Posted on 08/03/2015 11:18:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I had intended to take the same attitude to Cecil the Lion as every US newspaper takes to Cecile the lyin' Planned Parenthood honcho and her factory outlets of slightly used baby parts. The mawkish sob-sister drivel of the one story versus the utter indifference to the second is too dismal to contemplate. Never mind the inability of the legions of traumatized Americans, in the midst of their tears, even to get the deceased lion's name right (for reasons we'll discuss below), that's no reason not to turn on the most evil dentist since Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man.
After all the complete twaddle in the Anglo-American press about the psycho dentist offing the most beloved lion in Africa, it is somewhat heartening to turn to the comparatively sane coverage in the Zimbabwean media. Kennedy Mavhumashava in The Bulawayo Chronicle:
I find the western outrage over the demise of Cecil, which is only a lion to may of us, suspicious. This was a simple hunt and Zimbabwe wants more of them to generate revenue for our tourism sector.
It is not an overstatement that almost 99.99 percent of Zimbabweans didn't know about this animal until Monday. Now we have just learnt, thanks to the British media, that we had Africa's most famous lion all along, an icon!
...But the Western media's obsession with Cecil gets us thinking. Why only him? What's going on?
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
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He just overflows with cleverness.
While the western left overflows with vapid stupidity.
What a spectacle. The country is agaga over a lion the Zimbabweans don’t care about but couldn’t give a fig about PP selling dead babies and body parts.
“Mr Mavhumashava looks at Jimmy Kimmel and the other bleating white ninnies weeping for Cecil and knows neo-colonialism when he smells it:
“Why such an outpouring of grief in the West over one lion..? The name Cecil perhaps, given its historical significance for white monopoly capital in Southern Africa and the West? Many believe the lion was named after Cecil John Rhodes, the celebrated forerunner of British colonialism in Southern Africa, explaining the saturation coverage on the demise of his namesake.”
Mr Mavhumashava gives Americans too much credit. I doubt one in a million thought of who Cecil might be named after, & would never have come up with the historical figure.
A lot of people are going to have to rethink their reaction now.
As such, he gets the non-hetero card pass as such.
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