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Bryant Gumbel: I 'Hate' the NRA, They're 'Pigs' That 'Don't Care About Human Life,'..
Newsbusters ^ | 1/21/15 | Tim Graham

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.


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KEYWORDS: banglist; barbarawalters; bryantgumbel; davidalangrier; hbo; nra; rollingstone; tedkoppel; today
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Bryant Gumbel: I 'Hate' the NRA, They're 'Pigs' That 'Don't Care About Human Life

Says the man who refused to provide money to his elderly mother, forcing her to eat canned dog food.

21 posted on 01/21/2015 11:59:02 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Impala64ssa
HBO host Bryant Gumbel was asked about the National Rifle Association and a segment he did on his Real Sports

I'm old enough to remember when he worked on The Today Show.

Heckuva a career trajectory, Bry!

22 posted on 01/21/2015 12:00:02 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Puppage

Yeah he’s a scum bag always has been..notice the ones who hate guns are protected by armed guards..let those same guards carry around bananas instead


23 posted on 01/21/2015 12:00:39 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Puppage

Well, at least it was canned... coulda been kibble.


24 posted on 01/21/2015 12:01:04 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Another Affirmative Action success story. Arrogant POS ping.


25 posted on 01/21/2015 12:02:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Bryant Gumbel has been a Grumpy Old Man-Know it All for at least the last thirty years. Maybe he should apply for work at Al Jazeera, they seem to have a custom of hiring has been news anchors who dislike and insult their own audiences whenever possible.


26 posted on 01/21/2015 12:03:48 PM PST by lee martell
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To: TADSLOS

That White guy with the good tan...


27 posted on 01/21/2015 12:04:54 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Impala64ssa

It is articles like this that, eventually, get through to people outside the liberal elites that the liberal elites are seething with hatred for people who aren’t like them. The NRA has helped protect freedom and promote safety and security for Americans since 1871—it is a most noble organization of individuals who donate their time, money, and efforts to doing the right thing. You can disagree with NRA opinions and actions, as many good Americans do, but if you HATE the NRA you hate millions of good Americans and you hate good. Liberalism is incompatible with good.


28 posted on 01/21/2015 12:05:21 PM PST by iacovatx (Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
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To: Impala64ssa

“I think they don’t care about human life”

So disarming law abiding citizens and making them more vulnerable to the criminal element and tyrannical government is how you show you care about human life? How does that work, Bryant?


29 posted on 01/21/2015 12:06:14 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Impala64ssa

And his opinion matters ... how?


30 posted on 01/21/2015 12:06:47 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Hate? Wow ...

We're livin' rent-free inside his head.

I don't hate him ... I hold him beneath contempt ... sorta like a cockroach.

31 posted on 01/21/2015 12:07:01 PM PST by NorthMountain (No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
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To: Impala64ssa

How many football games did Bryant Gumbel play without a helmet? Did he take a fastball in his bean?
Maybe ex-wife hit him with cast iron frying pan!


32 posted on 01/21/2015 12:07:21 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Leftist women are such a damned embarrassment...)
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To: Impala64ssa

I only have one comment, “oink, oink...”


33 posted on 01/21/2015 12:09:01 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Impala64ssa

I wonder if Mr. Gumbel hates legal gun owners, and the NRA, more or less than racially related gang-bangers and criminals with completely illegal guns and extensive criminal records?

It’s the typical “Let’s start with the low hanging fruit when we pass laws. Make Whitey do it first.” But, the side effect is enabling underclass predation.


34 posted on 01/21/2015 12:13:07 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Impala64ssa

Bryant Dumbell. Typical stupid Obama supporter. I remember when affirmative action got him his first job at nbc. They were talking about the sun one morning early in his career and that stupid a$$ didn’t even know that the sun rises in the east, or that the sun was a star.

Enough having people with sub-70 IQs running this country!! They’re barely qualified to hold the most menial of jobs, much less hold a position of influence.


35 posted on 01/21/2015 12:17:33 PM PST by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
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To: MrB
You pretty much answered your own question.

An abiding hatred of our creator is the only explanation for the viciousness with which they - the other camp - relentlessly promote their twisted, confused worldview.

36 posted on 01/21/2015 12:22:35 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Impala64ssa

Gum-nuts is a white-hating liberal POS!

Wonder what he would do if a bunch of thugs broke into his house threatening him and his WHITE wife?


37 posted on 01/21/2015 12:26:06 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“We got a problem over HERE with people who are criminals and disregard the law, so let’s pass a law make the people over THERE, who aren’t a problem at all, comply with the law, while not trying to enforce it on the people who were the problem in the first place.”


38 posted on 01/21/2015 12:26:15 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Yeah! Cut off these horrible stolen weapons at the source! /S

Eventually, the wanton criminal death and destruction will die out too, for lack of ammo. More /S.


39 posted on 01/21/2015 12:27:41 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Impala64ssa

Ted Koppel brilliant ??? He cannot be referring to the Koppel I saw.


40 posted on 01/21/2015 12:27:58 PM PST by Rockpile
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