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Bob Costas Anti-gun rant on NBC Sunday Night Football

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I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed here at VGOF yet...
Bob Costas wrote: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.
A lot of people are calling for him to be fired, but that will never happen since he likely ran it by the higher-ups at NBC, and they couldn't agree more! We all know that NBC wants to "Fundamentally change America" alongside Obama, but to run a halftime tirade suggesting that my civil rights and those of millions of others in our country should be removed is just over the line. They can all go to hell, IMHO.

Here's the video.

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Costas will just use the Jason Whitlock article he was paraphrasing from as a scapegoat to help deflect any blowback.

"Hey, don't get mad at me. Whitlock was the one who wrote the article!"
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Costas has always been a tool.
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I guess being a talentless, know-nothing hack makes one an expert on gun violence.
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The answer is obvious. Boycott NBC's MNF. Hell, I quit watching the NFL after the first strike back in the late '70s. Who CARES which union local wins?
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I've had NBC blocked since Hank jr. was ousted ! Costas is just another idiot on a rant he knows nothing about . :doh:
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He agreed with the author and should have his ass fired,,,Imas,Hank and others have been fired for less and like a lot of others I'm sick and tired of the double standard where the left can say whatever the hell they want hiding behind the 1st amendmant but if the right does it,it;s suddenly improper or racial or God knows what the hell else...
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It's funny that he rails about violence during a football game.

I don't give a hoot about football, anyway, so boycotting NBC football programs would be easy; business as usual, for me.
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:clap: :hysterical:

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LMAO, ORS!
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ORS! FOR THE FREAKIN' WIN!

Yeah Bob! How's that whole "violence" thing working out for the NFL!?
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Twitter:
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Re: Bob Costas Anti-gun rant on NBC Sunday Night Football

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FoxNews has a good OP article out on it.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/12/ ... -and-guns/
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Re: Bob Costas Anti-gun rant on NBC Sunday Night Football

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Check this out;

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham ... ra-new-kkk

This is from the Guy that inspired Bob Costas' rant.
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I really dont care when a random celeb comments on guns. If you were to sit down and talk with many of them you'd find they were quite ignorant on lots of subjects. Having a place to express their opinions makes them feel good about themselves and thats how I treat it, like a child needing attention. He probably doesnt give a damn about guns one way or the other he just thought it would get him some attention.
It probably worked.

I recommend ignoring him entirely. Its just trolling in real life instead of on a forum. He's not the first to do it. PETA celebs are the same way.
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Most of the PETA Celebs are hot girls nekkid... I'm a dirty old man... I have a hard time ignoring them. :whistle:
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hehe "hard" time. hehe

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ShotgunBlast wrote:hehe "hard" time. hehe

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OK, SGB, which one are you; Beavis, or Butthead? :friends:
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Reverenddel wrote:Most of the PETA Celebs are hot girls nekkid... I'm a dirty old man... I have a hard time ignoring them. :whistle:
So what you're saying is that when you see the PETA girls, all you CAN think of is... hmmm... how to put this... fur and meat?
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Usually what I think of is the phrase "Somewhere...someone...is sicka her sh't."
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