Posted on 10/19/2005 9:16:33 AM PDT by Quaker
On Oct. 14, Michelle Kosinski, an intrepid new NBC News correspondent who made her name this summer chasing Natalee Holloway’s ghost through Aruba, found herself up a creek without a paddle in the middle of the Today show.
Only, she had a paddle. What she didn’t have was a creek.
In what would have been a beautifully choreographed segment, Ms. Kosinski was reporting live about flooding in Wayne, N.J., in a canoe that was floating down a submerged suburban thoroughfare.
“Eight days of rain, and some neighborhoods don’t even look like neighborhoods anymore,” she told Today viewers at the top of the 7 o’clock hour. “Little rivers with their own strong currents have taken over the streets, and people are getting out, any way they can.”
And it would have worked, too—the artful image of a correspondent Huck Finn–ing her way through a Jersey subdivision—had two guys in hip-waders not walked through the shot moments later, at 7:02 a.m., as if on cue. Water sloshed around their ankles. Ms. Kosinski looked like a grown woman in a nice outfit paddling her way around the kiddie pool.
“When it happened, it was funny and embarrassing, and I just thought, ‘O.K., this probably looks a little bad, or it looks unusual at least, to the people who are watching,’” Ms. Kosinski told The Observer four days after the segment aired.
By then, the clip had made the rounds in e-mail forwards and on cable news shows.
That afternoon, Don Imus went wild over the gaffe. Tucker Carlson picked it up later, and on Saturday the hosts of Fox and Friends discussed what they were calling the “Flood Faux Pas.”
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
It was fake but accurate!
Indeed.
MSM crap...again.
where's the vid?
“That would just be idiotic.”
Yes it was idiotic! Bwahaaa!
“That would just be idiotic.”
Yes it was idiotic! Bwahaaa!
A cinnamon girl?
You stole that line from Dan Rather!!
Busted!
DA740
How High Is The Water, Captain?
....Six inches high and rising.
More on the Kosinski Canoe Caper on the NBC Today Show. Via Michelle Malkin (again). We have this article from the NY Observer:
We’ve witnessed outrage, compassion, pageantry, hyperbole, hunger, nausea, violence and the inimitable resilience of the human spirit. What could possibly be left?
A canoe!
We have not seen a correspondent paddle through a few inches of standing water in what is rumored to be a $1,500 canoe.
This, in more innocent form, is the idea that flashed through a Today show producer’s mind on Thursday night. Streets were flooded. Residents and rescue workers were riding around in boats. It made perfect sense.
They bought a boat and had it delivered the following morning. Ms. Kosinski arrived early to practice paddling around. She had been in a canoe before, she said, but never by herself, and never in waters any rougher than a slow-moving stream. They tried to set up the shot at an intersection where the water was waist-high and the current was strong, but “they couldn’t light it,” Ms. Kosinski said. “The microphone was wireless and it wasn’t working, and with all the equipment, they couldn’t wade out into the deep water.”
So producers asked Ms. Kosinski to paddle to where the water was shallower. She did. She wasn’t happy about it. But she did.
“Even though I wanted to show deeper water, in the end I said O.K. I didn’t really think it was inappropriate,” she said. ...
Previous Post: Hip Deep in ....a puddle.
Michelle recommends LLBean wading shoes for Michelle's next canoe trip.
We suggest these:
If you cannot be honest in the little things you are given to be honest in...
How can you be trusted to be honest in the big things...?
Actually, watch the video closely...
Those two guys are giants...Japanese monster-sized giants, wading through 25-foot deep water...
The camera angle just makes them appear to be the same size as her...
The media really thinks we're stupid.
She should apologize for being a fraudulent liar.
So did I!(See tagline)
(Actually, it's become a cultural cliche.)
Nice touch... I RATHER think you got to the essence of the issue.
I found it here
Priceless!
Brainless Blonde Boating moment.....
LOL!
thanx. what a hoot!
"Idiotic" pretty well sums her up!
What does Rush call 'em?
"Info Babes"
Nothing whatsoever between the headphones...
I like this question from Curic "Is your oars hitting ground?"
Even though perky annoys me, the question was hillarious.
Brit's program on Tuesday evening showed a clip of what happened next--her canoe went over the falls.
You know things are bad when the likes of Matt Lauer calls you on a media distortion. It is akin to Michael Jackson telling someone they are a bad parent. Pic at post #72
Another blonde with brown eyebrows.
Where do those genes come from?
Well, that explains everything.
Hey! Watch it! ;-)
It's the old "Do the cuffs match the collar?" question asked by James Bond.
Those of us with experience know that brown eyebrows don't necessarily give away a blond-brunette.
But brown in the "cuffs" (if you know what I mean) makes a prima facie case for a blondy hoax up top.
DA740
The guffaw for me was when she was talking about how hard it was to steer the canoe because the current was running so fast - NOT!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
It just goes to show you what a Bachelor's degree from Northwestern Univ. (value around $120,000) gets. Throw in another $40,000 for the Masters???? and you get Blonde Canoe Girl!!!!!!!
"FAKE BUT TRUE" is a perfect cliche to be uttered by the feminized male.
Anchoman Dan Rather listening to Mary Mapes and her girls for the truth is sort of like Oddyseus listening the the Sirens to find his way home.
DA740
Her one lingering concern: “That it might have looked to some people like we were trying to put something over on viewers,” she said. “That would just be idiotic.”
Indeed.
How about this for her last line - "That would just be blonde".
It's funny as hell, but more importantly, it's a godsend that will do more to damage media credibility than all the liberal propaganda of the last ten years combined.
She's going to go places. Brand new national hire, and she's already learned how to spin, spin, spin on at least two stories. I don't care what she looks like, she and her ilk make me want to vomit. "Trust me, we don't set up stories on a regular basis." Right. And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling pedestrians.
Wow, when Kutey Katie and Mealey-mouth Matt make fun of you in a canoe, I guess that means "Anchors away" for your career as a news babe!!!
The guy in front with the brown paper bag looks like a looter to me.
Wow, when Kutey Katie and Mealey-mouth Matt make fun of you in a canoe, I guess that means "Anchors away" for your career as a news babe!!!
Fox Rocks!!
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
If you look closely at the picture, you will note that dude with the sack obviously has two or three six-packs of beer.
These guys were on a mission.
Nice canoe.
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