Hypocracy, Incorporated
If Michelle Kosinski's canoe had sprung a leak on NBC's "Today" show Friday, she didn't have much to worry about.
In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera -- making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep.
Matt Lauer struggled to keep a straight face, joking about the "holy men" who were walking on water.
"Have you run aground yet?" Katie Couric asked.
"Why walk when you can ride?" Kosinski replied.
Later, an NBC News spokeswoman explained that Kosinski had been riding in deeper water near an overflowing river down the street, but there were concerns that the current was too strong for her.
"It's not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn't," spokeswoman Lauren Kapp said.
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Oh, YES you were, Ms. Kapp!! This wasn't a case of some molly-coddled, overly-babied, spoiled-rotten, journalistic-info-babe, who didn't want to get her nylons wet.
This was an absolute attempt to embellish the real news, and make the situation appear much worse than it really was.
If you missed this one, you missed a really funny, almost hilarious, talking-head, who was caught-in-the-act of embellishing the news. Picture the above info-babe, sitting serenely, in a canoe, speaking into a microphone, reporting about the devastation around this New Jersey town, and talking about how terrible the water levels were, and how the government has yet to make good on promises to bring federal aid to the area, then, suddenly two adult males, wearing hip waders, walk by, splashing the ankle-deep water as their brisk pace increases, to get out of the camera shot. Absolutely humorous, until you think about what you just saw!! The in-studio talent could do NOTHING, except make light of it, and poo-poo the seriousness of getting caught in the act of embellishment.
Read yesterday's story, found below, about how the mainstream media has their panties all wadded into a knot, over the Bush Administration doing a preparation for the photo-op with the President by some troops serving in Iraq, via televideo conference technology. You would have thought that the Administration officials were committing the ultimate act of fraud, on the American public, but then, they step on their very own pee-pee, by doing the exact thing they accuse the Administration of doing. Wazzup Widdat??
This little debacle for NBC News is just the latest in the awareness being gathered by the residents of the red states, (including the blue voters in those states), making the red become much more pronounced, and predominant for the future understanding of these kinds of journalists.
God Bless,
Dan'L
posted by Charter Membership VRWC at 10:05 AM
7 Comments:
Dumb.
Correct!
God Bless,
Dan'L
"the mainstream media has their panties all wadded into a knot"
so do you..
"You would have thought that the Administration officials were committing the ultimate act of fraud, on the American public"
No that was invading Iraq...
"This little debacle for NBC News is just the latest in the awareness being gathered by the residents of the red states"
You think there might be a liberal media conspiracy?
NOT! Its in your head and if you keep repeating it enough you'll believe it.
No one said a word about a "liberal media CONSPIRACY." You libs are all the same, . . . Whatever it is, you're pointing out, is exactly what you are doing or what you're needing, . . in this case "Reading Comprehension Classes."
It takes collaborating conspirators to enter into a conspiracy. It cannot be done unless there are multiples, actually talking aobut the effort to accomplish the conspiratorial goal.
In the case of the media, they all tell you that their world consists of working very hard to give a balanced version of the news, but the reality is something very different. Heck, if you look at the teaching methodology, and compare current with forty or fifty years ago, there's no attempt to teach ethics, anymore.
Don't stand there, and tell me that there's no liberal BIAS, (that's a different word than "Conspiracy"), in the mainstream media. That would make you a bigger liar than you claim for Karl Rove. You might want to look up the word "hypocrite" too!!
God Bless,
Dan'L
I saw this, it was hilarious!
What was even more hilarious was watching the taped session of the lady coaching the group of soldiers for Bush's photo-op. And then when Bush had the live meeting with the soldiers he was bumbling so bad it was obvious he was the one who needed the coaching! lol. Sort of reminded me of his first debate with Kerry where Bush was completely lost.
Typical of the "anonymous liberal crowd to dwell on the stuff that REALLY COUNTS, . . . Keep it up, coward(s), . . .
God Bless,
Dan'L
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