Update: Southwest Grapples With Fallout From Ejection of Fat Film Director

"We would like to echo our tweets and again offer our heartfelt apologies to you."

February 16, 2010 at 10:43 am - KGO-TV
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Nobama   February 16th, 2010 - 11:23 am

I just got off a plane with a fat-ass like this jammed in the seat next to me – his “girth” overflowing into my personal space.

Solution is simple,
EITHER LOSE THE WEIGHT OR BUY TWO SEATS YOU CHEAP, FAT PIECE OF $#@$#.

mojo   February 16th, 2010 - 11:23 am

Hollywood is famous for humiliating people they don’t like.

Why shouldn’t Hollywood fatties get a does of their own? Suffer baby.

Doesn’t he know Michelle O is looking for him?

Mike   February 16th, 2010 - 11:24 am

I’m sorry, but if you are so big that you infringe on another persons seat, you need two seats. I applaud Southwest for their actions. You’re not being punished when asked to purchase two tickets. They are guaranteeing the comfort safety of the passengers around you. Weight challenged passengers should be given the window and middle seats so as not to impede the regress in case of an accident or incedent. Hopefully, Kevin is burning thousands of calories while twitting.

CommonSense   February 16th, 2010 - 11:32 am

Typical Liberal, Hollywood, Elitist whinning and crying just to get his way.
Hey Kevin, use some of this energy and effort of crying like a baby and whinning like a LIberal and do some sit up you fatty. His ego loves the fact that he can make a major company like SWA go it’s knees.
He’s basically spent the last 10 years trying to emulate Michael Moore in attitude and appearance……you should be so proud of yourself.

Aleck   February 16th, 2010 - 11:32 am

I see no problem with fat people buying two seats to fly….If they spill over into somebody else’s seat, that is unacceptable. You have to live with the decisions you make, and being fat is one of them…It is not fair to make other people uncomfortable because you want to eat yourself to death…same as smoking…if someone was smoking on the flight, they would be booted off….if someone is blocking other people from being able to get out of their seat, this could be very dangerous…Also, if the plane came to a sudden stop, the person in front of them could be crushed to death….Buying two seats wouldn’t help with this problem…A 5 or 600 lb person would definitely be a hazard to everybody’s health…

John Galt   February 16th, 2010 - 11:36 am

you ever sit next to a fat person on a plane? it makes a bad situation even worse. FAT PEOPLE LOSE WEIGHT. THE ISSUE HERE IS YOU ARE FAT AND YOUR FATNESS CAN AFFECT OTHERS

amyloo   February 16th, 2010 - 11:37 am

stop whining … lose some weight … I’m embarrassed for you!

CyniKal   February 16th, 2010 - 11:49 am

Airlines should charge by the pound.

After all…we’re just freight to them…

Lawrence   February 16th, 2010 - 12:00 pm

Now every fatass with a grudge against the airline industry will come out of the closet. Thanks, fatboy!

Grassy Knoll   February 16th, 2010 - 12:00 pm

Smith’s stature is that he is fat!Perhaps airlines should have a couple of “fat seats” at the rear of the planes.These double-wides would cost twice the regular fare and would be in the “no snack” zone!

JJ   February 16th, 2010 - 12:04 pm

Then lose some weight you fat tub.

Rexter   February 16th, 2010 - 12:08 pm

Please don’t pander to this trash-mouth man-child.

American   February 16th, 2010 - 12:18 pm

Southwest – do NOT back down or apologize – the people/customer should not want to have give up our rights to pacify the irresponsible fattys of the world – as a fatty, myself, I detest the fattys like smith and sympathize with customers on airplanes

Fatman   February 16th, 2010 - 12:18 pm

Wow. What a bunch of dingleberries. Do fat people really bother you people this much? Just Liberal fatties? Or if this were a Conservative fattie would you be rushing to his defense? I usually hear a lot of great conversation on these comment areas but this one is really confusing me…. I look forward to your scathing reviews of my post.

jones   February 16th, 2010 - 12:20 pm

Cool

Mike   February 16th, 2010 - 12:37 pm

Exercise, eat less, lose weight, no one wants to sit next to a person who’s fat spills over into their seat. I agree with plane’s captain.

Smith is a typical Hollywood liberal elitist. He is on a quest to look and act like Michael Moore.

