{"id":5762,"date":"2015-07-29T16:14:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:14:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-07-29T16:14:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:14:32","slug":"we_cry_over_the_death_of_cecil_the_lion_but_shrug_off_planned_parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/07\/29\/we_cry_over_the_death_of_cecil_the_lion_but_shrug_off_planned_parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"We Cry Over the Death of Cecil the Lion, But Shrug Off Planned Parenthood?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I have a simple question. I understand. I love Cecil the lion. I understand it. I understand crying. I myself was ravaged with sadness when I heard about the death of Cecil the lion. You know why? Because, even when talking about a lion, it was in a game preserve. It wasn\u2019t a pet, and you\u2019re never gonna make a pet out of a predator beast. But it still is the essence of innocence, and it wouldn\u2019t do anything to us if we didn\u2019t threaten it first. It is just senseless for somebody to shoot it. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care whether he was a dentist from Minnesota or a terrorist from ISIS, it is senseless to be let onto a game preserve — “preserve,” protection — with a bow and arrow and think you are engaging in sport while you kill a lion. It\u2019s just senseless. And I understand the sadness. <\/line>People have an attachment to animals that is inexplicable. What I don\u2019t understand… Now, Jimmy Kimmel broke down almost in tears last night on his program, and the very same people will express sadness, tears, shock, dismay over the death of Cecil.<\/line><\/p>\n

<\/a>I love cats, too, and I think Cecil is a great name for a lion. In fact, if I ever get another cat I\u2019m gonna name it Cecil in honor of this one. My own cat<\/a> was disappointed when she found out Cecil was killed. All animals are worried about this. Understand that. But how in the world can you get teary-eyed and misty-eyed and sad over Cecil and, at the same time, participate in burying what\u2019s happening at Planned Parenthood? Can somebody explain that to me? (interruption) What do you mean, “Well”?<\/p>\n

What do you mean, “Well”? Is this too controversial a question? What do you mean, “Well”? Is this somewhere I shouldn\u2019t venture? I do know how the animal people are. But I know that most animal people have the same attitude toward human beings. Look, I understand the difference. Human beings, adult human beings, are not the essence of innocence. But babies in the womb are. Babies in the womb are more innocent than any animal is. But to a lot of people, that would be an argumentative statement.<\/p>\n

I understand that, but a baby in the womb? I mean, you can\u2019t get a more pure definition of innocence. Now, I understand there\u2019s a picture of Cecil the lion as he\u2019s alive and sitting there with his harem and looking like a lion, looking like the king of the jungle. He\u2019s sitting there and he\u2019s just enjoying life, everything is fine and dandy, you see that picture and you hear the news that some reprobate with a bow and arrow was let in there for 50 grand, and to claim it was hunting? <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no hunting. <\/line><\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t any sport in this. <\/p>\n

Cecil had no idea. It was at night. Cecil had no idea. He\u2019s in a game preserve. I understand all that. And there aren\u2019t any pictures of the baby chop shop operation. I understand that. And we are a photo- and image-driven society, but nevertheless, it\u2019s a matter of I don\u2019t know curiosity, concern, that so much emotion can be dredged up — and justifiably. I mean, I\u2019m with you on this death of Cecil business. But I\u2019m also just, if not more sickened by what Planned Parenthood\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n

I tell you, Planned Parenthood\u2019s hired this PR firm called SKDKnickerbocker or some such thing and their job is single purpose, bury the story. They are harassing Drive-By Media, to the extent that necessary to get them to ignore the story. For example, Politico ran just a little bitty blurb about this and how it just makes a lot of people uncomfortable and this SKDKnickerbocker bunch just jumped on \u2019em, and Politico retracted or deleted it from their Web page or did something. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do is get this story buried. They\u2019re not even gonna try to argue the story. They\u2019re not even gonna try to say we all misunderstand it. They\u2019re not even gonna try to say, “There\u2019s great medical research to be had here.” They\u2019re not gonna say, “It\u2019s just a clump of cells.” They\u2019re not even gonna try to say, “It\u2019s an unviable tissue.” They\u2019re just gonna lean on their buddies in the Drive-By to suppress the story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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