Re: Bob Costas gives gun control editorial during Sunday Night Football halftime

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On Dec 2, 8:53 pm, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nfl-murder-suicide-bob-costas-3...
>
> After NFL Murder-Suicide, Bob Costas Preaches Gun Control During
> Halftime of Eagles-Cowboys Game (Video)
> by THR Staff
>
> Bob Costas made his case for gun control during halftime of the
> Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys game Sunday.
>
> His comments were spurred by Saturday's tragic murder-suicide, in
> which Kansas City Chiefs starting linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25,
> fatally shot his 22-year-old girlfriend Kasandra Perkins -- also the
> mother of his 3-month-old child -- then drove to the stadium and shot
> himself.
>
> "Well, you knew it was coming," he began during halftime of NBC's
> Sunday Night Football telecast. "In the aftermath of the nearly
> unfathomable events in Kansas City, that most mindless of sports
> cliches was heard yet again: Something like this really puts it all in
> perspective. Well, if so, that sort of perspective has a very short
> shelf life since we will inevitably hear about the perspective we have
> supposedly again regained the next time ugly reality intrudes upon our
> games. Please. Those who need tragedies to continually recalibrate
> their sense of proportion about sports would seem to have little hope
> of ever truly achieving perspective."
>
> He went on to quote Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock, who in a
> column for Fox Sports argued that such tragedies will continue to
> occur as long as America's "current gun culture" continues to exist.
>
> "'But here,' wrote Jason Whitlock, 'is what I believe,'" Costas
> concluded. "'If Jovan Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra
> Perkins would both be alive today.'"
>
> It's not the first time Costas has used an NBC sportscast as a
> platform to express his opinions. In August during the London Olympics
> Opening Ceremony, he fulfilled his promise to acknowledge on national
> TV the International Olympic Committee’s refusal to honor Israeli
> athletes and coaches murdered nearly 40 years ago at the 1972 Munich
> Olympics.
>
> Watch video of Costas' anti-gun remarks below.

Ed Sherman looks at Bob Costas’ commentary on guns during last night’s
Sunday Night Football game:
http://www.shermanreport.com/heated-message-bob-costas-quotes-jason-whitlock-column-anti-gun-commentary/

Sean Newell of Deadspin goes off on Costas for his commentary:
http://deadspin.com/5965055/here-is-bob-costass-sanctimonious-horseshit-editorial-on-jovan-belcher

Bret Baier Quotes NewsBusters' Sheppard On Costas's Sunday Night
Football Gun Rant:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/12/03/bret-baier-quotes-newsbusters-sheppard-costass-sunday-night-football

WashPost's Wemple Praises Costas: Would Be 'Cowardly' to 'Stick to'
Sports; Viewers Need to Hear 'Things That Actually Matter':
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2012/12/03/washposts-wemple-praises-costas-would-be-cowardly-stick-sports-viewers

Jim Gray Sides with Costas & Whitlock on Gun Control, Then Backtracks:
WaPo Calls for More Editorializing:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ryan-robertson/2012/12/03/jim-gray-sides-costas-whitlock-gun-control-then-backtracks-wapo-call

Columnist Who Inspired Bob Costas Drops New Bomb: 'The NRA Is the New
KKK':
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/12/03/columnist-who-inspired-bob-costas-drops-new-bomb-nra-new-kkk

NBC's Bob Costas Blames NFL Murder-Suicide On Guns:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/12/02/nbcs-bob-costas-blames-nfl-murder-suicide-guns

VIDEO: BOB COSTAS' HALFTIME ESSAY DELVES INTO JOVAN BELCHER AND GUN
CONTROL:
http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2012-articles/december/video-bob-costas-halftime-essay-delves-into-jovan-belcher-and-gun-control.html