Slate Gets Ripped To Shreds For Attacking George H.W.’s Service Dog

A few days back I wrote about Sully, George H.W.’s loyal service dog.

The picture quickly went viral after being shared by Jim McGrath, Bush’s longtime aide and personal friend.

Mission complete. #Remembering41 pic.twitter.com/rXdyXAS4lk

— Jim McGrath (@jgm41) December 3, 2018

Many of us got a case of the feelings on this one, because how could you not?

Well, the insufferable liberals at Slate reminded us we’re all just stupid for thinking this is sweet in a lovely little piece entitled “Don’t Spend Your Emotional Energy on Sully H.W. Bush.”

Sully H.W. Bush is a service dog who had been with the president for six months, not his lifelong companion: https://t.co/qxfaczu8PV pic.twitter.com/eXOZyWbiFL

— Slate (@Slate) December 3, 2018

[I]t’s a bit demented to project soul-wrenching grief onto a dog’s decision to lie down in front of a casket. Is Sully “heroic” for learning to obey the human beings who taught him to perform certain tasks? Does the photo say anything special about this dog’s particular loyalty or judgment, or is he just … there? Also, if dogs are subject to praise for obeying their masters, what do we do about the pets who eat their owners’ dead (or even just passed-out) bodies?

The photograph, in other words, is not proof that Sully is a particularly “good boy” or that “we don’t deserve dogs,” as countless swooning tweets put it on Monday. On its own, it says almost nothing other than the fact that Sully was, at one point in the same room as the casket of his former boss. This is simply a photograph of a dog doing something dogs love to do: Lie down. The frenzy around it captures something humans love to do, too: Project our own emotional needs onto animals.

Can you imagine being this much of a cold-hearted troll?

I can’t. And neither can the rest of the internet.

And you are a bunch of idiots who haven’t had a lucid thought in the last six months https://t.co/oi7S728tqW

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 4, 2018

I’ve only been aware of Sully for a hot minute and I love him. Don’t you dare try to tell me the man he helped after his wife died didn’t love him too.

— Phyllis ❄️ (@connachtpa) December 4, 2018

Seriously @Slate? Not getting enough attention today so you had to pick on a SERVICE DOG?? #shame #dogsrule

— Amy Nichols (@amynichols) December 4, 2018

Shorter Slate:

“We have no souls and take no joy in life, so here’s the worst thing we could think of to write” https://t.co/TLLzM99uVq

— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) December 4, 2018

I for one am shocked to learn that Sully was not George H.W. Bush’s lifelong companion, which would’ve made Sully about 658 in dog years. https://t.co/hWzR0eUwGc

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) December 4, 2018

Don’t be petty, Slate. It’s not a good look.