April 24, 2006, - 12:48 pm
Even the Air Force Was Fooled by Ecko “Air Force One”
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Some liberal websites attacked me for .
But I was not the only one who asked whether it was the real thing. As AP reports, even top brass at the U.S. Air Force were doing a double take:
A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on President Bush’s jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn’t immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted. . . .
“We’re looking at it, too,” said Lt. Col. Bruce Alexander, a spokesman for the Air Mobility Command’s 89th Airlift Wing, which operates Air Force One. “It looks very real.”
Alexander later confirmed that no such spray-painting had occurred.
In fact, the plane looked so real, it was a hoax only a gazillionaire and punk, like Marc Ecko could afford to pull off. AP reports that Gecko rented a jumbo jet that looked like Air Force One and had it painted that way:
The pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute Web video – employed by a New York fashion company – revealed Friday how they pulled it off: a rented 747 in California painted to look almost exactly like Air Force One. . . .
Ecko acknowledged Friday that his company had rented a 747 cargo jet at San Bernardino’s airport and covertly painted one side to look like Air Force One. Employees signed secrecy agreements and worked inside a giant hangar until the night the video was made. Ecko declined to say how much the stunt cost.
“It’s not cheap,” he said. “You have to be rich.”
But if a rich hip-hop prankster could make a mock Air Force One that can fool the Air Force, can’t the terrorists do the same for a more nefarious purpose?
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Sounds a bit hysterical. The Air Force was fooled? Did no one just look out the window at each of the two Air Force Ones and see whether it had been vandalized or not?
How do we know people who commented on the other story were liberal? I despise America-hater George W. Bush. I despise Tom DeLay. I *now* despise John McCain even though I voted for him during the 2000 primaries because he’s now tongue kissing Christian fascists and wants to make our kids idiots in science. Yet no one who knows me would accuse me of being liberal. Maybe they just don’t like Debbie.
hqsbud on April 24, 2006 at 3:44 pm