Posted on 12/04/2018 7:30:28 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Slate is being torched online for an article telling readers to tone down their excitement about the late George H.W. Bush’s service dog, Sully.
An image of Sully, a yellow Labrador, lying in front of the former president's casket has been circulating online for several days, with people on social media fawning over the dog's apparent loyalty to his former owner.
Slate on Sunday published an article titled "Don’t Spend Your Emotional Energy on Sully H.W. Bush," which argues that Sully was only Bush's service dog for six months and was "not his lifelong companion," as some have assumed.
"Sully is not a longtime Bush family pet, letting go of the only master he has known," the article reads. "He is an employee who served for less than six months."
"This was clearly written by a cat," Buzzfeed News's Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jon Passantino tweeted in response.
Slate's original tweet promoting the article had received 395 retweets and over 7,300 replies as of Tuesday morning. This is known as a Twitter "ratio," a phenomenon reserved for tweets that are received poorly.
"Is this the most pointlessly dickish piece yet published about GHWB's passing in the mainstream media?" one Twitter user asked. "Why yes, yes it is."
"Breaking: Sully the dog isn't 90 years old," wrote another.
Sully is a service dog that began working with Bush starting in the summer of this year. He began serving Bush shortly after former first lady Barbara Bush died in April.
The dog accompanied Bush's casket when it was flown to Washington, D.C. on Monday.
Catty
3.5 yrs in dog time.
That picture is basically a historic picture. Sometimes that happens...
For Slate to belittle it...tells its own story.
I ain’t no fan of GHWB, that is certain, however, I have totally fallen for several dogs in well less than three months of time, and same for the dog.
Probably less than one month actually.
So for them to discount the bond between man and dog here is disgusting to me.
‘Slate is called out for being snarky.’
compared to some of the posts on this very website about this, Slate needs to work on tuning up the old snark meter...
This is how some people spend their days, and get paid for it too, I assume? Ah, for the days when most people had to do dirty, backbreaking work in order to survive. It cut down considerably on the number of triflers and time-wasters in the population.
There was also a similar photo of a dog at the casket of a fallen soldier a few years ago.
Tells you all you need to know about slate. An insane, mean-spirited substandard rag of the left, unable to print a coherent thought since its inception.
I fell totally for my older dog, who will be 14 in early 2019, in the two and and a half hours it took me to drive home with him from where I’d adopted him. He spent the whole time curled up in the passenger’s seat with his nose resting against my right elbow. They’ll do it to you.
Could not have been. Cats have bad grammar.
I had a German Shorthaired Pointer named Lucy that my parents absolutely loved. When they moved to be near me and my family they asked if I could leave Lucy with them. So I did. When my father was passing away Lucy would stay in his room with him or lay by the door.
When I got the call that he had died I drove over there and sure enough there was Lucy laying by his bed. When the hearse showed up to take him away, she walked with him along side the gurney and looked back at me to give her permission to jump in the car with him.
I’ll never forget that.
Yep.
The type of love and bond that occurs between man and dog is strong, and it happens fast.
I’m very cynical about a lot of things, especially politicians, but I’m not cynical about the love of dogs, so this article is really obnoxious.
Most really good pictures of dogs do involve humans setting up a scene.
Otherwise one has to have camera in hand at all times ready to snap one of a dog doing something naturally, which does happen, but I’d say it’s fairly uncommon.
Not saying the dog wasn't attached to Bush, but that picture is staged.
Not saying the dog wasn't attached to Bush, but that picture is staged.
I got similarly sentimental over the disappearance of Obama's dog. Did they ever announce what happened to "Bo"?
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