Posted on 06/17/2009 7:34:54 PM PDT by FromLori
The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside. "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." During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama's conversation with correspondent John Harwood. "Get out of here," the president told the pesky insect. When it didn't, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead. "Now, where were we?" Obama asked Harwood.
Then he added: "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker." Friedrich said that PETA was pleased with Obama's voting record in the Senate on behalf of animal rights and noted that he has been outspoken against animal abuses. Still, "swatting a fly on TV indicates he's not perfect," Friedrich said, "and we're happy to say that we wish he hadn't." Deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said the White House has no comment on the matter.
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Everyone knows flies gravitate to crap
He not only killed that fly, he insulted him, as well.
Obama should send it back with instructions!
eyes SO rolling
I will absolutely bet you money that the majority of the members of PETA are “pro-aborts”!
Is there a new group for Insects?? PETI??
This is funny. No, actually - really, it is. It's just that it's so funny, from so many different angles, that I don't know which one to comment on.
Decisions, decisions...
My first thoughts also when I saw the segment.
Question: Why did they put crap on the walls at the Obama wedding?
Answer: To keep the flies off the bride.
No sympathy for humans or even babies but a maggot factory?? yep
I scoop up spiders and other bugs in the house with a cup and put them outside. I’m nicer than Obama.
I don’t care about the fly part of it, but how far have we come from the dignity of Ronald Reagan when this smug jackass kills a fly in a public interview then says, “Pretty impressive, huh?”
It really turns my stomach that such an immature jackass is in the WH.
There’s a (good) reason PETA is not taken seriously...
(at least by rational adults.)
This has to be satire. Right?
I wonder how PETA would react if we were to deposit millions and millions of biting insects at PETA headquarters.
And they wonder why most people don’t take them seriously.
PETA folks are simply insane. There is no other explanation.
There’s flies on 0bama all right, but they don’t last so long.
Don’t be silly. They wish people would cease to exist.
I’m sure the Gipper would not have hesitated to swat a fly.
But I rather doubt he’d have put on airs as though he’d slain a dragon.
These people are dammed morans
PETA has killed tens of thousands of animals it has received...they drop like flies...better to take it to the local pound....link:
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
OK, let's see....bedbugs, tapeworms, maggots, fleas, leeches, roaches....
Oh, and if you get a chigger, do you have it surgically remove and set it free?
Did he at least break to wash his hands? yuck!
Helen Thomas’s elementary-school photo ???
omg lol the comments are all so funny makes you forget about the absurdity of peta
It’s like having somone go right from 10th grade to the White House. What a joke - I STILL can’t believe he’s the leader of the free world. God help us.
How about a live TV feed from the Oval Orifice of a late-term abortion? These people need to get some priorities straight.
Everything now that you would think couldn’t possibly be true is!
Not satire like the other poster said eyes so rolling
without camera - he would tear it’s wings....
What Would Jesus Do ?
See, if it had been Bush, the fly would merely have been waterboarded and eventually sent to Bermuda ...
If unborn humans don’t deserve protection, neither do unborn animals. So next time you meet a PETArd who supports abortion, dare him to prove he is consistent in his beliefs. Serve him a burger made from fetal calf meat. By his logic, it should count as a veggie burger, right?
I like it or we could release them at the white house.
Absolutely brilliant!!!
“I think this is an excellent idea. We should all be catching our flies, mosquitoes and other “curious, smallest and least sympathetic” critters and releasing them at PETA headquarters.
I wonder how PETA would react if we were to deposit millions and millions of biting insects at PETA headquarters.
I can just picture it now: different folks walking into PETA headquarters with multiple kinds of insects in baggies, and then opening them....spiders, ants, scorpions, centipedes,a snake or two, buffalo gnats, bees, all captured on video tape of course that will serve as our tutorial on how to show that we are compassionate.
Hey Matthew, Don’t you suppose God created those insects just as he did man? Just take another look at that beautiful photo of a fly a few posts up.
No and then I think he scratches his face I’ll have to watch the video again have you seen it?
http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/06/shit-shoveler.html
Pubic lice
It really turns my stomach that such an immature jackass is in the WH.
George Washington had something to say about killing bugs in public: if you must, do so in a gentlemanly fashion.
"13th Kill no Vermin as Fleas, lice ticks &c in the Sight of Others, if you See any filth or thick Spittle put your foot Dexteriously upon it if it be upon the Cloths of your Companions, Put it off privately, and if it be upon your own Cloths return Thanks to him who puts it off."
Source:
George Washington, sometime before the age of 16, transcribed Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation. (Original errors in numbering have been corrected; original spelling is unchanged.)
Did anybody notice how oddly huge that fly was lying on the floor. It seemed bigger than average. There was something about the scene, something wicked that bothered me about the incident! I know I’m wierding out on ya’ll but the whole thing gave me the creeps like a bad omen!
yup remember amityville horror and all the flies that gravitate to evil?
That’s the word, evil! Thanks, it was like watching an evil scene in slow motion. Some bad bad vibes!
Couldn’t watch the movie I’m too chicken when it comes to things like that.
Too bad he didn’t swat it with a koran lol
Beelzebub Lord of the Flies and Beast of Beasts, Prince of false gods, associated with the deadly sin of pride.
What do you think?
Jesus wept.
- John 11:35
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