5.12.2005

Some Feel Yesterday's DC Air Stunt Yesterday Was Staged

Funny, I heard this for the first time standing in line at the village store, someone insisting the whole teeny aircraft stunt yesterday was staged. Since then, I've seen or read it several times, some - like this comment over at MyDD - nothing that both pilots are Reps and Bush supporters. Not all the folks saying this are Dem conspiracy theorists either. Saw it on a couple of hardly-centrist and definitely not left blogs (mainly in comments), including the creeper freeper contingent.

To me, it just looked like dipshits - you know, the people who would vote for Bush twice.

Now, it's not that you can put anything past the Bushies - they'll fake anything and hang their noses head regardless of how much they themselves reek. But yesterday just looked damned stupid from both the air and the ground. The hysteria was way off the scale for the circumstances (that little plane weighed about a third of an average sized car, for heaven's sake).
If someone staged it, they ought to be ashamed, if not on a moral level, then on an execution basis.

Funny thing is, I've been in NY and DC since the attacks, and even when the city ISN'T in high orange alert status, Washington always acts like an 98-year-old virgin spinster who's just seen her first penis (and it was both very large and hairy). NY underwent a FAR worse attack and they keep on keeping on; DC however is just pathetic. Or maybe they realize they're a target because they do such nasty stuff there.

My Nigerian-born American History professor in college liked to say, "Guilty minds fear accusation." Appropriate for DC.