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Joan Rivers bumped off flight in Costa Rica when Continental gate agent finds passport suspicious
NY Daily News ^ | January 5, 2010 | Nancy Dillon

Posted on 01/05/2010 9:22:33 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

LOS ANGELES - Joan Rivers is many things: Funny lady. Jewelry mogul. Red carpet mercenary. But a terrorist?

Can we talk?

Rivers, 76, was deemed a danger to national security and booted from a Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica on Sunday by a jittery Continental Airlines gate agent who found the two names on her passport fishy.

Her passport reads: Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers. Rosenberg was her late husband's last name.

The "nasty and cruel" Continental gate agent bumped Rivers from the last flight out Sunday and the comedian found herself alone (her daughter, Melissa, flew out to Los Angeles earlier in the day) and with no ATM card and just $100 cash, she said.

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To: Liberty Valance
Yikes.

I though Michael Jackson was dead.

21 posted on 01/05/2010 9:37:44 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Are they profiling wealthy NYers, that have had extensive plastic surgery?

: o /


22 posted on 01/05/2010 9:37:56 AM PST by maggief
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To: WakeUpAndVote

& so could Ivana Trump who was escorted off of her flight


23 posted on 01/05/2010 9:40:51 AM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It is an outrage that a female, senior, US Citizen was not permitted to board her flight. As far as I am concerned this is just about as outrageous as permitting someone as poorly documented and highly suspicious as the Al Quida would-be Christmas Bomber.

Anyone involved in this decision regarding Joan Rivers needs to be fired immediately. (Not "reassigned.") Anyone who defends anything in the process that removed Joan Rivers from her flight should similarly be terminated, and also committed to a mental institution.

ML/NJ

24 posted on 01/05/2010 9:41:35 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I had the displeasure of dealing with Ms Rivers a long time ago. She emceed a convention dinner that I organized.

The most polite thing that I can say is that she was distasteful to be around.

As to the subject of this post....naturally, I wasn't there. But the agent at the gate might have had, erm, "extenuating circumstances".

Just sayin'. There might be more to this story than what's being reported.

25 posted on 01/05/2010 9:44:22 AM PST by wbill
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Muslims blow up planes....Muslims blow up cars....Muslims behead unbelievers......But let’s not profile....


26 posted on 01/05/2010 9:47:45 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: yorkie01
And she’s one of your slobbering supporters too barry. Of course she’s also Jewish.

In fairness to Joan, the slobber really isn't her fault. She can't really control most of her face anymore. But she looks great! (Well, not so much but in her mind...)

27 posted on 01/05/2010 9:48:57 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: wbill

Wasn’t she charged with throwing a phone at a hotel employee in New York a coupla years ago? You’re right, she mighta been coping a big-time ‘tude, so the gate agent had some sweet revenge.

Of course he shudna done it and he shudna ever been given the authority to do it. Separate issue.


28 posted on 01/05/2010 9:51:20 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The CRU needs adult supervision.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Donald Trump could have sent a plane for her...........


29 posted on 01/05/2010 9:52:04 AM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: wbill
The most polite thing that I can say is that she was distasteful to be around.

Really? She seems so nice on QVC. . .
30 posted on 01/05/2010 9:53:28 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (I could use some global warming about now.)
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To: bmwcyle

Joan is a liberal, but not off the PC deep end. She has no problem getting in the face of those who insinuate she’s a racist for not supporting race-based policies.

Anyway, I can’t make any judgment on this article, other than to say it seems an odd “call” for the agent to make, esp. for a 76-year-old lady with a Jewish name and a very thick Noo Yawk accent.


31 posted on 01/05/2010 9:54:22 AM PST by pogo101
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
This another proud example of how our TSA system focuses on innocent white grannies and allows Islamofacist wanna be serial killers to board a plane with no pass port and a one way ticket.


32 posted on 01/05/2010 9:57:36 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I thought this was going to be about a discrepancy in her passport picture...
33 posted on 01/05/2010 9:59:14 AM PST by TankerKC (But I used spell cheque.)
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To: marron

This happened in Costa Rica. The gate agent is likely a local, no?


34 posted on 01/05/2010 10:03:30 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: bmwcyle

“Joan is a liberal. Welcome to the world she helped to create.”

No she is not!!!

She is a conservative. She votes Republican. One of her biggest hates is Hillary.


35 posted on 01/05/2010 10:03:30 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Correcto!


36 posted on 01/05/2010 10:05:01 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus

Thank you for your support, Dr. Ursus.

My best regards to you.


37 posted on 01/05/2010 10:06:30 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: pogo101
Joan is a liberal, but not off the PC deep end. She has no problem getting in the face of those who insinuate she’s a racist for not supporting race-based policies.

After 9/11, there was some suggestion of using a portion of the money collected (by the Red Cross?) to fund "outreach" programs to the Muslim community. Joan was on camera when she heard about that; she told the person who made the suggestion to go pound sand. Not those words exactly, but her meaning was quite clear. She was livid.

38 posted on 01/05/2010 10:08:19 AM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: SoCal Pubbie
This happened in Costa Rica. The gate agent is likely a local, no?

Eh. Yeah, probably.

Stop it. You're spoiling a perfectly good rant.

39 posted on 01/05/2010 10:09:09 AM PST by marron
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

She had a radio show on WOR years ago and she was not a
liberal.


40 posted on 01/05/2010 10:10:07 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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