How Long Before Sully is Swiftboated?

[RandySF]

Given his testimony before Congress, I expect Fox and CNN to fire the shots very soon.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/chesley-sully-sullenberge_0_n_169512.html

Sullenberger, a 58-year-old who joined a US Airways predecessor in 1980, told the House aviation subcommittee that his pay has been cut 40 percent in recent years and his pension has been terminated and replaced with a promise "worth pennies on the dollar" from the federally created Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. These cuts followed a wave of airline bankruptcies after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks compounded by the current recession, he said.

"The bankruptcies were used by some as a fishing expedition to get what they could not get in normal times," Sullenberger said of the airlines. He said the problems began with the deregulation of the industry in the 1970s....


The reduced compensation has placed "pilots and their families in an untenable financial situation, ... I do not know a single professional airline pilot who wants his or her children to follow in their footsteps."

[Wapsie B]

1. Oh man, to attempt to smear a bonafide hero like Sully

would be absolutely crazy on their part. Oh wait what was I thinking? Carry on Fox News. Go for it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. He's gonna be Airbussed

The cognitive dissonance some Republicans must feel every time they encounter decent working people must be astounding.

[malaise]

3. I love him

and was so proud of him today. Bet M$Greedia don't want to interview him now.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Days, maybe hours. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Everyone knows he crashed that plane to further his commie socialist agenda.

:sarcasm:

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. I said that in earlier post. They'll throw him under the AirBus

They'll paint him as a lone-wolf, on-the-fringe, bitter old man.

[spanone]

7. how long before sully is sullied?

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Why does Sully hate America?

[FLAprogressive]

9. Swift Jet Veterans for Truth

[Berry Cool]

10. LOL...yeah, and they'll get people from the plane to speak out against him.

"Hey, I was ON that plane, and he is no hero--HE didn't land that thing--I DID!"

"He flew right INTO those geese--as if he INTENDED to crash the plane!! I was sitting right by a wing and I saw it!"

"He was rude and abusive to all of us flight attendants. I think he flew that plane into the Hudson because he wanted to DROWN US ALL in a KAMIKAZE ACT!"

(Slogan at end of ad: "Sullenberger...a hero? We don't think so.")