George Bush's eight years of artificially trumping up terror when it suited him politically has been trumped in one fell swoop by the Obama White House in under 100 days!They (being the Obama administration) knew that Air Force One NYC low altitude flyover would scare the bejeezus out of those on the ground. New Yorkers are living in a giant Skinner Box in a 24/7 conditioned response experiment. People see airplanes flying over no-fly Manhattan. People freak out.
Obama claims he didn't know. The White House had the bright idea to have a fighter jet trail Air Force One (the second plane in the fleet) for PR photos like the shots over Mount Rushmore.
Why the dim bulbs thought the $300,000 flyover would go undetected defies reason. $328,835. Chump change we can believe in.
Related: "Obama Orders Review of New York Flight as Cost Put at $328,835" Bloomberg
WCBS TV: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic. Threatened Federal Sanctions Against NYPD, Secret Service, FBI & Mayor's Office If Secret Ever Got Out. Furious Obama Apologizes: "It Will Never Happen Again"
NYP: "THEY KNEW! FAA FORESAW FLYOVER PANIC"
NYDN: "Feds knew Air Force One photo-op flyover might spark panic in the city - but didn't give a hoot
WTH? They KNEW that it would cause a panic, but he acts like he just *blink blink* had NO IDEA!
ReplyDeleteIt's always the same with him. He could say the sky is yellow when it's actually blue, but people would agree that it is yellow. So many moves he has made are outright lies and/or hypocrisy, and yet people are still so blinded by his heavenly glow that they refuse to see it.
Damn. They'd have skewered Bush from the moment this happened, probably even call for impeachment. But The One gets pass after pass after pass.
For someone hailed as so refreshingly intelligent after eight years of idiocy, they really let him by with this "Oh I didn't know," garbage. He insults his own intelligence.
Damn it, you all really don't get it about this leader. His Telprompter didn't tell him that this would be a problem so how could he know? What do you expect from a man who is still has to use a mental pacifier to say hello to anyone????? Bush couldn't speak for shit but at least he did not have to be spoon fed everything. I go back to the classic film with Robert Redford where "The Candidate" turned out to be an empty suit.
ReplyDeleteOr watch Tim Robbins as "Bob Roberts." 1992 or 1994, I cannot recall.
ReplyDeleteScary shit.