YESTERDAY, NEWS BROKE OF AN AMERICAN
DENTIST FROM MINNESOTA WHO PAID $55,000 TO HUNT A BELOVED LION
IN ZIMBABWE KNOWN AS CECIL LION.
WELL, OF COURSE THERE ARE
SOME REPORTS OF FOUL PLAY IN
THAT SITUATION, IT MIGHT NOT HAVE HAPPENED AS LEGALLY AS IT
WAS SUPPOSED TO, BUT NONETHELESS
PETA IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THIS.
THEY ARE, OF COURSE, HUGE ANIMAL
RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, AND THEY HAVE TAKEN ON THE PRETTY AGGRESSIVE
TACTICS IN THE PAST TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF ANIMALS.
THEIR
RESPONSE TO THE KILLING OF CECIL
IS NO EXCEPTION.
THEY RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING THE
FOLLOWING, AND I CONDEMN THE STATEMENT BECAUSE
IT PROMOTES VIOLENCE.
ONE OF THE SPOKESPEOPLE SAID "HUNTING
IS A COWARDíS PASTIME.
IF, AS HAS BEEN REPORTED, THIS DENTIST
AND HIS GUIDES LURED CECIL OUT OF THE PARK WITH FOOD SO AS TO
SHOOT HIM ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, BECAUSE SHOOTING HIM IN THE PARK
WOULD HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL, HE NEEDS TO BE EXTRADITED, CHARGED,
AND PREFERABLY HANGED."
COME ON MAN.
CALLING HIM A COWARD IS PERFECTLY FINE.
WE
DID THAT YESTERDAY.
SAYING IT APPEARS THAT THEY TRIED TO EVADE
THE LAW, ACCORDING TO THE REPORTING, THEY HAD A DEAD
ANIMALS STRAPPED TO THEIR TRUCK, THEY DROVE IT TO LURE THE LION
OUT OF THE PARK BECAUSE IT WOULD'VE BEEN ILLEGAL TO KILL
HIM IN THE PARK.
ONCE HE WAS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY THEY HAD AN
ARRANGEMENT WITH THE OWNER OF THAT PROPERTY, WHICH AUTHORITIES
IN THE COUNTRY ARE INVESTIGATING.
THEY SHOT HIM WITH A
SOPHISTICATED BOW AND ARROW, A CROSSBOW, AND THEN THEY TRACKED
HIM FOR FORTY HOURS AS HE WAS BLEEDING OUT, THEN THEY SHOOT
HIM WITH A RIFLE, THEN THEY
BEHEAD HIM AND SKIN HIM ñ
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YOU LOSE ALL EMPATHY AND YOU BECOME THE BAD GUYS.
THIS IS
WHY PEOPLE HATE PETA.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES WITH PETA.
I OF COURSE
BELIEVE IN PROTECTING ANIMALS, I LOVE ANIMALS, BUT I CANNOT
ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH
ORGANIZATIONS LIKE PETA BECAUSE OF THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR.
FIRST
OF ALL, HOW IRONIC IS IT THAT YOU ARE FIGHTING AGAINST THE
DEATH OF ANIMALS BY ADVOCATING
FOR THE DEATH OF A HUMAN BEING?
THAT IS NOT OKAY, THAT IS A TERRIBLE MESSAGE ñ
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I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH THAT.
IT SOUNDS LIKE EVERY EXTREMIST IN THE WORLD.
HOW DARE YOU DO
SOMETHING I DON'T LIKE, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU SHOULD BE
KILLED, YOU SHOULD BE HUNG.
NO INTEREST IN THAT, AND THEY
SHOULD BE CONDEMNED FOR THAT STATEMENT.
THE OTHER THING THAT
BOTHERS ME IS, EVERYBODY IS
PISSED OFF ABOUT THE LION, I AM MAD ABOUT IT.
THE DENTIST NOW
APOLOGIZED ABOUT IT, SAID HE DID NOT KNOW HE WAS DOING ANYTHING
ILLEGAL, HE'S LIKE, "I DID NOT
KNOW I WAS KILLING A FAMOUS LION."
SO IF IT WAS NOT A
FAMOUS LION, IT WOULD BE OKAY?
RIDICULOUS EXCUSE.
HAVING SAID THAT, I AM STARTING TO GET UPSET ABOUT
EVERYBODY BEING SO MAD ABOUT THIS.
