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Source: Doctor dragged off United hires two sets of lawyers | Daily Mail Online

Ok, so by now, the misadventures of this United Airlines passenger has caused more people to tsk tsk world wide than the time Hugh Grant was caught cheating on Liz Hurley.  It’s pretty hard to defend the corporate actions of United in this instance since the entire pitiful exchange was videoed by teams of passengers as evidence.

I’m not going to suggest that United handled this situation well, but they also had the misfortune to pick upon a slightly unhinged individual as a removal candidate.  What kind of an educated person, much less a medical doctor, squeals like a snowflake college student when asked to leave a plane?  It’s one thing to be visibly annoyed and stalk off in righteous huff, since he would be entitled, but to flail around and wail as if he was doused in spiders is a tad on the unhinged side.  While the world comes down hard on the airline, what has been  overlooked is that the passenger’s behavior was irrational and  inappropriate to the circumstances.

And the worse part of it is, the guy (and his lawyers) will likely receive a windfall of money from United because the court of public opinion has already vilified and convicted the airline.  What this emotionally unstable person has effected is not just a resounding lesson to United; he has in fact created new economic opportunities for all nutters and those willing to play the role.  The lesson is, act like a child, behave irrationally and play the victim to the max.  All businesses will be at risk from restaurants to barber shops as people go postal on any inconvenience dared to be foisted upon them.  Get a bad haircut or eat some bad clams,  run through a plate glass window and get someone to film you bleeding.  The ambulance chaser business just discovered  a new revenue motherlode.

In this time of extreme sensitivity to any and all slights from all quarters, it’s truly shocking that a company as resource rich as United would  allow themselves to be so exposed to such avoidable litigation.  Now that the floodgates are open, expect the next guy who didn’t receive a bag of nuts to wail like Howard Dean in order to extract compensatory money from the hapless airline.  United have allowed themselves to be a contributor to the lucrative victim industry.  Expect to see teams of lawyers hanging around the departure areas of all future flights.

Update: And here we go

Source: Reporters turn to ridiculing White House Easter eggs – The American MirrorThe American Mirror

Anyone who’s ever been around 3 year old children understands how annoying they can be once they set their minds to annoying you.  From the classic “are we there yet?” bleats while on a car trip, to the constant whining when they’re hungry or tired, even the most patient parents can be pushed to consider abandoning their darlings at nearby orphanages.

Eventually, (but not always) they mature and  grow out of that annoying stage of their existence.  Typically, the darlings lose interest in annoying their parents because the amount of attention they receive diminishes.  In other words, they are no longer rewarded for annoying behavior.

Some however, manage to retain this annoying trait and wind up as columnists for the Washington Post, the New York Times and other assorted mainstream newspapers, where they can continue their charming ways… and get paid for it.  We already expect and have read articles ad nauseam, about how the new President Trump is comparable to Hitler, is racist, sexist, will increase the effects of global warming and cause the end of mankind.  Anyone reading stories from The Post, The NY Times etc., can easily observe this cutting edge reportage.

Having exhausted the usual storylines, media now directs their writers to Pulitzer worthy stories such as the one linked above, ridiculing the White House Easter eggs.  This is now the new level of brave reporting for the fourth estate.  We are also treated to tabloid exposes on the dining habits of the Vice President and his wife; of Melania Trump’s residence patterns; and of course, the recent stop the presses story of Kelly Anne Conway’s feet on the couch.  The derangement is so severe, that someone actually fact checked a sarcastic remark from Sean Spicer about Trump using Russian salad dressing.

While to many, this level of reportage is amusing, when you consider that this is the essence of an adult person’s vocation, it’s actually quite pathetic.  If it was not bad enough to admit you were a lawyer at a cocktail party, it’s even worse now to admit that you’re a journalist.  It may behoove them to twist the narrative slightly and say that they write children’s stories.