Posted on 10/14/2005 7:16:54 PM PDT by Prime Choice
In a deliciously ironic twist of fate, shortly before airing a segment aimed at embarrassing the Bush administration by suggesting that it had staged a video conversation between the president and soldiers in Iraq, the Today show was caught staging . . . a video stunt.
In the Bush/Iraq segment, Today screened footage indicating that prior to engaging in a video conversation with President Bush, soldiers on the ground in Iraq were given tips by a Department of Defense official.
But the only advice that the official was shown as giving was a suggestion to one solider to "take a little breath" before speaking to the president so he would actually be speaking to him. It was also stated that some of the soldiers practiced their comments so as to appear as articulate as possible. But there was no indication, or even allegation, that the soldiers were coached as to the substance of their comments or in any way instructed what to say.
Today's timing couldn't have been worse. A preceding segment focused on the incessant rains and ensuing flooding in the northeast. For days now, beautiful, blonde - and one senses highly ambitious - young reporter Michelle Kosinski has been on the scene for Today in New Jersey, working the story. In an apparent effort to draw attention to herself, in yesterday's segment she turned up in hip waders, standing thigh-deep in the flood waters.
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Did a search. Didn't find this posted.
I was laughing so hard after seeing this that I had tears in my eyes!
It was the big story on drudge today...picture and all!
Hoo hoo, that was funny!
Thanks for the laugh!
Well, darn. I did a search on "Up the Creek."
Sorry, folks. Admin mod, please pull the thread.
You're quite welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. :o)
Really tough to control a canoe when you don't have a freakin clue what you're doing. The monster wakes from the pedestrians don't help either.
ROFLMAO!!!
It happens.
Where is the captain of the SS Ted Kennedy when you need him.
Not something we've scripted. That means something was scripted, and it sounds like non-scripted was going to be the exception. Don't want Bush to have to face a question his handlers haven't already come up with a spin for.
For the Rush fans out there he massacred this notion today. It was the best show in a couple of weeks.
Running the rapids!
You heard wrong. She was saying if Bush askes a question that's not prepared in advance.
For the record, it was, "If he gives us a question that's not something that we've scripted, Captain Kennedy you're gonna have that mic and that's your chance to impress us all."
Duranty lives
It doesn't get any funnier than that!! :)
Tv personalities are so full of themselves...what a crack up!
I seriously doubt that it was the Admin that did this, it was the Military. Every time that we had anyone Admiral or higher, including Gov. and Reps., we were told to stay out of the way, or were picked for the "tour" and steered towards quesitons/answers to use if the time came. This is common in the Military, it is how they control some of the stuff coming out to the public.....
You folks are missing the main point... she is pretty, has nice hair and makeup. What more does a reporterette need to make it on TV.
Merrywanna grows neurons in the brain, thereny creating meurons. See? It's simple science??
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