PETA is targeting American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken because of a comment he made in an interview with Rolling Stone. He said:
Now PETA is running a campaign with the slogan, “Get Neutered, It Didn’t Hurt Clay Aiken.”
So Clay had a traumatic experience with his kitten, and he is reminded of it when he sees other cats. How does this make him any less of a friend to the animals? The full story is here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031118/ap_en_mu/people_aiken_2
isn’t Triumph involved in this?
Just PETA looking to cash in on his popularity by ridiculing him. They get press for bashing him, and come out ahead. Simple.
Personally, when the end of the world comes, I’m gonna start eating the Peta people.
Wow, I feel dense as a doorpost. I just don’t get it. What does accidentially running over a kitten have to do with neutering? Are they saying Clay is neutered? Will somebody please explain?
Wisp00, Clay Aiken isn’t exactly the manliest guy around. I’m guessing that’s why they’re saying he’s “neutered.”
So, they’re saying he’s “neutered,” but it didn’t hurt him cuz he was successful anyway…?
An they think it’s alright to make fun of him like that because he says that cats scare him?
What about this:
And they’re gonna blackmail him into supporting them, or they’ll run embaressing ads?
This whole things sounds so stupid to me…
I’m gonna go with “no” I don’t think its justified.
On the one hand, PETA shouldn’t set a precedent of ridicule.
On the other hand… He’s Clay fucking Aiken.
You know, when I saw the headline, I thought they were pitting that Subway pitchman named Clay. Then I realized they meant some lounge singer type. Yawn.
Nothing PETA does is ever justified.
Poking fun at Clay Aiken is always justified.
I really don’t know enough about Clay Aiken to decide if the poking is ‘justified’ or not, but I do wonder… and I’m not asking this facetiously or rhetorically; I honestly don’t know the answer… but does anyone actually take PETA seriously, other than PETA? I certainly don’t, and don’t know anyone who does.
Bite your tongue Tradnor! He’s a musical genius. 
(j/k, I reserve that distinction for Sting and only in my ranting, Deeward-esque moments). OT, I don’t get the point of the ridicule. He had a cat, it died in a tragic accident, and he’s traumatized by the experience. Nothing funny about that. Maybe they should just stick with Vanessa Olivares posing naked to protest fur.
The irresistable force has met the immovable object!
I vote for not funny. I like Clay and hate PETA, so of course I don’t like it. I usually like animals way more than most people I meet, but PETA is just too much for me.
It’s not funny because it makes no fucking sense.
What really makes no sense is that PETA has their panties in a bunch over what Clay Aiken said. He said he doesn’t like cats because they remind him of a traumatic experience he had where he accidentally killed a cat! This is a pro-cat statement, if anything. PETA is just a bunch of morons.
Revtim has the answer. PETA, as usual, is a collection of humorless dolts. It’s not that their “joke” is mean or unjustified. It just makes no sense.
And now that I think about it, what the FUCK is PETA talking about? Aren’t they opposed to animal slavery of all kinds? Shouldn’t they be opposed to radically invasive surgery on housepets? And be opposed to people owning housepets in the first place?