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red states rule
12-21-2009, 08:05 AM
Once again, liberal Dems refuse to obey the laws they demand the peasents obey

And the liberal media ignore their actions





Sen. Chuck Schumer loves the sound of his own voice, but it carried a bit farther than he might have liked on the US Airways shuttle from New York to Washington on Sunday.


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.”

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0912/schumer_has_a_flight_to_forget_.html

Gaffer
12-21-2009, 09:18 AM
Do you get the picture of a teenager arguing with an adult?

red states rule
12-21-2009, 09:24 AM
To bad the Captain did not turn the jet around and kick Chucky off the flight. Then he could have talked on his phone for as long as he wanted

emmett
12-21-2009, 09:40 AM
I don't understnd why this important man cannot have his own private jet. It seems such a burdon for him to have to fly with rest of us.

darin
12-21-2009, 09:45 AM
I'd love to see a politician who is real. All the time.

red states rule
12-21-2009, 09:52 AM
I don't understnd why this important man cannot have his own private jet. It seems such a burdon for him to have to fly with rest of us.

Yes, he is a champion of the downtrodden and deserves better then flying with the serfs

Everyone knows that the rules don't apply to him - just ask him