Yesterday President Obama was giving an interview with some guy from CNBC, and suddenly the tedium was broken by this:
So much for an end to unilateral action against those who try to attack us! It’s good to know that in the midst of this economic crisissss and the unrest in Iran, he can still kick back and enjoy himself with a dead bug.
If you’re not mourning the senseless death of this innocent creature at the hands of the most powerful man in the world, Ingrid Newkirk and her nutty pals would like a word with you. According to TMZ:
PETA is finally going after President Barack Obama for delivering capital punishment to a housefly on the White House grounds yesterday — a death that was caught on tape.
When asked for comment, here’s the statement PETA released:
“He isn’t the Buddha, he’s a human being and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act.”
Yeah, I don’t know what that means either. But I wonder what the Buddha would think about tricking people into giving up unwanted pets under the ruse that you’re going to find them new homes, and then killing them and leaving them in a dumpster behind the Piggly Wiggly?
Maybe PETA just wanted to do something nice for the flies.
Update: Turns out the White House is swarming with flies. Hey, they know what they like.
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Someone was dumb enough to ask PETA for a comment???
The PETA spokesperson who made that statement needs to go back to school. Buddha was human. I am fairly certain that killing puppies and dumping them in the trash takes forethought and planning. Maybe that is why it is acceptable. The whole statement is badly written and makes no sense.
I guess the great and powerful Obama stunned them into incoherence. Oh wait, that is PETA’s natural state…
What a proud moment!
What he did to that fly is what he is doing to America.
PETA, BO, houseflies, unwanted pests all.
Really? I used to think that the Above the Influence messages they put on during [adult swim] (which is ironic since most of the demographic is stoners) were the dumbest organization in America. Clearly, I stand corrected.
Dogs can be used as faithful companinions, helpers for those sick and friggin’ bomb sniffers to keep a safe. WHAT THE HELL HAS A FLY DONE FOR US?! Last thing a fly did something nice for me was remind me to throw out some bad bananas, but I saw that coming a mile away.
WHY DID THIS WARRANT A CLOSE UP?
I’m just glad that there were no other stories worth reporting, so that the MSM could focus on The One condemning a helpless insect to death.
Those Petards would love the fact that I own Venus Flytraps that do their job… one of the traps caught a nice, juicy fly the other day.
…added because I’m a proud VFT mama. You can even see the outline of the wings.
*Gulp*
http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp299/7nationarmygirls/DSCF0456.jpg
That said, love him or hate him, the fly video IS funny
Did you hear that? Someone else actually said Obama wasn’t the chosen one and he is not enlightened enough.
In that same vein, what do they feel about carpenter ants? Just let them in? Roaches too?
Flies, if they think they can get to nutrition from where they landed, vomit on it. This alows the product to break down into a substance they can eat. Since flies land on all sorts of things I consider unsavory get their nutrition ie..fecal matter, rotten food..they are covered in all sorts of germs that do effect humans. Peta sounds really stupid again.
I need to get ME some venus fly traps. I didn’t think about that – thanks Ani! Now I just have to find some. ^_^
I am so glad that Obama has so much time on his hand for this nice chit chat. That fly is a sign of the times to come, I am afraid.
Did anyone else expect him to pop that fly right into his mouth after catching it?
I really do think he thought about it.
DId you hear the loud slap? That was a well practiced pimp slap if I ever heard one….Michelle how you doin’?
Would J-Rod hit it?
Oh, boy, how about this quote:
“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.” (source: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/18/fly-obama-peta.html)
When, as we all know, PETA is far more compassionate to the cute animals. And then did you see that they’re sending Obama one of these: https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP220 “Simply place Katcha Bug over the bug and slowly slide its plastic trapdoor shut. The bug will step onto the trapdoor as it closes, and you can carry Katcha Bug outside, where all you need to do is slide the trap door open, allowing the bug to walk away.”
Yeah, I can see the PotUS doing that…
So…I imagine that whole issue of bats, spiders and frogs eating bugs left and right, and not worrying, like, AT ALL about the flies’ feelings, has slipped right by PETA.
I have no use for BHO, but sweet smokin’ Judas. SWAT. FLIES. That’s why they’re there: To provide small-target practice. And given that BHO has absolutely no regard for unborn human beings, why would he give a crap about a fly?
meanwhile back in Iraq. And Iran. And Afghanistan…. the media in this country is so lame.
Lily… you’ll love the VFT’s! Ants also like them, too, since mine catch those ALL the time outside
LN: there’s a lot of us who voted for Obama KNOWING we voted for a MAN who wasn’t going to be able to change everything with the wink of an eye the moment he stepped into that office, but knew he’d at least do what he could (like anyone elected). There are, however, way too many who hoped for a Messiah and discovered he’s actually *gulp* a human being with a system of checks and balances following his every move and now they’re crying into the Cheerios and it serves them right. No president can please everyone, and some of the “greatest” ones weren’t liked very well when they first stepped in the office.
Ani – I would like to point out a couple of things…
It seems to me that it is the media that has anointed him more than Joe/Jill America
His current checks and balance are his own party
What exactly has he done differently then GW?
(the Iraq pullout and the Afghan surge were already in the works, so was the GM purchase
and banking bailout)
All the vegetable-only eating literally takes away their intestinal fortitude to stomach even the death of a fly. These people should start eating marine-grade nails, maybe then they’ll let nature takes it course.
Awww, damn it, D—! You beat me to the pimp slap joke!
Well, he has to practice on something to keep that pimphand strong, why not flies? BHO: Keeping the pimphand strong for the glory and prosperity of USSA (United Socialist States of America…or does United States of Socialist America sound better?) and Washington D.C. (the District of Communists).
“What exactly has he done differently then GW?”
So far, I got my Pell Grant back (they were cut BIG TIME last year), along with many other college students! May not sound like a lot in the grand scheme of things but to us college students breaking our backs to pay tuition ourselves… it meant a LOT to get our grants back!
‘Cept that wasn’t The Bamster.
It was congress. Remember, they hold the purse strings, they control appropriations.
You can also thank congress for the fact that you lost your Pell, considering that they made certain groups of immigrants elibigle, raised the bottom income threshold for citizens, and increased the maximum grant for the neediest percentile, all while keeping the Pell appropriation level constant since 2003.
Sounds like your grant was temporarily redistributed to others. Isn’t redistribution fun?
Minnow, I’m seriously heartin’ ya right now. You’re so smart you can see around corners and stuff.
Uh yeah. I’m so smart that I’m “elibigle” for special smartedness grants.