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.
Hey Gumball..do YOU have armed guard protection because if you do you can STFU
We know what you’re saying, Brian. “Black Lives Matter” is dog-whistle for “Kill white people.”
Bryant who?
He knows nothing of what he speaks.
I’d say more, but I’d get banned, and possibly arrested....
Full of rage and hatred. Must be a liberal.
Gumbull has a gun. Bet on it.
I WILL say that I AM proud that he called ME a “pig”.
Brings warm feelings to me heart. If I were to ever see him being mugged, my firearm will remain holstered, I’ll smile, and walk away. (wouldn’t even call the police for him)
I’m sure seeing the fact that he likely lives in an expensive condo in a Manhattan high-rise, in a building with armed security and a doorman, that he must hate black people far more.
He’s still alive?
It will not end well.
Bryant Gumbel—I had no idea this b!tch was still above ground.
Obviously, I haven’t missed him wherever he’s been.
Sounds like a great time to donate to the NRA. In Bryant Gumbel’s name. LOL.
Who knew he was still around.
He can attract flies cause he’s full of shiite.
Somehow I do believe be is probably pro-”choice” so he’s not in much of a defensible position to be judging who “doesn’t care about human life”.
Start sticking up for murdered babies Bryant. Then maybe we can talk.
I’m curious as to the composition of these “two camps”.
I know that one is made up of folks who adhere to the values of Western/Christian culture,
but who is the other camp made up of? Is it an ideological grouping? Is it a race grouping?
What I’ve come to realize, though, is that whatever is “the other side”, the commonality is hatred of Christ and His people.
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