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PETA Accuses Jay Carney Of ‘Making Light of Bestiality’ For Laughing At Les Kinsolving Question

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At Monday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to show a little Christmas generosity by calling on WorldNetDaily correspondent Les Kinsolving near the top of the briefing. For his trouble, Carney is now under fire from PETA for supposedly “making light of bestiality” because he laughed at, and waved off, Kinsolving’s less-than-seriously-phrased question about a defense authorization bill that repealed the sodomy provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Les Kinsolving is known for his out-of-left-field questions, which he often has to shout over the protests of other reporters because Carney, and Robert Gibbs before him, rarely call on Les. That’s why, when Carney called on him toward the beginning of yesterday’s briefing, there were surprised murmurs, and an “Oh, my goodness” from Les.

“I’m in the holiday spirit.” Carney said.

Kinsolving then asked Carney about the recent repeal of the UCMJ provision that bans sodomy, but which also included a ban on bestiality. There are a lot of interesting ways to approach this question. Article 125 of the UCMJ didn’t ban sodomy and bestiality, it said they were the same thing. While Article 134 does contain language specific to animal abuse, that section refers only to “public animals,” and carries a much lower penalty. There’s a legitimate question as to whether additional protections for animals are needed in the UCMJ, and whether those are in the works.

Les didn’t tackle the thing from any of those angles, though, instead asking Carney, “Does the Commander-in-Chief approve or disapprove of beastiality in our armed forces?”

Carney said, “Let’s get to something more serious,” and called on ABC News’ Jake Tapper.

Tapper needled Carney, asking him, “You sure you don’t want to ask Lester another question?  Give him another opportunity?”

“I’ve learned my lesson, Jake,” Carney replied.

Carney was clearly referring to Les’ straw-man line of inquiry, not the issue of bestiality. Les Kinsolving is one of those people who like to equate homosexuality with bestiality, and this outrage from the right has nothing to do with protecting animals, and everything to do with maintaining a ban on gay sex.

The issue of animal cruelty in the military itself is serious, and one that activists have been working on for a long time, but their use of the right’s tactical outrage to shame Jay Carney, in an attempt to advance this cause, is shameful. In their letter to Carney, PETA said, “we were upset to note that you flippantly addressed the recently approved repeal of the military ban on bestiality. With respect, this is no laughing matter,” and concluded with, “I hope that in the future, you will address important issues with sensitivity and not dismiss them with a joke.”

Here’s the clip from yesterday’s briefing, from C-Span:


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  • Anonymous

    If they allow bestiality, John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt  will enlist!

    LOL

    Winning!

  • Hout Bosques

    “Les Kinsolving is known for his out-of-left-field questions”
    Untrue – Les been playing at 9 position his whole careen – um, career.

    Check him out at Baseball Reference: “throws left, bats in belfrey”

  • Hout Bosques

    So if PETA merges with WND, does we gets Animal Birthers?

  • Christian Bruun

    God I hate PETA. Seriously, I don’t know how this group is able to get so much celebrity support.

  • Anonymous

    Democrats obviously support sex with animals because there’s no difference between homosexuality and bestiality. Gay adults, much like animals, are inherently incapable of informed consent. These acts pose the greatest threat to western civilization since Democratic Socialists caused the Black Death across Europe in the middle ages. And they call US racists!

    Gingrich 2012!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Losing!! Such as losing all your prior comments and “likes”… I’m the one who is winning, by helping to get you banned a few days ago!! Lol!! =)

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    You had nothing to do with iy hypocrite- an I have more “likes” in less than a day than John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt has for all the days he has been here.

    How is your mind? Blown?

    bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    Are you still supporting lib vulgarity and profanity?

    And my comments are still liked over 21,000 times unlike yours! Who cares that they are gone- Son, I beat ALL you libs- ALL!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! I had a big part in you getting banned, you just won’t admit it!! You won’t even say the writers name who banned you to prove I’m wrong!! Lol!!

    Also, it’s not complicated to figure out that there are Disqus accounts, with no comments who only give you and a few of your friends “likes”… GUILTY!!

