Damn You, Jon Stewart / EDITED
The CNN debate.
Those suckers built an actual mock-up of Air Force One behind the debaters.
Hell no, I am not kidding.
You can go watch them build it right here. That’s not a green screen. That’s an actual mock-up.
Ya think maybe that’s the missing airplane?
Holy damn cow. CNN, be ashamed. I promise you, CNN, that I am going to giggle when I see that.
EDITED: After some people who I used to like ruined all the fun for me, I need to tell you that is Ronald Reagan’s airplane and it’s always there.
So, never mind.
And that’s as close as anybody on that stage is going to get.
1yeah, like any of them are every going to ride on it.
2That actually is a retired Air Force One, y’all. Wiki:
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The aircraft, SAM 27000, was also used by six other presidents in its active service life from 1973 until 2001, including Richard Nixon during his second term, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
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They used the same venue last presidential election cycle.
3I think the mockup of the plane is fine if CNN were to also add a gremlin on the wing, and William Shatner staring in horror out one of the windows. Not at the creature trying to dismantle the wing, but at the answers given to each debate question.
(Twilight Zone reference)
4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dar2HKImK-0
The debate is in the Reagan Library. At that Library, they have a mock up of Air Force One. It’s always there. It doesn’t fly, much like the Reagan administration.
Any big event is in that hangar. So there’s always this big ass airplane in the event.
5That’s the original 707 Air Force One. Reagan was President when thy upgraded to a 747 for Air Force One, and Ronnie asked to have the old one for his coloring book repository, so they gave it to him.
6And in front will be mockups of presidential candidates. Seems right.
7Well, damn. You guys are just ruining all my CNN fun! Next you’re going to start telling me that there’s no damn tooth fairy.
8They had one of the 2012 debates there in front of it.
Looked ridiculous for a debate that time, too.
9JAKVirginia for the win! Hahaha!
10djw – I concur.
11Trump wanted to paint his name on the side but they won’t let him.
12Airplane!
“Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical disaster comedy film”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!
13Let’s face it, in this crowd of wannabes, the only way any of them will get near one of the SAM aircraft is to find one out of service someplace.
14Miss Juanita Jean, the Tooth Fairy is alive and well, as are Santa and the Easter Bunny.
Not sorry to say that I can’t say the same about Republicon candidates. I’ll cover the men’s room, if you’ll take care of the ladies’ room. Written instructions for breathing posted on the stall walls should eliminate the varmints.
15Just goes to show that the Rethugs will bring up RR anytime they can.
16My TX Grandfather in law carried a baseball bat in his truck just in case he would come across any varmints…..he would have a field day at CNN.
17@ Cindy D:
18Never mind the fact that he couldn’t buy an election on the R side today. No, I don’t like the guy. Aamof, I hated him during the ’80s and would hate him now if he were alive. But no more could he win a Republican primary today than the Tooth Fairy could – and I like her – which is why she couldn’t win.
Fly me to the moon . . . let me play among the stars . . .
19this is just another version of Fantasy Football! Complete with fantasy candidates!
The mockery and criticism still stand. The only correction needed is to shift the target from CNN to those people who think Reagan was a great and heroic President.
Though the whole stupid scenario does have a nice phony Hollywood value to it that suits Reagan well.
20So there is no chance of it falling over on any of them? Or all of them??
21The Air Force One which brought JFK’s body back to DC, and upon which Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office is on display at the Boeing History of Flight Museum in Seattle. Now that’s a plane with historic significance. Much like the CNN plane, the republican’t candidates have little significance
22Reagan couldn’t run today; they’d think he was a commie librul.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/09/14/morning-plum-gop-presidential-candidates-are-well-to-the-right-of-their-hero-ronald-reagan/
23W. C. (Pete) Peterson: They “gave” it to him?!!!!! I guess it’s one more thing that administration didn’t pay for.
Ronald Reagan: “Government is too big and costs too much”.
Start of RR’s term as Prez: National Debt = $1 trillion
End of RR’s term as Prez: National Debt = $3 trillion
Yep. Fiscal conservatism at it’s finest.
24I don’t for sure know about the “gave it to him part” but they really couldn’t use it any more. Had his stink in it.
25JAKvirginia,
Start of Dumbya’s term as Prez: National Debt = ~$5.2 trillion (and falling)
End of Dumbya’s term as Prez: National Debt = $11.6 trillion (more than doubled in W’s term, and rising rapidly; with many more Trillions hidden off budget and as certain future obligations (like VA care))
“Yep. Fiscal conservatism at it’s finest.”
Some of us were pointing at the rapidly growing National Debt throughout that time, mostly to dumbstruck proto-Teabaggers, ‘Patriots’, etc (in thrall to Cheney/Bush Inc.).
Crickets…
Black dude moves into the White House…nuclear raging total fiscal meltdown is ‘imminent’ as they become insanely fixated on…the National Debt.
And facts mean nothing to them:
26http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
A prop for this cheap theatrical stunt.
27Sandridge: Yeah. That national debt issue has been a big thing for those R’s the past 6 years. But not so much now, huh? Wonder why.
28JAKvirginia: When Raygun entered office, we were the largest LENDER nation in the world. When he left, we were the largest DEBTOR.
29JJ – Looks like you picked the wrong week to give up drinking.
30As stated above, that is the real AF One mounted on columns. Probably sans engines for weight savings.
They couldn’t lower AF One so they raised the stage.
31I’d be really happy if the scaffolding collapsed and dinged the wing of that old 707 under it…
Hopefully taking out the entire GOP field…
32They got nothing better to do with their budget?
33j7915 and Redwood,
34Would be neat if the engines were in their nacelles, scoot the ‘Puke debatee’s chairs up close and spool those turbines up to mil power; instant slurpee out the exhaust….
Sandridge, I like that idea…
Kinda like FOD (Foreign Object Damage) testing where they throw chickens into a running jet engine to test for resistance to bird strikes…
Only with this bunch it’s more like turkeys…
35Redwood,
I think all of these turkeys are really chickenhawks, like almost every R politician is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_(politics)
(somebody has been jacking with that Wiki page, it used to have more info, and links to references that listed the names of ‘you know who’)
36Yes, McCain, Bush ’41, Colin Powell, Wayne Gilchrest, Sam R. Johnson, Ted Stevens, and Chuck Hagel were surrounded by Chickenhawks…
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