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Topic: On MSNBC, Bob Costas criticizes “Wild West, Dirty Harry” gun culture in America |
On MSNBC, Bob Costas criticizes “Wild West, Dirty Harry” gun culture in America
Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/5/2012 11:07:36 AM
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| On MSNBC last night Bob Costas tried to clarify his remarks on gun control in an interview with host Lawrence O’Donnell, but moved into more controversial territory regarding the right to own guns in America. Costas was defensive about his brief discussion of guns in the Sunday Night Football broadcast where he read aloud a portion of a controversial column by sportswriter Jason Whitlock about gun control. Costas insisted that he wasn’t talking about the Second Amendment, but rather the “gun culture” in America. “It demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality
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Comments: He just keeps digging that hole deeper. He actually believes that if there were armed people in the theater in Aurora it wouldn´t have made a difference? What an incredibly moronic statement. All the body armor in the world couldn´t have protected him from a shot in the head.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 12/5/2012 11:10:38 AM (No. 9049869)
Patently absurd.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird, 12/5/2012 11:11:48 AM (No. 9049871)
Now this nasty little Lib gets in a dig at Clint Eastwood - "Dirty Harry mantality".
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wendybird, 12/5/2012 11:12:55 AM (No. 9049875)
What is Bob Costas famous for other than flapping his jaws about something he has never done, and couldn´t if he wanted to.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W, 12/5/2012 11:13:28 AM (No. 9049876)
I do believe that Dirty Harry is in law enforcement and used his weapon to protect the citezenry, so where is the problem?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mazeman, 12/5/2012 11:14:02 AM (No. 9049880)
Don´t blame Costas. Blame his microphone.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Supercollider, 12/5/2012 11:15:17 AM (No. 9049884)
American history is undoubtedly tied to the influence of guns, from our Independence, to our Constitution, to any sense of defense of our liberties from both domestic and international threats.
Costas is right in that we are existentially a gun culture, just as we used to be a free enterprise meritocracy, but like many liberals he along with the rest of the elite ruling/influence class have determined they know better than you and wish to regulate everything that built our successes right out of existence.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Starlifter Nav, 12/5/2012 11:18:16 AM (No. 9049894)
Actually, no one does watch MSNBC.
And as for Tony Dungy´s team, not only CAN you have that many gunowners and NOT have something bad happen..... you DID.
The Colts haven´t had this sort of issue issue.
Maybe if you don´t encourage athletes to identify with thugs, they won´t act like thugs. Just sayin´...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 12/5/2012 11:18:45 AM (No. 9049898)
You have to wonder if these liberals ever try to really think through their ideas. Including probable and possible long term consequences. Or do they just voice whatever thought pops into their heads, thinking the idea is worthy of serious consideration for no other reason than their own sense of self importance?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan, 12/5/2012 11:22:53 AM (No. 9049912)
#9 nails it. Bob Costas´s views on 2nd Amendment rights are of little interest to anyone but him.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/5/2012 11:24:17 AM (No. 9049917)
So the killings in Detroit, Chicago, and Newark are the result of the wild west culture?
Okay Bob, if you say so.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kingbubo, 12/5/2012 11:27:29 AM (No. 9049927)
It is not Dirty Harry culture, it is Menace II Society Culture that is relevant to this and the NRA is not clammoring for that movie.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Killian Bundy, 12/5/2012 11:34:54 AM (No. 9049944)
Nothing´s going to stop illegal firearm use, that´s why it´s already illegal.
/as for legal carry, for the most part they don´t hand out permits like candy, maybe Costas should attend a training class or two
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 12/5/2012 11:37:06 AM (No. 9049950)
Bob Costas is an idiot.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hotrod, 12/5/2012 11:44:27 AM (No. 9049972)
Dirty Harry is a white guy. Does that mean it´s racist when a black guy commits murder and suicide? How about the gang-banger mentality in our urban warrens? I bet Costas would be horrified if someone had said that!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kjack, 12/5/2012 11:44:57 AM (No. 9049975)
I missed the movie where Harry shot a baby mama.
Tombstone Boot Hill would have been filled in a typical Chicago week. Maybe Bob meant "Midwest" instead of "Wild West".
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Grambo, 12/5/2012 11:50:03 AM (No. 9049988)
Bob Costas doesn’t know which end of the gun the bullet comes out of. His opinion should be judged in that light.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
peebster, 12/5/2012 11:51:56 AM (No. 9049992)
...I think #12 has his thinking cap on. Sports reporters are libs like news reporters. They are cowards. In the case of football, they refuse to even look at the thug gangsta culture permeating the sport. My goodness, just look in the stands of any football game. They refuse to investigate the concussion thing. They refuse to report anything which might jeapordize their access to their gravy train. They knew about the steroids in baseball. They knew about Tiger Woods philandering. Bob is trying to deflect attention away from the root problem with the liberal dodge of gun laws because he knows that story will be proliferated and not hurt his access to the locker room.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 12/5/2012 11:54:20 AM (No. 9049996)
There is a Facebook posting of an NBC Sports PR photo of Bob Costas with O.J. Simpson. O.J. did not use a gun to kill two people, yet Lil Bob never called for knife control, especially not on an NBC sports broadcast.
