Ann Coulter really has it in for Delta Airlines
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Author and pundit Ann Coulter has launched a one-sided war against Delta Airlines after the company allegedly seated another passenger in an "extra room" seat Coulter reserved in advance. It started Saturday evening, when Coulter tweeted a picture of the woman looking decidedly unamused:
The tweets continued into Saturday night...
...and Sunday morning...
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...and Sunday afternoon...
...and as of this writing, she's still going strong, working in Delta mentions to unrelated posts:
The Delta Twitter account replied to some of the earliest tweets, extending an apology and asking Coulter to share more about what happened in a private message so the situation could be investigated. "It appears her new seat was in the same row, just not the exact seat she had selected," the company said in a statement Sunday. "We are aware of the customer's comment, and reaching out directly to her to address the complaint."
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
