BOB COSTAS: It’s not about that I’m afraid to go into that zone, but if you’re going to you need more time and you to be able to get into some nuance. What I was talking about here, and I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear to everybody, was a gun culture. I never mentioned the Second Amendment. I never used the words gun control. People inferred that.
Now, why would people infer that? Just because he parroted a columnist who said exactly that? Crazy talk.
For a refresher, here’s some of what Costas said at halftime during the Cowboys-Eagles game Sunday night.
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.
In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
Why, how could anyone get the idea that Bob Costas was implying support for gun control by openly stating support for gun control? It’s clearly all our fault that we just are not smart enough to understand what Bob Costas was not saying when he was in fact saying it.
Costas still does not understand the outrage he keeps stirring up when he insists on blaming millions of innocent people with two magic words: “Gun culture.” Those two words indict millions of people who never sent their fist through a window hard enough to nearly sever their thumb, and those two words indict millions of Americans who did not spend the night with another woman and then shoot the mother of their child nine times, depriving their child of a mother forever.
Indict the killer, Costas, not millions of innocent people. How hard is that?
Evidently it’s too hard for Costas to wrap his blow-dried brain around. Continuing from where the first quote above left off:
Now do I believe we need more comprehensive and more sensible gun control legislation? Yes, I do. That doesn’t mean repeal the Second Amendment. That doesn’t mean a prohibition on somebody having a gun to protect their home and their family. It means sensible and more comprehensive gun control legislation.
Costas, kindly shut your mouth on an issue about which you know nothing until you obtain and discern some facts. Such as, where gun-control laws are strictest, violent crime rates tend to be highest. Why might that be? Conversely, where gun-control laws are least restrictive, violent crime rates tend to be lower. Why might that be? What gun law would have stopped Jovan Belcher, who had no criminal record, from obtaining a firearm? Would such a law have also stopped other Americans who would never pose a threat to anyone from obtaining a firearm? Show your work.
Think, Bob. Think before you speak. It’ll save you a world of trouble.
Oh, who am I kidding. Costas now apparently agrees with Jason Whitlock that the NRA is the new KKK.
It also plays itself out, and Jason Whitlock had some insight into this. It plays itself out in the inner cities where teenage kids are somehow armed to the hilt. And it plays itself out, and this I know the whys and wherefores of, in the sports world, where young athletes are disproportionately armed.
What is Jason Whitlock’s insight, here? That an organization advocating self-defense for everyone regardless of color is the same as a racist terrorist organization that helped elect more than a few Democrat politicians in their heyday? Whitlock is a fool, but at least his thoughts are his own. Costas remains a lazy, ill-informed TV muppet. No offense intended to muppets.
And then Costas displayed even more ignorance.
Tony Dungy, one of the most respected in all of sports, on our program on Sunday night said that one year when he coached the Colts, he had 80 players before they cut the roster down. 80 players in training camp. He said, “How many of you guys own a gun?” And roughly 65 hands went up. Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can’t have 65 guys in their 20s and 30s, aggressive young men, subject to impulses without something bad happening.
Ever heard of the military, Bob? In that group you have hundreds of thousands of young aggressive men who are also heavily armed. Do they always end up doing something bad? I humbly submit that they do not, that in fact, they routinely show restraint in battle that most people would find extremely difficult to duplicate.
Bob Costas: Guns are a tool and so am I.
Mayor Daley’s nephew did not need a gun.
Howdy Doody Time at the Chicago Sun Tribune
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/12/05/howdy-doody-time-at-the-chicago-sun-tribune/
“And roughly 65 hands went up. Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can’t have 65 guys in their 20s and 30s, aggressive young men, subject to impulses without something bad happening.”
Oh, yeah, as every Army or Marine Corps rifle platoon proves. No doubt.
Sorry, didn’t read the last paragraph. Speed reading.
Your heart was in the right place, and you confirmed the logic.
