The editor-in-chief of Mother Jones magazine was criticized on social media by colleagues in the industry after complaining about an Alaska Airlines flight attendant who wished his girlfriends a “blessed” night as they stepped off a plane in San Francisco. I encountered it.
After Clara Jeffrey posted critical comments about ”, he claimed.
Jeffrey then listed other adjectives for Alaska Airlines flight attendants, including “awesome, great, great, amazing, wonderful”.
“As my rowmate said, ‘This isn’t Montgomery, babe,'” the Lefty editor added in a post late Friday.
“How sad and poor is your life to be angry about someone congratulating you?” Thiessen asked before saying, “Get a grip.”
Social media users were quick to point out that Jeffrey has used the word “bless” to refer to himself in many of his past posts about X.
“GOD BLESS @rtraister,” Jeffrey posted a few days ago on September 22nd.
“God bless Nancy Pelosi,” the left-handed journalist posted in 2020, referring to a CNN article about the then-Speaker’s response to the Capitol riot.
The post was quickly shared and generated over 3 million views on X within hours.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign fundraiser also participated.
“With all due respect, I’m a pretty left-leaning person and I often wish everyone a happy day,” Armando Domarevsky offered. “That’s just a nice thing to say.”
Jeffrey countered: “It’s a matter of respect for the audience in front of you. Respecting their space, their norms, their wishes. The dominant culture always feels entitled to enforce its own norms and intentions. And …A far cry from the @AlaskaAir brand.”
Domarewski told her, “As a Catholic, I don’t believe that being publicly Christian is actually the dominant culture here in SF (lol).”
Blaze’s Jessica O’Donnell accused Jeffrey of having “bigger problems than a flight attendant’s wishes”.
“This is a bizarre and pretty indefensible overreaction,” said Jonah Goldberg, Dispatch editor-in-chief and LA Times columnist.
By late Saturday, the post had more than 20,000 comments and just 2,400 likes.
Kimberly Ross of the Washington Examiner also took issue with the post.
“This is not ‘creeping Christian nationalism,'” Ross wrote. “This is a person who shows kindness to others. It’s not aggressive. It’s not a call for religious conversion. The problem here is that when tagging an airline, a public complaint is required.” It’s time to deal with it as a problem.”
