Sometimes It’s Just Easier To Care About Dead Lions Than Dead People

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Matt Walsh:

I started noticing “Cecil the Lion” trending on Facebook and Twitter at some point yesterday afternoon. By the evening, it was the most popular topic on social media, and stories about the lion were popping up on all of the national news sites.

Before I took the time to investigate, I tried to imagine if there could be any valid reason for a wild cat to become the biggest news item in the world. On a day when another undercover videorevealed Planned Parenthood dismembering murdered children for profit, I strained to think if there might be some justification for ignoring the harvesting of human beings in favor of obsessing over a large feline in Africa.

I thought maybe the lion had cured cancer, or sprouted wings and flown into space, or stood on its hind legs and recited the Gettysburg Address. Surely, these developments would vindicate the disproportionate amount of attention it was receiving. But I quickly found out that the lion, from Zimbabwe, had done no such thing. Apparently, all it did was die.

Of course, lots of people died yesterday too, especially in Zimbabwe. Across the planet, human travesties continued to unfold — Christians were slaughtered in the Middle East, political prisoners were tortured and executed in North Korea and Iran, Americans fell prey to crime and violence spilling over our southern border, and about 3,000 human children were butchered in abortion clinics, some of which were then dissected and sold on the black market — but this one unfortunate beast in a forest 9,000 miles away trumped all of these. Human victims would have to wait yet another day to be noticed by our culture. Their plight just couldn’t compete with a cute, fuzzy mammal.

Poor Cecil, as I’m sure you heard, was “murdered” by an American dentist named Walter Palmer. The dentist traveled there and paid some $55,000 for the privilege to hunt and kill the king of the jungle. It turns out that the hunt might not have been legal. He says he thought he was acting within the law, and that he didn’t know Cecil was a beloved animal celebrity in Africa. His pleads of ignorance may or may not be true, but they are called into question by the fact that he’s been convicted of poaching before.

This was all enough to earn him the wrath of progressive America, but none of these crimes compare to the fact that he is, evidently, a Republican. We know these details about his life, and about the sexual harassment claim made against him in 2009, because the media has feverishly poured through his record and heaped more scrutiny upon him than they have on every Democrat politician in the last 40 years combined. Meanwhile, the internet lynch mob predictably leaped into action. Palmer’spersonal address was released, death threats were issued, his business was attacked andshutdown, he was forced into hiding, and scores of drooling trolls flocked to Twitter to fantasize about all of the creative and violent things they’d love to do to him:

https://twitter.com/ShujaRabbani/status/626209438815289344

Some even began non-ironically using #LionLivesMatter

Refusing to be upstaged in this contest for the title of Most Exorbitant Reaction, PETA proclaimed that Palmer ought to be “extradited and hung.” A bunch of famous people joined the dog pile, utilizing their platforms to declare Palmer “disgusting,” a “murderer,” and “Satan.” Other celebrities have asked that his citizenship be permanently revoked. Sharon Osbourne labeled Palmer a “killer” and said she hopes he loses his house and his business. According to Sharon, even his wife and children deserve to be homeless. Jimmy Kimmel, late night host on ABC, took time out of his comedy show to deliver a tearful rant, calling the hunter an “a-hole” and a “jackal.”

All of this, over a lion.

It bears repeating that this happened on the same day that a video was released showing lab technicians dissecting the body parts of murdered humans while discussing how much money they could get for each “item.” This footage was completely ignored. Our culture let out a massive, collective yawn, instead choosing to wail over the fate of some random hairy beast in southern Africa.

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The whole thing transcends mere absurdity. It is beyond ridiculous. Far past anything that could be called simply exaggerated or irrational. The swarms of petty nitwits in our culture have finally outdone themselves. What we are witnessing is something worse than an Idiocracy; it is total moral chaos.

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Years ago, when Iraq was about to have its first free election, post-Saddam, there were a lot of terrorists (al Sadr’s men as well as al Qaeda and Taliban) who tried to intimidate voters by blowing up bombs next to lines of voters waiting to vote.
Some of the bombs were strapped on developmentally retarded children, some on disabled children in wheelchairs.

But the one that got our Left’s ire up was the one strapped on a donkey.
Yeah, they blew up an animal to kill people.
That was what got our Left up in arms.
All the dead people were beside the point.

