It’s a flying maggot, people!
18 June 2009 by StardustI thought when I first read this story that Associated Press and Yahoo News were getting into the spoof business until I read the story completely and see that it’s for real, as ridiculous as it may sound. I’m all for animal rights, but to a certain point. PETA is in a tizzy because Obama was “inhumane” to a FLYING MAGGOT. Unfreakinbelievable!
PETA WISHES OBAMA HADN’T SWATTED THAT FLY
What was he supposed to do with it, catch it in the bug catcher and hold negotiations with it?
Apparently, that is exactly what they think:
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.
These PETA folks, do they bathe? If so, they are destroying living organisms that live on their skin and hair…gasp! When they sit on a chair they crush microscopic mites and other living creatures that are not visible to the naked eye. How inhumane of them! This is utterly absurd. Flies are pests that carry disease that can harm us. And how insane would people look to be running around after flies and mosquitoes with a bug vacuum. Just when I think I’ve heard it all, there’s always more.
Here’s the video:
18 June 2009, on 7:29 pm
If those morons at PETA really like flies so much, they should all shit on their floors and remove their window screens. Come to think of it, they could also hang themselves. The flies will love it.
I worry about the well-being of plants, which is why I won’t eat them.
18 June 2009, on 7:31 pm
Someone please call Bill Maher and tell him to smack these dipshits around a bit.
He’s on the PETA board.
18 June 2009, on 8:40 pm
Dear Mr. Bastid (may I call you Rat?):
I really don’t know what to make of Maher. I never miss his Friday night show, because it’s usually smart and funny. He’s obviously well-educated, at least in the liberal arts. Cornell, I think.
But when it comes to science, he might as well be Jenny McCarthy.
His nutrition theories aren’t backed by anyone who knows anything. His ideas of how to stay healthy are just crazy. Humans all over the world thrive on an amazingly diverse array of diets, including Inuits and Saharan cattle herders, neither of which group has ever seen a fruit or vegetable. Their blood pressure and lipid profiles are better than most vegans’. Heart disease is almost unheard of among both groups, although their lack of access to modern medicine causes them other health problems.
How can someone so smart be so stupid? He also apparently believes the Oliver Stone version of JFK’s assassination. I realize he isn’t exactly alone in that regard, but if anyone really thinks there was a second gunman, do yourself a favor and read “Case Closed.” Or, if you have an enormous amount of time to read about it, read Vince Bugliosi’s book (whose title I have forgotten). It’s big enough to serve as an anchor, but it covers absolutely every suggestion that anyone other than Oswald was involved.
18 June 2009, on 10:07 pm
Yeah, his foodie fetishes are…strange, to say the least. He is right about the amount of preservatives and chemical additives are unhealthy, to say the least. As far as JFK, I didn’t believe the official story until I saw the ballistics recreated on Discovery. We may never know the full story, but the magic bullet seems to be debunked.
I only bring him up because he is on PETA’s board, and he’s probably the most visible anti-theist (or whatever the hell he calls himself now) in America. Or most well known.
If he called them idiots, I think it would “resonate”.
18 June 2009, on 10:08 pm
And Rat is fine. the nickname is to promote profanity.
19 June 2009, on 12:07 am
Why would anyone ask a pothead for nutrition advice?
19 June 2009, on 12:38 am
Anyone who watches enough “Animal Planet” “Survivor Man”, and for that matter any documentaries about raw nature, would have to be somewhat brain dead not to conclude that Nature is “naturally” vicious.
I’m as much against animal cruelty as anyone when it comes to the treatment of any animals “lucky” enough to be under the care of humans…like personal pets, zoo animals, etc. We most conveniently ignore, of course, the often rather cruel treatment of those poor animals destined to “grace” our predatory dinner tables etc. It’s easy, for the most part, to shop for food and not be faced, as in primitive hunting days, with what actually happened to that chunk or blob of flesh before it was clubbed and dissected into a nice, neat, plastic rapped package.
“Oh…Those poor chickens, turkeys, cattle, frogs, fish…chocolate coverd insects (huh?)…the list goes on and on…endlessly.
Nothing, for that matter, on this Planet is safe from humans…including us…the greatest known predator of all.
More to the point, especially regarding the insects…and like Stardust mentioned, the mini and micro-organism world; anyone who’s worked outside and encountered ANY insects in the real world know that if one of us humans even accidentally invades ‘their’ territory; there’s no hesitation in being attacked to the utmost. Only our relative size protects us from some horrendous viciousness. Personally, I avoid killing anything, wherever possible.
