PETA, are you fucking KIDDING me?
Jun. 18th, 2009 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly
WASHINGTON – The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."
During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama's conversation with correspondent John Harwood.
"Get out of here," the president told the pesky insect. When it didn't, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead.
"Now, where were we?" Obama asked Harwood. Then he added: "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker."
Friedrich said that PETA was pleased with Obama's voting record in the Senate on behalf of animal rights and noted that he has been outspoken against animal abuses.
Still, "swatting a fly on TV indicates he's not perfect," Friedrich said, "and we're happy to say that we wish he hadn't."
Deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said the White House has no comment on the matter.
PETA, give over. Really. When your members, ALL your members, stop wearing leather clothing and using leather on their furniture and in their vehicles. When your members live a purely local vegan lifestyle. When your members own no pets, drive no cars, use no technology that impacts the environment negatively, when they stop living in cities. THEN you may be all self righteous and pious about whatever wee little bug.
Until then, please stop picking on women who wear fur coats and yet somehow miraculously NOT getting into confrontations with big fuckin leather-wearing steak-eating mudhole-stomping bikers.
Fuck off an die plsthxbi.
PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly
WASHINGTON – The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."
During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama's conversation with correspondent John Harwood.
"Get out of here," the president told the pesky insect. When it didn't, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead.
"Now, where were we?" Obama asked Harwood. Then he added: "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker."
Friedrich said that PETA was pleased with Obama's voting record in the Senate on behalf of animal rights and noted that he has been outspoken against animal abuses.
Still, "swatting a fly on TV indicates he's not perfect," Friedrich said, "and we're happy to say that we wish he hadn't."
Deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said the White House has no comment on the matter.
PETA, give over. Really. When your members, ALL your members, stop wearing leather clothing and using leather on their furniture and in their vehicles. When your members live a purely local vegan lifestyle. When your members own no pets, drive no cars, use no technology that impacts the environment negatively, when they stop living in cities. THEN you may be all self righteous and pious about whatever wee little bug.
Until then, please stop picking on women who wear fur coats and yet somehow miraculously NOT getting into confrontations with big fuckin leather-wearing steak-eating mudhole-stomping bikers.
Fuck off an die plsthxbi.
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Date: 2009-06-18 01:04 pm (UTC)The people at PETA need to stop drinking their weird brand of Kool-Aid already.
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Date: 2009-06-18 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-06-18 03:44 pm (UTC)I apologize profusely for the oversight.
It won't happen again. ;^D
Here. Have a Gir in recompense.
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Date: 2009-06-18 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-18 04:06 pm (UTC)It's crap like this which prevents me from supporting them. I mean ethical animal treatment sounds good to me - hell, amazingly awesome to me. But it's when they're freakish fanatical about it without any sort of cap on their hypocrisy, it kinda pisses me off.
Bullshit! did a really good segment on P.E.T.A.
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/previous_episodes.do?episodeid=s2/peta
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Date: 2009-06-18 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-06-23 12:39 pm (UTC)