I think that this is the far-left’s next political manipulation via contrived “outrage” moves, most likely to pursue animal rights recognition as well as to go after the Second Amendment right to hunt. The emotional social engineering lefties need to get as much of their wacko progressive-fascist agenda put into effect as possible before their messiah Obama’s second term runs out..

Overton Window tactics. They can’t defend the bloodthirsty brutality and greed of the PP butchers, so they try to distract with the ridiculous nonsequitor of a lion hunted to death.

As far as PP is concerned, you can tell a lot by the kind of people who support them:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/29/satanic-cult-pledges-funds-to-support-abortion-rights/

There is no excuse for the evil that is PP.

The pairing up of the lion story with the Planned Parenthood story is actually courtesy of Marco Rubio.

I was wondering when someone would bring up the ridiculous story about the Detroit satanists and their statue of Baphomet. It’s an artistically refined and well-executed bronze casting. I’m curious where these losers got enough money to have it done.

The lion story is sad. I think the reason it’s getting so much coverage is because it suggests something about the psychopaths in our midst. Killing other sentient creatures purely for sport is very disturbing pass time. It’s a separate matter from abortion, which revolves around a difference of opinion regarding the sentience of a fetus.

@Greg: The lion story is sad. I think the reason it’s getting so much coverage is because it suggests something about the psychopaths in our midst. Killing other sentient creatures purely for sport is very disturbing pass time. It’s a separate matter from abortion, which revolves around a difference of opinion regarding the sentience of a fetus.

Cognitive dissonance, much?
Look, both big game hunting AND abortion are legal activities people can do IF they have the money (or can coerce taxpayers into paying for them.)
Human babies are sentient, too.
And women kill them simply for convenience, which is even a lessor reason than sport.
Who knows how many George Washington Carvers, how man Albert Einsteins, how many Van Cliburns, etc., we have lost among those 50+ million dead babies.

@Greg:

So what is your opinion regarding the Princeton “ethicist” Singer arguing that neonates up to 30 days of age should legally be able to be terminated if the parents wish because said neonates are not “self-aware”?

@Greg:

Why does Planned Parenthood build the majority of their abortion mills in minority neighborhoods? Could it have anything to do with the beliefs of Margaret Sanger, racist?

This cowardly dentist is going to jail—sick SOB.

@rich wheeler:

One dead lion. Almost 400,000 dead babies by Planned Parenthood in 2013. And you seem more concerned about the lion than the dead humans.

Pathetic.

@rich wheeler: This cowardly dentist is going to jail……

Your opinion of what SHOULD happen?

Professional Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst and local landowner Honest Ndlovu are due to appear in court this week on poaching charges for allegedly killing Cecil.
If convicted, the men face up to 15 years in prison.
These men were the two guides who did know where the reserve was located.
Does the USA have an extradition policy with Zimbabwe?
Perhaps President-for-Life Mugabe could be prosecuted for his ‘behead the gays’ policy. http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/Zimbabwe_2013_07_26_President_calls_for_beheading_of_gays.pdf

@retire05: I’m not MORE concerned–I agree with Dr. John and Jimmy Kimmel—-Big game hunters are men who can’t get a hard on. I don’t give a damn if this dentist iS a Repub, Dem or Nihilist–He needs jail time

@Rich Wheeler:

I’m not MORE concerned–

Really? Then we can expect to see you marching in a Right To Life parade wearing a Right To Life t-shirt on your Facebook page soon?

I agree with Dr. John and Jimmy Kimmel

Of course you do. But so what? That’s moot.

—-Big game hunters are men who can’t get a hard on. I don’t give a damn if this dentist iS a Repub, Dem or Nihilist–He needs jail time

Do you think Cecile Richards, and the doctors that work for Planned Parenthood and harvest baby body parts also needs jail time? How much jail time would you give both the hunter and the PP murderers?

I can just imagine your response if I said I felt about this lion like you feel about abortion: i.e. Well, I am against the killing of lions so I would encourage all game hunters to seek another venue but after all, it’s not my place to tell them what to do with their hunting hobby.

You’re so full of crap.

@retire05, #7:

It has to do with the location of populations otherwise lacking access to the health care services they provide. As has been noted before, abortion services comprise only a tiny percentage of both their women’s health care services and their operating budget. I believe the number is around 3 percent.

A number of Margaret Sanger’s views have been totally rejected by intelligent people today. Many of the Founding Fathers believed it was acceptable to reduce other human beings to the status of property. That has also been rejected. It’s in the nature of social progress that attitudes change.

