Radio host Beck renews attack on American Airlines

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http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Radio-host-Beck-renews-attack-on-American-Airlines-3842058.php

DALLAS (AP) — Radio talk show host Glenn Beck isn't backing down from his public attack on American Airlines.

For a second straight day, Beck on Wednesday used his show to complain that a flight attendant treated him rudely. Beck claims it was punishment for his conservative views.

Beck said American should fire the flight attendant, and he vowed to never fly on American again.

Beck said a flight attendant fawned over other passengers but spoke only one word to him, and slammed a can of soda on his tray without opening it as he did for others.

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. Love the photo!

[luvspeas]

2. Well that flight attendant should have known that Beck is incapable of opening a soda can...

It's beyond his level of comprehension. BAd Steward! Bad!

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Sigh. If only he'd thrown a tantrum while the plane was in the air.

Woulda loved to see him frog marched off by the FBI in those plastic handcuffs.

[Curtland1015]

4. This just in: Glenn Beck is Anti-American (Airlines)!

What a damned cry baby!

[Maeve]

5. I'd have served him with a smile and opened the can--but not in front of him

Then giggled evilly every time he took a sip. Not that I would have done anything to it, mind you...but it would be sooo fun to mess with his paranoia!

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Remember the "fuck you all, i quit... I'm having a beer" guy?

He cracked open a Cold one and quit by going down the energency slide, after dealing with one too many assholes?

If youre gonna quit, what better way than by, say, shaking up a coke and spraying it into that pompous fuck Beck's face.

[rfranklin]

6. That's why I have more than 400,000 miles on my American Airlines account...

because they hate Glenn Beck.

[randome]

7. Even if anything remotely close to what he says happened...

...you don't whine about it in public. Like most Conservatives who want to be the center of attention, he has no class.

[jobycom]

15. Exactly. Every public persona faces that kind of stuff every day.

Not just politicians, but actors or any other type of celebrity. Someone always wants to tell them off. I've dealt with a smattering of celebrities in retail and hotels, and most of them are cautious when they meet you, not knowing if you will gush unreasonably, or fly off the handle irrationally at them because they dropped a pass on Sunday or played a tree-hugger on a sitcom or whatever.

No way Beck hasn't faced this a million times. There's something else to this story.

[lpbk2713]

8. Knowing what I know about BecKKK there's probably a lot more to the story.

Like just maybe --- he tried to hit A/A for some free flight time and they turned him down.

[luvspeas]

9. I've had the same treatment on airplanes...

Never even gave it a second thought as to why. Sometimes they are tired. Sometimes I am tired and not behaving pleasantly. That's the nature of air travel.

What a little idiot. He really should just walk around in short frilly pantaloons and wave a perfumed kerchief under his nose.

[randome]

13. Ha! Best characterization of his whining I've seen!

[Boxerfan]

10. He needs a Waaahmbulance fer sure...

He also said yesterday while he was visiting NY he went to a rib joint & was treated rudely there also....

Maybe you should look in the mirror Glenn-not a pretty sight.

And of course as you sow so shall ye reap ...Or Karma's a Biatch mo-fo & lucky you didn't get the treatment you wish on liberals daily...

[RandiFan1290]

18. Trying to prove he's a real Texan now

He bought himself a little ranch and wants to play cowboy.

He just gets upset because no one knows who he is and treats him like everyone else.

[ZM90]

12. My father used to work for American Airlines before he died and when he died his coworkers were very

kind to us. I won't forget the kindness of those at American Airlines. My father was a mechanic and American Airlines paid really well. Because of my father I lived a middle class life as a child complete with a boat and video games. Someday I hope to be in the middle class again but, that's what college is for. Go fuck yourself Beck!

[Terra Alta]

14. oh, boo hoo for Beckkk.

Hey, Glenn, if you weren't such an enormous asshole, people might treat you better!

[progressivebydesign]

16. Glenn flatters himself. As IF everyone would recognize him.. reminds me of an Eddie Money story..

one night in LA, in the early 80s, Eddie Money showed up at a gig my friends were playing. It was at Madame Wong's West, and Esther Wong would have her older lady friends manning the ticket table upstairs. We heard a commotion, and there stood Eddie Money, yelling at the women for not letting him in free.. "Don't you know who I am???" Apparently the ladies did not and he was turned away.

No doubt Glenn tried that tact "don't you know who I am?" When a celeb has to say that, it means that the person usually does know who you are (unless you're Eddie Money,) and no.. they don't care, or they know who you are and don't like you.

Sorry Glenn, sorry that you had to GASP open a soda can by yourself!!! The horrors!!

[KamaAina]

17. Meanwhile, they kicked a teenager with Down syndrome off a plane

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teen-denied-boarding-american-airlines-flight-syndrome-family-article-1.1151439

A California family says they were kicked off a cross-country American Airlines flight because their 16-year-old son has Down syndrome.

Joan and Robert Vanderhorst, of Bakersfield, Calif., said they intend to sue American over the "humiliating" incident at Newark Airport, in which they were told their special needs son posed a "flight risk."...

The airline said Bede couldn’t board because he was ‘agitated’ in the waiting area, but a video the family made shows Bede, above, quietly playing with his hat. The Vanderhorsts said the pilot and crew never spoke with them or their son and they believe the airline didn’t want a person with Down syndrome in first class.

Bede and his parents had been in Jackson, N.J., visiting family and were eager to make the long return flight home. On a "lark" they had even upgraded their seats to first class, shelling out an extra $625 dollars.

And yet they let Beckkk on.