Tune In To Watch Football - Get a Lecture on Gun Control

[red states rule]

The liberal media never allows a tragedy or crisis to go to waste. A man murders the mother of his daughter and then takes his own life - and the liberal media uses their deaths to promote their vision of utopia. Even the NFL is now used as a platform to ram the anti gun agenda down America's throat

http://youtu.be/uOi7If0zW9s

[aboutime]

Costas just proved to the entire nation watching Football. How He is merely another of Obama's shill's. Just protecting his job, and the Liberal boss who could terminate him for actually telling the TRUTH.

Is there any aspect of this society that isn't being HIJACKED by Liars, and Anti-American JACKASSES anymore?

[red states rule]

Costas just proved to the entire nation watching Football. How He is merely another of Obama's shill's. Just protecting his job, and the Liberal boss who could terminate him for actually telling the TRUTH.

Is there any aspect of this society that isn't being HIJACKED by Liars, and Anti-American JACKASSES anymore?

And I thought nobody could be worse then Keith Olbermann.

[red states rule]

Looks like NBC took too much heat for making a political statement during a football game
Bob Costas said he made a “mistake,” violating his own rule of not trying to compress a nuanced topic into small bit of air time, with his controversial halftime commentary (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2012/12/03/bob-costas-speaks-out-on-gun-control-after-jovan-belcher-murdersuicide/) Sunday night on the murder-suicide committed by Jovan Belcher (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2012/12/04/jovan-belcher-kissed-girlfriend-apologized-after-killing-her-report-says/) of the Kansas City Chiefs the day before.
“My mistake is I left it open for too much miscommunication,” Costas said in a lengthy interview on “The Dan Patrick Show.” (http://www.danpatrick.com/2012/12/04/bob-costas-explains-why-he-made-gun-commentary-at-halftime-of-sunday-night-game/) The 90-second weekly spot, he said, doesn’t offer enough time in which to adequately discuss the issue of “the football culture, the gun culture, domestic violence.”
“For a long time, I’ve been wanting to get off my chest my disgust with this idea that every time something tragic happens, no matter what it may be, that in any way touches sports, there’s a chorus of people saying, ‘you know, this really puts it in perspective.’ Which is a bunch of nonsense, because if that was true, we wouldn’t have to have that perspective adjusted every time the next tragedy occurs. It’s a bunch of nonsense,” Costas said. “And what I was trying to say was, that if you want some perspective on this, there are a number of issues related to this that we could begin to talk about and think about. The problem was that I didn’t have enough time to get to many of them. And that, I think, was my mistake, to be quite honest, Dan. A friend of mine in broadcasting pointed this out to me yesterday, and I agree with him. He said, ‘you violated your own rule.’ Because we have had this discussion before: I’ve always said, if you’re going to get into touchy topics, nuanced topics, make sure that you have enough time to flesh them out … or save them for forums where you do. In this particular situation, the timeliness of it was, if you’re going to comment on it at all, it had to be this Sunday.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2012/12/04/bob-costas-calls-jovan-belcher-commentary-a-mistake/

[Missileman]

If he hadn't had a gun that they'd both be alive today? Refresh my memory...what caliber pistol was used to slay Nicole Brown Simpson?

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

The liberal media never allows a tragedy or crisis to go to waste. A man murders the mother of his daughter and then takes his own life - and the liberal media uses their deaths to promote their vision of utopia. Even the NFL is now used as a platform to ram the anti gun agenda down America's throat

That dumbass SOB NEEDS SIZE 12 BOOT RAMMED UP HIS ASS.. Nevermind, on second thought he'd probably love that. After all, he is a liberal..-Tyr

[aboutime]

Looks like NBC took too much heat for making a political statement during a football game


As if nobody ever noticed. Costas admitted he made a mistake? Really? Isn't that what the MSM, and Idiots on PMSNBC always claim, along with the Ignorant Democrats...after they make statements like that? Then to cover up their intentional mistakes. They lie, and try to convince everybody...they didn't really mean to say it because. IT WAS A MISTAKE?


BS to Costas, NBC, PMSNBC, and anyone else who takes his Apology as anything other than a LIE.

[red states rule]

and now more words of wisdom form Sgt Schultz
You could see this one coming and hardly a surprise that it came from Ed Schultz.

On his radio show yesterday, Schultz was talking with a caller about Kansas City Chiefs' linebacker Jovan Belcher killing his girlfriend and committing suicide over the weekend when Schultz made a predictable suggestion (audio) (http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2012/Schultz%20on%20NFL%20banning%20guns%20dec%203%2012 .mp3) --
http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2012/nb%20schultz%20dec%204%2012%20third.jpgJust like, you know, every major company has an employee manual that you have to follow, I don't think it's out of the realm that the NFL should be asking players or demanding or making su-, don't own firearms. Just, don't, all that is is trouble. All that is is trouble. And there are authorities out there, there are law enforcement people, there are security people out there that we can get around you, this is a multi-, multi-billion dollar industry, our players don't have to have firearms. I mean, that's how they should view it. And I don't know if they do but I think it's a real good time for the NFL to rethink their position on all of this.

