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28
Jan

I Bet Bill Murray Won’t Be in the Sequel if the Groundhog is all CGI

By Pastafarian 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Crazy People and PETA

America’s cutest, fuzziest group of terrorist sympathizers, PETA, is demanding that the most adorable weather forecaster in history be replaced with a robot.

That’s right. I said robot.

No, I’m not talking about Al Roker … hubba hubba amiright? Or should I say Hubba Bubba? (Hey, do they still make that gum?) Anyway…

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is requesting a robotic stand-in for the furry favorite of the beloved Groundhog Day festival known ’round the world. PETA says it’s unfair to keep Phil in captivity and then subject him to huge crowds and bright lights every Feb. 2.

William Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club — once they finished the secret handshake and matched their power rings — said: “The groundhog is being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania.”

Really? He probably should have phrased that better somehow.

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25
Jan

Amanda is Holden on to her standards. Not.

By Audrey Skepburn 34 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Entertainment, Environmentalists, Fashionistas, Foodies, PETA and Television Stars

I can’t decide where to begin. There’s just so much that’s messed up about this.

Amanda Holden, celebrity, actress, “Britain’s Got Talent” judge, has a few things to sort out.

From the London Times:

“I hate the gym,” she says. “And I can’t stay still long enough to do yoga: I’m too busy-busy. And I’m vegetarian, but I love my food. Tonight I’m going to 10 Downing Street for my dinner with Simon [Cowell] and Piers [Morgan] because Simon didn’t want to go on his own.” Her guilty pleasures, she says, are “butter and wine. I don’t believe in having low-fat spread in the fridge, and I do indulge in a pudding, and I do like a bit of Stilton when I’m having posh dinners out”. At weekends she and Hughes head for their Norfolk cottage and go for a “massive walk on Holkham beach, lunch at the Hoste Arms in Burnham Market with red wine and a roast, the meat wrapped up and given to the dogs, and then watch a movie”.

So she’s a vegetarian who orders meat and feeds it to her dogs? I’d be pissed if I were that cow.  But wait, unborn chicken is on the menu too?

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22
Jan

PETA: Porn Entertainment, T & A

By Pastafarian 36 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists and PETA

large-SashaGreyA note from your friendly Oversneer: Long-time Deceiver reader “Pastafarian” contributed the piece below. Anyone else want to try their hand at hypocrite-hunting? E-mail me at oversneer@gmail.com

So PETA, being the marketing geniuses that they are, decided to pick the world’s least attractive (and squintiest) porn star to get naked for an ad.

Because, you know, it’s shocking when porn stars strip it all off. Or something.

Apparently it’s important to keep your animals from having babies. I guess it’s also crucial for on-screen sex “models” to do something in the animal advocacy world so no one trots out the obligatory “pussycat abuse” snarks.

But I digress.

Sasha says: “I think spaying and neutering is incredibly important…”  Suuuure. Unless she means cows. Because where else do fancy boots and matching purses come from?

Oh hey, look!

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21
Jan

PETA Bestows ‘Proggy’ Award on James Cameron

By Holly Won't 14 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Entertainment, Movie Stars and PETA
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The only ones more excited than James Cameron about the photorealistic CGI in Avatar were the people at PETA. To that end, they gave Cameron the prestigious (I’m sure) Proggy Award for Outstanding Feature Film yesterday.

From the press release:

For making a film with an overarching message of decency, understanding, and compassion—as well as breathtakingly beautiful CGI that heralds a new era in filmmaking (one that we hope marks the coming end of the use of live animals in entertainment)—we have awarded James Cameron our 2010 Proggy Award for Outstanding Feature Film.

Because he’s now an environmental activist, this award is probably every bit as meaningful to him as the new batch of Oscars he’s making space for on his mantle. But if he thought for a moment, he might be perplexed because he used real live horses that were blanketed with electronic sensors to capture the minute movements necessary to render a believable horse-like creature in his movie. (You can see several of them throughout the video above.)

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15
Jan

What — No Rights For Single-Celled Organisms?

By The Oversneer 19 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Crazy People, Foodies and PETA

BreadFAILYou just have to love PETA. Some days if it weren’t for them, I would have no entertainment at all.

The save-the-animals crowd gets their collective panties in a wad every time I eat a steak, make some artisanal goat-milk cheese, go fly fishing, take down a black bear, ride a circus elephant, trap a lynx, test my new cancer cure on some ferrets, shear some sheep, or stitch some mink pelts together for grandma.

You just can’t please these pricks.

So I think this is a genuine gotcha. I was browsing PETA’s vegetarian cooking website, looking for ways to punish my 5-year-old, when I happened on this:

Country Bread

Making homemade bread doesn’t have to be as difficult as it sounds, and it can be much healthier than store-bought bread, without all the added preservatives. One of my favorite varieties to make is a rustic sourdough. I like to call it “country bread.”

