Sponsored Content
« Melissa and Joan Rivers Freak Out on the Apprentice | Main | Obama the Peace-Bringer »
April 27, 2009

Obama Stages Photo-Op, Scares the Bejebus Out of Lower Manhattan

Another example of Obama's extreme childishness and lack of regard for anyone other than his own self:

A Boeing 747 used by the president was escorted over lower Manhattan by an Air Force fighter jet Monday as part of a government photo opportunity and training mission, causing a brief panic among office workers near where hijacked passenger jets crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Workers from several office buildings poured out onto the streets before they learned that the flights were harmless.

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 their building, near the World Trade Center site.

[...]

Another reader who responded to msnbc.com's request for photos said: "Video? Picture? Who the heck had time for that?!?!?! We were all too busy getting the heck out of the building!

"A coworker, whose desk faces the window, all of a sudden had this huge jumbo jet in his face," wrote Jenny Espinosa. "This poor kid freaked. One woman who works in our building, and is pregnant, had a panic attack and almost collapsed."

I would have probably panicked as well. We occasionally have low flying planes pass over downtown L.A. It raises my blood pressure every time. Of course, when it happens in L.A. the plane doesn't turn around and come back like this morning in Manhattan:

Among the workers who left their buildings were some at The Wall Street Journal.

Kathleen Seagriff, a staff assistant in the news rooms, said workers heard the roar of the planes and then saw them 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."

What jerks. Whoever approved this nonsense owes New York and New Jersey an apology.


Haven't You Heard? [ace]: It's just a "bright, sunny safe day in April 2009." We hardly need worry about people getting all verklempt about 747s buzzing skyscrapers in NYC.


Belated Hat-tip: Thanks to Mike S.


digg this
posted by Gabriel Malor at 02:17 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
Martini Farmer: "The politics of the left [i]is their religion.[/i] ..."

AlaBAMA: "I predict a lot of violence. Posted by: nurse rat ..."

Archimedes: "[i]Fortunately, fentanyl will be decriminalized fo ..."

Puddinhead: "25 Now this thread has become wimpy and soy-like. ..."

nurse ratched : "My Marine son told me last night that "trans is th ..."

SMH at what's coming: "State Of Fear by Dr. Michael Crichton is a good re ..."

Yudhishthira's Dice: " Iconoclast is an overused word. I mean, it denot ..."

Archimedes: "[i]You will eat bugs, own nothing, live in a 300 s ..."

AlaBAMA: "And you will be happy. Fortunately, fentanyl w ..."

Joe Mannix (Not a cop!): "[i]The left’s hostility to “religion&# ..."

Eromero: "State Of Fear by Dr. Michael Crichton is a good r ..."

AlaBAMA: "Now this thread has become wimpy and soy-like. ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64