NEWKIRK ADMITS TO HORSE PHOTO MANIPULATION

Richard Bishop

unread,

Jan 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/22/98

to

Thanks, great article. Typical of AR tactics. I printed it off for
our local Humane Officer who gets strange calls from our local AR
crazies who want her to help them picket, go to meetings (they have
LOTS of meetings...oh well, it keeps them busy), etc. She always tells
them, no thanks, I have some actual abuse cases to investigate. Of
course, they don't want to come along, they are too sensitive.

Sue

In <6a64m8$e...@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> powl...@freenet.calgary.ab.ca (Jim
B. Powlesland) writes:
>
>
> NEWKIRK ADMITS TO HORSE PHOTO MANIPULATION
>
>In the only letter to the editor to be published to date*
>in reaction to The Washington Post's profile of PETA spy
>Michelle Rokke, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk attempts to
>explain why PETA's Animal Times newsletter used a stallion to
>illustrate a story on pregnant mares.
>
>The reporter had noted in the profile that Rokke had
>taken a picture of a stallion with a leg wound, which,
>with genitalia cropped, ended up illustrating a newsletter
>article about farms on which urine is collected from
>pregnant mares to manufacture Premarin.
>
>In the letter published last Saturday,
>Newkirk denied the photo was cropped, but said PETA's
>"designers placed text over that rather prominent
>part of the stallion's anatomy because we choose not
>to show genitalia in Animal Times." She went on to
>say that the horse's sexual identity was "irrelevant."
>
>If taken at face value, Newkirk's comment indicates the
>first time good taste ever played a role in PETA's activities.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>*Please note that AMP and several other organizations and
>individuals submitted letters to The Washington Post concerning
>the Rokke profile. For whatever reasons, the editors chose
>to run only Newkirk's letter.
>
>___________________________________________________________________
>
> AMP News
> Tuesday, January 21, 1998
>___________________________________________________________________
>Americans for Medical Progress
>421 King Street Suite 401
>Alexandria VA 22314
>703 836 9595 fax 703 836 9594 toll free 800 426 7872
>a...@amprogress.org http://www.amprogress.org
>
>
>

G Boggs

unread,

Jan 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/23/98

to

Jim B. Powlesland wrote:
>
> NEWKIRK ADMITS TO HORSE PHOTO MANIPULATION
>

> [...]

>
> In the letter published last Saturday,
> Newkirk denied the photo was cropped, but said PETA's
> "designers placed text over that rather prominent
> part of the stallion's anatomy because we choose not
> to show genitalia in Animal Times."

How very speciesiest of her. I doubt the horse cared whether his penis
was visible or not.

> She went on to
> say that the horse's sexual identity was "irrelevant."

Loon Logic (tm)

G Boggs
> [...]

How very speciesiest of her. I doubt the horse cared whether his penis
was visible or not.

gwen

unread,

Jan 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/23/98

to

G Boggs wrote:
>
>
> > She went on to
> > say that the horse's sexual identity was "irrelevant."
>
> Loon Logic (tm)

Or is it prud logic?

>
> G Boggs
> > [...]
>

Cheers,
Gwen

Woody Williams

unread,

Jan 23, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/23/98

to

gwen wrote:
>
> G Boggs wrote:
> >
> >
> > > She went on to
> > > say that the horse's sexual identity was "irrelevant."
> >
> > Loon Logic (tm)
>
> Or is it prud logic?

I had heard that the horse "had a distinquishing charactoristic".
(ala Paula Jones) <G>

gwen

unread,

Jan 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/27/98

to

Woody Williams wrote:
>

> > Or is it prud logic?
>
> I had heard that the horse "had a distinquishing charactoristic".
> (ala Paula Jones) <G>
>

ROTFL!!!

Gwen