Oh, no - the “liberal” wasn’t there to be ganged up on. Guys like Beckel were there mostly to agree with the other hosts in a formulaic way that strengthens the reactionary topic under discussion.

Bob Beckel (the guy who was just fired) and Juan Williams used to rotate in and out, representing the “liberal” voice on the panel. And I think two other hosts do the same thing, so there’s always five on the panel but more than that as “co-hosts”.

I ran into Giuliani at the Westin San Diego a year or two ago; he was behind me checking into the hotel for a conference I guess he was speaking at. He really looked old without TV makeup on.

In 2013, the TSA actually wanted to relax the rules about “small blades”, and allow multitools and swiss army knives that have small folding blades. They prepared guidelines and diagrams and everything:

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Oh, please. We literally already have an example of the airlines’ reaction when the Middle East version of the laptop ban was implemented. It hurt Emirates so much that they cut 20% of their flights to the U.S.

But between the TSA and the airline abuse, I’ve mostly given up on flying, unless I have absolutely no choice. I’d rather drive 2 days than get on an airplane in the USA.

I just moved to Mexico from Canada. The “drive or fly thing” was settled when it was going to take me something like 48 hours to bypass the US (ie. get to another city in Canada that flies directly into Mexico and then to my destination) or just 14 hours if I agreed to land in the US en route. Neither option was…

This isn’t a handout to airlines, they are going to fight this tooth-and-nail. For one thing, this damages business travel, which is the #1 most important source of revenue for airlines. Even a 5% downturn in transatlantic business travel could be disastrous to the airlines, FAR more so than the pittance they might…

Who cares? Outside of the realm of forced-to business travellers, who the actual fucks in their right minds would travel to the US?

This will be good for airlines since it will lead to higher checked bag fees.

Will be interesting to see if it applies to the UK as well as Schengen-zone Europe. Getting into the UK is somewhat harder (if you’re a foreign terrorist) than getting into continental Europe, which has no passport control across most of its internal borders.

Vehement anti-gay politicians usually mean they are closeted politicians.

You know, the whole “he’s so evil he must be gay” thing is getting really old.

Doesn’t sound like she understood if she complained to the flight attendant. A flight attendant could not help her in that situation.

Not buying that the computer did it, how does the computer select the paying customer with all the memberships elite platinum card status yadda yadda yadda but the second ticket is not selected?

At what point in our culture did we stop calling it a paid vacation day and start calling it PTO?

And if you really are, as you say, then you would know that if a person is upgraded on a companion ticket, it would be the companion ticket that got bumped, not the primary ticket holder

It is bad optics. Although the real problem isn’t that the computer (and yes, it was a computer) selected a passenger to be bumped, and it happened to be the black woman. It is true that some first class passengers had to be bumped due to a smaller cabin.

If you read through the tweets above, it seems that the complaint is not really centered on the fact the black woman was bumped from first class, or that the computer selecting the ticket was racist. She clearly understands the technical reasons it happened: