Posted on 10/30/2021 12:36:19 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A Southwest Airlines flight on Saturday turned political when one of its pilots finished an announcement to passengers with "Let's Go, Brandon," a slur used to insult President Joe Biden.
"On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers," AP's Colleen Long wrote in an article published on Saturday.
Long was a passenger onboard the flight for a vacation, she explained in a Twitter thread, and was almost removed from the aircraft after unsuccessfully trying to get the pilot to comment for her story on the topic.
"Also in defense of airline [sic] I was asking them to open locked cock pit [sic] and probably sounded insane!" she wrote in a follow-up tweet.
Additional information about the specific flight is unknown. When asked for comment, Southwest told Long and Insider: "The Southwest Team takes pride in providing a welcoming, comfortable, and respectful environment for the millions of Customers who fly with the airline each year and behavior from any individual that is divisive or offensive is not condoned."
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Should have dropped her at 30,000.
Let’s not jump to conclusions.
Maybe Brandon was the name of the co-pilot.
A slur?
Horror of horrors - someone exercising their right to free speech!
The same people who have a problem with this were quite alright with any and all insults aimed at Trump...or Bush...or Bush the Elder...or Reagan. Screw them, it is way past time to not give a crap what they think.
Ooooh! National newsworthy! Stop the presses!
Good one!
They should have waited for altitude to throw Triggy out of the plane.
She should have been arrested after asking flight attendant to open locked cockpit door.
[[”Let’s Go, Brandon,”]]
Maybe she misheard it, maybe he said “(naughty word) Joe biden”
Any chants at the college football games today...and I don’t mean “Let’s go Brandon”?
The name of a black NASCAR driver is a slur!
I'm thinking that's EXACTLY what Colleen Long is.
Audible gasps?
I bet there were cheers.
Let’s go brandon!
Roger Roger.
Vector Victor.
Over over.
Let’s go Brandon.
And laughter. Leftists HATE laughter.
1,000 would have been good enough.
Come on AP, the pilot is just pulling for his favorite NASCAR driver, Brandon Brown, lol. Another completely innocent phrase is Who Is John Galt?
Probably more like audible chuckles.
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