Back when nearly everyone else on the planet seemedoutraged at United Airlines over the violentde-seating of a paying passenger, Ann Coulter, as she so often does, shared her own unique take.
Sorry about the dragging, she wrote in April. But convicted pill-mill doctor should be deported.
The bloodied passenger had a criminal history and immigratedfrom Vietnam, you see.
But somuch for Coulters nuanced take on air travel. On Saturday, shedeclared the worst airline in America to be not United, but Delta Air Lines which allegedlycommitted the offense of de-seating Ann Coulter.
[A belligerent man in a Trump hat was kicked off a flight as a crowd chanted: Lock him up!]
Coulterdidnt just slam Delta for movingher from her PRE-BOOKED seat with extra leg room (to another seat in the same row, according to the airline). She also documented the experience in photos and tweet after tweet, which she shared with her 1.6 million followers, not to mentionthe wider spectrum of people fascinated by things Ann Coulter does.
So here is a member of theflight crewaccused of summarily snatching my ticket from my hand & ordering me to move w/o explanation, compensation or apology:
Coulter also sharedaphoto ofthe womanwho waltz[ed in] at the last min and took herseat, even though she is not elderly, child or sick,nor an air marshal or tall person.
That woman andtwo other passengers stareat Coulter in the photo perhaps wondering what will happen now that they have been photographed by the same unpredictable commentatorwho oncewished assassination upon John Edwards, declinedto condemn an abortion doctors murderand joked about poisoning a Supreme Court justice.
Not pictured: Deltas fritzy WiFi, which Coulter suspected was intentionally brokento prevent passengers from tweeting from the plane about how theyre being treated.
Coulter didnt immediately reply to questions, including why she decided to photograph and publicize her co-flyers faces.
It appears her new seat was in the same row, just not the exact seat she had selected, a Delta spokesman wrote to The Washington Post.
It was an exit row seat (has extra leg room), he wrote. She was moved from an aisle to a window. Same space, a few seats over.
Regardless, the spokesman saidthe airline would reach out to Coulterabout her concerns on the New York-to-Florida flight.
A Delta spokesman told the Associated Press that the airline was reaching out toCoulter.
When it does reach her,they may have a lot to talk about.
Coulter has been an unhappy customer since at least 2010, when she wrote that her Delta flight to Portland gotdisrupted and that the ticketing agent she spokewithdeserves to be the worst employee multiple award-winner.
A few years later, she wrote that she paid $1,500 for a ticket near someone who smells like a NYC cabdriver. At least she hadWiFi but no electrical outlets on the plane. Like a soda fountain without cups. #Deltasucks.
Coulter offered this advice at the time:
But she apparently didnt take it, as she would keep flyingDelta and complaining about Delta in subsequent years, up tothis weekends Twitter eruption.
Other airlines dont seem to inspire the same invective. Coulter had a brief Twitter spasm on a JetBlue flight in late 2015 BECAUSE THE CAPTAIN HASNT ARRIVED YET. Now, we have to worry about him flying drunk.
But a few weekslater she posted a picture of herself smiling docilely with a JetBlue pilot whos always on time.
[A professor said a soldiers free plane seat made him want to vomit. A Navy SEAL says this.]
And midway through Saturdays rant about her Delta trip, Coulter digressed to plug JetBlues free WiFi.
Even non-famous peoples airplane disaster stories have been making national news lately (ahem), so obviously Coulters account has drawn quite a lot of attention if not always sympathy for the celebrity.
HuffPost accused her of seat-shaming the woman who took her extra leg room, for instance.
And some people couldnt help but rememberwhat shed said about that United passenger, back when he found himselfin similar circumstances plus getting dragged down a plane aisle with a bloody nose.
This article has been updated.
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Ann Coulter had to switch seats on a Delta flight. Then came the tirade. - Washington Post