You may have heard by now that apparently Chuck Schumer got in a bit of trouble the other day for muttering a rude comment at a flight attendant. If not:
New York's famously garrulous senior senator, Chuck Schumer, got busted Wednesday for calling a female flight attendant the B-word aboard a US Airways flight from New York to Washington on Sunday.
Schumer was sitting next to protege Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, gabbing away on his phone, when a flight attendant told him to shut it down.
Schumer turned off his phone, and then argued with the attendant that he was allowed to talk while the cabin door is open. He lost. [...]
A Republican aide on the plane, who overheard the powerful Democrat, tattled to Politico.com.
"The senator made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath that he shouldn't have made, and he regrets it," Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon told Anne Schroeder Mullins.
Naturally, the National Republican Senatorial Committee wasted no time attacking not just Schumer, but also Gillibrand on the apparent assumption that she has the power to control people's language with her thoughts. Oh no wait, it's for not rebuking Schumer over his language. Which is not to say she didn't, just that admonitions not delivered via the media for the entertainment of the Republican base evidently don't count.
I for one would like to know what sort of candy-assed pearl-clutching Victorian-era transplant wannabes they've got over at the NRSC that apparently they faint if exposed to bad language. This is NEW YORK. If you haven't had at least one stranger on the street instruct you do something to yourself that's anatomically impossible, then you obviously have not spent enough time here.
I also wonder what kind of blistering criticism is in store for other Senators, thanks to the NRSC's new-found concern for the dignity of the female gender. I mean, if Chuck Schumer gets to be raked over the coals for muttering something rude about a flight attendant... correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Republican Senator David Vitter confess to being a long-term customer of a prostitution ring? I await with bated breath the NRSC's vigorous condemnation of how that's demeaning to women. |
