{"id":213696,"date":"2016-05-31T16:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/05\/31\/the_politics_of_the_gorilla_story\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:25:10","slug":"the_politics_of_the_gorilla_story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/31\/the_politics_of_the_gorilla_story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of the Gorilla Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/71689\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<section xmlns:image=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/image\/\" xmlns:xhtml=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/xhtml\/\" xmlns:custom=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/custom\/\">\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019re gonna get to the gorilla business.&nbsp; That\u2019s easily explained, too.&nbsp;Folks, you remember when the two fish, what kind of fish were they, I keep thinking dolphins or porpoises, way back in the nineties, a couple of them got caught in sea ice, way far north of where they should have been, and the whole country became captivated with, will they find their way out?&nbsp; What can we do? Can we cut holes in the ice so that the porpoise, the dolphins, whatever they were, can we guide them out? Can we do something? Can we save them?&nbsp; Everybody became captivated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123139\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Liberalism-Gorilla-Cin.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Same thing here, the same principles are involved, except now there was politics in this Cincinnati Zoo thing because there\u2019s politics in everything.&nbsp; Can\u2019t take it out.&nbsp; Can\u2019t escape it.&nbsp; Can\u2019t avoid it.&nbsp; And I\u2019m gonna explain that also as the program unfolds.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>To show you how silly it got.&nbsp; For a time Black Lives Matter even got upset about this because they originally thought the parents and the boy were white.&nbsp; Then when they found out that the parents and boy were black, then all hell broke loose and they had to back off and take a different tack on this.&nbsp; (interruption)&nbsp; What are you laughing at?&nbsp; That\u2019s exactly what happened.&nbsp; You denying that?&nbsp; You didn\u2019t know that?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You didn\u2019t know Black Lives Matter got involved?&nbsp; (laughing)&nbsp; It was Black Lives Matter versus gorilla lives matter versus do any life matter, human life versus animal life, what matters most.&nbsp; Easily explainable in our really screwed-up culture and society today.&nbsp; I can make it understandable from top to bottom, which I will do,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: To Harambe, the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo.&nbsp; A 400 pound wild animal born in captivity, but gorillas are not domesticated, contrary to what the feminists think.&nbsp; Don\u2019t most feminists that are married think they\u2019re married to gorillas anyway?&nbsp; It\u2019s like dragons, folks.&nbsp; You can\u2019t tame \u2019em.&nbsp; You\u2019ve seen Game of Thrones.&nbsp; You can\u2019t tame a dragon.&nbsp; These are not pets.&nbsp; But we name them.&nbsp; This one\u2019s name was Harambe.&nbsp; And I assume we think that he knew his name.&nbsp; And we assume that he probably liked his name.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So a four-year-old child happens to plunge into the gorilla pen at the Cincinnati Zoo before anybody notices it.&nbsp; And in order to save his life, the zoo people made the decision to kill the gorilla.&nbsp; Now, I am totally aware of why so many people think that the zoo made the wrong decision.&nbsp; I totally understand American pop culture today.&nbsp; I understand our society.&nbsp; I understand where it is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I understand that, in our culture today, that gorilla, compared to any human being, is the essence of innocence, even a four-year-old child.&nbsp; In fact, many on the left, don\u2019t doubt me on this, you\u2019re gonna think this is funny or crazy, but I\u2019m dead serious.&nbsp; Many on the left compare that gorilla in the zoo with unfair imprisonment of human beings.&nbsp; That zoo is the equivalent of a prison, and of course those kinds of people think that we have too many people in jail in this country. That they are in jail because they\u2019ve been railroaded, not because they\u2019ve committed any crimes.&nbsp; That\u2019s the first thing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTgBvlQQtiY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It may not be something that they consciously voice, but it is in their subconscious the way they look at this. I\u2019m talking particularly about leftists.&nbsp; The whole zoo thing is unfair. The whole zoo thing is an example of human bigotry, racism, whatever else, mean-spiritedness, extremism, humans are the cause of global warming.&nbsp; Humans are the cause of climate change.&nbsp; Humans are the cause of animal suffering.