FAA says low-flying plane over Staten Island is 'pre-planned' flight to take photos

You and I agree in essentials. Maybe because I'm a writer myself with a foundation in reporting that I look at such items in a different way than most. I don't think in terms of what's in the story, I think in terms of what's left out. I don't think in terms of believing sources, I think in terms of taking every single word from a source with a grain of salt until it is corroborated or validated by something else. And because of the specific kind of writing I do, I must be precisely tuned to bullsh*t made to look like substance.

The article doesn't SHOW anything because it includes ZERO info about the timing of the alert or memo. It is in fact extremely vague about the memo. Who was it sent to? A high level FAA guy wrote it, to whom? WHEN? For what purpose?

The actual story is disjointed, and the idea of Bloomberg reprimanding a lower level geek for not letting him know ... and him talking about how federal authorities had been so great to work with in the past -- this was the presidential airplane. On a Monday morning at 10 a.m. in Manhattan.

Again, I call complete bullsh*t on the story.

Identifying problems should also entail offering solutions. But calling bullsh*t doesn't require having an alternate theory. I can entertain all kinds of possible scenarios, but I have to factor what I want to be true versus what I don't to be true. Common sense is the better way to hone in on the truth, and part of common sense is discerning bullcrap.

On the theory that Obama might have ordered this photo op so he could get himself into a forthcoming George Lucas movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, see #21-33 on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2240441/posts?page=31

I can appreciate that.

The fact remains that the public was deliberately left out of the loop.

What is going on? I don’t know, and no I don’t buy the Bloomberg statements either.

Don’t think we’re going to get any answers, though. I’d like to see an investigation and the plane’s manifest. Don’t think they’ll be forthcoming either.

If you have anything to do with writing for the MSM, I’d like to see you and others like you get on this and start pushing for some answers.

If you have anything to do with writing for the MSM ...

I don't. And I think that the whole MSM infrastructure in reporters and expectations of them is so bankrupt that it must be completely eradicated and get a fresh start before it can become credible and respectable. Something drastic has to happen before you'll ever see changes there. We'll have to look somewhere else and start thinking more critically. A LOT more critically.

“If you have anything to do with writing for the MSM ...
I don’t.”

That’s unfortunate.

“And I think that the whole MSM infrastructure in reporters and expectations of them is so bankrupt that it must be completely eradicated and get a fresh start before it can become credible and respectable. Something drastic has to happen before you’ll ever see changes there. We’ll have to look somewhere else and start thinking more critically. A LOT more critically.”

You said it all, and I couldn’t agree with you more.

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