http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20090617/US.Obama.Dead.Fly/

PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly

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.

Seriously?  If they want to be taken serious, I think they need to choose their battles a little more carefully. ;D

Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahaa!!!!  You beat me to posting this story.  I totally knew they were going to ride his ass about swatting that fly. ;D

It's nice to know that all is well in the world so the only thing we have to worry about is Obama killing a fly. ;D

The question assumes that the PETA people have minds to begin with.


I'm waiting for someone to put the video of Obama with the fly with this tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzrdoEO67xc


:D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

Last time I checked, flies are not animals. PETA could be doing so much good, but instead they resort to dumb publicity stunts that only make their organization crazier than it already is.

Ant

Last time I checked, flies are not animals. PETA could be doing so much good, but instead they resort to dumb publicity stunts that only make their organization crazier than it already is.

Ant


Exactly! What is next? The White House gets infested with cockroaches and Peta wants them removed and sent back into the wild? For real!

They are called PESTS for a reason! They aren't "loving life forms that are just looking for a society to accept and love them"!!! I know, lets catch a bunch of flies, release them at the next PETA banquet/luncheon whatever, and have the flies regurgitate all over their food and see if PETA really wants to eat anything after that! What a bunch of idiots! ;D

im gonna stick up for PETA cuz that's the mood im in.  :D they didnt call him names or anything, they just sent him a bug trap. and, you know, all things being equal it's better not to kill flies if you can help it i suppose, though i do it all the time. i figure PETA kinda HAD to do SOMEthing. i mean, it's kinda their job...

i was waiting for a ridiculous conservative backlash though. you know, "some compassionate liberal he is, massacring flies. sure you don't care now but one day you're killing flies, the next you're raping 14-year-olds and aborting toddlers."

or, "you know who else killed flies? HITLER, that's who!"

Plus, flies make wonderful pets.  They're loveable, loyal, friendly, good at fetch...

Wait, I mean insect compainions.  We don't say "pets" anymore.

or, "you know who else killed flies? HITLER, that's who!"


Actually, Hitler was a vegetarian.  He probably didn't kill flies. 

there's this right wing forum i used to go to to argue with cons back when i could stand it and im trying to come up with a post pretending to be a rightwinger all pissed off because the abortionist eugenicist hitler loving obama swatted a fly. can someone  help me out with some good ranting language? think of it as a fun exercise. thanks in advance.

Last time I checked, flies are not animals. PETA could be doing so much good, but instead they resort to dumb publicity stunts that only make their organization crazier than it already is.

Ant


Technically, flies are in the animal kingdom and are, thus, animals :P

But I kill them regardless.

there's this right wing forum i used to go to to argue with cons back when i could stand it and im trying to come up with a post pretending to be a rightwinger all pissed off because the abortionist eugenicist hitler loving obama swatted a fly. can someone  help me out with some good ranting language? think of it as a fun exercise. thanks in advance.


Do you really think they'll take the bait?

Do you really think they'll take the bait?
i dunno, i cant find a way to prase it where i sound like a convincrng pro-lifer.

let me check free republic.

It's stuff like this that really makes me wonder why any celebrity would be part of their media spreads.  I sure as hell wouldn't contribute to them or promote them in any way.

I support the President's right to kill anything he's willing to eat.  ;)

I ate a fly on a bar bet, it was highly impressive. I grabbed it out of mid-air and didn't know what to do with it, somebody bet me I wouldn't eat it.. I won.

Exactly! What is next? The White House gets infested with cockroaches and Peta wants them removed and sent back into the wild? For real!


Yes.  Seriously.

When I saw Obama swat the fly, I thought, "What if PETA made a scene about this?"

I was still naively subjunctive with my "what if". 

It's like what happened to Rush Limbaugh since Obama got elected.  He's not figuratively crazy, he's literally psychotic.
::)

i still say sending him a humane flytrap does not register on the crazymeter. the other side is openly advocating the assassination of abortion doctors, and we're spanking peta for sending the president a flytrap. i don't buy it. peta is crazy, yes, but not at the moment. this seems perfectly fine to me.

There was an Obama who swatted a fly
I dunno why he swatted that fly
Hear PETA cry...

Ant

Did you see the way he nailed that fly though?  I watched it like five times. 8)  Yes, PETA has totally lost their ever loving minds.

Did you see the way he nailed that fly though?  I watched it like five times. 8)  Yes, PETA has totally lost their ever loving minds.


Conan made a funny clip of it :D

i still say sending him a humane flytrap does not register on the crazymeter. the other side is openly advocating the assassination of abortion doctors, and we're spanking peta for sending the president a flytrap. i don't buy it. peta is crazy, yes, but not at the moment. this seems perfectly fine to me.


Obama should have just gotten a pet frog.  The fly is natural prey for the frog.  No harm done!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/kermit.gif

you guys are hilarious...its why I keep coming back!  ;)

Wow, if PeTA ever saw how many gnats and flies I've swatted over the past month, I'd totally be on their shyt list.....

Wow, if PeTA ever saw how many gnats and flies I've swatted over the past month, I'd totally be on their shyt list.....


based on some of your statements from the past you might already be on that list  ;D

based on some of your statements from the past you might already be on that list  ;D


They can bite me, just like I bit into that delicious steak last night.

