Southpark “Whale Whores” Thoughts By Captain Paul Watson
Written by Vegetarian Star on October 30th, 2009 in Animal Issues.
Paul Watson "South Park" "Whale Whores"
The recent parody of Whale Wars by Southpark has prompted the Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson to respond to the comedy show mocking him.
Watson’s not at all offended and explains his stance in a recently released statement.
It’s Good to be Lampooned:
“I have to say that being lampooned on South Park is hardly something to complain about. They spelt Sea Shepherd right and they brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed personally, I’m in good company along with Tom Cruise and Sean Penn.”
They’re Not As Pussified As You Think:
“It’s a tough situation we are in. We can’t hurt the whalers and we have to stay within the boundaries of the law in opposing illegal whaling operations. If that makes us pussies so be it, it’s better than being portrayed as killers. The point however that was missed is that we have cut the Japanese kill quotas in half over the last three years and cost them their profits. Our objective is to bankrupt them and we are doing just that.”
It Means Whale Wars Is Popular:
“South Park has however linked Japan to the horrific and senseless slaughter of dolphins and whales and all in all that’s a damn good message in our opinion. What the Whale Whores episode also achieved was to highlight just how successful Whale Wars has been as a television show and how Sea Shepherd is out on the high seas actually trying to do something about the problem.”
The Captain has some good points.
via Ecorazzi.com
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November 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
The Captain is a big fat douche, thats what he is.
Fuck you whale and fuck you dolphin.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:16 am
Screw Sea Shepherd I hope a Jap subs comes along and sinks them
November 8th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
The transposition of Lady Gaga (singing a song that is the epitomy of whats wrong with North American sensibilities) over the phoney staged whale wars is too much — question
o we take our bs reality-phoney based debauched society too serious ? if Yes you are correct
November 17th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
FUCK YOU WHALE!!!!!!!!! AND FUCK YOU DOLPHIN!!!!!!!!!
December 21st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Props to Paul Watson, for having no hard feeling towards southpark.
Any publicity is good publicity, and the episode did bring more attention to his cause, even though they depicted him in a vulgar way.
ie. the japanese killing him with a harpoon
January 7th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
cow and a chicken!? COW AND E CHICKEN!!!!!!
February 14th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Got to love all the kids who are spamming quotes from the south park ep, Grow up.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
one thing i would love to see southpark and people outside of japan talk about(but i have never seen it yet) which is japanese “real” whaling and whale eating “culture”.
it seem like no one really do home work when talk about japanese whaling related culture.
people should start to learn the real history and start asking those japanese pro-whaling that want to talk their own culture.
ask them wasn’t that western style of whaling in japan started after WWII? wasn’t that they learn the hunting modern hunting style and using tool import from Norway back when they just start “large” scale hunting in “Antarctica”?
ask them how popular the whale meat in japan was before WWII.
ask who introduce whale meat to nation level if not the american?
ask them where is their realy whaling ground? Antarctica? did their great great grandpa ever go to antarctica for whaling? or they learn it later from the west?
ask what culture they are referring when they want to talk about japanese culture.
do japanese culture base on westerner?
what they are doing in Antarctica is nontraditional Japanese whaling culture.
when they think whale meat is in Japanese diet culture, but in fact it is the american introduced to the nationa level food.
all in all they, the japanese is talking about borrowing culture that they misunderstood that it is their own culture!
what a mess up culture here!
if they ever want to do their real whaling culture?
they would never go to Antarctica, they would never use westernize style of hunting and tools. and the meat will be available only in some part some small fisherman village, not nation width.
what culture the prowhaling japanese talking about?
crap! and bullshit culture they are talking about.
June 21st, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Amazing how a man saving whales brings all the haters, losers and no lifers to the surface.
July 3rd, 2010 at 10:42 am
fuck ALL whalers and animal abusers alike, go Capt. Watson, you da man with da plan!
August 17th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Paul Watson is nothing but an eco-terrorist. There are cultures around the world who have depended historically on whales and other sea mammals for their survival. I abhor and condemn indescriminate slaughter for base profits. But what Paul Watson the criminal is doing is abhorrent as well. For the life of me, I can’t fathom why some proud descendant of Japanese WWII pilots, don’t get on some of the still functioning Mitsubishi “Zero” fighters that still exist and go and place a couple of well aimed torpedoes on the Sea Sheppherd and Bob Barker eco-pirates, and teake them all out of our misery! May they sink!!!