Just saw this one on CNN.

They told the cops and the fire department wot they were doing but somehow fergot to inform the general population.

* facepalm *

Wot did they think was gonna happen?

Next week when they do the photo shoot of the crazy looking asian guy with the fake gun over at Virginia Tech they might wanna try letting a few more people into the loop.

Be Well.

They should fly jumbo jets and f-22s between the skyscrappers of Manhattan just to keep people on their toes

Flying Warden Thom

"skyscrappers"

ff

They DID let people in the loop, since they informed the mayors office etc etc. If the admin people in NYC didn't spread the word, that's not the military's fault. They followed the proper channels.

They should fly jumbo jets and f-22s between the skyscrappers of Manhattan just to keep people on their toes

Flying Warden Thom

#2 | Posted by fwthom at 2009-04-27 02:21 PM |

And just where is it you live, Thommy?

Why did the Defense Department need to fly a jumbo jet through Manhattan for a photo op? Somebody should buy them a copy of PhotoShop.

They gotta practice a dry run of the next false flag event somehow...

I actually agree with Spud on this one.

At least we know there have been no improvements to public communications in case of another disaster. But so do prospective terrorists.. I feel a lot safer now. Wow, I guess those that coined the term that 'government is run by mediocrity," knew what they were talking about. Is the FAA giving out free Xanax after this event.

Low-Flying Jet Spooks Manhattan

They were spraying chemtrails over the city to prevent the swine flu.

If this were Dallas, you'd see 100 posts by now about pants-pissing red-staters.

Methinks the Air Force was dispatched to lower Manhattan to ensure that the $3 trillion to Goldman Sachs arrived safely.

They were just doing a Sully.(Not OUR Sully) I would try and spell it but I know I'd fuck it all up.

Larry

"""If this were Dallas, you'd see 100 posts by now about pants-pissing red-staters."""

If it were Dallas, all 3 planes would have been shot down with small arms fire, complete with a tailgater to celebrate.

This does seem like an exercise in stupidity. Why did this photo op need to take place and why didn't they get a large ad in the NYT or something so the New Yorkers knew what was going on?

Seriously, I'm not a New Yorker but I'd still get freaked if I saw a low-flying plane outside of normal airpaths.

In a time when we have Twitter, Facebook, Cell Phones, and a 24-hour newscycle no one could figure out how to get the word out.

If it were Dallas, all 3 planes would have been shot down with small arms fire, complete with a tailgater to celebrate.

#13 | Posted by panchovilla

The newly independent Republic of Texas air force would have shot it down immediately, or at least sprayed them for boll weevils.

If it were Dallas, all 3 planes would have been shot down with small arms fire, complete with a tailgater to celebrate.

#13 | Posted by panchovilla at 2009-04-27 03:05 PM |

Oh, I'm sure you would have an answer to the drug threat knocking at your back door.

This is Los Zetas knocking. May we come in?

Texas.

Where everything is bigger, including their diluted imaginations.

"But our building was evacuated because it did this 3 times."

Shows what a good job Bush did in instilling FEAR in the population. Good job!

As for the next disaster...Are we ready?

One of the conclusions of the 9/11 investigations was that in a major disaster, nothing is as important as the ability to communicate. This is not just a technical issue: just as they need interoperable radio systems, first responders also need to know and trust each other.

"The problem is that the linkages between these different systems and agencies are extremely weak."

Recent events have underscored his point: last May, top D.C. officials didn't learn a Cessna was intruding into their airspace until they saw it on CNN; last July 4, a test of the downtown emergency evacuation plan after the fireworks found that traffic signals didn't switch to evacuation timing, some federal radios weren't charged and some officials didn't have a clear sense of their responsibilities. Local officials say they fixed the problems afterwards. But as Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's congressional delegate, puts it: "You wonder how many afterwards there are going to have to be."

Oh, I'm sure you would have an answer to the drug threat knocking at your back door.

#16 | Posted by jerrytarkanian at 2009-04-27 03:09 PM | Reply |

I'm not sure what a "drug threat knocking at my back door" is. Care to clarify?

I'm not sure what a "drug threat knocking at my back door" is. Care to clarify?

Poorly manufactured suppositories.

I thought it was Bubba on meth.

Remember that Barack Hussein Obama is Commander and Chief and this happended on his watch.

To Obama, 9/11 is old news and already forgotten. In the mind of Obama, why would a low flying 747 cause panic in NYC with two figher jets on its ass? Was there ever a problem with low flying large jets near buildings in NYC? Guess not in Obamaland.

