I'm a bit torn about this...was the word offensive? Unfortunately, I see alot of people wearing t-shirts with that word. The disdain and humiliation should come from good people, I don't know if throwing her off of the flight was the right thing. I'm interested to hear what others think. If it were a shirt with Bill and Hillary with similar text, would you be mad she was thrown off? I hope everyone is honest here.
More power to Soutwest!
Freedom for me but not for thee, huh Heasley? Southwest is a private company with the same rights as you, you vulgar trollop. You are perfectly welcome and encouraged to find another airline.
The headline is a bogus one as well. It wasn't the political statement that got the idiot ejected it was the vulgarity. The writer knows this and with with the political angle anyway. Dishonesty and the media go togethe like Michael Moore and pork chops.
Already posted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498112/posts
Politically Offensive T-Shirt my butt. The shirt was offensive period.
I wish I would have been on that flight. Instead of kicking her off, I would have asked for the seat next to her. By the time the flight arrived that shirt would have been torn to pieces. Think I'll take a can of spray paint with me now on..you know, the kind they use to color their hair?
All the Golf Courses I play won't allow shirts W/O collars.
Shirts with collars usually don't have controversial info on them.
I have a t-shirt that has a picture of Hillary as Hitler, and the other night I actually was approached by the owner of a diner that asked me to leave because it would "offend" his largely blue-collar Union customers.
I told him to go pound salt.
Anybody see her photo?
I did.
She looks like Cindy Sheehan after a three week malt liquor and twinkie binge.
Words that are not allowed on the public airwaves should ALSO NOT be allowed for public consumption, i.e. on a flight.....if she wants to wear the shirt in her backyard or at her parents house, that's OKAY, but in public...NO. There should be SOME standards.
Yes it is. The airline is free to throw your ass off the plane if they don't like your T-shirt, and you're free to fly another airline, and to take out an ad telling everyone why you don't like Southwest.
What would be the antithesis of freedom would be if you could force the airline to transport you against it's will.
Companies have a right to deny service to people spouting obscenities, even if it's only displayed on their shirt.
Yeah, JETBLUE would NEVER do this!!! (Actually , I don't know)---But I did recently see someone wearing this t=shirt in public. Real Cute. Seems like Lorrie Heasley is some kind of provocateur---or she's confused and sending her own self mixed messages: she wears the t-shirt in public, then when she's called on it, she "acknowledges" that we are trying to "free a country", and YET, force people like her to get off planes. See, she's pointing out the "contradiction" there, in the numbingly literal-minded way only the Left is capable of. Maybe she was just in the wrong place with the wrong T-shirt: It was, after all, our own AIRPLANES that were used as WEAPONS against us. As such, the airline has a case that the passenger, in presenting herself that way , was inspiring a terrorist who could have been aboard, or could be inspired TO board a plane at a later date, starting the whole 9-11 nightmare all over again. But in the final analysis it looks like Heasley was doing this with the best/worst case scenario in her mind being that she could get thrown off the plane.
Just knowing this beyotch would be the first to complain if something offended her...
A spokesman for Southwest Airlines told CNN that the airline felt that the T-shirt was offensive, adding that the incident is about "decency."
the airline will deny boarding to any customer whose conduct is offensive, abusive, disorderly or violent or for clothing that is "lewd, obscene, or patently offensive."
Don't you love the MSM's spin? The headline and lead sentence imply that the REASON she was kicked off the flight was that the message was political. Indeed, the writer went so far as to say that Southwest CONFIRMED it removed her "over a political message." Southwest, it appears, did not remove her because of the political nature of the message, but because of the lewd, obsence and highly offensive term used in the message itself.
Thanks, algore, for inventing this internet thing, so we can continue to point out the incompetent and blatant bias of the leftist media.
I saw a T-Shirt at a Friday Night football game here in Texas. It proclaimed, "Communism. A Philosophy not a Curse." I wonder if those skulls in "The Killing Fields" would say Yes if they still had their tongues?
Lorrie Heasley does not appear to be the smartest tool in the shed.