(Picture Hat Tip: Speranza)
Bob Costas’ rant on Sunday Night Football irritated many Americans. In my case I had stayed away from political stories for two days. Then while I was enjoying my beer and eating some Cajun style wings, I saw Costas pushing for gun control. I don’t recall him pushing to ban knives, when his buddy O.J. Simpson was involved ( I don’t think he did it alone) in the murder of his wife Nicole Simpson.
Bob Costas was reading an article by Fox Sports analyst Jason Whitlock that calls for banning handguns. Whitlock also has called the NRA, the modern day KKK. Bob Costas appeared on this clown’s podcast and justified his rant by blaming “gun culture” for the death of Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend .
NBC’s Bob Costas on Monday appeared on Foxsports.com columnist Jason Whitlock‘s podcast, “Real Talk,” to explain why he advocated for gun control during the halftime show of the nationally televised Sunday night NFL game.
During the game, Costas quoted Whitlock’s editorial, which stated that former Kansas City chiefs player Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend would still be alive if Jovan did not own a handgun.
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The NBC analyst said his remarks have been unfairly and hypocritically attacked by gun-rights advocates.
“And I’ve always found this to be true: If someone disagrees with what you write, then they’ll say what you wrote was a ‘screed,’” Costas continued. “But someone who agrees with it say it was a ‘thoughtful commentary.’ If they disagree with what you say on television, they’ll term it a ‘rant.’
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“There are too many people in this country leaving home carrying a gun as if it’s the same thing as ‘don’t forget my wallet,’ ‘don’t forget my watch,’ ‘don’t forget my gun,’” Costas said. “And more often than not, this leads to bad things far more often than it leads to good things.”
Tags: Bob Costas, gun control, Jason Whitlock, Jovan Belcher
I doubt Belcher’s girlfriend would still be alive, even if he hadn’t owned a gun.
Left out, dont forget both spare mags and the other gun with spare mag.
lets not address the real problems. the destruction of the black family.
look at chicago, detroit and dc. murder capitals for the hood rats. yeah, whitey has gangs too, they are called the mafia and they dont kill innocent people nor are they as violent,they arent driven by the twisted outcomes of the war on poverty.
I hope Bob don’t own any firearms.
Whitlock’s initial column basically said that black people aren’t responsible enough to own guns and therefore guns should be illegal, and the only people defending the right to own guns are doing so simply because black people disproportionately kill each other with said guns.
Costas actually thinks that most Americans feel the same way he does.
They’re both disgusting.
@ coldwarrior:
If the NRA would stop flooding the ghettos with drugs and firearms, there would be hardly any murders in Chicago.
It’s a shame Kassandra Perkins did not have a handgun of her own, she may have had a chance to defend herself.
Costas is an idiot. There is a reason why the vapid banal turds end up delivering the sports news, and that is because they can talk about sports for at least a minute or two without calling attention to their stupidity.
@ Bumr50:
@ coldwarrior:
@ Prebanned:
@ livefreeor die:
Costas to be on O’Reilly tomorrow.
Flyovercountry wrote:
meat sticks with nice hair.
@ Flyovercountry:
They really are delusional.
Prebanned wrote:
i know!
those damned nra gun runners just abuse those poor innocent
gang bangersurban youth. if the nra would just stop there would be peace and love.livefreeor die wrote:
exactly. your average NFL player could kill the average woman with his bare hands. so, great going costas and the other idiot, in advocating for a situaiton in which the victim would still be dead but the murderer would have likely survived.
@ coldwarrior:
That has changed as well. Many Whites are now hooked on the welfare culture. They have some nasty gangs, usually involved with Meth. Blacks were the Guinea pigs, now the welfare culture has expanded.
But your larger point stands.
ya know what else just drives me nutz? this urban excuse for violence and other indignant actions/words:
‘he dont respeck me’ and ‘he disrespected me’
respect is earned, not given. a lesson lost on these thugs because the family has been utterly destroyed.
Kirly wrote:
And would not have faced as much jail time if He survived.
@ coldwarrior:
I had to deal with that in HS. If you bumped some people wrong, get ready to fight.
Prebanned wrote:
You’re right. His defense team would have painted him as a victim.
Rodan wrote:
those gangs are white trash. i dont claim them as part of my culture. and yes, they are indistinguishable from the hood thugs. they are also a very tiny number in the gang membership in total.
I wonder if Costas remembers that Sean Taylor would still be alive if he’d been allowed to own a gun.
Rodan wrote:
the removal of the male as a strong and positive guiding force in the black culture caused all of this. its almost like the destruction of the black family was planned out.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m sure Bob Costas could solve the gang problem!
