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Meee-OW: The Daily Show‘s Wyatt Cenac Sues PETA On Behalf Of Exploited Animals

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PETA, everyone’s favorite animal rights group, is launching a new initiative to bring attention to the plight of enslaved and exploited celebrity sea mammals, and The Daily Show‘s Wyatt Cenac is totally on board. The group has filed a lawsuit against SeaWorld on behalf of five plaintiffs — Tiilikum, Katina, Corky, Kasatka and Ulises — accusing the water park of holding the orcas as slaves and arguing that they should be freed under the 13th Amendment.

You know, just like black slaves were freed from slavery here in the U.S. under the 13th Amendment. In fact, the whole situation reminds Cenac of the old orca spiritual. You know the one: “UUUUoooorrruouououopupipiiioooorrrgh!”

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Civil rights activist Elaine Brown has called PETA’s actions racist. “If there is animal cruelty,” she said of the situation, “we want to talk about checking animal cruelty. But animal cruelty does not rise to slavery. Part of the slave condition was that blacks were not really [considered] human beings.”

PETA’s strategy is to point out to the court that the 13th Amendment makes no reference to “people” or “person” in writing and, as such, could also apply to animals. Which is brilliant, as Cenac notes, because it’s not like the Constitution includes any sort of language to indicate that, you know, it only applies to We the People.

Cenac did point out that PETA’s senior VP of communications Lisa Lange isn’t free from criticism either. She keeps a dog as a pet. On a leash. In her home. Can you imagine? “So,” Cenac asked, attempting to make sense of this injustice, “orcas are like the field niggers, and dogs and cats are the house niggers.” And he did what any compassionate, right-thinking freedom fighter would do and, through his lawyer, served Lange a lawsuit on behalf of the animals PETA is exploiting without consent or pay in their campaigns.

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  • Centrist79

    Now that was comedy.

  • Anonymous

    Brilliant!

  • Anonymous

    Awesome…PETA getting a taste of their own mockery medicine. 

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    What are zoos but animal jails ?

    And they ain’t done nothin’. No lawyer. No parole.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Civil rights activist Elaine Brown has called PETA’s
    actions racist. “If there is animal cruelty,” she said of the situation,
    “we want to talk about checking animal cruelty. But animal cruelty does
    not rise to slavery. Part of the slave condition was that blacks were
    not really [considered] human beings.”

    This is outright ridicule of blacks and the abominal slavery they went through – and they’re making a mockery of it?

    WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE, DEMOCRATS?

  • Anonymous

    Don’t these people watch the Daily Show? They should have seen his last bit about suing her coming from a mile away.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    brilliant turning of the tables on peta…  i’m amazed at how “the daily show” is able to continue, after years of skewering people and orgs, to find no shortage of naive spokespersons and political hacks who believe they’ll come away from the broadcast looking like anything other than a complete idiot…

  • Anonymous

    It’s editing. An artform all it’s own. Just ask James O’keefe and Andrew Breitbart

  • Anonymous

    First time you have made sense on this blog.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

     That is why Colbert doesn’t do “Better Know a District” anymore.  The DNC and RNC sent a memo to congress telling them not to appear.

    However, Colbert and the Daily Show do seem to get a lot of high profile guests from all colors of the political spectrum. 

  • Just some Blow Hard…

     why outrage on a group that hasn’t done anything and no one takes seriously?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    the difference here is that peta wasn’t ambushed…  they willingly dispatched their spokesperson to what they must have thought was a sympathetic venue…  and no amount of editing could have made her look worse, she did a great job of that on her own… 

    btw, tell jim and andy i said howdy…

  • Ch Ob

    I watched this live and jumped out of my seat and clapped. What a weird organization, PETA.

  • Anonymous

    Getting outraged about PETA doing something stupid and insensitive is like getting outraged at Westboro Baptist Church for picketing the funeral of a soldier: it happens so often it’s safe to assume the outrage exists.

  • Hout Bosques

    I know the PETA folks – they thrill to free pub, they hold think sessions, seminars & training programs on free pub. Ya, this one may sound sort of, uh, S-&-M-y, but that’s not a problem with the PETA folks; dey trey hip, homes. They’ll ride this, tease it apart in analysis, figure out ways to make it happen again. It’s how they roll.

  • Hout Bosques

    Zoos aren’t like circuses, where animals get worked for profit.  

    Not all zoos follow the or are in fact ideal for animals, but certainly most do on this continent. For many animals large enough for humans to see, & thus hunt, zoos aren’t jails at all: they’re respites, with clinics, serving the interests of conservation from situationally artificial predation, almost always human-caused, directly or indirectly, in ways that enhance education.  

