Americans are apparently extremely gullible

Or at least their pResident thinks so. He finds it practically a daily amusement to insult them with lies and cheap B-movie PR stunts.

See my two earlier posts: Wag the turkey and Wag harder for the truth beginning to seep out about that Thanksgiving photo-op of Cowboy Codpiece's.

Then, catch my first posts commenting about the obvious campaign stunt. Here and here and here.

And then, check this out:

From an early report:

On the flight over, Air Force One had come within sight of a British Airways plane, Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, told reporters on the trip, according to the transcript.

The British Airways pilot radioed over and asked, Mr. Bartlett said, "Did I just see Air Force One?" There was silence from the Air Force One pilot, who then replied, "Gulfstream 5."

There was a longer silence from the British Airways pilot, Mr. Bartlett said, who, seeming to get that he was in on a secret, then said, "Oh."

But, whoops, British Airways doesn't recall any such contact.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Airways said on Monday that none of its pilots made contact with President 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.

The White House had no immediate comment on the discrepancy.

Bush aides recounted with excitement last week the moment during the flight to Baghdad when they said a BA pilot thought he spotted the president's blue and white Boeing 747 from his cockpit.

"Did I just see Air Force One?" the pilot radioed, according to the White House.

There was a pause. Then came the response from Air Force One: "Gulfstream 5" -- a much smaller aircraft.

As one of Bush's aides recounted, the BA pilot seemed to sense that he was in on a secret, and replied: "Oh."

The exchange was one of the most suspenseful moments during Bush's secret flight to Baghdad, according to the White House.

With three hours to go, Bush had the Secret Service check if his mission was still secret.

"They assured me that there was still a tight hold on the information, that conditions on the ground were as positive as positive could be," he said afterward.

Jeezus, bonehead, do you have no shame at all?

....but hey, you unscrupulous asshat, do what you want....you will anyway.


P.S. It only takes 40 minutes to get from Maryland to Baghdad?

P.P.S. Bush's Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad captivated people in Crawford and tourists, who came to its tiny downtown to buy up mementos of the trip.

Large pins featuring the president's plane and the BA pilot's words -- "Did I just see Air Force One?" -- were sold out by mid-day Saturday. article

How long would it take you, in a "tiny downtown" to have pins made up in preparation for suckers tourist sales, over the Thanksgiving holiday? Let's say you're a merchant in tiny downtown Crawford. And you only heard about the wondrous event on Thanksgiving Day, because, after all, that's when it happened. And let's say you heard about it the very instant it happened, word getting around the way it does in tiny towns. Where do you go to have those pins designed and manufactured? Unless you have cheapo pin-making software on your computer and the supplies on hand to make them, of course, you're probably not going to get anything ready for Friday and Saturday. Let's see the pins. Anybody who bought one, please send a picture. We won't call you a sucker. We'll call you a collector. Because this is one of the biggest bogus stunts yet.