Palin vs. PETA

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[Sub-Driver]

Palin vs. PETA

We think it's safe to say that Sarah Palin didn't get a Christmas card from the folks at PETA. (You know, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.)

Or vice versa.

During the holiday season, PETA posted an online game that involves pelting the (moose-hunting) Alaska governor with snowballs, urging internet users to "help make the holidays safe for animals by fighting back against notorious animal abusers."

(In the game, we should mention, Palin is bikini-clad and wearing a fur coat.)

Fast forward to Tuesday morning...PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said she received a call from someone who claimed to be from Palin's office demanding that PETA take the game off their website, Bruce Friedrich, PETA's VP of Policy and Communications recounted to Shenan.

When Newkirk asked for the gentleman's name, he yelled into the phone, “Just take the game down or you’ll read my name on the lawsuit,” Friedrich said.

A couple of hours later, after PETA posted a blog item on the call, Newkirk received an email from Bill McAllister, Palin's communications director. Read the jump for the full (fiery!) email exchange.

[Sub-Driver]

oh brother........

[Always Right]

(In the game, we should mention, Palin is bikini-clad and wearing a fur coat.)

So the game ain't all bad.

[St. Louis Conservative]

This story just makes me adore Sarah even more than I already did.

[4rcane]

they’re meat-eater haters. I hope none of them actually eat meat

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

That almost makes me want to check that game out. Except I don’t want any records of a visit to the PETArds’ web site.

[Always Right]

some of them eat meat. many of them wear leather tennis shoes, have leather wallets, and leather belts.

[Lurker]

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk ....is a diabetic who is insulin dependent, as in Equine Derived Insulin.

So she has no problem shooting herself up with a drug made from 'exploited' horses while at the same time advocating that YOU and I have no access to such drugs.

Some animals are indeed more equal than others.

L

[MahatmaGandu]

PETA hates Palin. Good. That tells me she’s doing something right.

[Always Right]

kind of like all those scientist who worry about us lighting up our Christmas trees, meanwhile they are off flying to the latest global warming boondoogle.

[LiberConservative]

Mad at Bush? Throw things at him. Mad at Palin? Throw things at her. Toddlers are easier to get along with.

[lazypadawan]

An enemy of PETA is a friend of mine! Now to put on a fur coat and dig into a big juicy steak!

[Vaquero]

Nuke the Whales!!!!

[Lou Budvis]

The irony is that PETA should at least credit SP for eating meat and fish that she or her family kills or catches themselves, and not buying from industrial food farms.

[RobRoy]

If you haven’t seen this, you need to. It is absolutely incredible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exLa6saV9o

Penn and teller Bullsh!! episode on PETA.

[Lurker]

Nuke the Whales!!!!

Actually it's nukethegaywhalesforjesus.org.

Merry Christmas!

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

This story just makes me adore Sarah even more than I already did.

You are so right. Every time one of these nut-job groups takes a shot at Mrs. Palin, I learn something new about her, or see something new in her that just makes me like her even more.

Palin in 12 !!!

PS - I'm a member of the other PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals

[catchem]

I have lived on this earth for 67 years, and frankly, I have grown weary of the ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the ACLU, PETA, NAACP, both the Democratic and the Republican parties, and entities in general that continue to manufacture ‘news’ through these sewer conduits. The very term ‘journalist’ is enough to turn the stomach and loosen the bowel.

[Charlespg]

my dog has a higher IQ then Peta

[golf lover]

I am proud to be a life long member of PETA.(People Eating Tasty Animals)

[weegee]

(In the game, we should mention, Palin is bikini-clad and wearing a fur coat.)

Defamation of character by portraying her in a fur coat. Never seen a picture of her wearing fur. And having an animal skin on your wall is not the same.

[norton]

I want to sue the guy in a shiny new Hummer who cut me off yesterday.
Can't do it because he only had a dealer advertisement where the license plate is supposed to be - but he did have a bright red-white-blue Obama decal in the back skylight.

[Obushma]

Sarah in a bikini and fur and possibly holding a glock? Well, we now know what the creator of that game fantasizes about.......

[Zakeet]

[Wegotsarah.com]

That’s not very specific. Who called? Name and title given? Did you even attempt to verify it was genuine? Or are facts just cumbersome?

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Gov. Palin's secretary (McAllister) needs to be more circumspect. There will be COUNTLESS groups trying to pick a fight with Gov.Palin because, the mere association with her- gives a "group" visibility (e.g. -this election, it was nauseating to watch the singularly unqualified Kathleen Parker make a career on Gov. Palin's popularity).

Here, the animal rights opportunists set the trap, and McAllister took the bait...

How many more people are going to be drawn to the Peta website due to this publicity? Not that it matters- but as a rule- why serve their ends? Unless, of course, Gov. Palin sees some political gain in confronting Peta- but I can't see it.

[Obushma]

*How many more people are going to be drawn to the Peta website due to this publicity?*

Damn the publicity, we’re talking Sarah in a fur and bikinies!!!

[neb52]

[FrankR]

"I have lived on this earth for 67 years, and frankly, I have grown weary of the ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the ACLU, PETA, NAACP, both the Democratic and the Republican parties, and entities in general that continue to manufacture ‘news’ through these sewer conduits. The very term ‘journalist’ is enough to turn the stomach and loosen the bowel."

I just 4 years behind you in years, and I agree with you 110%.

[massgopguy]

PETA made Oprah their Person of the Year. She shot up to 200 lbs eating celery?

[ozark hilljilly]

[Islander2]

"they’re meat-eater haters." Well, not exactly true. Don't forget those PETA folks who are Gay. Mahalo, and Merry Christmas

[ReeseBN38416]

You’re right. My chemistry professor in college didn’t eat meat because “it was immoral.” But he didn’t have a problem wearing a leather bomber jacket and Birkenstocks to class.

[Bon mots]

[Flycatcher]

Wow! Excellent show. I just finished watching all three episodes of Penn & Teller on the hypocrisy of PETA.

Thanks for the link!

[Tallguy]

Ingrid Newkirk is a loon.

[RightWhale]

To a Louse

. . .

O would some Power the gift to give us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!
(Robert Burns)

For PETA, Global Warmers, and other Liberals.

Although they certainly have their own views about conservatives.

[RobRoy]

Hehehe, off topic but you’ll LOVE this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDbTL9DFpA

You have to open each part separately with this one.

[Flycatcher]

Way ahead of ya. When I was on YouTube for the P & T PETA shows, I noticed all the other P & T shows on the righthand browser. I can't wait to delve into them.

Thanks again!

[feedback doctor]

Bttt

[AndrewB]

[Red_Devil 232]

Love it - Penn lables Newkirk a “press slut”! LOL

[Libloather]

The game? http://www.peta.org/feat/HolidaySnowballFight/index.aspx

[Redbob]

Send a note to Ingrid Newkirk at PETA
ngridn@peta.org

and expect a snotty reply!

[euram]

PETA is pretty active here in MN. One of their favorite tactics is to sneak up behind little old ladies (the older and more frail the better) and slash their fur coats or splash them with red paint. I’ve never heard of them trying the same thing at a biker bar. A few years ago, one of PETA’s allies, the Animal Liberation Front, liberated hundreds of lab rats here, releasing them into the wild. The catch is that it was winter, and most or all of them froze to death.