Costas’ statement should have been followed by one of those video game commercials, where young folks can sit on their couch and shoot people all day long,or steal cars, followed by the classic “This game is for MATURE audiences only”.
The left has no problem with the video game industry (cause it turns our kids into mush-minded followers), but how dare those crazy conservatives promote responsible gun ownership.
“Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can’t have 65 guys in their 20s and 30s, aggressive young men, subject to impulses without something bad happening.”
Not just the military. Think of all the police and security guards, many in their 20s and 30s. I guess Costas wants them to talk nice when confronted with violent criminals. Are those who provide Costas’ security all over forty?
“Even if all those guns were obtained legally, you can’t have 65 guys in their 20s and 30s, aggressive young men, subject to impulses without something bad happening.”
You really don’t have to look anywhere outside of that locker room to illustrate the total nonsense of the premise. For this conclusion to be regarded with anything but scorn and ridicule, Costas needs to point to a specific incidence of something bad happening with a firearm that involved one of the 65 guys referenced.
After he got out of his Bentley he walked into his million dollar home and shot this young women SEVEN times. He massacres this women. What would Mr. Costas say if he threw her off the balcony then carried her body up the stairs and threw her off again then repeated it 5 more times. How about if he hit her in the face seven times with a hammer or a baseball bat, what would he talk about then. Why isn’t Mr. Costas talking about banning linebackers. This guy is a stone cold murderer. You cannot call seven shots any thing else. Mr. Costas is a fool!
What would Mr. Costas say if Kasandra Perkins had access to a gun and was alive today as a result?
My favorite form of liberal apology (maybe it’s the ONLY form).
“I am sorry that you are so ignorant and uneducated that you took offense at my statement. I will apologise because I want to be viewed as taking the high road, when in fact I feel sorry about nothing. Next time the opportunity arises, I’ll say the same damn thing again (at least until my producer tells me to knock it off).”
One word: Twerp!
Tom, I think it is the only form of liberal apology. They apologize not for their words or actions but for YOUR stupidity and for YOUR inability to understand their superiority.
Where was Bob when the Ray Lewis entourage committed murder and Mr Lewis evidently heard and saw nothing? Indeed the NFL glorifies Mr Lewis, a card carrying member of the “thug culture.”
The “thug culture” is a product of our benighted country where single mothers raise boys without any male presence. Where rap music makes gangsters and pimps the goal for having the “good life.” Where the local drug dealer is the only successful male in the neighborhood.
Reality bites Mr Costas. Blaming guns for the many woes of our culture is patently absurd!
For Costass to indict black thug culture would be racist, and surely no white progressive would dare speak of such unspeakable things. So of course he could not and will not say anything disparaging about blacks overtly.
Dumbass was on O’Really and stated that guns do not provide defense for innocent Americans and only make murder, domestic violence and other crimes more deadly and common. (I parapharase)
And like all other liberals that denounce “gun culture”/gun ownership (while at the same time espousing belief in and fealty to the 2nd Amendment) he confuses all guns with fully automatic weapons/military weapons, whether it be a pea shooter or a 1911 .45. He should be in the White House along with Obama’s cabinet. Anti gunners always lump together all manner of pistols and rifles as military style weapons just to jazz up their base.
What do you expect from a rich child that gets paid to watch other rich children run around the playground? When they join the real world then their opinions will be worth more than warm spit.
I wanted to watch a football game. I did not want Costas’ opinion. I thought the removal of Olberman due to his dragging politics into the pre-game show indicated that they got it. Evidently they didn’t.
So, to all companies that sponsor football; if you want an audience, if you want to sell your products to me, tell the networks to knock it off. You’re turning me off and I will return the favor.
Go ahead, put the Bob Costas Political Hour on the air. Maybe it can compete with Maddow or some of the other talk shows with triple digit audiences watched by those with double digit IQs. I’m sure they’ll buy what you’re selling. Do you take food stamps?
I am not watching any more NBC games this year. There are plenty of other things I can do with that time. The Fox and CBS announcers do not ram their politics down my throat.
