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The verdict is out, and yesterday's lower Manhattan flyover by the "Boeing 747 sometimes known as Air Force One" and military jets was a bad idea. So bad that the White House Military Office's director Luis Caldera apologized for the mission. It was so bad that the city official who knew about the event but didn't tell the mayor was "reprimanded and a disciplinary letter has been placed in his file," according to Newsday.
Newsday explains that many city employees actually knew about the photo opportunity, which was apparently intended to amass updated photographs of Air Force One near landmarks: "The New York Police Department knew. The 911 dispatchers knew. And Mayor Mike Bloomberg's citywide event coordination and management director, Marc Mugnos, knew. In fact, the FAA and several other public agencies knew." Mayor Bloomberg only found out through messages to his Blackberry and he was pissed:"I'm annoyed—furious is a better word—that I wasn't told. If I had known about it, I would have called them right away and asked them not to." President Obama was reportedly furious as well, though that message came late last night.
One Jersey City brokerage employee told the Post, "We all ran to the window, and I thought, that's it, we're all dead. It brought back all the memories of 9/11. I said, 'I have to get out of here now!'" Another downtown Manhattan employee told the NY Times, "As soon as someone saw how close it got to the buildings, people literally ran out. Probably about 80 percent of my office left within two minutes of seeing how close it got to our building." The Daily News had these quotes from worried workers:
"I was crying and praying to God to forgive me my sins because I thought I was going to get killed," said Kathleen Filandro, who fled from 1New York Plaza when she spotted the planes.Apparently the plane's flyover was done during a regular military exercise (to save money), but Keith Olbermann still named Caldera as his worst person in the world on Countdown last night."It's like someone coming up to you, sticking a gun to your head for 15 seconds, walking away and hearing 20 minutes later it was an undercover cop posing for a photo," said Wall Street worker Bill Privett.
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Keith Olbermann, hehehe, massive douche.
All of these people who knew of this crazyness and did not alert the mass media to raise the public outcry before it happened are guilty of the following crime:
They forgot abut 9/11.
They should be banished from the city.
Not a good thing to do for the President. No matter what the reason. People could have hurt or killed themselves. Smart for someone who runs the country. Lots of votes lost now even if Oprah opens up wide.
I think the Post wins with the "Scare Force One" headline.
hahaha I'm right here with you on that one
Look at it this way. They could have done it on the upcoming 9/11 as a flyover.
Also why can't the president and his family fly coach like all the rest of us and save taxpayer's dollars?
uh... because, unlike you, president may be a target for some, you know... bad people?
Well, he could just charter an airliner to fly on - that's what other heads of state and heads of government do!
When the Prime Minister of Israel flies, he travels on a chartered El Al jet (and, the Israeli PM is at just as much risk for terrorist attack as the US President!)
So, why can't they just charter an American Airlines or United Airlines jet?
It would be just as secure as Air Force One - and much cheaper for the taxpayer!
Individually, it cost taxpayers less for the flyover than a ride on the MTA...
The failure to notify the public was awful and someone in the Fed or City bureaucracies should but punished.
Nevertheless, with the understanding that all of us who lived through 9/11 in the city are scarred in some way and highly sensitive about low-flying airplanes, I still think everybody needs to calm the f-ck down about this.
+1
In retrospect, this is a little funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN57C98B310
Just a little.
Yeah it is. And that's probably the most exercise a lot of those people have gotten in a while.
Lets see if this really was an attack what building would they most likely hit???
An unknown building in lower manhattan/ NJ thats around 500 or 700 ft high,
or maybe the biggest landmark in NYC at 1400+ ft high. Not to mention the other larger buildings which are in midtown.
I thought Obama picked the right people for the job. Government spending would be down, stupid people were given their pink slips. But then we realize that these people don't even know how to use Photoshop? We wasted money on this flight, made half of NY crap itself, for an photo that says "America, fuck yeah!"
Luis Caldera is an "Airhead"
Get it??!?!
Because the plane was up in the air, and he made a stupid decision?
Does anyone understand what this photo shoot was actually for? As in, what exactly they were trying to capture, and why?
