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Bob Costas: My Armed Security Doesn't Make Me a Hypocrite on Guns
Breitbart ^ | 9 Mar 2014 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 03/10/2014 3:15:23 PM PDT by george76

On March 9th NBC's Bob Costas dismissed criticism of his having armed guards while disparaging "gun culture" by saying his guards were NBC and NFL security, not "personal" bodyguards.

He did this while being interviewed by Fox News's Howard Kurtz, who brought up Costas's December 2012 halftime criticism of "the NFL's gun culture."

Kurtz said, "You were accused of injecting politics into halftime, and Fox News's Greg Gutfeld said you were 'a hypocritical buffoon' because you're in New York, and you're surrounded by armed guards, and you don't have to worry about safety."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bobcostas; botox; costas; guncontrol; guns; hoplophobe; myarmedsecurity; pinkeye; rkba; secondamendment
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To: george76

What in the hell does Bob Costas do anymore anyway? He’s probably making controversial comments to get attention with the goal of staying ‘relevant’. He sure as hell isn’t calling any football games, or hosting a pregame or halftime show....


21 posted on 03/10/2014 3:30:12 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: george76

I took his statements to Kurtz just the other way. I think what he was trying to say was that his problem isn’t with guns, or with people owning guns. He was trying to point out a problem in the NFL with a culture (I think he meant specifically GANGS) where guns were part of that unhealthy life. He was contrasting that diseased culture with the country at large.

It was a very different angle than I’d heard before.


22 posted on 03/10/2014 3:30:44 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: george76

Everyone else insults my intelligence, Bob, and you might as well join the parade.


23 posted on 03/10/2014 3:31:13 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: george76

Protection for me, but not for thee.

These liberal snakes do not understand that everybody has right to life and liberty, which means the right to defend themselves. Firearms are great equalizers, so for the sake of equality, the right to bear arm is every free person’s human right.


24 posted on 03/10/2014 3:31:39 PM PDT by sagar
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To: george76

Hey Bob, I’m my own body guard.


25 posted on 03/10/2014 3:32:52 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: xzins

I feel the same about Howard Kurtz and his show. He and the show are nothing but a cover for the blatant liberalism on FNC.


26 posted on 03/10/2014 3:35:26 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Red_Devil 232

I gagged on that show. It was bad enough that I woke up at 4 am. Everything else was infomercial...eat this, invest that, cook with this.

In retrospect, I should have gone with the jet blender or whatever it’s called.


27 posted on 03/10/2014 3:38:57 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: george76

Yes, it does, Bob.


28 posted on 03/10/2014 3:41:17 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: george76

Yes, it absolutely does make you a hypocrite, Bob! My life deserves as much protection as yours.


29 posted on 03/10/2014 3:42:01 PM PDT by Bronzewound (Lost Hope & Loose Change)
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To: george76

Costas has lately been on a crusade to define himself as a “serious” journalist by taking predictably liberal views on various social issues as they intersect with sports. No doubt congratulating himself on his “courage”, he demonstrates the opposite - slavish conformity to questionable liberal pieties.


30 posted on 03/10/2014 3:43:11 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: george76

He is sort of correct. He was a hypocrite long before he got armed guards, so the armed guards don’t MAKE HIM a hypocrite.

LOL.


31 posted on 03/10/2014 3:43:34 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: savedbygrace

Makes sense to me. ;^)


32 posted on 03/10/2014 3:44:17 PM PDT by tioga
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To: BitWielder1
So it's okay hire a bodyguard with a gun, but not okay to train and arm myself for the same function?

See you're not as important as Bob Costas so you have no need to arm yourself.../ S

Remember 911 is minutes away when seconds count...

33 posted on 03/10/2014 3:44:24 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: george76

You’re only denying it because it’s true, weasel!


34 posted on 03/10/2014 3:44:26 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: george76

Well, Bob, it sort of does. You are not middle class. Middle class people, poor too, can’t afford a team of armed security guards to protect them, on or off the job. They can’t send their kids to the posh private schools with armed guards. So they purchase guns to protect their own, themselves.

The guard that is hired to protect you today goes home tonight. He has a wife and some kids, and his house isn’t as secure as yours. Shouldn’t he use his service weapon if he had an intruder break in? Or is there a lock on his gun case that says “for protection of Mr. Costas only”?


35 posted on 03/10/2014 3:44:39 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: tioga

LOL.


36 posted on 03/10/2014 3:48:58 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: george76

So, security is okay for him but not for us? He clearly thinks he’s better than us “peasants”.


37 posted on 03/10/2014 3:52:12 PM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: george76

The KING DWEEB of sportscasters.


38 posted on 03/10/2014 3:59:32 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: george76

Really there is no need to argue about this. Just look at it like lawn care.

Rich folks like Mr Costas are able to hire their armed protection.

The rest of us do it ourselves.

And I got no problem with that.


39 posted on 03/10/2014 4:00:08 PM PDT by lurk
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To: george76

Costas has no character, he’s a weasel. Probably got pinkeye from bukakke.


40 posted on 03/10/2014 4:22:12 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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