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    Save the flies!

    Save the flies!

    Thursday, June 18, 2009

    President Obama swatted a fly, and PETA doesn’t like it. According to news reports Thursday, animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the President to take a more humane approach to insects. Obama killed the fly on Tuesday, as it pestered him during a nationally televised interview. PETA reportedly is sending the President “Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher,” a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside. News articles quote PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich saying "We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals. We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."

    PETA miffed at President Obama's fly "execution"

    Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:39pm EDT

    POLITICO (Washington) - The president has been getting lots of kudos for a lightning-fast, Mr. Miyagi-worthy swipe he employed to slay a pesky house fly that was buzzing him in mid-interview during a taping with CNBC that aired Wednesday.

    "He stopped the interview to track and kill the fly," said talk show host Conan O'Brien.

    "That's some pretty impressive hand-eye coordination right there," Jimmy Fallon gushed. "Makes Obama look like a bad ass."

    But now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, calling it an "execution," wants the commander-in-chief to show a little more compassion to even "the least sympathetic animals."

    "Believe it or not, we've actually been contacted by multiple media outlets wanting to know PETA's official response to the executive insect execution," a blog on the group's website explained. "In a nutshell, our position is this: He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act."

    The group has sent Obama a device that traps a fly so it can then be released outside.

    "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Freidrich explained.

    The fly saga began Tuesday, and it was the subject of a news report on Italian TV and almost a dozen Youtube postings that have been viewed more than 750,000 times. Thousands of people also have added commentary, including one who wrote, "But can he duck a shoe?" in reference to a hugely popular video of former president George Bush ducking a shoe thrown at him by an Iraqi cameraman during a news conference in Baghdad.

    "Get out of here," Obama said as the fly buzzed him during his interview. The pest persisted, and when it landed on his left forearm, Obama smacked it.

    "Now, where were we?" the president said without missing a beat. Pleased with himself, he added, "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker."

    Several observers in the room gave congratulatory shout-outs. Obama pointed to the floor and instructed an obliging cameraman to get a close-up of the corpse.

    "It's like he's got one of those fly Terminator targeting systems in his eyes," said an awed Jon Stewart.

    (c) Capitol News Company, LLC 2009

    PETA takes exception to Obama fly-swatting

    The Associated Press

    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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    bloody f...kwits

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    Quote Originally Posted by brokendown gunfighter View Post
    bloody f...kwits
    What's a kwit?

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    Some of those PETA people are not just misguided and naive. Some are dangerous fanatics who are prepared to deceive and, at times, put human lives in danger to promote their cause. No time for them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LarryNJ View Post
    What's a kwit?
    Isn't that the mob that sponsor RugbyWA?

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    i thought it was a joke to begin with!

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    O.......M........G That's simply insane.

    So let me get this right, the president of the united states is allowed to hold his finger over the button which could consign 1/4 of the world's poulation to nuclear decimation, but he's not allowed to swat a fly.

    F..kin hilarious!

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    PETA should be more concerned with spiders, who cruelly trap poor innocent flies, sedate them then slowly devour them alive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GIGS20 View Post
    O.......M........G That's simply insane.

    So let me get this right, the president of the united states is allowed to hold his finger over the button which could consign 1/4 of the world's poulation to nuclear decimation, but he's not allowed to swat a fly.

    F..kin hilarious!
    As long as no flies are harmed, PETA has no qualms about thermo nuclear warfare...

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    they want a president that wouldnt harm a fly

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