&nbsp; Humans are the cause of everything going wrong on earth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By definition, these people cannot be familiar with Genesis, and if they were, they would dissociate themselves from it.&nbsp; They have absolutely no such training, foundation, or awareness of the primacy of humanity on planet Earth as created by God.&nbsp; Such a mind-set does not exist with them.&nbsp; It\u2019s the exact opposite.&nbsp; Humanity is the problem.&nbsp; Humanity is not the solution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So a young child falls in.&nbsp; There are stages of video that are produced by people that were there, and the first video is always the one that makes the impression, &#8220;Looky, that gorilla was trying to save that boy.&nbsp; He was trying to pull his pants up, even, so he wasn\u2019t ashamed, nude, in that moat.&nbsp; This gorilla was trying to protect that boy.&nbsp; That gorilla, he was a new playmate.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget, America\u2019s most prominent exposure to gorillas is with Koko.&nbsp; Koko is a female gorilla who picks NFL games every Friday.&nbsp; Koko uses sign language.&nbsp; Koko has become a human.&nbsp; We humanize all animals, particularly those that we can go watch, maybe even pet, get close to.&nbsp; And we attend to associate &#8212; some of us do, some people transfer their own traits to animals and think that there\u2019s no difference other than maybe intelligence or what have you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But as I looked at it, it took me one thing to see.&nbsp; That gorilla is 400 pounds, and when that gorilla scooped that kid up and ran at breakneck speed through that moat, dragging the kid behind him, the gorilla doesn\u2019t know from protecting the little guy boy\u2019s head from banging against the wall.&nbsp; The gorilla doesn\u2019t know from drowning.&nbsp; The gorilla doesn\u2019t know from anything.&nbsp; But most people don\u2019t want to assume that.&nbsp; They want to assign protector status to the gorilla, as you\u2019ll hear in an audio sound bite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, nobody was gonna get that boy out of that gorilla\u2019s hands.&nbsp; Nobody was gonna be able to walk, no, there and say, &#8220;Hey, Harambe, hey, bud, hey, you know, we need to take that little toy that you just got, we need to take it away from you.&#8221;&nbsp; Right.&nbsp; It was not going to happen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harambe was not gonna deliver the boy somewhere to a zoo keeper to take it back to its mother.&nbsp; I know he was holding the boy\u2019s hand.&nbsp; Sat him up.&nbsp; I know.&nbsp; I know how the pictures look.&nbsp; He was his friend, he was protecting him, was a new buddy down there, understand all that.&nbsp; Harambe wasn\u2019t gonna hurt him.&nbsp; Harambe was loving and caring and so forth, probably a better parent than many humans are.&nbsp; Probably treating that boy better than maybe his own family does.&nbsp; You just never know.&nbsp; You just never know, right?&nbsp; That gorilla could have been teaching us all a lesson on how to deal with kids.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, folks, look at social media, you\u2019ll find all kinds of explanations.&nbsp; Social media has just become such a sewer that even Fakebook, Google, and all the others are promising to clean it up every 24 hours, hate speech gone in 24 hours.&nbsp; You want to bet?&nbsp; Certain hate speech is gonna be applauded, it\u2019s gonna be strategically placed, that against conservatives.&nbsp; Media lies about conservatives\/Republicans will still be featured prominently in trending, you name it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0F_jn8MVac\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But, anyway, I just don\u2019t think there was any way that boy was gonna get out of there alive short of what happened. And I think the people that are being forgotten in all this are the zoo people that had to do it.&nbsp; I think in all the agony that\u2019s out there today, the people that run that zoo that had to do this are probably feeling the worst of anybody, \u2019cause that gorilla was part of their lives. The gorilla had a handler, somebody fed the gorilla.<\/p>\n<p>The gorilla\u2019s born in captivity, so the gorilla had a lot of contact with people at this zoo, and to have to take the gorilla out to save the boy, they\u2019re gonna be distressed over this for a long, long time, the people that run that zoo and had to make the decision, whatever, to pull the trigger.&nbsp; But it comes down to, what do you value here?&nbsp; Should the boy lose his life because the mother was irresponsible, let him plunge in the first place?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Should the gorilla\u2019s life take primacy? It was the gorilla\u2019s home. The gorilla wasn\u2019t doing anything to anybody. The gorilla was minding its own business, all of a sudden this four-year-old kid falls in there, it\u2019s the gorilla\u2019s fault?&nbsp; We gotta kill the gorilla?