Dwight   February 16th, 2010 - 12:38 pm

Kevin Smith is NOT a political entity. He doesn’t spout off with his political middle finger either in person or in his writing (and he writes a LOT more than movies. He’s one of the most sought-after comic book writers out there.) I’m not a fan of his, but that’s not germane.

He paid for two tickets.

He’s flying Southwest, not a private jet. Not first class. You can’t even give him props for flying economy class?

You all are way too harsh. Many in the comments forum have turned as wicked and classless as the HuffPo left and the Media Matters loons.

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CommonSense   February 16th, 2010 - 12:47 pm

“Grassy Knoll February 16th, 2010 – 12:00 pm” – AWESOME! Maybe a sign that says “Do not feed the bears”

Pitchfork   February 16th, 2010 - 12:48 pm

this dude is getting fatter by the second. the Airlines should charge “by-the-pound”…… i feel no pity for a fat ass rich guy.

ann   February 16th, 2010 - 12:49 pm

I am sorry but you have no right to bubble over into my seat. I have had hairy fat arms bubbling over into my seating area. You have no right to make my time on the plane a miserable and extremely uncomfortable experience because of your life choices. I applaud Southwest.

CommonSense   February 16th, 2010 - 1:07 pm

Hey Dwight,
“Many in the comments forum have turned as wicked and classless as the HuffPo left and the Media Matters loons.”

You bet your a.ss. I’m sick of trying to use ethics with anyone on the left. I’ve spun my wheels for years trying to debate on the facts. After years of being blindly disregarded by the left I’m at the point now that they can all bite me.

If I need to lower myself to a leftists level so I can bash the hell out of someone who is trying to kill my country – SO BE IT. Perhaps those on the left that have taken for granted our good graces over all of these years may start to wonder about the sleeping giant of a majority that is prepared to carry and swing our big sticks.

The time for calm and concise debate is over.

Travel Agent   February 16th, 2010 - 1:10 pm

Here are two very obvious options the ‘fat film director’ could have chosen (besides dieting):

1. DRIVE TO YOUR DESTINATION.
This is cheaper unless you’re addicted to drive-thru fats food restaurants (pun intended).

2. FLY FIRST CLASS.
This is more expensive but the seats are ’super-sized’. In fact, they double (quarterpounder) as flotation devices. Also, you’ll whined and dined to your heart attack’s content.

verbatim   February 16th, 2010 - 1:10 pm

As a (now) thin guy (who used to be fat), why should I be subjected to some fatty hanging over the armrest smashing me uncomfortably for a 3 or 4 or 5 hour flight. “Gravity challenged” people claim it’s not fair to them: well, I say it’s not fair to the rest of us, that you subject us to your weight.

Do what I did: Get a small salad, get off your a** and hit the treadmill.

Drop the poundage and you won’t have these problems. Don’t blame the airlines because you love Big Macs and an extra large shake.

steffy   February 16th, 2010 - 1:18 pm

Lose weight and then go away until people forget what you have tried to do here.

You are fat. Period. You take up two seats. Period. End of story.

steffy   February 16th, 2010 - 1:19 pm

You are really overweight. Lose weight. You take up two seats. Period.

Yiddish Steel   February 16th, 2010 - 1:22 pm

A “Coach Class” Seat has the same finite amount of space that it has had since 1964. It’s not the seats that have to change, it’s the behavior of the Rotunda Class that need to change. You have the right to gorge yourself to an obscenely obese size. You don’t have the right to assault my personal space with your obscenely obese size. Either lose weight or buy 2 seats!

Andy from Beaverton   February 16th, 2010 - 1:24 pm

How is it fair that he can buy the same clothes as myself, yet he gets three to four times as much material for the same price? Us healthy and fit people need to unite for price equality!

Don't Tread On Me   February 16th, 2010 - 1:25 pm

I heart SWA
Great business model, no-frills flights, always on time, great fares. The only airline I like to fly with. All others are undependable.

Go fly 1st class on some other bloated airline, bloated Kevin Smith.

Mel Shapiro   February 16th, 2010 - 1:25 pm

When I was a kid Mom and Dad took us to the circus. Walking down the midway we paid a dollar and went in to see the “World’s Fattest Man,” and “The Fat Lady” (as a bonus, I think she had a beard!). Today I don’t have to take my kids to the circus to see those folks; they can be seen at any grocery store, or on any airplane flight.

