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Started by jimmy olsen, June 18, 2009, 11:23:46 AM

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jimmy olsen

June 18, 2009, 11:23:46 AM
What planet do these guy's live on?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090618/...obama_dead_fly
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WASHINGTON – 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.
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BuddhaRhubarb

#1
June 18, 2009, 11:34:07 AM
PETA? Nobody listens to those asshats. Extremists are always assholes. End of story. No senses of humour= :bleeding:

Swatting that fly (which may not have been dead... PETA.) was the single greatest thing that Obama has done since taking office. Almost as cool as Bush's near death dorito experience.
:p

KRonn

#2
June 18, 2009, 11:48:24 AM
FlyGATE.... oh the horror.  :huh:

Hmm, maybe Pres Obama can send PETA's leaders to Gitmo.  Seems to be some space available there now.   ;)

Neil

#3
June 18, 2009, 11:53:32 AM
Flies aren't curious.  They're not wired for emotion, and their brains run on less power than some people's wristwatches.

At any rate, this is just attention-whoring by PETA, not an actual political statement.
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#4
June 18, 2009, 11:56:01 AM
It's a great way to marginalize themselves. You could probably get a sizable percentage, possibly even a majority, to agree that the "ethical treatment of animals" is desirable. But their wacky comments and extremism just makes them irrelevant.

Cerr

#5
June 18, 2009, 11:56:47 AM
I don't know why you're taking this non-story seriously.

Some journalist probably asked PETA to respond to Obama's swatting of the fly. They say some fairly harmless things, get free publicity and the journalist gets an article to write.

Slargos

#6
June 18, 2009, 11:57:07 AM
Aftonbladet reported how he "cold heartedly" swatted the fly.

Sometimes I suspect I live in the Matrix. And not just a general Matrix that we all are connected to, but rather, my own personal tool of torment.

I'm actually beginning to think that I already died and this is what purgatory is like.

I think Hell would probably be a bit worse, but I could totally see purgatory being this way.

Neil

#7
June 18, 2009, 12:22:17 PM
Quote from: Slargos on June 18, 2009, 11:57:07 AM
Aftonbladet reported how he "cold heartedly" swatted the fly.
Yeah, but they hate him because he's American.  Lesser peoples hate everything America does out of instinct.
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#8
June 18, 2009, 12:33:10 PM
Man, Obama is stone cold. I love it.
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Slargos

#9
June 18, 2009, 12:56:11 PM
Quote from: Neil on June 18, 2009, 12:22:17 PM
Quote from: Slargos on June 18, 2009, 11:57:07 AM
Aftonbladet reported how he "cold heartedly" swatted the fly.
Yeah, but they hate him because he's American.  Lesser peoples hate everything America does out of instinct.

The honeymoon is definitely over, yes.

They were raving about him like he was the second coming a month ago.

Now we're back in ameriKKKan territory.

Valmy

#10
June 18, 2009, 01:17:26 PM
This is why no sane person would ever want to be POTUS.  I mean killing a fly is a big deal now?
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#11
June 18, 2009, 01:58:02 PM
LOL when I saw that clip with Obama killing the fly, I joked that PETA is going to protest it.  :huh:

Admiral Yi

#12
June 18, 2009, 02:00:42 PM
Quote from: Cerr on June 18, 2009, 11:56:47 AM
I don't know why you're taking this non-story seriously.

Some journalist probably asked PETA to respond to Obama's swatting of the fly. They say some fairly harmless things, get free publicity and the journalist gets an article to write.
Dude, they sent him a humane fly catcher.

KRonn

#13
June 18, 2009, 02:02:05 PM
Silly PETA, bunch of extremists. Extremists are always a part of the problem, no matter what the issue is. 

KRonn

#14
June 18, 2009, 02:03:20 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 18, 2009, 12:33:10 PM
Man, Obama is stone cold. I love it.
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