Blake Shelton Turtle Road Kill Joke Angers NPR Reporter

By On 07/29/2012 · 59 Comments · In The Voice

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Anyone who follows The Voice coach, Blake Shelton, on twitter knows he tweets like an asshole. He also gets into twitter battles with people who challenge him, often using very colorful language.

At this point, I mostly ignore his ramblings the also include jokes about being drunk. Which is why when he tweeted a few days ago about swerving on purpose to hit a turtle, I didn’t even give it a second thought. But a science reporter at NPR noticed and quickly chastised Blake who told her to “shut up” in reply. Obviously, he had no idea who she was, and that she could take him to task in front of thousands of people.

You can read the exchange between Blake and the reporter, Barbara King, at Buzz Feed. The exchange prompted some sarcastic comments in defense of Blake’s tweet–some making light of animal cruelty.

Read the NPR blogger’s response HERE. She cites a NASA scientist who recently found out that 6 percent of drivers do intentionally swerve to hit animals and feels that singing and TV stars shouldn’t be encouraging the behavior.

I think Blake’s behavior on twitter is so exaggerated–it’s pretty much asshole shtick. The OP at Buzz Feed said, seriously, “Shelton’s fans continue to threaten turtles in defense of the initial tweet. I echo King in hoping that these fans aren’t serious.”  Erm, a joke tweet from Blake Shelton isn’t going to set a fan down the road of animal cruelty if they weren’t already so inclined.

However, I will take Blake to task for telling King to shut up. His behavior was not only uncivil,  but ended up biting him in the ass.

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  • Guest

    if I had a choice between Shelton the human and Turtle the turtle, I’d choose the turtle…

  • http://twitter.com/jerryt9789 Jerry

    Look, Ma, I’m roadkill! xD

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    nvm

  • breakdown

    Blake just being Blake? Sounds more like an excuse for bad behavior.

  • Anonymous

    I’m CONSTANTLY amazed that people like Blake Shelton wouldn’t realize by 2012 that he is not just tweeting to his acolytes. Even if he could magically prevent people who don’t like him from following him, he could still tweet out something that some of his own ardent fans don’t like and retweeting exists (“Ha!Ha! I’m going to retweet this to my friend who loves turtles. It will make him SO mad. LOL! I’m just as jerky as my hero. Yay!”).

    I think it’s a little weird for him, because like I said earlier, he really started to get a lot of attention when he started using twitter, and became known as someone who will tweet anything no matter how over the top it is.  I don’t think that he would have been on NBC’s radar for a position on The Voice, if it wasn’t for the following that he built up on twitter.  

    But, some of his tweets over the past year or so do make it seem like he would like to turn back the clock, and not have to be “On” on twitter all of the time.  Some of his tweets have been overly sensitive, and he’s started to re-tweet a lot of people who are just telling him that he is a good guy.  That’s not something that he used to do.  

  • Guest

    Why is that not a surprise? What did the turtle do to Shelton that he needs to run it over “for Kicks”.

     That’s why more people are empathic towards animals… Humans should know better, but some are missing the empathy trait. They are no better than bullies.

  • Anonymous

    Blake is a drunk who get’s on twitter and then get’s pissed when people disagree with his drunken rants. I don’t hate the guy, I think he’s kind of pathetic. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    Some months ago everyone was talking here how nice and heartful he was, always helping his contestants, bringing Dia to tour with him, finding a job as backing vocal for Gwen Sebastian, helping RaeLynn to get a deal, et cetera. He’s known for being one of the most nice and generous guys in the country industry. But he has a serious drinking problem and likes to use the twitter while drinking…so, there you go.

  • Anonymous

    The problem I have with Blake, and to some extent his wife Miranda, is that they like to keep up this certain persona or image if you will. Blake is fond of his I’m-so-drunk-I-will-tweet-whatever-I-want image, while Miranda keeps up the tough booze-drinking, gun-toting chick persona. It’s cute for a while, but after the nth tweet/statement, it gets to be old. And I say this as a fan of Miranda’s music. 

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