President Obama-- Fly Gate

Fox news--

Washington, DC -- during an interview with John Harwood for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, President Obama took aim at a fly that was bothering them during the conversation.

"Get out of here," the president told the pesky insect. When it didn't, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead.

"Now, where were we?" Obama asked Harwood. Then he added: "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker."

Normally, that would be a pretty funny incident, however, this is Washington, DC and PETA was not amused.

"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."

PETA would have preferred that Obama used a more peaceful method of "catch and release" for the poor fly.