    Which of course means, you’re not as liked as you wish you were!! You could have 1 million “likes” and no one here would ever believed you earned them!!

    Though, everyone now knows you have been banned… you’re winning on that one!! Lol!!

    Not only are you the biggest joke here, you have no credibility… and you know it!! If you had any pride, you would have stayed away and never came back here!!

    We all know you cheat on your “likes” have have been banned because of your mouth… you lost!!

    I won… and there is no need to reply to you again… because I won!!  =)

  • Anonymous

    I use to think celebrities supported groups like PETA because it was the “in” thing to do, but now I’m pretty sure it’s just to make PETA leave them the heck alone.

  • Anonymous

    I’d ask if anyone really believes bestiality is a big problem, but I’m terrified someone will provide links.  Or even worse, that someone will provide links to informative PETA-provided articles about the terrible epidemic of bestiality in the military.

  • Pablo

    Carney was clearly referring to Les’ straw-man line of inquiry, not the
    issue of bestiality. Les Kinsolving is one of those people who like to
    equate homosexuality with bestiality, and this outrage from the right
    has nothing to do with protecting animals, and everything to do with
    maintaining a ban on gay sex.

    So why did they make bestiality legal under the UCMJ? Pandering, perhaps?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JC25VZ7V3BAAPNJ5C3R3YIP3WI j

    Apparently Obama supports bestiality.  Look at who he is married to.

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    It’s apparent that the value you place on getting “likes” on this website is in inverse proportion to the “likes” you get in real from the people forced to interact with you. You come across as a dumbass who’s maybe 19 years old, not very experienced, thinks he’s funny just because he’s intentionally being as offensive as possible (when no one gives a shit) but yet can’t stop posting on this site because he’s got nothing else going on in his life.The most forgiving scenario is that you’re paid to post here, but I doubt it. If you want to contribute to a conversation, that’s cool. If not, no one cares. No one gets mad about your posts. No one thinks they’re funny. No one cares. I’d make fun of you more but why kick a special needs kid? 

    Also, here’s something pretty funny: “Winning.” That’s the stupidest, least offensive thing you could say but for some reason you think quoting Charlie Sheen makes others (and not you) look stupid. Winning. 

    I would never have replied to you except that you go out of your way to be racist, homophobic and hateful on a regular basis, which honestly makes the Repubs look like the douches many think they are. It’s a winning strategy. 

    I hope I don’t strike a nerve though.Winning. Struck a nerve. Winning. Looks like I struck a nerve, son. Winning. 

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    Peta should send a dog up to Jay Carney and the dog can tell him that his owner pratices bestiality but the dog’s owner doesn’t need fixing.

  • Anonymous

    “The issue of animal cruelty in the military itself is serious”

    No, it’s not. 

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    The comrade speaks pravda! Kinsolving is a reactionary agitateur of the highest order. He is not good reporter like Tommy Christopher or WhiteHouse Press Corps! Tommy Christopher or WhiteHouse Press Corps are good reporters. They know right questions to ask to get right answers. They then write those answers down on pad!

    P.S. You’re supposed to read the above with a Soviet accent. I’m not saying that TommyC and the Press Corps are COMMIES, just that they would have fit right in with “reporters” is the USSR or East Germany as far as not questioning authority is concerned. TommyC and the Press Corps do great damage to the U.S. by not only not trying to question authority, but occasionally covering for authority.

    Kinsolving’s question was fairly stupid and there are far better questions to ask Carney, but he’s still lightyears ahead of TommyC and the Press Corps.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Do you ever get the sense that animals are embarrassed of PETA?

  • us995

    Obama will slauter two horses in retaliation

  • expatpatriot

    PETA must recognise they’re their own worst enemy, or they wouldn’t continue doing such stupid things.

    Me, I think they’re a cult of secret flagellants.

  • Anonymous

    Aren’t you just one really moronic asshole!?!

  • Anonymous

    For once, I agree with PETA!  Bestiality is despicable and shouldn’t be a joke to anyone in power.   Reminds me of when people mocked George Bush for his mentioning the real issue of sex slavery in the US and abroad.  These are real, though often hidden, acts of vile criminal behavior.