Couldn't Obama just have used Photoshop? Its a nifty computer program that is far cheaper than flying jets and does not panic millions of people. Just a thought.

#22 | Posted by utastaff

NO! Obama insisted that they do this. EVERYone tried to talk him out of it but he was adamant. "Take that photo shot live, on location" he screamed at aides that tried to persuade him not to. "Unless you want me to fire your asses out of here."

"And make sure you don't alert any of the local authorities", he added, grinning maniacally.

Must admit, this would have been a pretty f'n good april 1st joke.

The arrogant son of a bitch having fun while searching for his birth certificate.

What is so great about this story is that they used one of the Air Force One 747 jets for this.

What if Barack Obama was actually on that plane living his dream of being an anti-American hijacker flying a plane into the WTC.

Boo!

better get a change of pants America!

"If this were Dallas, you'd see 100 posts by now about pants-pissing red-staters."

I wouldn't have said that about Dallas anyway but you have to admit that New Yorkers have more reason than anyone else to be leary about this.

I was living/working in North Jersey when that all went down and I worked in the tallest building in the area on top floor so I had a view of the city from about 15 miles away and it was a clear day. As soon as I heard that a plane hit the WTC, I knew it wasn't an accident. They aren't allowed anywhere near there. So I'm looking out the window with a at the damage with a few other folks and as the 2nd plane approaches and everyone knows it shouldn't be there and we're wondering what the hell its doing and before you know it...

Nobody who saw that is ever going to waste any time wondering what a plane flying around skyscrapers is up to, especially if they are in one of skyscrapers...

Someone fucked up bigtime by not getting the word out. And even if they had, they should have had their photo op somewhere else. That's just shows zero respect....

Boo!
better get a change of pants America!

#27 | POSTED BY JUBAL_HARSHAW AT 2009-04-27 05:22 PM | REPLY

STFU Jihad Jubal

Aww...did I scare you Mrs. Slocomb

No, just think you're a fucking idiot to be playing on 9/11 sensitivities.

Fuck me runnin..you are like the jap soldier that spent 40 years in the jungle still fighting WWII.

Are you saying that your joke wasn't a play on 911 freakshow?

Did i miss something or did no one get to the "WHY?" the 'military' chose THAT particular location for its "fly-over 'photo-op!" Fer chrissakes!! whatta load of krap!! that's about the thinnest veil so far, in the abamanation nation!

Construed properly -- for WHAT IT IS -- "just" another underhanded & ill-intended 'jabb' to see what the poor saps who elected this guy -- how much of a panic -- can the "messiah" bring to bear upon "his" unsuspecting ("BUT, THEY ADORE ME -- MY GIFT, YOU KNOW") public!! how much "power" can more of his DIRTEE TRIX weild!!

And the hell with what that suffered to each and every individual: the thousands of PTSD flashbacks of dead children & no parent coming home that night!! Evidently, the "end" justified the means!!

Tellingly, VERY teenie-tinee NON-RESPONSE from the so-called [when it's conveenient, that is] -- "Commander-In-Chief!!" Any OTHER 'day' he can't WAIT to get on the air'waives' like the non-stop FOGHORN that he IS!!

Gee! hope he has time to stop giggling over this conquest in order to get that teleprompter "fixed" for his hunnerdday self-aggrandization!! (I'm so sure he wouldn't want to "repeat himself" 'erroneously!!')

I never joke.

you're a bore and a boor.

BTW, how much fuel was wasted on this photo op?

What if Barack Obama was actually on that plane living his dream of being an anti-American hijacker flying a plane into the WTC.

#26 | Posted by utastaff

I used to think there was no one more stupid than Oozie Oozeborn on here, but I think we may have a contender.

This just in. The White House authorized the Airforce One fly-over simply to update a file photo! Obama is an F'ing Moron!!!! I told he could care less about 9/11 or what it meant to NYC.

"WASHINGTON 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."

What if Barack Obama was actually on that plane living his dream of being an anti-American hijacker flying a plane into the WTC.

That gets a bittersweet funny flag.

The sycophants in the various arms of the Propaganda Ministry (AP, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc.) are making it a point to assure us that the Numinous One was indeed "furious" about this---and summoned the Military Affairs Chief to a "high level meeting" to get, what we must assume, his ass chewed. Of course, that is so fucking transparent and fake it defies belief--but welcome to Dumbfuck America 2009.

