Sarah Palin Doubles Down in Battle with PETA: ‘At Least Trig Didn’t Eat the Dog’

Sarah Palin on battle with PETA over photo of son and dog: 'Absolutely hypocritical double standard' (NBC News)

Palin received criticism from PETA, which called her a "bizarrely callous woman," after she posted a picture on Facebook on New Year's Day of her son, Trig, 6, standing on the family's service dog while trying to reach the kitchen sink. Palin noted that Ellen DeGeneres, who was selected as PETA's Woman of the Year in 2009, once posted a similar image of a young girl using a dog as a stepladder with no outcry. 

"I thought, absolutely hypocritical double standard, as usual, applied to, I don't know, perhaps a constitutional conservative,'' Palin told Savannah Guthrie on Tuesday. 

In an initial statement to NBC News on Monday, Palin referred to President Barack Obama, who admitted he tried dog meat as a 10-year-old in Indonesia, when she wrote that "at least Trig didn't eat the dog." She stood by those comments on Tuesday.