Singer Pink leads the pack against Sarah Palin
In 2006 Pink challenged the policies of George W. Bush in her song "Dear Mr. President."
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind.
Now Pink has a few words for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's VP choice.
"If I were writing a letter to Sarah Palin," Pink told PopEater this week, "it would be a lot of whys and hows. Who are you? Do you know? Why do you hate animals? Please point out Iraq on a map."
What scares Pink are women who believe that Palin's pick is a victory for modern women.
"This woman hates women," Pink said. "She is not a feminist. She is not the woman that's going to come behind Hillary Clinton and do anything that Hillary Clinton would've been capable of.... I can't imagine overturning Roe vs. Wade. She's not of this time. The woman terrifies me."
The outspoken singer and animal rights activist also believes that natural wildlife should be worried.
(Some background on Palin's controversial policies in Alaska that Pink is opposed to after the jump....)
According to Slate, in 2007, Palin proposed that the state pay hunters $150 for the foreleg of every wolf gunned down by aerial hunting (meaning they're shot by hunters in low-flying helicopters or small planes).
Animal rights activists -- particularly Defenders of Wildlife, which released a 527 ad on Friday about the controversial policy (see the video below) -- say this method of hunting is inhumane.
According to the Wolf Conservation Center, "Alaska is the only state in the U.S. where private trophy hunters can use aircraft to gun down wolves from low-flying planes or chase them to exhaustion, then land and shoot them at point-blank range."
Because of these concerns and others, Congress passed the Federal Airborne Hunting Act of 1972, making it illegal for hunters to shoot animals from a plane or helicopter.
But Alaska uses a loophole covering "predator control," Slate notes. Wolves, foxes and coyotes can be gunned down to protect "land, water, wildlife, livestock, domesticated animals, humans or crops."
Since 2003, Alaska has issued aerial wolf-hunting permits in areas where moose and caribou populations are endangered. Today's aerial killers are unpaid, unlike in the past, but they can make money by selling the slaughtered animals' fur.
(Hmmm. Couldn't possibly involve celebrity fur lovers Sharon Stone or Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, right?)
"I can't imagine shooting a wolf out of a helicopter," Pink says.
Me neither. Can you? Tell us in the comments below.
Photos (Pink and Palin): WireImage
Photo (wolves): all-about-wolves.com
Note: The video below was created by Defenders of Wildlife, a U.S.-based nonprofit named America's best wildlife charity by Reader's Digest in 2005, and an organization that has been involved in conserving wolf populations in Alaska for 30 years. Be advised that the video is a disturbing account of a brutal act.
This Palin Aerial Wolf Hunting awareness campaign is currently running in Ohio. It should run nationwide, IMO. Please support it at:
http://www.defendersactionfund.org/
I'm a moderate and I'm voting for Obama. One of the reasons is Sarah Palin's archaic views on abortion (opposes it even in the case of rape or incest).
As a young woman I'm also very interested in both the environment and wildlife. Sarah Palin wants to drill for gas and oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Ms. Palin also supports aerial hunting of wolves and bears which is completely unjust and unnecessary according to biologists and wildlife experts. Additionally, Ms. Palin wants to take both the Polar Bear and the Beluga Whale off the endangered species list (so that they can be hunted) since they're getting in the way of more oil drilling.
Ms. Palin cares more about oil and money than wildlife, the environment and the future.
Palin was an active promoter of a practice that even most hunters call inhumane. It is not hunting it is slaughter. Becaue of the aerial platform from which shots are taken, animals are often maimed and suffer significantly. It's not sporting, and there's no justification for it in Alaska -- no game is endangered.
Please support the airing of this ad.
Pink is such a loser. Pink is such a skank. How in the world could any woman in the USA hold Hillary to the level of the same quality of a person and as a candidate as Sarah Palin? Palin is a true class act! When are these Hollywood loons going to realize that anytime they endorse a candidate that the rest of middle America votes for the other candidate because when a Hollywood loon endorses a candidate its "codeword" for wako! Thank God Palin doesn't get the endorsements of Pink and Diddy and Clooney.....however, Zucker and the Head of MGM have some class and they endorsed Palin....God bless these two men who finally stood against the libs and goons in tinsle town.
go PINK 4 all women 4 all the right reasons, key word "reason".
hillary clinton is the opposite of sarah palin!
for women who love god animals children the elderly and other countries and communities regardless of religion and race.
I find it interesting celebrities like Pink and Pam Anderson try to be the moral compass of Politics lol. Pink said herself she would ask Palin, "who are you?" In that case, what gives Pink the right to make all these judgments on Palin? Whatch it Pink...Palin's "commmming out so you better get this party started"
There is a reason wolves are hunted by airplanes in Alaska. It is a method, introduced by wildlife biologists, to control the population of of preditors. Wolves are so numerous in Alaska that residents can kill 5 wolves a day with only a hunting licsence. You can disagree with the practice but please don't pretend to know what is going on in Alaska if you don't live there or are not a wildlife biologist. People like Pink are entitled to their opinions but they are not entitled to lie about subjects to further their agenda, and just because someone hunts does not make them cruel or hatefull towards aninals.
I have never seen a woman that I admire more then Sarah Palin. She has it all! She has
far more to offer then
women from Hollywood!
She is a Christian and lives her faith, unlike those that want to kill their babies! She is smart and can maneuver in ways that most women can't. I hope and pray that she is President one day.
Who cares what Pink thinks? She's not even part of the real world.
I would agree that Sarah Palin scares me! Anyone - man or woman, who doesn't blink an eye (Palin's response) when asked to be Vice President of the United States, has a HUGE problem with being full of themself. Might she even find out if her family wants to go on this ride with her or is it all about her?????