&nbsp; Depends on how you value human life versus all other life on the planet.&nbsp; And even, you know, folks, so sad, it even had a racial component.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Originally when it was not known what race the child and the parents were, you should have seen some of the comments then.&nbsp; And then it was Black Lives Matter getting involved in all this.&nbsp; And then they found out, no, wait, can\u2019t go there, had to back off and go elsewhere.&nbsp; The way people on the left look at things is just continually itself insufferable and insulting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned earlier the two, I think they were dolphins or porpoises, that somehow strayed way north of their natural &#8212; (interruption) was it New Jersey?&nbsp; No, no.&nbsp; There was ice &#8212; no, no.&nbsp; No, no, no.&nbsp; I mean way north.&nbsp; We\u2019re talking Canada here.&nbsp; They were mammals.&nbsp; They had to surface to be able to breathe.&nbsp; And we were cutting holes in the ice for them to do so, and we were trying to cut holes in the ice in a way that would steer them to safety, if they follow the holes.<\/p>\n<p>I remember back then, this is in the nineties sometime, I remember taking calls from people on, &#8220;Why are we wasting all this money?&nbsp; It\u2019s a couple of fish, for crying out loud, they got lost, big deal.&#8221;&nbsp; And I recall the incident, the same thing had happened to a blue whale or something, happened Sacramento Delta. The thing had gotten screwed up and it swam up from the San Francisco Bay all the way up the Sacramento Delta area and was running out of saltwater and they were all worried about what to do with it. They were trying to figure out a way to turn it around and go back to where it should be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember defending the fish. I remember on this program telling people, &#8220;Look, you have to understand why so many people are concerned about this.&nbsp; They\u2019ve done nothing wrong.&nbsp; They maybe got lost, went a different way, but these animals, compared to all else going on, they\u2019re innocent. They\u2019re struggling on their own. They\u2019re trying to live.&nbsp; It\u2019s not like they\u2019re a bunch of welfare recipients taking the day off out there.&nbsp; They are doing everything they can to survive.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So us helping them makes all the sense in the world to me.&nbsp; But, I\u2019m telling you, folks, 20 years ago when that happened, the vast majority of sentiment was not for those dolphin or porpoises, whatever they were.&nbsp; It was people asking, &#8220;Why are we spending so much money?&#8221;&nbsp; Military helicopters, we were spending a lot of money breaking the ice, drilling holes, trying to get \u2019em out of there.&nbsp; And people thought it was a waste of money.&nbsp; &#8220;Hey, it happens, it\u2019s nature. They went the wrong place, pay the consequences.&#8221;&nbsp; No, no, I said, people have to understand, they\u2019re the essence of innocence, they\u2019re trying to save themselves, and we\u2019re trying to help them do that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123155\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/145753079_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">This situation, here you have a gorilla minding its own business in its own home not bothering anybody.&nbsp; It had never bothered anybody.&nbsp; And then some mother looks the other way for a while and her kid plunges into the gorilla pen, and while the gorilla is holding her baby and dragging the baby along and so forth, the mother, &#8220;Mommy\u2019s here! Mommy\u2019s here!&#8221; And people say, &#8220;Mommy\u2019s where?&nbsp; Why isn\u2019t Mommy down there trying to get the kid back?&nbsp; Most mommies would be doing what they can instead of shouting &#8216;Mommy\u2019s here! Mommy\u2019s here!'&#8221;&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Nobody was gonna get the kid back.&nbsp; And you\u2019ve heard they didn\u2019t want to use tranquilizer. That would have just made the gorilla mad. It would have taken a long time to go into effect, to take effect, and who knows what the gorilla would have done had he gotten mad. So it\u2019s an unfortunate circumstance, but they didn\u2019t have any other choice.&nbsp; If they wanted to save that child, that was the only way they were gonna do it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people want to believe that whoever Harambe\u2019s friends were on the zoo staff could have walked in there, you know, with a plate of food or what have you, or just with good vibes, &#8220;Hey, Harambe, how are you?&nbsp; You know that thing you have, that\u2019s not supposed to be here.&nbsp; Hand him over,&#8221; whatever they were gonna do to get the gorilla to hand over his toy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go to the audio sound bites.&nbsp; Not much here, but I want to illustrate.&nbsp; We have, who is this, where is this?&nbsp; What did I do with it?&nbsp; Oh, here it is, number 15, Ashley Byrne.