@retire05: You’re full of crap Planned Parenthood is a separate issue

@retire05: As you know I am against abortion. Are you against the killing of animals for sport?

This rather says it all . . . . from former PP employee, Abby Johnson:

“The defining moment for me leaving was assisting and witnessing a live ultrasound abortion procedure and seeing a 13-week old child struggle for his life inside his mother’s womb,” Johnson recalled. “It was really shocking for me to witness that mainly because I had been told by Planned Parenthood that the fetus didn’t have any sensory development until [later].” The pro-life advocate claims she was “in a state of shock” and that she instantaneously felt betrayed. At the same time, she remembers feeling like a liar, as she, too, had told thousands of women that fetuses wouldn’t feel pain or struggle.

Killing other sentient creatures purely for sport is very disturbing pass time. It’s a separate matter from abortion, which revolves around a difference of opinion regarding the sentience of a fetus.

That you even wrote the above proves you’re not mature enough to join the conversation.

@Nathan Blue: A lion isn’t sentient. A fetus will be, because it’s human. There are adults living with less brain function than a fetus, yet they aren’t’ discarded.

The arguments for abortion just don’t add up in a logical, rational, free-thinking universe….

They are distortions born of convenience….like many of the religious views they purportedly rail against.

Oh, and “black lives matter”..unless they are fetuses, in which I can rationalize that they weren’t really people anyway…

Leftism is a disease of the immature and the corrupt.

@Nathan Blue: With all respect a lion is most definitely sentient Nathan. CK the definition

@Rich Wheeler: I think the point of the thread is to compare the left’s reaction to the lion and their reaction to Planned Parenthood. As much as I condemn what happened with the lion being an animal lover, how does that compare to what PP did? The left argues that what comes out of a woman after an abortion is essentially just a pile of muck yet PP sold BODYparts from the “muck”. Does something with BODYparts indicate the presence of a living being or muck?

As of late, the left has a track record of publishing addresses and phone numbers of private citizens whom they disagree with. Officer Wilson comes to mind and now the dentist. Perhaps it’s time for the rest of us to do the same to them.

@another vet: PLS reread your 2nd sentence–Thanks
Haven’t heard you on The Donald lately—how bout him giving out Graham’s cell #? note he is at the 18% level I predicted—-think 20 is his ceiling with 17 now in the race. Looking forward to debate.

@rich wheeler:

As you know I am against abortion. Are you against the killing of animals for sport?

Killing for sport? No, I don’t support that. My family is a family of hunters. Deer, hog, turkey, dove. But we eat what we kill. And poachers are a blight. Have turned in more than one poacher and more than spot light hunter which is illegal in Texas.

So are you trying to make a comparison between killing for sport to abortion? Because if you are, that means you think abortion is killing for sport.

Planned Parenthood is a separate issue

Now when comparing the reaction of the left over a lion to the reaction of the left over the heinous actions of Planned Parenthood and not when you consider that we see the left more outraged over an dead animal than they are over the slaughter of millions of human beings.

The argument of the left, that an unborn baby is simply a clump of cells with no viable worth, has now been disproven. That baby, at 11-12 weeks gestation, has high value in its already formed organs. A clump of cells doesn’t possess organs.

Where is your outrage at the people that kill those babies? Why don’t you want them jailed? Is human life so invaluable to you that you care more about a lion?

@retire05: COMPARING KILLING FOR SPORT AND ABORTION—-WHERE IN HELL DO YOU GET THESE WEIRD CONCEPTS 05?

Isn’t it ironic that a life has to be snuffed out for it to have value to ”progressives” on the Left.
A baby in the womb is alive and could be a great person who contributes amazing things to the planet.
But it is after it is killed that its various component parts become valuable to those on the Left.

And what do those little body parts do?

Does ObamaCare cover poor people getting stem cell liver transplants or lung transplants?
No.
If a person drinks or smokes so as to ruin his liver or lungs he is $#!+ out of luck under ObamaCare.
So-called ”death panels” make sure of this.

These baby parts benefit only the very wealthy.
How nightmarish.
Poor women being kept on waiting lists until their baby has developed for a minimum of 17 weeks (over 4 months) so that rich people can benefit.

