Posted on 06/30/2021 5:46:18 PM PDT by Trillian
This is the awkward moment a BBC reporter confuses disgraced comedian Bill Cosby for Bill Clinton live on air.
Journalist Michelle Fleury was reporting on the entertainer's shock prison release - but accidentally referred the former US President instead.
The huge gaffe forced top BBC News presenter Huw Edwards to apologise to viewers for the blunder.
It came just hours after Cosby, 83, was allowed to return home just two years into his 10 year sentence for sexual assault because of a legal technicality.
In the video, news anchor Huw Edwards introduces Ms Fleurry, live from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give the latest update on Cosby's conviction being overturned.
But in her opening sentence she manages to mistake the comedian with a former in Commander-in-Chief
'Huw, for the last two years this has been where Bill Clinton has called home,' she says, pointing towards a State Correctional Institution behind her.
She continues: 'But tonight he will sleep in his own bed after the bombshell decision by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court to overturn his conviction for sexual assault on the grounds that his 5th Amendment right - that is the right against self-incrimination - were violated.'
The misidentification was quickly picked up on social media, with one person writing: 'Clarification I didn’t expect to hear on @BBCNews this evening, an apology for a journalist’s confusion of Bill Cosby with Bill Clinton.'
Another added: 'That error on bbc with them referring to bill Cosby as bill Clinton will have conspiracy theorists foaming at the mouth.'
Cosby was freed on the grounds that a former prosecutor promised him that he wouldn't be charged in 2005 and lulled him into incriminating himself.
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Roseanna Dana stares defiently at the camera and says:
Never Mind!”
Well, he WAS America’s first black President.
I love it.
Freudian Slip looks like this.
Sexual predators all look alike.
She was fired for letting the Freudian Truth slip out.
The same BBC that harbored Jimmy Saville for all those years.
They’re both *disgraced*.
Dream halfway fulfilled. I still want to see the perp walk.
If only! 😄😄
oops. Can she wait tables?
The one that looks like she fell out of a Cartoon , LOL
Hilarious!
All you Bill’s look alike!
The varying sexual deviations is quite dizzying.
Cosby and. Clinton are totally different. If you accuse cosby of a crime, there is a trial, a sentencing, and prison time if found guilty by a jury of his peers. If you accuse clinton if a crime,you kill yourself by shooting yourself in the back of the head with a shotgun twice while filling a bucket you are standing in with concrete, and shimmying your way to the river in a garbage bag after cutting what is left into little pieces with a pocket knife
Emily Litella.
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