NP - NOT the Onion

[Otto]

Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat
that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and
they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."

Landscape - Norman Bates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvnYwvJMKE

2009/6/19 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/peta-says-no-more-flykilling-sends-obama-a-humane-fly-catcher-.html
>
> PETA Says No More Fly-Killing, Sends Obama a Humane Fly Catcher
>
>
> June 17, 2009 10:55 PM
>
> ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:
>
> PETA has a few words for President Obama: Brush, don’t kill.
>
> After the President very publically swatted and then killed a fly during an
> interview with CNBC yesterday, the outspoken animal rights group PETA
> (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) said they wished Obama had
> served a better example.
>
> “We support compassion for the even the smallest animals," says Bruce
> Friedrich, VP for Policy at PETA. “We support giving insects the benefit of
> the doubt."
>
> Friedrich says PETA supports "brushing flies away rather than killing them"
> and was disappointed that the President had gone ahead and squashed the
> pesky fly.
>
> This afternoon PETA sent a Katcha Bug, a device which traps bugs and allows
> their safe release back into nature to the White House.