Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 7/15/17 - PETA Ruining A Man's Life, For A Monkey

Episode Date: July 15, 2017

PETA has decided to ruin a man's life, the animal rights organization is suing David Slater, the photographer responsible for the viral “monkey selfie” photo that swept the internet a few years ago. What they don't realize is that Slater did the monkey population a favor with the "monkey selfie."Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. The Jeff Fisher Show. Saturday mornings, 9 to noon Eastern. On the Blaze Radio Network. So our friends at PETA are at it again, and I was busy reading this story over again because it's pretty amazing that they get away with this. So you remember the monkey selfie that made the rounds and the monkeys were taking selfies

and the photographer had the pictures of all the monkeys taking selfies, and a particular one figuring out, you know, taking the picture of himself or herself. And it was from the, and it was one of the endangered, okay, I'm going to have the computer tell you out what they're called. They're endangered and they're called macaque. The macaque monkey. Keep that around because I'm going to forget. What's it called again?

Macac. Yeah, thank you. Macac monkey. All right. So Peter is all wound up saying the selfie money that the company has made and that he has made, the photographer, should go to the monkey. Okay. Wait. What?

Yes, it should go to the monkey. Now, the courts are like, uh, you. Hearing on Thursday, the federal appeal judge at the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco said it was absurd for PETA to claim that the monkey was entitled to copyright on behalf of a monkey. Now, the attorneys for Mr. Slater. Now, they're not even sure they have the right, a monkey. One of the things that's happened, though, since the selfie picture is that the people now there are calling it the, the selfie monkey and aren't killing them anymore. So they're growing.

So he's helped them by promoting this with the selfie monkey. So now they're not just the, they're not just the, they're not just the macaque monkey. They're the selfie monkey. See how smooth that was? I'll try it one more time. Watch, hold on.

They're not just the macaque. even smoother. They're the selfie monkey. Okay? Now, PETA has given their statement on the... PETA has given their statement on the... Macaque. Monkey selfie case appeals hearing.

PETA is pleased with the robust discussion of this historic case in which it is undisputed, even by the defendants, that the macaque. Naruto made the cause and effect connection between pressing the shutter button and the change to his reflection in the camera lens, resulting in his now famous selfie photographs. Copyright law is clear that under these circumstances, he should own the photos. And PETA is proud to be his voice in court.

The proceeds from the use of these photos should go to protect Naruto and his family who are being wiped out for illegal bushmeat and whose homelands are being destroyed by human encroachment. As we learn about these highly intelligent, complex primates, who have their own culture and their own language and want only to be left alone and in peace, PETA believes that society has a moral imperative to advance and amend the law to recognize animal rights.

A dear, Peter, no. Animals do not have their right. Okay? It's a monkey. It's a... Macac. Monkey. Okay?

And that can just continue to be a... Macac. Monkey. It's very simple. Now, we all... I mean, it's unbelievable since... It actually is helping them. Peter should be happy.

But no. But no. Since the animals don't actually have the right, since it was just humans saying, oh, you know what? we should call the we should we should call the

macaque monkey the selfie monkey this is smooth operation and then we won't eat them we won't kill them they'll grow so there'll be plenty more macaque monkeys and we'll just call them selfie monkeys

instead of macaque monkeys now I just want to continue to the story just so I can give her a hard time, continue to just keep doing stuff for the, so that I can continue to have her play the Macac. Soundbite for the monkey. I'm just going to keep that up all day. Macac. Thank you. Peter drives me insane. Come on now. Really, the fight is for animal rights. I mean, that's really what they're fighting.

They could give a flying crap about the... Macac. Monkey. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Now, the main story, behind this, which is really agonizing, is that the photographer who did the selfie pictures of the macaque monkey is now broke. Because of these lawsuits from Pita, he is broke. Got no money.

He said he's thinking about not even being a photographer anymore. All right? He wants to, he's going to continue. He might become a dog walker or something else because he's broke. thanks to PETA's lawsuit against him because of his macaque monkey selfie. So I think maybe, perhaps, Peter should belly up to the bar with a little bit of cash.

This is ridiculous. And if the courts decide that, well, you know, we don't have animal rights. And obviously, there's no way to pay macaque. The Naruto, that's his name, But they don't even know if it's actually Naruto. That's actually the same

macaque monkey. They don't even know if that is the case. The guy couldn't even come back to the U.S. He lives in the United Kingdom. He couldn't even come back to the United States to come to the court case because he is a broke. No money. Thank you.

Peter. Appreciate it. Very much. All because David Slater let the Macaque monkey take a selfie and it actually helped

it helped the people are like hey these are cool they're now selfie monkeys we're not even going to call them macaque anymore we're going to call them selfie monkeys and you know what

they're probably pretty cool we probably shouldn't eat them okay we'll kill other animals oh that's what they're pissed about wait I freaking hate Pita I know they care about animals and I care about animals too.

I know at their core, at their core, I'm going to give them a little break. At their core, therefore, you know, that's in their name, right? The ethical treatment of animals. I got it. But in the end, we are humans. We are the ruling being on the planet. So if we decide that a particular,

particular animal is no longer worth being on the planet. Tough. Tough. Another animal will replace it. Sooner or later, somebody will let another monkey take a, thank you. Sooner or later, somebody will let another. Maccaf. Monkey take a selfie.

And we'll be okay. It'll be all right because nobody, oh, you know what, those are pretty nice. We'll keep those around for a while. while we like them. They're cool. And instead of calling them macaque, we'll call them selfie monkeys. Macac. Thank you.