PETA and First Lady: Fur Flying!

by Cameron Scott · 2010-01-05 17:27:00 UTC
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PETA ad featuring Michelle OThis summer, after First Lady Michelle Obama met the French president's sexy wife, Carla Bruni, the two were eager to say that, though they were, indeed, fashionable, they did not wear fur.

New York Magazine called it: "How long," the glossy intoned on its blog, "until PETA tries to use both women in a commercial?"

A little over six months. Mrs. Obama -- admittedly sans Bruni -- is featured in a new anti-fur ad that is appearing in D.C. Metro stations as well as in magazines and on PETA's website. The ad also features Carrie Underwood, Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Banks, all of whom eschew fur.

Her image was used without Mrs. Obama's permission, and the White House is nonplussed. After all, PETA has a reputation for controversy, not to mention its tendency to objectify women to make the case for not objectifying animals.

PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said the organization didn't ask the first lady for permission because it knows she would have said no.

Fair or foul?

Cameron Scott writes The Thin Green Line blog.
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