Posted on 02/16/2013 1:19:01 PM PST by Morgana
I cannot believe nobody pointed out that the title of this article is “COMPANY PRESIDENT, 60, slaps .....”
It’s the never ending vilification of successful people. WHO cares what he does for a living.. He’s a jerk. If he were a dentist would e title be, DENTIST SLAPS 19-Month old....how about a social worker? Does anyone else find this offensive?
SHE’S NOT BLACK! The baby isn’t black either! He’s of mixed race and about as light as his adoptive mom.
Why can’t anybody read the articles before commenting on them? At least glance at the article, even if you don’t want to read every word?
Well it only took 76 posts before someone finally remembered that scene. Always a bit if truth in dark humor.
I merely mentioned "black" because of the reference to race from the portion that was posted.
I could care less about the color of the baby, the mother or the man who obviously was drunk and disorderly to the point of slapping a baby who was crying.
What I have noticed lately is that there does seem to be more emphasis on race and racism not less since Obama has been immaculated, and I'm sensitive that it truly exists before painting someone with that indelible brush without proof - period.
Sorry to those I have offended by my comments.
Thank you for being a fine example of conservatism for all on HuffPo and DU to see.
< / sarc>
hahaha what!? It could be the case that he actually did NOT say it. And that she made it up. But that has never happened before.
“Like I said, this bozo couldn’t afford to fly private.”
That was really my point. I, of course, realize that companies come in all sizes. I didn’t know his exact deal, but I figured if he was in that situation it was likely a small company. My point was that the article made him seem like a big-wig, by using the title CEO.
Friends were flying home from a New Year’s Day bowl game, year ago. The flight they were on had a college band on board, they were pretty loud and were warned several times by this guy in first class to shut up. After several warnings he calmly walked back, bent over as if to say something, and bit the band directors nose off. He was a plastic surgeon.
Thank you for falling for MSM’s villification of success, as described in #81, like a good sheep. (No sarcasm intended!)
I misunderstood what you were conveying...
I’ve been on planes with drunks and it’s an extremely unpleasant thing,”
Was on a flight with a guy who demanded a drink even though service had been shut down because of extreme turbulence. Captain told flight attendant to go ahead and give him one so she gave him a very large Bloody Mary. Passenger had drink in his hand, plane dropped several thousand feet, contents of the glass went up and came down all over him. Funniest thing I ever saw. All the passengers clapped and the passenger was very quiet for the rest of the flight.
“Would you prefer an ADULT who crapped in his diaper?! LOL!”
Yeah, it’s time for this guy to retire, take two Geritol, and live out his days in a rocking chair in the serenity of his home. Good Lord!
Media manipulation from start to end. If the drunk had been a grocery stock clerk, the event would not even make it into the “News of the Day”. The icing on the cake was for the MSM the racially charged insult heard, we are to believe, over the engine noise 12 rows ahead, the insult which everyone (here as well) would shrug at if the drunk had been the infamous rapper named Iced Mofo or somebody of his skin shade. But by having both a “COMPANY PRESIDENT” and a racial insult from a condemned to extinction White Man, the media hit a jackpot, an article attractive to their entire guilt ridden audience Right and Left politically, and gathering from it identical responses, i.e. righteous indignation, and insults directed at the despised 1% Capitalist, sans the few attempts at humour seen here, righteously condemned by the resident Church Ladies, a winner article provoking similar unintelligent outbursts on both FR and DU. Kumbaya, comrades!
I never once vilified his success.
You elected to celebrate assault of a young child crying in *pain*.
Therein lies the difference.
I just hope the abandoned "mixed-race" kid lives a long & happy life, not like the resentful and angry abandoned mixed-race President we have now.
100% agree! IF this were a 100% veritably true then some outrage is in order. But boy doesn't it just fit the leftist template perfectly? So essentially what we have is a newspaper putting out a story to fit a template using selective parts of a police report (what does the rest say?) . One "witness" TWELVE rows up heard derogatory language. Go look at the pic of the airplane interior and count twelve rows. There's now way that this guy heard anything and if it was loud enough for this guy to hear then EVERY person on the plan would have heard something.
More likely THIS is what happened: The mother was going to funeral. She was traveling with a toddler. She had just been through the TSA baloney. She was stressed. She was tired. She was upset. The toddler starts crying. The evil white guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He probably said something like "Can you get that baby to shut the hell up"! in a nasty tone. Whoops. NOW the lady is pissed. Now shes' thinking racism. Now she's thinking lawsuits.
I'll bet $10,000 dollars that this guy will be found guilty of nothing in real trial as opposed to a media trial.
Hollywood and the media serve us trash cynically concocted to pull at the emotional strings, and just look how well it works! This story is a perfect fairy tale with an innocent Princess, her crying Princeling vs the Big Bad Wolf, while a simple forest worker observes the drama from 12 rows ahead, OK, OK, 12 giant sequoia trees ahead, no shades of meaning, love the Princess, hate the Big Bad Wolf.
For some reason, I’m reminded of Jerry Seinfeld (the character) who laughed during “The Schindler’s List”, another piece of historical manipulation designed to draw tears and hatred both at the same time, and all for entertainment purposes. After all, what we call “movies”, the industry calls “entertainment vehicle products”. That’s what this story is as well. Cheap fun time for the masses. Adjusted for political correctness.
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