(Bumped up from Wednesday morning)

“this was the most thoughtless, senseless thing they could do to somebody, .. “

A gigantic dark airplane flew low over Manhattan on Monday, frightening office workers and prompting evacuations.

in what turned out to be an Obama Administruction – approved publicity shoot. .

The circling of the 747 around some skyscrapers reminded many New Yorkers of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which resulted in the deaths of thousands after two hijacked commercial airplanes rammed into the World Trade Center. Onlookers and evacuated workers said they were incredulous that government agencies didn’t issue an advisory to alert a public still scarred from 9/11.

Karl Rove could not have scripted this.

“Axelrod shoots New York over to the GOP column with the grace of a lead Condor.”

This is my assumption and I hope to be proven wrong very quickly. This was not the Air Force. They are just in charge of the planes. This is David Axelrod getting footage for some grand, soaring TV ad that will tout how his boss is making the world a better place. “Screw you New York,” he says. “You’re going to vote (D) anyway. So let me get my shot.”

• The shoot will swing from the 747 flying over the stupid white lady statue thing with the torch whip into NJ, right at the Goldman Sachs building down to the streets where the farm animals little people are all doing the hopey dopey dance of joy because it is safe to assume everyone adores us and if that plane crashes into a tall building in New York, it is just a love tap. We will just forgive and forget. OK?

Moments before it occurred, the FAA sent out a memo on the photo op that included this transformative transparent statement: “Information in this document shall not be released to the public or media. Public affairs posture for this effort is passive.” What the heck does that (passive) mean?

“The good news is it was nothing more than an inconsiderate, badly conceived and insensitive photo op with the taxpayers’ money,” Bloomberg said, echoing the comments of Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and other New York officials. “I’m annoyed – furious is a better word – that I wasn’t told,” Bloomberg said, calling the photo opportunity “ill-considered” and “badly conceived.” He added the federal government’s decision to stage such an event near the World Trade Center “defies good judgment.”

• Judgment? Who needs judgment? All I needed was my face, translucent across the sky, overlooking the buildings of New York as a big ole plane came barreling down on the city. The ad would show how the smart people were sitting on park benches sipping their abdool-aide while the stupid racist rednecks were jumping out of windows. That’s going to be one-slick TV ad once we put the music bed down with it. – BO.

Do I think this is funny? Did YOU think this was funny? Does the White House think this was going to be a knee-slapper at this Wednesday’s beer guzzle keg fest, rolling in the roses at the garden behind 1600?

Who gives a flying object from your export hole? Chicago Politics works. Overwhelm the citizens with the BS they like to hear. Overwhelm lawmakers with more tasks than they can complete. Overwhelm the media with kisses, daggers, threats, secret love dinners and job promises. Practice Mushroom Management – Keep ‘em in the dark and feed them lots of solid waste. Take advantage of every crisis and always get the photo op. And, then pretend you didn’t know.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said little about the flight at his daily briefing, noting that he had been “working on other things.”

- I thought they could multi-task.

Verizon Wireless said there was a spike in call traffic during the aviation exercise. While some calls in the area didn’t go through, emails and text messages were delivered, a spokesman said. Network operations normalized at 10:30 a.m.

“I thought it was another terrorist attack,” said Joe Mastrofilippo, who works on the 20th floor of a Jersey City, N.J., office building, but declined to name his employer. “I don’t really feel too happy about the fact that nobody warned us this was a photo op. I don’t know why they didn’t tell us. It caused real fear and panic.”

Across the Hudson River, traders bolted from the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange although a no evacuation was ordered. The Nymex is located just a few blocks from the World Trade Center site, where new towers are under construction.

A Nymex security official was “literally standing, holding his hands up in a calming gesture,” said Peter Donovan, a vice president at Vantage Trading. “Guys were running right past him.”

At one point, the Boeing 747 and its escort circled around Jersey City’s Goldman Sachs Tower, the tallest building in New Jersey.

Andrew Wybolt, who works for Barclays PLC (BCS) in the building, said people rushed for the windows when they heard the planes.

“They just started sprinting and freaking out,” Wybolt said. While Wybolt wasn’t working in the building during the 9/11 attacks, many of his colleagues were.

“We saw a lot of tears,” he added.

The Jersey City mayor’s office said there was no notification about the military exercise. Nancy McCarthy, who works in the mayor’s press office, said she only became aware of the incident as calls began flooding into a radio program.

Evacuations were quickly called off, but many who thronged the banks of the Hudson River opposite Manhattan were found crying.

“For anybody who had gone through the World Trade Center, this was the most thoughtless, senseless thing they could do to somebody,” said a woman who declined to be identified. The woman said she had worked on the 13th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower.

“I just think it’s terrible to do that to people for one photo op..”

WJS

I remember the press people I hired in my years in politics saying “Give me anything for a photo op. The people will soon forget how we got it. Just give me the photo.” I am smelling whore press scum all over this administration. And the orange-tinted viral advocates keep falling into their well-defined and pre-ordained trenches.

I can hear Bill Mahariznut now: “The religious kooks were running from the building while the brilliant atheist Jews like me made some great trades.” Sean Hannity will demand an investigation into the socialist plan to keep us scared and..

the rest of us will be left to wonder what kind of mind altering spices are they putting on the Pizzas served in the White House these days, and where can we get some of that?

Sorry. There are no photos in this post. I saw the video of people running scared in NYC yesterday. All I could think about was how my entire office staff came to my house on 9/11 and sat silent in a circle around the TV the rest of that day. I don’t need to see those images again.

I Remember.

Detractors be warned. I have a history of being very polite to people who have an honest and well thought out opinion that differs from my stated positions. I will not, however allow an iBot argument, that minimizes the pain all of us Americans felt on 9/11. It was real. It happened. We are all trying to deal with it. Please use intelligent compassion, if you decide to post a comment on here, and you will most likely find responses to you on par.