On 2007-04-17 21:37:31 -0700, Tchiowa said:

On Apr 17, 11:37 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Apologies if someone else has already posted this:

http://us.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/04/16/....ap/index.html

Somebody really hates GA.

When I read the article it didn't sound at all like someone who hates
General Aviation. It sounded like a standard CNN attack on business.
("globe trotting corporate executive")

I wasn't sure if I was reading CNN or the Worker's World Daily. No
that there is that much difference any more.

Don't you just love revolutionary rhetoric? And yet CNN is using it
more and more. I expect to hear "running dogs of capitalism" any day
now.

I can see it now:

"Once again we see that globe-trotting corporate bandits and their
lackey pilots are stealing bread from the mouths of the oppressed
masses of air travelers. The running dogs of capitalism must be brought
to heel. For an unbiased report, we turn to Comrade Barbara Boxer, who
has joined CNN after retiring from the oppressive establishment
patriarchy. Comrade Boxer, can the entrenched pigs at Congress do
anything to stop this theft, or are they too corrupt to do anything
about even this?"

"I am sad to say that Congress and the Administration are still
controlled by capitalist gangsters, Comrade Anderson Cooper. But of
course, you know this, being a part of the white male oppressive
patriarchy, not to mention a deluded religious fanatic ever since your
conversion to Islam. And what are these so-called 'general aviation'
planes doing? Hauling their fat cat bosses around in unparalleled
luxury as they flit from one smoke-filled room to another, planning
their next nefarious assault on the poor working slaves of the world."

"What about Comrade Gore? Doesn't he also fly a private jet?"

"Of course not. Comrade Gore's jet belongs to the people, as does our
beloved Gore. Therefore they gratefully support his travels in his
never-ending fight against capitalist gangsters by using the pigs' own
tools against them."

"Thank you, Comrade Boxer. Now, for an alternate point of view, we have
Comrade Patty Murray, a Senator from the State of Washington. Tell us
how your views differ from those of Comrade Boxer, Comrade Murray."

"Comrade Boxer is a Trotskyite revisionist pig, but otherwise she is
right on target with this one, Brother."

"And so, despite overwhelming unanimity that the captalist bosses and
their corporate tools should no longer be allowed to use the airways
for free, President Clinton refuses to budge from the promise made by
her corrupt husband when he was President -- that there will be no user
fees for these robber barons or their lackeys."
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor