{"id":19579,"date":"2013-02-14T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19579"},"modified":"2013-02-14T15:47:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:47:32","slug":"conservative-loon-refuses-to-board-airplane-with-black-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19579","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Loon Refuses To Board Airplane With Black Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentator and author <strong>Ann Coulter<\/strong> refused to stay on board a Miami to New York commercial airline flight after learning the pilot was a woman of African-American descent.<\/p>\n<p>According to witness reports <strong>Coulter<\/strong> was concerned the experienced, decorated pilot in question may have gained her position as a result of affirmative action and wasn&#8217;t fully qualified to fly.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began when <strong>Coulter<\/strong> boarded the American Airlines flight and took up her first class seat. After a trip to the bathroom, she noticed the pilot was a Black woman and became immediately distraught.<\/p>\n<p>According to passengers, at that point <strong>Coulter <\/strong>stood at the front of the cabin and began screaming her concerns to the entire flight as they finished boarding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aw come on people, a black woman flying a plane? You know she got that job through affirmative action. Am I the only one worried about this? I mean hello? Our lives are at stake here&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Realizing her efforts to provoke a mutiny had come to naught, <strong>Coulter<\/strong> then took her carry-on bags and bolted back up the jetway towards the gate against the orders of the flight attendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter refused to stay on board a Miami to New York commercial airline flight after learning the pilot was a woman of African-American descent. According to witness reports Coulter was concerned the experienced, decorated pilot in question may have gained her position as a result of affirmative action and wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}