On the other hand, he demonstrated why republicans and political conservatives almost always have their lunches taken away from them on social media on any given day.
Consider that emotions simply "are" and that trying to tell someone that their feelings aren't justified is a guaranteed loser with outcomes much worse than trying to teach a pig to fly.
People feel outrage about Cecil and they won't be talked out of those feelings, especially by someone trying to dismiss them and their feelings with the shocking revelations about Planned Parenthood.
In fact, those trying to do so make themselves look bad and piss off those people to the extent that they are now no longer listening to whatever point was being made and are instead ready to fight.
So much for "win-win". What an incredible way to screw up a missed opportunity!!!
Consider that both Cecil and PP conjure up the worst fears and emotions in people and how both examples are seen in children's stories and sci-fi horror stories and movies.
To understand Cecil, imagine if the whale in Free Willy had been killed and what the viewer's emotions would be.
Imagine if Gracie the whale in that Star Trek movie had been harpooned before they could save her and her unborn baby from the whaling ship.
How do you feel when cops shoot a family's dog simply for barking at them or for any other stupid or cruel reason?
How would you, as a little kid, feel if Bambi the movie ended with Bambi and his mom dead and tied down on the hood of a car or pickup truck driving into the sunset?
Those are the feeling that Cecil brings up and, right or wrong, telling someone they shouldn't feel them is something not even a clown college drop out would do.
Now, regarding Planned Parenthood, think of all of the horror stories made into movies over the years with a story line like that of recent PP revelations, from movies like Frankenstein until those made now.
A close look at the recent Planned Parenthood news rewards you with that same revulsion, disgust and even fear for where something like this leads to.
Those emotions, just like the ones associated with Cecil, are very real, also, and you'd have to be a fool to deny it or them.
With these two stories there is an opportunity to tie them together and then use the emotions from both to bring different people together into agreement by feeling the same things, perhaps leading to positive legislative changes.
Instead, Hannity uses one against the other, thus highlighting division while attempting to rationalize why feelings about Cecil are misplaced and those who feel them are wrong.
One would think that man his age, especially a married man, would know better than to tell someone they should not feel one thing, but should feel another thing instead.
But, in this case, you'd be wrong.
Thanks to Disney and their "humanizing" of animals.
By the time I was eight I had a bb gun and was trapping mice. weasels, and skunks... By the time I was 10 I had a .22, a paper route, and a trap line. Bagged my first deer when I was 12, and gutted it mostly myself.
I swear, y'all are touched in the head - I think it should be a requirement for everyone to live for one year only eating what they can kill. It would sure enough get rid of this phony-ass fuzzy bunny bull crap.
I almost pray for SHTF, just for the massive cognitive correction it will impose upon such folks.
You ever see Marv Newland's animated cartoon Bambi meets Godzilla? Runs about a minute and a half, counting the credits.