John Forbes Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, while sitting in first-class, took off his mask today as he settled into his book moments before his American Airlines flight from Boston to Washington took off.
The so-called Climate Envoy was not eating, nor drinking, even though first-class passengers are often served before take-off.
In its Feb. 1 press release, “American Airlines Aligns Existing Mask Requirements with US Government Mandate,” the airline’s Chief Operating Officer David Seymour said American would fully comply with President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s mask regulations.
“Our mask requirement has been and will continue to be a critical component of our comprehensive effort to protect the health and well-being of our customers and team members during the pandemic,” said Seymour. “This federal mandate will provide additional support to our crew members who are working diligently to enforce our policy and further reinforce the safety of air travel during COVID-19.”
“As before, customers are required to wear masks for the duration of their journey, including at the airport and on board the aircraft. Children under the age of two will continue to be exempt from the mask requirement,” the release said. “Consistent with U.S. government directives, individuals who refuse to wear a mask may be denied boarding, removed from the aircraft or subject to penalties under federal law, in addition to being barred from future travel with American.”
In his March 11 address to the Nation, Biden said: “We need everyone to get vaccinated. We need everyone to keep washing their hands, stay socially distanced, and keep wearing the masks as recommended by the CDC.”
The Center for Disease Control issued a Jan. 29 order, under its authority from the Public Health Act, that became effective Feb. 2, which reads in part: “People must wear masks that cover both the mouth and nose when awaiting, boarding, traveling on, or disembarking public conveyances. People must also wear masks when entering or on the premises of a transportation hub in the United States.”
The order specifically rules out scarves, ski masks, balaclavas, or bandannas or even shirt or sweater collars, such as turtleneck collars pulled up over the mouth and nose.
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Neil W. McCabe is a Washington-based national political reporter for The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. In addition to the Star Newspaper, he has covered the White House, Capitol Hill and national politics for One America News, Breitbart, Human Events and Townhall. Before coming to Washington, he was a staff reporter for Boston’s Catholic paper, The Pilot, and the editor of two Boston-area community papers, The Somerville News and The Alewife. McCabe is a public affairs NCO in the Army Reserve and he deployed for 15 months to Iraq as a combat historian.
We are slowly slipping into 1984 type State, a Venezuelan reality and a Nazi-Fascist-Soviet cloud of professional politicians becoming a polit-buro for life … they are simply disgusting.
Why does anyone care. J Kerry is ver useless
Remember when John Kerry told everyone to wear a mask? Me neither, because he never did. If you want to shame Democrats for not wearing a mask, maybe find one who actually promoted wearing a mask.
Yeah, but he’s still a federal employee and as such, he has been mandated to wear one unless in an office with a door!! So the man needs to to comply.
Why isn’t Lurch on his private jet? Couldn’t be pressure from us lowlifes.
A little understanding, please. Lord Kerry needs to be maskless so he can chat up any and all rich widows who happen to be sitting near him in first class.
Wanna get away? His 2nd wifes’ first husbands trust fund must have been cut off… why would one of the beautiful people even think of flying with normal folk!
Oh, it’s to show off his redone chin, silly me…
to quote John Forbes Kerry, “can i get outa here now?”
The Tennessee Star story just made the Fox News with Brett Baier. Congratulations!
This guy is the biggest individual polluter in the USA. His hypocrisy know no bounds. His whole life is fake, starting with his fake military experience, and his fake global warming bullship. I’ll be glad to hear he is in a nursing home where he can’t harm anyone anymore.
Rules for thee. Not for me. Isn’t that the mantra of politicians?
I’m sick of this ketchup boy. Did anyone complain while on the plane? I would have. I would have told him myself. There’d be no mistaking what I said with my mask on. It would be heard, LOUD and clear. How dare this pissant do this and the airline allow it?
Just another “Do as I say, not as I do” Sh*tbag politician.
Why are people outraged? John Kerry, who served in Viet Nam, is not one of us peasants. The rules don’t apply to the democrat elite lunatics.
You mean the John Kerry who lied about his service record?
Lurch has always thought the rules don’t apply. Someone should break his face. Smug prick.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I heard the story on WRKO in Boston on the Howie Carr Show. Always good to see the locals following the rules they set for all the rest of us. This could be right out of the book Do as I say not as I do, profiles of liberal hypocrisy.
Thanks again, I saved this site and will check back more often now.
Like the man said years ago “some pigs are better than other pigs”!
Superior elitists don’t need masks. Now go do as we say, peasant.
what an enormous waste of taxpayers money this is. shameful.
go home kerry.
100% correct. If he can’t keep mask on like everybosy else, then President Biden should fire him.
And something of a waste of DNA…