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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:40 PM Original message |
Were They Taking Pictures of Panic, Air Force One, The F-16's or Scenery? |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Huh? |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. here: |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Sorry, see these threads: |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Oh thanks! |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. THOSE are the questions I'd be interested in too... |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Odd use of Presidential plane. |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. It wasn't Air Force One .. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. It's only called AF1 when the President is onboard, correct? |
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Why Syzygy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Didn't know that. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Correct: AF1 is the designation for whatever AF plane the president is on |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:37 PM Response to Reply #25 |
42. And this, of course, is Segway 1 |
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beac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-29-09 10:52 AM Response to Reply #42 |
73. Yup. Segway: 1, Bush: 0 |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. It did have the Presidential Seal at the time. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #28 |
49. Is it part of the paint job? nt |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I think so. |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 12:44 AM Response to Reply #14 |
58. It's only AF1 when the pres is onboard |
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Graybeard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. This could have been done with CGI, why use real planes? |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
69. Because someone was too dumb to consider that |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. I think F-16s routinely |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. The FAA and NYPD knew that |
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adiabatic (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Where did you hear they were 'instructed' not to tell the public? |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Here: |
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adiabatic (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
36. Okay, it's a 3rd hand report...I certainly agree the whole thing is bizarre, but the FAA |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. Why did they need shots of the plane with the Statue of Liberty? |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Is that the story? That they wanted AF1 and the Statue of Liberty? |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 09:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
47. I read that somewhere earlier |
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seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 09:11 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. it would be harder to fake |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
68. I'm not excusing this fucked up misadventure at all, but a photoshop fake would have been worse |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
11. White House Press Secretary Gibbs: "I have no information on this" |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Somebody didn't think this through. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Are you implying that anyone in the Obama White House would |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. If not, it was purely DoD, right? |
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adiabatic (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #18 |
39. The exercise probably wasn't engineered by some AF Captain |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
16. They did it to sodomize my imagination. |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
17. Damn idiots at the FAA!!!!! |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. And who ordered it? The DoD? |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:05 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. They said the military, whatever that means |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Makes me think the photo they were after was a panicked city. |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Well, then they achieved their goal!! |
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adiabatic (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #29 |
37. I can't imagine the local authorities even THINKING of honoring such a 'request'. |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Believe it, people are already demanding answers. |
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adiabatic (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Hell, I'm pretty old & jaded, seen lotsa weird shit but if I'd been in NYC and seen that |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
22. Now what was their reason. There was a reason. We need Transperancy! |
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bkkyosemite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
26. I emailed this to the White House |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 01:59 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. E-mail the DoD, too. |
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dgibby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
31. CNN is reporting that the plane is an "AF1 look-alike". |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:11 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Pictures show the Presidential Seal. It is only called AF1 if the POTUS |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
32. Let's pretend for a second they are telling the truth. |
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Seen the light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
34. Whoever approved this needs to be fired |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
38. Yeah, I know it's tin-foil-y...but... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #38 |
44. Indeed! Such a shot is so easily photoshopped. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 10:13 PM Response to Reply #38 |
54. I think of this as a warning... |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 09:35 AM Response to Reply #54 |
59. I agree... |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-29-09 10:58 AM Response to Reply #54 |
75. Strange days as always in the US of A |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:58 AM Response to Reply #38 |
61. Anyone else think this should be investigated further? |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 11:24 AM Response to Reply #61 |
63. that "junior person" is the former Secretary of the Army (eom) |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 08:06 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. No it was a "kid" below him who was in charge of notifying NYC/Jersey... |
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nc4bo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 11:04 PM Response to Reply #38 |
70. Does anyone else think it just a little bit odd that NewsMax would advertise its 911 aka 9/11 radio |
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Carni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
43. Why would they want a photo of AF1 buzzing NY??? |
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yy4me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
45. What a dumb, stupid, inconsiderate stunt. Someone needs to |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
46. MSNBC (link) |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. OMG...that's a good read...Snarky Article...says much of it... |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 09:56 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. Video - very understandable panic |
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 11:14 AM Response to Reply #52 |
62. First time I've viewed the video. Crying and shaking here. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
53. The AF does this every so often |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 10:13 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. Well...I did wonder why they wanted video of AF-2 followed by Fighter Jet over Manhattan... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 10:17 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Probably more in the line of the photos the AF takes |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-27-09 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
57. Louis Caldera, what's the deal? |
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 08:04 PM Response to Reply #57 |
64. Looking at the History tab, people have been busy patching it this way et that. nt |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-29-09 10:20 AM Response to Reply #64 |
71. You're right! Wow. |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
60. I think this was a set up for possible |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #60 |
66. It would seem to be that, logically. For those of us who've been here watching |
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TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #60 |
67. That's ridiculous |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-29-09 10:37 AM Response to Reply #67 |
72. It's not tinfoil to consider it a leftover... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-29-09 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
74. Wow, what a great concept for a calender photo: watch our people flee in terror at our presence! |
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