President Photo-op’s Backup Plane Freaks Out Manhattan
Posted on April 27, 2009
Looks like a terrifying day in New York City, even by their standards
Updated, 11:59 a.m. | An Air Force One lookalike, the backup plane for the one regularly used by the president, flew low over Manhattan on Monday morning, accompanied by two F-16 fighters, so Air Force photographers could take pictures. But a lack of awareness about the flyover led to the evacuation of several buildings in Lower Manhattan and Jersey City, and perplexed officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and other authorities were inundated with calls from anxious ferry passengers, office workers and residents.
Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said “the photo op was approved and coordinated with everyone.” Notification was made in advance to the mayor’s office, “including its 911 and 311 operation centers,” the New York City Police Department, the New Jersey State Police, the United States Park Police and other agencies, he said.
There was only one problem for the flyby from President Pantywaist’s backup plan
Later on Monday morning, the Police Department acknowledged 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.
And what happened when President Photo-op allowed his plane to buzz Manhattan?
Unaware of the planned exercise, scores of office workers flooded out of buildings, worried about the prospect of terrorism.
“People came pouring out of the buildings, the American Express Building, all the buildings in the financial district by the water,” said Edward Acker, a photographer who was at the building, 3 World Financial Center. “And even the construction guys over by 100 North End Avenue area, they all got out of their buildings. Nobody knew about it. Finally some guy showed up with a little megaphone to tell everyone it was a test, but the people were not happy. The people who were here 9/11 were not happy.”
Pandemonium and terror. The markets started dropping a bit right about the time the jets passed. Whether that was coincidence, no one knows. But, read the rest of the story. And imagine if this had happened while Bush was in the White House, or had McCain won. Actually, you can’t imagine it, because there is no way that they would have allowed this to occur in the first place.
Just remember, the buck stops with Obama.
Right Pundits: BTW, I guarantee you half of New York will file a class action lawsuit against the government claiming that they suffered severe emotional distress from the incident
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The media would be calling for impeachment if Bush was still president.
Unbelievable… New York attacked by Air Force One!
Actually, that might not be so unbelievable. New Yorkers.. hang on to your wallets!
You’re always talking about the left being worse because of this and that, yet you do the same things. How about instead of sinking to their level and instead of calling the president stupid names, show that you’re better than that and just call him the president. Just cause you use the title doesn’t mean you love the guy…
I mean when left wingers were call the pres names (you know that only happens when he’s a republican) it makes me think even less of them. Why do you insist on doing that here?
Well, Jace, the thing is, that is politics. It happens. Fact is, Obama loves photo ops, and is a pantywaist (BTW, it was a British journalist who started calling him that.)
But, what I call him, usually President Neophyte, is nothing compared to what the Left called Bush. Heck, some of them were so deranged that they couldn’t even spell his name. Also, I am not wishing death or injury on him.
Why Obama wanted to do an airplane photo op right around the site of the World Trade Center defies the imagination…
See this video my friend captured. Obama Photo Op Disaster: New Yorkers Running Scared in the Streets by Goldman Sachs
Video: http://tinyurl.com/c7ujkj
Dry run.
I can’t believe that this actually went on y’day morning and the voice of the public still shows support. Buildings were evacuated, people were panicked, deshavu was thrown upon us by our own gov’t, our own President. The President will pretend he didn’t know just as other “important” ppl within the WH and gov’t will do when in fact, they were all aware. If President Bush was in office, think about what the press and public would be saying and the ridicule he would hear. If any of the blunders President Obama has made in his first 100 days of office (that is so perfectly orchestrated), were under President Bush’s belt, you would hear nothing but disgust from the American people. Why do we not hear this? It’s a Fn joke! President Obama is throwing money around like Fat Joe making it rain in the club and the ppl say nothing. You mean to tell me that they HAD to fly that plane over NYC for a Fn Photo where 3,000 ppl were killed on 9-11 INCLUDING MY DAD, and the President was unaware of it???? [edited]! We have special effects in movies where we can watch the Titantic sink, Superman fly, and everything else we have all watched in the movies lately but we can’t photo shop a plane over the Statue of Liberty???? Give me a Fn break!