Ann Coulter's Lost Delta Seat: After Close Analysis,

[MineralMan]

I finally figured out what happened. She didn't buy an extra seat. She booked a seat in an exit or bulkhead row so she could stretch her bony legs out. But why they gave her precious seat to someone else is simple:

1. She didn't show up at the airport in time.
2. If it's an exit row seat, you have to check in at the ticket counter to get your boarding pass, since they're required to confirm that you're physically able to operate the exit door.
3. There's a deadline. She, being the incredibly important person she is, always is late and shows up at the last minute.
4. Since darling Ann didn't check in on time, Delta assigned that seat to someone else who did show up on time.
5. Ann Coulter is one of those people who is always the last to board the plane. No standing in a line of stinky ordinary people. No crowding in the jetway for Ann. No. She waits until everyone has boarded and the departure gate people give the last call, and then saunters up and comes aboard.
6. Of course, her selected seat already has someone in it, and she has been assigned a middle seat between two odorous people who look suspiciously foreign. That will not do for Ann Coulter. Don't they know who she is?
7. Ann pitches a fit and insists that she get the seat she chose, despite showing up late and getting reassigned.
8. The very patient flight attendant explains politely that she needs to take her assigned seat, shut the hell up and fasten her seat belt so the plane can leave the gate. Ann Coulter is not amused and tries to throw her minuscule weight around. Flight attendant has had enough of that crap and insists that Pouty Ann take her seat.
9. Ann Counter tweets her frustration and disdain, along with a photo of the nice passenger who is sitting in "Ann's Seat," and is righteously mocked by one and all.
10. Poor Ann Coulter.

[Wounded Bear]

1. There you go again, using logic and rationality...

[MineralMan]

2. That's all I have left at my advanced age.

[exboyfil]

3. Probably something like that happened

I would leave out the pejoratives in the description like "bony legs".

I have to wonder what expectation of privacy that poor woman had who Coulter identified in the picture. Probably nothing legal, but you would think she Coulter could be shamed by that person going to the media.

Not as bad as the model taking a photo of a woman in a fitness room shower and mocking it, but moving along that line.

[MineralMan]

6. Ann Coulter has bony legs. They are a feature of her appearance.

I make no value judgment about them. I simply strive for accuracy in my prose.

[narnian60]

33. Hee hee.

[Charlotte Little]

40. The woman...

...is quite lovely. Many comments were made about her on Twitter, about both her beauty & her expression when looking at bony legged Coulter.

I personally would love it if that young woman became famous, if even for 15 minutes, just to show up Ann, who is a bitter, nasty, racist, ugly, vile bitch.

I stand by my pejoratives, by the way. I hate Ann Coulter and see her exactly as she is.

[FakeNoose]

4. Yes she really should get her own private jet

I'm surprised Roger Ailes didn't leave her one in his will.

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. and then crash it into Kelly Ann, then both have a near-death experience

in which Jesus tells them to stop being such nasty evil fucking turd people, then sends them back to their earthly bodies in perfect health but now with a soul and conscience and they start caring about people who aren't them and become activists for progressivism of all types, and do so without lying or obfuscating or using weasel-words or dehumanizing others.

[FakeNoose]

63. LOL exactly right!

[GreenEyedLefty]

5. Excellent.

I figured there was much more to the story.

My family and I flew on Delta for our vacation (returned yesterday). I hadn't flown since 2006 and noticed that the coach seats are much closer together (if you are 6' or taller, zero leg room) but overall it was as enjoyable an experience as it could have been. Smooth flight, professional and courteous flight crew, on time departures and arrivals. As a nervous flyer I loved having movies to watch.

[pangaia]

30. I have to say.. knock on wood..

my experiences flying Delta have been very good.... several times to Incheon through Detroit and Seattle/JFK, and Haneda through Minneapolis, several cities in USA..

And much to my surprise, on my last trip, although only to Huntsville, AL the gate counter folks actually had the same up to the second info as FLIGHT AWARE.... AND announced it !! A first for me...

thurs it's United to Lisbon.. wish me luck.. I do NOT have good luck connecting through Newark...

