PETA Criticizes President Obama For Ninja Fly Swat During Interview

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by Michael dEstries June 17, 2009
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Really PETA?

According to TMZ, the animal rights organization has thrown some criticism at President Obama for his killing of a fly yesterday during a media interview with CNBC’s John Harwood. “That’s the most persistent fly I’ve ever seen,” Harwood said, just before the president slapped his hand like a ninja, killing the fly that fell on to the carpet. “Nice!” Harwood said. “That was pretty impressive, wasn’t it? I got it. I got the sucker,” Obama responded, asking the CNBC film crew to get a shot of the fly on the carpet.

PETA, however, was none too happy with Obama’s action. “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.”

Sigh. I’m all for the relocation of insects over killing them, but I think PETA should pick their battles a bit better. Check out the video of the crime after the jump.

[UPDATE: PETA has clarified their position. Jump here.]

via TMZ


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  • fly swatter

    terrorists exist because they do not believe people should be free to chose how to live their lives. they are willing to kill if we do not believe as they.

    how the hell do you know know one dislikes or hates your country. trust me islamic terrorists will get to your country soon enough.

    as far as viruses go im quite sure im more educated than you as per years of medical training. what about you

  • fly swatter

    what most people want is for the animal rights whack jobs to shut the hell up

  • splat

    i would kill a cute and fuzzy animal to survive or make my life better. so splat the fly goes. it made his life better what matters more our (bugs and insects and animals and fish) comfort or theirs.

  • Anon

    Imagine if Obama had asked for someone to compassionately “catch and release” the fly and that were videotaped! The hard-core killers out there would have loved it!

  • Aggregat

    Imagine PETA outraged over killing a fly while they killed over 21,000 pets they told people they’d find a good home for. Did some of them in the van even before they left. They just posture to take money from the gullible. Google PETA kills animals and read for yourself. The gullible will of course deny it all.

  • Reasoner

    I’d guess that a large majority of Americans feel some sympathy for animal suffering. But insects that invade your home are another story. The people who wouldn’t swat a fly in their home are definitely in the minority. I’m surprised there are any at all. Those who posted here in favor of relocation might be responding theoretically and didn’t think it through. Termites destroying your home – happily abandon your home as a gift to them, kill them all with pesticide, or remove the drywall and get out your padded tweezers? Come on people!

    Some made the point that PETA was asked their opinion and gave it and I think that has some merit. To officially want to respect the natural world as much as possible is admirable. But the delivery of the trap does make them look too wacko. This small incident unfortunately will make too many people embarrassed that they are supporters and will not write that check again.

  • BellBiv

    It was a freaking fly. Get over it!

  • For the whoever nutbag…

    It is very amusming listening to your ridiculous view of the world. You really need to crawl out of your basement once in a while to see the real world where “humans live.” It seems very much like you are trying to act like some kind of god or “greater being.” So let me be one to tell you, since I’m probably not the first. Go ahead and keep acting as you do, and enjoy your time in Hell. Along with every fly I smack and send straight down there with you!

  • rosy

    More to the point… Obama, did you wash your hands following this incident?

  • http://www.veganjapan.net herwin

    from the TMZ website:
    “When asked for comment, here’s the statement PETA released:”
    that should be clear, right ? Peta merely answered a question from the media who already started with “breaking news” headlines like “Obama Swats Fly”
    and just was looking for some ANY comment from Peta to feed their own bullshit news.
    Gossip is nice and this is a gossip site, but theres a diferenrnce between gossip and just downright gutter lies.

  • Rob

    One fly is not an infestation, and no I don’t agree that ‘everyone’ kills flies, most people just let them be.

  • sprybrry

    How many aphids died for your tomatoes?How many grasshoppers died for your beans?How many corn borers died so you could have nice corn on the cob?How many worms,grubs and nematodes died when the soil was tilled?Me thinks you should stop eating.