How about the wives and girlfriends of NFL players, Ed -- would your ban on guns extend to them too? Just curious.

When it comes to owning firearms, "all that is is trouble," Schultz claims, twice for emphasis. Then why does he own them, as Schultz often tells his listeners? Especially with that notoriously short fuse (http://www.mediaite.com/online/ed-schultz-wants-to-be-in-msnbc-promos-or-hell-torch-this-fcking-place/).

Schultz's remarks came across as sane compared to a deranged rant yesterday from fellow libtalker Randi Rhodes, who said this after playing a clip of sportcaster Bob Costas's anti-gun screed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOi7If0zW9s) during halftime of an NFL game on Sunday (audio) (http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2012/Rhodes%20on%20guns%20dec%203%2012.mp3) --
Well, the right wing can't listen to that. They can't hear that without going absolutely crazy 'cause it's also part of their culture. Why do we call it a gun culture? Because the NRA wants us to, that's why. It's not a culture, it's an obsession, it's a sickness, it's a problem, it's not a culture. This thing about, you know, stock up on weapons every time you have a Democratic president or at least a black one. (chuckles inanely). That's not a culture, that's a sickness, there's something wrong with you. But yes, it is completely true that a gun is the bridge from ugly to deadly, from pissed-off for a brief moment to forever dead. There's no question about it, guns bring out the worst tendencies in people is what (Foxsports.com writer) Jason Whitlock wrote (http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/jovan-belcher-kansas-city-chiefs-murder-suicide-tragedy-girlfriend-self-leave-orphan-daughter-why-still-playing-sunday-120112). And it brings out the worst tendencies from the worst people because the worst people are the ones who tend to keep guns handy. Do you know what I'm saying? They're like tattoos, guns. They're forever.

All of which explains those frequent bloodbaths and shootouts at gun shows and NRA conventions.

What passes for logic from Rhodes -- a black football player kills his black girlfriend because a black man is president. Leave it to a leftist to blame this on racism.

In Costas's remarks from Sunday, he quoted from a column by Whitlock --
In the coming days, Jovan Belcher's actions and their possible connection to football will be analyzed. Who knows? But here, wrote Jason Whitlock, is what I believe -- if Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

Which makes it that much more puzzling when one considers that O.J. Simpson wasn't armed with a gun, and Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman both remain dead.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2012/12/04/nfl-wouldnt-let-players-own-guns-if-ed-schultz-ran-league#ixzz2EDhegDbh

[red states rule]

If he hadn't had a gun that they'd both be alive today? Refresh my memory...what caliber pistol was used to slay Nicole Brown Simpson?

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gmc10551320121204070500.jpg

[red states rule]

As if nobody ever noticed. Costas admitted he made a mistake? Really? Isn't that what the MSM, and Idiots on PMSNBC always claim, along with the Ignorant Democrats...after they make statements like that? Then to cover up their intentional mistakes. They lie, and try to convince everybody...they didn't really mean to say it because. IT WAS A MISTAKE?


BS to Costas, NBC, PMSNBC, and anyone else who takes his Apology as anything other than a LIE.

AT - back off. Wait a minute and think for a minute. Do not blame Bob Costas for what he said. Blame the microphone. If that damn microphone had not been turned on, powered up, and working properly, we would not have heard what the man said - and we would have tempers flaring. It is not Bob's fault it is clearly the microphones fault. So get with the program - OK? :laugh:

[taft2012]

I recall Rush Limbaugh, a bona-fide political commentator, being launched from ESPN for bringing up controversial politics during a football broadcast.

They brought Rush on board, knowing.... *expecting*.... him to make political statements during a football game. And when he did and got backlash, they launched him.

In a fair and balanced media Costas would get launched as well.

Let's see....

[darin]

I recall Rush Limbaugh, a bona-fide political commentator, being launched from ESPN for bringing up controversial politics during a football broadcast.

They brought Rush on board, knowing.... *expecting*.... him to make political statements during a football game. And when he did and got backlash, they launched him.

In a fair and balanced media Costas would get launched as well.

Let's see....

You referencing Rush's "Media wants a Black QB?" stuff? wrt McNabb?

If so - that's apples/oranges.

[taft2012]

You referencing Rush's "Media wants a Black QB?" stuff? wrt McNabb?

If so - that's apples/oranges.

True enough.

Limbaugh was uttering fact, whereas Costas was peddling opinion that could never stand up to a single counter-comment.

[red states rule]

Costas doubles down on his on the air rant on MSNBC

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