Sarah Palin calls Ashley Judd's Defenders of Wildlife organization an "extreme fringe group"

By GottaLaff

Original post here, including the video. Apparently, if you disagree with aerial wolf-slaughtering, and you call out Sarah Palin, you're part of a "fringe group":

Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s support for aerial wolf-hunting has sparked a heated cross-country war of words between the governor and an environmental ad campaign fronted by the actress Ashley Judd, with Palin calling the organization funding the ads an “extreme fringe group.” [...]

The group is highlighting “Palin’s championing of the brutal and unnecessary aerial killing of wolves and other carnivores” — a controversial practice allowed by permit in Alaska since 2003, with the goal of protecting populations of moose and caribou. [...]

Palin struck back in a statement Tuesday night, calling the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund a fringe group that “distorts” the goal of Alaska’s predator control programs.

“Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can’t be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou populations,” Palin said in the statement.

She added: “Shame on the Defenders of Wildlife for twisting the truth in an effort to raise funds from innocent and hard-pressed Americans struggling with these rough economic times.” [...]

"A lot of the far east coast politicians think it's just so politically incorrect," she said.

This far west coast non-politician thinks it's just so cruel and unnecessary. Thinning the herd humanely is one thing, if, indeed, it is crucial to do so (which in this case has been the subject of debate). Shooting them from airplanes is another.

So, yes, of course. It's all about political correctness. Nothing more.