There’s really nothing left to satirize. Absolutely nothing. Soon The Onion will be running straight news, because everything has become parody.
PETA, aka People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, should now stand for People for the Equivalent Treatment of Anything. The organization officially became a caricature of itself as it criticized President Obama for swatting a fly.
“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said. “Swatting a fly on TV indicates he’s not perfect.”
So to make sure it doesn’t happen again, PETA sent the president a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, which allows users to trap and release flies.
On the bright side, life must be practically heaven on earth when this is all you have to complain about.
For the record, we love animals and hate animal cruelty. But how is a fly the same as an animal? What’s next, equal rights for mosquitoes?
Source: New York Times
This post was last modified on October 18, 2023
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I support Obama's right to kill a fly.
Now for some history... I used to live, as a newly wed in a Cockroach infested 30 ft trailer back in ol' Virginia .. and, I have pictures to prove it.
(Love makes us all blind fools, but, well, still can't resist the man!)
I used to Catch cockroaches, on the run, with my bare hands, and flush them down the toilet or sink.
Got quite good at it, actually.
Concerning Peta, they make compassion a joke, but anything carried to an extreme is in danger of becoming a joke. It is belittling the real virtue to see it so mistreated - misapplied..
I Think the word is satire? exaggeration? insanity? Stupidity? Fanatical madness?
Not perfect? Clearly they weren't watching the video - he has some mad skills!
PETA is actually an employment agency for has been/ out of work actors.
it really means:
Polluted
Excrement
Tainted
Actors
Their only motivation is a pay check!
Flies love shit.
When killing a fly
make sure you don't cry
bout your treatment that comes out of Fox,
Their ratings are high
so please don't be sly
by the way Dick Durbin's a Putz!
So it took for him to kill a fly for them to realize that The One is not perfect?
"...he's not perfect."
ooooh... harsh words for The One. I wonder if he can take it?
Wow, Obama is AWE-Sum!....expect this to make the cover of Time magazine.
Gotta say, I'm with Obama on this one. Let PETA members move to Africa and help save mosquitoes in malaria infested swamps.
I wonder how much love for little creatures these PETA folks would show after being attacked by, oh.. let's say... fire ants? I'm just sayin! Like they'd be looking for their catch and release bag? Nah!
Oh, and this isn't meant to praise or otherwise applaud Barry for ANYthing he did or has done or ever will do. Just to clarify..