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SCHLUSSEL: Bad "Flight Plan": Jodie Foster Film Defames Air Marshals, Flight Attendants
DebbieSchlussel.com ^ | Sept. 22, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 09/23/2005 5:10:01 AM PDT by Cool Chick

It's been four years of bad news for flight attendants.

First, 9/11 happened. Then, they were laid off. With airline bankruptcies like Northwest's, they are being laid off again.

Now, in another blow, the movie, "Flight Plan," is hitting theaters, tomorrow. Starring Jodie Foster, it's an outrageous piece of propaganda and incredible display of the irresponsible.

I'm embarrassed to say that a very distant cousin of mine--Charles J.D. Schlissel--is executive producer of this outrage. The J.D. must stand for "Just Despicable." If you're a freedom-loving American like me, the rotten tricks of this movie will disgust you.

If you want to sicken yourself and see "Flight Plan," stop reading here. But if you want to save ten bucks, keep going.

SPOILER ALERT

Throughout "Flight Plan," we are given hints--very strong hints--that four Muslim Arabs are the terrorists on the plane. But in the end--breaking a cardinal rule of thrillers--the hints have no pay-off.

Instead, the terrorists are the flight's air marshal and a flight attendant.

That is an outrage for a number of reasons. Two of those reasons are Betty Ong and Madeleine Amy Sweeney. Both were among the many flight attendants who gave their lives on 9/11.

They weren't terrorists. They were American heroes. Instead of calling their families to say good-bye, they contacted ground crews and identified the hijackers. It was because of them that authorities were able to identify Mohammad Atta and his 18 thugs as Al Qaeda.

Other flight attendants were brutally murdered by the hijackers, who slit their throats.

And now Jodie Foster and Charles J. D. Schlissel have the chutzpah to portray these low-paid workers as terrorists?!

Sickening. . . .

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


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To: monday

That may well be true. It only got two stars in the Philly Inquirer. But I've seen other bad movies.

Then again, I won't see it til it comes out on DVD anyway! I have three kids and would rather be with them then at the movies.


41 posted on 09/23/2005 7:00:42 AM PDT by pa mom
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To: monday

Sorry, my netnanny does that sometimes. Here's what that blank was supposed to be:

That may well be true. It only got two stars in the Philly Inquirer. But I've seen other bad movies.

Then again, I won't see it til it comes out on DVD anyway! I have three kids and would rather be with them then at the movies.


42 posted on 09/23/2005 7:03:05 AM PDT by pa mom
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To: Cool Chick
I say let Hollyweird get on planes eveyday full of moo-slimes, and I'll get on a plane full of flight attendants.

Let's see who gets blown out of the sky first.

43 posted on 09/23/2005 7:03:30 AM PDT by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: Cool Chick

Reminds me of another Hollyweird religion of evil buttkisser, "The Sum Of All Fears". A Tom Clancy novel about mooselimb terrorists with a nuke remade into evil whitey with a nuke.


44 posted on 09/23/2005 7:05:41 AM PDT by GunnyHartman (Allah is allah outta virgins.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

..................

45 posted on 09/23/2005 7:07:07 AM PDT by SJackson (we are forced to live in a democracy... the process is frustratingly slow, HRH Gov Blagojevich)
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To: Eepsy

THANKS!

This is the wonder of FR.

anyone who has doubts can now easily save themselves 15 bucks.


46 posted on 09/23/2005 7:08:31 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: KeyLargo
The most direct way is by using a lot of "F-words" in your conversation. One of the things that strikes me and it's very peculiar, is in Hollywood meetings among top executives, people will talk like stevedores. I don't think there is any other business in the country, with women present, in very public meetings, where people will be "F"ing this and "F"ing that and using the kind of language that of course that you could never ever use on the radio. So it naturally spills over into the movies and it has to do with this sort of prolonged adolescence in which guys want to show how tough they are.

Hmm, tell that to R Lee Ermy: http://www.rleeermey.com/sounds/armedresponse.wav

47 posted on 09/23/2005 7:08:35 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (Christian, Comedian, Husband,Opa, Dog Owner, former Cat Co-dweller, and all around good guy.)
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To: hombre_sincero

Tom Flocco is the DUmmies favorite tinfoil hat barking moonbat.


48 posted on 09/23/2005 7:13:03 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Cool Chick
Back in the late 70's, one of my best friends was a secretary at Yale Law School (for Bork, but that's another story). Anyway, she once was in an elevator in one of the Yale buildings when Jodie Foster got on. The two rode up together for several floors. My friend said that Jodie was much heavier, had dirty hair and a filthy raincoat on.

Okay, it's not much of a story and has no input to this thread, but hey, it's all I have <G>

49 posted on 09/23/2005 7:16:34 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Well... There you go again!)
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To: longtermmemmory
a painic room premise that did not work last time.

Yep, PANIC ROOM takes to the skies. Never understood PANIC ROOM.... thought the home could have been much better defended with a couple of Remington 870s. Of course you couldn't have - horror! - GUNS!

50 posted on 09/23/2005 7:28:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: zook
"If it weren't for illogic and stupidity in plots, there might well be no movies or literature at all."

