Politico reports: Senator Chuck Schumer loves the sound of his own voice, but it carried a bit farther than he might have liked on the US Airways shuttle from New York to Washington on Sunday.
According to a House Republican aide who happened to be seated nearby, the notoriously chatty New York Democrat referred to a flight attendant with an obscenity after she ordered him to turn off his phone before takeoff.
Schumer and his seatmate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), were chatting on their phones before takeoff when an announcement indicated that it was time to turn off the phones.
Both senators kept talking.
According to the GOP aide, a flight attendant then approached Schumer and told him the entire plane was waiting on him to shut down his phone.
Schumer asked if he could finish his conversation. When the flight attendant said “no,” Schumer ended his call but continued to argue his case.
He said he was entitled to keep his phone on until the cabin door was closed. The flight attendant said he was obliged to turn it off whenever a flight attendant asked.
“He argued with her about the rule,” the source said. “She said she doesn’t make the rules, she just follows them.”
When the flight attendant walked away, the witness says Schumer turned to Gillibrand and uttered the obscenity.
“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 Shenanigans.
Ironically, Schumer has been a friend of US Airways flight attendants of late, lobbying company CEO Doug Park on their behalf after several of them asked the senator to help keep them based at LaGuardia.
Through her office, Gillibrand said Schumer was “polite” with the flight attendant Sunday and “turned off his phone when asked to.”
But moments after the flight attendant had told Schumer to shut it off, the phone rang again.
“It’s Harry Reid calling,” the source quoted Schumer as saying. “I guess health care will have to wait until we land.” ‘Shhhhh!’
(Source: Politico)
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13 Responses
The only obscenity here is that of The Yeshive World.
There is absolutely no contructive reason in the world for you to feature such a story. It should be of no interest to anyone, particularly any frum person.
It is very painful to see this website drift away from its namesake: serving the YESHIVA world with important up-to-date news, to have become full of shtuss, street garbage and loshon hoarh and rechilus. It used to be ok to read the news pieces, and the only thing that would cause indigestion were the Comments. Unfortunately, you have stooped to the point that even the news pieces are not reader-worthy.
We really need a new real Kosher, real Yeshiva website that would live up to those standards.
CHAVAL!!!
how come no one is screaming chillul hashem here . they should throw him out . he does not represent our intrests
Key word: entitled As do all socialist politicians feel. The people have to sacrifice but we the entitled are as always above the law.
Who cares?
BTW, I think it’s time to throw out that rule.
I don’t think he was referring to the poor flight attendant. I think he probably saw a reflection of himself and was commenting om what he saw!!!
mark levin, lol!! A freilichen Chanukah to you!
Typical arrogant low-life politician!
hopefully health care will wait..really really long
When a dog fouls the sidewalk, no one is amazed. Why is anyone shocked when a New Yorker uses gutter language?
Look at how the most chushiv goyim act and compare it to how the most chushiv jews act. Mi k’amcha yisroel!!
That said, I agree with #1 – this is not something that should be news for the “Yeshiva World”.
First of all I love the picture, it says it all. Secondly, you should know what he said next time you feel like voting for the guy.
Whoever wrote your headline didn’t bother to read the story. Sen. Schumer didn’t use an obscenity towards the flight attendant. He said it to his seat-mate after the attendant had gone.
Please, what you wrote is plain old-fashioned sheker. Technically, it’s motzi shem ra, and legally it’s called libel. Can’t you find anything legitimate to criticize about the Senator, instead of twisting what actually happened?
Midwest2, just go to the Congressional Record and look at Senator Schumer’s voting record and then you decide for yourself what he should be criticized for.