    But at least some of Seaworld’s exhibits are primarily motivated by profit to keep the overall enterprise running. Foremost among those is their big money-maker, the killer whales show. This is the ‘zoological gardens’ concept at it’s least defensible, rubbing right up against the circus concept.

  • Hout Bosques

    You’re just some blow hard. In fact, a great many people take PETA seriously, and many of their supporters become volunteers, who then dedicate significant amounts of their life to PETA & PETA causes. But most people, particularly blow hards, get so tied up in their own lives & the petty causes & rhythms of their daily hardly-blowing-at-all, that the very idea of others dedicating their lives to ANYTHING shames them, scares them, & brings out the reflexively dismissal in them.

  • Hout Bosques

    Nnnnnnot an apt analogy there.

  • Hout Bosques

    This is likely one of those stunts where TDS worked it out with the ‘victim’ in advance.

  • Anonymous

     Fair enough.  I’m not on my game today, it seems.

  • Anonymous

    You guys should check out Penn and Teller’s episode of “Bullsh!t” about PETA. Should be on youtube.

  • Gentry Barrientios

    It’s not that PETA didn’t know how The Daily Show handles interviews and does stories – they didn’t care.  There is no bigger media wh@res on the planet than Ingrid Newkirk and her minion. Doesn’t matter how it makes PETA look as long as they get the name and the mission out there multiple times a day PETA could give a rats patootie.  BTW, a judge tossed that ridiculous lawsuit.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    PETA was once (many moons ago)  a reputable organization that really cared about the welfare of animals and did much to stop blatant cruelty.
    Then the liberals got control of them….and we all know what happens when liberals are in charge.
    Violence…..mobs…..assaults…..theft….and an encyclopedia of other criminal acts.
    Now they insanely believe that worms have human dignity.
    God Help Us!!

  • Anonymous

    Let me be the first to call PETA a RINO.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Well that was rather rude boy (so to speak).
    Maybe it’s the first time you comprehended it.

  • Anonymous

    This was a great bit. and the stupid spokesperson was caught completely unaware. She even thought suing PETA was a good idea. She needs to put more protein in her diet. Her brain stopped working.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I am not saying I don’t agree with some of what peta stands for, but it is their hardcore edge & publicity stunts that do them in. Dedicate your time to the humane society or the aspca instead. Don’t follow an organization who says no animals for medical purposes, yet was founded by a diabetic who still took insulin. Humans still kill each other and treat each other less than humanly. To think we will stop doing the same to animals before us is unrealistic.

  • Centrist79

    I take it Peta many moons ago had to stop blatant cruelty of animals by their trailer park Republican owners.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

     There were many conservatives in PETA…but when it became violent and ridiculous…we left.
    I guess some lived in trailer parks but the never camped in a public park….defecated in their tents…or wherever….or rape women on sight.
    I take it no liberals reside in trailer parks?
    LOL!!!

  • Anonymous

     The antivivisection society claims there are other ways to test besides animal testing.   Do you think its justified to bash monkeys and apes head in to prove being hit by a hard object hurts and may     even cause serious harm?  Or shoot harsh chemical in rabbits eyes to test for cosmetics.  Personally I buy cruelty free products.  BTW Peta publishes a booklet on cruelty free firms.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

     It depends.  Studies being done to improve the lives of those with serious head injuries and brain trauma are useful. Even Peter Singer endorsed that.  Finding out how the body works is essential to any medicine.  The only way to test with out that is on humans.  Most, if not all, of the major medical discoveries in the last 200 years have been through testing.  As for cosmetics and their ilk, no.  I do not condone that. I also don’t condone circuses, dog racing, or hunting for sport.  However PETA is too extreme for me.  Like I said, they condone violence and their VP is a Type A diabetic.  Do you know how they make insulin? 

    Please refute these points.

    http://youtu.be/l9ijLulwUTY

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jean-Donnel/100000571098160 Jean Donnel

    Considering that PETA KILLS (by it’s own beliefs MURDERS) animals all the time, it’s hypocritical to say the least, for PETA to sue anyone on behalf of any animal.   PETA would rather kill (murder according to them) a cat, dog and any other animal that might find a loving home, rather then let them live and love.   They’ve been caught many times claiming to help find homes for cats, kittens and dogs – and then killing the poor things – throwing their bodies in dumpsters.   PETA is more ANTI animal/human and life, then anything else.

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