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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]frylock
(34,825 posts)147. opinion; opinion; fact; opinion
i give you another week here, tops.
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I am very much a product of the "jock culture", and I'm also a proud progressive.
11 Bravo
Dec 2012
#56
I wonder if nonathletic boys who have no interest in sports are ever subjected ...
radicalliberal
Dec 2012
#218
Comments like these are far more effective with an accompanying illustration.
rDigital
Dec 2012
#100
You may be 100% correct about Costas, but, Sometimes, it takes a moron to move things Forward
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#5
There is always another topic to address in this godforsaken nation. But Costas said what he felt.
WinkyDink
Dec 2012
#6
There are many purist on DU that can't see a larger picture. Domestic violence is
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#22
He was doing a story on a sports related tragedy. Railing against war on drugs seems more political.
JaneyVee
Dec 2012
#12
You're right, Mental illness and the NFL's cult of violence would have made better topics. nt
rDigital
Dec 2012
#131
A few of my high school friends might still be with us if they had received the proper care. : (
rDigital
Dec 2012
#181
You don't need a licence to buy a car, or to operate it on private property.
PavePusher
Dec 2012
#108
Unrec. With everything going on in the world, you get upset over a sports yakker
FSogol
Dec 2012
#18
Unrec. Your not caring doesn't make my point irrelevant. Also, note the recs. nt
rDigital
Dec 2012
#132
I'd be pissed too if a sportscaster had more common sense than I did. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Dec 2012
#21
Costas is just over-the-head of gun culture. Kind of like those who saw climate change, bigotry,
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#23
probably wouldn't hurt to do some basic research before arguing against something
frylock
Dec 2012
#64
Because Canada didn't come from the wild wild west idolize the gun culture
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#79
"Inanimate" objects that have the capability of becoming quite animate.
Tommy_Carcetti
Dec 2012
#188
The problem is, folks like you cry bloody murder on the "regulated and controlled" aspect.
Tommy_Carcetti
Dec 2012
#212
Good thing you don't GET to decide what issue he cares about and when he talks about it.
phleshdef
Dec 2012
#28
But you're okay with the late Charlton Heston's public posturing for guns, guns, guns?
VOX
Dec 2012
#38
Great, get yourself a show and then you can decide what topics YOU'D like to discuss.
Lex
Dec 2012
#48
Just For The Record, Ladies and Gentlemen, Check Out the Tons O' Fun Transparency Page
The Magistrate
Dec 2012
#50
I love how gungeoneers FAIL here when they get brave enough to wander out of the gungeon.
Electric Monk
Dec 2012
#75
bullshit. it was a football player who committed the murder/suicide....i wasn't insulted one bit.
spanone
Dec 2012
#92
Obviously, Bob Costas isn't on the same level of such world renowned intellectuals
Moses2SandyKoufax
Dec 2012
#104
There is no such thing as a respected journalist...they are entertainers, just like the team members
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#119
I had not seen a OJ reference previously, but am not paying the story much mind
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#123
You aren't likely to find anyone more favorable to the right to keep and bear arms than me
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#99
I think what he did was fine. I think the complaining about (gasp!) social discussion in a football
fishwax
Dec 2012
#101
I must have missed the part where Costas was required to check with you
Downtown Hound
Dec 2012
#118
Yes. Let's Dixie Chick Bob Costas for speaking his mind on an important topic.
Tommy_Carcetti
Dec 2012
#189
Football players CHOOSE their violence. Guns are such that your personal choices can have little
patrice
Dec 2012
#152
In which direction? In the last 30 years concealed carry went from an obscurity in a couple states
rDigital
Dec 2012
#167
I'm not saying that it should be illegal for him to say anything, just that it was ill advised and
rDigital
Dec 2012
#170
He should have mentioned all of that. But now to the industry he makes his living yakking about,
freshwest
Dec 2012
#182
Agreed. Another breath of fresh air from the freshness factory. Always a pleasure, FW. : ) nt
rDigital
Dec 2012
#183
The gun lobby has been hijacking America for its own political ends for too long.
DainBramaged
Dec 2012
#191
Do you still believe that gun control supporters are holocaust enablers?
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#195
Agreed, and I am simply doing the same as he. He's a public figure, harsh criticism is expected. nt
rDigital
Dec 2012
#203
You're not a public figure. You're a gungeoneer with a significant number of hidden posts
Kolesar
Dec 2012
#206
What you are doing is hanging a tag on him because you don't like what he said
liberal N proud
Dec 2012
#211