Should read: ...might well be no bad movies or bad literature at all.
51 posted on 09/23/2005 7:49:17 AM PDT by monday
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To: Cool Chick

Reason 3214123551235 why I haven't seen any Hellywood movies in years. Except for "The Passion of the Christ", I haven't gone to a movie theater in years. Hellywood produces only various kinds of trash. If I want to see a movie, I'll turn on the American Movie Classics channel on cable. Forget the rest of the "movie" channels.


52 posted on 09/23/2005 7:51:47 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (tired of all the shucking and jiving)
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To: monday

No, it stands as I first typed it.


53 posted on 09/23/2005 8:00:19 AM PDT by zook
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To: Cool Chick; All
A lot of folks are concerned for the safety of the average Muslim living in the US. These Muslims, our neighbors, have assimilated into our society and they love it here. Many folks are afraid that we will start gunning down these innocent Muslims, and yes, the vast majority of them are innocent. This is why you will seldom, if ever, see any Muslims portrayed as villains in TV or the movies. Hollywood is afraid they will stir the pot if they show any evil Muslims, so, in typical Hollywood fashion, they overreact the other way. I'm awaiting a film by Oliver Stone that theorizes that the planes on 9/11 were actually manned by Southern Baptists and Orthodox Jews. BTW, there definitely IS a danger of innocent Muslims getting hurt.

As to the movie review, I find it difficult to believe that flight attendants and air marshals are being intentionally vilified. It sounds like Ms. Schlussel laced her coffee with amphetamines before writing this.
54 posted on 09/23/2005 8:19:40 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Doc Savage
The only surprise is that they apparently didn't include a LESBIAN oral sex scene between the homosexual Foster and a female flight attendant. What kind of a movie would you expect from a sickening, socially-twisted dweeb like homosexual Jodie Foster? Boycott? They ought to burn it!

Insightful commentary. I'll have to send this to Tammy Bruce and Al Rantel.

55 posted on 09/23/2005 8:26:20 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Rummyfan

Let's not forget John Ford, who served in the Navy in both world wars, Humphrey Bogart was in the Navy in WWI, and Walter Brennan in the AEF of the US Army in WWI.

Also, there are other vets in Hollyweird:

Don Adams ("Maxwell Smart"), USMC
Sinbad (Comedian), USAF missle maintenance technician
Sherman Hemsley ("George Jefferson"), USAF
Larry Hagman ("Maj. Nelson"), actually did serve in the USAF
Johnny Cash, SSGT USAF
Jerry Reed, USAF
Mel Tillis, USAF
George "Goober" Lindsey, USAF
"Tennessee" Ernie Ford, bombardier on B-29s, USAF

Lesser names include Tim Holt (B westerns and some A pictures), B-29 navigator, USAF
Wayne Morris (Warner Brothers contract player, and later B western actor....career derailed because of wartime service) F6F "Hellcat" pilot, 5 kills, USN
Lee Powell (the first "Lone Ranger" in a 1938 serial), USMC...killed on Saipan

And familiar names include DeForrest Kelley ("Dr. McCoy" on "Star Trek"), USAF
Leonard Nimoy, US Army
David Janssen, US Army
Lee Van Cleef, US Navy
Don Rickles, US Navy
Chuck Norris, USAF

There are quite a few veterans in Hollyweird....the shame is there just aren't as many as there used to be.


56 posted on 09/23/2005 8:49:13 AM PDT by Bombardier ("Religion of Peace" my butt.....sell that snakeoil to someone who'll believe it!)
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To: Cool Chick; SJackson
Frankly--spoil it.

I think we ought to *spoil* it--find a way to publicize the ending.

57 posted on 09/23/2005 10:05:10 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: EveningStar
As to the movie review, I find it difficult to believe that flight attendants and air marshals are being intentionally vilified. It sounds like Ms. Schlussel laced her coffee with amphetamines before writing this.

I find it hard to believe, too. There's a difference between having a villan who happens to be a flight attendant and slandering flight attendants as a group. I also dispute the notion that flight attendants are somehow a new "protected class" just because some died heroically.

I think hatred of Hollywood is getting too much for some people to maintain a sense of perspective.

58 posted on 09/23/2005 12:07:16 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: KeyLargo

"One of the things that strikes me and it's very peculiar, is in Hollywood meetings among top executives, people will talk like stevedores. I don't think there is any other business in the country, with women present, in very public meetings, where people will be "F"ing this and "F"ing that...They idea that, "Well, we may drive in limousines and have big houses in the hills, but we are really people of the street. We are in solidarity with the proletariat. We are ordinary folks"."

Michael Medved

Talking like the people? If someone came to my working class parish and spoke like these garbage-mouthed Hollywood types around women and children, they wouldn't get out of the parking lot. Mouth, meet fist, fist shut mouth.


59 posted on 09/23/2005 12:39:25 PM PDT by tanuki
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To: Cool Chick

I stopped giving my money to Hollywood after 9/11. No regrets. I can't look at these actors without seeing them supporting terror, trashing our country, and demeaning our history and values.


60 posted on 09/23/2005 1:01:12 PM PDT by dervish (no excuses)
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