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2009-04-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Bobby 2009-04-28 06:23|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, I should've known this was yesterday's Rantburg news.

Posted by Bobby 2009-04-28 06:48|| 2009-04-28 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Photo Op? I doubt it. You could Photoshop Llodge Bridges parachuting from Air Force One with Paris Hilton and Madonna under each arm.

My guess, and it is only a guess... (a.) a test of some type of defense system or theory. (b.) a Steven Spielberg, Obama Saves the World movie segment. I leaning toward (b.), and they'll be using footate of the panicked New Yorkers as well.

No one simply crews up the Air Force One back-up bird, grabs a figher escort, and goes low-level over NYC in broad daylight. It just don't happen that way. This business about Barry being "very upset", WH Press Secretary Gibbs and the Mayor of NYC having "no knowledge" etc. Sorry, not possible.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-28 06:51|| 2009-04-28 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 IMHO, it's so stupid that it has to be true as described. That the Press Sec and our mayor didn't know is not surprising to me at all- we are LITTLE PEOPLE.

I think the real problem exposed here is that people in the anonymous mid-level of government (some of them anyway) are so worshipful of THE ONE that they will do anything they think would be of service to him, consequences be damned.

And I believe THE ONE is truly upset- the curtain got pulled back and we got a peek at the wizard. Can't have that, ya know.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-04-28 07:03|| 2009-04-28 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Barry has that special Zimbob touch with airplanes.

Posted by Grunter 2009-04-28 10:03|| 2009-04-28 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, if Nerobama wants to get the chariot out, then you best just get the hell out the road, understand? We needed new pictures for the gift shop so get over it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-04-28 10:26|| 2009-04-28 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 So who will be fired for this?

Posted by DoDo 2009-04-28 10:43|| 2009-04-28 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 I just wanna know how many carbon credits they bought to offset this. Because gerbil worming is something Obama takes seriously, ya know?

And did we get some yuan to pay for this first, or are we gonna bill them later?

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-04-28 10:44|| 2009-04-28 10:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Because gerbil worming is something Obama takes seriously, ya know?

CB, did you *really* need to share that image at the breakfast table?

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-04-28 12:43|| 2009-04-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

#9 FR, why are you eating breakfast at 12:43 on Tuesday afternoon?

Posted by Seafarious 2009-04-28 12:44|| 2009-04-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Tonight I'm gonna party like it's nine-ten oh-oh-one!!!

Posted by Prince Barack Obama 2009-04-28 12:48|| 2009-04-28 12:48|| Front Page Top

#11 One thing that has really bothered me was the video of the New Yorkers in Battery Park running and screaming when the plane flew overhead. This will be a great recruiting video for Osama, showing that the US really is the weak horse and trembles before the thought of another jihadi attack. That's why they elected Bambi.

The 9/11 attack was terrible and many of those reacting lost friends and loved ones. But their reaction indicates they think this war had ended some time ago. It also makes me wonder if this is how Londoners reacted to the Blitz.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-04-28 13:49|| 2009-04-28 13:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Sea: Because my mornings are filled with buziness, coffee, and cigarettes. When I was a toddler, it was my NIGHTS that were so occupied. (Has I been bad?)

NS: I see your point, but I can't say that standing fast in the path of a destruction you cannot stop or fight against is the better part of valor. FWIW, away from the destruction on 9/11 (and again during the great blackout of 2003) people here were calm, helpful, and generally following instructions without complaint. At least where I was.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-04-28 14:14|| 2009-04-28 14:14|| Front Page Top

#13 standing fast in the path of a destruction you cannot stop or fight against is the better part of valor.

Neither is running in the direction the plane is headed, which is what some in the Battery Park film seemed to be doing.

And I don't mean to be piling on ordinary New Yorkers who have been through a lot. The swine flu scare seems totally out of proportion to the risk. And Paulson and Geithner have contributed to the recession by portraying fear, panic and an absolute absence of any leadership in dealing with what is simply a recession. If it becomes a depression it will well be due to their virulent fear. And why don't we have the stones to let GM fail? Overall, there's just way too much hysteria and panic being displayed and not enough courage and confidence. And no drama ain't the same as courage.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-04-28 14:28|| 2009-04-28 14:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Neither is running in the direction the plane is headed, which is what some in the Battery Park film seemed to be doing.

