Just picking a nit here. I wonder if any of the journalists on board with the cameras considered TURINING AROUND?
I don't believe this is accurate and is probably an outright lie. My recollection is that the president's flight time from the Naval Air Station to the Lincoln was 45 minutes. At a speed of 500 or so knots, that would make the distance at least several hundred miles off shore and this is one of the reasons a jet was used instead of Marine One. It is a lot safer to fly in a jet over that much water and land in an aircraft which permits ejection in case of dire emergency.
This is one of the most ill tempered admissions of being wrong I've ever read but what more can you expect from a journalism school graduate? One of the dirty little secrets of that profession is that the people who go into it generally would never be able to make it in any real work. Nice try at salvaging a bit of credibility, but the writer remains an ignorant blow hard steaming sack of s**t.
But these same Euroclymers just loved x42's performance at Normandy with the rocks on that rockless beach. Or what about dragging a carrier from San Diego all the way to Hawaii for a photo op? It is Culturally Grande when an Approved Leftist does things with no other reason for them at all, but when a conservative C in C makes a very appropriate gesture at the end of a war...?