Producers of "The Cove," the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary about dolphin hunting and those who profit from it, have been charged with 242 counts of self-righteous hypocrisy by the World Court.
"The producers of 'The Cove' used about 40% of the film to expose Japanese fishermen who hunt dolphin," said World Court lead prosecutor Nate Causley. "And the other 60% patting themselves on the back for exposing Japanese fishermen who hunt dolphin."
The World Court's case hinges upon two legal theories to establish 'The Cove's' douchiness rises to the level of criminality.
First, they must show that 'The Cove' producers painted the picture that those who make a profit from dolphin cruelty are the most evil people in the world, and that they do so via a documentary about dolphin abuse, from which they make a profit.
The second revolves proving Ric O'Barry, who is the focus of the movie, as a hypocrite in his own right.
'The Cove' depicts O'Barry's efforts to stop the slaughter of dolphins for food in the Japanese town of Taiji. It uses hidden cameras to show how the dolphins are killed, being herded into a cove and pierced with spears as they bleed and writhe in the water.
"It sickens me, how these dolphins are abused," said O'Barry, 70, who for years made his living abusing marine mammals as the trainer for the "Flipper" TV show. "Who could do such a thing. Well, beside me."
"How anyone could find hypocrisy in a lovely movie such as 'The Cove' is beyond me," continued O'Barry, who is trying to earn a ticket into Heaven by washing from his hands the blood of the dolphins he's hurt over the years.
"These hideous people herd a bunch of dolphins into one particular area, where they are raised solely for the purpose of slaughter," howled O'Barry. And then the bodies of the slaughtered dolphins are used to make food and other products.
"How could anyone allow such a process to exist," O'Barry continued while eating a hamburger, which is made from cows, which are herded into one particular area, where they are raised solely for the purpose of slaughter, after which the bodies of the slaughtered cows are used to make food and other products.
"This doesn't happen in America!"