I saw today on the TODAY Show that they had another planned in DC, but that it has been cancelled.
What were they using these photos for? To demonstrate that Air Force One has been to NY, or DC? Those planes have been everywhere anyway!
"it was so bad that the city official who knew about the event but didn't tell the mayor was "reprimanded and a disciplinary letter has been placed in his file,"
Scaring millions of people gets a letter placed in your file? How about firing the person?
I just heard there was a break in at the local government filing cabinet center and nothing but a letter or two were missing. It appears a disciplinary letter was one of the letters that was removed from the file. No word on what the letter pertained to, but a full investigation is to follow.
Scaring millions of people gets a letter placed in your file? How about firing the person?
Unions FTW!
and we'll all rush to see the movie.
change we can believe in
ahuh huh huh huh you said 'Boening' again...
haha, did you watch HIMYM last night? Huh huh hhuhh heh heh huh
I remember when "I Am Legend" was shooting in Manhattan a few years ago. They had to shoot the Brooklyn Bridge scene at night, with hundreds (thousands?) of extras, military aircraft, and helicopters flying overhead. They knew enough to warn the public at least a week before the night of the shoot, via television, newspapers, radio, and the internet, so that people wouldn't panic.
Seriously, what the f_ck was the US government thinking in not warning people about yesterday's "photo shoot"? If I were in Lower Manhattan yesterday I would have panicked too.
"I was crying and praying to God to forgive me my sins because I thought I was going to get killed," said Kathleen Filandro...
There are no atheists in foxholes.
"I was crying and praying to God to forgive me my sins because I thought I was going to get killed,"
"And as soon as I learned it was a false alarm, I picked up my 13-year old boyfriend, some tall boys and headed to the porn theater."
"Bloomberg also blasted the White House for signing off on a publicity stunt it should have known would backfire."
He should probably drop it. OK, a bureaucrat at the White House, director of the Military Office, screwed up. But so did a bureaucrat in Bloomberg's own administration, his event coordination and management director (not to mention some people in his police department).
Now, which bureaucrat should most be expected to realize the problem this might cause in NYC? The one living in Washington, or the one living here?
Drop the self-righteousness, Mike. Your administration is at least equally to blame.
good, good point!
I appreciated Chucky Schumer's concern for New Yorkers yesterday...
did it really rattle windows?
because I don't think 9/11 did that, but it was really really really loud. something a person will remember.
I was in a building one block away on 9/11. Not only was it very loud, but the building vibrated & windows rattled. I for one am glad I missed this "event" yesterday.
Why did they have to do a photoshoot? Haven't they ever heard of PHOTOSHOP???
So the next time i see low flying planes i should assume it's another photoshoot and go back to work/life?
godforbid the next time a plane flying low and its NOT a photoshoot.
sounds like someone is trying to cry wolf...in my opinion.
I love that video of the people running away from the plane. Seriously, where did they think they were they running to?
I would use the plane excuse to get the day off.
PTSD. what if the plane flew in a serpentine pattern?
So we all agree that this was a waste of $68,000 per hour.... yea that is how much it costs to operate Air Force One. I guess we aren't in a recession after all.
It had better be a fucking good photo
It costs $68,000/hour to operate Air Force One, but that's irrelevant: this wasn't Air Force One. It was a plane that sometimes is used in that role.
That is an important distinction, because the plane didn't have the full crew, Secret Service contingent, communications equipment, etc. that it does when the President is on board. It was just a routine Air Force flight.
Sure, there was an expense, but the plane flies almost every day. The F-16s accompanying it (some sources say there were two, though I haven't seen a photo with more than one... there may have been a second farther off with another photog, perhaps) fly daily. Whether there were two or three planes in total, the crew were Air Force members who would have been paid no matter what they were doing. And supposedly this was essentially a detour in a training flight they would have made anyway.
Hasn't the Obama administration heard of Photoshop? Come on!
This incident is an outrage! I know it's an outrage, because all the NYC tabloids and Inside Edition told me it was!
It's shyt like this that CONFIRMS the fact that the USA is now a Third World Kraphole.