Good points, but what I don't understand, if they had to kick people off one flight to Kentucky, to make room for flight staff for a flight out of Kentucky the next day, why didn't they just cancel or delay the upcoming flight instead of dragging people off a flight that was sitting on the runway ready to leave? I'm not a regular user of airlines. The last time I flew was in 2007. It makes me glad that I don't have to depend on any of them on a regular basis.
You mentioned Senator Byrd. I remember Rush talking about ex-Speaker of the House Tom Foley not long after he died. I did a search and found this at Rush's site:
"He [Tom Foley] became famous after he left office for taking airline food off the plane. He would hoard airline meals and ask other passengers for theirs and would get off the plane with all that. I kid you not. I think that’s… Once you get used to taking other people’s stuff."
“”First of all it’s their fault they overbooked...”
You can’t remove a passenger from a plane after they have boarded, just for the purpose of putting on a different passenger: per airline lawyers. The only way is if the passenger acts up. He didn’t do that until they tried to remove him.