So I’ve been resisting posting about this, but after receiving 7 emails from alert and astute mockdockers INSISTING that I not ignore this story, I’m going to talk about it.
Ok. So Ashley recently made a commercial for the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, in which she rips on Sarah Palin for promoting the aerial killing of wolves. I’m not posting the video here for three reasons: first, because even though she looks puffy in it, she looks reasonable enough that I can’t mock her appearance, and secondly, because watching wolves be shot makes me sad, and thirdly, because I don’t want to directly cause more hits for it. You guys are all resourceful enough to find the video. It’s pretty much EVERYWHERE.
But here’s my issue with this whole ad. NOWHERE in the ad does Ashley bother to say WHY the wolves are being killed. The overpopulation of wolves in Alaska is threatening caribou and moose, which are not only depended on by many Native Alaskans for food, but are also the very creatures that overzealous environmentalists holler about saving whenever someone mentions the possibility of drilling there. Sooo…do they want the caribou and moose to survive or don’t they?
In the video, footage is shown of a wolf being shot from a plane, with Ashley saying somberly, “Using a low-flying plane, they kill in winter when there is no chance for the wolves to escape.”
Let me try to explain this to you reeeeeeeeally slooooowly, Ashley. When population control people are shooting at wolves out of a plane, they don’t WANT them to have a “chance to escape.” See how that would be kind of counterproductive to the whole killing process?
Now, before all you animal lovers get all mad at me, let me just say how much I love and adore wildlife (except for snakes). But I also love and adore cows, and I still accept that they are slaughtered in order to feed us. I hate that wolves have to be killed, but if they are killing off a food supply for HUMANS, then that kind of takes priority. Could I ever shoot a wolf from a plane? Hell no. I couldn’t slaughter a cow either. But I get why both of those things have to happen. The one thing I would take issue with is that there should be measures taken to ensure that the wolves are actually KILLED, and not left to suffer with gunshot wounds which didn’t finish the job.
But here’s the most hypocritical thing about the video to me. While Ashley sheds plenty of tears over wolves that tear apart caribou and deer and moose on a daily basis, she doesn’t blink an eye over legislation which allows late-term abortions. You know what’s more brutal than shooting a wolf? Ripping a fully-formed fetus out of a uterus. I don’t even wanna TALK about how they do that.
I’m really not trying to be all political about this. I just don’t see how the bleeding of her heart can be so discriminating.
Palin responded back to Ashley’s tirade in a statement today – the full text of which is after the jump. Continue reading ‘Ashley Judd Loves Wolves. Human Babies? Not So Much.’
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