Posted on 07/14/2013 6:29:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SEOUL, South Korea Asiana Airlines said Sunday its reputation was damaged by a report on a San Francisco TV station that used bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots on its plane that crashed earlier this month and is considering legal action.
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As bogus and offensive as those names might be, I still haven’t seen them, and maybe I’m lucky not to have.
If they were smart, they would try to let the public forget their employee’s incompetence.
distraction from the plain fact that their pilots don’t know the basics of landing an aircraft
We don’t need no stinkin’ fact checkers ...
Is gross stupidity really actionable.
Seems to me that they have bigger problems to deal with right now.
There was something wrong and they were flying too low and slow.
they were funny as anything I’ve seen in years...
What is it with these Orientals becoming PC? They have a Chinaman’s chance of getting anywhere with this action. No tiki, no raundry!
Exactly how are they going to prove this hoax cost them anything compared to the image of that plane in pieces?
Oh gosh darn, they were not that bad! Not dirty or anything. It was like Americans saying someone was named Ben Dover. In fact not even that suggestive.
Legal action? For what??? Some ditz getting pranked on-air?
If it was an American Airlines flight that crashed in S. Korea like that, and some reporter on Korean TV said the pilots were named Jack Meoff and Eyepee Freely, we would have just laughed and passed the video around for a week.
the pilot’s name was wi tu lo
It’s just lawyers trying to make some $’s of the modern grievance culture die what is little more than juvenile humor and pranking.
Apparently it is. That's the meat and potatoes of the fat-wallet attorneys.
How in the world are we, as humans with brains, expected NOT to react to that? Others who said it are right--just P.C. stuff.
I law the "LONE RANGER" yesterday. It's GOOD to laugh.
Eleanor Roosevelt said: We grow up the first day we have a good laugh--at ourselves.
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