Posted on 03/17/2012 8:43:27 AM PDT by DCBryan1
The Little Rock Airport Commission has scheduled a discussion at its meeting Tuesday to rename the airport the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport.
The idea has kicked around for years, with varying amounts of cheering and jeering. Hillary Clinton served for a time as legal counsel to the airport.
I'm guessing the votes are in hand now to honor Arkansas's native son president and his wife, the secretary of state.
It's better than a guess. Our FOI request early today produced 1) renderings of various proposed sign treatments including the one above; 2) the resolution the commission has up for a vote, and 3) e-mail about planned publicity from the Markham Group, which handles PR for the airport, including a memo on talking points on the name change. Interesting to see the spin machine at work, including a lineup of notables to speak in favor of the name change. Public notice was not part of the fait accompli PR plan, though notice of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, naturally, was. The Markham Group, you'll remember, did the unaccounted-for work on the Chamber's shadow campaign to get a $500 million city sales tax adopted. I should say the PR plan did call for leaks to "key media." That didn't include us, except by happenstance.
Note that all this is just a proposal at this point, particularly design elements. Airport Director Ron Mathieu said in an e-mail to commissioners earlier this month:
Attached please find the proposed designs for the new entrance icon. I think the one that has the blue "potential water feature or light feature" is the best, but that is just my opinion.
I would suggest that we all keep these concepts under wraps until both the Clinton Foundation
(Excerpt) Read more at arktimes.com ...
How about a special TSA screening line with a “happy ending”.
Why do they want to name it after the Clintons - is there a porno shop on premises?
TSA Official: "Sir, you have been randomly selected to be interviewed in the RON BROWN INTERVIEW ROOM....step this way please".
I’m all for it if they rename an airport with BilHil but instead of Little Rock it should be the Mena, ARK. airport renamed instead.
We honor all Frequent Liar Rewards in-terminal.
The airport will have a lot of desk jobs.
Now that is funny, Karliner.... don’t think I’d wash my hands in the sink !!
The airport will have a lot of desk jobs.
Now that is funny, Karliner.... don’t think I’d wash my hands in the sink !!
What about the Vince Foster Memorial Airport? He gave MORE.
`Ladies and gentlemen, we’re approaching our descent to Clinton National Airport. Would you please make sure that your seat backs and tray tables are in their upright and locked positions, and that your pants are pulled up and zippered.’
Hey women got a long layover or flight delay at Clinton Intl? Now get a free government paid in-terminal abortion at the lower level of Concourse C. Just a small donation to the DNC is all that is requested at the location. Happy flyby abortions!
I'm sure you can figure out the additional letter that would be required if they named it after the "toons.
Pimpercrombie and Bitch International Airport.
How about Whitewater National Airport?
(Stewardess on intercom)
“Comrades: Ya’ll will note that the Flying C travel stop in the main concourse has a variety of things to do for adults as well as kids. There’s a store/gift shop with all kinds of things that you can buy for your flight, as well as food and drink.
For you illiterates there are Video Book Rentals. You can rent a video book or two at one stop, and then return them at the next one! This really cuts down the boredom.
There are new DVDs as well: `President’s Day: Pants Half Off, starring George Clooney and Juliann Moore; `UFC’s Hillary v. Fluke: The Mud Games,’ `Our Friends the Bears’ by Timothy Treadwell, `Shedding My Skin’ by James Carville and `The Itsy Bitsy Spider’ by Gov. Blago, #92850.
There are also loads of novelty gifts, rubber knives, guns and swords, t-shirts, and funny stuff, like the rattle snake in a can, the bleating calf or the California earthquake in a can, as well as the William J. Clinton Memorial Sex Novelties Store, an entire shop full of latex and hard rubber aids, toys, movies and such. 12 or older!
Y’all have fun, ya hear? And visit Li’l Rock again real soon!”
Shouldn’t the name go to Mena AK airport where the drugs Bill knew about when AG and Gov. were run in and out of?
Two liars with Muslim financial ties and one of them cheats on his wife and as President is impeached.
Name an airport after them? America has gone crazy.
For the record, there is already a Clinton. SC.
Rock Hill is now nothing more than a bedroom suburb of increasingly liberal Charlotte NC.
‘Nuff said.
One more insult to Arkansas involving the Clintons.
That's just too damn funny...
Anyone still in Arkansas, get out as fast as possible...
I would not name anything after Clinton. There is no comparison to him and Reagan. Clinton does not justify anything named after him.
Reagan was a great president.
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