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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

7/15/17 - PETA Ruining A Man's Life, For A Monkey

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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

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The Jeff Fisher Show Saturday mornings, nine to noon eastern.

0:13.4

on the Blaze Radio Network.

0:12.4

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.

0:21.0

So you remember the monkey's selfie that made the rounds and

0:27.7

the monkeys were taking selfies and the photographer had the pictures of all

0:32.3

the monkeys taking selfies in a particular one

0:34.6

figuring out you know taking the picture of himself or herself and it was from

0:41.3

the it was one of the endangered.

0:45.0

Okay, I'm gonna have the computer tell you what they're called.

0:50.0

They're endangered and they're called.

0:52.0

Macac. The Macac. They're endangered and they're called

0:57.8

Macac the Macac monkey keep that around because I'm gonna forget

0:59.8

I'm gonna what's it called again?

1:03.3

Macac Yeah, thank you. Mackack monkey.

1:04.9

All right, so Peter is all wound up saying the selfie money that the company has made and that he has made the

1:15.0

photographer should go to the monkey. Now the courts are like hearing on Thursday the federal appeal judge at the 9th

1:36.5

Circuit in San Francisco said it was absurd for PETA to claim that the monkey was entitled to copyright on behalf of a monkey.

1:46.4

Now the attorneys for Mr. Slater, now they're not even sure they have the right a monkey.

1:55.0

One of the things that's happened though since this selfie picture is that the

2:00.8

people now there are calling it the selfie monkey and aren't killing them

2:04.8

anymore. So they're growing. So he's helped them by promoting this with the

2:11.8

selfie monkey.

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