No, Ann Coulter Did NOT Refuse To Board A Plane Because Pilot Was Black

Oh, Daily Currant, you’ve done it again.

Last time we wrote about the parody site’s articles being taken seriously, it was when Bill O’Reilly “reportedly” (read: it was a parody) got into a fight with a mall Santa over the red-suited man’s wishing him a “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.”

Despite being well-known as a parody site, many people still regularly fall for the Currant’s style of Onion-like satire. And this week’s article on Ann Coulter “refusing to board a plane with black pilot” was no exception.

“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,” the parody site wrote that Coulter screamed to her fellow passengers upon learning the color of the pilot’s skin.

Other goofball jokes that should make it OBVIOUS this was a parody include a TSA spokesman named “Dirk Diggler” (haven’t these people seen Boogie Nights?!) and the fact that the PR flak called Coulter “mentally ill” rather than give the usual measured bureaucratic response. Oh, there’s also a line about Coulter asking her fellow flight-mates if we should just allow Mexicans to become doctors.

It’s all a parody, everyone. And yet Twitter and Facebook erupted with people taking it seriously. Here’s a taste:

And another one:

Okay… except two things: 1) Coulter is not employed by Fox News; and 2) THIS STORY DIDN’T ACTUALLY HAPPEN.

No, actually. If you were on that plane, you would have been a character in a parodical article about Ann Coulter and thus you wouldn’t actually exist, your tweet would never exist, and your actions would be subject to the whims of the article’s author. So chew on THAT hypothetical.

Oh, and before reading this next one, prepare your palm to meet your forehead:

You came so close, Scumm Boy.

Meanwhile, the real Ann Coulter herself has her own criticism of the Currant’s article and resulting outburst: “These ‘satire’ sites would work better if their writers had the tiniest ability to be funny.”

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