– us, it’s you, Bob.
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What gun law would have stopped Jovan Belcher, who had no criminal record, from obtaining a firearm? Would such a law have also stopped other Americans who would never pose a threat to anyone from obtaining a firearm? Show your work.
Oh, that’s easy. They would say that if all firearms were outlawed then Belcher and everyone else wouldn’t be able to buy one. What the poor fools fail to understand is that criminals, by definition, don’t obey the law. If you can smuggle drugs, you can smuggle guns. Criminals are much more likely to obtain their weapons by crime or through underground channels than by going to the local gun store.
First of all, spectator sports is for retards.. the same crap over and over and over game afte game the same same same bs over and over. I’ve always viewed these activities as that of small brained animals in a cage. To have a job reporting on these repetitive cyclic moronic movements is even more pathetic. That said, I would approve of banning gun ownership to sports idiots like you Mr. Costass.. your small brain does not qualify you to own or operate tools.
Most of todays sportcasters take themselves way too seriously.
The Vin Scully’s of the world knew it was just a game that men and boy’s played and that was it. They knew the history too. Now they exult players (barf)and themselves as something more important then they are (role models, puke). Then they psyco analyze the players as if the players are different than the rest of us (maybe super human, uniting DC etc… ralph) Like all media nuts very few sportscasters are worth listening to these days and Costas is at the top of the list now.
“I know it has happened in society. But give me one example of a professional athlete who by virtue of his having a gun took a dangerous situation and turned it around for the better.”
This made me think of Sean Taylor..
“Taylor grabbed a machete he keeps in the bedroom for protection. Someone then broke through the bedroom door and fired two shots, one missing and one hitting Taylor..”
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3129406
His girlfriend and daughter were at home at the time. Taylor later died.
Ha! This is exactly what I was skimming for before I posted it myself. “But give me one example of a professional athlete who by virtue of his having a gun took a dangerous situation and turned it around for the better.”
Sean Taylor could not be reached for comment.
Ha! exactly what I was looking for before I posted it myself.
“But give me one example of a professional athlete who by virtue of his having a gun took a dangerous situation and turned it around for the better.”
Sean Taylor could not be reached for comment.
Asshat.
One reason Costas, and every other commentator working for a station that provides the NFL to its viewers, would NEVER talk about the ‘thug culture’ on national TV is that person would be fired before the game ended, period.
OK to talk about gun owners somehow being bad.
Not OK to talk about people having kids out of marriage, multiple partners, etc. being bad.
Turn the sound off. That’s what I do, after all most of the com are has-beens or never-bes. Use half-time to get more snacks.
Who cares about Costas? Are there too many guns? Probably. Is anyone going to do anything about it? No. So end of story. Wayne LaPierre (NRA) had it right: if Belcher’s girlfriend had had a gun, it may have prevented this tragedy. Right on Wayne LaPierre! A pity but the NRA isn’t interested in the rights of individual gun owners or even the Second Amendment. The NRA is a lobbying organization for gun manufacturers who profit off of the unregulated gun trade.
unregulated? Not since John Kennedy was president.
Really? REALLY? The NRA is just a lobbying organization for firearms manufacturers? Try clicking your heels together three times while chanting, “Bring me back to the real world”. I suppose NAGR is on the same level, too. It must be satisfying to be delusional without the worries of the real world to hamper your dreams.
People should do to Costas what the networks do when a similar type of idiot runs onto the field of a baseball game: ignore him. He’s just another moron trying to feed his ego.
you mean tackle him and beat the bejesus out of him?
–seconded
until then keep the pressure up and maybe he’ll crack for the world to see
Seems ‘ol Bob is just too intelligent to understand the phrase: “…shall not be infringed…”
When bringing up the KKK on this subject, it is worth pointing out that they pushed gun control laws to disarm African Americans to make them easier to terrorize. Democratic support for gun control goes back quite a ways.
