Monday, July 27, 2015

Has HBO Gotten The Big Picture

It's been reported that HBO had asked boxer Sergey Kovalev not to don his signature trunks with the Tulammo logo across them back of them. It seems some small amount of boxing fans took offense and raised a stink to HBO about the logo being for an ammunition manufacturer. In response HBO made the request that he does not wear those trunks.

Imagine the hypocrisy behind HBO making a request like that. They televise shows, on a frequent basis, in which there is loads and loads of gun violence and they are happy to rake in the bucks from that. Yet, when one man wears a single firearms related logo and they get a relatively paltry amount of complaints they move to restrict that man's liberties.

Then the backlash came from firearms enthusiasts.  After that, it seems HBO turned on the big screen TV, the one with PIP, and saw that tiny PIP box was the one showing the anti-gunners complaints while the picture on the big screen was that of the firearms rights supporters. That big picture was apparently enough not only to have HBO reconsider the request it had made but to actually rescind it. More here.

All the best,
Glenn B

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