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Fox News scores exclusive video tour of Air Force One
It's not every day that someone gets an exclusive tour of the tricked-out Boeing 747 that's designated Air Force One whenever the president is aboard. That's what Fox News propagandist Chris Wallace did last week, airing his special peek on yesterday's Fox News Sunday chatfest. He said it took five years to get permission for this video walk-around.
The surprising part of this tour (an excerpt of which is in the video above, see the whole thing here): There was not a whole lot of super-high tech stuff. The telephones look pretty conventional, and the 50-inch plasma TVs seem to be the same ones you can pick up at Wal-Mart. We like the private shower and those touchscreen power curtains in the prez's stateroom, though.
Keep in mind, the top-secret high tech was nowhere to be seen, for good reason. Still, it's big fun to imagine partying down on this nuclear-proof luxo-sky limo with all the cheeseburgers we could eat. Heck, the stewards even know how you like your coffee if you're important enough. Add a fancy helicopter and that super presidential limo-tank we showed you last week, and Obama's going to have himself the perfect transportation fleet.
Via Fox News
By MacBeth at 4:02 PM ON 11/24/08
Wow you guys can't stop being impartial dicks even for this one simple story. It has nothing to do politics, they worked hard to be able to get access to the plane to show you and any one else interested what it is like inside Air Force One. But all you can do is call them Propagandist. Classy.
By Chris at 10:30 PM ON 11/24/08
I agree. Why even bother writing this article... So you could get some last minute bashing in?
By jack at 3:19 AM ON 11/25/08
WELL, they are propagandists, so its not like the article is factually incorrect. I personally wouldn't trust them anywhere near airforce one.
By big dro at 4:53 AM ON 11/25/08
Propagandists like when they eagerly broke the anti-GOP Palin Africa Continent story on their "chatfest" before everyone else right? You do realize they spent an equal amount of money following Obama and McCain while all the other media outlets spent 3 times more on average following Obama than McCain. Gee that's some propaganda... pathetic. Come correct or stick to electronics.
By Neal Campbell at 10:55 AM ON 11/25/08
More proof that Obama supporters are the most uninformed in the history of any election.
By Iso at 5:52 PM ON 11/25/08
Propagandist? If FOX offends so much then why don't you contact NBC's Obama headquarters after the inaug, I am sure Brian Williams would be happy to shill once again for Obama on-board Air Force One. Plus since SciFi is slavedrived by NBC/Universal maybe you can tag along and actually do some real reporting.
By murc at 12:16 AM ON 11/26/08
Fox News has been getting much better ratings over the years because the rest of the media is completely ONE SIDED, and people are sick & tired of it!
I used to watch CNN, but of the past year or so, the only thing on that channel I have been watching is Glenn Beck. And apparently he knows when the ship is sinking, cause he left CNN, and will have his own show on Fox News starting in 09.
which is good news.
ISO - good point, I never knew Sci-Fi was owned by NBC. SO much for being honest and un-biased. that company is completely in the tank for Obama, hell just watch MSNBC (if you dare) that show is pathetic.
By Iso at 1:53 PM ON 11/27/08
TO Murc..
Yep, technically its NBC and SciFi are part of Universal but they all tow the party line....Especially during green week. Of course once Obama saves us all from whatever will doom us this whole arguement will be moot.
To Macbeth....I think you meant to call them "partial" instead of impartial, the latter would imply they are bipartisan.
By MacBeth at 7:38 PM ON 11/28/08
yeah I did I'm not so smert
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