Plane stupid: Mayor Bloomberg outraged over military photo-op

http://www.nydailynews/ny_local ^

[LottieDah]

Just plane dumb.

A perfect storm of idiocy led to a frightening 9/11 flashback for thousands of New Yorkers Monday when a jumbo jet and an F-16 fighter jet buzzed lower Manhattan without warning.

A "furious" Mayor Bloomberg denounced the dunces who dreamed up the stunt - and the NYPD officials and bureaucrats who never told him about it.

By day's end, an obscure City Hall deputy named Marc Mugnos, who makes $60,000 a year, was taking the fall for not telling Bloomberg that the low-flying planes were coming. He was reprimanded.

But there was plenty of blame to go around.

Louis Caldera, the director of the White House military office who sent Air Force One and the fighter jet on an "aerial photo mission," got slammed by an angry President Obama.

[Ancient Drive]

Louis Caldera, the director of the White House military office who sent Air Force One and the fighter jet on an “aerial photo mission,” got slammed by an angry President Obama.

rrriiiight!!!

[BullDog108]

Correct Link

[GeorgiaDawg32]

amazing, isn’t it? all the high level approvals required to fly AIR FORCE 1 over New York, at low level, with 2 F-16’s flying escort and it’s the low level personnel taking the blame and the fall..

Don’t anyone try and convince me Ears didn’t give approval..the buck stops with him on this one..

[steelyourfaith]

Fiscal irresponsibility again from the Obama dopes.

[unixfox]

By day's end, an obscure City Hall deputy named Marc Mugnos, who makes $60,000 a year, was taking the fall for not telling Bloomberg that the low-flying planes were coming. He was reprimanded.

Sure he was. I can hear it now...

Now Marc, don't you ever do that again, or you will be sent to bed without dinner.

Now, go play with your planes and leave us alone.

[incredulous joe]

I understand the furor about all of this. I can imagine how New Yorkers feel about low flying planes.

I've seen a couple versions of this story reported and in everyone the blame was unequivocally laid at the feet of the military.

[RandallFlagg]

Obama’s plane, Obama’s responsibility.

Since I stopped watching TV about 3 years ago, I was curious. Have there been any interviews from New York’s citizens who panicked in the streets about this?

[Doogle]

.."somebody tell me when this blows over,..did anyone tell the AF1 cook to get more cheese for the grill cheese sandwiches?"

[UB355]

Not one word of this in the online version of the New York Times

[albie]

Didn’t Obama say...”the buck stops here”? BO plane=BO fault. Simple.

[Sig Sauer P220]

The buck stops at zero’s desk.

[LottieDah]

You are absolutely correct. If it were the Bush Administration, crowds of reporters, leftists, and other assorted whackos would be congregating in front of the White House with feathers, tar and pitch forks.

[junkman_106]

I’m not sure if Bloomie is even literate enough to READ the memo...if it was given to him that is.

[Grampa Dave]

Duck, run, and cower you, Ny City Clowns. You voted for me, and I won the election. Now, I can order my planes to do anything I want. Put some ice on those whines!

[LottieDah]

The military can’t say, “well I think we should use one of our planes for a photo-op”. Someone HAD to approve it. My guess that some is ZERO!