&nbsp; This was yesterday on CNN\u2019s Newsroom in the morning, Carol Costello, this is PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, senior campaigner Ashley Byrne.&nbsp; Question:&nbsp; &#8220;Do you agree that zoo officials had to kill the gorilla because they say they couldn\u2019t take a chance the gorilla would react badly if they shot him with a tranquilizer dart?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BYRNE:&nbsp; In many circumstances gorillas have shown that they can be protective of children or small beings.&nbsp; Frankly, the fact that this gorilla was innocent in the first place, that\u2019s the first place that this situation went wrong because even under the best circumstances captivity is never adequate for gorillas and other primates. And in cases like this we see that it\u2019s even deadly. And this tragedy is exactly why PETA urges families to stay away from any facility, zoos, circuses, or otherwise, that displays animals as a sideshow for humans to gawk at.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Animals&#8230; (sigh) This woman obviously has not read Genesis and even if she did, it wouldn\u2019t have any impact on her.&nbsp; But human beings travel all over the world to gawk at animals precisely because they\u2019re unusual! They\u2019re interesting. Some are cute, some are deadly, some&#8230; There\u2019s no way human beings are gonna not be interested in animals.&nbsp; Gawking at them out on safari, hunting them or what have you.&nbsp; By the way, you know there\u2019s another factor in this, Snerdley?&nbsp; A lot of people think that all of us used to be apes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t doubt me on this.&nbsp; A lot of people think that all of us used to be gorillas, and they\u2019re looking for the missing link out there.&nbsp; The evolution crowd.&nbsp; They think we were originally apes.&nbsp; I\u2019ve always had a question: If we were the original apes, then how come Harambe is still an ape, and how come he didn\u2019t become one of us?&nbsp; &#8220;Well, that\u2019s why they\u2019re all missing link, Mr. Limbaugh.&nbsp; Your question is absurd.&#8221;&nbsp; Here\u2019s one more from Ashley Byrne from PETA.&nbsp; &#8220;You know, the gorilla\u2019s endangered, he was 17 years old.&nbsp; They\u2019ve had him for quite a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BYRNE:&nbsp; He was 17 years old and r-reports say that he had a young baby of his own &#8212; who, of course, is now without a father.&nbsp; So, y-you know, again (snickers), I think this shows us the tragic side of keeping animals in zoos for our entertainment. But it can go horribly wrong, and that the zoo failed Harambe by taking the risk that something like this would happen.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; So Harambe\u2019s child is now without a father, one of the many unfortunate aspects of this.&nbsp; So another busted gorilla home at the Cincinnati Zoo.&nbsp; And you know what happens.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; If something had happened to that four-year-old boy in the gorilla pen, you know what the catcalls would be.&nbsp; &#8220;Why didn\u2019t you shoot the gorilla? Why did you wait?&#8221;&nbsp; So the zoo people, they\u2019re not gonna win no matter what. But my guess is they feel worse than anybody about this, the people that had to do it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I want to take at least one more call right now, maybe two.&nbsp; We go to Chicago. This is Dannette.&nbsp; I\u2019m glad you called.&nbsp; Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; I love you, I love you, I love you, but I have to say: You really make me angry when you start making fun of animal lovers.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I don\u2019t make fun of animal lovers.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123150\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RushPhonesWeGo.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER:&nbsp; Okay, just now when you were talking about that gal from PETA, you were making fun of what she was saying.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; She\u2019s a liberal! She is not an animal lover.&nbsp; She\u2019s a leftist who is interested in the advancement of the liberal agenda by her &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Okay, but &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; &#8212; attitude toward humanity and its insignificance and its cruelty and so forth.&nbsp; Believe me, PETA is a left-wing, liberal organization using animal rights &#8212; just like feminism is a bunch of liberals using &#8220;women\u2019s issues&#8221; &#8212; to advance the leftist agenda.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Okay, but Rush, I am not a liberal by any means. I\u2019m a big Trump fan, and I\u2019m a big animal lover. I\u2019ve got my own pet &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; So am I!&nbsp; I\u2019m the biggest animal lover you ever met.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Okay, but&#8230; Okay, this gorilla got killed because of why?