It’s been heading in this direction for quite some time. Don’t tell me you didn’t all see it coming, because I know you did.
The campaign began with a handful of legit celebrity backers, slowly oozed into has-beens and B-listers, and eventually delved deep into the realm of exaggerated or entirely trumped-up endorsements (ranging from The Dalai Lama to Michelle Obama). And now it’s, well, finally scraping the bottom of the barrel, isn’t it?
I keep thinking that anyway, and then every time I turn around there’s another truly WTF ad that makes me question myself.
Sure, it’s a bit suspect when folks who take their clothes off for a living would rather go naked/abstain from sex than wear fur or let little boy dogs keep their balls (Holly Madison, Jenna Jameson, Rick’s Cabaret strippers and now The Girlfriend Experience’s Sasha Grey).
But now PETA’s using the recently suspended NBA super-thug Gilbert Arenas. I have to wonder if there is anyone, anyone at all, in the entire PETA organization who is capable of grasping just how utterly irrelevant all these ads have become.
I can just see the Mark McGwire ad for PETA’s anti-hunting campaign: “Shoot steroids, not ducks.”
Yeah, and "Hugs, Not Drugs," "Shoot Hoops, Not Guns." Oh...wait...
Apparently, and somehow not surprisingly, PETA doesn’t see Agent Zero’s indefinite suspension from the NBA for allegedly bringing four guns into the Washington Wizards locker room as a credibility problem. After all, no animals were harmed in the making of the aforementioned weapons, and really, when you’re talking about a star basketball player it’s all about the fashion.
PETA explains to Yeas & Nays:
We have received a tremendously positive response to Gilbert’s compassion for animals, so we’re focusing on his wardrobe, which is a winner in our book, and are moving forward with his campaign.
Yeah. ‘Cause a “winning wardrobe” is pretty much what everyone thinks of when they hear the name Gilbert Arenas. Not a hard-charging NBA star. Not a thug who brought firearms into the locker room to intimidate a teammate (in DC, where guns are contraband) and could be playing in Finland next year. If he’s not in prison.
Nope. None of the above. You know, just a guy with a great (fur-free) wardrobe.
Preeeety bad, guys. Preeeety darn bad. I wish I could say this was the beginning of the end or something, but somehow I just know better.
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What’s truly scary is…who or what is next? Will they claim the Nav’i (and pay James “A**hole” Cameron even more money)? Will they dig up the corpse of a celebrity and “claim” that person was against fur (“Marilyn Chambers preferred to go naked than wear fur!!” Well, DUH!!)?
How much lower can they go?
They could bring on Chris Brown. “Beat up your girlfriends, just not innocent animals” Seriously. I would not put it past them.
I don’t even think PETA needs to be fought anymore; they’re so adroitly self-sabotaging that it’s now just fun to watch. It’s like seeing Joy Behar, Perez Hilton and Octomom, all committing seppuku (Or jiggai, I guess, in the chicks’ cases.) Repeatedly. The entertainment just keeps on coming.
An M1911, and a Glock? Even his taste in guns is sh-ty. Where’s the Courvoisier?
Why PETA is still going to be tough to beat in this year’s March Madness.
“porn stars, strippers and thugs”
Pillars of modern society, by the way. You are right in seeking out their wise counsel. Though I am mystified not to see gangstas included.
Look at his left hand…seems a bit out of proportion and color. Maybe it’s the lighting. But at second glance, both hands look pretty badly Photoshopped.
Overall reaction to this story: “are you freakin’ kidding me?”
Heck, I’ve got a fur-free wardrobe too.
But I have two cats (or rather, THEY have ME). And my body would probably require some SERIOUS Photoshop work…
@Pasta, Don’t dis the Colt, I carry a Kimber Pro every day and love my other Colts. Now the wimpy 9mm Glock I will agree with you on. lol
@StrawberryGirl I dunno. I think the President will give them some strong competition. Repeating will definitely be a challenge.
Damn. I wonder if the next spokesperson would be a cannibalism. I can almost hear the slogan “Eat people, not Animals!”.
All their ads and spokespersons are getting pretty ridiculous. I don’t know what is going on in their heads. But PETA needs a check up. It’s really sad how desperate they’re sounding/looking.
*LOL* 10 months ago I saw this gracing the bargain bargain book bin @ the mall:
http://www.amazon.com/One-Can-Make-Difference-Extraordinary/dp/1598696297/ref=sr_1_9/184-6502592-4775237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263368767&sr=1-9
EVERYONE was digging past the multiple copies to get to the psuedo Dan Brown knockoffs…
And Ingrid is suspiciously sounding like Scientology by trumpeting that PeTa is the largest animal rights org in the world… hmmm – I feel a online search is in order to sort that out…
“Look at his left hand…seems a bit out of proportion and color. Maybe it’s the lighting. But at second glance, both hands look pretty badly Photoshopped.”
– Well, duh … of course it’s Photoshopped. Click on it to see the PETA original.
Aleric, Pasta: He has a 9mm Glock because, like the 45 Magnum, it’s the only model of gun that the gun-ignorant can parrot back to you. He obviously cares about recognition more than he does about actually looking badass; since when is it “gangsta” to protest fur? When you’re rapping about the interior of your pimpin’ ride, “mink” is easier to rhyme than “polyurethane,” you know (unless you’re MC Paul Barman, who can rhyme pretty much anything).
@Rocko
Hmm, yeah it could be a hairy one if it’s down to PETA and President Obama. Al Gore and Tila Tequila might also provide some stiff competition.
Stiff competition? I love it! Gore is such a stiff, and I don’t think Drinky Girl is ever sober.