  • IH8PeTA

    OMFG It’s only a Poop sucking Disease carrying, garbage can loving,FLY!!! Give it a rest PeTA you vegan noobs, you’re trying to give rights to a dispicable little pest who’s the enemy to all sanitary & healthy people?? Shows you right there when you find PeTA in the evolutionary chain they rank way lower than amoebas & microscopic life forms!

  • Elphaba

    Here we go again. Has it ever occurred to any of you who like to throw around the whole “PETA kills” business without knowing anything about it that most of the animals PETA takes in are from cases of extreme neglect and/or abuse. PETA’s policy is actually such that they do NOT take in adoptable animals (though there are some exceptions, such as the dog I adopted from PETA), instead referring those who can be saved to a local open-admission shelter. These animals who actually are adoptable are never in PETA’s custody, get your facts straight before you go running off at the mouth!

    BTW, petpac is a front group for breeders who don’t wish to accept responsibility for the overpopulation crisis that they contribute to each time they have a litter.

  • Aurora

    I myself do try to relocate all creepy crawly things I find in my home, or I tell them to hide if they want to live, (which oddly enough, they seem to understand) but I am sorry PETA people, whereas I love the care and attention you bring to ending the needless suffering of animals everywhere, flies are not just a minor annoyance, they do transmit disease, as per the CDC. Conversely, nobody bats an eye at Lysol or Listerine for the thousands of germs they kill each day that also transmit disease. Are these germs not living things?

  • lllllllllllllll

    WTF????

  • lllllllllllllll

    If you drive long distance, you have dead insects all over your windshiled. Duh? What about flies? Would you put a flea colar on your dog, or let him be eaten alive? If a flea bit you, would you just put it outside?

    morons…

  • lllllllllllllll

    of course, i meant what about FLEAS on my previous comment below…

  • Ramand

    Daniel T. Oliver wrote an in-depth study on the ‘animal rights’ movement. It revealed the consistent pattern of the greed, hypocrisy and violence carried out against animals and people by PETA and others like PETA. It’s called “ANIAML RIGHTS: THE INHUMANE CRUSADE,” Merril Press. I encourage everyone to get a copy and read it. It will make you think twice about keeping your membership active with PETA or any other group that rakes in millions of dollars on the backs of animals and those who love and respect them. Ingrid Newkirk wakes up each morning looking forward to feeding dogs and cats to the convenient gas chambers she had installed at PETA headquarters. Is there a “humane” trap for her and her ilk of animal exploiters? Not only do these animal activists hate animals, they hate people who welcome them into their homes and friends and family members. I used to support this until I grew tired of the consistent pattern these people have of overextending themselves with their greed and hypocrisy. When a fly is more important than an animal that is valued as an assistance animal, such as a dog, Ingrid Newkirk and her pals need to stop deceiving other people out of money they have not earned. They are a part of a political welfare system that caused me to ask myself with terrorists like these, who needs Osama, or Obama?

  • gooniebird

    Hey PETA dolts get a life it was a fly and their too many flies why dont you just go out to some area and let the bugs chomp you all to peices

  • Wally

    Hahahahahahah! That’s some mad skills Obama has! i think all you PETA people should get in touch with reality for a second here. I am an avid hunter and can honestly say that it takes more guts to kill your meat than to not eat it at all. But since you are all brain-damaged anyways, I won’t even start to try explaining that to you. -Aurora- Did I hear you right? you try to relocate creepy crawly things? (otherwise known as insects or arachnids, for all those with an I. Q. above room temperature)You tell them to hide? And they understand you?
    Tell me- did your mother drink while she was pregnant with you? Go and ask her.

  • Hello

    2012…here we come. This is absolutely crazy.

  • Laxmana

    Maybe PETA should recruit more Buddhists.
    What could possibly be of more interest to a fly than reincarnation…….. a feces burrito?

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  • http://dogfleaandtickmedicine.com dogflea

    I remember how much this drew controversy. I personally relocate more bugs than I kill knowingly.

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