Turd Blossom
Ok, so here's the back story.
Two days ago I was getting ready to start the first flight of this trip. I got a call in the crew room from the ops center letting me know that our flight was going to be delayed because Karl Rove was going to be aboard and the Secret Service was having a hard time with the Armed Individual paperwork. I went and told Tom, the captain, about this and all he said was, 'Fuck, I hate Karl Rove!' I was kind of surprised by this as most Horizon pilots are very conservative.
We headed out to the plane which was parked as far as physically possible from the terminal. Parked maybe a hundred meters from our plane was another aircraft, a small turboprop from an airline I didn't recognise, and between the planes was a black car. There were men in trenchcoats swarming the area and TSA agents trying to screen them (why they were doing this outside I have no idea).
I got everything set up and finished my preflight and they boarded Rove and his escort. The captain who had brought our plane in was still waiting on the airplane for a chance to meet him. He got Rove to sign an autograph and kept blathering about what a good Republican he was before finally leaving. As Rove was goign to his seat, he saw my book sitting out (Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey) and asked who was reading about game theory. I said that I was and he said I was obviously intelligent. He then started talking to his escorts about what I was reading and how I must be either a mathematician, a philosopher or both.
Eventually I think he figured out that I was not happy that he was on my airplane and stopped trying to talk to me. I later found out that he'd waved at Tom who was up in the flight deck as he boarded and Tom had just glared at him and shook his head. Unfortunately, because he had an armed escort I couldn't do much to him except, as he deplaned, say 'Fuck you.' Still, it's not often you get to say something like that to Karl Rove's face.
Two days ago I was getting ready to start the first flight of this trip. I got a call in the crew room from the ops center letting me know that our flight was going to be delayed because Karl Rove was going to be aboard and the Secret Service was having a hard time with the Armed Individual paperwork. I went and told Tom, the captain, about this and all he said was, 'Fuck, I hate Karl Rove!' I was kind of surprised by this as most Horizon pilots are very conservative.
We headed out to the plane which was parked as far as physically possible from the terminal. Parked maybe a hundred meters from our plane was another aircraft, a small turboprop from an airline I didn't recognise, and between the planes was a black car. There were men in trenchcoats swarming the area and TSA agents trying to screen them (why they were doing this outside I have no idea).
I got everything set up and finished my preflight and they boarded Rove and his escort. The captain who had brought our plane in was still waiting on the airplane for a chance to meet him. He got Rove to sign an autograph and kept blathering about what a good Republican he was before finally leaving. As Rove was goign to his seat, he saw my book sitting out (Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey) and asked who was reading about game theory. I said that I was and he said I was obviously intelligent. He then started talking to his escorts about what I was reading and how I must be either a mathematician, a philosopher or both.
Eventually I think he figured out that I was not happy that he was on my airplane and stopped trying to talk to me. I later found out that he'd waved at Tom who was up in the flight deck as he boarded and Tom had just glared at him and shook his head. Unfortunately, because he had an armed escort I couldn't do much to him except, as he deplaned, say 'Fuck you.' Still, it's not often you get to say something like that to Karl Rove's face.