Brian Williams, who only rarely speaks off the cuff, opined to Olbermann last night that it was “automatic, don’t-ask-any-questions, post-9/11 secrecy.”
In other words, some FAA bozo’s sphincter throttled his brain.
Best two out of three?
With guacamole, please. 
The irony of this is positively painful.
Ahem…it should be noted that in cases where actual cites exist, I have absolutely no problem furnishing one when asked. If I make a claim about the height of the Empire State Building or Donald Trump’s stake in Trump Casinos or the amount of water flowing over Niagra Falls, I will happily back that up with the appropriate data and a link to where the information can be found.
When I state an opinion (liberals have fucked this country up beyond belief) or make an observation (liberals have been yelling ‘racist’ anytime anyone questions anything at all proposed to advance civil rights for decades) and some obfuscatory putz who doesn’t like what I said - and is desperate that no one believe it yet lacks substantive rebuttal themselves - yells “Cite! Prove anytime anyone…etc.”, knowing damn good and well that no such cite can possibly exist and that what I’m saying is clearly an opinion or observation, it is then that I will decline - and usually politely - to comply.
It has long been my opinion that cite demands are the single most prevalent expressions of intellectual dishonesty on this board.
But opinions usually have a basis, and “prove anytime anyone…” should normally be a trivially easy thing to provide.
I notice you didn’t mention Cheney.
It’s stuff like this that makes me think technophobes aren’t always just xenophobes.
I have three words for the government:
Lightwave and Photoshop
Since there was at least a month of time between the “setting up” of the inquisition and the actual “calling” of people to court.
from the first time you were called to the first “day in court” there was a considerable ammount of time…guy sitting in front of the judges were not surprised at all of being there.
Not the the Inquisition was about hugging bunnies.
I gotta think the F16’s (and other aircraft filming the two F16’s and the 747) in some super-duper hi-res digital or 1028 mm film would be better than photoshop - awesome. All these photos belong to us. Bring them on. How much rez does a camera on an F16 have? I’m sure it’s a total secret.
It’s dumb to suggest that they could have done it with Photoshop. Either do the photos for real or not at all. If they were handing out these snaps on the President’s next trip abroad, and it got out that they were Photoshop fakes, that would be a PR debacle in itself. Likely tabloid headline: “President gives nine-year-old cancer sufferer framed picture of Air Force One - and it’s a FAKE”.
What makes you think they wouldn’t release the photos with a disclaimer that they were digitally altered?
This is why I said to take a pic of the damn plane on the ground at Andrews. Who the fuck cares if it’s flying for a publicity shot.
Because there’s something unsatisfactory about photos that depict something that didn’t actually happen. If they have Air Force One flying over Liberty Island when it actually didn’t, why not hand out photos of it landing on Mars? They would be worth about as much.
I could be wrong, but I was assuming that the pictures were being taken by a guy with an ordinary camera in the back seat of the plane. I’m not a top expert on F-16s, but I don’t think, even if there are reconnaissance versions of the plane, that those cameras would be suitable for air-to-air photography for publicity work.
Air Force One on Mars… that’d be hellacool.
No irony is ever painful to those who are without irony.
I beg to differ. I Photoshopped Dick Cheney’s head onto the body of a man being sodomized by a horse, and it was quite satisfying.
Disclaimer: I cannot prove that such an event has never actually taken place.