What is it about these elitists like Chuck Schumer who think that the rules simply never apply to them? As a Democrat isn’t Chucky suppose to be fighting for the little people, especially females? I guess that all goes out the window when a chatterbox like Schumer has to get off his cell phone.
From Politico:
According to a House Republican aide who happened to be seated nearby, the notoriously chatty New York Democrat referred to a flight attendant as a “bitch” after she ordered him to turn off his phone before takeoff.
Schumer and his seatmate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), were chatting on their phones before takeoff when an announcement indicated that it was time to turn off the phones.
Both senators kept talking.
According to the GOP aide, a flight attendant then approached Schumer and told him the entire plane was waiting on him to shut down his phone.
Schumer asked if he could finish his conversation. When the flight attendant said “no,” Schumer ended his call but continued to argue his case.
He said he was entitled to keep his phone on until the cabin door was closed. The flight attendant said he was obliged to turn it off whenever a flight attendant asked.
“He argued with her about the rule,” the source said. “She said she doesn’t make the rules, she just follows them.”
When the flight attendant walked away, the witness says Schumer turned to Gillibrand and uttered the B-word.
“The senator made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath that he shouldn’t have made, and he regrets it,” Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon told Shenanigans.
Ironically, Schumer has been a friend of US Airways flight attendants of late, lobbying company chairman and CEO Doug Parker on their behalf after several of them asked the senator to help keep them based at LaGuardia.
Through her office, Gillibrand said Schumer was “polite” with the flight attendant Sunday and “turned off his phone when asked to.”
But moments after the flight attendant had told Schumer to shut it off, the phone rang again.
“It’s Harry Reid calling,” the source quoted Schumer as saying. “I guess health care will have to wait until we land.”
Via: Memeorandum
Via: Politico
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3 comments:
Jerk.
As someone who has flown many times, let me just say you do NOT want a stewardess mad at you. If you are going to be on a plane for fifteen hours, you want that person as least exasperated as possible. Otherwise, you'll gt fish when you want chicken.
Just my thoughts.
Chuck Schumer should heed climate change and stop emitting toxic levels of carbon dioxide.
There is no reason to make a flight attendant made at you.
To be so rude is absolutely un-necessary.
And so absolutely typical of politicians used telling everybody else how to behave.
Buyt don't forget. He was elected.
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