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The Politics of the Gorilla Story
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 5-31-2016 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 05/31/2016 12:35:44 PM PDT by servo1969

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To: Yaelle

People are more often being disarmed, mauled by animals (pit bulls, for example) and pushed toward vegetarianism, eating bugs and so on. I intend to oppose such practices brought to us by evil, idolatrous policies and laws that were practiced by Nazis and empires.


41 posted on 05/31/2016 5:03:38 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: editor-surveyor

-—The “damn Gorilla” was protecting the child, until the screaming got it rattled-—

Do you see the video where the gorilla was dragging the kid like a rag doll though the water ?

“protecting” the the child is a perception rather than a fact...

You have no way to know it’s intent...


42 posted on 05/31/2016 5:07:42 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone..)
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To: jmacusa

“So why are there cruelty to animals laws?”

Because cruelty to animals is bad, and a healthy society deplores bad things. It’s bad because people have responsibilities, not because animals have rights.


43 posted on 05/31/2016 5:10:32 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Popman

The gorilla was treating the kid like one of its own.

The dragging was reaction to the howling of the crowd.


44 posted on 05/31/2016 5:15:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: servo1969

Leftists are racists. They are outraged that that gorilla was shot and killed to save a black child’s life.


45 posted on 05/31/2016 5:22:36 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: editor-surveyor
I'd take Jack Hanna opinion...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3435611/posts

Harambe was a silverback male. When an intruder enters the gorillas’ territory, the male asserts itself; having people shrieking at it from above while it’s confused would only further antagonize it. Hanna says the instant he saw the footage of an agitated Harambe yanking the kid roughly through the water by the foot, he knew it would have ended with the child dead had zookeepers not intervened. To give you a sense of the power the animal has, he notes that humans need a hatchet and a sledgehammer to generate the force needed to crack the shell of a green coconut. Male silverbacks can do it with their bare hands. Let that thought guide you in what lay in store for the kid.

46 posted on 05/31/2016 5:24:46 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone..)
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To: servo1969

“I’ve always had a question: If we were the original apes, then how come Harambe is still an ape, and how come he didn’t become one of us?”

Rush nails it.

Again.


47 posted on 05/31/2016 6:01:15 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: dsc

The earth is warming up!!!


48 posted on 05/31/2016 6:10:37 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: bert
Posthumously and ghost written.
49 posted on 05/31/2016 6:11:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: familyop
If an adult human being is in danger of being mauled by a gorilla, the gorilla should be stopped as efficiently as possible.


If an adult human being is in danger of being mauled by a _______, the _______ should be stopped as efficiently as possible.


Yes; human may be inserted into the blank.

50 posted on 05/31/2016 6:13:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Senator Goldwater

Slow learners...


51 posted on 05/31/2016 6:14:56 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dsc

Animals have the right to life as we do. As God intended them to.


52 posted on 05/31/2016 7:00:15 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: Yaelle

According to the Bible, animals do have rights. They have the right to be treated well by us, even if we plan to eat them. We are not to be cruel to animals. Even emotionally cruel.


That is not the animals right. That is our standard of behavior. People that revel in cruelty to animals tend to be or become problematic to other people.


53 posted on 05/31/2016 7:59:31 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: editor-surveyor

If the gorilla was treating it as one of its own, in a confused fear/concern-reaction, it would have scooped the kid. That might still have injured the kid, but it would have represented an attempt. Dragging the child is treating it like a thing. I can’t blame the gorilla for doing so, as it has no obligations - but it is something which needed to be addressed.


54 posted on 05/31/2016 8:09:00 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: jmacusa

“Animals have the right to life as we do.”

Utter nonsense.


55 posted on 05/31/2016 9:15:53 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Think again......MOST people given the choice in saving a person they don’t know from DROWNING or saving their dog, the VAST % of people said their DOG!!!!


56 posted on 06/01/2016 4:28:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: servo1969

The kid got his WISH!! He kept telling his mom that he wanted to swim with the gorilla!! HELLO, mom!!


57 posted on 06/01/2016 4:30:07 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Maudeen
Where’s this crowd while little babies are being torn from their mothers’ wombs?

What are the odds that the woman who called in to Rush's show, so worried about the ape and not the child, has had an abortion ?

58 posted on 06/01/2016 5:20:29 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: dsc
“According to the Bible, animals do have rights.”

Road apples

Now that sounds like something Col. Potter would say.

59 posted on 06/01/2016 6:48:10 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

“Now that sounds like something Col. Potter would say.”

If he did, he was right.


60 posted on 06/01/2016 9:06:53 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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