Back when nearly everyone else on the planet seemed outraged at United Airlines over the violent de-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 immigrated from Vietnam.
But so much for Coulter’s nuanced take on air travel. On Saturday, she declared “the worst airline in America” to be not United, but Delta Air Lines – which allegedly committed the offense of de-seating Coulter.
Coulter didn’t just slam Delta for moving her 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 mention the wider spectrum of people fascinated by things Coulter does.
So here is a member of the flight crew accused of “summarily snatching my ticket from my hand & ordering me to move w/o explanation, compensation or apology:”
“Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked, @Delta?’ Flight attendant: “I don’t know.”
Ann Coulter
(@AnnCoulter) July 15, 2017
Coulter also shared a photo of the woman who “waltz[ed in] at the last min” and took her seat, even though she is not “elderly, child or sick,” nor “an air marshal or tall person.”
That woman and two other passengers stare at Coulter in the photo – perhaps wondering what will happen now that they have been photographed by the same unpredictable commentator who once wished assassination upon John Edwards, declined to condemn an abortion doctor’s murder and joked about poisoning a Supreme Court justice.
Not pictured: Delta’s fritzy WiFi, which Coulter suspected was intentionally broken “to prevent passengers from tweeting from the plane about how they’re being treated.”
Coulter didn’t immediately reply to questions, including why she decided to photograph and publicize her co-flyer’s 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 said the airline would reach out to Coulter about her concerns on the New York-to-Florida flight.
Hey @Delta, you mind telling me why it was an “emergency” to move someone else into the seat I had carefully chosen in advance and booked?
Ann Coulter
(@AnnCoulter) July 15, 2017
The airline issued a statement in response to “Coulter’s insults” late Sunday. It also posted two messages for Coulter on Twitter. One said: “We’re sorry you did not receive the preferred seat you paid for and will refund you $30.”
The other message said: “Additionally, your insults about our other customers and employees are unacceptable and unnecessary.”
Coulter has been an unhappy customer since at least 2010, when she wrote that her Delta flight to Portland got disrupted and that the ticketing agent she spoke with “deserves 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 had WiFi – “but no electrical outlets on the plane. Like a soda fountain without cups. #Deltasucks.”
At the time, Coulter offered this advice at the time:
If the only way you can get someplace is on Delta, don’t go.
But she apparently didn’t take it, as she would keep flying Delta and complaining about Delta in subsequent years, up to this weekend’s Twitter eruption.