As they say, folks, ya can’t make this stuff up. Ad Age reports:
Michael Vick is in talks to become the new spokesman for PETA.
Yes, you read that correctly. The disgraced one-time NFL superstar serving prison time for funding an illegal dog-fighting ring is primed to do public-service ads for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals upon his release later this month. According to three people with knowledge of the matter, the proposed endorsement is part of a comprehensive PR scheme aimed at rehabilitating the quarterback’s image and gaining him readmission to the league that banned him from playing.
Just a few months ago, PETA withdrew its previous offer to make Vicks a spokesman, because in exchange he wanted their support for his return to the NFL. Not only did they balk at that, but they demanded that he undergo a brain scan and psychotherapy to determine whether he’s even crazier than Ingrid Newkirk.
But now, even though they still want him to undergo a psych eval, they think he’s otherwise sane enough to represent their cause:
“I’m familiar with [the plan],” said Dan Shannon, director of youth outreach and campaigns for PETA. “We have been in discussions with Michael Vick, with his management team, about the possibility of him putting out a public-service announcement with PETA when he’s out of jail. We want him to discourage people from taking part in dog-fighting. I can do it until I’m blue in the face and it might not convince anybody. Michael Vick sure can. He can say, ‘Look, I did it, I was wrong, and it ruined my career.’”
Seems like a perfect match. But can pretending to be sorry, on behalf of a group that’s killed way more pets than he ever did, resurrect that career?
Hey, I know just the location for the PSA shoot: The dumpster behind the Piggly Wiggly.
Update: PETA says it’s not true. No word yet from the Vick camp.
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PeTA’s right.
Don’t ever get in the ring, kids. Those dogs’ll totally chew your ass off.
I just saw this and was thinking to send it in as a tip, but someone beat me to it.
PETA will take just about anyone, won’t they? What a bunch of attention whores. The only reason he is doing this is plainly spelled out – PR. Oh yeah and so that he can get laid by someone other than Big Bubba when he’s out of the Big House.
ROFL…………… “Bend over and take a good look at your heinie, it’ll soon look like ground beef”.
What’s next, David Duke as the spokesman for Sharpton’s National Action Network?
I was thinking more like an Exalted Cyclops as a spokesman, or at least a member of the Democratic Party.
Chronic’s right – PETA’s not really about saving animals, it’s about getting as much PR as possible.
Maybe Deceiver should stop playing into their hands and put a ban on all PETA hypocrisy for the next six months. Although it’s awfully amusing to snark about them.
People for the Ethical Torture of Animals???
Not real, according to PeTA:
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/05/setting_the_rec.php
I know it’s extremely embarrassing, but I used to think Michael Vick was kinda hot
Actually, I still kinda do…Something about him…
kim, I think I like People for the Exquisite Torture of Animals better. Or does “Excruciating” sound better? Hmmm….
I bet he would just claim that Ron Mexico was the one who was fighting the dogs, anyway.
“scheme aimed at rehabilitating the quarterback’s image and gaining him readmission to the league that banned him from playing.” if this is true (wouldn’t surprise me if it is) vick will probably take it just so PeTA will shut up. michael vick is scum and so is PeTA.. side note: does anyone know the outcome of the 2 lovely peta employees who dumped all the dog and cat’s bodies?? how awful, and those idiots thought they’d get away with it.
Even if this isn’t true, I wonder if PETA should be retired to the hall of Deceiver Fame. They just seem like a lock to win March Madness next year and it’s only May. No one else really has a chance.
Nati, I think I like “Excruciating” best! Especially considering what Vick and the PeTA employees did to those poor dogs.
The LEFTISTS simply have no shame left. It’s all out. Nothing embarrasses them nothing shames them nothing touches their conscience or sensibilities, nothing. It’s just going to get worse…but friends, be patient it will also get better, it’s just going to have to get worse for a while so that the fools in the center and the right who have been swallowing LEFTIST political, social, and moral claptrap due to false guilt will learn they’ve been had.
The era of Obama and all of its peripheral social LEFTIST LICENSING of the absurd and unconscionable that is maddeningly in “operation frenzy mode” will be a disaster of bitter proportions that will oust from both politics and the much of the media such blatant disregard for the senses of normal people. It might be approaching midnight (no pun intended) and it seems that politically, socially and even morally the creeps on the LEFT have been let loose to say and do what they wish with impunity, but the backlash is coming, morning will soon be upon us and rising from the waters of their baptism, the collective center of America will shift away from this LEFTIST circus back to a standard of reason and conscience.
Mitt in 2012! (Did ya see Liz Cheney simply “mediaslap” MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell?) Are we talking Mitt and Liz in 2012?
Yes, GAT, because PeTA speaks for everyone on the left. And also, lumping together everyone who tends to lean left in their political views is definitely a way to go.
“the creeps on the LEFT”
well, excuse me for breathing your oxygen
“Are we talking Mitt and Liz in 2012?”
Provided we last that long given that our President is out to get us and has obviously made it his mission to destroy us all. I think you forgot to say “If God’s willing”…or as my people say “Inshallah”.