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ooops…
@ livefreeor die:
It’s obviously the result of poverty.
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Kirly wrote:
WE MUST BAN HANDS!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
Yes it was. The KKK decided on a new tack. LBJ was a Klansman as were the leaders of the Democrats. They didn’t just start liking blacks in 1965. They decided on a better way to make them slaves.
@ coldwarrior:
Half of all African American babies are murdered before they can draw thier first breath.
The latest from Costas now is that his diatribe was a mistake, not because half time at a sporting event might not be the appropriate place for his left of center political views, but because 90 seconds were not enough to correctly make his point.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/04/nbcs_bob_costas_says_anti-gun_commentary_was_a_mistake.html
So you see, we just aren’t smart enough to understand the genius that is Bob Costas, pro sports commentator.
@ lobo91:
Like that picture I have up there?
Rodan wrote:
their plan is going rather well.
@ coldwarrior:
Killing all the bad guys is the best “peace process” I can think of…
Prebanned wrote:
hey, ya cant overpopulate the plantation, sanger’s plan is going quite well also!
@ coldwarrior:
Blacks were the Guinea Pigs. Now it is time for the rest of the country. That is where Obama comes in.
lobo91 wrote:
killing the enemy in great big batches makes them very motivated to surrender
Rodan wrote:
Yeah.
I just finished a
KKK indoctrinationclass for an Air Force couple. The wife was born in Iran.Flyovercountry wrote:
Snort! That’s right, Bob, you’re a genius. That’s why they won’t let you near the microphone during the actual games.
Well, at least the new laptop seems to be working well.
The hard drive crashed on my old one on Friday. I didn’t really plan to buy a new computer at the moment, but it’s pretty hard to teach my classes without a working laptop.
coldwarrior wrote:
let’s just go straight to banning murderous thoughts.
you want abortion?…fine
we’ll abort every poverty level baby, no choice…
we’ll abort our way out of entitlements, we’ll abort urban gangs, we will abort ourselves into security and prosperity…you wanna act like beeves, you’ll be treated accordingly…ignorance I can tolerate, willful stupidity not so much
@ coldwarrior:
LBJ wanted to call it The War on N****s but had to rename it to The War on Poverty to get it through congress…
coldwarrior wrote:
Or at least find another line of work…
@ Kirly:
Thoughtcrime.
Kirly wrote:
i love it!
AWR Hawkins of Breitbart points out the hypocrisy of the media, entertainment and political elites who live behind walls of armed security (public and private) yet feel entitled to rail against the very weapons that protect them.
BOB COSTAS, NFL SURROUNDED BY ARMED SECURITY
Costas in another pseudo-idealist, not a practical thinker….iow, an idiot
Well that’s true enough because most of those who embrace this “gun culture” are gang banging criminals. Those of us who want to protect ourselves and our loved ones and therefore have guns are outnumbered. Problem is gun control makes that disparity even worse. Hence concealed carry states are much better off than Detroit and D.C. The criminals hate concealed carry and love the leftists who seem to be their allies in getting rid of that right.
if pistol totin’ bangers were considered good eating, they would vanish, coast to coast, in two weeks….food for thought
Here is the best illustration of what gun control does for a city.
heysoos wrote:
You can’t shoot someone for looking like a gang banger, even if he’s smashing your head into the pavement.
@ huckfunn:
if I had a hitchin to get shot, I’d go up to Chicago…the most American of American cities
huckfunn wrote:
Wouldn’t it be easier to tell people where there weren’t crimes?
Rancher wrote:
I’d claim he had antlers and bounced around on four legs before he got Webbered
lobo91 wrote:
theres an app for that
@ lobo91:
She gets it then!
lobo91 wrote:
Yes it would, but I don’t want everyone to know where I live. I’m selfish that way.
lefty/costas logic as i understand….if one throws their girlfriend off of the bridge into the abyss and killing her, and then one jumps off of the bridge into the abyss killing oneself, we should therefor ban all bridges.
huckfunn wrote:
Costas is going o be on O’Reilly tomorrow to explain what he meant by his rant. He realized he stepped on shit!
lobo91 wrote:
the cops here in ABQ shoot so many bad guys, the city is under federal investigation…result?…don’t draw down on the APD…duh
huckfunn wrote:
LOL I clicked on that and got a popup ad for apartment rentals… uhhh no thanks.
@ heysoos:
it is not fair, the bad guys need to win more.
Rodan wrote:
O’Reilly’s gonna whup Bob’s ass, and rightfully so.
heysoos wrote:
sheesh the cops here almost never shoot anyone… but when they do they shoot them 40 or 50 times.
