PETA speaks out against "Ostrich Ad"

The BorowitzReport.com ^ | 10/26/2004 | Andy Borowitz

[Rio]

PETA SEEKS TO BAN ANIMALS FROM POLITICAL ADS AFTER COYOTE EATS OSTRICH Kerry Drops Plans to Use Tortoise, Hare

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is seeking a total ban on the use of animals in political ads after a coyote ate an ostrich during the filming of an ad for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

According to a Kerry aide who witnessed the commercial shoot, an ostrich symbolizing President George W. Bush was supposed to stick its head in the sand while a coyote representing foreign terrorists appeared ominously in the background, but “we forgot to feed the coyote.”

[Rio]

It's not a roadrunner, but close enough!

[George from New England]

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE

weren't they cloned animals in the ads anyway!!!

[Stellar Dendrite]

Did they speak out against Kerry when he shot down the duck?


Don't forget people, Hitler was for "Animal Rights" too! (apparently he was a vegetarian)

[oolatec]

Quote:

we forgot to feed the coyote

Me:

LMAO

[Shryke]

but “we forgot to feed the coyote.”

ROTFLOL!!!!!!

[freepertoo]

I am DYING here!!!!! BRAAAAAAAA-HAAAA!!!!

[sam I am]

Must have been some coyote to swallow the ostrich whole!!

[WestTexasWend]

Okay...I was just scanning this and thought it said "coyote eats Estrich"...(picture Wile E. Coyote with that "I'm so screwed" look)...not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Instead of remaining in the background, the aide said, the hungry coyote pounced on the ostrich and swallowed it whole."

Man, I don't wanna get anywhere near THAT coyote. It must ge the Godzilla of coyote-dom!!!

[Bigg Red]

Kerry ...shot down the duck..

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It was a goose, actually. Notice that he would not let himself be seen on camera carrying it?

[Larry Lucido]

[oyez]

Did they speak out against Kerry when he shot down the duck?

No. They said they didn't want to get involved in the political issues. Give me a stinkin' break.

[bamapainter]

Best laugh I've had all day.

[ArmyBratCutie]

this is not funny at all to me....it hurts my heart to read about that OSTRICH being killed like that...I cant bare for an animal to be KILLED for no good reason....I HATE JOHN KERRY and I DESPISE THE FACT HE IS A FREAKIN LIAR..NOW HE"S LYING ABOUT SHOOTING OR NOT SHOOTING THAT DUCK....he cant go one day without lying.....what a loser!!!
I feel so bad now......

[Bigg Red]

..hungry coyote pounced on the ostrich and swallowed it whole."

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I am not familiar with the site that came from, but I suspect this is like a story from the Onion. No way a coyote could swallow an ostrich whole. And the commercial, as I recall, has only the eagle and the ostrich in it and no coyotes.

[JIM O]

I thought PETA (People eating tasty animals) only worried about what people did to animals, isn't a coyote eating an ostrich natural in their eyes?

[Trainfish]

4 geese and an ostrich!?!?!! The merciless slaughter of our fowl friends for what?!! What's next, Kerry skinning a cat while the voice-over reads, "Bush only knows one way to skin a cat..."

Okay, the cat I don't mind. Dead birds, not so good.

Kerry can just forget the avain vote.

Roosting until November 3,

Birdman

[ArmyBratCutie]

if this is in fact a joke, its STILL not funny....I hate Kerry.....

[LadyShallott]

(snip)Under pressure from PETA and other animal rights groups, Mr. Kerry has now scrapped plans for new negative ads that were to have featured a tortoise, a hare, a grasshopper and an ant.

But with just one week to go until Election Day, Mr. Kerry may have already alienated a traditional Democratic constituency: bird-loving whack-jobs.

Campaigning in Florida today, Mr. Kerry was repeatedly interrupted by hecklers in the audience chanting “Goose killer! Goose killer!

This just says it all..... :)