[Turbineguy]

7. What's she doing

flying in untermenschen class?

[MineralMan]

9. I think she has fallen on somewhat hard times.

Nobody is booking her on news shows any more. She's no longer the sharp-tongued pundit she once was, and has been replaced by others. First, it was Michelle Bachmann, whose nasal, whiny voice was more than a match for Coulter's acerbic wit. Now, however, we have Kellyanne Conway, who combines all of the features that Ann Coulter offered, but with a more current connection to realpolitik.

So, where's Anne's money coming from? Her books are out of print and her voice on the news is no longer sought after. She's fallen far from her earlier perch.

[physioex]

19. Even in her 'peak'....

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Her books were mostly bulk purchases, I could find them in the clearance isle literally for a $1.00. Much like the the rest of the RW media, she had her 10 minutes of fame until she was no longer of any use.

[pangaia]

31. WIT? Surely you wit....

[bedazzled]

43. She .can sell her palm beach state

Maybe move in with rush!

[Warpy]

49. Well, that explains why she's traveling cattle class

to the speaking engagements smaller and smaller corporations are paying smaller and smaller fees to her to do.

I always said that when her looks went, so would she. Oh, she's keeping up with the bleach and still living on cigarettes and alcohol instead of food, but it's all starting to show.

Age, the great leveler. She's not going to enjoy being ordinary.

[Hekate]

57. About her looks: bingo. She traded on them and a razor tongue, presenting as a sophisticate...

...projecting a certain sex-appeal -- none of which, frankly, I understood. However, when you are a woman, building a career around your appearance and mannerisms risks having a short half-life.

Couldn't happen to a creepier person.

[mercuryblues]

8. As important as

coulterguist thinks she is, why wasn't she flying 1st class?

[Lee-Lee]

10. I've never had to check in at the counter when I had an exit row

I flew to D.C. last month and had exit rows both times. When they scanned my boarding pass at the gate with everyone else they asked if I was performing the duties but that was as we were boarding. No extra check in at the counter at all, in fact that was the first time I talked to an airline employee that day.

[MineralMan]

11. Hmm. I always have to. That may vary among airlines.

The one I fly won't give you a boarding pass online if you're in an exit row. You have to show up at the ticket counter on the day of the flight. Other airlines might have different policies.

[Lee-Lee]

15. This was Delta

Checked in at the kiosk, electronic boarding pass all the way.

[pangaia]

32. me neither....although I usually get econ + on overseas flights...

[mn9driver]

12. Delta has several rows just behind first class called "Comfort Plus

These seats have more padding and about 3 inches more legroom. You also get free drinks and upgraded snacks. They cost about $60 more than coach, or maybe more since I haven't checked lately.

People can buy the upgrade at the gate or, on really full flights, and LGA-MIA usually is, coach passengers will get put there late in the boarding process. Coulter must have shown up at the last minute, after the agents had started the process of filling the unclaimed seats.

She got treated just like any other passenger who showed up late would get treated. This is what she was whining about.

[MineralMan]

14. Thanks. I haven't flown Delta for a while.

It's the late arrival thing, really, that is the problem, I guess. I can just imagine Ann Coulter and how she operates. I'll bet she hasn't ever been early for a flight. Poor, poor Ann...

[mn9driver]

17. Just read her twitter feed.

She was already in "her" seat when she was told she had to move. Delta doesn't do that. Something is being left out of her story.

And her tweet about how the "union" gate agents did this is hilarious. Delta gate agents do not have a union.

[pangaia]

34. I have flown Delta Comfort a lot...well. maybe a dozen times...

international flights are a good deal more than $60..

but domestic, yes maybe so...I never get the + seats for flights under 5 hours...

I'm doing United -Rochester, NY to Lisbon this thurs - the newark-Lisbon United PLUS is about $170 each way extra.. BUT I didn't book it until about 10 days ago....

just depends...

[Takket]

13. What's the matter Ann?

I thought regulations and consumer protections were just Nazi socialism. This is just free market corporate decision making. Isn't it a beautiful thing, Ann?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. She didn't book an extra seat, she booked an *extra room* seat.

