Over the weekend, Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend. He then committed suicide by shooting himself at the Chief’s training facility. On Sunday Night Football, Bob Costas discussed the incident and he then proceeded to use Belcher’s death to call for gun control.
Sports figures are part of the Media-Entertainment Industrial complex. NBC clearly approved of Costas spewing Progressive Propaganda, during a non political event. This is part of the media’s agenda of spreading their views without people realizing it. Costas should stick to sports since he is ignorant about politics.
Tags: Bob Costas, Media-Entertainment Industrial complex, Sunday Night Football
Costas has always injected politics into sports.
He is very annoying.
The perp Belcher had a neck thicker than most
peoples waists.
I wonder if Costas will attack the steroids culture of
the NFL & MLB that overpays him
Bob needs to stick to football and the players like these guys. HILARIOUS!
Most sporswriters/reporters are even more liberal then regular reporters.
Selena Roberts, Mike Lupica, Michael Wilbon, Jim Rome, Harvey Aaraton et al.
Hey Bob that rats nest on your head is not fooling anyone!
@ Speranza:
And the nuttiest of them all… Keith Olberduche.
Costas has the reputation as a pretty level-headed guy but clearly, he’s been in the bubble far too long. I don’t look to political figures for sports commentary any more than I look to sports (or entertainment) figures for political commentary. Bob needs to STFU and stay in his element and he’s not even close to being the only one.
Yeah, we all have the right to say what we like….we also have the right to take a crap in our pants, but just because we can, doesn’t mean that we should.
huckfunn wrote:
Heh, I had almost forgotten that he got his start in sports!
@ huckfunn
Hands down ,one of the funniest videos that I have ever seen!
MacDuff wrote:
I think it was ESPN.
huckfunn wrote:
The last I heard of him he was seen drooling in the Port Authority bus terminal.
Speranza wrote:
They really are. I think that they over compensate for doing
poorly in J school & Communictions.
Obama’s friends are in power everywhere:
Few Places to Hide as Taxes Trend Higher Worldwide
What can you say about a 60 year old man who keeps a Mickey Mantle baseball card in his wallet?
RIX wrote:
Nevada State… Penitentiary.
Speranza wrote:
His gig with Current lasted just over a year. He was even more of a primadonna than Al Gore and Al didn’t like the competition.
@ huckfunn:
Nothing like student athlete yoots.
ANd again, Mr. Costes, what was the caliber of the weapon OJ Simpson used to kill his ex-wife? This is typical of th egun control crowd, though. They like to point to a specific instance, and say “If it could save one life” ignoring that it really can’t save one life, and instead will cost thousands. Maybe if sports teams didn’t hire animals for millions of dollars a year, things like this wouldn’t happen, either.
@ Iron Fist:
Last year there was an incident where a female park ranger was shot and killed, in a federal park, by some lunatic who had just shot and killed 3 or 4 people. First thing, the director of the Retired Park Rangers Association said something to the effect of “if they hadn’t passed that law allowing concealed carry in federal parks, this wouldn’t have happened”. As if the lunatic would have checked his gun at the park entrance. That asshole got an email from me.
@ huckfunn:
They always, always ignore the lives saved by firearms. You can look at Chicago, and see how safe a society with strict gun control is. The gang-bangers don’t pay attention to the laws, and if Fast and Furious is any indicator, the government will smuggle them the guns to comitt their depredations on the populace. Gun control is abou thaving a disarmed and subservient population. The elites like this football player will always have access to firearms, legal or illegal (as though he couldn’t have comitted his crime with his bare hands had he chosen to; which brings up the question: was the girlfriend shot? I haven’t heard). The gangsters likewise will always have access to firearms, just as easily as they have access to illegal drugs. The people who won’t have access to firearms are the vast middle, who will obey the law and lack th efinances to obtain a means of self-defense within the bounds of the law. Gun control is part and parcel to the Left’s War on the Middle Class.
huckfunn wrote:
He has burned all his bridges at any place he has ever worked.
Fox Sports, ESPN, MSNBC, Current.
I suppose it has escaped Mr. Costas that this animal could just as easily have strangled or knifed his girlfriend to death. The only thing facilitated by the gun was his suicide, which I’ll lose no sleep over.
By the way, Mr. Costas — had the girlfriend had a gun, she could have shot this animal first.
huckfunn wrote:
He (Olbermann) was pissed when his limo drivers actually tried to make conversation with him.
I have contacted NBC and advised them that I will no longer be watching “Football Night in America” since they apparently learned nothing from the antics of Keith Olberdork. It might be worth their while to remember that most of the people watching Sunday Night Football do not need lectures in politics and constitutional rights from overpaid assholes like Mr. Costas.
