Chicago Sun-Times to Kevin Smith: You Are Fat

So the no-frills egalitarian airline, Southwest in its infinite level playing field wisdom booted off director Kevin Smith because he only bought one ticket and his butt takes up the space of more than that. He gets asked to leave the flight and then tweets up a tantrum on Twitter.

Smith writes:

Dude… THEY THREW ME OFF WITHOUT PROPER CAUSE. I passed their stupid test and still, they pulled me. But fuck’em: I flew home in ONE seat (even though I had two), with the arm rest down, just to prove a point

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Anyway, it took the full-figured Chicago Sun-Times today to put a smack down on the director:

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