An interview with Bob Costas on Friday's edition of Real Time started out about sports but not surprisingly, it did not take long for the discussion to turn political. Host Bill Maher asked Costas if he saw "anybody like today who's in that league with...Ali and Arthur Ashe and, you know, people who changed culture?" After praising SJW atheletes LeBron James, Malcolm Jenkins, and Doug Baldwin as "articulate and well-informed," Costas mentioned the name "Colin Kaepernick," which caused the crowd to erupt into applause. Costas proclaimed that "Colin Kaepernick called attention to a very important issue," adding "he did it with grace." Costas ultimately declined to elevate him to the level of Ali or Ashe but still concluded "he did a good thing…but I think others can carry it forward…more effectively." Maher complained that "he was not helpful in the election because he said, I remember...tearing him a new a**hole about it, because he was like Hillary, she's a racist, Trump's a racist, that's just...okay, so we'll talk to him." In other words, Maher was complaining that Kaepernick did not jump on Team Hillary.
