April 19, 2011

You Go Daddy!

It’s one thing to be a rich jerk and go on elephant safaris every year to reaffirm your masculinity.

It’s quite another thing to post a video of it on your website — even tweet about it — and try to squeeze some profit out of it for your ultra-rich company, all the while maintaining you slaughtered the elephant to help poor, starving African villagers.

That’s what Bob Parsons, CEO of Go Daddy, did in March while on safari in Zimbabwe. Not content to just quietly go about killing mostly defenseless elephants with his big guns and hordes of back-up personnel, Parsons…

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