United Airlines forcibly remove man from overbooked flight?

Ahem. The investors are choosing REACCOMMODATION. Ahem. Thank you. – Oscar Munoz, United CEO.

It’s interesting to me that O’Hare Airport’s Twitter account hasn’t had nearly as much attention and response as does the United Twitter account, as an O’Hare employee delivered the injury to the senior citizen in an attempt to forcibly remove the passenger from his paid-for seat.

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Love the logic of Mr. Hensley a little later on:


https://twitter.com/RealDanHensley/status/851591653190230017

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If being against the assault of the elderly aboard airplanes to force them out of paid seats makes me part of a mob, then sign me up and order donuts.

And yes, Dan, most people aren’t big fans of bullies.

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http://i.imgur.com/Nu6Th3r.png

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It was specifically the “i went viral which is proof that the left is censoring me” that offended my logic circuits.

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Well, at least we can count on ol’ Bill O’Reilly to find humor in the whole situation. What a jolly sort.

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I don’t see any laws about photography/videography on planes. Different airlines have sort-of-secret policies about it, but those rules only seem to apply to when somebody is videotaping personnel being assholes (kicking somebody off the plane for looking too Muslim – both the video-taper and the “Muslim” end up getting kicked off).

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…from your keyboard to the gods’ ears…

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Buuuut, what if he’s a bad, bad 69-year-old Asian senior citizen!!! The smear campaign on the passenger (David Dao) has already begun. NY Post, Daily Mail, and many others running with “He’s a gambler + Traded drugs for gay (gasp!) sex” In the court of American opinion, being Asian certainly doesn’t help… What this all could possibly have to do with being beaten on a plane is a mystery to me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=David+Dao&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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When the entire world is looking at multiple videos of a guy being assaulted and dragged, bloody, through an airplane so that a stewardess can fly for free instead, you’ve gotta get desperate to sell papers, I guess. “He’s a doctor… ON THE DEATH PANELS!!”

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I’ve heard of some US senior citizens who’ve been reported to do a lot worse, and millions of US citizens hired one on to a four-year position of ultimate leadership after over a year of examining their options.

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For the delay in question, United also was inappropriately lowballing the offered amount; it should have been $1350, the maximum.

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