UPDATE: PETA has sent the Ecorazzi blog a tepid statement suggesting that Oprah was duped by KFC. But there’s no press release on PETA’s website, and “Oprah” doesn’t appear on its home page anywhere.So there you have it. The all-powerful Oprah is actually a helpless victim of KFC’s 11-herb-and-spices-assistde Svengali act.
PETA is clearly calculating that Oprah can hurt them more than KFC can. And I agree: If KFC were capable of crushing PETA, I think they’d have found a way to do it by now.
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Over at Civil Eats, Paula Crossfield has her organic panties in a wad about Oprah Winfrey’s big KFC grilled chicken giveaway yesterday. (If you heard about chicken riots in New York, we’re still waiting to see proof.) While the chicken chain was giving away countless millions in poultry parts, Crossfield and others were throwing stones at The Oprah for being a hypocrite.
Says Paula:
[B]ecause Oprah has marketed herself as one who cares about animals, even getting a ‘Person of the Year’ award last year from PETA, this KFC campaign is a serious disappointment.
True enough. the Queen of Chicago was indeed PETA’s Person of the Year for 2008.
My favorite newly minted hand-wringing Oprah hater is U.S. News environment blogger Maura Judkis. She’s actually suggesting that Opra’s hypocrisy about animal rights is contributing to the spread of swine flu. (Judkis, you may want to know, is a long-time veteran “journalist” who was writing for the student newspaper at George Washington University just two years ago.)
Judkis also predicts that “PETA will have some choice words for Oprah, to say the least.” But so far? Nada.
Sure, PETA is still hassling KFC for daring to, you know … sell fried chicken. (Call me crazy, but Kentucky Fried Seitan just doesn’t make my mouth water.) But so far, PETA has been completely mum about how Oprah totally pwned them.
Can you imagine if Pam Anderson started helping steakhouses with their grand openings? Or if Stella McCartney started designing with a fabric made from the protective homes of millions of boiled-alive creatures? Or if Khloe Kardashian started selling the sewn-together skins of dead cows?
Surely they would issue furious press releases and make Hollywood feel their vegan wrath, right?
Ah … I get it now. PETA’s not criticizing Ms. Vajayjay because she has the power to crush them. It’s the same reason you always hear about PETArds harassing old ladies in fur coats, but they never seem to have time to mess with Hell’s Angels bikers in their leather jackets.
Ecorazzi asks: “Will the real PETA please stand up?” I think it just did.
Image from E.W.
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When I first read about the chicken thing, my first thought was that PETA was going to start a war they knew they would never win. Then it dawned on me that they don’t start wars that they can win because they know that the majority of the general public sees right through them. So, I’m not entirely surprised that they have been quiet.
I am wondering… are the awards they give people something that those receiving them are even aware of beforehand? Or is the award thing just something they do to fame whore without even telling the winner until after the fact?
For some reason, I’m in the mood to get some KFC.
Yo, Oversneer – let’s do lunch.
How many times do we have to go over this? You don’t mess with Oprah. She will rain down great vengeance upon thee if you mess with her. Do you know what happens to people who disagree with her? Nobody knows, they just disappear.
Wow. Peta is affraid of Oprah.
Also, there were no riots in NY over chicken. Just some very disappointed customers who were not able to get their free chicken.
Finally, could someone explain how promoting eating chicken is spreading “swine” flu? I just don’t see the connection.
that stuff kfc sells is really chicken? frankenchicken maybe. certainly not healthful meat. oprah has her head up michelle obama’s butt. peta won’t mess with her.
Clearly, Oprah is trying to drive KFC out of business with the free coupons, knowing that her legions of minions would storm KFCs everywhere and demand the food all at once. PETA knows of her fiendish plot to drive KFC to its knees and will not comment, as it approves.
Or PETA lacks balls. Either’s good with me.
I want to hear more about those Hell’s Angels bikers in their leather jackets. Finger lickin’ good.
Oprah and chicken? That’s just plain raaaaaacist! Shame on you Deceiver!
I read this story and was about to send it to you as a big hypocracy. Eating healthy there Oprah? How about that award from PETA Oprah? PETA just knows not to mess with her because she is, after all, Oprah. I wonder if Oprah compensated KFC for all of the free food they handed out to her followers?
And Hurricane, remember it is Oprah and Fried chicken that is racist. MMMMMMM Popeyes. SAd that our Lee’s recipe stayed around while the theives drove KFC and Popeye out of our town due to arson and theft.
I got some healthful meat right here. (Organic free-range turkey sandwich.)
Sure I know it’s Fried chicken but with the overly-sensitive, don’t-offend-me, I’m-special-and-so-are-you society we live in I figured any reference to chicken would be considered racist.
Would anyone else pay to see the Petards and the Oprah-ites mix it up in a parking lot, West Side Story-style? The Oprah-ites would be armed with KFC chicken legs and copies of ‘O,’ and the Petards would be armed with large heads of broccoli.
And everyone would be singing “When you’re a tool you’re a tool all the way…”
I would so be the first in line for tickets to that, MC Mom. However, PeTA are the idiots here and realize if they picked a fight, it would make them look even more stupid. Oprah gives up meat for three weeks and they honestly think she’s on thier side? Please. She was just the easiest African American female they could find to choose after Obama won — not racist on my end, racist on theirs. Mermaid really makes an excellent point about the postion of Oprah’s head in conjunction with Michelle Obama’s derrière, too.
I’d pay to see that fight. I’d put all my money on Oprah too.
Recently Ms. O dined with Mrs. O in Manhattan and they looked chummy. What is the saying about keeping your enemy’s closer. Their grins looked like the Cheshire’s cats
I clicked on several of your links, such as the one linking Oprah with Swine Flu, and found nothing of the sort.
This is a pretty blatant case of smearing. You’re either a lazy blogger, or simply incompetent.
This link?
It’s not our fault you don’t know how to use hyperlinks. Maybe they should do some sort of training course on how to use the Internet there at U.S. News & World Report.
speaking of stella mccartney, did anyone else see that picture of her wear a fur stole to an event the other day? it looks much too nice to be fake.
See, that’s it, Anagram… maybe I’m wrong, and if so anyone is more than welcome to correct me, but Oprah is not an active PeTA bimbo?? She’s done a lot for animals, but from what I read on the page proclaiming her person of 2008, it never says she’s actually a vegan or denounced such things as fur.
UNMASKED! So that’s who was playing guitar for Guns N’ Roses when I saw them a few years back.
(C’mon someone gets it.)
“I clicked on several of your links, such as the one linking Oprah with Swine Flu, and found nothing of the sort.”
“This is a pretty blatant case of smearing. You’re either a lazy blogger, or simply incompetent.
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When did Perez Hilton or PETA start posting on this page?
and Pastafarian – wow Slash put on some weight.
LOL with the bucket on her head! i heard about this whole free chicken oprah thing yesterday and thought “whats PeTA gonna say?” haha hilarious.
Oprah playing guitar for G ‘n’ R? Now *that* I’d pay to see.
No this is what I meant…
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=21438&g2_serialNumber=2
Buckethead. Or whatever he calls himself. Whatever it is it’s lame. So were they.
Buckethead is a phenomenal guitarist. Odd mofo but fanttastic skills!
I suggest that OPRAH takes PETAs stupid letter rip it to itsie bities pepices and throw it in the trash where all of PETAs stupid ideas belong
If OPRAH wants to do ads for KFC its her right to do so and if the jerks from PETA dont like it tell them to go kiss a horses backside