Sarah Palin Fires Back at PETA Over Dog Picture

Sarah Palin fired another shot in her unlikely war of words with the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) on Monday, accusing it of hypocrisy and asserting that liberals feel no compunction about attacking even special-needs children and puppy trainers.

Palin and Peta are at odds over a photo posted on the former Alaska governor’s Facebook page, which shows her six-year-old son, Trig, who has Down’s syndrome, stepping on the back of the family’s service dog, Jill Hadassah, to reach the kitchen counter.

“Kiss my okole” was Palin’s Hawaiian-tinged response to criticism from Peta and angry online onlookers. She alerted readers to what she sees as the true obsession of such critics: “They’re attacking me because, well, I’m me.”

“Where have [Peta] been all these years?” Palin asked in a statement to NBC News, before suggesting the activists were hypocrites for having praised public figures previously accused of malfeasance toward animals.

First, Palin repeated a charge about Peta’s 2009 Woman of the Year, comedian Ellen DeGeneres, over a photo of a toddler standing on a dog that appeared last year on the Facebook page for her TV show and about which Palin said Peta had not passed comment. (Read more about Sarah Palin hammering her critics HERE)

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