@ huckfunn:
I was enjoying some beer, wings and game and had to see this rant. It really pissed me off.
Bob should be for teeth control.
@ song_and_dance_man:
I’m for pro sports thug control.
Which gun culture is he talking about? There is more than one.
@ 43 huckfunn: Very good point. If pacifism work costas should go all gandhi on pro football.
darkwords wrote:
When the left uses that term, they usually aren’t talking about gangbangers. They’re usually talking about NRA members and other legal gun owners.
Costas is a fool and a typical condescending liberal who does not know what the hell he is talking about.
Check out this bit of propaganda put out by the California Federation of Teachers, with narration by Ed Asner:
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Bob needs to get his rug under control. Lookin kinda shabby.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
He should be for hair piece control.
@ lobo91:
I’m for stupid commentator control
@ huckfunn:
Ya’ beat me to it!
I bought a shotgun and took it out to the City Range to see how it worked, got my headphones, couple of boxes of mixed rounds, Saturday morning at one of the largest municipal, multi agency ranges in America…there were like a 100 APD cops there shooting pistols all the way up to 308 long stuff…I hung out for a while…sounded like D-Day…never did shoot my gun…when I left the cop brothers were talking about setting up the ‘town’ range so they could shoot thru walls and shit like that…APD cops like to shoot people
darkwords wrote:
Next up… “it was all of Belcher’s head injuries that turned him into a demented gun nut”.
Speranza wrote:
He’s going on O’Reilly tomorrow for a mea culpa. He claims he was talking about gun culture, no banning guns. He realized he stepped on shit.
@ Speranza:
Rodan wrote:
Unlike the Left, I don’t want anyone to get fired for saying something stupid which I disagree with.
lobo91 wrote:
Hannity just had it on his show. Ed Asner is definitely a communist and has been one for decades.
@ heysoos:
They have for a long time. I know in the early ’90s, part of the problem was that they started waiving the education requirement for applicants with military experience. When they did that, they attracted a whole bunch of guys who had spent 3 or 4 years serving in the peacetime Army and were bored because they never got to kill anyone.
That department has been out of control for decades.
@ Speranza:
I guess they recognize one of their own…
song_and_dance_man wrote:
I’d vote for that and NBC would be a good place to start.
lobo91 wrote:
I saw that and couldn’t watch more than a minute. I wonder how many evil million$ Asner has.
@ Rodan: orelly will cave in to professorial courtesy and fail to ask any tough pro gun questions.
brookly red wrote:
It works for me. I put in “Brookly, NY” and it looks kinda scary.
lobo91 wrote:
if the teachers were doing such a good job why is he talking to people on a 3rd grade level?
darkwords wrote:
O’Reilly is in favor of new federal gun laws.
@ brookly red:
Any higher and the teachers wouldn’t understand it.
huckfunn wrote:
well yeah, one would be foolish to mess with a Brooklynite…
@ lobo91:
Yes he is.
darkwords wrote:
He probably agrees with Costas.
brookly red wrote:
I’m supposed to be scared of people that put vegatables on pizza?…I don’t think so
I wonder if anyone has explored the possibility of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Belcher’s case … seems to be a lot of that in players of professional contact sports these days, or it’s being detected and diagnosed more than before.
heysoos wrote:
Give me two examples of an unjustified APD shooting in the last twenty years. Why would you want to put yourself under the hell that a shooting brings down upon you? The one questionable shooting was the guy who had a gun pointed at his own head who was shot after repeated demands to put the gun down. That’s why I asked for two examples but even in that case it could be justified. Now the Justice Department, that cartel gun running organization filled with Al Qaeda lawyers, will come to Albuquerque to judge why APD officers are shooting mostly Hispanic men. Forget the fact that most men in New Mexico are Hispanic, as are most of the officers shooting them, I predict a bad outcome. Shit like you espouse don’t help our men in blue one bit.
heysoos wrote:
you personally should not be scared of anything… I mean what have you got to lose.
Rancher wrote:
I’m just passing on what I read and hear…I don’t have an opinion as to right or wrong…don’t take it out on me because you don’t agree with the feds…
brookly red wrote:
what does that have to do with anything?…am I supposed to be more scared because I have ‘more’ to lose?…you’re dreaming…Brooklynites are just as whimpy as the next guy…you like gangster movies?
heysoos wrote:
no I am just funning with yah, do you like Gladiator movies?
