Sen. Chuck Schumer is so good at politics that he recently called a flight attendant a “bitch” after she asked him to turn off his cell phone. That’s something that Chuck Schumer did, again, because he is just so good at politics and pays such careful attention to his choice of words at all times. Everyone give Chuck Schumer a round of applause for calling a flight attendant a “bitch” over nothing. This will do wonders for his “political capital.”
We should add that Chuck Schumer did this in such a politically cunning manner as to implicate a vulnerable Senate Democrat traveling colleague:
US Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is not known for mincing his words, is eating them this morning.
The outspoken senior senator from Brooklyn – the third highest-ranking member of the upper house – has semi-apologized for referring to a female flight attendant a “bitch” aboard a US Airways flight from New York City to Washington, DC.
Her crime? Telling him to shut off his cell phone. (No word on which one. I believe he’s got at least one for politics and fund-raising calls and another for official business).
The senator made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath that he shouldn’t have made, and he regrets it,” Schumer spokesman Josh Vlasto said in a statement.
Schumer was traveling with his political protégé, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand at the time. Through her office, Gillibrand insisted that her mentor had been “polite” and complied with the rules.
Oh man. If the official spokesman‘s statement actually admits guilt and refers to it as an “off-the-cuff comment under his breath,” that means that in reality — factoring in the Damage Control Spin Adjustment — Chuck Schumer probably got out of his seat and screamed “FUCKING BITCH!!!” at her dozens of times while waving his wiener in some old granny’s face.
Note to other politicians: you should not call a lady “bitch” for no reason whatsoever.
Schumer Off The Hook [NYDN]
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Somewhere Phil Singer is thanking the gods he’s off CS’s payroll…
Please, when calling people names, stick with acceptable terms — like antichrist, fascist, nazi and (for black people) racist.
Schumer embarrasses America, again.
Rhymes with vaginal itch.
“Do you know who I am?!”
“Didn’t you play Elaine’s boss Mr. Lippman on Seinfeld?”
“BITCH!”
…as a passenger of a US Air Ways flight in the past, I APPLAUD you Chuck Schumer!!!
I wonder what son of a bitch thought it was news that Schumer used this term to describe a woman who did something he didn’t like. Oh, I see, it was a House Republican aide seated nearby, who told respected cum-rag Politico, who printed it.
Trying to use a Venn diagram to figure out if there is any way to call a flight attendant a bitch and not be a complete douchebag … nope. Same circle.
“Everyone give Chuck Schumer a round of applause”.
this is the sound of one hand clapping…
fap fap fap fap fap fap…
“you should not call a lady “bitch”…. or cunt, gash,slit,squaw,battleaxe,soul theif,Palin,juicy lucy,toy,side of beef,piece of ass etc.etc.and there are those females of the opposite sex who take offense at lady. It’s better to say nothing at all.
As my wife says, “You say that like it is a BAD thing.”
Chuck just has an affinity for the “little people.”
Kinda like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20t4gBf_1d4
Anyone else notice how this already got more press than all of Vitter’s temper tantrums at airports put together?
Damned liberal media.
Maybe she was a bitch?
To be fair, Chuck is still very very upset about health care, and can hardly be blamed for outbursts like this.
On the one hand, I grew up in Brooklyn. It’s like I told my Southern-born, and oh-so-gentlemanly boyfriend, who got very upset one day when I jokingly said, “fuck you” to him. In New York, saying “fuck you” is like saying “hello.”
OTOH, these fooking MPs really think the fooking rules don’t apply to them. Why couldn’t Schumer just have turned off the fooking fone, without using most unparliamentary language?
[re=479582]glamourdammerung[/re]: Yeah, he should know from his fellow senator, McCain, that the only acceptable words to refer to women with are trollop and cunt.
Chuck Schumer is really, really just a terrible human being.
Gee, Mr. Newell, is it okay to call a lady a bitch if you have a colorable reason?
He said it to a flight attendant but he was flashing on Iris Weinshall
Maybe he was just trying to be helpful: “Oh stewardess! I speak bitch.”
To be fair, Chuck Schumer is an asshole.
“…some old granny” — obviously Jim knows whereof he speaks w/r/t the US Airways in-cabin workforce.
[re=479582]glamourdammerung[/re]: You didn’t hear about Vitter and that stewardess with a moustache?
The whole escapade was erotic and hilarious!
Well, he did score a perfect 1600 on his SATs, so I’m going to have to trust his assessment of the lady’s bitchitude.
Oh,how I wish the flight attendant had said in a loud voice:
“WHAT was that, Sir? You called me a bitch? For asking you to shut off your phone? Maybe we should ask the other passengers if they are OK with your operating a device that could interfere with our pilots’ navigation systems or radio? Or perhaps we should ask them if they all want to hear your loud phone conversation so much that they don’t care if we all die in a fiery crash? What do you think, Sir? Should we ask them?”
Chuck, if you want to call an airline employee a “bitch” or other colorful insult, leave it to a security agent or ticketing staff; those assholes deserve it.
Schumer represents Wall Street, and as such, should not have to play by the little people’s rules.
If he had a terrible slur, does that mean he was still drunk from celebrating gay DC marriages?
As someone who has suffered through countless cell phone calls of others in public places, I’d say she should have taken the dam-ned device away from him and returned it when the plane landed after digging her heel into the display, rendering it useless.
Then, he might be justified in calling her a “bitch”. But she’s still be right.
Another flight attendant came over and said, “Excuse me, I speak Wingnut Teabagger Republican.”
KLM has the best stewardesses, built like line-backers. I was on a plane to Amsterdam with a bunch of drunk Dutch oilfield workers. The stewardesses did not take any shit. Chuck would have been forced to eat his little phone.