*doesn’t deny having no shame left*
An ignoramus does not necessarily set out to destroy anyone but via his naivety, his ignorance and arrogance he does and this. And with Obama and his tiny resume of non-accomplishment in the real world and only in an academic setting where everything imaginable looks great on paper, we are getting just that, ignorance, naivety and arrogance.
By the way, your exaggeration that someone is offended that you are breathing their oxygen is exactly one of the reason the collective stomach of America will vomit out their regrettable temporary digestion of all things Obama and LEFTIST. You LEFTISTS don’t even have the integrity to honestly represent what others have said of even implied of which I said nor implied anyone is offended by your breathing oxygen nor did I claim it was mine.
Enjoy it while you can, Obama will be so ashamedly trounced out it will be 24 years before another Democrat is considered for the Oval Office.
Next Please!
Shame on you deceiver! There’s no way this is hypocrisy!
Vick kills dogs
PeTA kills dogs
It’s all completely in character for them both
Of course Vick actually admitted . . . errr, was convicted of killing dogs (did he actually admit to it? I don’t remember and don’t care enough to start looking it up)
“Enjoy it while you can”
What, Obama or oxygen?
“You LEFTISTS…………..” Hey, FYI, we aren’t leftists here. Left handed people, maybe, but leftists?
Uh……..whose village is missing its idiot? Speak up, now. Ya’ll better come claim him before he’s thrown on a fire and barbecued by some of our more quickwitted posters.
Koka and Nati, our more quickwitted posters don’t usually respond to trolls. It’s a fairly pointless exercise.
pssstttt… uh… Guy?
Ammonium nitrate is for bombs, not snorting lines.
MC Mom is right. Half the time, it’s what I do in forums or in WoW. I try to avoid it here, but I wouldn’t call myself too successful.
I figured as much, MC Mom……………..thanks for reminding me that trolls do exist
MC Mom, our least quickwitted poster (me) doesn’t usually respond to trolls either. But this time I was bored
Guy – little bit of (honestly) friendly advice. Arguing politics is an exacting science, requiring a wit resembling a scalpel in it’s dissection of fallacy and half-truths. You’re wielding a sledgehammer bro, and it’s just gonna end up bringing the house down around you.
Whats the only real reason to argue politics? To try to convince more people to come around to your way of thinking, right? No one listens to bullies. They’ll just retreat further into the safe comfort of their preconceived beliefs, and you’ve gained nothing. Scorn and derision should be saved for those who’ve proven themselves incapable of higher brain function, and the vast majority of people here don’t fall into that category.
Hey, I hate the left too. I find their ideals simplistic, their outlook a Utopian fallacy completely disregarding human nature and compulsions. I’ve seen firsthand the complete failure of social engineering and wealth distribution the world over, and witnessed how fanatic and depraved our enemies really are. The idea of being governed by those who don’t understand these simple principles honestly frightens me.
But I also realize that most people are smart enough to get it if you’ll take the time to show them the evidence. You need to be willing to understand that we’re all human, and we want the same things – peace, prosperity, freedom of decision, ect. We just have different ideas about how we should get there. Some are invariably right, some are invariably wrong – but I sincerely doubt anyone is actually TRYING to make the world a worse place to live. I mean, they DO live here too right? This is not a world of Superman villains.
I really hope you’ll prove I’m not wasting my time with you, and that the next time you want to toss your two cents in, you’ll be more judicious in your phrasing. Cause right now man, you’re making the rest of the team look bad.
To capitalize on what Scott F. was saying: Even people who cannot be convinced all of the things you believe are right are right, these people share your world for better or worse. The best thing you can do in situations like that are to set an example of the kind of person one ought to be or to set an example of a person holding morals or beliefs you think are just. I can’t imagine coexisting if I found repulsion in every person I disagreed with, because I would have no one. That’s just not realistic. You come out having set an example of morality and you come out of it less angry than you would if you focused on your hatred of the left.
That being said, I’m very happy to have civil conversations with intelligent people and loved ones when I disagree with them (when I’m not slipping up and trolling). When our base morals just don’t click well enough to agree, I’m better off still loving them, because Scott is right. I want peace, happiness, and a good world to give my children someday when I’m blessed enough to have them. My friends who disagree want the same.
When people tell me that I am bad, stupid, or inferior in anyway, I don’t listen. Why should? I’m not being respected, and I deserve in return what you think I owe you.
Koka, up ’til now I thought any references to LEFTISTS “was” towards southpaws. I can stop being offended now on behalf of my mother, God rest her left-handed soul, and I owe a lot of apologies.
BTW, speaking of southpaws and PeTA, http://www.southpaws.com is a site for specialty veterinary medicine – people who “really” care about animals.
I’m not a supporter of PETA or their views, hell, I’m not even vegetartian, but I don’t think it’s necessarily hippocracy for them to be talking to Michael Vick.
All civilised people know you should not be cruel to animals because it’s VILE AND WRONG to cause needless suffering. But there are some people for whom “Because I might get caught” is the best we can hope for. Statements by Michael Vick would be far more likely to convince this bottom-dwelling demographic than naked pictures of actresses.