Like the firemen and police on 9/11,running toward the catastrophe to help, perhaps? On 9/11 Americans learnt the difference between being a herd and being a pack... despite the exhausted nation longing for the old days, we are not the people we were then.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-04-28 14:40|| 2009-04-28 14:40|| Front Page Top

#15 It's funny how, this sort of thing would have happened in Atlanta or Houston, it would be fodder for amusement. But since it happened in NYC, it's not a laughing matter at all, it needs to be taken seriously.

Assholes.

Posted by gromky 2009-04-28 14:47|| 2009-04-28 14:47|| Front Page Top

#16 NS: I don't know that angle of BPC, so I don't know where people were running to. A cross street leading away? A subway station?

TW: The 'unwritten and understood' rule here is that if things go haywire, get out of the way of emergency services. There are a lot of them with training, we should help if asked or trend away from the AO.

Grom: I can only speak for myself- I wouldn't find it the LEAST bit funny if it happened in another city. Are you talking about stupid news-babblers with their ridiculous comments about NASCAR crowds? That was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-04-28 15:38|| 2009-04-28 15:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Forget if it happened in another city. Imagine what would be going on if it happened with another President.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-04-28 16:35|| 2009-04-28 16:35|| Front Page Top

#18 "Probably about 80 percent of my office left within two minutes of seeing how close it got to our building."

Posted by Fester Gluse8182 2009-04-28 16:46|| 2009-04-28 16:46|| Front Page Top

#19 Nice of Arlen Spector to push this story off the front page eh?

If we don't see footage of that flight attached to a campaign add for Barry in 2011 I'll kiss your arss. Thank GOD no one died of a coronary arrest, was killed jumping to their death in fear, or getting run over by a car as they looked skyward. These narcissistic, commi bastards don't car. A pox on that smart assed Gibbs and all the rest.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-28 17:05|| 2009-04-28 17:05|| Front Page Top

#20 The people of New York and New Jersey voted overwhelmingly for Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama enjoys an approval rating of 68% in the US, probably higher in NY/NJ, even as his administration is making moves to prosecute the Bush administration for harsh interrogation techniques, closing Gitmo and planning to release islamic terrorists into the US.

I would have expected the general population of NY/NJ to have moved on beyond the memory of the tragedy(*) of 9/11, but this is apparently not so.

Something doesn't compute here.

(*)Obama wrongly called 9/11 "a tragedy" in one of the debates.
A tsunami is a tragedy, 9/11 was an attack, a war crime, an islamofascist massacre.

Posted by Flineck Smith6628 2009-04-28 17:47|| 2009-04-28 17:47|| Front Page Top

#21 Free Radical, hey, it's not like I was referencing something really icky involving gerbils. (I just saw that phrase here on the 'burg before and thought it was cute....)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-04-28 19:00|| 2009-04-28 19:00|| Front Page Top

#22 I want to see somebody up on terrorism charges for this.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-04-28 20:07|| 2009-04-28 20:07|| Front Page Top

#23 (I just saw that phrase here on the 'burg before and thought it was cute....)

Cornsilk (nee Swamp) Blondie, your truth is in masquerade! Now when I am accosted by the earnest and well-meaning servants of Greenpeace, I will have the most unfortunate images in mind. (I suppose most cases of 'gerbil worming' would be anthropoligic though.)

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2009-04-28 20:27|| 2009-04-28 20:27|| Front Page Top

#24 nee nee Desert Blondie, Free Radical. The lovely lady enjoys her travels. :-) I've wondered, ever since I first saw that phrase, how one can tell a gerbil is in need of deworming. I believe actual deworming involves forcing the liquid medication down the now twice afflicted animal's throat... not whatever it was you were thinking, my dear.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-04-28 23:18|| 2009-04-28 23:18|| Front Page Top

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