The NY Post version had this to say:
Moments later after the flight attendant ordered Schumer’s phone off, it rang again.
Unfazed that he had been caught once again disobeying FAA rules, the entitled senator looked at the caller ID and said: “It’s Harry Reid calling. I guess health care will have to wait until we land.”
lol @ “health care”
[re=479673]clientnumber8[/re]: Somehow, we need to find a way to prevent elected officials from getting that self-importance disease once they are elected. Unfortunately, I think the self-importance, dissassociation from reality, and loss of sense of humor (if they ever had one) are usually already in place once someone decides he or she should run for office.
It’s the black kids and their rap music. It is corrupting everyone. BTW, shouldn’t Shumer lace his vulgar harangues with Yiddish? I could see starting with the F and B bomb to be understood but a self respecting Jew needs to end with Yiddish obscenities. All this Schvartzer talk from educated Jews is disturbing. Someone needs to write a how to book.
you should not call a lady “bitch” for no reason whatsoever.
Unless it’s Harry Reid.
The more subtle “twunt” might have been a better choice of words, inasmuch as it would have produce confusion and incomprehension, rather than outrage, whilst still serving to satisfy Mr. Schumer’s need to voice his concerns.
What kind of person has the word “bitch” written on his cuff?
[re=479692]Doglessliberal[/re]: Don’t the Chinese execute a gov’t idiot every now and then when they screw up? That would work to keep them humble.
If it were Tiger Woods, he would have been sleeping with this lady-attendant and then she wouldn’t have minded him using his cell phone because he’d be using it to send her follow-up hot-n-heavy text messages.
Why is Chuck Schumer shooting a TEC-9? Those things are dangerous pieces of shit.
True Story. He was on a 3 way call with Walnut’s bro and 911 about a late pizza delivery.
At least he was flying commercial. If it had been a lobbyist’s private jet he could have demanded a blowjob and a martini.
As Wonkette’s resident flight attendant (male, so I’m a BITCH in the EXTREME) may I just humbly say that most of us really couldn’t care less is a passenger is talking on their phone after the boarding door is closed, but the truth of the matter is, they pay us to tell you assholes to turn the goddam thing off, so turn the goddam thing off already.
[re=479786]Lazy Media[/re]: I know you folks have been waiting for me to weigh in on these important issues.
But my Esteem’d Colleague, Lazy Media, has about said it all.
The Intratec TEC DC-9 “assault pistol”, also known as DC-9, TEC-9, or, if manufactured after 1994, as AB-10, bears the dubious distinction of being one of the most widely used “criminal” guns in USA.
But more important, it’s a Complete Piece of Shit. It’s too heavy and cumbersome for a 9mm pistol; very difficult to control if converted to full auto (i.e., made into a submachine gun); and too low-powered and inaccurate to use beyond about 15-20 meters.
The Tech 9 has only two redeeming virtues: (1) it is cheap, and well within the budget of the typical inner-city gangbanger/drug dealer; and (2) it looks scary to civilians.
And on top of that: Chuckie is holding it the wrong way in that picture.
Given the above, you Bleeding Heart ProtoFemiNazi Wonkies can rest assured that, had the flight attendant Done The Right Thing, she would have been perfectly safe.
(By “Done The Right Thing” I mean, of course, borrowing a pistol from the nearest U.S. Air Marshall, and bustin’ a cap right in Chuckie’s ass.)
[re=479673]clientnumber8[/re]: Somebody got a bad case of the swells.
What’s a Swell without his Swell Phone?
When a policeman tells you to pull over, you pull over. When the nurse tells you to drop your pants, you drop your pants. And when a stewardess tells you to turn off your cell phone, you turn off your fucking cell phone.
Sorry, Chuck. You were wrong on this one.
This was very clearly a dry run for a future Democrat terrorist plane activity of some sort. I heard from a guy who is probably my brother or my plumber or whatever that Schumer was totally looking at porn he JUST MADE LAST NIGHT which is only allowed in librul orthodoxy right before socializing the fuck out of some american institution like pork rinds or college boy-sport (I know this because i TOTALLY researched it! it was hard! spare yourself this difficulty and trust me). Anyway, my uncle, who may or may not be a high level congressional intern, totally joined this texas dude in chucking Chuck the fuck off that plane! He was all “hey, unhand me plebe” and i was all “nazisocialisttyrranycommie” and that texas guy was all “get er done” and, where was i?
[re=479842]gurukalehuru[/re]: And when a stewardess tells you to drop your pants, you also drop your pants.
[re=479882]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: You have a career in the porn industry, if you care to seize the opportunity.
Chuck has something in common with Wonketeers — a problem with authority figures. Yet he found himself strangely compelled to become one.
What he should have done was apologized, turned off his phone, and then told her to go get him a beer & some pie.
[re=479965]kjlintner[/re]: And she would have gone back to the galley and shared a great laugh with her friends, because she made him eat something that really didn’t belong in food, and he didn’t realize it.
So he said bitch. He’s from New York.
Note to other politicians: you should not call a lady “bitch” for no reason whatsoever.
This is going to put a crimp in David Vitter’s sex life, you know.
[re=479692]Doglessliberal[/re]: If you understand that you have power and have the will to use it, you have to become this kind of person. And if you don’t, then you are Jimmy Carter.
So fucking what? I’m in love with Chuck Schumer. If he called her a bitch that’s what she was a bitch. He should have taken the train everyone is nicer on the train and you can talk all you want.Ride the train with me Chuck.
Funny, the only bitch I see in this is Chuck. Go figure. Self-important, much, you douchebag? She should have made his Count Dracula-lookin’ ass EAT that phone.
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