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Bob Costas: ‘If Jovan Belcher did not possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive’
SI.com ^ | Dec. 2, 2012 | SI.com Tracking Blog

Posted on 12/02/2012 10:29:29 PM PST by Alaska Wolf

NBC sportscaster Bob Costas used his weekly monologue on “Sunday Night Football” to discuss the fallout of the tragedy in Kansas City, urging viewers to move past the cliched coverage of the “perspective” gleaned from the news that linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself Saturday morning.

Costas focused much of his monologue on a column by Fox Sports’ Jason Whitlock, which argued that “current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy.” Costas said that although he often doesn’t agree with Whitlock, he found his argument to be spot on this time.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; murder
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1 posted on 12/02/2012 10:29:42 PM PST by Alaska Wolf
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To: Alaska Wolf

If Bob Costas didn’t have his head up his @$$, he would be able to breath.


2 posted on 12/02/2012 10:33:03 PM PST by MichaelCorleone ('We the People' can and will take this country back...starting today.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

Disgusting use of a tragedy to make a pandering political statement...

But it’s NBC, so it’s to be expected...


3 posted on 12/02/2012 10:33:15 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: MichaelCorleone

that’s breathe


4 posted on 12/02/2012 10:34:56 PM PST by MichaelCorleone ('We the People' can and will take this country back...starting today.)
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To: ltc8k6

Costas is a fool

if he used a knife, what would he be saying?


5 posted on 12/02/2012 10:35:10 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Alaska Wolf

If Bob Costas wasn’t a shameless liberal thug, he would have some decency & not try to politicize a sad time.

But, wait, these are leftists-—so being morally bankrupt is just another day at the office


6 posted on 12/02/2012 10:38:51 PM PST by CountryClassSF
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To: Alaska Wolf

If Ted Kennedy didn’t possess a car...

If...


7 posted on 12/02/2012 10:40:21 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: MichaelCorleone
If Bob Costas didn’t have his head up his @$$, he would be able to breath.

Apparently one doesn't need to have common sense to get a degree from Northwestern U. Bob and Whitlock have made fools of themselves.

8 posted on 12/02/2012 10:40:41 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (USA!)
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To: Alaska Wolf

And if Costas wasn’t such a committed Lie-beral, we might get some real dialog on the real problem here.

Case in point: Local fish wrap and birdcage liner doing its annual beg-a-thon for those in need was highlighting a former postal worker and “single mother of 3”. What struck me is that she and her “babies” had FOUR different surnames. I understand in this age of woman’s glib that some women choose to retain their birth surname after marriage, but each of the children had different surnames.
Sounds like her baby daddies didn’t have the desire (or ability?) to maintain any kind of relationship with their progeny after the fact.

IMHO, it’s stories like this that are met with a shrug by the general public (instead of an any kind of shame) that are behind crap like the tragedy in Kansas City.


9 posted on 12/02/2012 10:40:54 PM PST by ssaftler (I'm a "Mad Men" kinda guy living in a "Modern Family" world.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

And if Nicole Simpson had posession of a gun she might be alive today!


10 posted on 12/02/2012 10:41:22 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: Alaska Wolf
And w/o guns would still be alive!

Oh, wait...

11 posted on 12/02/2012 10:41:58 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

Ask O.J. about that, willya?


12 posted on 12/02/2012 10:45:48 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Alaska Wolf

If Bob’s significant other had a gun, we might not have to listen to his drivel.


13 posted on 12/02/2012 10:46:10 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Alaska Wolf
Here's some more BRILLIANT LIBERAL logic to add to what Costas said..

"If Bob Costas didn't wear a toupee he wouldn't have hair."

14 posted on 12/02/2012 10:46:56 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Alaska Wolf
If Jovan Belcher did not possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive

If Kasandra Perkins had one, She would likely still be alive.

15 posted on 12/02/2012 10:48:22 PM PST by tpmintx (Problem: People who work for a living ARE outnumbered by those who VOTE for a living (47%).)
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To: VideoDoctor

And take away steak knives and hammers and hatchets and and glass bottles and screwdrivers and staples and lamps and frying pans and food processors and don’t forget medications.

Oh and 16oz drinks and mediocre liberal sportscasters.

Idjit.


16 posted on 12/02/2012 10:54:03 PM PST by imemyself
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To: GeronL
Costas is a fool if he used a knife, what would he be saying?

A man doesn't need to use a knife to kill another comparably-sized man, let alone a woman. In real life, a single punch could do it, which is why so many guys in physical altercations are so surprised when the people they were pummeling end up in the morgue.

17 posted on 12/02/2012 10:54:59 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

NBC = Nothing But Crap


18 posted on 12/02/2012 10:55:35 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 6, 2012.....A day that will live in infamy!)
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Bob Costas gun rant video. All that hair dye is seeping in and making Bob goofy.

http://youtu.be/ecwXZvJk_YQ


19 posted on 12/02/2012 10:57:24 PM PST by spectr17 (What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?)
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To: Alaska Wolf

minority sports figures just shouldn’t own guns, everybody else is ok with them


20 posted on 12/02/2012 11:01:55 PM PST by Lockbar (Quality factory loaded ammunition ---- The New Gold)
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