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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-plane29-2009apr29,0,2498563.story

I don’t understand this, I though Hollywood and the Left were closer than this. I have seen dozens of movies of exploding Air force Ones and dozens of movies of cites being destroyed, mainly New York. I have seen Godzilla attack it, I have seen giant waves overrun the streets of Manhattan. So will someone please come clean and tell me that if someone in DC wanted to know what the 747 would look like flying next to the statue of liberty, why the frack did they not call Michale Bay? Yes, I have a low opinion of Michale Bay, but still the man could have got the job done, it would have looked far more realistic, and nobody would be freaked out.

I know that their are morons in middle management in the West Wing that failed to considered the emotional impact this would have on a population, much less a group of people who have had major terrorist attacks occur 2 times in past decade an a half, one of which was buy two airplanes. I wasn’t in New York on 9/11, but there is a piece of me that gets a little edgy when I see a plane a little off course in Burbank. I cannot imagine what this must have been like for the people of New York.

As heartless as this sounds, I am not surprised that people failed to take into account people’s feelings, this is after all the US government. They are doing what I expect kiss ass retarded staffers would do. What bugs me more than anything is the manner in which it was done. With all we can do in digital technology someone thought it prudent to use real props. How many rendered models of 747s and New York do we have? I am sure there are hobbyists that could have created a better visual than what was captured by these amateurs. Hollywood, hell even Bollywood has perfected the art of photo shoots and creating high concept visuals to satisfy the “what would that look like” crave.

I think New York is filled with a lot of pushy, load, obnoxiously rude individuals, however they are still Americans, and more importantly, they are people, and there are a lot of good people in that town that did not deserve that scare. Hell, even the worst people of New York did not deserve that. New York is host to the UN, Statue of Liberty, and is an icon of America. A majority of creditable terror attacks target New York. These people have balls we on the west coast can only dream of having mealy because of the fact that they now they are a target and get up and go to work every day insight of that fact.

I remember how afraid I used to be as a child. My father, a defense contractor told me about the Soviets nukes, and how a facility near our city was a target. I was in constant fear that one day I would hear the president give the order and then it would all be over. I never saw Rockadyne get struck, never saw a Soviet attack. New York has seen attacks, they have seen it by our own airplanes.

In the end when the initial fear of what recent events did to New York and when the anger that an idiotic staffer thought a photo shoot like what was done was a good idea, a larger pit will open in the guts of New Yorkers. They will think what I think.

If we can watch aliens destroy the Empire State Building and send a fireball through New York, if we can show tidal waves knowing over the Statue of Liberty, and a few will realize that their children could have accomplished this task better than DC they will get half of the solution. When the folks in LA learn more about what was done, knowing that we can produce scenarios far better than DC without freaking out New York then we will have the other half of the solution. When the two groups realize that we both have two parts of a good idea we will realize that we no longer are slaves to DC but they work for us.

Sorry New York.