America's Air Force, No One Comes Close....

...to this stupidity!

Congrats to my beloved service for stealing the front page of every New York paper this morning thanks to some nifty Lower Manhattan hijinx:

"Air Farce One" played out over lower Manhattan yesterday -- in a terrifyingly bizarre military photo op that sent office workers fleeing from their buildings fearing a new 9/11-type attack. (link)

And this raw video gets interesting around the 39 second mark:

The slams don't stop with the press. One of the blowhards on the train this morning recounted no less than three times the fact that the PA in his building announced:

Attention, this building is not under imminent threat of attack at this moment.

"I didn't even know they were evacuating the buildings at that point," he exclaimed in a volume highly inappropriate for a train running at 6:49 a.m.

One interesting point: I first learned of this via a friend's facebook update. I've got a tv on my desk and about 5 minutes later, FoxNews started reporting it and the story caught fire. Between the on-scene cell phone videos and status updates, this iReporting/citizen journalism deal really has something going.

In closing, I think today I'll play down my Air Force ties for once. Although I'd love to be the PA assigned to this bad boy.