{"id":1126393,"date":"2021-12-16T19:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126393"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:15:34","slug":"exclusive-maxine-waters-goes-maskless-on-cross-country-united-flight-after-bumping-passenger-from-window-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-maxine-waters-goes-maskless-on-cross-country-united-flight-after-bumping-passenger-from-window-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Maxine Waters Goes Maskless On Cross-Country United Flight After Bumping Passenger From Window Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-maxine-waters-goes-maskless-on-cross-country-united-flight-after-bumping-passenger-from-window-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126393&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Talk about a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/e\/pop-culture\/mask-off\/\">mask off<\/a>\u201d moment for Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). Today, an anonymous tipster passed along an exclusive photo to The Daily Wire of one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/7-things-you-need-know-about-maxine-waters-besides-aaron-bandler\">most corrupt members<\/a> of Congress not wearing a mask aboard a United flight heading from Dulles Airport to Los Angeles International \u2014 despite the FAA mask mandate in place requiring all passengers to wear one due to COVID-19 precautions.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse for Aunty Maxine \u2014 as her fans call her \u2014 the senior Democratic representative bumped the tipster\u2019s boyfriend from his seat next to her for reasons unexplained. Meanwhile, flight attendants hounded other passengers consistently for not wearing their masks, even in-between bites of food. Flight attendants only asked Waters to pull up her mask once the tipster pointed out the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaxine had her mask off for at least an hour while she read her paper and took a nap,\u201d the source told The Daily Wire. \u201cAttendants brought her fresh coffee while she was napping and didn\u2019t say a thing as three of them walked past and saw Maxine reading and then sleeping while she remained maskless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, the source did not receive the same treatment from United Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy nose had bled pretty early into the flight, so I later on pulled my mask down below my nose to get some cooler air,\u201d she explained. \u201cWithin a few minutes, a flight attendant informed me I had to put my mask back on over my nose, the right way, immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source says she pointed in the direction of Waters, indicating that she wasn\u2019t wearing a mask as a form of protest.<\/p>\n<p>The flight attendant looked at Waters and said to the woman, \u201cOkay, but you need to put your mask on the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put the mask on \u2018the right way\u2019 after the flight attendant told Maxine to put her mask on,\u201d The Daily Wire\u2019s source added. \u201cMaxine had been napping. She did put the mask on after the attendant interrupted her sleep and told her to do so. I think she was startled by the rude awakening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source was able to snap a photo of Waters before she put her mask on:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319011\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_5399-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Daily Wire Exclusive Photo\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/12\/IMG_5399-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/12\/IMG_5399-324x576.jpg 324w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/12\/IMG_5399.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-319011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Daily Wire Exclusive Photo \u2013 Maxine Waters Maskless on United Flight<\/p>\n<p>Readers should remember that Waters has been one of the longest and most vocal advocates of masking in public settings.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2020, waters tweeted, \u201cTake a chance. Remind an unmasked person to put on a mask &amp; if they become angry, smile and say \u20186ft away\u2019 &amp; keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Take a chance. Remind an unmasked person to put on a mask &amp; if they become angry, smile and say \u201c6ft away\u201d &amp; keep going.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMaxineWaters\/status\/1250256237691678720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, Waters took it a step further and said that not wearing a mask in public was a threat to public safety. She slammed then-President Donald Trump as being a bad role model for being seen in public without the face-covering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is a dangerous example for children and those who tend to follow him. Not wearing a mask and not social distancing is dangerous,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cDo not follow his example. Protect yourself. Coronavirus kills! Maybe this ignoramus doesn\u2019t care, but you should care about yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump is a dangerous example for children and those who tend to follow him. Not wearing a mask and not social distancing is dangerous. Do not follow his example. Protect yourself. Coronavirus kills! Maybe this ignoramus doesn\u2019t care, but you should care about yourself!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMaxineWaters\/status\/1264748058979467271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She doubled down on that message in June of 2020, tweeting, \u201cTrump still refuses to wear a mask. Trump\u2019s FAILED leadership &amp; his unfortunate followers not wearing masks &amp; not social distancing is responsible for the growing infections, death, &amp; surge in <a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hashtag_click\">#coronavirus<\/a> cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump still refuses to wear a mask. Trump\u2019s FAILED leadership &amp; his unfortunate followers not wearing masks &amp; not social distancing is responsible for the growing infections, death, &amp; surge in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMaxineWaters\/status\/1277963281634713603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>None of these statements were forgotten by The Daily Wire\u2019s source, who slammed the congresswoman for her \u201crules-for-thee-but-not-for-me\u201d attitude. The passenger also expressed her dissatisfaction with United\u2019s customer service \u2014 or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injustice of being overlooked because we were not \u2018important\u2019 