Progressives are sore winners, and we will be getting more empty chair references from these empty suits
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
avidyananda, 12/5/2012 11:59:26 AM (No. 9050004)
If Americans weren´t allowed to have microphones, we´d have all been spared the stupid and biased comments Costas inflicted upon us.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rpool, 12/5/2012 12:03:00 PM (No. 9050007)
#5 produced a priceless, 100% accurate analogy. Nuff said.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
WAN2, 12/5/2012 12:04:45 PM (No. 9050011)
Face it guys: nads are like appendixes today. The dames have won.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 12/5/2012 12:05:20 PM (No. 9050012)
This "culture" Costas speaks of exists only in the minds of idiot liberals,....like him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Packard Man, 12/5/2012 12:12:28 PM (No. 9050022)
Ah, yes, Bob Costas the new pundit of our time! And, of course, msnbc gives him free reign. He should be fired.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 12/5/2012 12:13:40 PM (No. 9050026)
Dirty Harry? You got me wrong. The Lone Ranger! A firey steed, a cloud of dust...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mickturn, 12/5/2012 12:20:50 PM (No. 9050039)
Simple explanation here...Sportcasters, many of whom are men in skirts reporting on something they could never do. We can see why they lash out, they have nothing more in their brain but that.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 12/5/2012 12:23:46 PM (No. 9050046)
I must admit it´s entertaining watching Bobby dance and hop like an organ grinder´s monkey.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
seminolesecure, 12/5/2012 12:28:46 PM (No. 9050055)
Costas also said "these young men are unable to control their impulses". If a white GOP said this, dog whistles of racism would be talked about.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rolfnader, 12/5/2012 12:43:29 PM (No. 9050072)
Bob should have saved that $200 he paid for the facelift and put it towards a brainlift- even if only lifted to that of a Labrador Retriever.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
reilly, 12/5/2012 12:50:33 PM (No. 9050078)
No, what it means is that metrosexuals like Bobby here want to control your life. Works at cocktail parties in Manhattan. I see the despicable Peter King agreed with him in his Sports Illustrated football column. Time to unsubscribe SI and sell its owner´s (Time Warner) stock.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 12/5/2012 12:58:58 PM (No. 9050099)
Costas. I know what you´re thinking. "Did Dirty Harry fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, Costas, in all this excitement Dirty Harry kind of lost track himself. But being as that was a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, Costas, you´ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, Costas?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
dvc, 12/5/2012 1:20:16 PM (No. 9050143)
FTA: "people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nut-job in body armor and military style artillery,” Costa does not have even the basic facts straight. The loon in Colorado in the theater was NOT wearing any body armor, only the stupid press thought that a "tactical vest" is armor, when it is just a vest with a lot of pockets and attach points.
I guarantee one or two citizens firing back at this violent lunatic would have stopped that violence with much less death and injury than actually occurred. That Costa doesn´t get this shows that he is a cowardly fool. I know many average skilled shooters that could have made the difference on that night. No superhuman skills required.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/5/2012 1:33:09 PM (No. 9050167)
#16, what was the title of the movie.....I will rent it.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 12/5/2012 1:53:30 PM (No. 9050204)
When Costas talks about Wild West, Dirty Harry I thought he was talking about Dirty Harry Reid. If you look at a picture of Harry Reid with those small spectacles he wears he looks just like some weaselly old creepy banker from the Old West.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/5/2012 1:56:35 PM (No. 9050213)
I´m really not seeing a rash of heavily armed rural red neck killings lately.
Seems like more of a city thing.
Maybe even a black city thing.
Am I allowed to notice that ?
I mean we´ve all got guns out here but we´ve always had them. We use every kind of dangerous tool you can imagine but what kind of idiot blames the tools ?
It´s called:"Criminal Intent".
Look into it.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
harper, 12/5/2012 1:57:51 PM (No. 9050216)
This is what happens when a no-mind meat puppet goes off his script: endless, mindless regurgitaions of standard leftard talking points, filtered through a nitwit´s "thought process."
Kind of reminds you of BO when his TelePrompter is switched off.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 12/5/2012 2:17:06 PM (No. 9050242)
Eat it, Bob. I can only hope you get mugged sometime on the way to your limosine...
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Italiano, 12/5/2012 2:37:00 PM (No. 9050272)
Nobody wants to talk about the Appalachian Law School shooting in Virginia in 2002. The shooter was subdued by several students and a staffer who went out to their cars and retrieved...wait for it...their personally-owned legal firearms.
That´s probably why.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
4Justice, 12/5/2012 6:32:21 PM (No. 9050556)
It isn´t a "wild west or dirty Harry culture" that we have or that is the problem. The problem is the ghetto THUG gangster culture that is glorified on TV, movies, music, Rap and Hip Hop, and everywhere else these days.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Chicagoan, 12/5/2012 7:08:02 PM (No. 9050592)
Just as so few watch MSNBC (how to they keep afloat without Microsoft´s money, anyway?), almost nobody watches Costas anymore and certainly no one cares what he says.
This is just his attempt to curry attention for his has-been career from his lefty friends. He´ll ride this a while, then be (properly) ignored again.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 12/5/2012 7:27:25 PM (No. 9050625)
My guess is that Costas either has guns for his personal security or uses security people who carry guns. Am I wrong?
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