Moe Katz wrote:
See my #75 above. The head injury thing is exactly where this story is going and it will be used to put an end to tackle football starting with Pop Warner and then all the way up. However, the whole picture of who Belcher was is becoming more clear every day. He was a vicious bully way back when he was in middle school and it had nothing to do with head injuries in the NFL.
heysoos wrote:
Well consider the source, we live in a very blue state, at least north of T or C. Pay attention to each shooting, the facts are out there. Most every one shot by APD was putting an officer in danger or a civilian. You should know not to depend on the media, “what I read and hear”, to form an opinion, which you very much did have when you said “APD cops like to shoot people”.
@ brookly red:
I like football movies
@ brookly red:
heh..I confess, I do
brookly red wrote:
LOL!
/But I actually do.
Rancher wrote:
my quote, such as it is is based on “Cops” and the ensuing legal fight to keep Hollywood out of ABQ because of the negative press…as soon as I moved here from MI I heard about about the APD and it’s image problems…and if my anecdotal observation bothers you, then so be it
huckfunn wrote:
Interesting. Still, brain trauma and personality could both be involved.
This Whitlock guy is a piece of work.
The NRA is a conspiracy to get black people to kill themselves off with guns?
That’s about as logical as the “Whitey created AIDS” or the “CIA invented crack” BS.
Moe Katz wrote:
From what I have read, Belcher’s NFL records show no history of concussion or head injuries. However, people are starting to show up who knew him when he was a kid and describe him as a vicious bully. The head trauma thing is BS that will be used by the left to ban football as we know it.
@ Moe Katz:
Also steroids, other drugs may be involved.
huckfunn wrote:
I don’t think they’ll succeed; football is too deeply rooted in the culture.
Moe Katz wrote:
so was personal responsibility…
Moe Katz wrote:
So was religion, capitalism, honesty and hard work.
ban trains
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep. We should have listened to the indians.
huckfunn wrote:
that is what i expected they would find. he was covered for because he had talent.
Moe Katz wrote:
that and the billions it generates a year at all levels.
Moe Katz wrote:
OK Moe your the kinda guy that can relate to this, on a purely libertarian level is it right that one professional performer can get a boob job but another can’t juice?
@ coldwarrior:
Excellent point.
coldwarrior wrote:
The oil and gas industry creates many more billions than football and the lefties are doing all they can to kill that industry.
brookly red wrote:
That’s interesting. It’s not really consistent, is it?
coldwarrior wrote:
Pros and Cons
huckfunn wrote:
yes but we can import oil and gas from muslin countries… pig skin? not so much.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Keith Olbermann is a former sportscaster.
The Osprey wrote:
I am fighting a losing battle with regard to my opinion of the Civil Rights Movement.
huckfunn wrote:
A Brookly red public service announcement:…next time you are in NYC and get shoved in front of a subway train by an irate obama supporter, remember to lie down flat between the rails. (unless your butt is as big as Moochelle’s) You will not only save your life but as an added bonus inconvenience 100,000 NYC commuters.
lobo91 wrote:
The Stupid Party, alas, does NOTHING to counter this kind of thing.
coldwarrior wrote:
That one could be construed as a Black-on-Asian hate crime.
brookly red wrote:
That’s nowhere in my plans. But, an interesting note as to why the indians hated the trains. Not only did they bring more settlers, the buffalo herds would not cross a railroad track. The herds were forever split.
On Friday, a young man shot & killed a store clerk & an elderly customer who’d gone to buy candy for his grandkids. The store is about 5 blocks from here, and we stop by once a week or so. I knew the clerk, not by name, but just from the store- nice kid, a bit odd, but who am I to talk?
The young man arrested had a warrant on him for felony theft.
Thank God we didn’t stop by that night.
@ mfhorn:
I’m sure you’ve told me before, but where do you live?
@ mfhorn:
How horrible. Glad you’re okay.
Chicago Shootings Spike 49% In November Despite Strict Gun Laws
@ Moe Katz:
Anabolic steroid use and “roid rage” (just a guess) coupled with a night of drinking alcohol (reported) is the combo that came to mind when I first heard this story.
huckfunn wrote:
It would not surprise me one bit if they were pulling a “fast and furious” in Chicago, that is supplying the guns to rack up a body count so they can use it as an excuse to ban guns. In fact if you look at the numbers as compared to say oh, Afghanistan something smells bad.
