I’m a bit baffled at why this is such a major news story.
First, many people think airport security is over the top. (I don't and I fly every week)
Second, many people miss connections and feel the airlines don't give a damn about it.
Third, Gotbaum has been portrayed as this innocent, svelte home-maker by the media. If you listen to the report, they make her out to be oh-so-sweet. The truth is she had alchol and depression issues her whole life. She drank at the airport bar and missed her connection because of her drinking, not because she was late arriving.
Lastly, Gotbaum is a very connected NY labor family: read liberal.
Because the OJ trial is months away and things are pretty quiet between Britney and K-fed right now. They have to fill the time with something.
Yeah, me too. Drunks die in jail drunk tanks every day. Choke on their own vomit, hang themselves with their underwear, etc. What’s the hubbub, Bub?
Betsy and Victor Gotbaum are People Who Matter. When PWMs or their family members die in drunk tanks, it is big news.
Me too. I guess it is like being a Cleveland Browns fan. If you don’t get it, well, you just don’t get it.
I agree with some other posts on this thread. There are two classes of people in this country- the oligarachy and everyone else.
When weird stuff happens to the oligarachy the rest of us are in mortal peril.
Remember, Vince Foster was unquestionably a suicide!
Best regards,
The whole thing is a liberal Manhattan nightmare.
First. Phoenix.
Second. flying commercial with people in synthetics.
Third. Being told, told, ordered by those people.
Forth. Being touched, let alone arrested by hicks.
1. Media types report stories about people with whom they identify. For example, go to Fox News, and every time an attractive, young blond woman is kidnapped you will get the ubiquitous Fox News Alert. Poor black, white, Hispanic women are kidnapped all the time, but such crimes never make the TV news because the reporterettes don't identify with them.
2. Look at the last name of the woman who died in Phoenix. Then look at the last name of the people who control the media in NYC (and by extension the rest of the country). It goes back to point 1 above; she was a person whom the media types identify with as one of them.
QED
I’m a bit baffled at why this is such a major news story.
To keep up from paying attention to real news.