The media jumped on the reporting about Dao because the info is available and they need to keep a steady stream of related articles out there to get the clicks. They’d have to do actual legwork and put in some time to track down the officers who dragged the guy off the plane.

He’s a doctor. He didn’t choose to be a public figure, dude; he’s not Justin Bieber. He’s just a doctor who wanted to go home so he could treat his patients. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Hey now, David Dao deserved to be physically assaulted and bloodied because he was not sufficiently compliant to a private corporations desire to make more money.

Riiiiight...but this “public figure” was literally dragged into the limelight, screaming, and against his will.

The important thing here is to ignore the fact that we’re treated like chattel once we’re in an airline’s clutches and focus on the fact that David Dao did bad things before.

I think the overall theme is “pointlessly”.

Real Talk: how are we all going to die?

Oh god he’s chanting “U.S.A!” in his tweets.

It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

Holocaust centers.

I like that the guy whose job is to concisely relay information to the press, is unable to make a statement without issuing a clarification to explain his original clarification.

Always remember- Never Go Full Hitler

I don’t think he did it on purpose.

1. April Ryan needs a raise. I don’t know what they are paying her, but it isn’t enough to put up with this BS.

I appreciated this headline.

Eh, the reality is this whole clusterfuck will soon be forgotten and Kendall can go back to Kendalling and then the nuclear war will wipe out everything.

The entirety of her being was raised into building a brand around herself. Her only self worth is her brand and now it’s seemingly very publicly damaged. So of course she’s freaking instead of doing the smart thing and realzing where she went wrong and correcting her missteps. It’s how she was raised and understands…