Sarah Palin Fires Back at Ashley Judd

You know Ashley Judd. The actress. Naomi Judd's younger daughter. I assume she lives somewhere nicely tucked away in the hills of Hollywood with the rest of the elite. So she's decided to take a stand against the aerial slaughtering of wolves in Alasaka. Naturally, targeting Sarah Palin.

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.”

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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.”

You would think if Judd were going to pick a fight, debate whatever...she might want to get some facts before she goes on this big crusade. Aerial hunting was intended to reduce the number of wolves in order to protect an endangered caribou population that had dropped to only 500.

Slaughtering wolves on the Alaska Peninsula appears to have had the desired effect -- more caribou got a chance to live, according to biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

As ugly and as politically incorrect as the wolf killing might seem to some, they said, the helicopter gunning that took place earlier this year saved caribou, especially young caribou, from being eaten alive.

Fall surveys of the Southern Alaska Peninsula caribou herd completed in October found an average of 39 calves per 100 cows. That's a dramatic improvement from fall counts of only 1 calf per 100 cows in 2006 and 2007.

Hollywood is seriously impaired.

Aww well. That's just the way they are. Always doing things half-ass backwards.