We on Free Republic are not deceived. We this for what it is: a deliberate media orchestrated distraction from the infinitely more serious story about Planned Parenthood selling dismembered human beings to laboratories. We all know libs get worked up about the strangest things but they have such terribly selective outrage.
I understand and agree with your anger about the amount of attention this lion is getting. But I think the answer to your question is NO, they don’t care who the lion was named after. Why, because its an animal. Why would anyone really care? I am a 30 year old white man named Jesse. Had my parents named me after Jesse Jackson (which they didn’t) would that make any difference to the person I am today? No. How could anyone assume that liberals could be logical enough to make the comparison?
just be glad no one is selling lion fetal organs, imagine the outrage!
The sanctimonious news readers in the media have been especially irritating as they have pushed this story.
And social media and Hollywood idiots have been weighing in.
People who five days ago had never heard of Cecil the lion, and some of whom have no idea where Zimbabwe is, are now all of a sudden shocked and outraged about a single hunter who killed one single lion on a hunting trip.
People who had no knowledge of or cares about Zimbabwean hunting regulations are now all over that subject as to wondering how in the world someone can go hunting in darkest Africa.
This story has been a very low point for the media, in my opinion. They whip up a frenzy, tell us we are supposed to be outraged about hunting. All over the killing of one lion.
This is selective outrage.
And now I heard some liberal congresswoman calling for our own federal government to investigate the death of Cecil the lion.
We can’t launch serious in depth investigations into Benghazi or our government involvement in the overthrow of Qadaffi(sp?) in Libya. But we can launch an investigation into one man’s hunting trip in Zimbabwe. Really????
We can’t investigate irregularities with Hillary’s emails and possible serious legal violations there. We can’t investigate the activities of the Clinton foundation and how that may tie into Hillary’s actions as Sec. of State. But we can investigate the death of a lion on a hunting trip....
really??? Is this bizarro world????
The liberals are quite proud of the Rhodes scholarship which Cecil Rhodes founded because of his disdain of Africans. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar.
Would The NaziProgs love Cecil if he shot and killed an unarmed black man?
Giving a name to a lion does not make it a human. Calling little developing humans a mass of tissue doesn’t make them non-human.
I feel sad for people who can’t take umbrage at more than one thing at a time. It must be like living in a child’s soccer game. You know, someone kicks the ball into one corner and everyone runs over there. The ball gets kicked somewhere else and everyone runs over to the new place. It’s exhausting just to describe the frenetic footwork of it all.