Bush Hater Redefines Hypocrisy
A woman wasn’t allowed to board a Southwest Airlines flight in Reno, Nevada because of an anti-Bush t-shirt she was wearing that displayed pictures of the President and Vice-President of the United States with a caption that had similarities to the movie title “Meet the Fockersâ€Â. It’s airline policy not to let passengers on-board with offensive clothing and Southwest officials said that other passengers complained about the t-shirt. What did Lorrie Heasley the wearer of the t-shirt say, “I didn’t feel that I should have to change my shirt, because we live in the United States, and it’s freedom of speech and it was based on the movie ‘The Fockers,’ and I didn’t think it should have offended anyone.â€Â
But it did offend people and she was unwilling to change the shirt so that she wouldn’t offend people and so that Lorrie Heasley could board the flight. Which I find absolutely hilarious because if I were wearing the exact same shirt but instead it pictured Senators Kennedy, Schumer, and Kerry I’m sure she would have been offended and would have demanded I not board the plane.
Of course the ACLU is in on a lawsuit Lorrie Heasley is filing because it is supposedly protected under free speech. However, private property is private property; I can’t go barefoot into restaurants so why should this lady be allowed to have a t-shirt with the F-bomb depicted on it? I can’t pack a firearm in my luggage if the pilot of the aircraft I’m traveling on doesn’t want a firearm in his or her cargo bay. The pilot could have just as easily asked her to change her shirt if he didn’t want it on-board. Why? Because if the shirt might cause a confrontation then it certainly doesn’t need to be worn on an aircraft.
The hypocrisy of those that hate the President and his administration has reached new levels today. If one atheist is offended then the ACLU is there for them; if one rabid liberal offends other people then the ACLU is there for them as well.
Cross-posted at Conservative Thinking
October 6th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
Excuse me, but don’t Liberals regularly go running to the media, cops, and the courts when they are offended by things such as W in 04 stickers, etc.
This case ought to be thrown out immediately, otherwise it is time to start suing all people and institutions Liberal.
October 6th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Just heard her on Sean Hannity
Alot of similar liberal plattitudes as to why we have to live with all her crap:
-If people didn’t like the shirt they didn’t have to look
-And I’m sure a person wearing a “Jesus loves you” shirt would be thrown off the plane too
-I’m an independent (Sean asked her what republicans she voted for, couldn’t name one)
-I got on the plane in America, i arrived in America and that’s why I could wear the shirt
I would love to wear a similar shirt with pictures of Kennedy, Clinton, Durbin, etc on it and see what would happen. Probably would get someone suing me because I offfffended their sensibbbbilllities (Michael Savage imitation)