People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has started a campaign to get people to start calling fish “sea kittens.” The idea seems to be, if people think fish are as cute as kittens, they would be less likely to eat them. (Although there are some countries in which such a strategy would obviously backfire.)

On the About page of PETA’s Save the Sea Kittens site, there’s a “Sea Kitten Facts” box with a rotating list of fish factoids.

One of those items contains a gratuitous insult against President Obama:

The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto asks, “How dare PETA stereotype the first African-American president as lacking in intelligence?”

On behalf of our president, I demand that PETA retract this bigoted insult.