{"id":4795,"date":"2009-04-29T08:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2009-04-29T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T16:06:03","slug":"wanted_scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/wanted_scapegoat.html","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Scapegoat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair he was probably thinking, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/28\/the-forgotten-e-mail-that-rocked-new-york\/\">&#8220;It can&#8217;t possibly be <em>that<\/em> important if they&#8217;re contacting me . . .&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On Monday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was fuming. On Tuesday, he was forgiving, characterizing the actions of a low-level manager who failed to notify him or his superiors of a planned flyover exercise in Lower Manhattan as merely a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was because the mayor had already punished the manager, Marc Mugnos, with a letter of reprimand (and, presumably, a tongue-lashing). Perhaps it was because of all the apologies the city had received &#8212; from Mr. Mugnos, most likely, and also from the White House. (President Obama has ordered a review of the matter.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guy just didn&#8217;t do it. He read the thing and just didn&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Mayor Bloomberg told reporters during a news conference at City Hall, referring to Mr. Mugnos&#8217; inaction after receiving an e-mail last Thursday from the Federal Aviation Administration, notifying him of the plans for a flyover by F-16s and a backup to Air Force One. (The New York Police Department also received the same e-mail.)<\/p>\n<p>That might be all in the past for Mr. Bloomberg, but a lot of people out there are wondering who Mr. Mugnos is and why the F.A.A. would pick him to share information about what turned out to be a nerve-rattling event for those who live and work in Lower Manhattan, particularly those who were there on Sept. 11, 2001.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additional point: There&#8217;s a big difference between a &#8220;flyover&#8221; and a 747 looping around New York Harbor trailed by F-16s.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/what_kind_of_photo_shoot_involves_air_force_one_flying_at_a_low_altitude_over_new_york_harbor_publicity_for_a_harrison_ford_sequel.html\">What Kind Of &#8220;Photo Shoot&#8221; Involves Air Force One Flying At A Low Altitude Over New York Harbor? Publicity For A Harrison Ford Sequel?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be fair he was probably thinking, &#8220;It can&#8217;t possibly be that important if they&#8217;re contacting me . . .&#8221;: On Monday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was fuming. On Tuesday, he was forgiving, characterizing the actions of a low-level manager who failed to notify him or his superiors of a planned flyover exercise in Lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}