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Bob Barker (AP/Damian Dovarganes)
Just as yesterday’s theme was waiting … and waiting … and waiting, today’s seems to be outrage. And celebrities. And – stop the presses – eyebrow-raising celebrity behavior. Go figure. Maybe it’s the heat. People are cranky.
Bob Barker sure is. In North Carolina, the former game show host – with an assist from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – is calling for a tourism boycott against the Eastern Cherokee because of bears in privately owned zoos in Cherokee.
So is the tribe. “I’m appalled by his behavior and him accusing the Cherokee of being barbaric,” Chief Mitchell Hicks tells the Asheville Citizen-Times, here.
Barker, who met this week with tribal leaders, referred to the bear zoos as a “Third World spectacle.”
Both the tribe and the USDA inspect the zoos, the story says.
Gwen Florio
Tags: Animal rights, buffalo post, Eastern Cherokee, Native American news, PETA, zoos
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