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melodiousmemories asked: Hey, just wanted to let you know that story about Ann Coulter is bogus. "The Daily Currant" is a fake news media website. You're usually better about picking reputable sources. There were several things that gave this away. Among others, there are no named sources or video links to back up the story, and a simple googling of Ann Coulter Star Trek pulls up several sites that give the truth on the subject. I don't like the woman, but I'm all about fairness. And that is not fair. She didn't do that

It’s a satirical site. 

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Conservative commentator Ann Coulter walked out of a screening of Star Trek: Into Darknesslast night, saying that the science fiction adventure had “too many minorities.”

According to witnesses at Regal Cinemas in New York, the controversial author was seen cursing out the screen and exiting about half an hour into the picture.

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?”

Yesterday’s Enterprise

The Star Trek franchise has a long history of promoting multiculturalism since its inception in the 1960’s. It broke ground with a multi-racial cast and notably featured the first television kiss between a black and a white character.

The current film, which opened yesterday, is a reboot directed by J.J. Abrams featuring the characters from the original series. Critics have praised the film, but rarely mentioned its politics - a point which also confused host Sean Hannity.

“Now Ann, you know I love you,” a puzzled Hannity said, “but I’ve seen the film, and although there were minorities, there were also plenty of whites. So I guess I don’t see your problem.”

“Sean, the only other white people are foreigners,” she retorted, “you got one Communist from Moscow and a lazy, socialist engineer from Scotland. There’s only one red-blooded American white person in the whole movie - and thank god he’s the captain. The ship would fall apart in minutes without him.

“And Spock? The actor’s gay, and the character is ‘Vulcan’ - which is code for Jewish. But its not just the characters. The whole Star Trek thing is a socialist plot to brainwash our children.

“I mean no one actually owns the ship, no one gets paid any money, everybody’s ‘equal’. And they’ve been flying up there for years and still haven’t seen God yet. Karl Marx would have been proud Sean.”

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Saudi student Talal al Rouki (pictured) was questioned by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker. FBI are vigilant after Boston bombers used a pressure cooker to make an explosive.

“‘They asked me about my major, when I arrived in the US and what I do in my spare time’ he told the Saudi newspaper.

Officers said that two days earlier that a woman had seen him walking out of his apartment carrying the pressure cooker pot, which was described as ‘bullet coloured’.”

Who else saw this coming? I sure as hell did, still amazed at how the woman described the pot as “bullet colored” Next a Muslim wearing red lipstick will be called blood colored, a Muslim driving a black car would be grenade/gun colored, and anything green will be “Jihadi colored”. 

This is racism, racial profiling, and islamaphobia. Full stop. Nothing anyone says can change my mind about this issue. 

Who else saw this coming? I sure as hell did, still amazed at how the woman described the pot as “bullet colored” Next a Muslim wearing red lipstick will be called blood colored, a Muslim driving a black car would be grenade/gun colored, and anything green will be “Jihadi colored”. 

(^Included here because I didn’t want to bold and change the original) But those are my thoughts exactly. Why did she use such a violent word to describe the pot? The vast, vast majority of pots are silver, and she chooses to use that word of all? And lovenerdeen really made a good point about the rest, soon all these colors will be switched out for more violent sounding words.