You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!
America celebrating a loser as a hero.
Steven Slater is the Jet Blue flight attendant who got into an altercation with a passenger. Steven Slater is the stewardess who lost his coll and berated a passenger on the plane’s intercom. Slater is the Paul Bunyon like figure who then stole beer from the cabin galley and activated the emergency slide as he ran away into his fifteen minutes of fame.
This guy’s a hero?
Slater’s FACEBOOK page is busting at the seems like Rosie O’Donnel’s thong.
America, in it’s misguided, inebriated stupidity, is calling this guy a breath of fresh air. He’s speaking for all repressed working stiffs who are mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore.
Huh? Did I miss something?
This guy couldn’t handle his job coolly or calmly. Instead of defusing the situation and keeping things safe, he flipped his lid like the Joker on Adrenaline. He grabbed the intercom like Snoop Dog and went on a profanity laced tirade. OK maybe the idiot who stood up too soon to get her bag deserved a scolding, but an out of control, throw the FAA under the bus tirade? Did the senior citizens on the plane deserve to hear the F word uttered over and over by a smarmy, less than professional flight attendant? Did little kids need to be subjected to one man’s melt down.
Way to go hero. Way to steal beer from the galley and then blow the doors on a jet aircraft. Nothing says safety like a portly flight attendant activating the slide in the middle of a runway.
“Ah control tower. This is Jet Blue. We have a mutiny on board and a renegade stewardess sliding to freedom.”
Hero? You’re a disgrace!
You know what a hero is? It’s a fire fighter who goes back into a burning building to rescue a family kitten.
You know what a hero is? It’s the bomb tech in Afghanistan who pulls the right wire out of the right wrong explosive and saves a village with little regard for himself.
A hero is the teacher who keeps going back into an underfunded school to teach kids who live in the projects.
A guy who doesn’t do his job is getting book deals.
What if your waiter told you you were fat and dumped your linguini in your lap? He’s mad as hell. Is he a hero? What if your dry cleaner uses your skirt as an oil rag. She’s mad as hell. Is she a hero?
Is that what this country has come to? A guy can’t handle the heat, bails on his job, puts an entire plane in jeopardy, and that guy is lionized?
This country needs to pull itself up by the boot straps and take a long hard look in the mirror.
If Steven Slater is your hero, then you need a splash of cold water in the face.
I realize 2010 is frustrating, perhaps even scary. Double digit inflation, recession and long unemployment lines. I get it. But if we don’t act civilized in difficult times, then we quickly swirl around the drain into anarchy.
Hey Steven Slater. Sorry you can’t take the pressure of working as a flight attendant anymore. I know a full time job with benefits and health care is a bitch. I say step aside Steve. A lot of people would love to have your job.
Here’s what shocked me. You know who’s a SLATER-HATER?
THE DONALD.
That’s right, DONALD TRUMP.
He may have the hair of a wallaby, and the business acumen of a shark, but he is no fan of the former flight attendant.
“What he did was despicable,” he tells The Insider. “I think as an employee he’s horrible and as an employer I would really go after him big.”
Trump says it is wrong that people are “celebrating” Slater “who could have caused a major catastrophe and who is obviously not very stable. I think he’s a wacko. I think he had a [disagreement] with someone close to him and he let it out on the passengers. I don’t think he’s a hero, and I don’t think he’s going to be a folk hero for very long. I think we should stop celebrating him pretty quickly.”
You tell em Donald.
Meanwhile, several passengers on the Slater’s plane tells the Wall Street Journal he was the one who instigated the ugly confrontation that led to his nasty departure.
When one passenger asked Slater where her bag was stowed, he spewed an expletive before storming off.
Said a witness, It really blew my mind. It was so inappropriate.”
Slater has had his 15 minutes of fame. Jay Leno has made fun of him. Even the White House Press Secretary has used Slater references in press briefings.
I am with you Donald. I’d kick this guy to the curb, and quick.
He’s no hero, he’s a loser.
And anyone who thinks differently has the right to in this great nation of ours. But I have the right to proclaim you crazy.