Posted on 01/21/2015 11:43:49 AM PST by Impala64ssa
...A 'Curse' on America
In an interview with Rolling Stone, HBO host Bryant Gumbel was asked about the National Rifle Association and a segment he did on his Real Sports show about the "Eat what you kill" movement.
There are a few things I hate more than the NRA. I mean truly. I think they're pigs. I think they don't care about human life. I think they are a curse upon the American landscape. So we got that on the record.
That said, I'm willing to separate that this story had nothing to do with that. It's not a gun story. So I would like to think that I would have done it, but I don't know. Obviously, that was my first experience around killing and guns and hunting.
Let's not be shocked this was Gumbel's first experience around hunting. There's a reason David Alan Grier impersonated him as prissy on the air on Saturday Night Live 20 years ago. Rolling Stone asked him about how a reviewer at the magazine called him "self-satisfied' when his HBO show debuted. Gumbel attributed it all to being very prepared.
I used to say when I hosted the Today program that if Barbara Walters, Ted Koppel and I all asked the same difficult question in the same tone of voice with the same look on our faces, Koppel would be characterized as brilliant and prepared, Barbara would be characterized as bitchy and I would be characterized as arrogant.
So when you ask is it a negative thing, well, it shouldn't be, but it is often thrown at someone of color as if, "Who the hell do you think you are?" I think it's wonderful to be prepared and to be confident and to present yourself in that fashion without apology. But to a lot of people it's almost like I should be grateful for sitting where I am and I should make that known, and when I don't, some people see that as off-putting.
All three of these interviewers can sound "self-satisfied," but they do not ask questions with the same faces or the same tones of voice. It's not just a racial thing to find Gumbel off-putting. He certainly should be self-aware enough that people you call "pigs" aren't going to like you.
Why the heck does Gumbel have a bug up his arse over the National Restaurant Association, I’ll never know.
Do you not establish the fact that you do not care for human life when you refer to humans as pigs ? Or is Bryant just secretly in love with pigs ?
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I thought Brant had died.
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The NRA cares about the lives of honest, law-abiding non-violent individuals. gumball and the lefties care about letting violent criminals live a little longer, to steal, rape and murder again.
Hey, that guy’s wearing a Devo hat, remember those guys? That “new wave” rock group of nerdy-looking White guys from the early 80’s. (Whip It, also did a weird cover of “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”)
I'm some blood American Indian...I don't look it. My mother and aunts, uncles, and cousins do.
I'm very tired of the Bryant Gumbel's of the world crying and bleating racism time and time again.
There are American Indian tribes that will NOT hire the best person for the job..despite the need for THEIR PEOPLE. They will hire the native. They will sacrifice their OWN PEOPLE's wants and needs...because of racism.
Bryant Gumbel should get his head out...As should the Native tribes.....
“Gumbull has a gun. Bet on it.”
Yup. He never said he hates guns, just the NRA. He hates them because they are the reason the “unimportant people” can have guns.
He got caught making snarky remarks about his co-workers. Willard Scott called him the south end of a horse, or something like that. Gumbel is only trying to get noticed.
Bryant is a Pothead....
Mr. Gumball should stick to what little he already knows.
Black millionaire victim fatigue setting in
Gumball, an ignoramus with a platform.
Gumball should look to the south in Mexico as to what happens to a nation where government collects the guns and the people haven’t any.
The cartels and corrupt tyrants in government took over.
Why follow that example?
Gumbel is a dumbbell.
So seys the big fat racist.
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