Once again, a Parks and Recreation figure has gotten into a Twitter spat with a conservative because of some ill-advised GIF use. This time around its Adam Scott—who played lovably uptight Ben Wyatt on the sitcom—versus Senator Mitch McConnell.
This feud began, as they always do, on Twitter. On Monday McConnells official account posted a GIF of Scott smirking on Parks and Recreation in response to another user. Two days later Scott got wind of it, and hopped on Twitter to let McConnell know he did not appreciate being part of the politicians Twitter dialogue.
“Dear Mitch McConnell & all those representing him,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “Please refrain from using my image in support of anything but your own stunning & humiliating defeat. Thanks! Adam.”
Team McConnell responded by tweeting a screenshot of the newspaper item referencing when Scotts character on the series ran his towns budget into the ground because of his plans for an expensive sports complex called Ice Town. Scotts response? Tweeting that viral photo of McConnell standing in front of a massive Confederate flag. The photo, which surfaced in 2015, was reportedly taken at a Sons of Confederate Veterans event in the 1990s. When it went viral again earlier this year in the midst of the racist yearbook-photo scandal in Virginia, McConnells spokesman dismissed the renewed attention, saying “the left trots it out every time Sen. McConnell speaks out on race or the Confederate flag” in a statement to Time.
McConnell has yet to respond to Scotts parting shot.
As mentioned previously this isnt the first time a Parks and Rec figure has gotten into a Twitter feud with conservatives because of a GIF. In 2018, the NRA used a GIF of Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) saying “Thank you” in a tweet to NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch. Parks and Rec co-creator Mike Schur quickly issued a strongly worded response: “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?”
In a later interview with Vanity Fair, Schur spoke about the incident, saying that “everybody is allowed to do whatever they want on the internet. Thats the rule, basically.” However, he added, “if a Nazi co-opts something that you wrote to send a message to another Nazi that says, like, Hey, great job, NazRead More – Source
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