahead of time but classified it, preventing its release to the public. There is no other way to described it than this: These agencies engaged in negligent terrorizing of a public still traumatized by the September 11, 2001 attacks. While we’re talking about resetting relations with Cuba and Venezuela, what we really need to be doing is resetting our own government, or at least the part of it that deals with the highly charged relationship between airplanes and the national security apparatus. And surprise!...it applies to Air Force One, too.
Somewhere, I’m sure a few people are saying, “Oh, New York, get over it.” I wasn’t in New York on September 11th, but I know many people who were. I can’t look deep enough to get over it. When I saw the pictures of Monday’s fiasco, I had the same gut wrenching dread that we all had on that awful day almost eight years ago. It still seems like yesterday to me. I don’t think the country is anywhere near being able to tough it out when an airplane as big as a 747 flies that low over New York or any other major city. Nor should anybody be testing the premise.
And this was done by the same people who have the unmitigated gall to frisk the citizenry before boarding airliners, to bar general aviation aircraft from ever more airspace and to generally make life miserable for the rest of us while they do they very thing that scares the hell out of all of us.
It’s hard to know how even to respond to this sort of lunacy. I for one expect President Obama on the tube today explaining himself and illuminating us on who he has fired. I don’t care if he knew about it or not. It’s his watch. We just loaned him the airplane.
Meanwhile, to whomever originated this stunt, how about this: A 12-year-old with a copy of Photoshop could have gotten your photo op with a lot less grief than this mess will create.
http://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/AvWebInsider_WhiteHouseAirForceNewYorkFlyover_200270-1.html
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