'You Can't Just Take Air Force One On a Joyride To Manhattan'

Why apologize about spending over $350,000 on a photo op when you can crack jokes about it? It's not as if your army of press secretaries will say anything. They're too busy yukking it up with you.

Bam!

President Obama yukked it up at last night's White House Correspondents dinner, taking a pointed swipe at his administration's bone-headed move to send Air Force One buzzing over lower Manhattan last week.

"Sasha and Malia aren't here tonight because they're grounded," he told the crowd at the $200-a-ticket Washington gala. "You can't just take Air Force One on a joyride to Manhattan."

The commander-in-chief also jabbed Dick Cheney, saying the former vice president couldn't make it to the gala because he was working on his memoir, "How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People."

What a knee-slapper. Clearly whoever's writing his material is grossly overpaid.