Defenders of Wildlife release scathing, powerful ad against Palin

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:23 PM EDT

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Sarah Palin's record on the brutal practice of aerial hunting exposed

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Ouch, ouch, ouch.

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#1 - Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:27 PM EDT

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npat

Cruel action by Palin against wolves in order to please wolf hunters.

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#2 - Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:10 PM EDT

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jade-log

Did you look at "Sarah Palin is Evil?" Pictures of her all tramped out in garter belt and bikinis. I understand why she is so religious.

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#2.1 - Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:01 PM EDT

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angela593

Sometimes wolves over- run the country side and need to be thinned out. Perhaps we will hear more about the context for these hunts.

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#3 - Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:34 PM EDT

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angela593

Avid hunters and native Alaskans perhaps view this topic in a very different light.

Most Alaskans are proud that we have large and healthy wolf populations, and many recognize that we have a special responsibility to manage wolves to ensure their continued abundance. Wolves do have an impact on moose and caribou populations, and this impact, in combination with factors such as severe winter weather or bear predation, can depress moose and caribou populations to very low levels leaving little harvestable surplus for humans.

Man has the ability to influence this system by reducing wolf populations and allowing ungulate populations to recover from depressed levels. The controversy centers on whether — or when and how — it is appropriate for man to decrease wolf numbers to increase ungulate harvests.

http://www.hunt.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wolf.wolf_mgt

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#4 - Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:36 PM EDT

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npat

The video is on cruelity to wolves and other animals using airplanes, supported by Palin. That's a triple whammy - animal cruelty, a wasteful use of fuel and adds to global warming.

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#4.1 - Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:40 PM EDT

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Gnostix1

The video is on cruelity to wolves and other animals using airplanes, supported by Palin. That's a triple whammy - animal cruelty, a wasteful use of fuel and adds to global warming.

And it doesn't strike me as terribly sporting. Or Christian, or Family Values, etc. Why is this story --among so many -- not being picked up by MSM. I just can't see Sandy Soccer-Mom defending Sarah to her kids and cohorts in the face of this evidence.

Of the ad -- I think the images can speak for themselves without the over-wraught narration. Anti-hunting groups can never resist that trap. (Much as "pro-life" advocates can't resist the extreme rhetoric that ends far more dialogues than it starts.)

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#4.2 - Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:55 PM EDT

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