Is the NRA the KKK?
In a word....NO...altho the two infamous groups may very well share mailing lists. The National Rifle Association does not emphasize the blatant racism so necessary to the KKK, but according to this African American sports journalist, the results of their policies would certainly be in alignment with the hooded knuckle draggers of the Klan...Jason Whitlock sums up the recent controversy here:
You can read the actual column which ignited the recent controversy on his FoxSports.com site, but he summarized it above. This led to Bob Costas quoting Whitlock on a Sunday Night Football half time mini-torial here:
That's it....a comment on a tragedy....an NFL player took the life of the mother of his 3 month old infant and then took his own life in front of his coach. Would either have happened if Belcher hadn't had a hand gun? Who knows, but he did....and it did happen. In any event, it certainly was news worthy enough to merit comment on the NFL's most watched weekly game by a HOF broadcaster.
OH...wait...not according to the right wing blather. Talk radio went nuts, as did FauxNews....funny, the same media company that employs Jason Whitlock on another venue. Costas had ruined the football viewing experience with his "anti-gun hysteria...." did anybody here hysterics in the 90 seconds above? All the usual suspects chimed in, demanding an apology. Some have claimed they got one, including a pro-gun poster here. Really?
I ask my cyber friend Resquer...where is the apology? If anything it was for not saying enough:
“My mistake is I left it open for too much miscommunication,” Costas said in a lengthy interview on “The Dan Patrick Show.” The
90-second weekly spot, he said, doesn’t offer enough time in which to
adequately discuss the issue of “the football culture, the gun culture,
domestic violence.”
But the media abuse continued, along with the usual death threats from the batfuck fringe....so Costas appeared on numerous cable outlets to explain, 1st with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC and then with Bill O'Reilly on FauxNews, which as O'Reilly constantly trumpets, is the most viewed news program on cable:
So let's put this in perspective. O'Reilly, in his usual attempts to rile up his right wing audience, had been claiming he was gonna rip Costas apart, and that Whitlock was "hiding under his desk" rather than appear on his stupid program and put up with O'Reilly's idiocy. IMO, the host shows just that in his claims about what he would have done if he had been in that Aurora theater. First, he never would have been there and he certainly doesn't walk around packing a pistol. He has security, necessary because part of his routine is to antagonize as many folks as possible.
Did Costas appear in apologetic supplication? HELL NO!!! If anything O'reilly, a refugee from a tabloid, First Edition, spent ten minutes kissing ass, as well he should....Costas has covered and broadcast 9 Olympics and who knows how many other major sports events.....Super Bowls, World Series, etc? Events which have 10,20,50 times the audience of O'Reilly's hour on FauxNews....gimme a break!
It's simple. The NRA is not the Klan....it is just another arm of the Republicrites, like FauxNews! They seek to elect Republicrites and lately they haven't done very well. No longer does the NRA generate fear among candidates...and obviously they instill even less such terror in either Costas or Jason Whitlock. Both simply did what my theme song suggests:
