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.
Is he still alive? Talk about wanting attention…..
No, it won’t. Count on it. History is my witness.
Oh! I might call the police so that he can sit there for what will seem like an eternity waiting for them to arrive.
Sez a guy who probably supports abortion on demand...
Stay classy, Bryant.
Redneck, Cracker, Honkie gun clingers lives matter too......
Bryant Gumbel Does not deserve to be an American. GTFO!
I’m not just a pig, I’m a lifetime pig!
So, you’re saying you can’t give me any of those?
Hey Gumball, the Second Amendment was here before you were. You might like it in Australia! GTFO!
Say it to our faces you pathetic turd!
I won’t forget how Bryant Dumbbell knifed Willard Scott with a poison pen memo to NBC management. He knew the audience loved Willard as much as they despised Gumbel’s Cuomoesque arrogance.
Don’t like people (i.e. white people) having guns, Bryant? Start banging on their doors & demand they hand their guns over. Enough gum-flapping, get out there & do something!
I forgot he ever existed. Hasn’t done much since The Today Show.
With this poor harvest, mine field is as barren as Bryant Gumbels brain.
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These people see the news.
They see what happens when elite leftists attack guns rights.
They see the backlash.
They see the apologies and the “Oh I misspoke” backtracking that happens every time one of them is called out on their stupidity.
They realize, only after public humiliation, how many people they offended.
Why do they keep doing it?
Does he mean NRA members are pro-choice? /sarc
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