THEY ARE MORE MAD ABOUT IT THANñ
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AND I WILL TELL YOU WHY.
THEY FEEL LIKE THE ANIMALS
WERE INNOCENT, THEY DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG, BUT WHEN IT
COMES TO A PERSON, WE DID A DRONE STRIKE IN PAKISTAN, WHO
CAN TELL IF THE PAKISTANIS ARE INNOCENT OR GUILTY, RIGHT?
THERE
WAS AN UNARMED BLACK MAN SHOT, BUT WAS HE REACHING FOR HIS
WAISTBAND, DID SHE HAVE A
CIGARETTE ON HER, MAYBE THEY ARE GUILTY.
IF YOU HURT A DOG, YOU
ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THIS
COUNTRY.
HE SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE IT, DON'T GO AROUND THREATENING ñ
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ATTACKED BY MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE, HE DID RELEASE AN
APOLOGY.
HE SAYS THAT "IN EARLY
JULY, I WAS IN ZIMBABWE ON APRIL HUNTING TRIP FOR BIG GAME.
I
HIRED SEVERAL PROFESSIONAL GUIDE AND THE SECURED ALL PROPER
PERMITS.
TO MY KNOWLEDGE, EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS TRIP WAS
LEGALLY AND PROPERLY HANDLED AND CONDUCTED.
I HAD NO IDEA THAT
THE LION I TOOK WITH A KNOWN AND
LOCAL FAVORITE, WAS COLLARD AND PART OF A STUDY UNTIL THE END OF
THE HUNT.
I RELIED ON THE EXPERTISE OF MY LOCAL
PROFESSIONAL GUIDES.
I WILL ASSIST ANY AUTHORITIES IN ANY INQUIRIES THEY MAY HAVE.
I DID YOU GET TO MY PURSUIT OF ACTIVITY I LOVE AND PRACTICE
RESPONSIBLY AND LEGALLY RESULTED IN THE TAKING OF THIS LION."
YOU DO NOT REGRET IT.
IF THE FACTS OF THIS CASE ARE AS
EVERYONE IS REPORTING, DID YOU
ACCIDENTALLY HAVE A DEAD ANIMAL ATTACHED TO THE FRONT OF YOUR
TRACK?
YOU DO REALIZE THAT IT WAS LOWERING THE LION TO PRIVATE
PROPERTY?
DON'T THINK YOU DO REALIZE IS THAT YOU WOULD GET IN
TROUBLE FOR IT BECAUSE EVERYBODY LOVES THIS CLIENT.
YOU JUST WANTED TO KILL ANYONE LION ñ
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TO GIVE YOU
CONTEXT ON THAT, THERE ARE ONLY 30,000
LIONS IN AFRICA.
IT'S AMAZING THAT THERE IS ANY LEGAL KILLING OF LYONS.
EVERY YEAR, TWO PERCENT OF THE LION POPULATION IN AFRICA IS
KILLED BY HUNTERS. 64 PERCENT OF THEM ARE AMERICAN TOURISTS,
BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF MONEY
LIKE THIS GUIDE.
WHEN YOU WERE PAYING THE $50,000 BRIBE TO BE
ABLE TO KILL THIS LION, YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS A BRIBE?
I'M SURE THAT'S WHAT HE IS GOING TO SAY, THAT IT WAS JUST A
$50,000 TIP HE WAS PAYING ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE.
SURE HE
DID.
NOW THE HUNTERS WILL TURN AROUND AND SAY THAT THIS MAKES THE
LION SO VALUABLE ñ
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LET ME GO TO GRAPHIC
FIVE-YEAR.
GLENN BECK IS MAD AT
JIMMY KIMMEL WHO, TELLING THE
STORY LAST NIGHT, TEARED UP A LITTLE.
DO I PROGRESS JIMMY
KIMMEL FOR TEARING UP OVER THIS?
OF COURSE NOT, IT IS A SAD
STORY.
DOESN'T GLENN BECK CRY ABOUT EVERYTHING?
HE'S CONSTANTLY CRYING.
ISN'T THAT HIS BILL TO MOVE?
ABSOLUTELY.
SO WHAT DOES GLENN BECK SAY?
HE SAYS THIS IS
AN INDICTMENT OF OUR ENTIRE SOCIETY.
HE SAYS, "WHO THE HELL
ARE WE ñ
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AND SO WILL REPEAT THEM."
THIS IS ABOUT JIMMY KIMMEL
CRYING OVER THE LION.
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