Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/18/peta_prez_pronouncement/
PETA pronounces on Obama fly-swat
El Prez not Buddha, animal huggers confirm
Posted in Bootnotes, 18th June 2009 09:32 GMT
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Animal rights outfit PETA has finally pronounced on the matter of Barack Obama's shock fly-swat, following considerable press pressure [1] for clarification if the savage act of executive violence merited comparison with the Armenian Genocide [2].
Well, the result [3] disappointingly lacks an international poster campaign featuring a naked Alicia Silverstone [4] sprawled under the slogan "Hands off my flies, Mr President". PETA's Alisa Mullins simply says of El Prez: "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."
To help Obama attain spiritual enlightenment, Mullins adds that she's sending him a "handy-dandy bug catcher [5]", the better to tackle "future insect incidents". ®
Links
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2009/jun/17/barack-obama-fly-swatting
- http://www.armenian-genocide.org/
- http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/06/obama_and_the_f.php
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/perversions_of_nature/page2.html
- https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP220