Vile fans rip Obama for honoring Newtown victims and pre-empting NFL game

Folks who had already lost most of their faith in humanity after the horrible slaughter of school children in the Newtown shooting on Friday, might think there is none left at all after this story.

NBC pre-empted the first quarter of Sunday's 49ers-Patriots game to show President Obama's speech at the Newtown prayer vigil for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.  As expected, some insensitive NFL fans didn't take kindly to this inconvenience and began complaining on Twitter about the interruption of the game.

But many of the vile lowlifes used the N-word and and other racist insults to comment on the president  — only minutes after the two NFL teams held a moment of silence for the victims — and the nerve he had for cutting into ten minutes of their Sunday night game.  All this was in the wake of the nation's second worst shooting tragedy in history and a night before two of the children were to be buried — the first of 26 people killed at the school — at their funerals.

The website Deadspin published some of the tweets and — be warned — they are heartbreaking only in their sad commentary that a small portion of America could be so callous at a moment like this.

To put it in perspective, NBC cut back to the game with about six minutes left in the first quarter and — while most of the viewers got their priorities in order and quietly listened to Obama's comforting speech — all those lunkheads who lashed out had to do is sit tight for the president or switch to CNBC where the game was moved to.

That's ten minutes out of their 12-hour football watching day.

Does anyone want to bet what the NFL players themselves would say to these so-called fans.