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United Airlines names former Obama press secretary Josh Earnest as spokesman
Chicago Tribune ^ | May 3, 2018 | by Robert Channick

Posted on 05/03/2018 1:55:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Reeling from a year of public relations disasters, United Airlines has named former White House press secretary Josh Earnest as its new spokesman.

Earnest, who served for eight years under President Barack Obama, the last three as press secretary, will handle communications for United, which stumbled in its messaging in response to situations including a passenger-dragging incident and a series of mishaps involving pets, damaging the Chicago-based airline’s reputation.

“United Airlines is an iconic, global brand with a long history — but it's United's bright future that makes me enthusiastic about joining the team,” Earnest said Thursday in a news release.

Most recently a political analyst for NBC News and cable channel MSNBC, Earnest advanced from deputy press secretary to top spokesman for the Obama administration in 2014.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: joshearnest; liar; spokesman; unitedairlines
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1 posted on 05/03/2018 1:55:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

i would now investigate united airlines for collusion.


2 posted on 05/03/2018 1:57:07 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whenever I read that some company, Lyft, for example, have put an Obama person on the staff, I drop them.


3 posted on 05/03/2018 1:57:56 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They don’t go where I go anyway.


4 posted on 05/03/2018 1:58:47 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That should enhance their credibility!


5 posted on 05/03/2018 1:59:44 PM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by urban customers' "climate change" (H/T niteowl77))
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To: Gen.Blather

“Whenever I read that some company, Lyft, for example, have put an Obama person on the staff, I drop them.”
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Agree. Now I no longer need to give United the benefit of the doubt.


6 posted on 05/03/2018 1:59:56 PM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

nice ~$1m/yr+ gig as a SVP of a large public company!


7 posted on 05/03/2018 2:00:06 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Glad I’m not a shareholder. Or a customer.


8 posted on 05/03/2018 2:00:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Joe Isuzu was too expensive ...


9 posted on 05/03/2018 2:00:54 PM PDT by x
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The only airline workers more pro-Union militant than United (based in San Francisco) is the old Northwest Airline out of Minneapolis.
I sat on the ground for 4 hrs in Minneapolis while Union ground crews sat on the butts waiting for an approved person to fix a minor problem.

Then the pilots, walked off the plane, didn’t bother to tell anyone and we waited for another 2 hrs while they found a replacement crew.

Thank god NWA is gone!


10 posted on 05/03/2018 2:01:01 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Corporate suicide.

I will NEVER fly these hacks. And I bet I’m not alone.


11 posted on 05/03/2018 2:01:09 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Northwest Orient Airlines is gone? I guess I’m behind the times. I don’t fly very often don’t pay attention to all the companies.


12 posted on 05/03/2018 2:03:16 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The guy’s not even a good liar


13 posted on 05/03/2018 2:04:38 PM PDT by Conserv
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

United lost its moral and business compass years ago, 1985 for example.


14 posted on 05/03/2018 2:06:58 PM PDT by Don Corleone ( lose the gun. save the cannolis.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

united airlines can now josh in earnest.


15 posted on 05/03/2018 2:07:52 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: chief lee runamok

One more reason not to use them.


16 posted on 05/03/2018 2:13:11 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let them fly your doggie,Joshie!


17 posted on 05/03/2018 2:15:18 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Gen.Blather

Yep. Me too. That these companies cannot see the absolute destruction the obama administration did to this country is beyond my comprehension.

Unless, of course, they’re all down with the ideology, which is prolly closer to the truth. ANY company getting in bed with ANY obamanite gets tossed outta my wallet.


18 posted on 05/03/2018 2:15:52 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

United needs somebody that is good at covering up and spinning f*** ups.


19 posted on 05/03/2018 2:19:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well I won’t fly anti-American airlines.


20 posted on 05/03/2018 2:25:34 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvete)
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