Palin responds to Defenders of Wildlife - The Mudflats

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/04/palin-responds-to-defenders-of-wildlife/#comments

I always lull myself into thinking that there’s nothing left that can come from the Governor’s office that will surprise me. And then come those “gotcha” press releases just to prove me wrong. Here’s the latest one from the Governor’s office talking about the fund set up by Defenders of Wildlife and the accompanying video featuring Ashley Judd.

You really need to watch the video again to get the full impact of the press release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFdijgMytUA&eurl=http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/04/palin-responds-to-defenders-of-wildlife/

OK, now make sure you’re sitting down, and take a big deep cleansing breath. Inhale……..and…….exhale…….

You are now as ready as you’ll ever be for what’s coming.

February 3, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin released the following statement today in response to attacks by the Defenders of Wildlife:

“It is reprehensible and hypocritical that the Defenders of Wildlife would use Alaska and my administration as a fundraising tool to deceive Americans into parting with their hard-earned money.

“The ad campaign by this extreme fringe group, as Alaskans have witnessed over the last several years, distorts the facts about Alaska’s wildlife management programs. Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations. Our predator control programs are scientific and successful at protecting vulnerable wildlife. These audacious fundraising attempts misrepresent what goes on in Alaska, and I encourage people to learn the facts about Alaska’s positive record of managing wildlife for abundance.

“Shame on the Defenders of Wildlife for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times.”

Yes, folks. This is all a giant ploy to RIP YOU OFF! That video of those guys gunning down a wolf from the air? That’s “protecting vulnerable wildlife”. It’s “scientific.”

“Shame.” Not on the state, not on her, shame on Defenders of Wildlife. How dare they, in these times of woe and want, try to part you from your hard-earned money. Money, which, Sarah Palin would like you and all those other “innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times” to donate to her new political action committee, SarahPAC!

And let’s take a moment to review the vitriol, shall we? Reprehensible. Hypocritical. Extreme fringe group. Audacious. Twisting the truth. Shame. Does the use of this venemous vocabulary remind you of anyone from any particular….squad? If this isn’t from the pen of Meg Stapleton, then someone’s doing an impressive imitation.

And it never ceases to amaze me with what speed the Governor’s office seems to address matters of great importance. And it also never ceases to amaze me what their definition of “great importance” seems to be. Have we heard anything from the Governor about how destitute Alaskans in rural villages are going cold and hungry because of the fishery collapse in Bristol Bay? No. Not one word in 23 days. But we’ve had official press releases on state letterhead with titles like “Governor Palin Says to Media, “There You Go Again” and “Governor Palin Releases Statement on Defenders of Wildlife Campaign“.

Has Palin actually flown out to Emmonak, or Nunam Iqua, or any other village on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta? Or any other village in Alaska where parents are silently deciding whether their children and their elders should get food or heat? What about an entire village where all the residents have to pack up and leave their collective home because the price of energy has overwhelmed them? No. But she did have time to jet off to Washington D.C. and dine on filet mignon and lobster tails at the Alfalfa Club Dinner.

And where exactly is Sarah Palin right now? Does anyone know? She’s not in Juneau, although Alaska’s Legislators are all there, working long hours trying to do the business of the state and get things accomplished; things that will actually help people. They’d probably like to be talking to her. You know, about Alaska and the people who live here, and what’s important to us.

We know where she is not. And we know what she is not doing. And we know what she is not thinking about. The question is, when will Alaskans and their legislators have had enough?

[pleah]

1. Do people in Alaska actually listen to this numbskull?

:shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Only when our blood pressure is really low and we need a jolt. n/t

[pleah]

4. LOL

:rofl: That'd do it.;-)

[Cha]

10. I hear that! My blood

pressure was fine until I got on to DU today:bounce:

[BlooInBloo]

12. (shrug) People deserve what they vote for.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. I hate to point this out

but we didn't all vote for her. Do you think we as a nation got what we deserved under the Bush regime?

[BlooInBloo]

20. That is most definitely a downside of being in a democracy....

Possibly I could have said it better as "The electorate deserved what the electorate votes for", but it's unlikely DUers would understand the difference.

[roguevalley]

19. what cretinous idiot in your state did you 'vote for'? I personally

have never voted beyond city council level for a refucknut.

[BlooInBloo]

21. self-delete - Misread you - my bad!