According to many publications there are so few lions in the wild (34,000) that they are effectively extinct right now (in-breeding is killing them even faster.)
Without zoos and animal parks we would not have lions at all in just a few years.
So, how is it that any nation sells hunting licenses to hunt wild lions at all?
Obviously it is a money-maker for poor African nations with little to trade.
Ironically, to facilitate hunting them for money, these countries designate lions as ”threatened” as opposed to ”endangered.”
So, whose fault was it that there is a legal means to go to Africa and hunt a lion?
Not the dentist’s.

@Rich Wheeler: Thanks for the catch. I went back and changed it. It pays to proofread more carefully. Perhaps my brain wasn’t functioning at the time. PP can always try to kill me and sell it! : )

As for the Donald, we shall see what happens. It is still way too early and I still don’t believe he will get the nomination. As I stated before, those going against Trump outnumber his supporters by 3-1 or better. IF for some bizarre reason he were to get the nomination, at least he would be far more qualified than the current POTUS. At least he has something on his resume other than agitator. My bigger concern is him running as a third party candidate. That guarantees another lefty in the WH. If we do have a third party candidate, I’d rather it be Webb.

Back on topic, I said private citizen. Graham is a senator. I would like to see Reid’s info published so people can get in his face and hold him accountable for not doing his job and abusing his power. He is a piss poor excuse for an elected official.

Do you agree with most of the rest of the left that what comes out of a woman after an abortion is essentially “muck” or that it is a living being? After all, PP is selling brains, livers, limbs etc. from that “pile of cells”. To me, the presence of organs and limbs indicates the latter.

@Nanny G: I agree that it wasn’t the dentist’s fault that there was a legal means to hunt the lion but it was the dentist who killed the lion therefore he alone bears responsibility for that. I have no problem with hunting for food. Humans have been doing it since the beginning of our existence. Hunting for the thrill of the kill is another story and I am a huge supporter of gun rights and own several myself.

@Rich Wheeler:

COMPARING KILLING FOR SPORT AND ABORTION—-WHERE IN HELL DO YOU GET THESE WEIRD CONCEPTS 05?

Uh, read your own post, RW. I’m not the one that brought up killing for sport during a conversation comparing the left’s reaction between the two situations, you are. Post #15:

Are you against the killing of animals for sport?

So obviously, you were attempting to equate the two.

And as is normal with you, you refuse to answer my questions although you continue to pose your own. So let’s try again; do you think those PP abortionists should be jailed? It is a simple question that only requires a “yes” or “no.” And when are we going to see you at a Right To Life protest wearing a Right to Life t-shirt posted on your Facebook page?

I know you think yourself the King of Obfuscation, but at least try to answer the questions others ask you. Surely you are smart enough to do that small feat.

@another vet: The key to me will always be sentience and at what time that is confirmed in any animal including human animals or fetuses.. Yes we are animals’ I also am against speciesism–ck the definition if you like..
ENJOY THE DEBATE HA—–Webb 2016

@retire05: I certainly don’t consider abortion killing for sport–do you?
When you post an access to your facebook page–as I have done– and show your physical activism in the pro-life movement we can discuss my activism more fully.
I would have no problem with both the dentist and the abortionists having their day in court and letting the American justice system sort it out.

@another vet: I am against the selling of “body parts. I am against vivisection—I’m good with stem cell research.

@Ditto: 2, yes, likely the next large push by the libs will be to allow them to marry animals. People are not nearly important enough.

@Greg: 4

Killing other sentient creatures purely for sport is very disturbing pass time.

Just for sport seems like a nobler event than ‘just for the hell of it’. The babies are being killed without fanfare. Nobody wants their head hung on the wall, or stuffed for display. No, just vacuum them into a sewer and flush. (uh, the parts that aren’t sold for buying Lamborghini’s)

@Redteam: You are saying these killers get a hard-on when they mount an animal’s head as a trophy?–Sad

@rich wheeler:

You can bet if I had a Facebook page, I would have more than the 10 friends you have. Sad for you.

Do you support embryonic stem cell research?

@rich wheeler:8

This cowardly dentist is going to jail—sick SOB.

More or less sick than those that kill babies?

@retire05: 10 facebook friends? I read 644-Are you on the right page?–How bout my beautiful wife–Did I get lucky.
It’s perfectly understandable why you wouldn’t be on facebook.

@Rich Wheeler: 21

he is at the 18% level I predicted—-think 20 is his ceiling

except that he is now at 24

@Rich Wheeler: –

WHERE IN HELL DO YOU GET THESE WEIRD CONCEPTS 05?

From your own words just above. Your reverse gear seems to work better than your forward.

