Revising and extending the president’s remarks. And revising … and extending … And …
During the president’s quick trip to Iraq on Thanksgiving, White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett told the press of a scene straight out of a Harrison Ford movie in which a British Airways pilot made an in-flight identification of Air Force One and then had to be warned off the ID by some quick thinking officials on the airborne White House.
Well, that turned out not to have really happened.
Now the story is that a British Airways pilot radioed London, not Air Force One. But British Airways seems to be saying that that story isn’t true either.
Can’t we just cut to the chase and agree that it was on board the plane, as it streaked through the darkness over the misty depths of the Atlantic, that Bartlett decided that it would be a cool story to have appear in Woodward’s next book?
I don’t think anyone will come forward to dispute that.
