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October 28, 2005
Hot Lips Helps Ban Insensitive Food
Posted by Dave Blount at October 28, 2005 12:18 PM
Mike Farrell and Alan Alda aren't the only five-alarm moonbats to come flapping out of the sadistically long-lived sitcom M*A*S*H. Remember Loretta Swit, aka Hot Lips Houlihan? She's been righteously speaking up for oppressed geese in Chicago, at the expense of people's right to eat what they please.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a City Council committee has agreed to ban the sale of foie gras on the grounds that the gourmet food is hurtful to the geese.
While tearfully sermonizing against the oppression of waddling waterfowl, Swit had to disagree with her fellow moonbat, Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington, whom she quoted as saying that the making of foie gras — which entails overfeeding the birds — "may not be pretty, but it pales by comparison to problems like Abu Ghraib, police brutality and racial profiling." Hot Lips offered the following rebuttal:
Are we ever going to forget the memory of that girl smiling, holding a tortured prisoner on a leash and enjoying it? . . . She grew up with the acceptance of this kind of behavior in whatever form it was, whether it was torturing a cat or a dog or seeing somebody doing it and looking the other way.
If we look the other way — if we say, "It's a guinea pig. It's a mouse. Who cares? It's a kitten. Whatever," then why are we surprised at the existence of inhumane acts directed toward each other?
In Swit's addled mind, eating pate fits right in there with torturing cats as part of the slippery slope that led to Abu Ghraib.
Apparently missing the Abu Ghraib connection, Mayor Daley had this take on the issue:
We're trying to tell people they can't eat certain foods. They can't buy certain foods. They can't ship certain foods in. Pretty soon, you can't drink. Do you really want government to keep telling you every day what to do?
In a word, NO.
Hat tip: Political Correctness Watch