like Maxine, of being dismissed when my boyfriend tried to address the seat he paid for so that we could sit together, and then being roughly spoken to for having my own mask down a fraction of an inch when someone else, a well-known politician, just six feet away from me, was \u2018breaking\u2019 the required face masks on airlines was flabbergasting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlight attendants stay on you,\u201d the source said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about a \u201cmask off\u201d moment for Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). Today, an anonymous tipster passed along an exclusive photo to The Daily Wire of one of the most corrupt members of Congress not wearing a mask aboard a United flight heading from Dulles Airport to Los Angeles International \u2014 despite the FAA mask mandate in place requiring all passengers to wear one due to COVID-19 precautions.To make matters worse for Aunty Maxine \u2014 as her fans call her \u2014 the senior Democratic representative bumped the tipster\u2019s boyfriend from his seat next to her for reasons unexplained. Meanwhile, flight attendants hounded other passengers consistently for not wearing their masks, even in-between bites of food. Flight attendants only asked Waters to pull up her mask once the tipster pointed out the hypocrisy.\u201cMaxine had her mask off for at least an hour while she read her paper and took a nap,\u201d the source told The Daily Wire. \u201cAttendants brought her fresh coffee while she was napping and didn\u2019t say a thing as three of them walked past and saw Maxine reading and then sleeping while she remained maskless.\u201dBut, the source did not receive the same treatment from United Airlines.\u201cMy nose had bled pretty early into the flight, so I later on pulled my mask down below my nose to get some cooler air,\u201d she explained. \u201cWithin a few minutes, a flight attendant informed me I had to put my mask back on over my nose, the right way, immediately.\u201dThe source says she pointed in the direction of Waters, indicating that she wasn\u2019t wearing a mask as a form of protest.The flight attendant looked at Waters and said to the woman, \u201cOkay, but you need to put your mask on the right way.\u201d\u201cI put the mask on \u2018the right way\u2019 after the flight attendant told Maxine to put her mask on,\u201d The Daily Wire\u2019s source added. \u201cMaxine had been napping. She did put the mask on after the attendant interrupted her sleep and told her to do so. I think she was startled by the rude awakening.\u201dThe source was able to snap a photo of Waters before she put her mask on:The Daily Wire Exclusive Photo \u2013 Maxine Waters Maskless on United FlightReaders should remember that Waters has been one of the longest and most vocal advocates of masking in public settings.In April 2020, waters tweeted, \u201cTake a chance. Remind an unmasked person to put on a mask &#038; if they become angry, smile and say \u20186ft away\u2019 &#038; keep going.\u201dTake a chance. Remind an unmasked person to put on a mask &#038; if they become angry, smile and say \u201c6ft away\u201d &#038; keep going.\u2014 Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) April 15, 2020In May 2020, Waters took it a step further and said that not wearing a mask in public was a threat to public safety. She slammed then-President Donald Trump as being a bad role model for being seen in public without the face-covering.\u201cTrump is a dangerous example for children and those who tend to follow him. Not wearing a mask and not social distancing is dangerous,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cDo not follow his example. Protect yourself. Coronavirus kills! Maybe this ignoramus doesn\u2019t care, but you should care about yourself!\u201dTrump is a dangerous example for children and those who tend to follow him. Not wearing a mask and not social distancing is dangerous. Do not follow his example. Protect yourself. Coronavirus kills! Maybe this ignoramus doesn\u2019t care, but you should care about yourself!\u2014 Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) May 25, 2020She doubled down on that message in June of 2020, tweeting, \u201cTrump still refuses to wear a mask. Trump\u2019s FAILED leadership &#038; his unfortunate followers not wearing masks &#038; not social distancing is responsible for the growing infections, death, &#038; surge in #coronavirus cases.\u201dTrump still refuses to wear a mask. Trump\u2019s FAILED leadership &#038; his unfortunate followers not wearing masks &#038; not social distancing is responsible for the growing infections, death, &#038; surge in #coronavirus cases.\u2014 Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) June 30, 2020None of these statements were forgotten by The Daily Wire\u2019s source, who slammed the congresswoman for her \u201crules-for-thee-but-not-for-me\u201d attitude. The passenger also expressed her dissatisfaction with United\u2019s customer service \u2014 or lack thereof.\u201cThe injustice of being overlooked because we were not \u2018important\u2019 like Maxine, of being dismissed when my boyfriend tried to address the seat he paid for so that we could sit together, and then being roughly spoken to for having my own mask down a fraction of an inch when someone else, a well-known politician, just six feet away from me, was \u2018breaking\u2019 the required face masks on airlines was flabbergasting.\u201d\u201cFlight attendants stay on you,\u201d the source said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t put your mask on in between bites of food or sips of drink, they will ask you to, they state so at the start of their safety guidelines before the flight.\u201d\u201cBut none of them once bothered Maxine when she was maskless,\u201d she remarked. \u201cA politician who believes in masks, but only when others wear them for her. It\u2019s a double standard, but people seem to be blind to it.\u201dAs for her boyfriend not getting to sit in his original seat, the source said they were able to sit near each other, but that Waters was able to sit without anybody next to her at all.\u201cShe was in the window seat and in the middle seat was a sign that said the seat was \u2018out of service\u2019 and \u2018sorry for the inconvenience.\u2019 There was a young man in the aisle seat of that row who mid-flight agreed to switch seats with my boyfriend so the both of us could at least be across from each other.\u201dRecently, President Joe Biden extended the federal mask mandates for public transportation \u2014 such as airlines \u2014 into March of 2022.The Daily Wire reached out to Waters\u2019 office for comment but has not received one.The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.\u00a0 Join us in this fight by\u00a0signing our petition\u00a0to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}