Thread: PETA Wishes Obama Hadn't Swatted That Fly

I just have to put this separate as I laughed out loud when I read the title! If you haven't heard Obama swatted a fly dead during an interview this week. Youtube link below. They clapped when he got the fly??

Sounds like he has made another enemy with PETA. Or they light-heartedly sent him a contraption to catch bugs to release them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTpiwngOg7I

PETA Wishes Obama Hadn't Swatted That Fly



June 16: President Obama is seen getting ready to smack a fly dead during an interview with CNBC correspondent John Harwood in the White House.

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."

VIDEO: Click to watch the scene on YouTube

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527001,00.html

and this is the same thing that he does to everyone that "bugs" him...you can ask Gerald Walpin for one...

Bugs in the WH