Cleveland Park Old Boys Club

Things sure were shaking over on the Cleveland Park Mens Club blog yesterday. Apparently one of their members (they all have cute names -- don't we all) called Capo recently took an airplane to Providence with his girlfriend, who was travelling (domestically?!) under an expired passport. Long story short, Capo's recap of events touched off a comment storm: 127 comments as of 11:45 a.m. today.

Some people laid into him for his actions at the security checkpoint. The Senator came to his defense, but then he got laid into. Capo made matters worse by defending himself in some questionable language, stating the following:

I grew up in South Florida. “Warrantless” searches were reserved for greasy
Colombians and other denizens of blow-producing South American counties, not you
or your grandma.

Now he's just called all citizens of Colombia greasy; or maybe he's talking about unbathed as opposed to bathed Colombians. Either way, he's also saying that all residents of drug-producing South American countries deserve the treatment that he so abhors. Maybe he didn't mean that. Maybe he meant only drug dealers should get shaken down (although this would imply a priori knowledge of drug dealers by TSA), and several posters rushed to his defense, mistakenly interpreting the comment as only applying to drug dealers. Unfortunately, my command of the English language doesn't allow me such a generous interpretation. Just like the San Francisco 49ers "training video" revealed a bit more than it should have about team culture, so too did yesterday.

Paging Dr. Freud.