Conservative commentator Ann Coulter slams Delta for switching her out of a pre-booked seat – NOLA.com

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, you see.

But so much for Coulter’s nuanced take on air travel. On Saturday (July 15), she declared “the worst airline in America” to be not United, but Delta Air Lines – which allegedly committed the offense of de-seating Ann Coulter.

Coulter didn’t just slam Delta for moving her from her “PRE-BOOKED seat” with extra leg room. She 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 Ann 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:”

And she even took 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.”

Also pictured are two other passengers staring at Coulter – perhaps wondering what will happen now that they have been photographed by a best-selling author and unpredictable commentator — the same woman 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 about when and where she was flying, and whether Delta had responded to her tweet-storm, and why she decided to photograph and publicize her co-flyer’s faces.

Delta didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

A Delta spokesman told the Associated Press that the airline was reaching out to Coulter.

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 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.”

Coulter offered this advice at the time:

If the only way you can get someplace is on Delta, don’t go.

– Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 10, 2013

 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.

Other airlines don’t seem to inspire the same invective. Coulter had a brief Twitter spasm on a JetBlue flight in late 2015 – “BECAUSE THE CAPTAIN HASN’T ARRIVED YET. Now, we have to worry about him flying drunk.”

But a few weeks later she posted a picture of herself smiling docilely with “a JetBlue pilot who’s always on time.”

And midway through Saturday’s rant about her Delta trip, Coulter digressed to plug JetBlue’s free WiFi.

Even non-famous people’s airplane disaster stories have been making national news lately, so obviously Coulter’s 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 couldn’t help but remember what she’d said about that United passenger, back when he found himself in similar circumstances – plus getting dragged down a plane aisle with a bloody nose.

– Avi Selk, Associated Press

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter slams Delta for switching her out of a pre-booked seat – NOLA.com