The thing is, they're doing it all for publicity.
Doing what? Answering a reporter, posting a more elaborate statement on their site when everyone is asking them about it or sending Obama a free catcher for publicity?
The thing they sent him is PETA-Made and they're shamelessly promiting themselves.
So what? That's exactly the same as if Obama found, say, a paddle under his chair during an interview but no canoe, and then some canoe-maker would send him a canoe to go with his new-found paddle, obviously for the purposes of shamelessly promoting themselves and their canoes. Who cares?
PETA is an extremist group, they lie on their page (See: Seal Hunting), they promote extremist activities such as firebombing,
Sure. Yet that has no relevance to my post.
and they start ridiculous publicity stunts such as the Obama thing to get press coverage, when hey could be tackling real-life issues in a rational manner.
PETA didn't start this whole incredibly stupid ruckus about the fly, and absolutely nowhere have I seen any indication that they would have. If you have proof to the contrary, then please, share it. No one else has so far.
Have you even seen the woman who governs the organization? She is mindblowingly naive and stupid.
I haven't, and frankly I don't care to.
Let's just say I'm rather suspicious about PETA's claim that the news agencies approached them rather than the other way around.
Given the amount of attention whoring they do over trivially stupid stuff (like telling the Pet Shop Boys to change their name) I wouldn't put it past them for this to have been their idea not some unknown journalists.
Sure, that's fair enough then. I might be a bit suspicious of that myself.
