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Just plane rude: Sen. Charles Schumer refers to female flight attendant as the b-word
NY Daily News ^ | 12/16/09 | Michael Mcauliff

Posted on 12/16/2009 11:46:10 AM PST by Nachum

New York's famously garrulous senior senator, Chuck Schumer, got busted Wednesday for calling a female flight attendant the B-word aboard a US Airways flight from New York to Washington on Sunday.

Schumer was sitting next to protege Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, gabbing away on his phone, when a flight attendant told him to shut it down.

Schumer turned off his phone, and then argued with the attendant that he was allowed to talk while the cabin door is open. He lost.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 111th; arrogance; bword; chucktheschmuck; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; doyouknowwhoiam; plane; rude; rudedems; schmuckschemer; schumer; usair
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To: Genoa
The whole thing reminds of this from the movie A Face In The Crowd:

Lonesome Rhodes: This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!
Marcia Jeffries: Sheep?
Lonesome Rhodes: Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don't know it yet, but they're all gonna be 'Fighters for Fuller'. They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I'm gonna be the power behind the president - and you'll be the power behind me

41 posted on 12/16/2009 12:39:25 PM PST by colorado tanker (What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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To: DonaldC

Sir, you are dead wrong!!! Take from this good source, once the flight crew airmen & attendants make the government and airline policy announcements in and throughout the cabin, that is the law. Senator Schumer should have been arrested by airport authorities in either DC or NYC. He violated both federal law and US Airways operation procedures. Calling the flight attendant a nasty name breaks no law. It does show what an egotistical bottom feeder this poor excuse for a human being is. God bless the Democrat Party and POTUS Barack Obama in their determined, evil quest to destroy the United States of America!!! How’s that for Hope & Change?????


42 posted on 12/16/2009 12:40:50 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: DonaldC

>>I think the electronics limits on flights is crap, but he is right as far as I know, he can be on the phone while the door is open.<<

Yep.


43 posted on 12/16/2009 12:41:20 PM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Nachum

He was merely stating a fact. Everybody is somebody’s b@@h.


44 posted on 12/16/2009 12:42:12 PM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Smokin' Joe

>>Still doesn’t give him the right to abuse the hired help.<<

Sometimes it is the hired help that starts it. Some, not all, flight attendants really can be real you-know-whats. Sometimes it is unreasonable enough to cause a reaction from people.

Of course, other times it is the passenger that is the problem.

Fact is, if the door was still open, he was right and she was premature in trying to enforce a “rule”.


45 posted on 12/16/2009 12:44:43 PM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: nathanbedford

They can only say “bitch” if referring to female dogs.

Apparently...


46 posted on 12/16/2009 12:47:49 PM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: i_dont_chat

I can’t stand the bluetooth junkies, walking and talking like only crazy people used to do.

Had a guy a work with one always screwed in his ear. I told him, “You answer that damn thing when I’m talking to you and you’ll need both hands free.”


47 posted on 12/16/2009 12:48:17 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: nathanbedford

If they print the actual word, it minimizes the “gravity” of the un-pc-utterance by the “garrulous” senior putz from New York. And then, there’s no story, is there?

So, Gillebrand is now his “protege”, I see.

And as for the garrulous one, he should learn some manners as well as when to STFU.


48 posted on 12/16/2009 12:48:33 PM PST by Canedawg (Bring lawyers, guns and money.)
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To: CPT Clay

What?


49 posted on 12/16/2009 12:49:33 PM PST by twigs
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To: Jimmy Valentine
Convair prop planes used to fly around this neck of the woods before airlines became all jet.

I flew the Constellation a few times, which I still think is one of the most beautiful planes ever built.

50 posted on 12/16/2009 12:53:59 PM PST by colorado tanker (What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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To: Tupelo
My Dad taught me that you can tell the character of a person by the way they treat someone in a service trade.

For all my disagreement with the late Sen. Kennedy, I once sat behind him in the underground transport of the Senate. He was talking with others and I noticed he always stood and let the others go in front of him and held the door open for them. No, they weren't in the service class, but it was still gracious, a sign of having been raised decently, at least in the area of manners.

51 posted on 12/16/2009 12:58:18 PM PST by twigs
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To: nathanbedford

At least he didn’t call her Hillary!


52 posted on 12/16/2009 1:00:33 PM PST by proudpapa (Obama - Worst One Ever!)
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To: twigs

I agree. Somethings are learned just by observation growing up. No matter what character they display later on - those good qualities do linger. Holding the door, giving others the seat, allowing others to go first was what they did. Not as a show but it came natural because it was a part of them by what they witnessed early on.


53 posted on 12/16/2009 1:16:39 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: bestintxas

I think the name was “Cullbert”


54 posted on 12/16/2009 1:26:49 PM PST by tophat9000 (Obama has "Jumped The Shark" ,,,and fell in the shark tank)
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To: CodeToad
The FCC has an additional rule that says no cell phones may be used in flight. So, once the wheels leave the ground, no cell phones.

Shame on those 9/11 doomed passengers for breaking the rules. /s

55 posted on 12/16/2009 1:34:15 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Actually, they didn’t break the rules as another rule says in an emergency there are no rules. Literally.


56 posted on 12/16/2009 2:10:19 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Nachum

Schumer is one of the biggest a-holes to ever disgrace the planet. Rent “Waco: Rules of Engagement” and see just what a disgusting jackass he is while he questions witnesses in a Congressional hearing on Waco. He has no sense of decency whatsoever.


57 posted on 12/16/2009 4:26:57 PM PST by TigersEye (Sarah Palin 2010 - We Can't Afford To Wait)
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To: i_dont_chat

Good for you...sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. If people aren’t made aware of how rude they are being, how are they ever going to know to change their rude behavior!


58 posted on 12/16/2009 6:52:57 PM PST by nfldgirl
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To: RobRoy
As others have noted, the rules on an aircraft are what the crew says they are at the time. It is no more a democracy than a vessel at sea.

Although I find Chuck Schumer offensive when he is silent, he could have saved his opinion of the flight attendant's request for management rather than become verbally abusive.

Although a proper retort might have been "...and you are...a Senator!" (for those who know Othello), Schumer was out of line.

59 posted on 12/17/2009 6:53:52 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: nathanbedford
What in the world is wrong with the word "bitch" that the New York Daily News cannot use it in the 21st century?

LOL...yeah...how many times is this word used just in an episode of South Park....

60 posted on 12/17/2009 7:01:21 AM PST by Mopp4
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