&nbsp; Human error. No matter how you look at it, human error.&nbsp; I don\u2019t humanize animals.&nbsp; Um, but you know what?&nbsp; Someone\u2019s gotta stick up for them, and someone does have to give them rights.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I just did.&nbsp; I just did.&nbsp; I pointed out the gorilla was bothering nobody, the gorilla was doing what gorillas do.&nbsp; It was minding its own business, it was in its home, and all of a sudden, a human four-year-old drops in there.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Absolutely.&nbsp; And, okay, now, what\u2019s gonna be the question? The zoo wasn\u2019t taking precautions enough. There wasn\u2019t a high enough wall.&nbsp; This is such bullcrap with these children going on &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Wait. Wait a minute.&nbsp; You may not have heard, but the Cincinnati police are looking into criminal charges against the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; And on Fox News this morning they said there were not gonna be any charges, the parents were going to be cleared.&nbsp; You know what?&nbsp; It\u2019s &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123156\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Cin-Zoo-Logo_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:&nbsp; No, no!&nbsp; No, no!&nbsp; Wait!&nbsp; Not against the parents.&nbsp; The zoo, precisely because the four-year-old was able to fall in there.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Okay, see, and that\u2019s what I mean.&nbsp; When is it gonna be the parents\u2019 responsibility?&nbsp; I don\u2019t know what the frick the mother was doing &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Forget that.&nbsp; That\u2019s never&#8230; No.&nbsp; That isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; This is why the generation of kids is ending up to be the generation of what they are.&nbsp; Because it\u2019s never their fault, it\u2019s never the parents\u2019 fault &#8212; and again, I am so much for animals.&nbsp; I felt so bad for this gorilla. Like you said, he was just doing his own thing, and I\u2019m one of those animal-crazy people where if there\u2019s a person on the side of the road that\u2019s injured, and there\u2019s an animal on the side of the road that\u2019s injured, the person is screwed with me. That\u2019s all there is to it, because I just think people make their own decisions and a lot of times, Rush, they\u2019re very evil. They\u2019re very evil.&nbsp; And with this gorilla I just felt really, really &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; You\u2019re making my point.&nbsp; What you\u2019re doing here is understandable.&nbsp; You\u2019re looking at the animal. In your example, you got an injured animal on the side of the road, we don\u2019t know how it got there, and we\u2019ve got an injured human being on the side of the road. Your automatic, your default position is to go check out the animal.&nbsp; You know why?&nbsp; Because it\u2019s the essence of innocence.&nbsp; The human being had a choice, whether or not to get in an accident and be on the side of the road.&nbsp; The animal is just along for the ride and it\u2019s not its fault no matter what, and it can\u2019t take care of itself so you\u2019ve gotta go help it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; And I feel very strong about that. So if people want to call me crazy, so be it. But I feel&#8230; I hold no bones about that. All my clients even know who I am and how I am with animals.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Nobody\u2019s calling you crazy!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Well &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; It\u2019s just that in the &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; I\u2019m sure, you\u2019re gonna get phone calls on this. You know this.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Well, maybe.&nbsp; I can handle that.&nbsp; Phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; But, you know what?&nbsp; I love you.&nbsp; I told Mr. Snerdley, I love you to death; so I really, really do.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Well, you can rest assured that there\u2019s no bigger animal lover than me.&nbsp; I have three dogs and I\u2019ve got this little cat.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (giggles)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: But even aside from that, the reason I know how you feel about animals is I feel the same way about them. But when it comes down in the gorilla case, situation, it\u2019s just one of these unfortunate things. There was no way that anybody was gonna get that gorilla to hand over the baby.&nbsp; I guess you, in that circumstance, value the gorilla\u2019s life more than the baby\u2019s because the parents are the ultimate responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;The kid wouldn\u2019t have fallen in there if the parents had been paying attention, so the parents need to pay the price; the gorilla doesn\u2019t.&#8221;&nbsp; That\u2019s your view.