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US pop singer Pink has backed down from her call to boycott Australian wool over animal cruelty claims, admitting she failed to fully research the issue.

If there’s one thing the compassionate celebrity class is known for, it’s failing to research the issue. Wonder if PETA will pull their ad …

Posted by Tim B. on 01/16/2007 at 09:55 PM
  1. And just by shear coincidence she is about to tour Australia. Amazing.

    Posted by curious george on 2007 01 16 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  2. “Then going back, I was speaking without thinking and I actually did say ban Australia, which is bullshit. It’s not something that I can agree with.”

    Lol, quick, someone blame Howard before she does.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 01 16 at 10:03 PM • permalink

  3. #1
    It’s always easy when the issue is waaaay over there Downunder, until someone books a tour :)

    Pink made a mules of herself?

    Hope our press give her a grilling: well done; no Pink bits, please.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 16 at 10:10 PM • permalink

  4. shear coincidence…

    Ha!

    Posted by Henry boy on 2007 01 16 at 10:10 PM • permalink

  5. The HoWARdian fascists have crushed Pink’s dissent! Waaah!

    Come on. You know someone will say it.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 16 at 10:14 PM • permalink

  6. Pink is just acting all yellow.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 16 at 10:16 PM • permalink

  7. Animals would be far better off without lunatic organisations like PETA, which exist only to give nutcase human-haters a little anthropomorphic catharsis.

    Back in the real world, in between donating to donkey shelters, fostering greyhounds, carting irresponsibly bred stray kittens off to animal refuges and rescuing winged magpies, I shake my head in frustration at the sheer scale of publicity that airhead Z-grade celebrities attract for their stupid, ill-informed, dangerous ideas.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2007 01 16 at 10:18 PM • permalink

  8. I had never heard of Pink until she got a mention here. May she now resume her humble and anonymous place in the baahing flock.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 10:23 PM • permalink

  9. #7
    The PETA/WIRES crossover would be interesting: very little, I’d reckon.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 16 at 10:26 PM • permalink

  10. Why would anyone lend their name and face to a campaign they did not know anything about? I don’t mean just “celebrites”. I mean anybody.

    Why would you not spend a few minutes researching the issue? Check out in particular the other side of the story?

    Posted by geoff on 2007 01 16 at 10:29 PM • permalink

  11. Celebrities should shut up and concentrate on the things they do best: recording sex tapes of themselves (which can then be leaked onto the net by ex-lovers) and posing nude for men’s magazines when their careers stall.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 16 at 10:34 PM • permalink

  12. bugger.

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 16 at 10:38 PM • permalink

  13. US pop singer Pink has backed down from her call to boycott Australian wool over animal cruelty claims, admitting she failed to fully research the issue.

    Pfffff.  This is the problem with EVERY left wing celebrity.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 16 at 10:42 PM • permalink

  14. We need to recruit more actively for the “Political Actors and Celebrities Organisation” where the celebrity pays fees which are, to be frank, unreasonably high, then has a meeting with Wronwright to be allocated a pet cause, then goes to a meeting with MarkL and has their VRWC mind control chip installed.

    You know the ones I’m talking about, like the one’s controlling Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 16 at 10:43 PM • permalink

  15. She must be feeling sheepish now…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 16 at 10:52 PM • permalink

  16. #14: That program’s working pretty well, in most cases. But not always. When MarkL tried to install a mind-control chip in Alec Baldwin’s brain, it died of loneliness. Same thing with Jane Fonda: he inserted the chip, and you could hear the clacking noise it made as it fell on the floor of the empty cranium.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 10:53 PM • permalink

  17. Having sorted out the “ban Australia” call, she’ll be hoping people flock to her concert.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 16 at 10:53 PM • permalink

  18. Give us back our butts, PETA! Err, so to speak.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 16 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  19. #17 Rebase, I think you’re simply wool-gathering until this mutton-head spouts her next political opinion.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  20. I must admit, I do enjoy clicking on that ad to see what crap PETA’ve come out with now. But mainly because the thought of PETA financially assisting this blog gives me a warm’n'fuzzy feeling deep down inside.

    Posted by pache on 2007 01 16 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  21. #11 - be careful what you wish for, Rosie O’Donnell might hear you.

    Posted by bondo on 2007 01 16 at 11:10 PM • permalink


  22. “I have nothing against farmers. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, I don’t want to hurt anyone, I just want the animals to hurt less.”