A real, live Cult of Personality is an amazing thing to behold when it finally transcends abstraction and becomes real.

Like the starving Ukrainian farmer lamented after seeing his family executed: "If only Stalin knew what was going on here!"

Obama's people at the FAA notified the Police Department about Obama's nutjob NYC flyover stunt but told them they could not inform the public and even the Mayor of NY did not know.

"The Police Department confirmed that it had been notified about the event but said it had been barred from alerting the public. "The flight of a VC-25 aircraft and F-16 fighters this morning was authorized by the F.A.A. for the vicinity of the Statue of Liberty with directives to local authorities not to disclose information about it but to direct any inquiries to the F.A.A. Air Traffic Security Coordinator," the Police Department said in a statement.

Pretty expensive photo op but the U.S. is made of "money to spend" anymore.

Will someone please put on the Teleprompter for BHO for his next prime time lecture to the American People. "I will not do a low altitude fly by of New York with my personal jumbo jet" please make him repeat it a thousand times so he will remember it.

Of course, that is so fucking transparent and fake it defies belief

You really think the Military Affairs Chief felt the need to get a hall pass from the President to do a routine update of his file photos?

Bad judgment on his part, for sure, but "defies belief"?

You really think the Military Affairs Chief felt the need to get a hall pass from the President to do a routine update of his file photos?

#44 | Posted by silver_ironist

Yes, especially given the tremendouse cost and manpower to get Air Force One and scamble two fighter jets in the air and have them fly low over a densely populated area still reeling from the biggest terrorist attack in United States history and coordinate with photographers and the FAA and all branches of the military (so that they would not mistake this for a real terrost attack).

Yes! Yes! Yes! A hall pass from Obama was required. This was a little more than routine and anyone with any common sense would know that.

Yes! Yes! Yes! A hall pass from Obama was required. This was a little more than routine and anyone with any common sense would know that.

Posted by utastaff

Staffy has been rocked back on his heels all day, being proven wrong on virtually everything, so I guess he thinks he has a "winner" with this one.

What's new?

This goes with his signed Magazine cover along with Michelle's Vogue cover signature to the Sidwell Auction for money.

Obama and his stupid photo ops.

Like the teleprompter--keep it rolling!

Hammer away trolls; you lose more credibility with each 'keep it rolling' little tantrum you pitch.

Massive blunder and cost a boat load of money.

It's amazing you find nothing wrong with this ??

Do you take your kool-aid cherry or grape?

Bloomberg said federal officials notified the NYPD and another city official, whom he declined to identify, of the flight plan.

Sounds like Bloomers is getting mad at the wrong folks here.

A lot of the troubles here originated at his end and his attempts to cast all blame on the WH who authorised this admittedly dumb photo-op and eventually apologised for it seems like blame deflection first and foremost.

Like the teleprompter...

Wot is it with the right and this teleprompter meme?

At some level at least a few of them have to realise that this kind of wingnutty talk just marginalises them even further than they already are.

Maybe not, they are kinda reknowned to attaching themselves to ridiculously inane talking points over all sense and reason.

Be Well.

To paraphrase Rahm Emannuel "A crisis is a good thing. Let's exploit it for all it's worth. Excepct if it concerns somethimg bad from Nexico, because those illegals who voted for you are the people who put you in office".

Psssst....story already on Page 1.

Sully

I was living/working in North Jersey when that all went down and I worked in the tallest building in the area on top floor so I had a view of the city from about 15 miles away and it was a clear day. As soon as I heard that a plane hit the WTC, I knew it wasn't an accident. They aren't allowed anywhere near there. So I'm looking out the window with a at the damage with a few other folks and as the 2nd plane approaches and everyone knows it shouldn't be there and we're wondering what the hell its doing and before you know it...

28 | Posted by Sully at 2009-04-27 05:44 PM

Dude, I thought the W kool aid was the bomb, but you guys effin' mix the Obama kool aid into your meth and smoke that shee.

Could Obama be more vain? Is there NO ONE with a clue that he consults?

I'm not getting my red white and blue undies in a wad yet, but this guy really needs either some experience or a trustworthy advisor...

Considering he personally had nothing to do with it, and for the sake of humanity, please keep your undies on.

THIRD THREAD ON SAME SUBJECT - THIS AIN'T SWINE FLU, DUMBASS.

