It seems Sarah Palin tweeted cute pictures of her youngest son using a dog as a foot-stool. While many people were appalled, others stoutly defended the apparent cruelty:
https://www.politicaljack.com/threads/sarah-palin-american-achiever-of-2014-way-to-go.77962/page-2
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