The Obama Administration sent New York City into a mini panic yesterday, and sent Mayor Bloomberg into a bit of a fit. The White House wanted to update its file photos of Air Force One, so obviously the best thing to do would be to sent the huge jumbo jet to New York so it could fly around the buildings.
A jumbo jet being chased by a F-16 fighter jets buzzed Lower Manhattan this morning, panicking New Yorkers, many of whom were forced to evacuate their office buildings.
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Dominick Caglioti, who works at the Mercantile Exchange, thought the worst as he saw the jets hurtle toward his window just after 10:30 a.m. After learning it was all a photo op, he was furious.
“It’s so stupid because they tell you about every fire drill, but they didn’t tell us about this,” he said.
The planes flew over the Verrazano Bridge, buzzed the left ear Lady Liberty and then continued up the Hudson past Jersey City and then circling back toward Staten Island, federal sources told the Post.
Thousands flooded the streets downtown as buildings called evacuations.
People were less than pleased.
Turns out the NYPD knew about it, but didn’t pass it on. But even if the information had made it to his desk, Mayor Bloomberg says he still would have warned against it:
“Had I known about it I would have called them right away and asked them not to,” he said. “The good news is it was nothing more than an ill considered, badly conceived, insensitive photo op – with the taxpayers’ money.”
He’s right. Watch this video and understand the terror New Yorkers felt by watching Air Force One buzz the city:
Here’s another video of New Yorkers running through the streets while Obama’s jet flies overheard (H/T: Breitbart via Drudge):
I know what the lib apologists are going to say. The White House told the city that they were going to do it. The failure is on the city for not communicating. This isn’t Obama’s fault.
How about judgment? Isn’t it poor judgment to send a jumbo jet to New York for a photo op? Isn’t there a better place for taking pictures? I think that of all the places to send a low flying jet, New York would be pretty low on the list.
