Lily Tomlin | 04/06/2009 11:00 pm

Lily Tomlin's Ernestine Takes on Sarah Palin and Michael Vick in Animal Rights Message (Video)

‘Piper, put your mother on the phone!’ says Lily Tomlin in her latest animal-rights video.

By Ernestine

Always ready to lend a helping hand, I dropped by at the Hollywood office of The Humane Society of the United States to shoot a video to be shown at the 23rd Genesis Awards Saturday, March 28. True to form, I did not hold back on letting my true feelings be known about my concerns for animals and the miserable treatment they so often receive at the hands of humans. Don’t get me started. Click here to find out how everyone from Sarah Palin and Mayor Villaraigosa to Michael Vick and Neal Cavuto gets the rough end of my tongue.

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Bravo! My Lady Ernestine!

By Patty K on 04/09/2009 11:37 am

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Many thanks for bringing a serious issue to light with your wonderful humor. I think it will give people much to think about concerning the care we need to give to our animals.

By nancy weber on 04/09/2009 1:07 pm

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Earnestine,

You go girl! I have always loved Earnestine.

By Norma Grooms on 04/09/2009 3:58 pm

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Lily, FINALLY a chance to tell you that I think you are fantastic! The fact that you speak out for the animals makes me love you that much more….Ernestine rocks!

By Carole Ferrer on 04/09/2009 6:00 pm

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Don’t you all think it’s about time that we all leave Sarah Palin and her family alone and get a life??? As for Ernestine she sounds and comes across as a nasty old B—-h! I completely agree that the horror and abuse of puppy mills should be stopped. But how about caring and stopping the abuse of children and women first! I think that it’s about time that we stop slamming people and spend some quality time trying to solve some of the daily problems we are faced with!

By Judi McCaslin on 04/09/2009 9:40 pm

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No one said anything about children/people as that’s not the issue; what do have they got to do with this? Please explain this type of logic to me. Why is it automatically assumed that everytime someone shows compassion for animals, they somehow must NOT possess compassion for children/people as well? Don’t you think children/people have PLENTY of advocates already? Regardless, it IS possible to care about BOTH.

By Kryssi K on 04/09/2009 11:44 pm

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Kryssi,

Lilly was not showing compassion for animals when she

used them to attack Sarah Palin who does have compassion

for animals. Sarah Palin is fighting the good old boys club

in Alaska. Just because a person is a Governor of a state,

doesn’t mean they can just go in and do whatever they want.

Alaskans live off the land and they want a balance so all

the wildlife will survive not just the wolves. Do you realize that

a jar a peanut butter in Alaska costs a person $24.00 which

we pay $4.00 for here in the states. You would be eatting Moose

Deer, and Elk to if you lived in Alaska and hunting. be thankful

you don’t have to do that.

By Julia Zvaners on 04/10/2009 2:56 pm

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Julia - The Department of Game makes a point to kill predators so human hunters have a better chance of shooting moose and elk. The fact is it is purely for profit and tourism. Plain and simple, and a quick review of the departments’ documents will show that - they even try to murder 60% of black bears there so they don’t kill the caribou and moose for human hunters can come and shoot them themselves.

By Amanda C on 04/10/2009 5:03 pm

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That’s my question, Kryssi. The people who care and do serve animals also have a lot of compassion for humans. In fact, in my personal experience I have found that those who care for animals MORE also feel more for human suffering.

By Amanda C on 04/10/2009 5:01 pm

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…what HAVE they got to do with this***

By Kryssi K on 04/09/2009 11:44 pm

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Every single day, innocent, voiceless animals are suffering at the hands of humans. They have less of a voice than human children. At least human children can tell someone they are being beaten, starved or tortured. A pitbull chained to a box in the backyard doesn’t.

There is no reason to ignore ANY suffering. To deny relief to a creature simply because they are not included in your circle of compassion is wrong.

In addition, research has shown that humans who abuse and kill animals are more likely to abuse humans. As Jesus said:

"Whatever you neglected to do unto one of these least of these, you neglected to do unto Me!"

By Amanda C on 04/10/2009 5:00 pm

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MY question is…since when is COMPASSION a trait worthy of ridicule? I guess the ignorant, sadistic sub-humans of the world will always envy those who possess more emotional/spiritual/intellectual capacity than they do.

By Kryssi K on 04/11/2009 3:27 am