That is what you get when you have liberals who don't value humans.
Think about this from an Alinksy playbook perspective;
Most people love dogs.
Would you rather face ridicule for being so blindingly stupid you hauled a dog on the car roof or for being so “foreign/alien/freakish” that you *ate* dogs and then bragged about it in a book?
Obeyme’s people played on the figurative visceral reaction of Mitt’s Setter so it makes perfect sense to play on the literal visceral reaction to Obeyme’s supper.
I imagine this falls under Saul’s “fight fire with fire/ridicule” section.