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NBC's Bob Costas Says Anti-Gun Commentary Was A "Mistake" (with audio)
RealClearPolitics ^ | December 4, 2012 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 12/04/2012 2:40:56 PM PST by i88schwartz

BOB COSTAS: And 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 readjusted every time the next tragedy occurs. It’s a bunch of nonsense.

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, that you have enough time to make yourself fully understood, 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. Because this is when the Belcher situation had played itself out. (The Dan Patrick Show, December 4, 2012)

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KEYWORDS: bobcostas; guncontrol
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To: i88schwartz

Hank Williams Jr was fired for less.....


41 posted on 12/04/2012 3:08:22 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: i88schwartz

Hey, does anyone remember that retired football player who murdered his ex-wife and an innocent bystander with a knife? Who was that again? Oh yeah, it was OJ Simpson, Bob Costa’s long time studio colleague.

I’m wondering, did Bob, (who knew the killer more intimately than he knew this KC linebacker), speak out against the use of knives?


42 posted on 12/04/2012 3:08:49 PM PST by Jaguarmike
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To: SparkyBass

“And what I was trying to say”

Don’t you just hate that? We hear it all the time from liberals. If they are the smartest people in the world, why can’t they be more articulate? Someone is always having to reinterpret them, or have do-overs.. Truth is, their mouths overload their a—es, then they twist their comments with “what I or they meant to say.”


43 posted on 12/04/2012 3:10:46 PM PST by Toespi
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To: nascarnation

Well said..too bad that Costas hadn’t used your words.


44 posted on 12/04/2012 3:14:46 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: i88schwartz
IOWs if he had had the time he would have gotten around to mentioning the
Culture of Sports and how it encourages so much criminal behavior. Right, Bob?
45 posted on 12/04/2012 3:14:59 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: i88schwartz

..The Midget thought he’d put on the brown shirt and get a few feathers in his Odungo cap...but it backfired and the higher ups got flak, so he had to go out and “explain” how being a midget libtard has it’s bumps in the road.


46 posted on 12/04/2012 3:16:17 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: napscoordinator

You believe that was an honest apology?


47 posted on 12/04/2012 3:17:25 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: i88schwartz
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.

What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

Oh, so now Costas is telling us that we're the idiots who simply didn't understand what he said, huh?

Just another Liberal non-apology, "apology".

48 posted on 12/04/2012 3:18:10 PM PST by Obadiah (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: i88schwartz

Costs is a noisy runt lacking in brains, facts or relevant experience. He thinks he’s smart because he can read other peoples’ words as well as a clever eighth grader can.


49 posted on 12/04/2012 3:18:21 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: DManA
We need a national campaign to raise the awareness of Americans that murder is bad.

and wrong.

50 posted on 12/04/2012 3:18:42 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio)
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To: anyone

What a load of crap. He really thinks, I suppose, that in order to preempt this backlash he was nuanced enough to use words like “a bit” to suggest more issues were plaguing him with his perspective nonsense? And when, incidentally, did he plan to come out with the rest of the “bits”, instead of focusing in on something as non-controversial as gun control.

What really stinks is he hasn’t the guts to stand on his own principles when confronted with what anyone should have foreseen would be blow back. He’s giving us his take during a prime time NFL game.


51 posted on 12/04/2012 3:19:54 PM PST by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members http://www.freerepublic.com/foof the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: SkyDancer
The Left always do that. They say something and when they’re called on it they say “whoopsie, our bad” ...

That's exactly correct, and they never mean it, either.

52 posted on 12/04/2012 3:20:57 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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To: DManA
We need a national campaign to raise the awareness of Americans that murder is bad.

There is one. It just keeps getting buried.

53 posted on 12/04/2012 3:22:09 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: cubreporter
Costas makes about $3M a year and a net-worth of many millions $$$ as part of a media conglomerate that is FAR MORE responsible for creating miscreants with THEIR irresponsible "programming"...than any pro-gun lobby/advocate ever could.

...the little hair-dyed, botox'ed, limousine liberal, puke bowl hypocrite.

54 posted on 12/04/2012 3:22:14 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
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To: i88schwartz

MSG FOR: BOB COSTAS
FM: OLD SARGE
SU: YOUR NON-APOLOGY

PRIORITY: IMMEDIATE

1. FAH-Q!
2. NOTHING FOLLOWS.

EOM


55 posted on 12/04/2012 3:23:35 PM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: i88schwartz

Unbelievable! This POS needs to lose his g’damn job...


56 posted on 12/04/2012 3:24:52 PM PST by matginzac
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To: i88schwartz

I won’t watch SNF if he is on.


57 posted on 12/04/2012 3:25:30 PM PST by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: i88schwartz
Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

Handguns exacerbate our flaws! They bait us...?

Oh yeah, Costas was simply misunderstood. Evil guns, like SUVs, ensnare many, many law abiding citizens to get drunk, sleep with other women, and then murder a girlfriend with whom one has a child. Wow, guns sure are powerful!

58 posted on 12/04/2012 3:27:32 PM PST by Obadiah (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: napscoordinator
Well I give him credit for at least recognizing his error.

Yeah, he could have just called us 'heartless'. :-P

59 posted on 12/04/2012 3:32:39 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: i88schwartz

He made a huge mistake and charter got the news today.


60 posted on 12/04/2012 3:34:08 PM PST by oldenuff2no
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