Hunting for Humor

Howard Kurtz picks up on some fun PETA had with reporters last week–and the fun that the Washington Times’ outdoor editor had with PETA.

Last Friday, April Fool’s if you remember, PETA sent out an release entitled “New Study Links Hunting to Small Penis Size,” which pointed to research by the “Diminutive Male Genitalia Disorder Research Organization” (which given today’s NIH stories might actually exist for all we know).

WT’s outdoors editor, Gene Mueller, promptly wrote back, saying, “You might have something there. . . It might apply to a fellow I know who’s not well endowed, but who’s one heck of a hunter. But then there’s my brother, Lou, who’s amply endowed but also loves to hunt.”

Mueller told Kurtz that he suspected the release was “tongue-in-cheek” and so wanted to bait his “enemies” at the animal rights organization.

Legal Disclaimer: To avoid the potential of a libel suit, we should state up front that the use of the purposely unidentifiable hunter to illustrate this story is not a commentary on that hunter or any silhouetted hunter’s endowment. We have no knowledge, person or second-hand, of that hunter’s endowment.

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