Carolina Girl wrote:
A big hulking guy like that could easily have throttled her to death.
Gloria -- “Thousands of people every year are killed by guns”
Archie Bunker -- “Would it make you feel any better little girl if they were all pushed out of Windows?”
The thing that the gooey Left always overlooks is that the job
description of a criminal is committing crimes.
Why in the world would a criminal obey a gun law?
As for this murder / suicide. This looks like crime of passion.
This muscular , big man could have simply beat her to death.
She on the other hand could have protected herself with a gun.
@ Speranza:
I remember those two lines -- right down to the tone of voice and the delivery…..
RIX wrote:
Although I doubt she would be walking around with a gun.
@ RIX:
The best analogy to this was on one of the other sites that was that most gun control laws are like trying to stop drunk driving by making it harder and harder for sober people to have cars.
Carolina Girl wrote:
It was classic.
@ Speranza:
Which is why we should pass a law that requires everyone to walk around armed… All the time!!!!
MikeA wrote:
Not. Gonna. Happen.
This is not TVLands version of Gunsmoke.
This from our friends at Ace of Spades:
http://doubleplusundead.com/2012/12/03/an-open-letter-to-bob-costas-and-jason-whitlock/
@ Speranza:
I know. It was a joke….
Hey Bob….bite me. Oh wait….
Carolina Girl wrote:
Now that is a stealer.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Hey sugar -- where’s my 3rd favorite Raider fan been?
@ song_and_dance_man:
Yep -- wish I’d thought of that. It’s quite apt.
@ Carolina Girl:
Pining for the fjords. /
next year.
I’ve been working a lot of OT and don’t come on line until my days off. Like today.
@ Carolina Girl:
If they ever get gun control in place, they are going to notice that cars kill more people than guns. When that happens, they’ll come after cars. It’ll be a twofer: cars are also teh ebil in GoreBull Warming.
There are so many levels of stupid in what Costas has said, it is difficult in deciding on where to begin. Let’s start here though. The idea that Javon Belcher only happened upon his self destructive course because he happened to have purchased a hand gun earlier in his life is prepostrous. Belcher was a man of means, and a handgun would have been easy for him to obtain with or without gun control laws. This man had obvious issues well beyond whether or not he owned a fire arm. The sad fact is, that if his girlfriend had been armed, she may have had a chance to defend herself.
The other side of this coin is the fact that Belcher was a figure in our vast entertainment empire, who was producing Millions in value for the Chiefs, the NFL, NBC, and who ever his sponsors happened to be. During the years leading up to this tragedy, there were probably hundreds of people close to Belcher who were able to see that he was Bat Shit crazy, and said nothing. Belcher’s talents were far to valuable to risk a slowing down of the gravy train, and those fine people are able to hide their culpability by blaming guns, as if Belcher’s craziness would have been cured had a gun not been legal for him to purchase.
Bob Costa you must have heard that the fine understanding football thug who brutally murdered the mother of his child (9 slugs into her body) and then blew off his head as his coaches talked to him, had a few problems. Bob ask the tough questions, drugs, roids, messed up head, plain evil?
“We must ensure that this never happens again” is one of the most dangerous sentences in the English language, I cringe every time I hear it.
MacDuff wrote:
Do you mind if I write something on that very theme?
Flyovercountry wrote:
No, please feel free. It would make for a very good discussion!
@ Carolina Girl: Great response.
My favorite stupid line from the left is when someone decries the “easy access” to guns today, as if you can buy one out of a vending machine.
50 years ago, you could literally buy guns out of magazine ads (which is where Oswald bought his rifle).
Today, the cities with the highest rates of shootings are those where the process of legally buying a gun is reminiscent of what it took to buy a car in the Soviet Union.
The problem isn’t “access to guns,” it’s the people accessing them.
lobo91 wrote:
That’s always been the case. When the NFA was passed, it was supposedly to address a “gangster” problem. After 70 years of the NFA, the “gangsters” have so metastacized that every major city has a gang problem. Legal access to guns, includng machineguns, wasn’t and isn’t the problem, as the shootings in Chicago prove.
@ lobo91:
Agreed. The instant background check takes care of that. Of course, thats if you try to get the gun legally. If you chose to ignore the law (and a criminal would NEVER do that), then its real easy to get one.
by the way, love the new Leah photo but isn’t that considered abuse by the ASPCA?