When "Pigs Fly" bwhahahahah Swine flu over the coocoos nest. LMAO

Just another flub by teleprompter man.

Just another flub by teleprompter man.

#49 | Posted by blumpkin queefer

You want to see a real flub, take a long gander at Chimpy's reaction to the PDB issued on 8-6-01. 'Bin Laden set to strike in the US' and all the commander guy could muster was clearing brush on the ranch and sniffing Lance Armstrong's bicycle seat.

You can always tell a truly inexcusable act by Obama: His apologists come swooping in wearing full deflector shields saying, "Yeah, well you shoulda seen Bush" or "Well, Bush did . . ."

#50 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Don't you know it's waceist to call OBama Chimpy! I can't believe you would associate the fact that he's half black with a chimp. You people are all alike.

i wonder how much $ was wasted on Obamas photo shoot. typical libtard, do as i say, not as i do.

obama = omistake

"Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision," Caldera said. "While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused."

When told of the flight, President Barack Obama was furious, a White House official said on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Remember, wise spending and discipline do not apply to Obama.. he has proven every step of the way to the Oval that he speaks from both sides of his mouth.. what he 'supposedly' wants for the middle class and to compensate his welfare buddies is a different set of rules than what he takes for himself.. Prez or not, this guy wants everything he can squeeze out of this ride.. waste on his watch and through his own admin do not operate under the same rules as everyone else.. he is not and will never be any kind of a leader, much less one by example.. this was a 'screw up' on many, many levels.. a total waste and, like the rest of his agenda, little thought out and lack of having the ability to analyze the down sides before letting something like this materialize...

A waste of tax payer money

I can't blame Obama for being furious, if that report is true and he didn't know about the fly-by. It's a ridiculous expenditure for a publicity stunt and scared the hell out of people in Manhattan. Dumb dumb dumb.

Photoshop muthafucka! Can you use it?

if the marines can photo shop them in san francisco then so can the white house

The U.S. Government is down right scary sometimes.

This event could dampen President Obama's plan to have military demolition exercises near the Oklahoma City bombing site next year on April 19, 2010, the anniversary of the bombing.

Im borrowing this quote because it says what I was thinking.

"Here we go again!

Obama:
Nobody told me! I didnt know this was happening. I never heard anything about it.

It was GW's fault! I inherited that airplane"

"Considering he personally had nothing to do with it, and for the sake of humanity, please keep your undies on.

#57 | POSTED BY SNARK_NEEDLETON AT 2009-04-28 01:32 AM | REPLY | FLAG: "

This was his personal plane, this plane has no other reason for existence other than transporting his butt around the world. He is responsible for it and what they do with it. Try to imagine for a second what the left would be saying about it if GW were still in the White House.

When told of the flight, President Barack Obama was furious, a White House official said on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

An anonymous White House official assures us the president was furious.

Again, riiight...

Try to imagine for a second what the left would be saying about it if GW were still in the White House.

#75 | Posted by bph320

Worth repeating. The uproar and outrage would be deafening.

Try to imagine for a second what the left would be saying about it if GW were still in the White House.

~BoPeepsHerd

We'd be saying "hey muthafucker wot's this third term bullshit?!!1!1!"

Another one of yer signing statements, perhaps?

^_^

Did anybody catch Jon Stewart last night?

Photoshop muthafucka! Can you use it?

~IraqiBukkake

That was pretty much Jon's take too.

Stewart was furious with the stupidity of the move.

Can you imagine an Rtard on Fox getting mad at Bush if he had made such an error?

Do we know fer sure who made the call on that yet?

Rtards seem convinced that it was all Obama's idea from the get-go but Spud aint quite convinced.

Whoever made the call on that stunt needs to be taken behind the woodshed and get yelled at.

A lot.

Be Well.

/Shout out to Steven Colbert fer his opener last night.
//Spud luffs a good potato reference. Laws yes!

So the cost for this photo op was

$389,824

And the idiot is a civilian Caldera--Director of WH Military Office.

Always held by a military person in the past.

Obama has now politicized that with a dunderhead.

Looks like a Brownie moment.

So the cost for this photo op was

$389,824

Check that--

It cost $328,835

Obama's new Am-Ex commercial

Sending two fighter jets and Air Force One to buzz ground zero and Lady Liberty.