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Well, this is how I feel.&nbsp; You heard the mother on the tape, &#8220;Mommy\u2019s here! Mommy\u2019s here!&#8221;&nbsp; Where the good frick was Mommy two minutes ago before the kid fell in?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Where was Mommy?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Mommy was with the cotton candy vendor.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know what she was doing.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; And, you know&#8230; And again, that\u2019s just my view.&nbsp; I love you, Rush, but you know, animals are my world, and sometimes I just feel you\u2019re condescending to animal lovers.&nbsp; So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I am not condescending to animal lovers.&nbsp; I am condescending to PETA. &nbsp;I am condescending to people who use people\u2019s natural love for animals as a way to advance the liberal agenda.&nbsp; Look, if you want to understand me, if you\u2019re ever confused with what I say, what I mean, understand: It\u2019s always my belief that there\u2019s politics in everything, and I am opposed to liberalism.&nbsp; And I am opposed to the seductive ways that liberalism corrupts people &#8212; innocent people &#8212; into assuming positions that are detrimental to American society and the culture and the country the large.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the left has got all these disparate groups. They\u2019ve got animal rights groups, they got PETA, they got environmentalist wackos, they\u2019ve got feminists. This is how they do it.&nbsp; Every one of these groups ends up&#8230; You notice who\u2019s to blame for all this? It\u2019s always humanity, usually conservative human beings or Republican human beings. It\u2019s human beings destroying the planet when I don\u2019t think we have the ability to.&nbsp; We don\u2019t have the ability to destroy the environment.<\/p>\n<p>If a president ordered the world\u2019s most intelligent scientists to destroy the ozone, they couldn\u2019t do it.&nbsp; If a president or the pope ordered the smartest scientists in the world to destroy the climate of the earth, they could not do it.&nbsp; They wouldn\u2019t know where to begin.&nbsp; And yet we\u2019re told every day that we\u2019re doing it and we\u2019re the cause.&nbsp; By what?&nbsp; Advancing and progress in our lives.&nbsp; And it\u2019s BS.&nbsp; It is utter, total BS, and it\u2019s one of the many webs of deceit that has been woven into the fabric of our society by the American and international left to advance their agenda of big government control over all people.<\/p>\n<p>Because people don\u2019t know what\u2019s best, people don\u2019t know what\u2019s important, people don\u2019t know what\u2019s important, or other things: People are selfish, people are this, people are that. And I resent the heck out of it.&nbsp; I do not &#8220;make fun of animal lovers.&#8221;&nbsp; I understand them.&nbsp; I try to protect them from getting lassoed into some liberal agenda that they don\u2019t understand and end up promoting and advancing while they\u2019re not even aware that they\u2019re doing it.&nbsp; And it\u2019s just&#8230; It gets absurd sometimes.&nbsp; But I have a reverence for animals. I don\u2019t spend a lot of time talking about it here because it just never comes up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123157\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Gorilla-Cinci.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">But I do not &#8220;make fun of animal lovers.&#8221;&nbsp; I am one.&nbsp; I make fun of and I try to expose liberalism everywhere it is lurking.&nbsp; And it lurks.&nbsp; It\u2019s always behind the scenes and underneath the surface.&nbsp; It\u2019s never, ever out in the open.&nbsp; It couldn\u2019t survive if it were.&nbsp; So never forget that.&nbsp; Next time you hear me ripping into or making fun of what you think is an &#8220;animal lover,&#8221; stop and think for a moment:&nbsp; &#8220;What is Rush really saying here?&#8221; and take it beyond what you think it is.&nbsp; Understand that there\u2019s always going to be a political component because politics is part of everything. Whether people like it or not, want to admit it or not, that\u2019s the truth.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Police originally said there weren\u2019t gonna be any charges.&nbsp; Authorities are now taking a second look at the possibility of criminal charges in the incident after the police initially said that no one would be charged.&nbsp; And what they\u2019re looking at, apparently the incident at the Cincinnati Zoo involved the young child who fell into the gorilla enclosure, the incident under investigation by the Cincinnati Police Department.&nbsp; Once the investigation\u2019s concluded, they\u2019ll confer with the DA\u2019s office, the prosecutor\u2019s office on possible criminal charges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This will be against the zoo I don\u2019t think for killing the gorilla.&nbsp; I think it\u2019s gonna be about the enclosure and whether or not it was sufficient to prevent something like this from happening.