We’re all waiting for you to tell us why it’s worse to kill a lion than to kill a baby.

@RedteamAverage weighted major polls 18.6% I.E i can show you cherry picked under 16%
For the reading impaired RT–It is wrong to kill any sentient being for sport.
Anyone who kills a baby is sick. Ask me an intelligent question.

@Nanny G: 24

So, how is it that any nation sells hunting licenses to hunt wild lions at all?
Obviously it is a money-maker for poor African nations with little to trade.

I think I’ve got the answer. If all the fertile women/girls in Zimbabwe were to get pregnant and then after 17 weeks, sell their ‘muck’ parts for cash, the country could be on the road to economic recovery. Why have they not thought of this? I’ve got it. Planned Parenthood hasn’t heard of Zimbabwe. Draw them a map.

@another vet: ….
I have no problem with hunting for food. Humans have been doing it since the beginning of our existence. Hunting for the thrill of the kill is another story ….

The point is that, while people disagree about hunting (some are against doing it at all) it is legal to both hunt for food AND hunt for sport.
I like the local ”earn-a-buck” deer program that helps to cull the excess does which ALL reproduce every year by requiring two does to be taken before a buck (you know, ”the rack,”) can be taken.
I also like that it is illegal (here) to ”hunt over bait,” which the dentist did in Africa (actually drawing that lion out of the reserve with food goodies.)
Laws vary in different places here in the USA as well as internationally.
We used to have wild game ranches in the USA where big game hunters could take down zebras, antelopes, boars, even some big cats, but IIRC, they are all gone.
Still poor African countries, like Zimbabwe, could label lions endangered as opposed to threatened.
If they did so they would stop all lion hunting, and lose hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from that industry.
Their choice.

While president Theodore Roosevelt hunted big American game then he traveled and hunted big game in Africa after leaving office.
Are we going to revise history and erase him, too?

@rich wheeler: 33

You are saying these killers get a hard-on when they mount an animal�s head as a trophy?�Sad

And I said that where?

@rich wheeler:

10 facebook friends? I read 644-Are you on the right page?–How bout my beautiful wife–Did I get lucky.

644? Hmmm that number sounds familiar. I think it was the number of rainbow flag wavers in your last homosexual outing. Is that it? Have y’all got your Cecil the Lion Tee’s all done up in rainbow colors for the weekend?

@Nanny G: Now that you brought it up, Teddy may very well join the ranks of other Americans who are purged from our history compliments of PC. I wonder if they are going to purge FDR for his support of mass murderer “Uncle Joe” Stalin. Nah, probably not. The PC crowd usually gives a pass those associated with the Bolsheviks like Lenin and Stalin. When discussing mass murderers, their conversation begins and ends with Hitler.

Rich, I kinda looked over your FB page looking for a place to sign your petition against people killing babies. I’m sure it’s just a ‘logistics’ problem and I couldn’t find it, surely it must be there. incidentally, I did find one about big cats or something, so I know if saving a big cat is important you must have saving babies at the top of your list. No?

@another vet:

I wonder if they are going to purge FDR for his support of mass murderer “Uncle Joe” Stalin. Nah, probably not.

Absolutely not!. You do realize it was ANIMALS Teddy was killing while it was ‘only’ humans that Uncle Joe was killing. Big difference……..

@rich wheeler: The brain and spinal cord form the central nervous system of the body. They are selling those parts meaning the “pile of cells” they are selling possesses a central nervous system.

@Redteam: I am absolutely against the killing of babies. Thanks for visiting my Facebook page–took you long enough to find it.
How do I find yours? I’ll certainly take a look at anything you support.
What do you think of Nancy Wheeler’s picture?

@rich wheeler:

10 facebook friends? I read 644-Are you on the right page?–How bout my beautiful wife–Did I get lucky.

Oh, I see; it says 10 people follow you. Ummm, still not a very big following for a guy that seems to be so involved in saving animals. So out of the 644 friends you claim to have on Facebook (it wouldn’t come up for me) you have 10 that actually care what you have to say on your page? Sad!

Yep, the Cecil petition is right there. But like Redteam, I had a problem finding the Ban Planned Parenthood petition on your Facebook page. Can you direct us to it?

@rich wheeler:

How do I find yours?

Just do a FB search.

I’ll certainly take a look at anything you support.

I support clearing the US of liberal socialists. Thanks for your help.

What do you think of Nancy Wheeler’s picture?

No comment.

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