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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Daily Currant: Ann Coulter Walks Out of Star Trek, Claims ‘Too Many Minorities’
http://dailycurrant.com/2013/05/16/ann-coulter-walks-out-of-star-trek-claims-too-many-minorities/In an interview on Sean Hannity's radio show today Coulter defended her actions saying that liberal Hollywood had lost touch with average Americans.
"Apparently in the future the liberals have extinguished all the white people," Coulter explained, "I mean they got a black girl running the communications, an Asian guy driving the ship and a pointy-eared alien doing pretty much everything else.
"I guess we're supposed to just accept that minorities will be the new majority. This isn't an entertainment film - it's nothing but a pro-Obama, multicultural piece of propaganda.
"And of course its not even realistic. Since when have black people been able to speak foreign languages? And shouldn't Sulu have crashed the ship into a quasar by now?"
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)n/t
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 22, 2021, 12:53 AM - Edit history (4)
The Onion and Andy Borowitz are the leaders, of course. The Currant's not in their league because they rely too much on cheap shots (Anthony Weiner: I Have A Hard-On For New York City) and just plain making stuff up (North Carolina Proposes Ban on Condoms). This article works because it spins a spoonful of inconvenient truth into a three-tiered cake with frosting. Most encouraging!rocktivity
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)Response to TalkingDog (Original post)
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tblue37
(64,979 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)n/t
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)Unfortunately, it and other satire and parody sites continue to dupe people into citing their "articles" as true - whenever they say nasty things about people we don't like. Don't be so credulous, people! Check out your sources.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)It may be more useful (and less preachy) to direct your admonition to "Check sources" to someone who has made that mistake.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)others responding to this OP and to other OPs on DU. The Daily Currant is cited as a real news source way too frequently.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)the Daily Currant got me. Congrats to them.
Jim__
(14,045 posts)I really don't believe she's that stupid. This is just an attempt to resurrect her character.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)railsback
(1,881 posts)LoL.
Coulter sure is a hard one to parody because she's always a parody.
Apophis
(1,407 posts)I know it is, but it wouldn't surprise me if she did say something like this.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)n/t
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Not funny. Not clever. Obvious as fuck. They should just quit.
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)Seriously.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)I just thought this was funny.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)A corollary of Poe's law is the reverse phenomenon: sincere fundamentalist beliefs being mistaken for a parody of that belief.