My wife comes home and says

[MichaelHarris]

at around noon today Fox News had a news report about a plane landing in California full of troops was not allowed to disembark. The Fox story went on to say it was an anti-war/troops thing. I looked and looked and can find nothing on it, even on the Fox News website. My guess is, it's one of those stories they toss out and find it's not true. They never retract because their followers believe everything they see on Fox.

Anyone know anything about this story? Might very well make a good Olbermann story tomorrow. Maybe someone somewhere has the Fox story Tivo'ed.

[Kadie]

1. here is a link... Oakland airport scrambles to explain why it kept Marines on tarmac

Oakland airport scrambles to explain why it kept Marines on tarmac
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

(10-02) 17:42 PDT OAKLAND - Marines arriving on a military charter flight on their way home from Iraq were barred from entering a passenger terminal at Oakland International Airport to greet family and friends because of security concerns, airport officials acknowledged today.

Airport authorities decided to park the Marines at a remote location on the tarmac because the troops hadn't been screened and had their weapons on board when the plane landed about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, officials said.

Federal authorities, however, said the Marines had been screened when their flight out of Kuwait landed earlier in the day in New York.

"There was no disrespect that was intended," said Omar Benjamin, executive director of the Port of Oakland, which runs the airport. "There was confusion. There were mistakes that were made" that will be corrected, he said.

Some of the 200 Marines on board wanted to "meet and greet" family and friends at the Oakland passenger terminal before continuing on to their base in Hawaii, but that request wasn't made in advance by the military's charter airline, North American Airlines or its ground handler, Hilltop Aviation, said airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes.

more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/02/BAIUSILJ6.DTL&tsp=1

[MichaelHarris]

9. wonder if

the Fox story said they had weapons? That's the little things they tend to leave out of stories.

[smalll]

13. A non-story. They're just trying to welcome them and make them comfortable

by treating them like us homefront civilians: make them sit on a tarmac for hours in a plane on lockdown.

[Hoof Hearted]

2. Straight out of Rupert's ass is my guess.

The election is just a baby hair from a year off. They need to start building some bullshit mythology now if they expect it to stick at all. Things are looking pathetic and hopeless over there. They're desperate. I laugh.

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. Fox has a video of it but no text story that i could find...

http://www.foxnews.com/index.html
Scroll down and on the right under "Fox News Video" the link is titled "PC Police Run Amok?"

[uppityperson]

4. I have to say your subject line was provocative.

I think I'd better stop now.

[Lex]

5. LOL.

:spank:

[MichaelHarris]

6. she's

getting the love oil as we speak.

[MichaelHarris]

7. crap

I just saw what you meant. Man I'm dense.

[uppityperson]

11. you edited? awwwww.

My mind is in the gutter.

[MichaelHarris]

12. LOL

I had to, the anti-porn crowd would have stoned us to death.

[TahitiNut]

8. Well, at least it wasn't "my wife eats shoots and leaves".

:rofl:

[MichaelHarris]

10. hahahahahahaha

my fingers went too fast.

[funflower]

14. I'll get a souped-up version of that one in my e-mail any day now.