If bullfighting is on its way out, as it seems it is, then what am I going to do for my animal blood sport needs? Michael Vick has quit the dogfighting business and the nearest cockfight is four counties away. Doesn’t seem fair. Anyway, Conan O’Brien just tweeted the news that bullfighting is on the verge of being banned by the Catalonia government in Spain; a pretty big step over there. Ricky Gervais has produced a video in which he urges people to sign a petition to help move the process along. I’ll sign, Ricky, if you put on the wig and say “Are you havin’ a laugh?” Actually I’ll sign anyway.
Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert tackled the subject last night on The Colbert Report, which included one of the greatest lines I’ve heard on TV this year.
Gervais and Colbert videos following the jump.
COLBERT: “Folks, it’s no secret I’m a fan of bullfighting. I love the savage pas de deux between man and beast, and ten other men who stab it repeatedly with increasingly larger weapons until it slows down enough for some tight-assed fancypants in a sparkly coat to stab it between the shoulder blades snapping its spinal column and killing it, while technically paralyzing it until it suffocates under its own weight. That’s en-ter-tainment! But … every once and a while, the sport turns dark.”
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If the recent ventilating of Spanish bullfighter Julio Aparicio has done nothing else, its swung the spotlight toward this “sport” once again, galvanizing world sentiment against it. Granted, a ban on bullfighting in Catalonia only represents one corner of Spain. But as the Lakers are saying at this hour of their series against the Celtics, one victory is a great start. Ironic that if this indeed is the beginning of the end for bullfighting, it took a horn through a guy’s throat and mouth to get the ball rolling. If that’s the case, the bull who punctured Aparicio should get his own statue. Gotta admire your work, bull. You killed bullfighting, without actually killing the matador. Nicely played.
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Stephen Colbert Rips Bullfighting [The PETA Files]
Time to say enough is enough [e-activist.com]
Gored bullfighter now a fan of the ascot look [Out of Bounds]