They can bite me, just like I bit into that delicious steak last night.


LOVE IT!

They can bite me, just like I bit into that delicious steak last night.


Did Rice cook any of those kittens from the lab?

Did Rice cook any of those kittens from the lab?


http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk134/Brett_Bass/default-2aspx.jpg

Dude, I was so tempted to buy goat meat today.  The farmer's market has this lady that drives in from Indiana with freshly slaughtered carcasses.  Too expensive though, so I bought some thick assed ham steaks.

Cat: The other other white meat.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3639893987_e9ce083580.jpg?v=0


Wow, if PeTA ever saw how many gnats and flies I've swatted over the past month, I'd totally be on their shyt list.....


If they knew how many mosquitos I killed today, they'd be comparing me to, uh, Orkin.

Ant

Cat: The other other white meat.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3639893987_e9ce083580.jpg?v=0

If they knew how many mosquitos I killed today, they'd be comparing me to, uh, Orkin.

Ant


;D

Hell, I know.  The frackin' skeeters are HUGE this year.  I can't even open the balcony door anymore because they fly in.  I can't even open the windows because the little mosquitos can get in right through the screening.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20090617/US.Obama.Dead.Fly/

Seriously?  If they want to be taken serious, I think they need to choose their battles a little more carefully. ;D


Obviously you have not watched the movie The Next Karate Kid

Wow, if PeTA ever saw how many gnats and flies I've swatted over the past month, I'd totally be on their shyt list.....


Don't forget the mosquitos.  I must be on the PeTA death list for how many of those buggers I have killed lately.

Obviously you have not watched the movie The Next Karate Kid


Nope, sorry.  If it isn't Ralph Macchio it isn't The Karate Kid.

I like cats. They taste just like chicken.


Last night, we had a fly in our bedroom. I told Carlos that he needs to call the White House and ask Obama to come and take care of that fly for us.  :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

Dude, I was so tempted to buy goat meat today.  The farmer's market has this lady that drives in from Indiana with freshly slaughtered carcasses.  Too expensive though, so I bought some thick assed ham steaks.


I've eaten goat in Indian/Pakistani food.  It is REALLY good.  :D

Don't forget the mosquitos.  I must be on the PeTA death list for how many of those buggers I have killed lately.


;D

PETA would have a hissy fit if they knew how many bugs I've killed in my lifetime!  :D

;D

PETA would have a hissy fit if they knew how many bugs I've killed in my lifetime!   :D



personally I like to drown them... watch them squirm!  ;D

personally I like to drown them... watch them squirm!  ;D


My mother likes to flush bugs down the toilet after squashing them!  :o  ;D

My mother likes to flush bugs down the toilet after squashing them!   :o  ;D


Would be kinda hard to do it the other way around.  ;D

personally I like to drown them... watch them squirm!  ;D


Me too...PETA members that is!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/03/devilsmile.gif

Me too...PETA members that is!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/03/devilsmile.gif


;D

I had sea kittens today.  They were good.

I had sea kittens today.  They were good.


:-X

I had sea kittens today.  They were good.


Dare I ask: what are "sea kittens"?

Ant

Dare I ask: what are "sea kittens"?

Ant


You guys didn't hear about the PETA folk renaming fish to "sea kittens"?  Or maybe I remembered wrong...

http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/

http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/


Ah, I seem to recall that now. From PETA's site:

"And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?"

To answer their question, I saw a video the other day of some guys using live cats as shark bait. It was bad enough it made me want to join PETA... almost, anyway.

Ant

You guys didn't hear about the PETA folk renaming fish to "sea kittens"?  Or maybe I remembered wrong...
oh no, youre right, it was you and jess told me about that in the first place.

Ah, I seem to recall that now. From PETA's site:

"And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?"

To answer their question, I saw a video the other day of some guys using live cats as shark bait. It was bad enough it made me want to join PETA... almost, anyway.

Ant


What kind of sharks?

What kind of sharks?


They might have had frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

They might have had frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.


Did you ever see that picture of my dad with the three tiger sharks they caught?  Those suckers were at least six feet long.

Did you ever see that picture of my dad with the three tiger sharks they caught?  Those suckers were at least six feet long.


My evil ex-boss used to call your dad the "Poacher" because he catches so many fish with such ease :P

My evil ex-boss used to call your dad the "Poacher" because he catches so many fish with such ease :P


In my dad's own words, he's a "master baiter".

Now you all know where I get my sad and sick sense of humour.

What kind of sharks?


Sharks must be sea kittens too, right?
???

What kind of sharks?


Blue marlin and "sharks".

You can find the video on this site, if you're so inclined. It's not *terribly* graphic by my standards, but I'll add "NSFW" to CMA.

One guy called kittens "land fish". I'm burning in hell for laughing at that, but so be it.

Ant

I couldn't help thinking...

I know an Obama who swatted a fly
I don't know why he swatted a fly
He's quite a guy

I know an Obama got slated by PETA
What could be better than slating by PETA?
Was slated by PETA for swatting a fly
I don't know why he swatted a fly
He's quite a guy

...and so on

My friend tried to tell me PETA was "Dadaist."  Not in a million years.  Tristan Tzara would've pissed on them.
::)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sV3_LUBGTU&feature=player_embedded

He should have done this, instead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1gAHil89Z4