DA BEARRRS   February 16th, 2010 - 1:40 pm

The only fallout SWA, or anyone else for that matter, should be concerned with is when this pigboat goes one Twinkie over the tipping-point and goes critical mass.

It’s not like this guy is some poverty-stricken schmuck with a thyroid condition. He can easily afford to buy two seats, or fly First Class on a different airline.

Dave   February 16th, 2010 - 1:56 pm

Look if your so damn fat that it invades my seat. Then your the asshat, not southwest. I paid for my seat and I expect to be able to sit in it, and not have to share it with some douche bag has been director.

baal   February 16th, 2010 - 2:01 pm

I never realized that fat asses were a bunch of whiny liberals. I’ve never even heard the man speak about politics let alone come out swinging for big lefty issues. Then again, I don’t watch tv or go to the movies. It is both hilarious and pathetically sad that some of you folks commenting have made this a right vs. left issue. This is why I stopped voting R or D. You’re all friking RETARDED.

Rexter   February 16th, 2010 - 2:05 pm

Funny how whenever he has something to promote something like this happens….. Remember the drama about Joel Siegel?

brett kirschbaum   February 16th, 2010 - 2:12 pm

wow i am amazed at the number of people on here that are so raciest agaisnt fat or over weight people, you tell someone just to loose weight. Why don’t you tell the druggie just quit or the drinker or the smoker or the sex addict or any one of the 100 of other diagnosed problems of addiction. But when some one is over weight you assume it is by choice even throw the proof says food trigger the same area of the brain as Coke does for coke heads. So why don’t you step back and stop all the hate against the overweight. If they had pulled off any other person because of race, religion, sex every one would be all about protecting them, why wont you say that it is not right to pull off someone once they are on the plane, if weight is that big of an issue it should be handled at ticket counter or when they get boarding pass. It is rude and wrong to pull anyone of the plane and embarrass them like that famous or not left or right. I understand that it is uncomfortable for other to sit next to a large person but if the arms go down, and he can do his seat belt up then he fits, booth of which by the way did happen according to the interview of the lady he was sitting next to and also to his blog and tweets. So why if he fit the standard they have set do you pull him off the plane?

kmichaels   February 16th, 2010 - 2:24 pm

Just what we need, another class of picked on people. And now society should change everything and make special cases for “special people.”

How about special rules for fat gay black female celebrities. You know, like Oprah and Whoopi.

Toone Loddd   February 16th, 2010 - 2:44 pm

I heard he bought two tickets for a leter flight and changed his palns a got on a flight with ine seat left …

why sir did you buy two seats on the first flight and now complain about thison the second ???

loser!!!

the biggest loser is holding try-outs !

Dgleon   February 16th, 2010 - 2:44 pm

What exactly does Southwest Airlines have to grapple with? Their policy about wide flyers has been in place for 25 years. If you are too fat or too wide to fit properly in a seat, then you have to purchase two seats. Makes perfect sense to me.

I have no problem at all with overweight people so don’t go to the trouble of telling me that I am racist or picking on somebody. This is a common sense issue.

erp   February 16th, 2010 - 2:49 pm

I was called a rude name on another string because I took steps to block overflow fat from a couple of immense fatsos sitting on either side of me. It was a married couple who booked an aisle and window seat leaving the center seat for the unlucky traveler. They passed food across me and chattered as if I wasn’t there. When the window fatso got up, I moved over, jammed my bag against the seat and wouldn’t move no matter how much she screamed.

This was a while back. When I complained, the airline told me they couldn’t do anything about it.

I’m glad they can now.

Be as fat as you want folks, but just don’t expect the rest of us to suffer because you have no self control.

Kevin   February 16th, 2010 - 2:53 pm

Just as there is no “right” to healthcare, there is no “right” to fly.

DA BEARRRRS   February 16th, 2010 - 2:55 pm

Fat people cause earthquakes. Why do you think we have been having them so frequently and with such devastation?

