Bob Parsons Stars On Extra & CNN’s Piers Morgan & Is Unapologetic On Elephant Hunting: “It Was A Wonderful Thing To Be Doing”
Bob Parsons CEO of Godaddy made the rounds on National TV today appearing on the syndicated television show Extra as well as debating a PETA spokesman and the host of the CNN Piers Morgan Show.
On both shows Parsons was unapologetic for his elephant kill and the video he made of it.
On CNN, there was a back and forth discussion that went on for about 10 minutes between Piers Morgan (host of the show that replaced Larry King), and Bob Parsons
Here are the highlights:
Piers:
“Mr. Parsons it wasn’t the smartest thing to be doing as a CEO was it?”
Parsons:
“Actually I think it was a wonderful thing to be doing.”
“I shot an elephant that was destroying crops”
“I saved the crops and a lot of people got to eat. People walked from 20 miles around to get a piece of that meat”
“It’s a very poverty stricken area and those farmers were desperately appreciative.
Piers:
“How much of is your company worth?”
Parsons:
“I don’t know what its worth”
Piers:
“Give me a ballpark”
Parsons:
“Ballpark, I don’t know, I guess its well into a billion I would hope”
Piers:
“Ok so you have a company worth billions and yet you there you have to shoot elephants to help poverty stricken locals, why don’t you just give them some money?”
Parsons:
“I don’t know that one has to do anything with the other, because in this country we now have this bent if you have money you are evil, but actually I was over there doing a very good thing”
Piers:
“Will you carry on shooting elephants?”
Parsons
“excuse me”
Piers”
“Will you carry on shooting elephants?”
Parsons:
“I will not carry on shooting elephants, but what I will carry on is helping the farmers with problem elephants and its very different.”
Piers:
“Mr. Parsons looking at picture posing proudly with your kill, if you were doing this for some kind of humanitarian purpose why are you looking like your some kind of super hunter?”
Parsons
“When we got within 15 feet of the elephants, they do what they do at night, they attacked us, we turned the flashilight on, and we were able to select the old bull, we shot that bull (the oldest elephant) ,not harm the others, drive the rest out of the crops and it was mission accomplished and that smile your seeing is one of, we did everything we set out to do, my gosh the crops are safe, the elephants are safe, its just one down and these people are going to get to eat tommorow.”
Piers:
“Are the other photographs in existence of you shooting big game like this?”
Parsons:
“Are other photographs in existence?
“Yes as a matter of fact if you go on to video.me you will see a video of the same type of hunt last year.”
Piers:
Finally, have you had any financial damage to your company Godaddy.com in light of this incident?”
Parsons:
“No none at all”
“and I’ll tell you why, most American understand that people need to eat”
“most Americans understand the circle of life and this needs to be done and was very selective”
A representative of Peta also appeared on the segment.
I know there is an old expression to the effect that there is no bad publicity.
I guess we will see.
It didn’t sound so great to me.
(If your reading this early enough the show will air again at 3AM and 5AM EST tonight on CNN)
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@David “Bullion” Castello: Bob Parsons is a man who puts his own “Gold” where his mouth is. Donald Trump is a man who put other’s ”Gold” where his mouth is. Both egomaniacs might be considered creeps in certain circles but at least Bob Parsons does not leave others holding the bag – including tax payers. What I am saying is your interpretation of “creep” is likely different than mine.
Furthermore I consider Trumps promotion of Corporate Liferism on Network TV more destructive to overall society than Elephant extinction – sorry Chris Hamilton – although I do respect your efforts.
BigLie hit it right on in with his Charlie Sheen $100 tickets – if Parsons whores out like Trump with some self-gratifying TV Stroke – that is when the real tide changes.
BTW: per LS Morgan – Looks like Rob took $8 out of his $60K sale of ParkCityRealEstate.com and bought CheapBullion.com 2 months ago.
As this thread ends, this 2011-04-05 Vanity Fair author sums up why nothing more will come of this event:
“I disagree with Parsons’s decision to kill an elephant in Zimbabwe, but I can’t say I dismiss altogether the logic he uses to justify that decision.”
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/bob-parsons-shooting-an-elephant-on-safari-nails-the-worst-hunting-stereotypes.html
Nice picture of Teddy Roosevelt with his elephant is 1900 as well.
You are quoting Vanity Fair as having a credible voice about animal conservation and animal poaching by bloodthirsty sycophant billionaires that need a dead animal head mounted on his wall to feel like a real man?
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
I’m sure Bob has SO much in common with most of the male designers and a magazine that specializes in mascara and designer clothing. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to explaining away a guy that you obviously either have a fetish for or have been hired to put out positive comments on blogs to downplay this public relation nightmare. Who knows? Bob’s scummy enough to hide behind a fake name and could be writing his own notes. Any wimp that has to hide behind the darkness of night to make it easier to shoot an animal has shown himself as someone who’s integrity is non-existent.
Why not quote the CEO of the Humane Society as a credible source? You know, the organization that actively has partnered in solutions for elephants getting into crops? No, you go to a girly fashion magazine to dredge up what little positive comments you can find about good ole Bobby boy. Nice try, but it’s pretty clear that public opinion has weighed in and Parsons has been deemed a loser…in more ways than one.
Perhaps next time he feels the need to reassure himself that he’s still a macho man (regardless of the comical reflection of the pathetic old man staring back at him from his mirror) he’ll stay home and schedule another appointment to get his face stretched even more with another face lift, and while he’s at it-he can get some more hair plugs-then buy himself some more little blue pills. I’m sure he’s surrounded by enough “yes-men” that they can reassure him just how much those actions have enhanced his virility so that another exotic animal doesn’t have to lose it’s life.
I think we all know that the chance of this creep actually using any significant amount of his wealth to make the word a better place (such what Bill Gates is doing) is nil and none. He’s too busy buying fast bikes, expensive watches and shooting animals for sport to care about anything than himself. And please don’t quote his philanthropic or charity donations again. I dare you to state his total wealth and divide it by the percentage of what he donates each year-and I think you will see that the percentage of what this sycophant donates each year is the equivalent of the coins the average middle class person digs out of their pockets to drop in the Goodwill kettle at Christmas time.
So please give your blathering, inane excusing away of Parson a rest. You’re not convincing anyone and only making it more obvious the reason you have for tooting Bob’s horn is more than a little questionable.
@P Jones well said and could not have done it better. You can be quite sure that despite the public face of “I did the right thing”, I would imagine the spin doctors are out on forums such as this trying to put out fires.
I am not familiar with Vanity Fair but I am sure any publication, tv/radio station that earns millions in advertising revenue are going to say what a wonderful guy he is.