{"id":1712534,"date":"2022-10-26T18:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712534"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:18:41","slug":"biden-suggests-people-of-color-cant-afford-or-dont-know-how-to-choose-airplane-seats-with-more-legroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-suggests-people-of-color-cant-afford-or-dont-know-how-to-choose-airplane-seats-with-more-legroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Suggests \u2018People Of Color\u2019 Can\u2019t Afford Or Don\u2019t Know How To Choose Airplane Seats With More Legroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fbiden-suggests-people-of-color-cant-afford-or-dont-know-how-to-choose-airplane-seats-with-more-legroom%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=1712534&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>President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> appeared to suggest on Wednesday that airlines were engaging in racial discrimination when they charged a premium for seats with more legroom, saying that \u201cpeople of color\u201d were most impacted by the additional fees.<\/p>\n<p>The president was addressing what he referred to as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/26\/politics\/biden-bank-fees-speech\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">junk fees<\/a>\u201d \u2014 from concert ticket \u201cprocessing fees\u201d and additional booking fees tacked on by resorts and hotels to fees charged by airlines to guarantee a seat with a little more space between the purchased seat and the seat directly in front of it \u2014 and he argued that those fees disproportionately impacted those with lower income levels in addition to \u201cpeople of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden: &#8220;Some airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money but you don&#8217;t know it \u2026 these are junk fees, they&#8217;re unfair and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially \u2026 people of color.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CItQrOjaXP\">pic.twitter.com\/CItQrOjaXP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1585295101194108935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome airlines, if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money, but you don\u2019t know it until you purchase your ticket,\u201d Biden claimed. \u201cLook, folks, these are junk fees \u2013 they\u2019re unfair and they\u2019re hitting marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low-income folks and people of color. They benefit big corporations, not consumers, not working families. And that changes now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Red State Deputy Managing Editor Kira Davis was quick to call out the president for what she said looked to be the Democrats\u2019 new strategy. \u201cTell me the last thing you did \u2026 and add \u2018people of color hardest hit.\u2019 That seems to be the Democrat strategy these days \u2026 just tack on \u2018people of color\u2019 to any old statement. I just made a sandwich. #PeopleOfColorHardestHit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tell me the last thing you did\u2026and add &#8220;people of color hardest hit.&#8221; That seems to be the Democrat strategy these days\u2026just tack on &#8220;people of color&#8221; to any old statement. <br \/>I just made a sandwich. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeopleOfColorHardestHit?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeopleOfColorHardestHit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hOiNV8hh3u\">https:\/\/t.co\/hOiNV8hh3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kira (@RealKiraDavis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealKiraDavis\/status\/1585347914020188160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirline ticketing is now \u2018racist.\u2019 Easy for a dude to say who flies an Air Force 747-200 to Delaware every weekend. Has there ever been a more tone deaf president?\u201d Red State\u2019s Buzz Patterson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzPatterson\/status\/1585346703346978816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Biden saying people of color are all poor??\u201d @HodgeTwins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hodgetwins\/status\/1585335140686843904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a>. \u201cNever knew seats on an airplane were racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Review\u2019s Jim Geraghty added, \u201cLess than 2 weeks until the midterm elections, and the president of the United States is in Washington, talking about the amount of legroom on airlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Less than 2 weeks until the midterm elections, and the president of the United States is in Washington, talking about the amount of legroom on airlines. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2bfQKlK0wb\">https:\/\/t.co\/2bfQKlK0wb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgeraghty\/status\/1585334052277493762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it feels like @JoeBiden saw that old Eddie Murphy \u2018White Like Me\u2019 SNL skit and didn\u2019t realize it was satire,\u201d radio host KC O\u2019Dea <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KC_ODEA\/status\/1585314993226285056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs (former WWE wrestler Kane) joked, \u201cI have long felt that airline seating is extraordinarily unfair to oversized people such as myself and warrants Federal intervention. Thanks to @POTUS for giving this crucial issue the attention it deserves. (For those lacking a sense of humor, this is called sarcasm.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have long felt that airline seating is extraordinarily unfair to oversized people such as myself and warrants Federal intervention. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> for giving this crucial issue the attention it deserves. (For those lacking a sense of humor, this is called sarcasm) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yn3KPJo5yC\">https:\/\/t.co\/yn3KPJo5yC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Jacobs (@GlennJacobsTN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennJacobsTN\/status\/1585314153647919108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Americano Media\u2019s Emmanuel Rinc\u00f3n took a different approach and objected to the idea that Biden was essentially telling private businesses how they could and could not operate, tweeting, \u201cBiden now wants to tell private companies how to run their businesses. A politician should never have the power to interfere in executive decisions of companies (whether you agree or not), this is an abuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 | Biden ahora quiere decirle a las empresas privadas como manejar sus negocios. Un pol\u00edtico no deber\u00eda nunca tener la potestad de entrometerse en decisiones ejecutivas de las empresas (est\u00e9 usted de acuerdo o no), esto es un abuso de poder. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jl9SQHJZN7\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jl9SQHJZN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emmanuel Rinc\u00f3n (@EmmaRincon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaRincon\/status\/1585320834331295768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden appeared to suggest on Wednesday that airlines were engaging in racial discrimination when they charged a premium for seats with more legroom, saying that \u201cpeople of color\u201d were most impacted by the additional fees. The president was addressing what he referred to as \u201cjunk fees\u201d \u2014 from concert ticket \u201cprocessing fees\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712534","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}