When Pork Flies

I was just saying last night, "Has Obama ever heard of Photoshop?"

It cost $328,835 to fly Air Force One and its F-16 escorts over New York this week for what the White House claims was a photo op.



Here's Air Force One over Minneapolis. I did this in five minutes. Give me an hour and $50, I could do it better, with twenty F-16s if you want, and save the country $328,785.

Scrappleface today presented a similar idea:

Iran Offers Obama Advice After Air Force One Scare

“Mr. President, the next time you need a photo of your plane near some major metropolitan area,” Mr. Ahmadinejad said, “there’s a way to do it without evoking the nightmare of 9/11 in the streets of New York City — it’s called Photoshop.”

UPDATE:

Here are some more photo ops for Air Force One:

Havana



Caracas, Venezuela



Chicago