Release plane buzzing Manhattan photos, hell no! Release detainee photos, hell yes! By JEREMY OLSHAN May 5, 2009 The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday. "We have no plans to release them," an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further. The sole purpose of the secret photo-op, which sent thousands of New Yorkers running for cover, was to take new publicity shots of the presidential jet over the city. "The photos . . . are classified -- that's ridiculous," Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., said. New Yorkers said they could not understand how a president who shares intimate snapshots from the White House could justify classifying these. "So we're not gonna see the fruits of this cruel joke?" said Frank Antonelli, 39, one of the Wall Street traders spooked by last week's flyover. "I'm not surprised. Obama . . . wouldn't further all the bad publicity by putting out those pictures." http://www.nypost.com/seven/05052009/news/regionalnews/phantom_air_farce_pictures_167671.htm
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I gotta wonder about that whole fly-over Manhattan. $60K? For the Statue of Liberty in the background? Didn't the military ever hear of Photoshop? Could have saved, say... $2,000....?
I will try and find the link to post but at another site they went into some speculation about the shoot. They are making a movie due out in the fall sometime about the Tuskegee Airman "Story". If you look at the video closely, you can see that the F-16 has a Red Tail Stabilizer. That and the markings on the Stablizer are the "Colors" of the Alabama Air National Guard. The speculation is that this was going to be a scene in the movie. You know, depressed black's now flying fighter aircraft escorting a Black Prez over the City where 9/11 occurred. John
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