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President Obama, in a display of some totally 1337 ninja skills, swatted a fly during a CNBC interview. Don't believe me about the ninja moves? Just watch:
The story this incident has spawned is not that Obama is secretly a bad-assed ninja (sadface), but that PETA is upset that President Obama had the nerve to kill a poor innocent fly. ...wait, what?
Really. Really? So all those poor dogs being used for dog fighting, or illegal puppy mills have less priority for PETA than the death of one annoying housefly? I'm...confused. I wonder what PETA thinks of the fact that every day millions upon millions of bugs are splattered across car windshields world-wide, or what about the mosquitos I swat when they start sucking my blood? Shall we start a campaign for those poor oppressed deer ticks which spread Lyme disease?
Seriously. Yet one more reason I can't take PETA seriously, and that's without getting into their misgonystic approaches to spreading their "message."
Now then, I expect conspiracy theories to crop up about Obama's secret childhood training under the tutelage of Mr. Miyagi any day now.
The story this incident has spawned is not that Obama is secretly a bad-assed ninja (sadface), but that PETA is upset that President Obama had the nerve to kill a poor innocent fly. ...wait, what?
On Tuesday, a fly intruded during Obama’s interview with CNBC correspondent John Harwood at the White House. Obama swatted the fly and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is not happy, so they sent him 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.” [Emphasis added]
Really. Really? So all those poor dogs being used for dog fighting, or illegal puppy mills have less priority for PETA than the death of one annoying housefly? I'm...confused. I wonder what PETA thinks of the fact that every day millions upon millions of bugs are splattered across car windshields world-wide, or what about the mosquitos I swat when they start sucking my blood? Shall we start a campaign for those poor oppressed deer ticks which spread Lyme disease?
Seriously. Yet one more reason I can't take PETA seriously, and that's without getting into their misgonystic approaches to spreading their "message."
Now then, I expect conspiracy theories to crop up about Obama's secret childhood training under the tutelage of Mr. Miyagi any day now.
