[ESPN] Kobe Bryant Comes Under Controversy For Black Ops Ad
Hey there! Are you a busy person on-the-go and don't have time to get stupider? ESPN has a six-minute solution: Skip Bayless, opining that Kobe Bryant should be disciplined for appearing in that Call of Duty: Black Ops ad.
Bayless, who seems to relish his role as ESPN's go-to ? on any every subject, is disturbed that Kobe Bryant would appear in an advertisement in a video game wielding an assault rifle. When this panel, to its credit, doesn't buy his very gravely delivered (and obviously rehearsed in the makeup chair) line of ? that NBA commissioner David Stern must Act, he drops into the usual unassailable position that, well, this is incredibly disrespectful when we have an actual war going on. Skip Bayless, folks. A walking Reader's Digest clip job.
"Because it's a video game about war, does this mean because we are involved in a war we take all video games about war off the shelves?" asks host Dana Jacobson. Bayless does not address that counterargument either, insisting only that "[Stern] can stop his most popular player from participating in an ad with an assault rifle."
That ship has sailed, Skip. This ad's two weeks old, as Bomani Jones points out, and he more reasonably assesses the situation: Sure, this may send a controversial message about gun violence. But it's not the kind of gun violence that scares NBA patrons. "War violence is OK, that doesn't scare people," he says. "Street violence does."
"Well, I'm offended by it and I'm pretty sure a bunch of NBA fans will be offended by it," Bayless says. So what if you are Skip? Another classic line of Bayless reasoning: "Because I am [something] millions more are [something], too." And we're done! Just because you've shed that unsightly unwanted thought and intelligence, you can still carry yourself like a smart person. Skip's shown us how!
http://kotaku.com/5692826/clueless-sports-writer-is-very-serious-about-this-black-ops-ad-controversy
Thoughts.....?
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I would be lying if i said i didnt see this coming first time i saw Kobe in that commercial i said "this is about to ? some people off".
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it'd be ok if it were Steve Nash
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cant be serious b
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I thought the commercial was hilarious, I don't see the beef
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Wow... Seriously??? People getting there ? panties all tangled up in a bunch because Kobe is in a VIDEO GAME commercial??? This ? world gets stupider and stupider as I go on through my life. It's not like Kobe said to go ? the next person you see in real life....... I don't see what the big deal is, I really don't??? People just have to find something to ? and moan about and it's ? pathetic.
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There's a reason why they only have him on ESPN2 in the mornings.
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lol its funny how every body focused on Kobe (a grown ass man) and nobody said ? about the 10 year old girl with the shotgun.
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lol its funny how every body focused on Kobe (a grown ass man) and nobody said ? about the 10 year old girl with the shotgun.
Wish they would have said something about Kimmel. You know he would answer them. -
I bet there is some crackers behind this ? .
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yeah! chubby chicks with 12 gauge.
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yeah! chubby chicks with 12 gauge.
lol,, they got there emblems and tags on there guns,, kimmels was funny. now that ive watched again,, i like this commericial even more -
Skip Bayless is a wuss
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Why are white people so damn sensitive?....pull your skirt down, b
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dumb azz people
its a fuccin video game
its entertainment
smh
so lets not watch movies with guns in it either...? -
ski is being paid to hate on anything.
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Come on son!
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smh at them missing the whole concept of the commercial
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so kobe is the only celebrity in that commercial? alright...