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1 of 1- Just Fred
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Hey, Ann! Get a Grip, Geez.
But what to make of Ann Coulter’s arrival to the battle?
Shortly after landing in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday, she launched a full-scale Twitter assault against Delta Air Lines — which had apparently bumped her from an aisle seat to a window seat in the same row.
It wasn’t the most obvious moral outrage. There were no lost teeth or passengers dragged by the wrists down the aisle. In fact, the whole dispute concerned a $30 seat upgrade, according to Delta, which has promised to refund Coulter for her inconvenience.
That hasn’t stopped her war. Digressing from her usual commentary on liberals and immigrants, Coulter kept tweeting about the incident all weekend, eventually comparing Delta to dictators and claiming the booking process cost $10,000 of her time.
Delta, meanwhile, has gone far beyond bland statements of contrition. It’s hitting back at Coulter and even claiming the moral high ground — accusing the polemicist of slandering its passengers and transgressing the “mutual civility” that we should all expect on board an airplane, even in this age.
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- tennyson
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Re: Hey, Ann! Get a Grip, Geez.
Oh, the horrors to have to move across the aisle. Coulter is a real piece of work.
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Re: Hey, Ann! Get a Grip, Geez.
Next time she flies, I hope she gets seated next to this passenger . . . If he/she really exists:
A story reported around the world of a man’s powerful flatulence prompting the evacuation of a Charlotte flight to Raleigh is apparently full of hot air.
Media outlets from the United Kingdom to India were reporting Sunday that an American Airlines flight had to be evacuated in Raleigh after other passengers became sick from smelling an ailing man’s gas.
Not true, say American Airline officials.
“The plane was not evacuated. (A) medical call came in for someone affected by an odor after the plane deplaned normally,” a Raleigh airport official said in an email to the Charlotte Observer.
An American Airlines official added: “We did take an aircraft out of service for a mechanical issue, an odor in the cabin...No ‘passed gas’ issue.”
The (Raleigh) News & Observer said the flight involved in the story was American flight 1927 from Charlotte to RDU. It arrived at the gate 2:21 p.m. Sunday, and there was an odor in the cabin that bothered some on board, the News & Observer reported.
WNCN-TV reported Sunday that passengers had to be evacuated from a flight at Raleigh-Durham International Airport after experiencing headaches and nausea spurred by a foul-smelling odor in the cabin. According to the station, a Raleigh-Durham spokesperson said the odor was from a passenger who “passed gas.”