Calo wrote:
Thanks, that would be par for the course in the NFL. And coupled with a nasty personality to begin with….
brookly red wrote:
Actually, I think there was a law banning handguns in Chicago until it was overturned last year by SCOTUS. Now they’ve simply added regulations that make it impossible to buy and/or own a handgun.
huckfunn wrote:
Same as in many big cities, what makes Chicago even more violent that the next 5 combined? Coincidence?
brookly red wrote:
… and actually hit the perp, what, two or three times? Innocent bystanders hardest hit.
huckfunn wrote:
Wow. I did not know that. Can you tell me how you found out about that? (I’m not disputing you, I just think it’s interesting)
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Evertything about Olberman is ‘former’
The Osprey wrote:
*snort*
who needs guns when you’ve got Planned Parenthood?
Wow, he says that as if it’s a bad thing. My problem is remembering my phone. The rest of it, I’ve got down.
You sure about that Bob? I know an awful lot of people who carry whenever they can. Not a single one of them has ever committed a crime nor had to draw their weapon. It’s a tool, it’s insurance. I’d much rather have it when needed than not have it and wish I did. Of course, I’ll bet Ol’ Bob doesn’t go out without his body guards.
The Ulstermann Report had an interesting post today
an excerpt from an article titled Let It Burn
Calo wrote:
The difference is the Cloward-Piven-Ayers people think it will go in one direction and some of us are pretty sure it will go in another.
Think about it. I remember what’s-her-name a few months ago -- during the Occupy ‘uprising’ -- asking in bewilderment “where are the riots?”
EXACTLY.
That philosophy is depending on PUNKS.
ok gotta go g’nite
well, as I was signing off everything look what I found.
Karl Rove taken off the air as Fox News distances themselves from conservative pundit after his Election Night tantrum
Also Dick Morris
Not sure what’s going on. Was doing my weekly job search and just noticed that my local Hostess factory is hiring several positions, posted on Dec 1st. Searched the web and papers, but there wasn’t any news anywhere of the company being saved. (Local Hostess discount stores are shut down.)
Calo wrote:
That link from Ulsterman goes to Dorian’s blog. I would not, as much as I like Dorian, call his thinking a popular Conservative point of view. It’s a misrepresentation on the part of Ulsterman, and makes me question his other posts.
@ Calo:
And my remark was not a criticism of you, Calo. Not at all.
Mars wrote:
Since I don’t know the answers, I’ll add a meager joke:
Hostess Bakery plants shut down Friday the result of a union strike
idling some 18,000 workers.
The Obama administration will hire most all of these displaced
employees.The State Department will hire the Twinkies, the Secret Service the
Ho Hos, the generals will sleep with the Cupcakes and all the Ding
Dongs are going to Congress.
Well, for what it is worth, I have complained about Costas to ESPN, and you can too:
http://espn.go.com/espn/contact?lang=EN&country=united%20states
Like most people connected with professional “sports”, Costas is a moron. He should stick to the excrutiatingly narrow and totally trivial field of endevor he “knows.”
Mike C. wrote:
I like sports as much as the next guy, but it’s assigned for too much importance. When sportscasters feel comfortable using their limited pulpit opining on complex social issues, they’ve overestimated their narrow field of expertise….and that goes for entertainers as well. Sports and entertainment were once a respite from more weighty issues, but no more -- the preaching is 24/7. DAMN THEM ALL!
Storagemanager wrote:
Heckuva job, Rham!
@ yenta-fada:
@ Storagemanager:
This was the Left never letting a crisis go to waste. The Left has been pushing for strict gun control since FDR’s first term. They know that they can never fully implement teir People’s Marxist Utopia while the bulk of the population is armed. Things like Stalin’s Terror, when he arrested something like a quarter of the population of Leningrad in one fell swoop, simply can’t happen in a heavily armed civillian populace. The Blue Caps go out, and they don’t come home.
Bonher acting like Princess Pelosi?
House GOP Not Consulted on Boehner’s Budget Proposal
eaglesoars wrote:
I think I read about it in Stephen Ambrose’s book “Nothing Like it in the World” about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. I did some further checking on buffalo crossing railroad tracks and it seems that the notion that they won’t cross is false. They will cross but very slowly and with great caution. There is something about their depth perception which makes them perceive that by stepping on, or over, a track, they think they are walking off a cliff. Also, it later came out that Ambrose’s book was rife with factual inaccuracies and errors.
@ huckfunn:
it’s generally believed that there was always a northern and a southern nerd and they migrated toward each other in the spring and summer, then back again…there was so much grass that the migration might have been more associated with water
@ heysoos:
it’s also been documented that earlier trains had to stop and wait for herds to cross their east/west path in enormous numbers
livefreeor die wrote:
She might be alive if SHE had a gun.
She would certainly be alive if she had refrained from giving her body to an unworthy man in the first place.