“Jainism…anyone?”
Actually, it’s the smallest predators we have the most to be afraid of. And flies are notorious carriers of disease.
Actually, I was very surprised that Obama managed…and on camera!…to GET that fly. I only remember being that successful, ONCE; and not too long ago. Face it!…You gotta be REALLY fast…and even “lucky” to do that.
Hey folks…Earth is a constantly fucking, rather vicious, Evolutionary, Predatory Planet!
We’re just “Lucky”…or at least we’re brainwashed into thinking we are…to have been born into this rather insane and cruel system of Universal Existence. It’s a constant challenge for all of us to stay alive amidst the never ending attacks by all manner of other, seen and unseen,”oh-so-lucky”, evolutionary, predatory bastards!
Thanks, Stardust…now I’m remembering Jeff Goldblum as he evolved into “The Fly”. Yikes!
Uh-oh…Wait!…
There’s a fucking little bug crawling on my dinner plate.
[Quickly takes a paper towel...grabs the little, unsuspecting creature...and flushes it down the toilet...saying:]
“Sorry…I really hate to do this…but, at least your problems are definitely over with…
you poor, all too innocent, little fucking bastard!”
[Actually, I made that little scenario up! But, it HAS happened, on occasion.]
However…I do hate to think of what’s actually lurking down in that “ever mysterious” septic tank!
“oooEEEooo”!
19 June 2009, on 2:22 am
I think that someone needs to capture several million mosquitoes (especially if they carry good things like West Nile, Yellow Fever, Malaria, etc.) and release them into the PETA headquarters. If PETA won’t kill bugs then maybe natural selection will take care of PETA. Ooh, ooh…through in some tsetse flies too–African Sleeping Sickness is some crazy shit.
19 June 2009, on 6:18 am
i killed a few hundred bugs with poison so that would make me a serial killer ?
19 June 2009, on 10:32 am
Peta loves flies and hates women who it considers below all other animals.
My question is how come they treat females of all other species better than they treat human females.
Peta = Misogynistic scum
19 June 2009, on 10:36 am
I’d like to ask the PETA folks why we should stop at insects. Have they ever taken antibiotics? Have they ever used any antiseptic products? Don’t vuruses, bacteria and molds have the same rights that we do?
19 June 2009, on 11:34 am
Hey, Obama didn’t catch the fly and pull its wings out while asking, “Where are the WMDs?” He killed that fly about as humanely as possible. I like his reflex time. Will be good for the shoe-throwing in Afghanistan.
19 June 2009, on 3:41 pm
Good God, think of the yeasts!
19 June 2009, on 4:02 pm
I don’t understand why members of People for the Eating of Tasty Animals would have a problem with the president killing a fly.I mean, I don’t have a problem with it and I won’t eat anything that casts a shadow.
19 June 2009, on 8:57 pm
At the end, if you squinch your eyes & listen real hard, you can hear the lilliputian words “Hellllppp Meeeee“
20 June 2009, on 11:31 pm
Send Pam Anderson to my house and I’ll smack her tits around instead of a fly.
21 June 2009, on 2:39 am
BILL MAHER is a jerk and so is these PETA wackos they send obama a stupid humane fly trap becuase PETA is so far out in the middle of stupidland they can never return and hey PETA jerks a VENUS FLYTRAP is very usful at getting rid of flies its a little ol plant after all and it waits for dumb flies to come stumblin in and gets eaten SO TO peta OL FLU-BIRD SAYS SCREW YOU ALL HYUK,HYUK,HYUK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
21 June 2009, on 9:56 pm
And the march continues, as PETA takes one more giant step towards irrelevance in mainstream society…
22 June 2009, on 9:38 pm
People Eternally Talking out of their Asses.
25 June 2009, on 3:24 pm
I don’t see why swatting a fly is such a big deal. They only live for 30-some days as it is. It’s mind boggling to think about how many flies die every minute so the fact that he swatted ONE fly is minuscule in comparison.
26 June 2009, on 1:40 am
^ Yes, Kevin…
“and at least it didn’t suffer…thanks to Obama’s oh-so-swift and mighty…merciful “Angel of Death” action.
And now, we ‘KNOW’ it’s in a better place…erm…
“Fly Heaven”…
with the Lawd Jeebus…
sitting ON His right hand.
[snark]