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PETA: Obama’s super sweet fly killing skills inhumane
Karate chop a giant fly and face the wrath of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA thinks President Obama missed an opportunity to be compassionate when he slaughtered a gross housefly during a White House interview Tuesday, June 16, with CNBC’s John Harwood.
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The animal protection organization is shipping the fly swatter in chief a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher. The device allows users to trap a housefly and then release it outside, according to the Associated Press.
“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.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the fly was sort of a jerk.
Despite being warned by the president to “get out of here,” the doomed fly buzzed on.
Harwood called the pest the most “persistent fly” he’d ever seen.
A murderous slap was soon seen and heard.
“Nice,” Harwood and at least one other man said of Obama’s super sweet fly killing skills.
“That was pretty impressive,” Obama said. “I got the sucka.”
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By ELW
June 18, 2009 3:17 PM | Link to this
If Obama had let that fly go, imagine what other potentially agrresive countries to us! Let the world know that we won’t let even a fly get by with that kind of stuff!By aharddaysnight
June 18, 2009 3:47 PM | Link to this
When PeTA is compasionate then maybe then they can tell others how to act. Go to VDAC and look for yourselves. http://www.virginia.gov/vdacsar/cgi-bin/Vdacssearch.cgi?linkselect=facility&form=facselect&fac_num=157&year=2007By Kim
June 18, 2009 3:51 PM | Link to this
That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. It erases their credibility as far as I’m concerned. I don’t consider insects to be “animals”. Do they want mosquitoes caught and released also? How about roaches? Termites? Ridiculous.By Kim
June 18, 2009 4:01 PM | Link to this
That’s great, harddays - so they have killed thousands of animals themselves! I have also seen PETA folks be ridiculously cruel to HUMANS - they don’t seem to think they deserve the same consideration as - well - a housefly. Or should we say a whitehouse fly?By Martha Hardcastle
June 19, 2009 12:52 PM | Link to this
The Prez is the Super Fly of today. Can’t we get Curtis Mayfield on a sound byte? What a man - can kill a fly with one swack of the hand and on live TV! But if you wanna see a really sad story on the other side of the swat, Google “Finnegan’s Flea” on YouTube. It’s killer. Truly.By All flies must die
June 19, 2009 10:08 PM | Link to this
When I saw the video of President Obama killing the fly, I jokingly said to myself, “He’s going to incur the wrath of PETA.” I had no idea they really would get upset about the killing of a fly. Wow, just when I think nothing else can surprise me!