[Cerek]

Originally posted by johnny: I have to agree with the overall sentiment here, why the "socialist" mentioning ? What's so special about this to bring that up ? Socialists aren't human ? They can't come up for themselves ? Would this article even be in the news if there wasn't a socialist involved ? Piece of crap article from a piece of crap journalist.

Neither of the two articles linked in the O.P. mentioned the passenger's "socialist" politics that I remember - or if they did, it was done in passing. So the event itself obviously IS newsworthy without the needless addition of the political affiliation.