Costas has it partially right. There is a culture that is a problem; however, the guns are an accessory for that culture, a symptom. They don’t cause or define that particular culture that PC dares not let us name. The rest of us have guns in part to enable us to defend ourselves against that peculiar culture.
Quoting Costas:
“In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”
No, Bob, it wasn’t head injuries, or concussions or any type of brain injury. It wasn’t even the gun. It was his fingers. If he didn’t have fingers his GF would still be alive. But only maybe. I’m sure he could have found a way other than a gun.
Or more likely, Bob, it wasn’t the possession of a gun, but rather the lack of possession of a moral compass. Maybe his actions should be analyzed from the perspective of a lack of a proper moral upbringing. Whaddaya think, Bobby?
Everyone is being so Politically Correct and ignoring the ‘Elephant in the room’. Statistics tell us that Black Youths (think Trayvon Martin), less than 2% of the population, commit over 60% of all the violent crime in the USA and that Blacks in general ,13% of the population and roughly 50% of that women who very seldom murder, commit over 50% of all the murders in the USA. Statistically the most common cause of death for a Black Youth is to be killed by another Black youth.
So are guns dangerous , not really, but Blacks most certainly are.
Tonight I saw Costas interviewed by OReilly. Costas looked and sounded frightened. I’m guessing that his Network must have gotten a lot of well deserved negative feedback from the viewers. When will these suck-ups finally realize they should not mix grovelling for approval or awards from Progressives with business?
I saw the interview as well. An interesting point that Costas brought up was the issue of rap music influencing the youth.
But, will Costas support censorship of music or other forms of media?
Dumb question, Costas will and I am sure does support censorship of the media, as long as he is the one reading the APPROVED talking points.
LOL… the segment on O’Reilly had the 5’5″ Costas dueling with the 6’4″ O’Reilly.
“It’s not about that I’m afraid to go into that zone…”
This is how a journalist, a communicator by profession, a person who makes his living with the English language speaks?
(Wha? Wassat? A sports reporter? Oh – never mind.)
“…spend the night with another woman and then shoot the mother of their child nine times, depriving their child of a mother forever.”
I would point out that the child is also deprived of a father forever. If he had had any sense of duty to his offspring at all he would have exercised enough self-control to have dealt with the beeyotch in court.
Is there anything in particular makes you think it appropriate to refer to Kassandra Perkins as a “beeyotch,” or is it just a general misogyny? The fact that Belcher didn’t marry the mother of his child to provide a really stable home, and felt that it was okay to run around on her pretty much shows that the unfortunate child didn’t have much of a father to begin with.
Sorry NBC and Bob Costas, I will still never turn my television to your network again other than purely by accident. I am so frigging tired of these propaganda peddlers that we cancelled our paper, we are going to cut back our subscription to satellite television to as basic as we can get. If I want to see a movie, I’ll wait for it to come out on DVD and after I have watched it, I will freely loan it/them to any and all friends or maybe to keep it strictly legal, I’ll sell it to them for a dollar, then buy it back for a dollar when they are finished watching it. I am a “fed up old white guy”.
“If I want to see a movie, I’ll wait for it to come out on DVD…” I don’t buy DVD’s anymore. All the recent movies that I’ve seen were on DVD’s that I checked out from my local public libraries, free of charge. The most recent DVD that I watched from my local library was the HBO series, “The Pacific” about the Marines’ WWII Pacific island campaign (I will not pay for HBO which features that vile little creature, Bill Maher, and that mousey little skank, Lena Dunham).
It’s not about “gun culture” or “thug culture”. Conservative media always gets suckered into pointless debates.
The Journolist never went away. It just divided into its constituent parts. Doesn’t anybody wonder why there should be a liberal mouthorgan called “Talking Points Memo”? It’s all about talking points and every liberal journalist, even sportscasters, get their weekly feed.
What exactly was Bob Costas talking about? Amending the Second? Only Congress can do that and no Congress, even a Dem majority one, will do that.
