The NRA Pissed Off the Entire Cast of ‘Parks and Recreation’ Last Night
February 22, 2018The NRA Pissed Off the Entire Cast of ‘Parks and Recreation’ Last Night
In the wake of the latest high-profile school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the NRA has been floating all sorts of insanity. My favorite idiotic idea is “let’s give the teachers guns!” I wonder which of my high school teachers should have been armed with a deadly weapon: the history teacher who was fired for physically abusing multiple students, the math teacher who got caught with child pornography, the French teacher who had a nervous breakdown because her students were so mean to her or just the half-dozen or so in their 60s or 70s.
But they really crossed a line when they used a gif of Leslie Knope from Parks and Recreation to support their guns before children agenda.
.@DLoesch thank you for being the voice of over 5 Million #NRA members. pic.twitter.com/WDz7vujXfM
— NRA (@NRA) February 22, 2018
It’s funny on the face of it because while the beloved NBC sitcom tried to steer away specific political issues, the character Leslie Knope was a Democrat. The tweet caught the attention of the show’s creator Michael Schur, also known as Ken Tremendous.
Hi, please take this down. I would prefer you not use a GIF from a show I worked on to promote your pro-slaughter agenda.
Also, Amy isn't on twitter, but she texted me a message: "Can you tweet the NRA for me and tell them I said fuck off?" https://t.co/YXSdzCdvdd
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) February 22, 2018
Schur didn’t stop there, he was tweeting about the NRA all day.
I guess "everyone should have a gun" is the hill that the NRA wants all schoolchildren to die on.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) February 22, 2018
I just donated to March For Our Lives in the name of Leslie Knope, and if you liked Parks and Rec, and get annoyed when dark money-funded pro-slaughter groups like the NRA appropriate its characters on twitter, I hope you will too. https://t.co/5JAy6jRWfT
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) February 22, 2018
You know who else had something to say about the NRA? Most of the rest of the cast of Parks and Recreation. Adam Scott, who played Leslie Knope’s husband Ben Wyatt, addressed the tweet directly.
Hey @nra please stay the fuck away from Leslie Knope. https://t.co/Lr2HCeN7qp
— Adam Scott (@mradamscott) February 22, 2018
Nick Offerman, who played libertarian crazy person Ron Swanson but is, in actuality, basically exactly the same but left-wing instead of right-wing, had some more colorful language about it, and cast mate Aubrey Plaza agreed with him.
.@NRA @DLoesch our good-hearted show and especially our Leslie Knope represent the opposite of your pro-slaughter agenda – take it down and also please eat shit. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/Ar2YF4yoic
— Nick Offerman (@Nick_Offerman) February 22, 2018
— Aubrey Plaza (@evilhag) February 22, 2018
Offerman also had this to say to Todd Starnes, who is apparently some Fox News clown who was very mad that a high school kid who almost got murdered was rude to a Senator who wasn’t going to do anything about it.
I would grill that child the finest steak she had ever apprehended you turgid dumbass https://t.co/8RpuYXkuze
— Nick Offerman (@Nick_Offerman) February 22, 2018
While other cast members didn’t directly address that tweet themselves, Jim O’Heir, who played Garry Gergich, retweeted these Rachel Dratch tweets about the people claiming the survivors of the Florida shooting were paid actors and implying their friends weren’t actually killed.
I love how people are saying these kids are actors. Have you *seen* a high school play?
— Rachel Dratch (@TheRealDratch) February 21, 2018
Also like anyone that good would take this gig. “Yeah it was between being on Stranger Things or doing a school shooting.”
— Rachel Dratch (@TheRealDratch) February 21, 2018
Billy Eichner also weighed in, retweeting Schur and Offerman and offering a hilarious retweet about NRA spokesman Dana Loesch from The Librarans and Judging Amy producer and writer Paul Guyot as well as his own thoughts on the matter.
Dana Loesch came to me 10yrs ago pitching a sitcom starring herself: “A hot young mom who does far right radio show.” Said her age & looks would make 1 side hate her & 1 love her so everyone would watch. Was obsessed w the potential fame & money. I turned her down.
— Paul Guyot (@Fizzhogg) February 22, 2018
There was an "NRA Visa Card"???? These people are out of their fucking minds. https://t.co/bFZni4SAWt
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) February 22, 2018
The White House is in a "listening phase" about guns? Did you not hear the gun shots in the videos from Parkland? Or Vegas? Or the cries from parents in Sandy Hook? HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU NEED TO HEAR???
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) February 22, 2018
This might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. You can bribe politicians to put the profits of gun manufacturers before the lives of American citizens for nearly 40 years, but you don’t mess with Leslie Knope.
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