    I just want the animals to taste better.

    Posted by bondo on 2007 01 16 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  23. That’s what you get for ramming ideas down throats, Pink…..

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 16 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  24. Sheep robably had the wool pulled over her eyes, out of shear stupidity and baaaad advice from some of her sheepdog friends!

    And, she’s feeling sheepish and left out of the fold, now that she’s giving the sheep’s eye to the Land Down Under prior to her tour.

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 01 16 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  25. #21, good point! I kinda had Scarlett Johansson in mind when I wrote it (which seems to happen a lot regardless of what I’m doing these days).

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 16 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  26. #25 - I am also struck with Scarlett fever. Topical creams have only exacerbated the situation.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 16 at 11:31 PM • permalink

  27. Thank God.  Now maybe we can be rid of that idiotic photo of Pink mimicking a sheep’s face.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 16 at 11:31 PM • permalink

  28. #27 RebeccaH

    Ohhhhhhhhhhh! I thought she was mimicking the part that got mulesed!

    Boy is my face pink.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 16 at 11:44 PM • permalink

  29. RebeccaH, better she looks like a sheep’s face than it’s bum.

    (blast you, penguin!)

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 16 at 11:47 PM • permalink

  30. Shhh, penguin, kae.  I was trying to be polite.  It happens so rarely, and now you’ve spoiled it.  Sheesh.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 17 at 12:02 AM • permalink

  31. Well, maybe I wasn’t being exactly polite...

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 17 at 12:03 AM • permalink

  32. Oops, sorry RebeccaH, I was being obtuse…

    Posted by kae on 2007 01 17 at 12:09 AM • permalink

  33. Ugly, stupid and utterly talentless. Nature can be so cruel.

    Posted by Daniel San on 2007 01 17 at 12:21 AM • permalink

  34. By hook or by crook, Pink will put a stop to mulesing!

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 17 at 12:30 AM • permalink

  35. But it will be interesting to see wether she supports PETA in the future.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 17 at 12:35 AM • permalink

  36. Ewe lot don’t know what you are bleating about.

    Mulesing just makes it easier and more hygenic for Kiwi’s to love God’s little creatures….

    Posted by Kaboom on 2007 01 17 at 12:35 AM • permalink

  37. If Pink wanted to champion ‘two causes with the one stone’ she could try to stop this outrage.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 17 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  38. Obviously Pink realises that somebody pulled the wool over her eyes…

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 17 at 12:43 AM • permalink

  39. I love the line “Pink often opts for pleather.”

    Yeth, Pink lookth like that kind of a gal.

    Posted by Mike G on 2007 01 17 at 12:59 AM • permalink

  40. #10 geoff

    “Why would you not spend a few minutes researching the issue? Check out in particular the other side of the story?”

    But then we wouldn’t have had all that fevered discussion about holes in tops of ambulances or plastic turkeys or gorbal wormenising or ....?

    Heaven help us if leftoids actually thought and investigated and all that .. what could we talk about

    Posted by galenmk on 2007 01 17 at 01:12 AM • permalink

  41. Of course growing up in rural Pennsylvania would give you a lot of experience about sheep, it being one of the world’s leading sheep raising regions. A bit like me saying I grew up around rock musos, so I know what jackasses they can be.

    Posted by mr magoo on 2007 01 17 at 01:35 AM • permalink

  42. #37: I think the zoo became concerned when a penguin couple wanted to adopt a cocker spaniel.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2007 01 17 at 01:53 AM • permalink

  43. Her woolly ideas leading to her boycott statement were widely reported by the ABC et al.  Somehow I doubt her conversion to the truth will not get a guernsey.

    Cheers
    RodC

    Posted by Rod C on 2007 01 17 at 02:57 AM • permalink

  44. I wonder whether Pink wonders whether our wethers can weather the weather, what with global warming et al?

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 01 17 at 03:31 AM • permalink

  45. Before peta stuffs up my downunder tour
    And ovine bodies rottin’ are dumped at my door
    I’m sendin’ out the message so the Aus- tra-liens
    Won’t be throwing dags at my Mercedes Benz
    I got no i-dea, when it comes to mulesing
    I fell for peta’s lies if you know what I mean, oh


    I’m comin’ down
    So i better do this peta parting
    I’m comin’ down,
    So i better do this peta parting

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 17 at 05:13 AM • permalink

  46. Look, at least she had the courage to admit she was wrong.

    Posted by tdw77 on 2007 01 17 at 05:14 AM • permalink

  47. #42 Underscore.
    Hah!

