If wolves could sue

You are in the middle of a dark forest, night closing in, with a pack of vicious, hungry wolves wandering back and forth in front of you, taking your measure. This is where the Bush administration wants you to see yourself, in an ad titled Wolves (US users only) running in battleground states. The tone is menacing and the message unsubtle: vote Kerry and watch the country get ripped apart by terrorists.

But it’s not Kerry’s campaign that seems most offended by the crass attack. It’s the wolves. The International Wolf Centre in Minnesota claims the ad amounts to a character slur on wolf populations, which have been under threat for some time now.


“Wolves suffer when the most powerful office in the world associates them with such a widely feared and reviled symbol of evil,” the group said, not specifying if the evil in question was terrorism or the Democratic party.

There are no recorded cases of a healthy wild wolf killing a person in north America, the group added. Indeed they instinctively fear and avoid humans. Which is much the best policy, really, especially around election time.

Posted by Sarah Left at October 29, 2004 05:13 PM

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It is just as wrong to cast wolves in a negative light as it is to call George Bush a jackass. Jackasses do not start wars or foul up an economy.

 Comments posted by: Don LoCicero at October 29, 2004 07:45 PM

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/us_elections/2004/10/if_wolves_could_sue.html