NBC Sports Network Cancels NRA-Sponsored Elephant Hunting Show After Host Compares Critics To Hitler

[Archae]

Source: Media Matters

NBC Sports Network has announced that it has canceled the hunting show Under Wild Skies after host Tony Makris compared critics to Hitler.

Controversy began after the show aired an episode in which an elephant was shot in the face twice by host Makris. Makris, who has longstanding ties to the NRA, celebrated the killing of the elephant with a bottle of champagne.

Read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/29/nbc-sports-network-cancels-nra-sponsored-elepha/196142

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Call the wahhhbulance!

[Uncle Joe]

1. Good, it's well known that Hitler loved elephants.

Thanks for the thread, Archae.

[WCGreen]

2. Well, Adolph was friendly to the Bush Family back in the 1930's...

[Uncle Joe]

4. And the Bush Family are Republicans, their mascot is the elephant,

ergo Hitler loved elephants.

[Judi Lynn]

3. What a shame that's the worst that will happen to this sadistic deviant.

Thanks for sharing the news NBC did the right thing by terminating the show they never should have run in the first place.

One less diseased, filthy spirit dragging viewers into the underworld with it to feast on the suffering of helpless creatures.

[DeSwiss]

17. Maybe NBC should.....

...consider doing another kind of animal show?

- One with less blood, and more warm fuzzies......

K&R

[Judi Lynn]

29. What fools they are for missing the chance to show meaningful, moving things like that.

Wow.

Think how many viewers they could get who would look forward to seeing these programs.

It takes a lot more courage, and a whole lot of decency to want to save, heal the helpless, the distressed, the frightened. These are people to admire.

Thank you.

[mtasselin]

5. brave

What a brave man to shoot an elephant, if he is so tough why not take it on with a spear? The word asshole comes to mind.

[obxhead]

20. It shouldn't be called "sport"

unless you do it naked and armed with nothing more than a sharpened stick or rock.

[glinda]

6. Yet they did not cancel the show after public was upset?

Lame NBC.
Glad it is over.

[leftyohiolib]

7. we dont need animals like makris walking the planet

[cosmicone]

8. I wish there was a show where

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NRA big wigs are let loose on the Serengeti plain and are hunted by leopards, cheetahs and lions.

I'll pay to watch that.

[go west young man]

9. Now that would be good sport!

Much better than some self flagellating asshole hiding behind a gun shooting at an innocent multi thousand pound behemoth that a five year old couldn't miss.

[Old Navy]

11. And the animals are fully armed to the teeth with guns with autotrigger, autosighting, etc...

NRA folks stand no chance.

[kentauros]

23. sorry

wrong place

[jmowreader]

26. Lions don't need guns

How about coating the NRA goons in bacon grease before sending them out?

[Myrina]

33. +100

yes please.

[kentauros]

24. Add NBC Sports Network executives to the hunted.

Someone had to approve that show for airing to begin with!

[secondvariety]

10. Why would

NBC ever run a program like that in the first place? I can see it being showed on one the more obscure channels like American Mouthbreather but not NBC. I figured they knew better.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Kabletown did it. This on a cable sports channel branded as 'NBC' after the Comcast take over

The amoral and ethics adverse world of cable was imposed onto an outlet that got established by airing excellent coverage of the Tour de France.

[bowens43]

12. The who;e idea that hunting is a sport is ridiculous.

You want hunting to be a port? Don't use weapons. Using weapons makes hunting nothing more then murder.

jackasses.

[NeoConsSuck]

18. Hunting can only be a sport

if both parties are willing participants.

[MissDeeds]

25. Yep

And if both parties are armed. What kind of a sick twit would hunt an elephant? It seems depravity knows no bounds.

[NutmegYankee]

13. Good.

Given the endangered status of elephants worldwide, shooting one is disgusting.

[onehandle]

14. This has been a high profile look into the thought process of gun nuts. nt

[rurallib]

15. killing the elephant in cold blood didn't bother NBC

but the Hitler comment did?

[nashville_brook]

16. there was an elephant hunting tv show?

and it was the hitler reference that got it cancelled?


holy cripes.

[Myrina]

32. It was a 'ooh lookit my poweful hunting gun' show ...

... and the elephant was the chosen recipient of the "awesome new gun's" firepower demonstration.

[TxDemChem]

21. Okay, these nuts have a tendency to call anyone

who doesn't agree with them Nazis and Hitler. I think they are Nazis. Just saying.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Because everyone knows Hitler was absurdly kind to the point of being a wimp.

[blkmusclmachine]

27. ?!

[freshwest]

28. Good news! And here's their ride:

[sakabatou]

30. Who the fuck funded this show?!

Killing a fucking elephant?!

[Myrina]

31. So him shooting a defenseless animal in the face was ok, but calling people names isn't?

SMH. Ohferfuxsakes. Nevertheless, I'm glad the asshole is going off the air.
Hope his last eppy is someone shooting HIM in the face.

[bullwinkle428]

34. Why are the gun nuts always so quick to "go Godwin" when attempting

to make their points?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

35. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear.

[The Stranger]

36. Can we shoot Tony Makris in the face?

Turnabout is fair play.