Photo OP - Terror on NYC and COST $328,835!

[MacUser]

How come during this time of economic crisis is Obama's Jet flying around for classsified photo OPs?

1) Do you know how much per hour it costs this thing to fly?

2) Do you know how much jet fuel it wastes when a photoshop clip could have handled this just as easy?

Talk about extreme waste and yet you will hear neither on either. Not to mention the insenstive panic and terror it caused the citizens of NYC. Amazing.


Sources:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/ ... ork-nerve/

[MacUser]

FAA Memo: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/air.force. ... 96457.html

Get this.. it COST: $328,835 for a photo OP that Photoshop could have done in minutes.


Beam me up Scotty. What a waste.

[MacUser]

See the Youtube Video off this event..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5W3dKCQek

Got to love Youtube.

Also David Letterman last night really railed against it in his Top 10 List.

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Workers in lower Manhattan were stunned by what they saw.

John Leitner, a floor trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange Building, said about 1,000 people "went into a total panic" and ran out of the building around 10 a.m. after seeing the planes whiz by.

"We were informed after we cleared out of there," Leitner said. "I kind of think heads should roll a little bit on that."

Employees of the Wall Street Journal also left their desks to see what was going on.

Kathleen Seagriff, a staff assistant, said workers heard the roar of the engines and then saw the planes from their windows.

"They went down the Hudson, turned around and came back by the building," she said. "It was a scary scene, especially for those of us who were there on 9/11."

Air Force spokesman Vince King said the "photo mission" involved one of two VC-25 aircraft. The aircraft is part of the Presidential Airlift Wing, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

The F-16 jet that flew alongside came from the D.C. National Guard's 113th fighter wing.

"This was a photo shoot. There was no need for surprise," Sen. Charles Schumer said. "There was no need to scare thousands of New Yorkers who still have the vivid memory of 9/11."

Source:
http://www.woai.com/content/blogs/headl ... 0BWzQ.cspx

[Dr. Ron]

DO NOT , I REPEAT DO NOT CONDEMN OBAMA FOR THIS STUPIDITY!!!

Tim will castigate you for having christian beliefs that fear is real, and even though photo shop could have accomplished this easily, it wouldn't have had the same effect.

Never, I repeat, never condemn the Obamessiah for anything this stupid. He had NO KNOWLEDGE that his airplane was involved in anything this crazy. I bet the crew got fired this morning....NO? Oh, they got medals ....okay....

This man is making me sicker by the day.

[MacUser]

DO NOT , I REPEAT DO NOT CONDEMN OBAMA FOR THIS STUPIDITY!!!

.. He had NO KNOWLEDGE that his airplane was involved in anything this crazy.

Seriously.. think of the turmoil, panic and pain that this insensitive action did to thousands of NYC people? David letterman was the first real outrage.. albeit muffled... at this HUMONGOUS.. stupendous... lack of judgement.

Then factor in the COST OF THIS MISTAKE... hundreds of thousands of dollars. This issue isn't going away.

[Full Quiver]

The man and anyone else that had anything to do with this are NUTS!

[MacUser]

PHANTOM AIR FARCE PICTURES
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05052009/ne ... 167671.htm

The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.

"We have no plans to release them," an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.

The sole purpose of the secret photo-op, which sent thousands of New Yorkers running for cover, was to take new publicity shots of the presidential jet over the city.

"The photos . . . are classified -- that's ridiculous," Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., said.

The photos have not technically been "classified," a White House aide said, but they are being kept from public view.

New Yorkers said they could not understand how a president who shares intimate snapshots from the White House could justify keeping these secret.

"So we're not gonna see the fruits of this cruel joke?" said Frank Antonelli, 39, one of the Wall Street traders spooked by last week's flyover.

"I'm not surprised. Obama . . . wouldn't further all the bad publicity by putting out those pictures."

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Don't these photos belong to the people? Think of the cruel cost of these expensive.. now hidden photos.

I think the reason they are bogus is that none exist. Obama must have been just taking his kids and mother-in-law on a fly around NYC tour.

Beam me up Scotty.

[bibleguy]

WHAT?!?!?!?!

The photo op that wasn't? So 1/3 of a million dollars for a photo shoot that will not be displayed?

What was the idea in the first place? I want to see the transcript of the boardroom discussion that produced this idea and the names of the people that signed off on it. Then I want to know what the "desired" result was going to be, and the finished photographic production. Then I want that weighed on a balance against the public reaction.

I mean, COME ON, if I say the word "bomb" at an airport I get neck-deep in trouble, and may never be able to fly again. If I yell, "fire" in a movie theater, I could be charged with wreckless endangerment. But a low, slow flight over not only one of the most populous cities in the U.S., but also the victim-city of such a horrific event that involved low-flying airplanes? WHAT KIND OF COOL-AID ARE THEY SERVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE THESE DAYS?

It's times like these that I wish Tim Elston wasn't banned. I would love for someone to explain this and make us understand why Obama's administration was justified in this fiasco. (Man, I love that word. I haven't had too many opportunities to use it. -- FIASCO, FIASCO, FIASCO --- I like that better than Cinco de Mayo!!)

[Full Quiver]

Obama should be charged with terrorism and if I were Bloomberg I would have the NYPD arrest him if he dare step foot in NYC.

[bibleguy]

Obama should be charged with terrorism and if I were Bloomberg I would have the NYPD arrest him if he dare step foot in NYC.

Now, you know Obama would get off as soon as his lawyer hollared racial profiling.

Obama promised change. Now he's changed "drive-bys" to "fly-bys."

[MacUser]

The buck doesn't stop at the top? It stops at the AIDE?

White House to release review of low-flying plane
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_ ... ying_plane

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Air Force flyover that sparked panic in New York City was not adequately reviewed and approved by senior service and department officials.


... He said it will address the process that allowed [u]an aide to stage the April 27 photo-op.

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Hua? Not adequately REVIEWED? This sounds like the stimulus package or 95% of all the things coming out of Washington lately.

[MacUser]

Now we know the AIDE by name... poor scape goat.

White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... iasco.html

President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera.
Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover.

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[MacUser]

Enjoy. The $328,835 top secret photo by the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

[Full Quiver]

That plane got much lower than that pic shows.

Poor scape goat; wonder if he'll vote for Obama next time? I'd like to see his severance package. Most people would call it hush money.

[bibleguy]

Well, after having seen the new photo, I have developed a working theory on what the initial idea for this FIASCO (I still love that word) was.

As you can see, Air Force One is flying over the quite prominent Statue of Liberty.

Well Obama's administration announced that the statue's crown, closed since th 9/11 attacks, would re-open to tourists this July 4th.

Read it here.

That kind of explains the initial purpose of the photo flop.