    Several of them have also complained that the enclosure is too drab and sooooo 2004!

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 17 at 05:53 AM • permalink

  48. #14 Penguin -

    We need to recruit more actively for the “Political Actors and Celebrities Organisation” where the celebrity pays fees which are, to be frank, unreasonably high, then has a meeting with Wronwright to be allocated a pet cause, then goes to a meeting with MarkL and has their VRWC mind control chip installed.

    What I want to know is where do those fees go?  I haven’t received jack for my ardent efforts and everytime I inquire into it, the higher ups at Political Actors and Celebrities Organisation tell me that “administrative expenses” have resulted in their being no net profits, as yet. 

    I happen to know MarkL and my efforts brought in well over $20 million in 2006.  (Our Operation Red Cups was very popular, as well as our Plether Not Leather and Not in My Name! campaigns). And yet we show no profits????

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 17 at 06:00 AM • permalink

  49. If Peta’s protégé’s picked that they’d be in a pickle,
    How many Pink publicists would Peta’s people pick?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 01 17 at 06:03 AM • permalink

  50. She could call it the “Bare-assed in Australia Tour”.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 01 17 at 06:04 AM • permalink

  51. “Darn,” says Pink.  “What a knit-wit.  Next time I will not be such a quick jumper to conclusions.  I will think twice before I vest my support in causes ovine.  Hey, who scarfed my donuts?”

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 01 17 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  52. US pop singer

    The paper is apparently going after the youth market.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 01 17 at 06:19 AM • permalink

  53. Entertainers invite ridicule by attaching themselves to political causes.  Most people assume that they do so only to ingratiate themselves with the ignorant young, and to show that their radical edge has not been blunted by all the money.  I make an honourable exception of the BNP ballerina, because she was “outed”

    Posted by rexie on 2007 01 17 at 06:53 AM • permalink

  54. #48. Wronwright.

    As I am very new to this game, I am not privvy to even the outermost workings of PACO Industries. The last time Mr Paco came down onto the factory floor for a pep talk to the troops, I was too nervous to ask anything.

    Lucky I went with my gut feeling, ‘cause this one other guy, a young uppity chap - I’m sure you know the type - asked whether we could combine our two 30 second breaks per day into a one minute break at lunch time.

    Well it seemed to me like even the clocks stopped ticking! But Mr Paco just smiled and said, “well… sorry, no you can’t son, but I can tell you that you just got yourself promoted onto special projects.

    He hasn’t been seen since. But his car was towed away before the end of the day.

    Man, I just work here….

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 17 at 07:15 AM • permalink

  55. #48: Heh. You should always ask for a percentage of the gross, man, not the net. Remember that next time your contract comes up for review, in . . . March of 2028, isn’t it?

    #54: Don’t think you haven’t been noticed down there on the factory floor, Penguin. You’re doing a fine job. Keep up the good work, and before you know it, you’ll be promoted to Lance Corporal, Shop Vac Brigade.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 17 at 09:46 AM • permalink

  56. I’m shocked! I would have expected and uneducated pop singer with a lop-sided head to have conducted thorough, quality research. What went wrong?

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 01 17 at 10:11 AM • permalink

  57. Good Lord!  Does NO ONE remember what happened the last time we let wronwright deal with PETA celebrities?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 17 at 12:05 PM • permalink

  58. Oh good lord.  And all along I thought that was lost in the mists of time.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 17 at 01:27 PM • permalink

  59. #58: Oh good lord.  And all along I thought that was lost in the mists of time.

    Richard McEnroe: Dispeller of Mists.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 17 at 04:02 PM • permalink

  60. #58, wronwright:

    I know it’s not my place to make suggestions pertaining to the personnel and management of your fine organization, but…

    Maybe if richard mcenroe was made chief of security for video archives… you know how it is, make the best digger responsible for any dirt that gets displaced from the hole where it belongs.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 17 at 10:13 PM • permalink

  61. Wonder if PETA will pull their ad …

    Never!  They must continue to speak truth...er, speak, um… something or another to Blog Power!

    Posted by Major John on 2007 01 18 at 02:36 AM • permalink

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