NRA sponsored elephant hunting show

[Ptarmigan]

NRA sponsored elephant hunting show
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PhDD is continuing her anti-gun mantra. All guns are evil! The NRA is evil!  

NRA sponsored elephant hunting show
 Just when you think the reprehensible organization that is the NRA couldn't get any lower, it sponsors a program on killing elephants. Thank goodness NBC Sports canceled it. But what possessed them in the first place?

NBC Sports Network Cancels NRA-Sponsored Elephant Hunting Show

NBC Sports Network is dumping the show that featured a guy shooting an elephant in the face. The show—hosted by NRA lobbyist Tony Makris—isn't being canceled for that episode with the elephant shooting, exactly (though that didn't help). Instead it's because Makris compared his critics to Hitler earlier this week. He said of his supposed critics: "And now they're shocked. And they said but they're so big and special and they're smarter. And I went, you know, Hitler would have said the same thing." That didn't go over well.


Only it turns out it had nothing to do with the horror of killing the magnificent elephant but that the host decided anyone who opposed killing elephants was just like Hitler.  

NBC Sports' official statement:
Under Wild Skies will no longer air on NBC Sports Sports Network due to the program's close association with its host, whose recent comments comparing his critics to Hitler are outrageous and unacceptable. NBCSN will continue to air all of our other quality outdoor programming.


Link to story and video clip: http://deadspin.com/nbc-sports-network-cancels-nra-sponsored-elephant-hunti-1417367389?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+deadspin%2Ffull+%28Deadspin%29

Also on HuffPo
NBC Sports Network was forced to respond to a flurry of criticism this week, after the internet caught wind of a show that depicts safari hunting for big game in Africa.

On Sunday, an episode of the National Rifle Association-sponsored "Under Wild Skies" aired, showing NRA lobbyist and host Tony Makris shooting and killing an elephant, and then celebrating over champagne. The spectacle sparked vocal backlash, with criticism on social media and a petition at Causes.com that has since received more than 50,000 signatures.

In a statement released to the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, NBC Sports noted the legality of the hunt, but said it would take into account the sensitive nature of the content.

"We've listened to our viewers and will not air that particular episode of 'Under Wild Skies' again. We're also taking a close look at our internal standards as part of this process because this content should not have aired," the network said. "While this form of hunting is legal, we understand that many viewers find it objectionable. As a result we are taking an aggressive approach towards objectionable content within future episodes of 'Under Wild Skies' and other series."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/nbc-sports-elephant_n_4004049.html


Is there any doubt left that the NRA is the single greatest evil on the planet?

Jamaal510 (3,974 posts)
1. Anyone else sense the irony in this,

where the NRA (a group overwhelmingly comprised of Republicans) sponsored an elephant hunting show?

Recursion (30,030 posts)
4. Ha! Good catch

 Well played

Recursion (30,030 posts)
2. The whole "canned hunt" thing is so creepy

I grant the economic argument: allowing hunters to cull the older herd members at $50K per pays for the upkeep for the herd. There's just got to be a better way.

Also: I grew up hunting. Hunting for trophies is not real hunting. I hunted deer and rabbits for their meat, organs, and pelts, and donated all the meat I didn't use to a food bank. Hunting a large endangered creature just to say you did is not OK. Responsible hunters do not support this.

BainsBane (17,763 posts)
5. This is totally different from hunting deer, duck, and other game for food

It's barbarism. Elephants are endangered and also extremely intelligent. In the cases of females, they are deeply tied to their herds. They suffer greatly from loss and mourn their dead. While I put nothing past the NRA, I can't imagine how NBC imagined this would be in any way acceptable.

BainsBane (17,763 posts)
8. AFrica? The asshole was an NRA lobbyist


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and you blame it on the fact it took place in Africa? The barbarian is the NRA sociopath and those who defend him.

pinboy3niner (30,894 posts)
3. Not the single greatst evil on the planet

But they certainly do rank way up there.

BainsBane (17,763 posts)
6. Wayyy up there.

In terms of Americans, they rank number 1.

PhDD thinks NRA is more evil than Nazis, Soviet Union, and Al-Qaeda.  

Drahthaardogs (1,328 posts)
15. The NRA does not typically support hunting amendments.

The Safari Club International is the pro-hunting lobby. NRA does very little pro hunting.

Let's not forget what she said at CC before she got banned here.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,86050.0/msg,1068215.html

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As for not answering simple questions:  There is no doubt the question is simple; it's moronic.  I am not even going to try to get into someone's addled brain if they can't be bothered to layout what they mean.  I have no doubt your fixation on South Chicago is due to Fox News.  You people ape everything that your pet right wing media sources tell you.  

Now don't you have some more  bombs to set off?

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Recursion (30,030 posts)
2. I hunted deer and rabbits for their meat, organs, and pelts, and donated all the meat I didn't use to a food bank

LIAR!!

Drahthaardogs (1,328 posts)
15. The NRA does not typically support hunting amendments.
The Safari Club International is the pro-hunting lobby. NRA does very little pro hunting.

Easy with some truth there young man.  The MIRT and ole PhDD's will have you run off the Island.

"NBC Sports Network Cancels NRA-Sponsored Elephant Hunting Show"

"We've listened to our viewers and will not air that particular episode of 'Under Wild Skies' again

OK, lurking DUmbasses make up my mind for me.  Did they cancel the show or just not going to air that episode?

[jukin]

DUchebags lie, they lie all the time.

Not sponsored "hosted by NRA lobbyist Tony Makris" and even that I would doubt. Who produced the show?

Imagine the First Amendment outrage if the show was canceled when the host compared BOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH to Hitler at the DUmp.

[Aristotelian]

Where do the DUmmies think that the money comes from to fund conservation efforts?

Selective culls help the elephant population as a whole, if you can get somebody else to do the job for you...and pay a large amount of cash in order to do that job...how is this a bad thing?

[J. M. Pyne]

I have never hunted elephants.  However, I have see movies about elephant hunting all my life.  Standard fare is a professional hunter - Clark Gable, Stewart Spencer - who calmly shoots a charging bull elephant.  Never have I seen a movie or hunting show where the elephant was shot thru the side.

[JohnnyReb]

Hitler wrote a book.....Obama supposedly wrote 2 books....hmmmm....coincidence?...I think not.

Oh, the subject was the NRA not NAZI.....carry on.

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Recursion (30,030 posts)
2. The whole "canned hunt" thing is so creepy

I grant the economic argument: allowing hunters to cull the older herd members at $50K per pays for the upkeep for the herd. There's just got to be a better way.

Also: I grew up hunting. Hunting for trophies is not real hunting. I hunted deer and rabbits for their meat, organs, and pelts, and donated all the meat I didn't use to a food bank. Hunting a large endangered creature just to say you did is not OK. Responsible hunters do not support this

I did this many times years ago, now in Assachusetts it is not allowed.  The govt would prefer the homeless eat out of DUmpsters than eat Venison that was not inspected by the govt meat inspectors. 

[hillneck]

I did this many times years ago, now in Assachusetts it is not allowed.  The govt would prefer the homeless eat out of DUmpsters than eat Venison that was not inspected by the govt meat inspectors. 

Most states now have some version of Hunters for the Hungry.  Were hunters can donate vension for food program.  It's been around for about 20-25 years or so as a full program.  Each state runs theirs differently, but most are all in all good programs.