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Greta To Airport Screeners: Speak English While Discussing My Luggage!
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Posted on 04/30/2002 4:57:38 PM PDT by Retired Chemist

Greta Van Susteren (FNC) said an inspection of her carry on luggage was requested while going through airport security. She said the two screeners started conversing in Spanish while inspecting her bag! She requested that they converse in English while checking her bag. She felt it was not to much to ask!


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To: hole_n_one
"¿Qué es esto 'Botox'?"
21 posted on 04/30/2002 5:40:25 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Retired Chemist
Good for Greta! When I went through the airport screeners at Ronald Reagan National in DC, the woman checking me could hardly speak English and I had a difficult time understanding what she wanted me to do.
22 posted on 04/30/2002 5:50:06 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Retired Chemist
¿Ju intendásion? (¿entiendes?) (You understand?) -- Peruvian espanglish.
23 posted on 04/30/2002 5:55:00 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: shadowman99
Is Greta a Scientologist?

Yes. Do a Google search for "Greta van Sustern"+Scientology

24 posted on 04/30/2002 5:55:10 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: Retired Chemist
She is lucky she didn't get arrested for making "inappropriate comments" in our wonderful police state.
25 posted on 04/30/2002 5:56:56 PM PDT by Mulder
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To: Dante3
I had the same problem at airport in Vegas (McCarren). I had to repeatedly ask the attendant to repeat herself.

Also, this is not the first time Greta has gone off on Airport Security. She went off last week as well. Good for her. The only thing that has changed since 9/11 is that we all wait in long lines. The screeners are all still a joke!!!

I had one female screener in the Austin, TX airport come down the line barking at us to take out our bottled water from our briefcases. She then said loudly that she wasn't going to ask again. I was afraid to ask what she was going to do if someone left one in (the National Guard was standing by her with their guns). I did make a comment to the guy behind me and low and behold I got searched!!! Nothing went off, but I was searched.
26 posted on 04/30/2002 6:04:38 PM PDT by OC_Steve
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To: OC_Steve
what really burns my ass is that as a federal employee i have waited M-O-N-T-H-S to get an American cleared and these idiots - who let 9-11 happen by their incompentence - were grandfathered in as federal employees - and jerks like barbara boxer don't want them to be citizens are even have a high school diploma....sorry, but this whole subject gets me going....i will be flying for the first time since 9-10 on may 11th - believe me, i'm leary about the whole thing....
27 posted on 04/30/2002 6:10:18 PM PDT by BamaDi
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To: BamaDi
Standup comic Margaret Cho in the May-June 2002 Mother Jones magazine interview by Dan Savage: "D.S.- Your act takes on racism, sexism, your mother. Are there subjects beyond the reach of humor? M.C. - There shouldn't be. The only thing lately that's beyond the reach of humor is Greta Van Susteren's plastic surgery. That's not funny to me at all. D.S. - You watch a lot of cable TV don't you? M.C. - She was so credible with her crow's feet and I believed everything she said. Now she looks very strange and it changed the FOX News Channel. I guess it means FOXY now."
28 posted on 04/30/2002 7:21:25 PM PDT by Poorboy
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To: Thumper1960
LOL!
29 posted on 04/30/2002 7:35:19 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: BamaDi
...and these idiots - who let 9-11 happen by their incompentence - were grandfathered in as federal employees

The purpose of offering higher pay to luggage screeners is to get better applicants and (to a lesser extent) reduce attrition among the better employees (those with enough skills to do something else). Increasing pay while grandfathering employees makes no sense whatsoever.

30 posted on 04/30/2002 7:47:22 PM PDT by supercat
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To: Retired Chemist
Good for her, damn it!
31 posted on 04/30/2002 7:48:27 PM PDT by rintense
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To: Retired Chemist
He rooks rike one from TV; nein, too funny for TV; mon dieu, n'est pas Gretta; just some scrawny broad who looks like a lawyer; dig her panties out and throw them around a while-- ratings are ratings, and ratings are so important.
32 posted on 04/30/2002 8:00:08 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: Retired Chemist
I wouldn't think it would be too much to ask, either. Then again Prince Adullah Mohammed Jafar Fatboy Skyhook didn't think it was too much to ask for all male airport ground crew either. Go figure. The world is going to he#$!
33 posted on 04/30/2002 8:04:24 PM PDT by calmseas
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To: Retired Chemist
I was amazed at how conservative Greta sounded while reporting this incident.
34 posted on 04/30/2002 8:04:36 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Jorge
I guess real life tends to make conservatives out of the most hardened liberals.
35 posted on 04/30/2002 8:06:20 PM PDT by calmseas
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To: Retired Chemist

"You vill speek Eenglish ven you escort me to my very important public appearances. Or else there vill be very beeg trouble!"

36 posted on 04/30/2002 8:14:16 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: OC_Steve
A few months ago I was going through security and put my metal objects (cigarettes, coins, keys, etc.) in the plastic container and tried to hand it to the little foreign lady at the walk through metal detector.

It took her at least 4 or 5 time to tell me that the container had to go through the conveyor detector before I understood her instructions. I'm a little hard of hearing, but if I had said "what" a few more times I'd have felt like a light bulb:)

37 posted on 04/30/2002 8:25:35 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: Fred Mertz
Lately they have been arresting,imprisoning, and/or deporting all the airport security personnel around DC who were either illegal aliens or felons; if they will also deport or imprison the ones who can't speak or comprehend Englis that may be useful. (Especially if they don't get to vote for the more idiotic and moronic poltical candidates--if any are more idiotic or moronic than any others.
38 posted on 04/30/2002 8:52:39 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: mathurine
I have always liked Greta. I watch her show all the time it does not interefere with anything else and aaron brown is kinda weak. She makes good sense and for the most part explaines where she is coming from. If anything what she said at airport makes her not a good republican but a bad democrat. I like my fair and balanced news station.
39 posted on 05/03/2002 12:38:04 PM PDT by crazyj
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To: Retired Chemist
"Fuh Godshakesh! I reshpectfully ashk that you shpeak Enklish in my preshensh!"
40 posted on 05/03/2002 12:41:04 PM PDT by dead
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