{"id":11739,"date":"2024-09-30T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:00:48","slug":"journalist-faces-heat-after-complaining-about-a-flight-attendant-wishing-a-blessed-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2024\/09\/journalist-faces-heat-after-complaining-about-a-flight-attendant-wishing-a-blessed-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Faces Heat After Complaining About a Flight Attendant Wishing a \u201cblessed night\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11742\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11742\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2024\/09\/blessed-alaska-airlines_credit-IanDewarPhotography-stock.adobe_.com_Inset-Moyers-Company-Youtube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IanDewarPhotography &#8211; stock.adobe.com | Inset: Moyers &amp; Company \/ Youtube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Left and Right leaning commentators found a rare moment of agreement after a liberal journalist made a comment that both sides are calling \u201cpetty.\u201d Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of the leftist journal <em>Mother Jones<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/28\/us-news\/clara-jeffery-slammed-for-calling-flight-attendant-wishing-her-blessed-night-christian-nationalism\/\">complained<\/a> about a flight attendant on a recent Alaskan Airlines flight wishing passengers a \u201cblessed\u201d night. \u201cCreeping Christian nationalism alert,\u201d wrote Jeffery in a now-deleted post. \u201c@AlaskaAir flight attendant just wished us a \u2018blessed\u2019 night as we landed in SFO (!) to groans. Other adjectives that would have sufficed: great, awesome, fabulous, amazing, fantastic\u2026\u201d she lamented. \u201cAs my rowmate said, \u2018this ain\u2019t Montgomery, sweetie.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post quickly went viral on X, receiving over 4 million impressions in just 12 hours. Marc Thiessen of the <em>Washington Post<\/em> snapped back at Jeffery, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marcthiessen\/status\/1840028500427698234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1840028500427698234%7Ctwgr%5E219c8f9554e22ea22eda93bf7c3e8549c26619ff%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fliberal-journalist-ripped-complaining-about-flight-attendant-wishing-her-blessed-night-grow-up\">writing<\/a>, \u201cHow sad and impoverished is your life that you\u2019re offended by someone blessing you? Get a grip.\u201d \u201cFrom start to finish, this tweet is art,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1840093761164193954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1840093761164193954%7Ctwgr%5Eca851feec697284904b1e6e16b8e2341f8f967ff%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fnews%2Fweirdo-mother-jones-editor-roasted-after-claiming-flight-attendant-wishing-her-a-blessed-day-was-sign-of-creeping-christian-nationalism%2F\">wrote<\/a> journalist Glenn Greenwald. \u201cPut it in the encyclopedia under \u2018affluent white coastal American liberalism\u2019 and no other text will be required.\u201d Liberal activist Armand Domalewski responded to the tweet writing, \u201cRespectfully, I&#8217;m a pretty left leaning guy and I wish folks a blessed day fairly often. It&#8217;s just a nice thing to say.\u201d Jeffrey stated she perceived it as a dominance move. \u201c&#8217;Eh. It&#8217;s a matter of respect for the audience before you,\u201d she wrote. \u201cRespecting their space and norms and wishes. Dominant cultures always feel they have a right to enforce their norms and intents.\u201d Domalewski noted, however, that as a practicing Catholic, he certainly did not believe that Christianity was the dominant culture in places like San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Others were quick to point out that Jeffery has used some form of \u201cblessed\u201d in many of her own posts. \u201cIf \u00a0@ClaraJeffery thinks telling people to be blessed is creeping Christian Nationalism, then she may be one of its biggest proponents,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/A9Collective\/status\/1840126805002379771\">wrote<\/a> the A9 Collective, a group of \u201cantifascists\u201d that focus on faith issues. The post featured a number of Jeffery\u2019s own remarks, blessing nurses during the pandemic, Nancy Pelosi, and celebrities such as Diane Keaton. She had also used the phrase \u201cGod bless,\u201d just a couple of days before her critical tweet. Several users remarked by asking Jeffery what she says when people sneeze or how she feels when being told \u201cGod bless you\u201d after a sneeze. Another user pointed out that Jeffery was making other progressives look bad. \u201cEditor of Mother Jones providing another great example of why normies hate progressives,\u201d wrote the user, J Valentine. \u201cBeing &#8216;progressive&#8217; is often just an excuse for being an insufferable jerk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left and Right leaning commentators found a rare moment of agreement after a liberal journalist made a comment that both sides are calling \u201cpetty.\u201d Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of the leftist journal Mother Jones complained about a flight attendant on a recent Alaskan Airlines flight wishing passengers a \u201cblessed\u201d night. \u201cCreeping Christian nationalism alert,\u201d 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