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Cousteau: Irwin's Tactics 'Misleading' (very short)
Associated Press via Washington Times ^ | 19 Sep 2006 | no name

Posted on 09/19/2006 6:47:53 PM PDT by Mr Rogers

-- Marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau said Tuesday that while he...had "a lot of respect" for Irwin...Irwin would "interfere with nature, jump on animals, grab them, hold them, and have this very, very spectacular, dramatic way of presenting things...You don't touch nature, you just look at it. And that's why I'm still alive...I don't mess with nature."

(Excerpt) Read more at ap.washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: cousteau; crocodilehunter; jealousbytch; liar; steveirwin
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To: maggief

Is that a pic of Cousteau "not touching nature"?


101 posted on 09/20/2006 11:33:50 AM PDT by azhenfud (an enigma between two parentheses)
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To: maggief

Who is that holding the sea turtle, "not touching nature"?


102 posted on 09/20/2006 11:35:12 AM PDT by azhenfud (an enigma between two parentheses)
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To: maggief

"I remained in the Land Rover, while Jim went to kick Cousteau's a$$."

103 posted on 09/20/2006 11:43:31 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Mr Rogers; All

Jacques grandson says otherwise.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/cousteau%20honours%20crocodile%20hunter_1007511


104 posted on 09/20/2006 11:46:36 AM PDT by rightgrafix
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To: azhenfud

http://www.homeplanetproductions.com/credits.shtml

In Baja, Mexico, with Jean-Michel Cousteau and a gray whale


105 posted on 09/20/2006 11:59:59 AM PDT by maggief
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To: azhenfud
Here's another:



Jean-Michel and two Caymanian children hold tiny turtle hatchlings at Grand Cayman's Turtle Farm.

http://www.skin-diver.com/departments/DiveTheWorld/CarribeanAndBermuda/CaymanIslands/cayman_dec00.asp?theID=1379
106 posted on 09/20/2006 12:03:05 PM PDT by maggief
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To: buck61

Two generations?? Not hardly. For one thing, his father was the inventor of the aqua lung (i.e. SCUBA gear) He, on the other hand, is just a petty Frenchman.)


107 posted on 09/20/2006 12:14:57 PM PDT by NathanR (Après moi, le deluge.)
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To: maggief

Please Jean-Michelle. For the love of all creatures in the animal kingdom, look with your eyes & not your hands. Do it for......for......nature.

108 posted on 09/20/2006 5:31:28 PM PDT by Sue Perkick (The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment..John MacArthur)
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To: Mr Rogers
You don't touch nature, you just look at it. And that's why I'm still alive...I don't mess with nature."

Quiet you perfidious damm frog

109 posted on 09/20/2006 5:32:38 PM PDT by Charlespg (Civilization and freedom are only worthy of those who defend or support defending It)
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To: Mr Rogers

I know I'm in the minority after reading these posts, but I agree with Cousteau. I hunt and fish so I am definitely not in the PETA camp and I agree with your comment regarding "partaking" of nature. What I don't like about Irwin is that he was not about partaking of nature by observing, studying, using, eating nature, etc., he was about tormenting it for sensational TV. IMHO, I'm sorry for the loss to his family, but he was a jerk. You mess with the bull (for no good reason), your gonna get the horns. . .


110 posted on 09/21/2006 8:20:14 AM PDT by NFOShekky (Freedom Is Never Free.)
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To: NFOShekky
I know I'm in the minority after reading these posts, but I agree with Cousteau.

Cousteau doesn't even agree with himself.

111 posted on 09/21/2006 10:30:37 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment..John MacArthur)
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To: NFOShekky

[What I don't like about Irwin is that he was not about partaking of nature by observing, studying, using, eating nature, etc., he was about tormenting it for sensational TV. IMHO, I'm sorry for the loss to his family, but he was a jerk.]



Every bit of evidence available, from his TV shows to the mission of his zoo and his animal rescue groups to everything publicly known about his interaction with animals contradicts this. But it seems there always has to be at least one token naysayer for everything.


112 posted on 09/21/2006 12:18:46 PM PDT by spinestein (Follow The Brazen Rule!)
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To: Salvey

He deserves to have that statement come back to bite him posthumously in the posterior.


113 posted on 09/21/2006 12:20:45 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.)
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To: 1rudeboy

How was it? A little vinegary?


114 posted on 09/21/2006 12:21:23 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.)
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To: SquirrelKing

Did he dive in his khakis? I think he did. Little Bindi in her khakis was sooo cute, and so heart breaking. She's going to be the next star of that family, mark my words.


115 posted on 09/21/2006 12:22:44 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.)
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To: justa-hairyape

And there are a heck of a lot more of them.


116 posted on 09/21/2006 12:29:56 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Talk about classless. Typical Frog...


117 posted on 09/21/2006 12:32:32 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: ichabod1
LOL. It already has.


118 posted on 09/21/2006 12:41:55 PM PDT by Sue Perkick (The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment..John MacArthur)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Yep. The only alternative to most of his croc wrestling in the wild was to shoot the animals. He was moving them to save them from a death sentence.


119 posted on 09/21/2006 12:43:46 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.)
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To: Cecily
That movie kills me, it is absolute genius.
120 posted on 09/21/2006 12:44:29 PM PDT by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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