Here's a new one. The airlines are trying to compel the CIA and FBI to testify in order to make the US government take on more culpability for 9/11. This is in an effort to protect themselves from lawsuits.
There must be some entity that scours legal case files to find that rare lawsuit where someone sues a McDonald's for getting fat. They must be hard to find, because I would bet most silly lawsuits get thrown out before even going before a judge. However, Somebody files papers to sue United Airlines because they missed a birthday party in Seattle, and it gets broadcast all over our journalistic world. Liberals and Conservatives, alike, deride the half-witted greed of frivilous lawsuits that are rare, and usually don't even get past the clerk.
Hold my hand and jump...
Why is it that corporate lawsuits (which constitute a preponderance of lawsuits filed in the U.S.) are never treated this way? When Fox sues some poor bastard for putting an unauthorized picture of Homer Simpson on his "I Love the Simpsons blog", this isn't held up throughout the media as an abuse of our legal system, and a sure sign that we all have to limit our rights as citizens by capping negligence awards. Here, we have an example of members of an industry that is awash in corporate welfare, actually suing the government to make the government more culpable for 9/11.
Can someone direct me to the nearest media outcry over the unpatriotic "blame-America-first" corporate welfare queen behavior? There are certainly enough TeeVee personalities out there to pounce on women who's husbands died in the WTC on 9/11, accusing them of being opportunists, happy their spouses were killed so that they could have a soap-box to scream their out-of-the-mainstream political beliefs to anyone who would listen. Why didn't Republican politicians introduce all kinds of tort reform when the NFL sued the CFL for naming their Baltimore franchise "The Colts"? Our tax dollars were wasted on two fattened, pig-like entities, awash in municiple money in the form of free sports stadiums, guaranteed TeeVee money, fighting like babies over a team name.
Crickets.