The voters in Massa2shits are probably dumb enough to fall for this. Mass. city: Free flu shots, gift certificates in exchange for your guns
@ MikeA:
Look at California. They have a 10 day waiting period to buy a gun, you can only buy 1 handgun a month, all sales (even between private parties) have to go through an FFL, and they’ve banned all sorts of long guns.
How’s that working out for them?
Probably.
huckfunn wrote:
I like the way they illustrate the story using a picture of a brand new gun.
What actually gets turned in at these things are rusted-up broken guns that have been in a closet since some old lady’s husband died 20 years ago.
And the amnesty provision is nice. It’s a lot more convenient to trade in the gun you used in a crime for a gift card than to have to go toss it into the river.
@ huckfunn:
They kept re-electing Kennedy and just sent Fauxcohantas to the Senate. There’s a large segment that totally would. Of course none of them will have gang tats.
@ Carolina Girl:
They should try a buy-back for a bag of weed. That might interest some of the gang element…
@ lobo91:
Of course not. Leah would tell them straight away that she knows how to accessorize!
lobo91 wrote:
Actually, some pretty nice iron gets turned in and I specifically know of one such case. About 20 years ago my sis-in-law saw and in the Columbus newspaper where the Columbus PD was offering $50 for unwanted guns. She promptly turned in her late father’s war trophy -- a Walther PPK (complete with holster) that he brought back from France. You can bet that pistol didn’t go into the melting pot. I’ve told the story several times here.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Let’s not forget about 40 years of John Fraud Kerry.
@ huckfunn:
Oh, I’m sure things like that happen, generally by people who don’t have a clue what they have, but they’re the exception. Most of what gets turned in is junk.
@ huckfunn:
And Bawney Fwank.
lobo91 wrote:
I still get a little melancholy when I think of that Walther. I brought back several other guns when their dad died. I still don’t know why I didn’t bring back the Walther. Nobody would have minded.
lobo91 wrote:
Actually, I’ve been making a specific effort to forget about him.
Gotta run. Possible new gig in Dallas.
Later.
For the next 4 years they’ll be pushing the Mooch for President mime.
@ waldensianspirit:
Damn you and your keyboard
@ huckfunn:
my great uncle returned from France after WW1 with a Colt 1911 and a Luger in 9mm…the Luger had a holster with an Iron Cross in it…the Colt had a cleaning kit with it….one extra mag for both…no ammo…
my uncle passed away and the pistols went to my paternal grandfather, who gave them to me….time passed and eventually my sister stole both guns and sold them for drugs…two of the most famous pistols ever made, both in perfect condition….gone like a cool breeze and I didn’t even know it for a few years later
@ heysoos:
If your sister is clean, make her replace them. Play the guilt card…….
SciFiGuy wrote:
she’s dead
@ heysoos:
Sorry….
@ huckfunn:
@ heysoos:
Damned shame how that stuff gets away.
ALANIS MORISSETTE TO PLAY ISRAELI CONCERT DESPITE PROTESTS
Even moonbats it get it right sometimes, good for her.
Speranza wrote:
I am armed, a lot of my friends carry, too.
Most people that carry 24/7 don’t make it well known.
SciFiGuy wrote:
no big deal in the greater scheme of things…I’ve been ripped off, burglarized, robbed at gunpoint (and they stole my car too)…shit happens
Prebanned wrote:
I’m down to my Stoeger P350 and an old Cresent single shot…12ga…I was looking at pistols again a few weeks ago, had my eye on a vintage Springfield M1911…$1650….yowza
@ waldensianspirit:
I hope they do. Wonder what the 99% will think of her “no show” job that paid $400,000 and her practice of patient dumping? And yeah, this time we make sure a PAC gets that information out.
@ heysoos:
http://www.leadslingerarmory.com/Springfield-Armory-XDM-45ACP-45_p_30.html
Holds 13 rounds.
Carolina Girl wrote:
They’ll just say that you’re a racist for bringing it up.
From Weasel Zippers — photo of Zimmerman taken night of Trayvon Martin shooting.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/12/03/george-zimmermans-defense-team-releases-bloody-police-photo-taken-night-of-trayvon-martin-shooting/#disqus_thread
It looks like he has a broken nose at the very least. I have no trouble believing that that little cretin Martin was going for his gun and that Zimmerman did in fact shoot in self-defense.
@ lobo91:
They’re pretty much going to call me a raaaaacist simply because I have a Gasden Flag, I’m White and I’m breathing.
Prebanned wrote:
drool
As a Patron member of the NRA, I’d like to invite Mr Whitlock to kiss my ass…
OBAMA AIDE: THE WAY POLITICS ARE TODAY, THERE WOULD STILL BE SLAVERY
I’m so sick of this BS I want to vomit. This is the kind of thing that makes non-racists reexamine their positions……
Carolina Girl wrote:
I’m apparently a KKK member, according to this asshat above.
