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Racist Witch!': The Left Goes Nuts After Falling for Parody Site's Fake Story About Ann Coulter
Author Ann Coulter speaks during an address to the 39th Conservative Political Action Committee February 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Racist Witch!': The Left Goes Nuts After Falling for Parody Site's Fake Story About Ann Coulter

​"Ann Coulter is a racist pig with absolutely no soul."

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: Conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Marriott Wardman Park February 10, 2012 in Washington, DC. Thousands of conservative activists are attending the annual gathering in the nation's capital. Credit: Getty Images

The Daily Currant, like The Onion, is a parody site. In other words, the stories that they publish are not intended to be taken seriously as they are entirely false.

But that didn't stop several people from reporting one of the Daily Currant's stories about conservative firebrand Ann Coulter as fact. The story, titled "Ann Coulter Refuses to Board Airplane With Black Pilot," argued that Coulter refused to board a plane because she feared the black pilot got her job as a result of affirmative action, thus making her unqualified to fly. This is, of course, completely false.

According to passengers, at that point Coulter stood at the front of the cabin and began screaming her concerns to the entire flight as they finished boarding.

"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..."

"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," Mediaite's Andrew Kirell notes.

It's not the first time that people have been fooled by a parody story. The Onion is particularly notorious for duping people with their content. The Daily Currant also fooled many with its fake story about Fox News' Bill O'Reilly assaulting a department store Santa.

Several people took to Twitter to attack Coulter for being such a "racist pig."

Kirell provides us with a few more:

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To be fair, some people eventually realized they had been had and issued correcting tweets.

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Jason Howerton

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