[Blue_In_AK]

22. That's not what she said.

She said she wouldn't vote for a Republican beyond maybe a city office. In other words, RV and I did NOT vote for Sarah Palin, and we don't want to be lumped in with people who did as "deserving" of her idiocy.

[BlooInBloo]

24. Ah yes - misread that, thanks!

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Thanks.

My snark goes into overdrive sometimes, too. :)

[roguevalley]

25. I hug you, BlooInBloo. :)

[MiniMe]

3. Palin needs to go see "Never Cry Wolf" about Farley Mowatt

This is a great quote by him:


Mowat advances a respect for life and an environmental ethic in Never Cry Wolf. Criticizing those members of society who, like the Ottawa bureaucrats, remain smug in their ignorance and callous to the repercussions of their decisions upon the animal world, Mowat demands that proper respect be paid to nature. He points out that the natural systems and interrelationships that have developed in the wild may soon be upset by humans, who tend to interfere before understanding the complete picture. The title Never Cry Wolf warns society to stop using the wolf as a scapegoat for human problems......

[ogneopasno]

7. "Good idea." /Ootek

[glinda]

5. "Shame on Palin for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from rich executives

by promoting the selfish idiotic slaughter of wildlife both endangered and not". What a nincompoop heartless ass.

[SIMPLYB1980]

6. I know it's not to popular to be a hunter around here, but

as one I have to say that The Defenders of Wildlife add was spot on. I would never think of hunting any animal from the air. Plus I have never understood why people hunt animals that they are not going to eat. I was raised to respect and eat any animal I kill, unless it is an accident. Also anyone that hunts and also cares about conservation knows that you need predators other than hunters to help control any population of prey animals. If you kill off their main predators the population will suffer because of over crowding and disease.

[truebrit71]

9. Thank you for your input...your points are conveniently overlooked by the wolf-killer and her..

..blood-thirsty sycophants...

[SIMPLYB1980]

13. Yep they give responsible hunters a bad name.

:-(

[Chulanowa]

14. Absolutely

Palin's administration is using "Bambi" as science here. The whole "predators are evil" mentality demonstrated here is our first clue that there isn't an ounce of ecological science within fifty miles of this woman's roachy beehive.

[Blue_In_AK]

17. For thousands of years

Alaska's subsistence hunters maintained a balance between wolves/bears and moose/caribou without having to cull the predators (and I'm not even going to dignify the airborne "predator control" by calling it hunting). The balance has only been disrupted by the incursion of the great white hunters who want their trophies. I have absolutely nothing against people who hunt for food - but killing predators just for the sake of boosting prey populations is completely wrong.


Alaskans have voted against aerial shooting of wolves twice. Last year in August a version of aerial predator control passed, but only because the measure was worded so poorly (probably on purpose) that people thought they were voting against it when they were actually voting for it. (One of those "no means you approve it" things.)

[SIMPLYB1980]

18. The thing that those people don't get is that killing predators does not

boost prey populations. In fact the opposite happens because of overcrowding a diseases. If fact NC has started to release coyotes into our wildlife refuges to help control the deer population which is suffering without natural predators. You are also right about not calling what they are doing hunting. They should just call it euthanasia, because that is what they are doing.

[truebrit71]

8. Just donated another $25 to the best 'Extreme Fringe Group' out there...

...Thanks Caribou Barbie...slagging Defenders of Wildlife off does two things...1) draws attention to a wonderful, hard-working and deserving charity and 2) draws attention to your continued bloodlust against wildlife...In other words, a win-win...but you are too stupid, too self-involved, or a combination of BOTH to realize that aren't you?

[Cha]

11. Thank you for donating.

There's got to be way to marginalize sociopaths in power.

[AndrewP]

28. Same here.

Fuck Palin

[underseasurveyor]

16. I am a Defender of Wildlife

and I'm doubling my donation.

sarah palin can kiss my entire ass.

[wuvuj]

23. Just thank your lucky stars...

...that Palin didn't get near the WH. One dumb broad. (Guy Noir would be proud.)

[alsame]

27. I'm a DOW too, have been for years. When they made that video

of the aerial wolf hunting last summer, I sent it to everyone I know. And I buy my checks from them because part of the cost is a donation and every time I write a check I'm giving them exposure.

"Extreme fringe group" - she can kiss my ass too.

[MiniMe]

29. It is a very interesting group of people, who really care

I used to do some work for them. The wolf is symbol right now. I really loved what they were doing.

[ninja8590]

30. I'm ready to sign up and start donating myself...

and palin can kiss mine as well.