This is a Happy-Happy Joy-Joy fact about our current Depression:
I generally agree with this. If the Republicans wanted to really throw a moneky-wrench into the Machine of Obama and Co., they’d make a tax law taxing the Bailed Out proportional to how much of a bail-out they got. If nothing else, they should make things like the Solyendra theft taxable as income. Take back some of what the theives stole.
It appears that you resist the New Order and still expect facts.
What counts here is that Trayvon is a symbol of a long oppressed
class.
Zimmerman on the other hand symbolizes the oppressor class.
What actually happened is not the point, the point is social justice.
@ MacDuff:
I have thought similarly.
One could also point out that the governmental dependency and upon those who dole out governmental largess of the kind the democrats are so fond of is slavery. Democrats the party of slavery then and now.
Carolina Girl wrote:
It’s pretty clear why they didn’t indict him at the time this happened. This is a travesty of the first order.
MacDuff wrote:
Maybe they can bring up the whole “they would only count you as 2/3 of a person” meme again, too…
Javon Belcher had the correct idea just go it backwards. Should have shot himself first.
Hollywood is more the cause of this problem than gun ownership. Entertainment dollars. People owning guns for their entertainment value and never ever coming across repeated gun safety courses.
If Costas would just donate all of his entertainment income to gun safety classes then he might actually something useful.
@ lobo91:
I won’t really say what that makes me think of, but this clown would like to be very free with our individual rights, wouldn’t he?
@ lobo91:
Jason Whitlock is a complete and utter moron. He actually linked to Costas linking to his article.
@ 85 MacDuff:Just think of all the racially motivated media and political lies that must have done on to massage this data about the shooting.
@ lobo91:
NRA = KKK? Man these people are deranged.
@ darkwords:
Since the vast majority of gun safety courses in the US are sponsored by the NRA, you know that’s not going to happen.
Maybe Costas’s career is petering out and he needed to kick start it as the expense of tragedy.
Rodan wrote:
Never mind the fact that the motivation behind most of the early gun control laws was disarming blacks.
Carolina Girl wrote:
These sportswriters really are so ignorant.
@ heysoos:
That is awfully high for a Springfield Armory pistol. You can get a new Kimber for less than that.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, that’s the irony of it all. In fact Gun Control laws are hurting blacks since its Urban areas that the tightest laws.
IMO a person that thinks about Gun Safety from a young age is programmed to think before shooting. Programmed to understand what is being shot. It’s a type of training where the last thing a person will shoot is another person. Even when there is alcohol around.
lobo91 wrote:
That one’s a particular pet peeve of mine, since it ignores the fact that counting slaves as less than a full person for apportionment purposes was intended to limit the power of the slaveholding states.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
There’s a reason the public schools don’t teach history anymore…
lobo91 wrote:
And I believe the children are our future…
lobo91 wrote:
For one thing, the teachers don’t know it.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I’m not sure why we’d need a “new KKK,” anyway.
The old one is still around, after all.
Has anyone noticed that the only examples of legitimate racism that you hear of are directed at whites and are coming either from blacks or hallucinating white liberals?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Haven’t you learned by now that they way you judge a law isn’t by its effects, it is by the way people feel about it? If people feel bad about the Three-Fifths Compromise, then it was bad, even if the result of not having it would have been a more powerful Slaveholding States. Hell, if it hadn’t been for the Three-Fifths Compromise, Lincoln would have probably never been elected. We could have avoided the whole nasty mess of Emancipation entirely, and modern blacks would have felt better about it.
Iron Fist wrote:
everything they have in .45 is over a thousand dollars…but they are all vintage pieces, four of them…all the newer stuff was far cheaper…they don’t sell new Kimbers….4 years ago the Colt I told you about was $800…you told me to trace the numbers on the net and I did…made by Colt, issued to the Marine Corp in early 1943…I wanted that gun bad, but I got sick and that was that….I’m getting real close to buying again, and I’ll need some advice, so stay handy…I’ll probably go with 9mm
@ heysoos:
I have a Colt 1911 MKIV 80 Government Model, but this is pretty cool.
MacDuff wrote:
I’ve got the MKIV 80 also but I would dearly love to have that new Marine model.
@ huckfunn:
I don’t like a light rail on a 1911. It just doesn’t look right…
@ Iron Fist:
I guess it’s built more for utility than aesthetics. The light rail makes sense on a pistol designed for the military.