Posted on 12/16/2009 2:33:39 PM PST by Maelstorm
New York Senator Chuck Schumer was reportedly waiting to take off on a flight from D.C. to New York Sunday when a flight attendant told him to turn his phone off.
According to the Republican aide who was apparently sitting nearby and told the story to Politico, both Schumer and his seatmate fellow New York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand kept talking on their phones regardless.
Then the flight attendant came by again and told Schumer that everyone on the flight was waiting for him to turn off his phone. He asked to finish his conversation but was told he could not; he then hung up and, according to the GOP aide, argued about the rule banning him from speaking on the phone.
When the flight attendant walked away, the aide told Politico, Schumer turned to Gillibrand and referred to the woman as a "bitch."
Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon seems to be confirming the story; he told Politico that Schumer "made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath that he shouldn't have made, and he regrets it."
Perhaps the best detail of the story? The aide claims the phone rang again after Schumer finally hung up.
"It's Harry Reid calling," he said, according to the aide. "I guess health care will have to wait until we land."
This hateful, SEXIST remark should spell the END of his “career”! STEP DOWN, blowhard!
No but the C word is.
Saying you regret something is not an apology
>> fellow New York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand kept talking on their phones regardless.
>> Schumer turned to Gillibrand and referred to the woman as a “bitch.”
So, is this NY State’s official position on airline attendants that enforce Federal aviation regulations?
If this were you or me, we’d have been put on the floor by an air marshal.
Well if this is how he acts it is very plausible that he has called Condaleeza Rice a “N word” “B word”
I sorry you were offended?
Let us imagine this was Cheney, or Bush, or any Republican Senator...
“off-the-cuff comment”
Yeah. It’s the off-the-cuff comments that reveal who a person really is. No doubt Schumer “regrets it.” I’m sure he didn’t intend to reveal so much.
McConnell just ripped into the Democrats for killing the reading of the Sanders amendment. Just in time for the evening news.
A b**** is just what Chuckie is.
If he called GIllibrand a "bitch" all he77 would break loose.
We need to make this his “macaca” moment.
We need women dressed like flight attendents to hold signs whereever he goes that says “Am I a Bitch too?” Or “Are all women or just all stewardess’s bitches”
"Senator Schmuck, what other jobs out there are being performed by women who are therefore bitches?"
You know, it’s not REALLY an apology until he goes on Al Sharpton and Oprah Winfrey’s tv shows.
Hey, Schumer could have called the stewardess a “clymer”.
Give him a break! He was just practicing his Rappin’.
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