McCain: Bob Costas ‘Doesn’t Know What the Hell He’s Talking About’

During an appearance on Fox News with Neil Cavuto Friday afternoon, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) weighed in on what he, and other critics, viewed as a too-friendly report on Russian president Vladimir Putin that NBC’s Bob Costasdelivered during last night’s Olympics coverage. “Bob Costas ought to stick to sports,” McCain said, “because he obviously didn’t know what the hell he was talking about.”

After Cavuto confirmed McCain knew he was being recorded, the senator continued with his analysis. “Mr. Costas giving him this kind of credit borders on the ludicrous,” McCain said.

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Costas’ report touched on many aspects of Putin’s political career in Russia, giving him some level of credit for helping to prevent U.S. air strikes in Syria and getting Iran to the negotiating table on the issue of nuclear development.

“I have admired Bob Costas’ knowledge of sports and his in-depth analysis from time to time. I watch his program quite often,” McCain said. “But on this one, Bob, stick to the hockey games, will you?”

VIA: Mediate

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Was Obama stoned during Bob Costas interview?

The emergence of Twitter as a social media goliath has unleashed gossip and speculation as a media force. The long term consequences are unknowable, but in the meantime, with a far left president with a dicey past, it is producing some highly amusing results.

Last night, President Obama explained to Bob Costas of NBC Sports why he wasn't attending the Sochi Olympics, but the substance of what he had to say was lost in the controversy that erupted on Twitter over whether or not he was stoned. Yahoo writer Mike Oz took the high road, as would nearly any journalist, and described the president as looking "sleepy." But in the Twitterverse, ,many popeple outright speculated that he was stoned on marijuana, a drug that he is well known to have indulged in to excess in his younger years (at least so far as we know). Twitchy has collected a bunch of comments and pictures taken from TV screens that are far more suspicious than what appears in more mainstream outlets.  Luke Manning wrote: "Obama is stoned" accompanied by this picture:

Via: American Thinker

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NBC Sports partnered with Oneida casino prior to Costas Redskins rant

The disputed Indian leader pushing to change the Redskins team name had already entered into an undisclosed television agreement with NBC Sports when Bob Costas delivered his on-air editorial condemning the Redskins name.

The Oneida Indian Nation’s Turning Stone Casino in upstate New York, overseen by gaming mogul and disputed Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter, will host its first NBC “Fight Night” production November 16 with the IBF heavyweight title fight between Tomasz Adamek and Vyacheslav Glazkov.

NBC already had the deal in place to broadcast from Turning Stone when Bob Costas delivered a halftime editorial during NBC’s October 13 primetime broadcast of the Cowboys-Redskins game.

Costas treated unsuspecting Sunday Night Football fans to an impromptu etymology lesson, noting that objections to the names of the Braves, Chiefs, or Warriors represent “political correctness run amok” because “these nicknames honor rather than demean.” On the other hand, the amateur linguist said, the Cleveland Indians and their mascot Chief Wahoo “have sometimes run into trouble.”

Costas elaborated that the Stanford Cardinal and Dartmouth Big Green were “both once the Indians,” while the St. John’s Red Men “have become the Red Storm.”

“And the Miami of Ohio Redskins, that’s right Redskins, are now the RedHawks,” Costas said.

Costas said that the name Redskins “truly differs from all the others.

“It’s an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent,” Costas said.

Via: Daily Caller

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Beck Tears Into ‘Sanctimonious Piece of Crap’ Bob Costas for Redskins Commentary

The last time NBC sportscaster Bob Costas weighed in on an issue of national controversy during Sunday night football, he admitted it was a “mistake,” but it clearly did not deter him from doing it again, this time with the controversy over the Redskins’ team name. This latest batch of commentary did not sit well withGlenn Beck, who had some tough words for Costas and his racial awareness.

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Beck suspected Costas was going “senile” and maybe “it’s time for him to be wheeled down the hallway by the nurse,” before letting loose with what he really thought.

“You sanctimonious piece of crap. Why is it that all white people think that they have to correct all of the ills of–and protect everybody else? Because everybody else is so little-childlike needs-to-be-taken-care-of. What do these arrogant people think?”

Beck and his co-hosts touted a poll showing 90 percent of Native Americans don’t consider the term to be offensive, and Costas is just the powerful white man who feels he “needs to teach the poor little Indian that you should be offended.”

Beck said this was all part of the “progressive way,” though to date there have been at least two bigconservative voices (one of them a congressman) expressing their discomfort with the name.

Watch the video below, via BlazeTV:

Via: Mediaite.com

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