"Troubling!"Gracious, young man-- Save that sort of vitriol for the Sharply Worded Letter Department of the Times. Take it from me, and as a small-d dem lib, I know. You clutch too hard, youâll get pearl burns. And stop shaking your head.
âWeâre really disturbed by how that man was treated. Unless heâs an illegal immigrant, then that would be nothing compared with what we train our ICE agents to do!â
âBaghdadBobSpicer
Isnât there some conceivable way this can be Obamaâs fault too?
âI think there is plenty of law enforcement to review a situation like that and I know United Airlines has stated that they are currently reviewing their own policies,â he said. âLetâs not get ahead of where that review goes.â
Uhhhhh. Interstate flight. Interstate Commerce Clause. This is exactly where the Feds get involved, you semi-literate shitweasel.
âI donât think anyone looks at that video and isnât a little disturbed that another human being is treated that way,â Spicer said. âTo watch a human being get dragged down an aisle with their head banging off armrests and not think it could have been handled better, I would assume that we could probably all agree on that.â
Er, anyone except for your boss:
Unless somebody thinks of not hiring anybody to enforce the regulations and/or putting bureaucratic obstacles in the way.
Signed: A former regulatory official.
âAs you could clearly see by the video most of the passengers were left unscathed,â he added. âThatâs not a very efficient way of reaccommodating Unitedâs paying customers. That why we need to increase the number of Chicago Airport Police, to deal with this unprecedented increase of hostilely docile passengers.â
Fun Fact: Unitedâs stock price rose following this incident.
ETA: Today UALâs stock had taken a ânosedive.â I wonder if it was because investors discovered that 20% of Unitedâs profits are generated by servicing international flights to/from China? (BTW: The doctor was Vietnamese-American.) It has now pretty much recovered however.
Also, UAL has issued another statement, this one saying âthe flight was not overbooked.â It simply needed to relocate âmust flyâ crew members, so it needed the four seats. Glad United could clear that up. Behavior excused. Verdict: Assault justified!!
Jimmy Kimmelâs 30 second United ad:
Trump: Nothing troubling about the response. It should have been harsher. That Chinese person should be sent back to China along with his entire family. United should have flown non-stop to Shangai with him.
United CEO: That is precisely why we plan to do this in every flight going forward. We love this publicity.
Spiceyâs trying to be populist, but isnât 45 encouraging this by telling LEOs that âthe shackles are offâ, a green light to unchallenged police brutality?
This is just like the Syria conflict. United had no good choice here so they did a surgical strike against the passenger who was causing all the trouble, not just agreeing to give up his seat so United could send a flight attendant to work another flight.
Neither the United States nor United had any good choices.
Just kidding. The obvious choice for United was to PAY PASSENGERS to give up their seats, increasing the amount until they had volunteers. Apparently, it was worth it enough for United to chuck 5% of itâs market cap and pay millions in PR costs, so someone made a very bad business decision.
Yeah we CAN âget ahead of the investigationâ Sean. We saw the film, we heard the other passengers, we saw the lame ass responses from the airlineâs CEOs and now you donât want US to get ahead of the investigation. There is no conceivable excuse for this BS. They tried to cheap out when nobody wanted to give up their seats so they bodily âvolunteeredâ people off the plane. It took 3 freakinâ hours to do it âtheir wayâ. You think they could have sent those 4 airline employees to Louisville in the same amount of time and saved their reputation TOO??
Donât know if you guys remember it, but the use of âtroublingâ is a Karl Rove device. It was used repeatedly in 2004 against Kerry. In other words, in Spiceyâs wonder years.
The Courier-Journalâs article highlighted Daoâs attendance of âmedical school in Vietnamâ and âconvictions on drug-related offensesâ in 2004.
Someone posted about this guyâs past in comments following a WaPo article about this, and the other commenters throttled him, I was happy to see.
Who cares what Spicer says about this or anything? He doesnât know his ass from a hole in the ground, and even if he did, heâd lie about it in a heartbeat if his boss told him to.
The rest of the world is watching too
Hostiley docile?
We overbooked, his seat we took,
But he became hostiley docileâŚ
