PETA wishes Obama hadn't swatted that fly

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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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Rusto

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peta has a good cause but it was a horrible PR move to put that statement out. It just opens them up to ridicule
 
AKAZIE

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to bad Obama didn't wear glasses. Cuz then he could push up his glasses with his middle finger on the sly while being apologetic.
 
up2nogood

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real talk..these mu'fuckaz doing too much...i seen obama do it on tv and thought obama was a G for that shit haha....obama quick too, i didn't think he was gonna get it...maybe them white house flys is slow cuz the ones in south bay is quick as fuck...
 
savage

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I hear since Obama killed the fly that it's the new "IN" thing to do. The Democratic Party is being urged to kill as many flies as it can to show support for Obama. The only problem is that flies may become an endangered species. I hear that Congress is preparing to put into law the "Save the Fly" law prohibiting killing of flies in "Non Kill Areas". I also hear that this law will cost tax payers 7 Trillion dollars and will have to be paid for by the 2050 generation of Americans. Also, I hear throught the grape vine that the fly didn't actually die and that "He" his being treated at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Since the fly was injured by a "Federal Employee" (Obama) the American public is responsible for the daily 300 thousand dollars a day bill. Also, the family of "John Fly"(Not his real name) is suing Obama and NBC for the injuries to their loved one.
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NEW YORK – The granddaughter of Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara is at the forefront of another revolution — for vegetarianism.

Lydia Guevara poses semi-nude in a PETA campaign that tells viewers to "join the vegetarian revolution," said PETA spokesman Michael McGraw.

The print campaign is expected to debut in October in magazines and posters, McGraw said. It will be launched first in Argentina, where Che Guevara was born, and then internationally. PETA approached the 24-year-old in recent months after finding out she was a vegetarian, McGraw said.

In the ad, Lydia Guevara wears camouflage pants, a red beret, and bandoliers of baby carrots while standing with one fist on her hip and the other outstretched.

"It very much evokes the tag line of the ad, which is 'Join the vegetarian revolution,'" McGraw said. "It's an homage of sorts to her late grandfather."

Che Guevara was a Marxist leader who played a pivotal role in Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba. He was executed in Bolivia in 1967.

The ad is PETA's first campaign promoting vegetarianism in South America.

"We say the best way to save animals is not to eat them," McGraw said.

He said others who have promoted vegetarianism for PETA include Paul McCartney, Forest Whittaker and Alicia Silverstone.
 
Likwid

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I despise anyone who gives a fuck about peta, it's the same fagot ass kids who wear american eagle and shit like that and the bitches who don't shave their shit, fagot ass mother fuckers.
 
Gas One

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obama should get on the podium and set them niggas straight

like listen peta, shut the fuck up

its a fly

flies breed other flies by the hundreds, hourly

probably by the minute

fucking stop it

you are making yourself look like a fucking joke organization

mad at obama over a fly but dont say shit about no fuckin oscar grant

flies arent fucking mammals..im not even sure if flies exist in the mother fucking animal kingdom

to quote jay electronica "if peta was one person id go beat them the fuck up'
 
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