Flies are people too
Jun. 19th, 2009 04:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raloriaPETA is at it again. This time with President Obama as their target. Sheesh. I wish I was making this stuff up. It's so ridiculous.
PETA: Did Obama have to swat that fly?
Excerpts:
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.
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."
[PETA spokesman Bruce 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."
Wow. So the president isn't perfect. He killed a fly. I guess in PETA's eyes he's going straight to hell for that one. Like none of of PETA's members have ever killed an insect before. Pfffft! Please!
As some of the commentators on KOMO's website have said...where is PETA when these puppy mills are discovered? What are they doing about the animal shelters that are running out of food? These are the issues they should be concerned about, not the death of one little fly. Talk about a warped sense of priorities.
PETA: Did Obama have to swat that fly?
Excerpts:
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.
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."
[PETA spokesman Bruce 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."
Wow. So the president isn't perfect. He killed a fly. I guess in PETA's eyes he's going straight to hell for that one. Like none of of PETA's members have ever killed an insect before. Pfffft! Please!
As some of the commentators on KOMO's website have said...where is PETA when these puppy mills are discovered? What are they doing about the animal shelters that are running out of food? These are the issues they should be concerned about, not the death of one little fly. Talk about a warped sense of priorities.