    I don’t care that he’s a bad source, making light of these things is to pretend they don’t exist.  

    Seriously, why would the senate actually would not retain the bestiality portion in their legislation is truly moronic.  

    Go PETA!  Shame on Carney and the others.

  • Anonymous

    PROUD SINNING US military & White House think bestiality is okay and funny-and did legalize it. America is the land of trailer trash!!

  • Anonymous

    PROUD SINNERS ARE GOING TO HELL!!!  Bestiality is an abomination!! Not even with your own species–PERVERTED!!

  • Anonymous

    being against bestiality will always put you on the side of good versus evil.  

  • expatpatriot

    But to reach your goal in carrying a cause, you have to be both effective *and* passionate. PETA has passion down pat, but they regularly hamstring themselves with silly, irrelevant, and obnoxious behavior that does their cause more harm than good.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s talk about something more important instead, like the e-mails just released today by the DOJ today confirming that the obama DOJ was intentionally and illegally selling guns to the Mexican drug gangs with the intention of using the crimes committed with those “American weapons” to attack the second amendment. Subversion of the constitution anyone? Are there trials, convictions, perhaps executions for being accessories to murder and treason in order here? What would your opinion be if it had been a Republican admin that had done this and caused the death of U.S. agents and HUNDREDS of Mexican nationals?

  • Anonymous

    LMAO

  • Anonymous

    The rapture of the church without spot or wrinkle is just days away…..

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think firearms ownership is a big problem, yet there is an entire volume of laws prohibiting and restricting that. Why NOT have tough and specific laws that make f@#$ing animals a crime?
    Should I assume your reluctance to pass such laws making bestiality a crime indicates your tacit approval of such behavior? Because most people will. That’s just the world we live in.

  • Anonymous

    “So why did they make bestiality legal under the UCMJ?”

    That is the exact question Carney laughed off. If we had any integrity in the press, the next reporter called on would have said “You never answered the previous question, which makes me even more intrigued to know an answer.”

    It’s just unfortunate no one is allowed to go after the Press Secretary anymore, as dear leader will just expel them from the WH press corps.

  • Anonymous

    Why would we? Animals have no ability to forge a birth certificate to subvert a political process. Let’s move on to something serious, such as “Does our President advocate fu#$ing animals?” because that question was never answered. For all we know the answer is yes, and we must assume so until the President makes his views known.
    That assumption is no less valid than assuming he will answer no, based on the currently known data. Maybe we could ask Larry Sinclair, he would have probably known…

  • Anonymous

    I’d rather he send you a dictionary but you still wouldn’t find the correct spelling-
    but hopefully you’re obsessive and you’ll spend hours looking up the correct spelling.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you go phuck a duck?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    Lol! :) Yay! :) If this truly is repealed, hopefully I can be happy and so can many other professed zoosexuals! :) But zoosexuals don’t rape animals and use means of so-called animal cruelty, only bestialists do…Zoosexuals have love and affection and sincere caring and divinity, and sex with an animal upon consent…Zoosexuals are by no means sick, perverted, animal abusers, animal rapists, sick people! Those discriminatory labels must end soon or else we will strike before Congress with this public viciousness going on and people just sitting back, laughing and not doing anything about it at all! That disgusts me! I am morally outraged by people who put labels on us like that! My experience or opinion matters because it determines a good percentage of the presidential vote!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    We’re already in hell with people like you and people that put discriminatory labels on us!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    Bestiality is despicable but zoosexuality is not!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    Because I put up internet petitions in support of legalization of zoosexuality and they ignorantly confused it with bestiality…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    PETA is a hypocrite! They ate tasty animals, LMAO! :D

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    I hope that I see my father again if we get raptured! :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    and if you were being against zoosexuality it would put you and expatpatriot on the side of evil versus good…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    Animals hate being eaten by PETA, aka animal slaughterers….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    Are you for or against?? I can’t tell from your comment…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EGJAE372NXBSF425TGECGRLYAU Kev

    bestiality is miniscule, provided the animal is not abused or tortured or even raped…We should be more concerned about terrorist activity to the USA….

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