For some reason she was asked to change seats, but she didn't have to change rows. Since she still would have been in an exit row, it's not clear whet the hissy fit was about. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedreed/2017/07/16/ann-coulter-angered-by-request-to-change-seats-but-new-seat-was-in-same-row-delta-says/#48f73ca97a69
And here is a series of delicious tweets about the incident: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ann-coulter-delta-twitter-rant_us_596ab84be4b0d6341fe95e07

[exboyfil]

27. Is it possible the bulkhead was staggered?

So the other side did not have the extra legroom.

I am simply speculating, but I wonder if a couple or the three traveling together were assigned those seats together moving Coulter to the other side of the aisle in a middle seat.

[defacto7]

52. Who would want the exit row anyway?

You can't recline the seats.
Then again if she had an exit seat she could be the first out to save herself and the hell with the rest. Would you was Ann C. to be in control of your escape route?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. Exit rows have more leg room, plus you can be one of the first out

if something goes wrong. But they are bad for long flights if you are hoping to nap because they don't recline. I once got stuck there on a red-eye, SEA-MSP, and I had a terrible stiff neck on arrival because I was leaning against the window trying to sleep.

[Sancho]

18. Given what we know about AC's "normal" sitting position, extra room would be wasted anyway?!

[hack89]

22. Wrong AC nt

[Sancho]

41. Oops...you're right

[tblue37]

28. That is Kellyann Conway, not Ann Coulter. nt

[brooklynite]

20. Sorry, but I'm going to pick this apart...

1. She didn't show up at the airport in time

Speculation

2. If it's an exit row seat, you have to check in at the ticket counter to get your boarding pass, since they're required to confirm that you're physically able to operate the exit door.

No, you don't. You'll be validated once on board and may be asked to move.

3. There's a deadline. She, being the incredibly important person she is, always is late and shows up at the last minute.

Speculation.

4. Since darling Ann didn't check in on time, Delta assigned that seat to someone else who did show up on time.

Ditto. For all you know, she checked in online 24 hours earlier.

5. Ann Coulter is one of those people who is always the last to board the plane. No standing in a line of stinky ordinary people. No crowding in the jetway for Ann. No. She waits until everyone has boarded and the departure gate people give the last call, and then saunters up and comes aboard.

Ditto. Many "important" people want to board first so as not to have to fight for luggage space.

6. Of course, her selected seat already has someone in it, and she has been assigned a middle seat between two odorous people who look suspiciously foreign. That will not do for Ann Coulter. Don't they know who she is?

Wrong. This is an Embraer jet with 2 + 2 seating (space btwn the women and the two men is the aisle.

Not disputing that she acted like a jerk, whatever the reason for moving her was (could have been load balance), but your explanation doesn't fit.

[HipChick]

21. Looks like she requested an exit seat...I have requested fellow passengers removed from Exit seats

From a physical perspective without going into detail, there was no way, they could have managed the requirements of being in those seats....
Now, as part of Delta's Medallion club, I can request extra leg room seats all I want, they are free to me, but does not mean I am going to get them..

[pnwmom]

56. That wasn't the issue. Delta says they gave her a seat in the same row she'd requested. n/t

[pnwmom]

23. She might have gotten there on time and still not gotten the seat.

When you prebook a seat, there is often an online message saying that the seat is NOT GUARANTEED, and that it must be confirmed. She probably assumed that she'd get it and didn't check to make sure she had.

This has happened to me -- being assigned a different seat than the one I requested. That's when I realized that my request wasn't confirmed. So it does happen.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. White upper economic class privileged snowflake.

She is definitely low class other than raw economic wealth.

[Snake Plissken]

25. Right wingers wake up whining, they spend their entire day looking for things to whine about and

and go to bed whining.

this particle episode happen to take place on an airplane.

Did I miss anything?

[SJMULE]

26. I had a not so similar experience on a flight

We ( brother and I) boarded a flight, my brother is 6'4" we sat in the row behind the bulkhead. I thought the exit row seat was empty
( I peered over the seat) but the row was filled a 70 ish elderly lady her frail husband and apparently the 90 year old mother/ in law. I quizzed the FA about the safety of having people in the exit row who did not have the capacity to manhandle the exit door in case of emergency. My complaint fell on deaf ears. Luckily we did not crash.

