‘Star Wars’ Fans Send Death Threats to Fox News Contributor After Joke
Katherine Timpf, a Fox News contributor, is getting death threats for a joke at Star Wars she made during a segment on "Red Eye w/ Tom Shillue" last month.
As a guest on the satirical political news comedy show that airs at 3 a.m. on Fox News Channel, Timpf said: "I have never had any interest in watching space nerds poke each other with their little space nerd sticks, and I’m not going to start now. You people are crazy. You Star Wars people are crazy. Yesterday I tweeted something, and all I said was that I wasn’t familiar with Star Wars because I’ve been too busy liking cool things and being attractive — people threatened my life.”
Monday she shared some of the threats along with a piece she had written for the "National Review" about the abuse she's been receiving.
"A lot of people are clearly a lot of upset. But guess what? I’m not apologizing. Why? Because the all-too-common knee-jerk reaction of apologizing for harmless jokes after overblown hysteria is ruining our culture. This political-correctness obsession threatens free speech, and I absolutely refuse to be a part of it," she wrote in Monday's piece. "Obviously, the totally insane whackjobs who have been attacking me don’t represent most Star Wars fans. But the fact that so many adults have responded with so much unhinged emotion astounds me."
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