{"id":10932,"date":"2017-11-18T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T02:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=10932"},"modified":"2024-09-11T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T21:02:07","slug":"trump-fans-rush-to-defend-tsa-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/trump-fans-rush-to-defend-tsa-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fans Rush to Defend TSA Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <strong>USA Today<\/strong> oped yesterday,\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/11\/17\/thanksgiving-travel-trumps-holiday-gift-more-invasive-airport-security-james-bovard-column\/871080001\/\">Th<\/a><span class=\"util-bar-comment-count\">a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/11\/17\/thanksgiving-travel-trumps-holiday-gift-more-invasive-airport-security-james-bovard-column\/871080001\/\">nksgi<\/a>v<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/11\/17\/thanksgiving-travel-trumps-holiday-gift-more-invasive-airport-security-james-bovard-column\/871080001\/\">ing travel: Trump&#8217;s holiday gift is more invasive airport security<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0 <\/span>enraged many Trump supporters and got me tagged as a pussy snowflake, part of the &#8220;HATE Trump agenda,&#8221; libtard, moron, \u00a0brain dead, clown, left wing bigot, dopey liberal, leftist loon,\u00a0and &#8220;leader of the idiots.&#8221; \u00a0It is surprising to see how many people&#8217;s devotion to the president leads them to absolve an agency that has long abused Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But the backlash at least balances out my record, since Tuesday&#8217;s article in <strong>The Hill<\/strong> (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/360368-do-trumps-liberal-critics-seem-increasingly-unhinged\">Do Trump&#8217;s liberal critics seem increasingly unhinged<\/a>?&#8221;) got me denounced &#8211; mostly by liberals and leftists &#8211; \u00a0as a\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/hysterical-reponses-to-anti-hysteria-op-ed\/\">\u00a0Nazi light ding dong, crypto-fascist, Russian agent,\u00a0moron,\u00a0 and &#8220;Trump cluck<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only point of agreement between the Trump supporters &amp; the angry liberals is that I am a &#8220;moron.&#8221;\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>I am accustomed to sparks flying after my articles are published.\u00a0 But I am surprised to see the scant concern\u00a0for the\u00a0decent Americans\u00a0victimized every day by TSA screeners.\u00a0<span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\"> My article discussed the case of Jenna McFarlane, a 56-year old teacher; a TSA agent told her \u201cto spread my legs wider\u201d and proceeded to \u201ctouch my vagina four times with the side of her hand,&#8221; as she formally\u00a0complained to TSA afterwards.\u00a0 Here was one appalling retort: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-jenna-ful-size.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10941\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-jenna-ful-size.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-jenna-ful-size.jpg 462w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-jenna-ful-size-150x49.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*********************<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-link-my-2-pieces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10942\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-link-my-2-pieces.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-link-my-2-pieces.jpg 497w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-link-my-2-pieces-150x73.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, <strong>USA Today<\/strong> has done far more to expose and oppose TSA abuses than has the editorial page of any other national newspaper. Here&#8217;s a link to an article I wrote for them in 2015 (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/06\/05\/tsa-failure-security-abuses-column\/28490923\/\">TSA Has No Excuse to Continue\u00a0the Groping<\/a>&#8220;)\u00a0and another in 2016 (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/03\/21\/tsa-full-body-scanners-patdowns-gitmo-fourth-amendment-privacy-column\/81779330\/\">My Too Intimate Relations with the TSA<\/a>&#8220;)<\/p>\n<p>The following comment was by far the most popular comment on the web page for the article &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-ignornat-liberals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10952\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-ignornat-liberals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-ignornat-liberals.jpg 493w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-ignornat-liberals-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And other comments that likely made their authors burst with pride &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-get-it-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10940\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-get-it-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-get-it-up.jpg 495w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-today-get-it-up-150x49.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><a 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https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-twitter-feckin-stupid-150x36.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-todya-new-new-trump-doing-grat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10970\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-todya-new-new-trump-doing-grat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-todya-new-new-trump-doing-grat.jpg 491w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jpb-usa-todya-new-new-trump-doing-grat-150x31.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My USA Today oped yesterday,\u00a0 &#8220;Thanksgiving travel: Trump&#8217;s holiday gift is more invasive airport security,&#8221;\u00a0 enraged many Trump supporters and got me tagged as a pussy snowflake, part of the &#8220;HATE Trump agenda,&#8221; libtard, moron, \u00a0brain dead, clown, left wing bigot, dopey liberal, leftist loon,\u00a0and &#8220;leader of the idiots.&#8221; \u00a0It is surprising to see how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1227,1228,1226,1225,708,76],"class_list":["post-10932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dopey-liberal","tag-leftist-loon","tag-libtard","tag-thoughtful-comments","tag-trump","tag-tsa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Fans Rush to Defend TSA Abuses - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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