\u201cThat could have been Donald Duck in my seat,\u201d Simon, a Democrat, told Fox News on Thursday. \u201cI could not see who had boarded the flight. I didn\u2019t even know who she was.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At first, Simon didn’t know who was in her seat as she argued at the gate. United eventually gave her a $500 voucher and reseated her in the economy plus section. In her original Facebook post, Simon said another Texas congressman then informed her a fellow member of the delegation was in her seat, and “regularly does this” to passengers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course she does.<\/p>\n
And if yoiu say “boo”, she plays the race card.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, if Simon weren’t a female Democrat, the media wouldn’t be carrying the story.\u00a0 If she were a white male, the “racism” charge would be carried uncritically.<\/p>\n
On the other hand?\u00a0 More of these spurious charges of racism, misogyny, “mansplaining” and the like need to be jammed back down the accusers’ throats.\u00a0 Preferably with ball-peen hammers.<\/p>\n
TANGENTIAL NOTE: \u00a0This is the 15,000th post on this blog since November 2006 (whien I switched to WordPress).<\/p>\n
Apropos not much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Woman bumped from United (what else?) flight by the imperious Sheila Jackson Lee (D, TX) Jackson Lee accuses her victim of…wait for it…wait for it…racism. Woman – Jean-Marie Simon – fires back: \u201cThat could have been Donald Duck in my seat,\u201d Simon, a Democrat, told Fox News on Thursday. \u201cI could not see who had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65553,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65551\/revisions\/65553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}