[Purrfessor]

29. You forgot the part where the flight attendant restrains poor Ann by...

twisting her into the inescapable shape of a pretzel and storing her in the overhead bin.

[lpbk2713]

35. The Privileged Class assume their privileges are automatic.

They are shocked and appalled when they don't get special treatment.

[Lyricalinklines]

36. Entitlement.

Bully. republican. inaccurate. Skews facts to fit a particular victim narrative. republican. Finger pointing.

[WoonTars]

37. Point 2 is incorrect.

They remind you when you purchase the tickets that they're exit rows and that there are certain specific restrictions that apply. They also go through an exit-row specific pre-flight announcement and require a verbal affirmation that you understand the requirements.

[BannonsLiver]

42. +1

I read it and thought "huh? What?", that's never been my experience with Delta (or any other airline for that matter).

[titaniumsalute]

38. I've never had to check in at the ticket counter for an exit row seat (which is nearly every flight)

I just click a box when I buy my ticket that says I fit all of the requirements. I'm sure her tardiness is what caused the problem. She's also an idiot.

[pnwmom]

55. They gave her a seat in the same row. They probably made the switch

in order to accommodate a family of 3 that wanted to sit together. (The people whose photo she took.)

And when people choose seats online there is often a disclaimer saying the particular seat isn't guaranteed and must be confirmed.

[IronLionZion]

39. Ann was feeling so oppressed she tweeted a pic of the woman who got the seat

The look on the woman's face is priceless

Link to tweet

[Igel]

44. It's worth looking at the picture

and seeing more than skin color. (Yesterday others were on the warpath, saying the real problem was that the replacement passenger was a person of color.)

Coulter's photographing from the window seat. Same row, so a lot of the OP can't be correct. She wanted an aisle seat.


Otherwise, we get really upset when it's somebody we empathize with that gets moved--whether in a plane or off the plane.

[miyazaki]

45. It's a habit for her being late. She was late to Adam Carolla's radio show

and he told the b*tch to get lost on air.

[cureautismnow]

47. Flying on an airplane?

She must have lost or misplaced her broom.

[struggle4progress]

48. This tragic tale is bringed tears to me rheumy old eyes

[Gothmog]

50. Coulter is not getting enough attention

She is having to complain about a non-white person getting her airplane seat to get attention

[rzemanfl]

51. Coulter has bony legs but we can't say Drump is f*t? Trust me, the vowel is not "i."

[Hekate]

58. Coulter is build like a dyspeptic Barbie doll, and yes, the Mad King has a bubble-butt...

...to go with his bubble-gut. They both look unhealthy as hell.

I said it. So sue me.

[rzemanfl]

59. This is sort of a thing between me and Mineral Man. Quite a while back he said

something to the effect that anyone who called Drumpf "fat" should have to post a full-length photo. For quite a while I responded to his posts by calling Drumpf "fat."

Why would I sue you for agreeing with me?

[Hekate]

60. Haha. I do agree with you...

But I have read a couple of lengthy aggrieved threads here saying that those of us who call Red Don "fat" are using it as a term of opprobrium that disrespects all persons of size, and that we are bad people and unworthy Democrats for doing so.

Hence my statement "So sue me," was really addressed to others, and not yourself.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

61. Sue me, too. I think she looks like a stick insect.

[flibbitygiblets]

62. Drumph comments on womens' appearance frequently, therefore I say we can comment on his

Generally it is in poor taste to comment on others' appearance, but when a hypocritical ass-hat, say, comments on the size of a beauty contestant, or the wife of a French president...when he himself is clearly obese...all bets are off, FATSO.

I would argue it's in the public interest to do so. Else we risk "Emperor Has No Clothes" syndrome, and we all know how that ended!

[Binkie The Clown]

54. She favors allowing capitalists to do any damn thing they want to their customers.

She's just not used to being on the receiving end of her favored policies.