Controlling guns seems to be all about restricting gun ownership to a select few. Obama lived in Chicago. He has guns, lots of them. It would be a necessity, if only to protect wife and daughters. He’s not about to give up his guns.
Bob Costas, you can bet, has guns, working as he does with NFL male aggro all the time.
Can Obama, by executive order, restrict ownership to a few. Was Fast and Furious about this?
And what about the millions of rounds the Obama admin has purchased? Who has an inventory? It’s certainly not meant to protect whales.
These are the questions PJM should ask. Not get into a back-and-forth with a flack like Bob Costas.
Bob Costas is living proof of the Ron White assertion that you can’t fix stupid. And the corollary that stupid is forever.
“Aggressive young men, subject to impulses”? Sounds like Bob Costas has even more contempt for athletes than he does for the rest of us.
Why hasn’t someone asked mind-numbed liberal Bob Costas whether Kasandra Perkins could have been alive today if she had access to a gun?
Stop watching. Stop watching NBC and stop watching anything Costas is connected with. That is the ONLY way to take effective action. NBC will notice if suddenly millions of people are no longer watching Costas’s programs, which will cost NBC big $. Stop watching.
Belcher suffered from depression, something the league that Costas egregiously shills for could care less about with their players. Rosie O’Donnell didn’t become obese because of a knife, fork and a spoon. A true gentleman with some class would have offered his sympathy to the Chiefs team, families and friends affected and then shut his mouth without further comment.
Ya know, PJT makes a great point. In true left form, Costas admits over and over that he has not followed the gun control debate, ever. Devoid of any facts, he expresses his feelings as if they were facts, conclusions he believes he has so
intelligently reasoned out ‘lo these many years. And since HE is soooo smart, you are an idiot if you don’t agree.
THEN WHY IS HE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HE ADMITTEDLY KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT?
‘It makes sense to me therefore it must be true because I am so smart therefore everyone must follow me.’ This is a real window into the leftist thought patterns I have been looking for. I’m coming to believe its a form of narcissism. Instead of looking at the broad range of data available, they pick and choose the bytes that reinforce their belief systems. If you look you can see it pervading every argument they make — climate, entitlements, abortion, sexual issues, all of them. Additionally, in the absence of data, they will just ‘reason some out’, a nice way of saying “if I divine it it must be true.’ You know, make stuff up while rationalizing the truth away.
They also have a strong tenancy to dismiss evidence to the contrary. This is most commonly accomplished by assassinating the character of the purveyance or purveyor. “Sarah Palin is a twit therefore her facts are not worth listening to” yet their guy can get on national stage and tell provable lies, half-truths and spin others’ facts like a top to fit the narrative, and the leftists will simply swallow it whole as if it was gospel because it fits into their narcissistic fantasy land.
Yet we still wonder why they do it. Next time, ask yourself why a child wants what they want when they want it. Or how a drunk can lay puking on the sidewalk while exclaiming he doesn’t have a problem with alcohol, it’s his boss that has the problem. Its fruitless to wonder why they do it, its all symptomatic of the same underlying causes. Fortunately, most children mature their way out of this self-will-run-riot, but the chances are remote the drunk or the leftist ever will.
“When you hear people talking about banning assault weapons know that the real assault weapon is the liberal media attacking your constitutional rights…”
– Chuck Woolery
“…you can’t have 65 guys in their 20s and 30s, aggressive young men, subject to impulses without something bad happening.”
Wonder how we made it through the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, and Viet Nam War. And of course, thousands of police officers, FBI agents, DEA, Secret Service Agents, etc.
Someone else recently cracked this one about Costas, but I’ll share it here:
“Obviously, it’s our obsessive “Spoon Culture” that’s responsible for obesity!”
Bob Costas is dead to me.
Didnt Sunday Night Football get rid of that menace to society Keith Olbermann, already?
Have the authorities yet caught the SUV that delivered the gun to Jovan Belcher?
Apparently Bob Costas see’s no need to ban alcohol ,after the Cowboys incident!