Comments on: Privilege On The Hudson: First Class Gets Comfy Rafts, Peasant Class Forced Onto The Wings

By: FCKBECK

FCKBECK — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:58:27 +0000

Look, the Beck mutants discovered airplanes …precious.

By: Maher

Maher — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:33:47 +0000

That is some real shit class there

By: Green

Green — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:30:34 +0000

Everybody on that plane was upper class.

What person can afford $200 to get from one place to another who is in the bottom %99 of the world. By the way, anybody with internet(the system you are using to read this with) is filthy loaded compared to some of us who live on $1 a day.

By: Oh_Joy

Oh_Joy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:57:28 +0000

1 Way ticket into the Hudson: $1000
Standing on the Wing: $129
Sitting in the Escape-Tube: $763

Reading the comments here: Priceless!

By: SisterMorphine

SisterMorphine — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:07:55 +0000

God damn, a witty commentary *might* have fallen astray of reality and you lot respond with vitriol and bile.

Plus, even if Ames is wrong, these perplexing responses reek of the American disease: the inexplicable need to justify gross income disparity and obscene plutocracy, regardless of income or class status.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:58:55 +0000

did you cut the cheese with that whine?

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa nothing’s the same waaaaaaaaaaa

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:29:26 +0000

God Mark I’ll bet you miss Russia even more after reading these comments from well-fed american assholes. What the fuck is the matter with you people? Are you rich? No, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. Have you leared anything from this crisis? The rich are spending your bailout money on $150 Moldovan snapper and all you do is justify the rich getting a raft? This is why you yanks won’t weather this crisis. You trust the rich while you should be torching their homes with their crackhead kids inside. You still think the rich are generous and help the little guy. They’re not. They used to build, now they destroy, because they can. The Russians are smart: they trust nobody, so when they get screwed they are prepared. SOrry Mark this comment isn’t as good as the old Exile ones from the 90s.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:50:24 +0000

This ridiculous post is a sad decline from your previous excellent articles and interviews on the war in Georgia.

The “miracle” everyone refers to is the fact they all survived. As for your “21st century America” comment, 99% of the world’s airlines offer first class seating up front.

If you stick with facts and control your personal issues, you can write good articles and won’t make a fool of yourself.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:21:56 +0000

Hey, why is there no acknowledgment of the facts stated by various commenters, that the wing rafts/slides are simply submerged? I love this site and it sucks to see something that is obvious bullshit go unfixed.

By: Joe Blow

Joe Blow — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:11:29 +0000

I heard that they charged $763 to get in a raft but only $129.99 to get on the wing.

Jumping in the water was free.

By: goat_farmers_of_the_CIA

goat_farmers_of_the_CIA — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:55:20 +0000

Actually, there are jet seaplanes called Ground Effect Aircraft, or ekranoplans,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan
but they have drawbacks that keep them from being popular.

By: Truth

Truth — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:59:34 +0000

Man, I bet you feel really stupid now. Your jumpy conspiracy bullshit has worked its way round the net. Next time, engage brain before operating keyboard.

By: aleke

aleke — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:09:54 +0000

Either way, kill the rich

By: Dr. BlueVeinervich

Dr. BlueVeinervich — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:16:16 +0000

Yeah, typical Ames. Wish I had 1/100th of his talent, but instead, all I got is this comment section to post on. Oh well. Yo’ Mark, just want you to know that I’m a stalker, sort of like that woman in Misery. I have these delusions that you and I are so alike, and that you are actually influenced by me. Readers: I submitted an article to this chump (Ames)at the old ‘Exile’. He stole my content and idea for an article w/o so much as a kudo. Don’t believe me? Well fine then, fuck you. There are aliens watching me. And I know who was behind 9/11. Anyway I am still hanging around Moscow like a crusty old piece of shit, I never got anything going so what else can I do? Meanwhile, there’s Ames writing for Playboy, The Nation, having a BBC documentary filmed about his book…I’m going to kill myself now.

By: geo8rge

geo8rge — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:19:56 +0000

So why can’t jets land on the water? It would save alot of money on airports. Just equip them with skii thingies instead of wheels.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:37:02 +0000

The rich are more important cause they pay higher taxes???
Well in the civilised world yes, but this is the US of A we’re talking about, the land where the top 1% of the population owns 80% of the wealth and pays 1/10 of the taxes…
But no worries, trickle-down economics will save the day yet again.

By: Khaled

Khaled — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:11:26 +0000

Hehe Mark, admit it, you’re just disappointed it’s just a stupid accident and not a terrorist attack…

By: DocAmazing

DocAmazing — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:10:23 +0000

I’ll add that the above is obvious to everyone EXCEPT economy class losers.

And to those of us busy oiling up Madame Guillotine.

By: Dammerung

Dammerung — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:40:28 +0000

Who cares if he’s FACTUALLY wrong? Narratives remain long after FACTS have dried up and blown away. A good story will get you farther than trivial knowledge any day of the week. That’s what you plebs need to figure out and utilize.

By: Plamen Petkov

Plamen Petkov — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:28:32 +0000

sometimes it’s better to read http://english.pravda.ru instead