Demanded total secrecy from the NYPD, the Secret Service, the FBI and even the mayor's office and threatened federal sanctions if the secret got out.
TOTAL COST $328,835.00

Scaring the living crap out of the lower half of Manhattan and dredging up a lot of memories people have been working hard to forget? PRICELESS

Yeah, but when is somebody going to apologize for the Manhattan Transfer already?

Non-issue

Traumatising New Yorkers is a nice way to wrap up Obama's 100 days in office....

What Janet Napolitano could not do in her attempt to intimidate conservatives, Obama has succeeded in scaring liberals out of their wits --- a pre-Halloween gift from their messiah.

Anyone else find these Obama bashers VERY funny? I have to come to threads like these to find them, though, since they long ago faded into irrelevance or disappeared into whisps of paranoid drivel long ago here in NY. Good riddane, of course, but that's not my point.

NOBADY here is blaming Obama for this - it's quite possible to believe that there must be at least SOME things that happen that he is unaware of. I mean, with Bush as the example, there must be MANY things he may not be aware of, but the bashers aren't big enough people to give him any credit, and they think we don't notice how stupid they sound.

Gotta SEPECAILLY love the dolt on this thread who said that Obama will never be a leader - at the same time he has captivated the world and had the support of a majority here at home.

Good clean laughs at a safe distance. Gotta love the thread like these that bring out the right-wing idiots in force.

actually agree with Spud on this one.

#8 | Posted by bph320 at 2009-04-

I will be leaving soon to head for the nearest church and either give some sort of confession or ask for some sort of devine help because I also agree with the old potato(e) dick.

surely some of you saw the inept and incompetent robert gibbs talking about this

when asked by chuck todd he actually said
ASK THE WHITE HOUSE

HELLO...you ARE the white house you stupid man..

and does ANYONE really believe that obama knew nothing of this?
of course if you believe he didnt at least you have some basis for that opinion even if I do believe he knew all along.
THIS CABINET AND ADMINISTRATION IS FILLED WITH BOOBS!

(and yes I said boobs as a little joke but this is no joking matter"
I believe the fucking liar in the white house is lying again.

AND SCHUMER has already come out and blames bush
he attacked the faa and the bush appointee...

and does anyone think that caldera did this ALL ON HIS OWN without someone else in the white house NOT knowing.,,,,,,,,,,,and AGAIN...if they didnt, they should have.

ALSO,,,estimated $322,800,000. of YOUR MONEY to do this when some elementary school kid could have photo shopped it

unfuckingbelievable just isnt a stron enough word anymore for this hapless group of incompetents.

AND THIS is the people you want to run your health care and security???????

I love the way BHO tries to distance himself by saying he is pissed about it. He approved it. He wanted it.

agreed

what GOOD ceo doesnt know where his private plane is going

OOPS>>>I said GOOD ceo....never mind

there is no doubt in my mind that he was aware of it.
this one guy...CALDERO or whatever could not have POSSIBLY done all this by himslef from the white house.

Good clean laughs at a safe distance. Gotta love the thread like these that bring out the right-wing idiots in force.

#84 | Posted by midiman at 2009-04-29 08:59 AM | Reply |

Gotta love the smell of desperation in the morning.

We are sooo sorry to have spent hundreds of thousands on a photo op.

We are sooo sorry that you have to pay for this, and trillions more, based on our whim.

We are soo sorry for scaring the shit out of NY's with a low flying airplane with no warning whatsoever.

We are soo sorry that we are releasing GITMO prisoners, and that they may well wind up coming back with terror attacks on the US

We are soo sorry that America has been sooo mean to Iran in the past, and promise to play really, really nice and put a leash on Israel.

We bow in deference to those who have orchestrated attacks on us.

We will take the military option off the table entirely with respect to the Axis of Evil.

We will recognize our rightful place on earth as an ordinary country.

We will enact cap and trade, and reduce our emissions without regard to the needs of emerging countries, or the fact that China will consume what we don't and grow more powerful.

Sorry....

Harrison Ford would've NEVER let this happen.

Teleprompter!

The pathetic Right.

Obama is such a piece of human garbage. He can't take responsibility for anything. He is the President and the buck stops with him but this coward has to assign a fall guy. If something is f'd up, he assigns blame but when something goes well, his ugly mug is right there with a grin for a photo op like when the Seals shot those Somoli pirates. You would have though Obama took the shots by the way he was PRANCING around the cameras.

The emperor has no clothes! The emperor have no clothes!

Wow UTA!

Replace "Obama" with "Duhhhbya" and you've got the reason for where this country is right now!