Amy Poehler Tells NRA to F*ck Off for Using Leslie Knope Meme

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Amy Poehler Tells NRA to ‘F*ck Off’ for Using Leslie Knope Meme
‘Parks and Recreation’ creator Mike Schur also told the NRA he would prefer they “not use a GIF from a show I worked on to promote your pro-slaughter agenda.”
Matt Wilstein
02.22.18 1:50 AM ET


The NRA has been unusually vocal in the aftermath of the deadliest school shooting since Newtown. And on Wednesday night, that included a tweet in which they used a GIF of Parks and Recreation character Leslie Knope to thank spokesperson Dana Loesch for representing them at CNN’s town hall event from Florida.

Michael Schur, who co-created the NBC comedy, was not amused.

“Hi, please take this down,” he tweeted. “I would prefer you not use a GIF from a show I worked on to promote your pro-slaughter agenda.”

Then, he added a message texted to him from the show’s star Amy Poehler, whose character was pictured in the tweet and does not have a Twitter account of her own: “Can you tweet the NRA for me and tell them I said fuck off?”

Link to tweet

Poehler’s character Leslie Knope was an iconically progressive figure on American television, consistently pitted against her Libertarian boss Ron Swanson. She looked up to Hillary Clinton, was obsessed with Joe Biden and would never dream of supporting the NRA.

In short, she was the antithesis of Dana Loesch, who served as a surrogate for the Second Amendment die-hards at CNN’s event Wednesday night.

“Was the blood of my classmates and my teachers worth your blood money?” a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High freshman named Michelle Lapidot asked her at the event. Another woman could be heard shouting at her, “You’re a murderer!”

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1. Nick Offerman, too

Link to tweet

@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.

[ProfessorPlum]

2. damn

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5. Roasted

[bronxiteforever]

3. pro-slaughter agenda. Truth!

[oasis]

4. Amy and friends aren't pulling any punches. nt

[BigOleDummy]

6. Yes

Michael Schur and Amy , I salute you!