This recipe calls for an active sourdough culture, and the remaining ingredients couldn’t be simpler—just flour, water, and sea salt. To make this a true country loaf, place the round of dough in the oven without slashing the top. As it bakes, the bread will break apart and create a rustic look.

Enjoy!

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12
Jan

9 out of 10 porn stars, strippers and thugs agree: Fur is BAD

By Sarah Jessica Snarker 18 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, PETA and Sports Figures

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...

Yeah, and "Hugs, Not Drugs," "Shoot Hoops, Not Guns." Oh...wait...

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08
Jan

Oprah. Fur. Leather. (Thankfully, It’s Not What You Think.)

By The Oversneer 20 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: PETA and Television Stars

Welcome Farkers. Look around! We’ve got lots more lunacy.

When I wrote about the PETA ad earlier today that’s been in the news because it shanghaied Michelle Obama into the fur wars, I confess I didn’t look too closely at the ad itself.

So I’m grateful to a faithful reader who e-mailed to point out that I should have been paying closer attention to Oprah.

Who was wearing a leather skirt in the ad.

You can’t make this stuff up.

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08
Jan

Bad Jacket Company. No Obama Ad For You. (It’s George Lopez on Line Three…)

By The Oversneer 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses, PETA, Television Stars and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

Obama-WeatherproofA story that mentions PETA, and they’re not the hypocrites? Yeah, I know. Weird, huh?

I mean, PETA’s the reigning Deceiver Madness champ. Their stable of celebrity famewhores pretty much define hypocrisy. (See here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here …)

Anywho … last week PETA started driving anti-fur billboard vans [typo fixed  -ed] around Washington, DC with an advertisement saying that Michelle Obama is against wearing fur. (I guess everyone’s forgotten about the mink coat she wore to Jesse Jackson’s birthday party in 2006…) PETA intentionally didn’t ask the First Lady for her permission, because they knew the answer would be “no.”

Then another kerfuffle erupted, this time about the use of Barack Obama’s image in an ad for Weatherproof jackets. Obama was snapped wearing one of the coats during a visit to the Great Wall of China, and the company turned it into an ad. Again, nobody asked for permission from the White House.

The Obama Administration is saying that (1) It didn’t give anyone permission to use either Obama’s likenesses in advertising, (2) it wouldn’t ever do it, and (3) it would really, really like the ads taken down. Here’s the statement from White House spokesman Ben LaBolt:

The White House has a longstanding policy disapproving of the use of the president’s name and likeness for commercial purposes. Unless it’s for NBC or George Lopez.

Okay, I added that last sentence. But that’s what he should have said.

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04
Jan

Study confirms: Deceiver.com balances out the universe

By Audrey Skepburn 6 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Businesses, Crazy People, Entertainment, PETA, Scientists, Sports Figures and The Religious

edwardsHere at Deceiver, we don’t think of ourselves as doing much good for society as a whole. We rank ourselves somewhere between a colon cleanse company and Ipecac manufacturers. We have a great product, but we make a lot of people feel sick inside.

According to a recent Northwestern University study, though, we are helping restore balance to the universe. Yep, you heard me right.

It turns out that powerful people really do hold those beneath them to a much higher standard than they hold themselves. So nyah-nyah, it’s not just our enlightened proletariat opinion anymore. The study also confirms that people who don’t feel entitled to power let “the deceivers” get away with it.

We try not to let that happen here, of course. That’s the whole point. We play bookie to the social order, tilting the whole thing back toward center. And our mission has just been legitimized by science. (What WILL we use this new found power for?)

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20
Dec

How Does PETA Airbrush Thee? Let Me Count The Ways…

By The Oversneer 17 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, PETA, Socialites and Television Stars

US-Frankel_comparisonWhen faux “housewife” Bethenny Frankel did her naked PETA photo shoot, we were initially interested in the fact that her veal-eating, dog-hoarding, leather-shoe-wearing habits might not make her the best spokesMILF for PETA’s band of the vegan and vinyl.

We were right, of course. But the plot is thickening.

When the photo was first released, Frankel gushed to Page Six that she was “especially pleased because it doesn’t look like there’s been any airbrushing, and I was already pregnant when I shot it.”

At the time, reactions to this self-delusion ranged from the eye-roll to the cat claw.

One of her co-stars tweeted: “I just threw up a little in my mouth” — and then later: “Someone tell Bethenny that sperm does not make you look fat … and I’m not buying the airbrushing thing in any case.”

Gothamist posted a wrinkly pic of Bethenny and snarked: “Really? Because it sort of looks like there was a whole hell of a lot of airbrushing.”

And (for the win…) Celebslam wrote: “Is this bitch high? If this thing was any more airbrushed, the artist would have signed it. This is what Bethenny really looks like. That PETA ad looks more like Abraham Lincoln than it does her.”

Today the whole thing came full-circle, with Frankel releasing a copy of the unretouched photo to US Weekly. Supposedly to prove that it wasn’t airbrushed. Or that she was high. Or something.

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