If yesterday's terror strike White House-ordered photo-op did not sufficiently illustrate the Obama Administration's post-post-9/11 attitude, perhaps today's follow up on Today will. Be sure to catch Robert Gibbs' buffoonish reaction to the news:
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Elsewhere on NBC, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams blogs about Obama's asymetric PR stunt. Unsurprisingly, Williams' first impression was that our heroic president was in danger a la Harrison Ford:
What's worse, people who were close to the "fly-over" were even more troubled -- as some of them recognized the world-famous livery -- the paint scheme on the fuselage: it was Air Force One. The real one. The fighter jet was real. Was the President on board? Was he in jeopardy? Could this really be happening in the sky over New York?
Later, Williams calls for heads to roll:
This was dangerously mishandled. As I said the other evening at a gathering of New York City firefighters: even after all these years, among many New Yorkers, 9/11 still feels like it was about 10 minutes ago. The pit is still there, though it's now a construction zone. The losses don't go away. No one is bringing my neighbor back to me. I will drive by his house on my way home from work tonight, and he won't be there. We still look up at the sky (in ways we never did before) when we hear low-flying aircraft, and we still worry. Lower Manhattan is no place for an unnanounced low-altitude jumbo jet-and-fighter-jet flyover.
Someone should pay for this.
We are, Brian. We are.
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit. Also, Rusty doesn't recall seeing Brian Williams in his class on the post-modern presidency and how our Executive has morphed into superhero. Saaaaay, speaking of Obama and Hollywood...
Cuffy,
See my comment over at JOM today?
Posted by: Mustang0302 | April 28, 2009 at 09:56 AM
"Someone should pay for this."
Well Brian, your man in the White House seems to qualify?
Posted by: Steevo | April 28, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Gibbs finally said something true- he doesn't have a clue.
Posted by: drjohn | April 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM
"Unaware". So true when applied to this administration.
See also, "clueless".
Posted by: Greg Toombs | April 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Barak Obama: "I won".
Suck it up, America. Thanks Republican Party.
Posted by: Paul A'Barge | April 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Good catch, Mustang. I just put up a new post about the Red Tail photo-op.
Posted by: Cuffy Meigs | April 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Napolitano -- ugh.
Posted by: Jane | April 28, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Best President Ever! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
Posted by: John Higgins | April 28, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Couldn't they have just PhotoShopped in any background they wanted for their souvenir pictures? Why is money being wasted on this? It's got to be 10s of thousands of dollars every time that thing goes up. Just one more dumb thing that makes Obama and his team look bad (not too smart), bad (incompetent), bad (amateurish).
Posted by: elmo | April 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM
And to think............this catastrophic event in the nation's history isn't even your worst nightmare.
Your worst nightmare took place at 10:30 this morning when Arlen Spector switched parties, givng the Democrats 60 seats (when Norm Coleman accepts that he lost to a hack comedian). Can Olympia Snow be far behind?
Posted by: Chip | April 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM
I understand that this President has a Sept. 10th mentality. Thing is, he was voted in by people living in large cities, right where the next terror attack will come.
I could understand his election if New Yorkers had gotten over 9/11. Yesterday proved they haven't. So, why Obama?
Posted by: Peter | April 28, 2009 at 06:42 PM