VAT The Fat.

demdicks   February 16th, 2010 - 3:19 pm

Southwest – STAND UP AND STAND OUT!!!!!!
DO NOT APOLOGIZE!!!
Do not be like the Toyota execs who capitulated and could destroy itself by not coming out against obama motors and the uaw who started this witch hunt.

demdicks   February 16th, 2010 - 3:24 pm

Hey libs, answer this;
Why, when it comes to smoking (I don’t smoke BTW), why is it that your right to be “smoke free” supersedes the smoker’s right to light up?
By using your logic (pun intended), why does my right to sit in a plane seat unencumbered by a fat slob leaching their smelly rolls of fat over my seat area NOT superseded their right to be a fat slob in my “airspace”????????

demdicks   February 16th, 2010 - 3:27 pm

Why was my last comment deleted? There was NOTHING wrong with it. No cussing, all truth.

demdicks   February 16th, 2010 - 3:27 pm

Nevermind, it’s back…….for now:)

Misty   February 16th, 2010 - 3:29 pm

I urge everyone to fly Southwest whenever possible. Fat a$$es like this moron need to be kept off of planes unless they’re willing to buy two tickets.

speedy   February 16th, 2010 - 3:48 pm

you know how the police hang around bars at closing time! we need special fat police to hang around donut shops, mcdonalds, and burger king. these offenders need to be convicted and sent to fat prison until they meet the us government body mass index. repeat offenders will be executed and made into soap bars.

CJ   February 16th, 2010 - 4:53 pm

I’m MORE likely to fly SWA b/c they require large-sized folks to buy two seats. It’s just common sense. >>>> If SWA capitulates to those that whine the loudest, SWA will just cause the people sitting next to the large-sized folks to scream bloody murder. In other words, SWA can’t merely accommodate the large-sized whiners and think the problem will go away; they will just have exchanged one problem for another (with the result being fewer passengers . . . and then bankruptcy).

testicular man   February 16th, 2010 - 6:46 pm

REXTER: The only one you pander to is our trashed mouth man child president named Obama the Bamboozler!!!

pepito cojones   February 16th, 2010 - 6:53 pm

Hey, wait a tick! Let’s be fair. He did purchase two(2) seat on his original flight but ended up taking an earlier flight that only had 1 seat. Look, Southwestern has been making stupid judgement calls for years and then just end up apologizing after the fact. For example kicking out the women with too short of a skirt. And many other stupid judgement calls that they’re notorious for doing, leaving it up to the flight attendant to make the call, then eventually the captain. Look, screw Southwestern Airlines and their stupid flight attendant that think they’re comedians.

Just about everyone i know has a loving overweight relative. How would you like if if they were humiliated by freaking airline for Heaven’s Sake.

john   February 16th, 2010 - 7:13 pm

Kevin — lose weight and call back.

Alfie   February 16th, 2010 - 8:10 pm

Liberal Mouth Breather who smells like warm decaying swiss-cheese; just the dude I would like to have parked next to me on a flight.

steve   February 16th, 2010 - 8:18 pm

“EITHER LOSE THE WEIGHT OR BUY TWO SEATS YOU CHEAP, FAT PIECE”

He normally buys two so he doesn’t have to sit next to people like yourself.

steve   February 16th, 2010 - 8:21 pm

zPersonally I’d rather sit next to a large person than a Lib.

Speaking of which, did this become the Huffington Post for a second? Pick on the fat man. What’s worse a millionaire like him flying SW or a millionaire like Al Gore in a private jet?

nick o'jones   February 16th, 2010 - 8:28 pm

My GOD! What a bunch of hypocrites, all of you, that might be conservative and now you all have become a bunch of nannies, just like the liberals left wing hack nazis that we encounter everyday. Shame on any conservative that has posted anything negative of someone being overweight! Congrats, you’ve become part of the freaking nanny government we besmirch everyday, you hypocritical f***kers.

John   February 16th, 2010 - 9:03 pm

Nick O’Jones —

We’re allowed to make fun of this guy because he tried to hitch rides with Al Gore and Michael Moore on their private jets — but they couldn’t get off the ground.

.

Buster   February 16th, 2010 - 9:14 pm

Which didn’t fit in the seat, his head or his ass? I’m sure he’d be the last to know.

Piker   February 18th, 2010 - 7:03 am

I’d rather sit next to Kevin than Tarantino any day of the week…

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