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Today Show reporter caught "staging" video stunt.
NewsBusters ^
| 10-14-2005
| MRC
Posted on 10/14/2005 9:04:24 AM PDT by Minnesocold
Up the Creek: Out to Embarrass Bush Over Alleged Video Stunt, Today Gets Caught in Stunt of Its Own
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.
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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.
Taking her act one step further, this morning she appeared on a suburban street . . . paddling a canoe. There was one small problem. Just as the segment came on the air, two men waded in front of Kosinki . . . and the water barely covered their shoe tops! That's right, Kosinski's canoe was in no more than four to six inches of water!
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: d; kosinski; lyingmedia; medialies; owned; staged; stunt; today
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The Today Show is the epitome of staged events and photo ops.
To: Minnesocold
I hope somebody comes up with a better screen capture. I really want to laugh at her expression.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:05:47 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Minnesocold
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:06:01 AM PDT
by
TChris
("The central issue is America's credibility and will to prevail" - Goh Chok Tong)
To: Minnesocold
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:07:28 AM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(also enjoy the occasional kick of a puppy.)
To: Minnesocold
Makes you wonder for how long they've been doing things like this and getting away with it before there was the internet, blogs, and FR to call them on it.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:08:16 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
To: Minnesocold
Shades of albore in his canoe on the Connecticut River during a drought emergency. He convinced the powers that be to release desperately needed water for the photo op.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:08:46 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson)
To: dead
Hopefully Political Teen will post the video. In the meantime, here's a better (and dryer) shot of Michelle:
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:08:51 AM PDT
by
Minnesocold
(Truth itself is the one enemy against which liberalism cannot prevail. -Christopher Adamo)
To: Minnesocold
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:09:18 AM PDT
by
ocr1
To: JamesP81
This has got Ebaumsworld written all over it. Awesome!
To: SheLion
Here's a laugh back to ya!
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:10:50 AM PDT
by
houeto
(Mr. President, close our borders now!)
To: Minnesocold
Bwahahaha!! I really needed that! :-)
I've been arguing with some 'stuck on stupid'
moonbats on a newsgroup and it's really like
beating my head against a brick wall.
Thanks for the laugh.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:11:46 AM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX)
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:11:58 AM PDT
by
evets
(God bless president Bush!)
To: Minnesocold
So, whats new. If you are aware of the industry, timelines, etc., almost all news broadcast are staged. It's just the way it is. Even reporters are basically selected to ask questions on most all interviews. Watch the hands and what is in them, a script of questions. Damn! Even the Democrats stage events on the Senate floor. Both sides do, but the CRATS are so predictable it is a joke.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:13:04 AM PDT
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: Minnesocold
Cursed members of the Religious Right -- always walking on water and forcing the media members to use other means.
Dr. Ransom
FaithFusion.net
Independent-sighted, yet Right-minded
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:13:11 AM PDT
by
DoctorRansom
("Alert and in first-class fighting trim")
To: dead
Go to newsbusters.org and click on video link.
To: Minnesocold
Outstanding, really. The MSM stages the news.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:13:51 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(MSM: de facto allies of America's enemies.)
To: JamesP81
I can tell you that during a hurricane watch in Corpus Christi (the hurricane actually hit far to the south, in Mexico), some newsies were taping while being "rained" on with a water hose off-camera. It was cloudy that day, but dry.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:13:56 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
To: Minnesocold; Hap; Xenalyte; humblegunner; Allegra
It doesn't get much funnier than this.
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:14:09 AM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(GOOPLA OOOG!!!)
To: dead
The best reaction is one of the guys walking by is laughing. Her he is walking in very shallow water and she is in a canoe.
To: All
The "mainstream" of these outmoded media is just as deep.
Dr. Ransom
FaithFusion.net
Independent-sighted, yet Right-minded
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posted on
10/14/2005 9:14:46 AM PDT
by
DoctorRansom
("Alert and in first-class fighting trim")
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