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After an inflight seat mishap over the weekend, conservative provocateur Ann Coulter took her anger to social media with a series of tweets that Delta Airlines later said was a public attack on their employees and was unnecessary and unacceptable.

The incident began on Saturday when Coulter was bumped from what she said was her pre-booked and pre-paid for booked seat with extra room to another, less comfortable, seat on her flight from New York City to West Palm Beach Florida, according to NBC.

What followed was a barrage of over 30 tweets that included public insults to Delta, the flight attendants on her plane, the Wifi and the woman who was given Coulters original seat, in a tirade that has even poured late into Sunday night. Does your union hate you, @Delta? Not really worth spending all that money on planes when @Deltagate staff give your seat away, one tweet read.

Suck-ass @Deltaspends all this $$$ on beautiful aircraft & then hire Nurse Ratchets as flight attendants & gate agents, another read. She also berated the process in which Delta hires its employees.

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Delta tells Ann Coulter her insults are 'unacceptable'

NEW YORK (AP) Delta Air Lines has pushed back at Ann Coulter after the conservative commentator berated the carrier on Twitter over a changed seat assignment.

Coulter began tweeting about the episode Saturday in which she said the airline gave away an "extra room seat" she reserved before a flight from New York to Florida departed. Coulter had booked an aisle seat, but got a window seat.

She joked that Delta hires people who seek to be prison guards, animal handlers or East German police. She also tweeted a photo of a woman she said took the seat she booked and labeled her "dachshund-legged."

Delta responded to Coulter on Twitter on Sunday night that it was refunding her the extra $30 she paid for her preferred seat. It added that "your insults about our other customers and employees are unacceptable and unnecessary." In a separate statement on its website, the company called Coulter's comments "derogatory and slanderous."

Coulter was moved to a window seat at the time of boarding as the airline was "working to accommodate several passengers with seating requests," Delta said in the statement. Delta said that during some confusion over the assignments, a flight attendant asked everyone to move to the seats listed on their tickets. Coulter and the other passengers complied, according to the airline, and the flight departed.

Coulter continued her online rant against Delta on Monday.

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Delta tells Ann Coulter her insults are 'unacceptable' - SFGate

Delta fired back at conservative pundit Ann Coulter on Sunday for what the airline called an unacceptable and unnecessary series of tweets after she was denied the seat she had pre-booked on a Saturday flight.

Coulter went ballistic on social media after she was moved from the aisle seat on a flight from New York to Palm Beach, Florida, to a window seat in the same exit row.

Her new seat was in the same row, just not the exact seat she had selected, a Delta spokesperson told TheWrap.

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Delta pushed back at Ann Coulter after the conservative commentator berated the carrier on Twitter over a changed seat assignment for a July 15, 2017, flight from New York to West Palm Beach, Fla.

Delta pushed back at Ann Coulter after the conservative commentator berated the carrier on Twitter over a changed seat assignment for a July 15, 2017, flight from New York to West Palm Beach, Fla.

Ann Coulter.

Ann Coulter.

Delta Fires Back at Ann Coulter for Unacceptable Insults to Passengers, Crew

The commentator and best-selling author had tweeted a photo of the passenger who was seated in her pre-booked seat for an unexplained emergency and ripped the passenger in another tweet as the dachshund-legged woman.

The airline released a critical tweet to Coulter saying, your insults about our other customers and employees are unacceptable and unnecessary.

@AnnCoulter Additionally, your insults about our other customers and employees are unacceptable and unnecessary.

The six-foot-tall Coulter had booked an aisle seat for the extra legroom during the flight from New York to Palm Beach, Florida.

Hey @Delta, she tweeted on Saturday. You mind telling me why it was an emergency to move someone else into the seat I had carefully chosen in advance and booked?

And then Coulter persisted by tweeting a photo of the woman even though she was not to blame for the seat reassignment.

Just when you think it's safe to fly them again, the worst airline in America is STILL: @Delta

Does your union hate you, @Delta? Not really worth spending all that money on planes when @Delta gate staff give your seat away.

"Why are you taking me out of the extra room seat I specifically booked, @Delta?' Flight attendant: "I don't know. pic.twitter.com/a0M1faZXMu

.@Delta didnt give my extra room seat to an air marshall or tall person. Heres the woman given my PRE-BOOKED seat: pic.twitter.com/iDNB8xXXOd

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?

Also, @Delta, your wifi doesn't work -- probably to prevent passengers from tweeting from the plane about how they're being treated.

.@JetBlue has free wifi and doesn't wantonly remove passengers from their assigned seats, booked in advance FOR A REASON. @Delta sucks.

So glad I took time investigate the aircraft & PRE-BOOK a specific seat on @Delta, so some woman could waltz at the last min & take my seat.

But at least @Delta was nice @ it, summarily snatching my ticket from my hand & ordering me to move w/o explanation, compensation or apology

Suckiest @Delta moved me from my PRE-BOOKED SEAT & gave it to some woman, not elderly, child, or sick. I have pictures so dont lie, @Delta!

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Delta Fires Back at Ann Coulter for 'Unacceptable' Insults to Passengers, Crew - Chron.com

"We're sorry you did not receive the preferred seat you paid for and will refund your $30," the airline told Coulter on Twitter.

"Additionally, your insults about our other customers and employees are unacceptable and unnecessary," Delta said in a second tweet.

Delta appeared to have deleted its tweets after they were posted on Sunday afternoon, but not before they were shared thousands of times.

Coulter, one of America's best-known and most provocative pundits on the political right, ripped the airline with a series of tweets on Saturday and Sunday, saying she was "kicked out of a carefully pre-booked seat to a less desirable seat, without explanation, apology, etc".

She also directed her ire at the "dachshund-legged woman" who took her seat with extra leg room, posting a picture of her.

Coulter, who has 1.6 million followers, likened Delta employees to Nurse Ratched, the heartless villain in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", called Delta the "worst airline in America", and suggested the ideal job for a Delta employee would be prison guard, animal handler or an East German policeman.

The incident generated some social media sympathy from people dissatisfied with airline service, a topic that went viral in April when a man was dragged off a United flight to make room for a flight crew in transit.

But some of the sentiment turned on Coulter when Delta revealed that the upgrade she was denied was worth only $30.

"Only people like Ann Coulter could make one take the side of the airline. I will book my next flight with @Delta," said Twitter user Mark Curtis.

Delta representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Coulter responded on Twitter by saying she was still waiting for an explanation why her seat assignment was changed.

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Delta refunds $30 to Ann Coulter after her Twitter tirade - Bemidji Pioneer

In the event you spent this lovely summer weekend gleefully unplugged from the news distractions of the day, heres one story you may have missed.

It appears that political provocateur Ann Coulter was not pleased that she was booted from her extra-legroom assigned seat, and took to Twitter to complain to Delta Airlines. Coulter being Coulter, she did this in a manner that brought a lot of attention to her plight both negative and positive.

Well today Delta Airlines responded in kind with the following tweets:

The first addressed the issue:

But the second was a remarkably bold admonishment from a corporate social media feed:

Insulting others is unacceptable and unnecessaryif only our elected officials, aspiring politicians and opiniotainment professionals would pay heed to Deltas comments.

What a wonderful world we would see.

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