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RovinOn · 03-22-2012, 11:49 AM

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I watch the show. Good show.. I now have allot more respect for the Trump kids. Glad to see they enjoy hunting.

Ditto that!

I worked with a guy who hunted all over the world, some of the meat he bought back when he was allowed was fantastic. For the most part everything he hunted was used to feed the locals.

Ramblin · 03-22-2012, 12:00 PM

As much as I disagree with CW's decision to pull their advertising, I have to point out that watching Celebrity Apprentice is cruel and unusual in and of itself. There's an hour of your life every week you'll never get back.

scenic route · 03-22-2012, 01:09 PM

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There's an hour of your life every week you'll never get back.

Amen to that brother.

Bob

BillK41 · 03-22-2012, 03:13 PM

I was in the Mesa CW and had renewed my Good Sam/Presidents club membership only a few days before this explosion. I had also sign up for the "automatic renewal". After finding CW is anti-hunting, I immediately sent an email and follow up phone call cancelling my membership. Having been a lifelong hunter, I simply refuse to support any business that goes against my beliefs.

Fred1609 · 03-22-2012, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Ramblin

As much as I disagree with CW's decision to pull their advertising, I have to point out that watching Celebrity Apprentice is cruel and unusual in and of itself. There's an hour of your life every week you'll never get back.

Thats pretty much all the reality TV shows. Having worked around the film industry its a given that everything, yes even reality TV is pretty scripted and controlled. The only one character I watched was Gary Busey. He brought some kind of insanity to that show. After he left the show I did too.

Chuck 1935 · 03-22-2012, 03:46 PM

Is this a fun thread or what ? It's like watching Lemmings leaping off a cliff. I can feel the outrage burning holes in my monitor screen. It's time for a sit in at your local Camping World. Lets call it "OCCUPY CW"

jzick · 03-22-2012, 03:51 PM

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Some of the things that are 'perfectly legal' in Africa might make your skin crawl.

Let's call it for what it is, a couple of kids wealthy enough to buy a 'license' to do just about anything they want, including shoot leopards and elephants for amusement. It's revolting, or should be.

So what is revolting? Is it the fact that the animals are deliberately managed to allow a certain number to be hunted? Is it the fact that many of the areas we are talking about could not afford medical supplies or basic foodstuffs if cash from hunting parties was not available? Or is it because part of the fees for the license are the only way to support the wildlife preservation programs there that keep some of these species away from extinction? Or maybe it is just revolting because they can afford the license and safari and we cannot? What the kids did is legal. Their "macho photos" were no different than posing with a trophy bass or a whitetail rack.

When we lived in Africa we met many people who wondered how they were going to survive the winter due to crop damage from elephants, or a large predator cat had decimated their goats or chickens. Their perspective about "endangered" species might be a little different than ours.

akadeadeye · 03-22-2012, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jzick

So what is revolting? Is it the fact that the animals are deliberately managed to allow a certain number to be hunted? Is it the fact that many of the areas we are talking about could not afford medical supplies or basic foodstuffs if cash from hunting parties was not available? Or is it because part of the fees for the license are the only way to support the wildlife preservation programs there that keep some of these species away from extinction? Or maybe it is just revolting because they can afford the license and safari and we cannot? What the kids did is legal. Their "macho photos" were no different than posing with a trophy bass or a whitetail rack.

When we lived in Africa we met many people who wondered how they were going to survive the winter due to crop damage from elephants, or a large predator cat had decimated their goats or chickens. Their perspective about "endangered" species might be a little different than ours.

Amen!!! X2 X2

smiller · 03-22-2012, 09:37 PM

Thank God they have the Trump boys to fly in and save them.

MAU MAU · 03-22-2012, 10:22 PM

The animals the Trumps hunted were NOT endangered, PERIOD.

Most of the hunting fees go to the local community and anti-poaching patrols. I hunt Africa twice a year and know that without legal hunting, most of the animals in Africa would already have been wiped out.

I dropped my Good Sam membership and their Emergency Roadside Service after their CEO made an uneducated knee-jerk statement and pulled the ad's. I do not watch television, but I do not spend money at any anti-hunting corporations.

BillK41 · 03-23-2012, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jzick

So what is revolting? Is it the fact that the animals are deliberately managed to allow a certain number to be hunted? Is it the fact that many of the areas we are talking about could not afford medical supplies or basic foodstuffs if cash from hunting parties was not available? Or is it because part of the fees for the license are the only way to support the wildlife preservation programs there that keep some of these species away from extinction? Or maybe it is just revolting because they can afford the license and safari and we cannot? What the kids did is legal. Their "macho photos" were no different than posing with a trophy bass or a whitetail rack.

When we lived in Africa we met many people who wondered how they were going to survive the winter due to crop damage from elephants, or a large predator cat had decimated their goats or chickens. Their perspective about "endangered" species might be a little different than ours.

Great explanation!

BillK41 · 03-23-2012, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by MAU MAU

The animals the Trumps hunted were NOT endangered, PERIOD.

Most of the hunting fees go to the local community and anti-poaching patrols. I hunt Africa twice a year and know that without legal hunting, most of the animals in Africa would already have been wiped out.

I dropped my Good Sam membership and their Emergency Roadside Service after their CEO made an uneducated knee-jerk statement and pulled the ad's. I do not watch television, but I do not spend money at any anti-hunting corporations.

Congrats on the bull Mau Mau!