Posted on 12/02/2012 10:29:29 PM PST by Alaska Wolf
NBC sportscaster Bob Costas used his weekly monologue on “Sunday Night Football” to discuss the fallout of the tragedy in Kansas City, urging viewers to move past the cliched coverage of the “perspective” gleaned from the news that linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself Saturday morning.
Costas focused much of his monologue on a column by Fox Sports’ Jason Whitlock, which argued that “current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy.” Costas said that although he often doesn’t agree with Whitlock, he found his argument to be spot on this time.
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If Bob Costas didn’t have his head up his @$$, he would be able to breath.
Disgusting use of a tragedy to make a pandering political statement...
But it’s NBC, so it’s to be expected...
that’s breathe
Costas is a fool
if he used a knife, what would he be saying?
If Bob Costas wasn’t a shameless liberal thug, he would have some decency & not try to politicize a sad time.
But, wait, these are leftists-—so being morally bankrupt is just another day at the office
If Ted Kennedy didn’t possess a car...
If...
Apparently one doesn't need to have common sense to get a degree from Northwestern U. Bob and Whitlock have made fools of themselves.
And if Costas wasn’t such a committed Lie-beral, we might get some real dialog on the real problem here.
Case in point: Local fish wrap and birdcage liner doing its annual beg-a-thon for those in need was highlighting a former postal worker and “single mother of 3”. What struck me is that she and her “babies” had FOUR different surnames. I understand in this age of woman’s glib that some women choose to retain their birth surname after marriage, but each of the children had different surnames.
Sounds like her baby daddies didn’t have the desire (or ability?) to maintain any kind of relationship with their progeny after the fact.
IMHO, it’s stories like this that are met with a shrug by the general public (instead of an any kind of shame) that are behind crap like the tragedy in Kansas City.
And if Nicole Simpson had posession of a gun she might be alive today!
Oh, wait...
Ask O.J. about that, willya?
If Bob’s significant other had a gun, we might not have to listen to his drivel.
"If Bob Costas didn't wear a toupee he wouldn't have hair."
If Kasandra Perkins had one, She would likely still be alive.
And take away steak knives and hammers and hatchets and and glass bottles and screwdrivers and staples and lamps and frying pans and food processors and don’t forget medications.
Oh and 16oz drinks and mediocre liberal sportscasters.
Idjit.
A man doesn't need to use a knife to kill another comparably-sized man, let alone a woman. In real life, a single punch could do it, which is why so many guys in physical altercations are so surprised when the people they were pummeling end up in the morgue.
NBC = Nothing But Crap
Bob Costas gun rant video. All that hair dye is seeping in and making Bob goofy.
minority sports figures just shouldn’t own guns, everybody else is ok with them
Costas is an idiot. Like the guns caused the fatalities. Just ridiculous. An NFL player could have killed his gf how many different ways without a gun? The gun had nothing to do with it. I just got done with deer season here. I got a deer to have my family have meat for dinner until February. That’s a big savings in my budget. My gun DID NOT kill your gf. Your actions did. Jeeesz!
Knows a little about sports and nothing about our rights.
Because Jovan be too stupid to use a knife, Bob?
That goes without saying.
If Jovan did not play in the NFL, Kassandra would still be alive. Maybe. How many guns are in circulation in the US and have never been used to kill a girlfriend?
So if Jovan Belcher threw Kassandra Perkins out a window I guess Bob Costas would feel better.
Gloria Bunker Stivic: Do you know that sixty percent of all deaths in America are caused by guns ?
Archie Bunker: Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows ?
I guess 99.99999999%
Costas is still the smug, arrogant jackass we've come to know and despise as sports fans.
Why don’t we hear if homosexuality was outlawed, there wouldn’t be AIDS.
made a political statement during a game. He's disgusting. I don't see how anyone watching that, can't see he was irresponsible.
...as long as Hollywood, the video game industry and the gangsta hip-hop music biz are all willing to do what's necessary to address this “gun culture” problem Costas wants to talk about.
Go screw yourself Costas; leave the 2nd Amendment alone.
I saw that. Bob Costas is an idiot leftist tool, apparently.
Excellent point
If Bill Clinton didn’t possess a penis, Juanita Broaddrick wouldn’t have been raped.
Disappointing. I always liked Costas as an interviewer (that show he had on after Letterman in the NBC days was excellent), and I thought it gutsy of him to insist on honoring the murdered Israeli athletes from the 1972 Munich Olympics. But this is just absurd. The gun is not to blame here. Belcher could just as easily slain his wife, or for that matter the average adult male, with a knife or his bare hands. The gun made his own suicide quicker and easier, but again, it was not the only way he could have done so.
What happened in this case is beyond terrible. But let’s lay the blame where it belongs, with the man who did the crime.
If NBC’s security didn’t have guns... Bob Costas wouldn’t have security at work .
If NBC’s security didn’t have guns... Bob Costas wouldn’t have security at work .
On an episode of All in the Family, Gloria was going on about gun deaths, and Archie said, “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they were pushed out of windows?” Cue the laughter at the ignorant bigot, but it’s absolute truth.
Oh, dangit. Should have read before I posted the same thing.
And if Belcher hadn’t suffered from ‘roid rage his girlfriend and he might be alive.
Why don’t they ever prognosticate on how many innocent people would be dead if they DIDN’T have a gun? Or how many innocent people might NOT have died if they DID have guns?
Five will get you ten this dude was on anti-depressants.
Not really.
If 60 million more Americans had working brains, we wouldn’t be facing another nightmare 4 years of Odama.
The best way to kill someone is with a blunt object, and that could be a great many things.
If frogs had wings....
If NBC had any sense we wouldn't have to listen to this crap.
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