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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 17 2008, 07:05 PM (650 Views) | |
| Toothless Dawg | Jun 17 2008, 07:05 PM Post #1 |
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This was too good to not share ... unfortunately this yo-yo was on Fox news. We all know how the news reporters will try their durndest to create a story even where there is not one. A few years ago, some woman reporter was sitting in a boat in the middle of a flood doing her story on camera when two men sloshed by walking in the six inch deep water. The news agencies explanation? There was deeper water just down the block but this was handy so she used it instead for her story. Today I was watching Missouri River flood damage. While the floods are pretty bad at least one Fox reporter is working overtime to create what isn't. All day long when I would see his feed, he was in his waders and standing in the middle of the floodwater, although the camera showed several times that there was dry land that would have worked just as well and you could even have seen the flood water with a different camera angle. Anyway, then came the afternoon and our reporter noticed workers putting up sandbags outside a bank (I think it was a bank). He did a quick blurb on their work and the success it had thus far. He then jumped the sandbags and walked into the bank to find the bank manager, who he invited outside to finish his story. As they walked out the door, the reporter commented that it would be difficult to hear because of the noise but it would be a good place for the interview. The interview went pretty much like this ... Reporter - "From the noise out here I see that you have a generator running, right over there ... have you lost the electric service inside your bank?" Manager - "Uhhhhh, that's not a generator ... that is a water pump and is pumping water back over the sandbags" Reporter - "Oh I see, well you still have electric inside your bank. Isn't that dangerous with all this water???" Manager - "Uhhh no sir, there is no water in the bank ... all the water is out here ... there is no danger at all" It went downhill from this point as the reporter tried his best to recover from his idiocy. He continued by asking if the manager thought their efforts in sandbagging would be successful or not ... etc etc etc ... aaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!! |
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| nuzzlebunny | Jun 17 2008, 07:10 PM Post #2 |
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I can't recall who it was, but on 9-11 some chick on one of the networks asked firefighters why they couldn't use those giant airbags to break the fall of those that jumped out of the WTC. |
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| Ali | Jun 17 2008, 09:14 PM Post #3 |
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I've seen it before Dawg! They say a 'picture is worth a thousand words', but the look of any emotion on a person's face is worth a whole lot more. We've seen the faces of disbelief and despair with the recent tornadoes and a pile of wood behind the person who called that place HOME. The floods are just the same - folks left with little or nothing. Then some young news person with camera man in tow, fresh as a daisy, smelling like soap - asks "can you describe how you're FEELING right now"? |
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| Carolina Sue | Jun 19 2008, 10:45 PM Post #4 |
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Hmmmmmm... Intelligence in Broadcasting...Isn't that what they call an Oxymoron?!
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| Toothless Dawg | Jun 20 2008, 05:39 AM Post #5 |
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:lol: yes'm but tha's 8 letters and I can't spell that long :lol: |
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| VMI84 | Jun 20 2008, 11:32 AM Post #6 |
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Oxymoron or Kieth Olbermann same difference.
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| Carolina Sue | Jun 20 2008, 12:38 PM Post #7 |
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So true, so true.....!
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| Toothless Dawg | Jun 20 2008, 12:45 PM Post #8 |
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VMI84. Man that olberman dude has a serious mental problem. He's one of those dudes that if you meet him walking in the street, you want to reach out and cold cock him for no other reason than he's on your street!!! |
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| STEVEN1 | Jun 20 2008, 05:44 PM Post #9 |
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TD, I couldn't agree with you more on the Olberidiotmann comment. He's an arrogant s.o.b. that I'd love to knock on his axse and hit again as he's trying to get up. |
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