Some may already know the answer to this unasked question, but for now, I will hold off.
So, PETA joined Glenn Beck yesterday to attack Al Gore for being an omnivore, and therefor, to these two pillars of 'integrity', he is a hypocrite.
I have for a very long time now been losing ever more regard for PETA. While I can say that I was never an advocate for them, even as I was once a vegetarian myself for a period, I was at least somewhat sympathetic. More accurately I guess, is that I liked to believe that their 'heart' was in the right place even in the clear evidence that their brains were not.
Ingrid Newkirk, founder and president of PETA, pranced on to Glenn Beck's stage yesterday. Instead of giving cogent, rational replies, she rather joined Glenn Beck. I don't care about Beck, he is a buffoon, and I have no interest in attacking him. I do expect that when people that are so diametrically opposed ideologically to him though go on his show, that they would challenge him rather than embrace him.
Rather, Ingrid chose to attack Al Gore instead of the target right in front of her:
You can give in your SUV. You can trade it away. You can change your lightbulbs, these are the things he suggests. You can shower with a friend, but it's still not enough if you continue to eat meat...
He says it's very hard for him to go vegetarian. He's admitted that, and I think he's basically a steakaholic, and he needs to stop being a baby and just decide.
Glenn Beck, PETA, NRA walk into a bar ...
I find myself agreeing with Glenn Beck in the above quote in comparing the NRA and PETA, though not for the reasons he gives. Rather, it seems to me that Glenn finds admiration for these people not because they are principled (which they surely are not) but rather that they exhibit the one characteristic that he values above all else in himself. He and they are number one ATTENTION WHORES
Again, I have long ago lost any sense of common ground with PETA, but this clip so demonstrates that they have lost their fucking minds and that their appearance on Glenn Beck actually says far more about them than it could ever say about Al Gore.
Below, my email to PETA:
Overall I am sympathetic to the overall agenda of PETA; however, like many, I have not been so moved by some of the tactics of PETA, but lets leave that aside beyond the acknowledgment that I believe that You believe You are doing the right thing, and I believe that overall You are well intentioned.
Appearing on Glenn Beck, Ingrid Newkirk chose to attack Al Gore. Knowing PETA's agenda, it isn't unreasonable to suggest that Al Gore's campaign of worldwide sustainability has done considerably more to address the concomitant issue of animal cruelty that necessarily accompanies the issues that Al Gore has been addressing.
Rather, PETA's president chose to join Glenn Beck in an irrational attack on Al Gore because he chooses to exhibit his evolutionary drives as an omnivore.
While I think You have disregarded rationality in the past and exhibited some extremely poor judgment, I can say that when You join forces with those that are so opposed to any remnants of altruistic claims that You may hold such as Glenn Beck, and then fail to address the log in his eye, You are forever lost in a sea of ignorance and self serving nihilism.
Your organization is without principle, decency or even the bare minimum of logic.
As I said at the beginning of my letter, I have had occasion to be sympathetic to PETA. Not because I am a defender of Al Gore, for I can surely find many problems with him, but You have turned Yourself into just another clown on Glenn Beck's Circus of Hate.
I would wish You luck, but I neither believe in luck, nor do I think You deserving of it.