Malicious, Spiteful, Unbearable, Intrusive, Obnoxious, Schumer

You can learn everything about an individual’s nature by observing how he acts toward customer service personnel. More specifically, anyone who aims unprovoked nastiness at a waiter or cab driver has inadvertently revealed himself to be at his core a crotch of a person.

That brings us to Gentleman Chuck Schumer. Conservatives of course find the New York senator’s excessively leftist politics distasteful. But those of all political beliefs should find him personally repugnant, too. His recent airplane hissy fit over his refusal to terminate a cell phone conversation at the attendant’s request shows why:

Schumer asked if he could finish his conversation. When the flight attendant said “no,” Schumer ended his call but continued to argue his case.

Just dropping it and politely complying apparently wasn’t an option for Mister Big Shot Second-Term Senator:

He said he was entitled to keep his phone on until the cabin door was closed. The flight attendant said he was obliged to turn it off whenever a flight attendant asked.”He argued with her about the rule,” the source said. “She said she doesn’t make the rules, she just follows them.”

But Schumer wasn’t finished embarrassing himself even after losing an argument with a lady doing her job. He just had to get catty while dragging his traveling companion into the morass:

When the flight attendant walked away, the witness says Schumer turned to (fellow New York Senator Kirsten) Gillibrand and uttered the B-word.

What a badass! Chuck Nasty failed his real-world personality trial by passively smearing a lady whose primary job is to accommodate travelers. Life seems disheartening when one ponders what, and whom, poor customer service representatives must tolerate to earn a check.

Further, the airline worker has bigger worries. Red State’s Moe Lane astutely points out that the airline employee “was merely a woman who wakes up every day wondering Is today the day that they try to use my workspace as a bomb again?” Schumer, whose job responsibilities include preserving our security, should know better than to exacerbate the staffer’s anxiety with confrontation and insults.

But the way he treated Gillibrand is just as appalling. It’s hard to imagine anyone with male plumbing so casually and offhandedly using the B-bomb to refer to a woman while talking to another woman. Actually, such imagining is only hard if one doesn’t know who Schumer is. The most disagreeable politician displayed remarkably nonchalant contempt for someone who happens to hold the same job title as him.

Out of politeness or protocol, Gillibrand found herself politely stewing after an elder politician acted spinelessly. Did she realize that forcing herself to not tell off someone like Schumer when he’s sorely asking for it would come with her appointment?

The unelected official already has numerous reasons to feel uncomfortable. For one, she may lose her job next year depending on what path Rudy chooses. Even worse, she has to work with her uncouth airplane buddy in the meantime.

Schumer is impressive in a perverse way: he treated two ladies like dirt by uttering only a single word. The genuine phony can brag all he wants about his dedication to women’s rights. But that commitment apparently doesn’t extend to actual individual women. There’s one thing better than apologizing after being caught: don’t be a boorish doofus in the first place.

Meanwhile, how would classy Charles react if someone made a similarly nasty comment about his wife or two daughters? He doesn’t seem like the type who would possess the nerve confront the offender. Instead, he’d call for legislation that would classify using the word “bitch” as a hate crime. Of course, he’d find a way to simultaneously exempt himself from prosecution. How else would he be able to talk about or converse with those whom he sees as beneath him?