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Southwest Flight Attendant Disses Passenger Wearing Trump T-shirt in Facebook Post
By Stacey Leasca October 04, 2019
One Southwest flight attendant may be re-thinking his social media strategy today after his private Facebook post went viral for all the wrong reasons.
On Thursday, Mark Kaminski took to Southwest’s Facebook page to call out one of its crew members for posting a private message to his Facebook page, in which he shamed a passenger for wearing a Trump t-shirt.
According to The Chicago Sun-Times, the flight attendant posted a photo of a passenger in an aisle seat wearing a camouflage hat and a blue T-shirt printed with an American flag on the front. The t-shirt also had the words “Trump 45’’ and “Suck it up Buttercup” printed on the front.
The flight attendant reportedly captioned the shot: “Someone did NOT get my most Positively Outrageous Service today on my flight … #notgoingtosuckitup #dumpTrump #eeew.’’
Kaminski posted a link to the offending flight attendant’s page on Southwest’s feed writing, “So this is how they treat passengers? He added, "He should be fired because he can't do his job. Very sad employee.
Southwest replied to Kaminski’s post sharing, "We aim to provide outstanding service to all who travel with us and regret if we missed the mark. We appreciate you sharing your feedback.''
Other fans of Southwest’s page quickly jumped on the post to add their own thoughts to the conversation. And, predictably, it became a bit of a political battleground. Some even took it so far as to hop on Twitter with the hashtag #BoycottSouthwest.
"I’m the farthest thing from a Trump supporter, but I am a 'people' supporter,'' one commenter said. "This is clearly unacceptable. Southwest Airlines, I love a lot of Trump supporters even though I don’t agree with them and frankly this kind of behavior from your FA is what’s making civil discussion in our country all but a memory. If you think it is OK for your (employee) to give lesser treatment to someone he disagrees with, I hope you’ll find it OK when I take my business to an airline I agree with."
However, there were a few people in the comments who praised the crew member, saying things like “Give this man a raise.”
The post reached about 100 comments before Southwest removed it. The flight attendant reportedly removed the post from his own feed as well. According to Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz, who spoke with USA Today, the post was removed as the airline conducts its own internal investigation.
"We aim to provide outstanding service to all who travel with us,'' Mainz additionally noted. "The post in question does not reflect the inclusive environment we strive to provide for our customers and employees."
https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/southwest/southwest-flight-attendant-anti-trump-facebook-post
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The "Let's Go, Brandon!" Freakout Goes Next-Level
A Southwest pilot earns ISIS comparisons for joking into a loudspeaker, as pundits continue to mass-forget the previous four years
Matt Taibbi
9 hr ago
FBI Special Agent-turned-CNN Political Analyst Asha Rangappa — gosh that resume sounds unsurprising, doesn’t it? — tweeted this yesterday night:
Twitter avatar for @AshaRangappa_Asha Rangappa @AshaRangappa_
As an experiment, I’d love for an @SouthwestAir pilot to say “Long live ISIS” before taking off. My guess is that 1) the plane would be immediately grounded; 2) the pilot fired; and 3) a statement issued by the airline within a matter of hours
October 31st 2021
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Put on your irony helmet, this is going to be a long ride. Rangappa was referencing a story involving a Southwest Air pilot who became a headline by saying, “Let’s Go, Brandon!” during a flight from Houston to Albuquerque. Sitting on that flight, incredibly, was an AP reporter named Colleen Long who was writing a piece entitled, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden.”
How did it happen? On October 2nd, at a NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, a crowd broke into a chant of “Fuck Joe Biden!” after 28-year-old Brandon Brown won a race. NBC reporter Kelli Stavast was interviewing Brown during the chants, and quickly spoke over them, saying, “You can hear the chants from the crowd. Let’s go Brandon!”
The phrase has since become a war cry for people all over the country, being at once a burn on Biden, the anxious, airbrushing press, and the corporate conglomerates who are taking pre-emptive action to try to prevent such outbursts from ever again darkening America’s door (“NASCAR and NBC have since taken steps to limit ‘ambient crowd noise’ during interviews,” as the AP put it).
Now WFBI agent Rangappa has essentially declared “Let’s Go, Brandon!” the equivalent of an ISIS war cry. Supportive hand-wringing from press/natsec colleagues (is there a difference?) was instantaneous. “Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy and at least one Southwest Airlines pilot thinks that’s just fine,” cried HuffPo’s S.V. Date. “Come fly the extremist skies,” chimed in official #Resistance mascot Aaron Rupar. Then there was Rangappa’s fellow spook-to-CNN pipeliner, former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem:
Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem
If @SouthwestAir doesn’t do anything, every passenger on that flight has standing to file a complaint with the @FAANews and they should do so. Southwest will then be compelled to investigate or defend him. Have fun with that. No messing around in the air. Bright line rule.
Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire
"On Friday morning on a Southwest flight from Houston to Albuquerque, the pilot signed off his greeting over the public address system with the phrase, to audible gasps from some passengers." https://t.co/0KlzkTWSch
October 30th 2021
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Is it really possible that these people don’t get they’re being trolled? Part of the joke of “Let’s Go Brandon,” of course, is that you couldn’t go five minutes during the last administration without hearing someone in pearls or a bowtie screaming “Fuck Trump!” I don’t remember Rangappa pumping out “Osama de Niro” tweets after this celebrated Tony Awards appearance:
The bigger part of the “Let’s Go Brandon!” gag is that such outbursts during the Trump years were not only not condemned, they were celebrated, as pundits and reporters for the first time told us directly profane insults of presidents were okay. “Robert de Niro’s Comments at the Tony Awards Go Viral,” was CNN’s bemused take, in a story quoting artist Ferrari Shepard saying, “Robert de Niro is my favorite rapper.”