Posted on 01/03/2015 5:25:21 PM PST by grundle
Source: www.tpnn.com
When former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ushered in the New Year Thursday by posting a photo on Facebook of her son Trig using the family dog as a footstool in order to reach a kitchen counter, the left exploded in outrage. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals led the charge:
Its odd that anyone let alone a mother would find it appropriate to post such a thing, with no apparent sympathy for the dog in the photo, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk tool Politico in a statement. Then again, PETA, along with everyone else, is used to the hard-hearted, seeming obliviousness of this bizarrely callous woman.
Heres as screenshot of Palins post.
Most of the comments went along the line of this:
Matthew Denver: Horrible mother. Please give that dog a better home.
Also, FYI, this isn’t a political matter. You don’t have to be a “liberal” to know this is wrong. It is troubling that so many people are OK with this. If you are, you do not need an animal in your life. Ever.
But liberals were singing a different tune a mere six months earlier, when comedian Ellen DeGeneres posted a nearly identical photo on her talk shows Facebook page. The image, which appeared July 1, was met primarily with oohs, aahs and awws.
Although it too received its share of disapproving comments, it also prompted a huge number of similar photos of children with dogs, as well as over 260,000 Likes.
I guess it all depends on which side of the political fence youre standing.
That’s just wrong!
Queers should never be allowed anywhere near children.
I guess she could have pulled the dog’s ears like Saint LBJ did!
In Memoriam
No, no, no - he was just returned to the big prop room in the sky.
My gawd, Ellen has got to have world class make up artist on the payroll for her show. That gal, guy, it or whatever looks awful. Trick photography or maybe CGI?
Of course. People are SUPPOSED to like Ellen, whether or not they know anything about her. People are SUPPOSED to dislike or feel superior to Sarah, whether or not they know anything about her.
Too bad Obama’s dog doesn’t do that.
Ellen, the lesbian is posting pics of topless little girls... is she a pedophile too?
How did they get those stockings on?
Mighty patient doggies.
The article I got that pic from said it’s a Japanese internet thing.
WTF is going on in Japan?!?
OK. Now I have seen everything. Oh, man.
The only thing they "reported" was that Sarah said at least Trig didn't eat the dog. They were shaking their heads in disgust, but, of course they didn't give any explanation of why she said that.
Yep to both. Would never allow my kids to use the dog as a step stool.
We always had a hell of a time trying to keep our kids from
sitting on the dogs...
laying on the dogs...
riding on the dogs...
picking up the dogs...
dragging the dogs around...
by their ears...
by their legs...
by their tails.
I would never allow my kids to treat any animal the way you've just described. I taught my children to treat our pets with kindness and to be gentle. It really wasn't a hard thing to do.
love it, thx for the laugh
Is that a picture of the rare, Monica-dog
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