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Kara DioGuardi Explains Why Simon Sits So Close (VIDEO) {Inside TV Blog}
Mar 16th 2010 8:19AM I really don't want to see pages like this when I Google "Gillibrand." I have no interest in this dreary woman, Kara DioGuardi, or her stupid American Idol friends, and if the fact that her has-been father is running for the Senate is going to cause stories about her to pop up when not wanted, then it's a good reason not to vote for him.
Galley Gossip: A flight attendant responds to Senator Schumer's outburst {Gadling}
Dec 17th 2009 4:39PM It's okay, Willy, I actually *do* know how to spell "liberties." I am using an ergonomically unfriendly itty bitty notebook keyboard.
And too many posters seem to have the sequence of events screwed up. Schumer was polite to the flight attendant while he was talking to her. It was after she left that he turned to his seatmate and called the FA, a "bitch." He didn't yell it at the FA; he said it under his breath.
He did try to make the point that as long as the cabin door was open, the rules -- as he understood them permitted him to use his cellphone. The FA's response was that regardless of the rules, if she -- as the flight attendant -- asked him to stop talking, then he needed to stop, regardless of what the regs say. This was reported in some of the accounts of this incident.
I don't think it's appropriate for Schumer or anybody else to insult a flight attendant directly, but I have no problem with him calling her a "bitch" in a private conversation with his seatmate. He is entitled to an opinion of the
FA's behavior, just as the FA is entitled to her opinion of his.
Galley Gossip: A flight attendant responds to Senator Schumer's outburst {Gadling}
Dec 17th 2009 9:13AM http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bitch
On the offchance that you know how to read, check the definition of " bitch" which -- in modern usage -- means " a malicious, spiteful, or overbearing woman —sometimes used as a generalized term of abuse."
Senator Schumer apparently thought the flight attendant -- who essentially told him "I make the rules on this plane" was all of those things, and he said so in a *private* conversation with his seatmate.
The day we are not allowed to express an opinion about a flight attendant's demeanor in a private conversation with a seatmate will be a sorry day for American civil libertis.
