United Airlines stock continued to plummet yesterday after a passenger was violently removed from his seat after refusing to give it up.

The whole incident was caught on camera - complete with screaming passengers and bloody noses - and it's rapidly turned into a public relations disaster for an already struggling airline.

But the startling images out of Chicago's O'Hare airport are an example of more than just of how not to handle bad press.

They're also a very instructive - if very violent - example of what happens when you double down on de-regulation.

I see a bright line from Carter and Reagan deregulating the airlines to what happened United Airlines Flight 3411 and the PR disaster that's followed.

-Thom

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Hour One: Townhalls and Issues of the Day
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)    

Article: "Hill negotiators hope to avoid government shutdown" by CNN.

Article: "Will Congress celebrate Trump's 100th day in office with a government shutdown?" by Jeanne Sahadi.

Article: "Pocan, Amash Invoke War Powers as Trump Mulls Pushing Yemen Into Famine" by Robert Naiman.

Article: "Acting on Instinct, Trump Upends His Own Foreign Policy" by Mark Landler.

Article: "0-to-strike in 6 days: Trump's snap decision on Syria should worry US" by Emma Ashford.

Article: "Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville" by Lucas Aulbach.

Site: "Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus".

Article: "Gerrymandering" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Obamas Unveil New Endeavor, Launch Website on Inauguration Day" by Sarah Ahern.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8. "...To declare War..."

Article: "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" (CFPB) by Wikipedia.

Law: "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act", 2010.

Bill: "H.R.1374 - Arbitration Fairness Act of 2017" by Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4].

Bill: "S.537 - Arbitration Fairness Act of 2017" by Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN].

Article: "Donald Trump bars BBC, CNN and New York Times from media briefing as White House press war escalates" by Barney Henderson.

Article: "Benjamin B. Ferencz" by Wikipedia.

TV: "Dead Reckoning".

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "Trump on North Korea: 'We Are Sending an Armada'".

Article: "Kansas election: Republicans mull narrow win in deep red state" by BBC.

Article: "Jeff Sessions, under oath, said he didn't communicate with Russians. A new report says he did." by German Lopez.

Article: "Donald Trump's weekend Mar-a-Lago getaways 'cost taxpayers $3 million'" by Will Worley.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.

Article: "What to Do About Trump? The Same Thing My Grandfather Did in 1930s Vienna." by Liel Leibovitz, November 14, 2016.

Article: "WATCH: Sean Spicer Says Hitler Didn't 'Sink to Using Chemical Weapons'" by Daniel S. Levine.

Article: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. THIS WAS ON PAGE 1!" by Snarkoleptic.

Article: "Gorsuch will make liberals miss Scalia" by Ian Millhiser.

 

United Airlines' Debacle...What We Can Learn from Canada's Response
- Charles Sauer, The Market Institute    

Article: "Rules On Airlines Bumping Passengers Coming This Spring: Garneau" by Ross Marowits.

Article: "United Airlines Promised Federal Regulators That All Ticketed Passengers Are Guaranteed Seats" by David Sirota.

Article: "Civil Aeronautics Board" by Wikipedia.

 

Talk Media News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief 

Article: "Trump Exclusive: We're Not Going Into Syria" by Matthew Kazin.

Article: "United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254", 18 December 2015.

Article: "UN Ready for New Round of Inter-Syrian Talks Despite Tensions" by Prensa Latina.

Book: Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes.

Article: "Tillerson and Putin Find Little More Than Disagreement in Meeting" by David E. Sanger.

Article: "United Airlines Cites Wrong Rule For Illegally De-Boarding Passenger" by John Banzhaf.

Article: "China rejects North Korean coal shipments, opts for US supplies instead" by FoxNews.com.

Article: "National Republicans pour last-minute money into Estes-Thompson race" by Dion Lefler.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "April 6, 2017: The 100th Anniversary of the American Entry into World War I" by ABMC.

Article: "Trump says US ready to solve N Korea 'problem' without China" by AFP.

Article: "Betsy DeVos undoes Obama's student loan protections" by Danielle Douglas-Gabriel.

Site: Indivisible.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Book: Inside The Gates: The Nazi Concentration Camp at Ebensee, Austria by Dr. Richard Macdonald.

Case: "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan" (1964, established the actual malice standard for considering press reports about public officials as defamation and libel).

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886

Article: "Lavrov: Russia Has Questions About Ambiguous US Policies" by Luis Ramirez.

Article: "Apr 12 Congressman Markwayne Mullin's Sequoyah County Town Hall".

Bill: "H.R.676 - Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act" by John Conyers.

Article: "Pledge of Allegiance" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Student Loan Protections" by Ryan Kilpatrick.

Video: President Bush Axis of Evil Speech.

Article: "Honduras" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kentucky Coal Museum installs solar panels because it will save money" by Travis M Andrews.

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