Boeing ‘Real’ tanker vs. Baloney
Published 11:53 am Monday, July 28, 2008
Boeing’s latest tanker advertisement served as fodder for this editorial cartoon in The Press-Register in Mobile, Ala.
Last week, Boeing and rival tanker bidder Northrop Grumman and EADS launched new advertisements as the Pentagon prepares to release a draft request for proposal on the expedited rebid of the $35 billion Air Force tanker contract.
Politicians in Alabama, where the Northrop-EADS tanker would be built, blasted Boeing last week while lawmakers from Washington and Kansas, where Boeing’s KC-767 would be assembled, have come to Boeing’s defense in recent weeks.
Press-Register cartoonist J.D. Crowe gives his thoughts on the “Boeing Baloney” cartoon and the tanker controversy.
Quote: The Boeing ads are typical for a company with its history of deception, corruption, delayed deliveries and cost over-runs.
Meanwhile, Boeing elaborated on its tanker campaign in a recent Tanker Blog post, entitled “Real Tanker.”
Quote: If we’re anything, we are about reducing risk. When it comes to tankers, we do it better simply because we’ve built so many.