Michael Vick’s cruelty to animals (deservedly) cost him not only his freedom but his career, reputation and immense amounts of money. He had everything, and his inhumanity toward animals has caused him to lose everything. I think a series of “This happened to ME and it could happen to YOU” ads might actually get through to the mouthbreathers. Gee, maybe setting that stray cat on fire could have CONSEQUENCES for their worthless hides.
If I was an animal welfare organisation I would at least listen to what he had to say. Maybe he can actually do some good, even if his aim is cynical.
To the handful of sanctimonious, “I’ll out wit Guy” and “Guy, you need to understand how to deal with the left” Priests…save your narcissistic self-aggrandizing posture for the mirror.
You want to play a wit contest? I suggest you get some first.
The fact is I made declarative statements in general then some “pee in their diaper” LEFTIST responded with some whiny crying about breathing my oxygen to which I gave the appropriate smack upside the head that I never said anything in that context and it only demonstrated their lack of integrity to do so. Further I simply expanded my declaration about what is coming down the road with Obama.
But no…you hillbillies suddenly want to play tea and crumpets with someone who doesn’t have the decency to at least be honest about what someone has said in what they amusing consider a rebuttal. No, you want to elevate their idiocy and lie to some level of honest dialog and then pull your finger from your rear and wave it in my face saying, “tsk tsk tsk shame on you” for calling them on this.
That person wasn’t and isn’t interested in dialog they just want to be dishonest and feign injury for my plain statements. There is no basis for dialog of understanding.
Get a grip, if a LEFTIST with an ounce or two of honesty wants a dialog you’ll know it because they won’t start out with lying about what the other person said to whom they are rebutting. But you tea and crumpet types won’t be the ones that wake up, it will be the collective center of America who won’t have time for a fantasy world of intellectual games debating whether the hippopotamus in corner is a hippopotamus.
Next Please!
Well said.
Actually, I really don’t think either PETA nor Vick make a win in this little endeavor if it ever happens. Mainly because he certainly never showed any true remorse over what he allowed to happen, and all PETA is looking for from him is a feather in their cap….”look who we got on OUR side now!”
Les Paul…I’m lefthanded, and I’ve heard of other people getting the 2 terms confused. It’s all cool..:)
I know it’s totally random, but how come in America (and I think in Canada as well, but not sure and too lazy to look it up) people call “soccer” what the rest of the world calls “football” and reserve the word “football” for some rather weird activity which involves 300 lbs giants wearing dorky helmets and shoulder pads knocking each other to the ground and which I am in no way a fan of? I don’t mean to offend the fans of…”it”, it’s just that I definitely prefer the football football – the one that people call “soccer” here. I don’t call it that, this post was the only time I actually used the S word. Ahhh, the World Cup is next summer, I’m beginning the countdown today.
So PETA wants to condone the acts of dog fighting cause it is horrible to the animals, yet they have no problem killing thousands of other animals. oh, okay. So shooting them good. Letting them fight each other bad. Got it.
On your football sidebar, Nati:
I think you’re confused because long ago people stopped using the actual game names and shortened them all to “football”.
The real name for “soccer/football” is Associated Football. “(American) football” is actually Gridiron Football. Rugby or Australian Football is “Rugby Football”. We have all forgotten that Football is a class of games rather than a single sport.
Both Associated Football and Gridiron Football are about the same age, as far as organized leagues go. Associated Football goes back in England to 1863. On the American side of the pond, the University of Michigan formed it’s Gridiron team back in 1879 (it existed on a small scale prior to that, but college men loved it and organized league play). U of M spread the game throughout the midwest, the Ivy League schools spread it along the east coast, but it stayed a relatively niche sport until the 20th century.
And historically, Gridiron Football involved a lot more punting (drop kicking the ball to gain yardage) so there was a valid reason for calling it football.
My husband’s grandfather was an original member of the Decatur Staley’s (now they’re called the Chicago Bears). He was 6 feet tall and weighed about 140 pounds, so bulked up muscular athleticism is a modern novelty in Gridiron Football.
Thanks, Minnow, I actually didn’t know that all those games were related…I mean, I always thought that just Rugby and American (Gridiron) football were related, that’s why I always get confused – American football and soccer-football always looked completely different to me, so I was always wondering why American football gets to be called “football”. I didn’t know they were actually related. I’m not very familiar with American football’s history, so I had no idea that the game and (probably?) its rules used to be different and apparently more similar to soccer-football than they are today. I’m not a big fan of Gridiron football, so I guess that’s why I don’t know much about it. I do sometimes watch it on TV, but I definitely prefer soccer-football. lol I feel so un-American right now…especially if you consider the fact that I absolutely can’t stand baseball. I do watch American football sometimes (sometimes even enjoy it) and know the rules of the game as well…but baseball…ugh I just don’t get it. And it puts me to sleep
No problem, Nati.
If you allow soccer players to use their hands and stop gameplay to reset on a yardage line every time possession is reversed, then soccer and football become remarkably similar.
And hockey? That’s basically soccer on ice.