Boy, did the Leftists hate President Bush’s Excellent Thanksgiving Adventure or what? They hated it so much that this story was floated (like a turd) in Reuters yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Airways says that none of its pilots made contact with President George W. Bush's plane during its secret flight to Baghdad, contradicting White House reports of a mid-air exchange that nearly prompted Bush to call off his trip.
Honor Verrier, a spokeswoman for British Airways in North America, said on Monday two BA aircraft were in the area at the time and neither radioed the president's plane to ask if it was Air Force One.But today we have this story reported by AP:
He [White House communications director Dan Bartlett] said the pilot of the British Airways plane radioed the tower in London and reported the apparent sighting of Air Force One. The tower, apparently relying on phony flight-plan information filed to protect Air Force One's identity, radioed back that it was a Gulfstream Five, a much smaller plane.
Bartlett said he had left the wrong impression Thursday that the conversation had taken place between the British Airways pilot and the pilot of Air Force One, Col. Mark Tillman.
British Airways spokesman Jeff Angel said the airline has hundreds of planes in the air in the United Kingdom and around London and none of their pilots had come forward indicating they made the comments or overheard them. "We are not going to be asking every single one of our pilots" about the exchange, he said.
Bartlett said Bush and his senior aides were not aware of the spotting until Air Force One was on its way home from Baghdad.
A simple mis-telling of a story as second-hand stories often are; the British Airways pilot talked to the tower, not to Air Force One’s pilot. Nit-picking it is.
But, consider how the Leftist knuckleheads at certain websites are floating theories such as the president’s Iraq visit being staged in some secret studio in Alaska. The fact that such people don’t want that visit to really have occurred shows how powerful a symbol the visit was.
The Reuters story was just another attempt to cast doubt, throw dirt, besmirch and otherwise urinate on something good and incredibly cool. Pathetic, isn’t it?
UPDATE: No, no. THIS is really pathetic. (Michele expounds on just how pathetic it is; Thanks to Neal Boortz)