&nbsp; Now, witnesses said that the child had expressed a desire to get into the enclosure and climbed over a three-foot barrier and then fell 15 feet into a moat.&nbsp; His mother on Facebook said he suffered a concussion and scrapes but was otherwise fine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will guarantee you that all of this commentary, if you will, on social media is driving the cops to change their mind on perhaps pursuing a criminal investigation here.&nbsp; But you go talk to any lawyer you want, and the lawyer will tell you that charges against the parents in something like this will never happen.&nbsp; They\u2019ll never be able to prove criminal child endangerment or anything of the sort.&nbsp; They won\u2019t even go there.&nbsp; That if there are charges, it\u2019ll be against the zoo, and it\u2019ll be in relationship to the enclosure where people are standing, observing the gorillas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mark in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.&nbsp; Great to have you with us.&nbsp; You\u2019re next.&nbsp; Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Hello, Rush.&nbsp; Pleasure talking with you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Regarding the gorilla shooting. Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m living in the Twilight Zone. Are we actually having a discussion between choosing the life of a gorilla over a boy?&nbsp; I mean, this is outrageous.&nbsp; I\u2019m thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; I cannot hear a word you\u2019re saying.&nbsp; I\u2019m having to read what you\u2019re saying.&nbsp; So you find it outrageous that people even think there\u2019s a question over whether to shoot the gorilla or not and save the boy?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Correct.&nbsp; To get to my bigger point, I mean, in America, we slaughter cows and pigs by the truckload on a daily basis.&nbsp; There\u2019s no outrage about that.&nbsp; I mean, I\u2019m just trying to make sort of a funny point over this.&nbsp; Maybe the media is the one &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; But, look, when you run over a possum, when you run over any other road kill animal or when we go to the slaughterhouse to slaughter a bunch of steers and stuff, it isn\u2019t on television, and there aren\u2019t little children in the area that are being held by the hand of the animal about to be slaughtered.&nbsp; And those animals have not had movies made about them, nor are there storybooks about them.&nbsp; I mean, when\u2019s the last slaughterhouse comic book you read?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Yeah, you\u2019re right about that.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123166\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/551227987_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:&nbsp; I mean, once the effort has been made to humanize pets, animals, it is thought that all animals could end up being pets if we just had the right circumstances.&nbsp; But this is &#8212; you know, the fact that it\u2019s on TV and the fact that the first &#8212; never forget, the first video did not appear to show the child threatened at all.&nbsp; Why, Harambe was holding the boy out of the water.&nbsp; Harambe appeared to be keeping the child dressed, his pants up, was holding his hand.&nbsp; That\u2019s the first video that was released.&nbsp; And the person that shot the video, another person who shot some videos saw that and said, &#8220;Wait a minute, that\u2019s not the whole story.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Then we got another video which showed Harambe grabbing the kid by the hand and darting under the water. The kid was being dragged through that moat under the tree as we lost sight of the kid for a while.&nbsp; It was at breakneck speed, and people, &#8220;Oh, my God, the kid\u2019s gonna have a broken neck. The kid\u2019s arm is gonna be ripped off. Oh, my God, he\u2019s gonna slam the kid\u2019s head against the wall.&#8221;&nbsp; But that was the second video seen, not the first.&nbsp; And the first video showed a polite, even fatherly Harambe protecting the child from an irresponsible human parent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Social media gets in gear and Harambe was not threatening anybody, was in his own home, he didn\u2019t cause any of this, bammo, he gets shot.&nbsp; There\u2019s a lot of affection for animals out there, particularly animals that are in captivity and haven\u2019t done anything to anybody.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Look, if you really stop, you\u2019ll be able to understand all of those emotional reactions.&nbsp; Where it does get interesting is your point, when you reduce the question to its bare essence, save the boy, save the gorilla, that\u2019s what you\u2019re having trouble understanding how there can be any debate. The fact that people could be saying, &#8220;Well, hey, it\u2019s not the gorilla\u2019s fault. 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