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LEX 18 officials shocked by Emmy Awards’ plane-crash spoof intro
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| 27 Aug 06
| Jamie Gumbrecht
Posted on 08/27/2006 6:23:17 PM PDT by SLB
LEX 18 News ended an evening recap of yesterday’s coverage of the Comair Flight 5191 crash for the live broadcast of the prime-time Emmy Awards. The annual TV awards show opened with shots of host Conan O’Brien bouncing inside a plane before it crashed on an island in a spoof of ABC’s hit show Lost.
WLEX’s president and general manager, Tim Gilbert, who was home watching the telecast with his family, was “stunned” by the intro; if station managers had known about the intro before the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn’t have seen it, he said.
“It was a live telecast — we were completely helpless,” Gilbert said of the Emmys. “By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home.”
Gilbert said he’ll complain to NBC, but he said an apology won’t make up for insensitivity.
“They could have killed the opening and it wouldn't have hurt the show at all,” Gilbert said. “We wish somebody had thought this through. It’s somewhere between ignorance and incompetence.”
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: hollyweird; idiots; mediots
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One more reason I do not watch the MSM.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:23:19 PM PDT
by
SLB
To: RonPaulLives; BigBlueJon; BenLurkin; leadpenny; FreedomPoster; Jeff Head
Glad I have better things to do than watch the trash on TV that passes for entertainment. I imagine Red Skelton, Jack Benny and others are all rolling in their graves.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:26:23 PM PDT
by
SLB
(Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
To: SLB
These idiots seem to find the funniest things in human tragedy. They aren't funny at all. I can't remember the last time I watched any of these people. In fact, I don't know most of their names or who they are, THANK GOD!
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:30:31 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: SLB
I caught the opener of the Emmys. It was hilarious. Bad timing, but very funny.
To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
I caught the opener of the Emmys. I feel sorry for you. Take two aspirin, call in the morning if you are still ill.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:35:24 PM PDT
by
SLB
(Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
To: SLB
It bothered me too...
But, I have to say they didn't show it crash, and Conan walked out of the ocean... they used it as the reason he was lost and had to find his way to the emmys. The rest of the skit was very funny.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:36:41 PM PDT
by
RDTF
("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
To: SLB
I need nobody's pity. I know funny when I see it, and the opener was hilarious. Conan O'Brien did one funny skit.
To: SLB
My initial reaction was Just, damn!
Then, I realized, it's just some rubes in flyover country to the idiots in Hollyweird. They couldn't care less.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:41:51 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: SLB
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:42:18 PM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
To: SLB
OK, I'm lost, what's the problem?
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:43:53 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
lol! come home from Tokyo already!
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:43:55 PM PDT
by
RDTF
("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
To: SLB
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:44:06 PM PDT
by
jdm
(I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
What's "the Emmys"? 
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:45:03 PM PDT
by
jdm
(I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
What's "the Emmys"?I think it's some kind of new sitcom about two lesbians that live together. Glad I don't watch network television anymore.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:45:38 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am a big fan of urban sprawl but I wish there were more sidewalks)
To: SLB
One more reason I do not watch the MSM.
Agree....I rarely watch the Drive-by Media....its' not much use.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:46:20 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just b/c your paranoid; Doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^)
To: SLB
Glad I have better things to do than watch the trash on TV that passes for entertainment. Take two aspirin, call in the morning if you are still ill.
For a guy/gal who has apparent disdain and lack of interest in both TV entertainment and the Emmys, posting threads about TV and the Emmys is sortof an odd hobby.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:46:52 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
To: doesnt suffer fools gladly
It was pretty funny, especially the "24" part with Kiefer and Mary Lynn.
There was no way NBC could have known a plane was going to crash today.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:47:49 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: HairOfTheDog
Welcome to the Age of Irony;))
To: SLB
It's 24 hours of John Wayne on TCM. Emmies? I think not.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:49:46 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: HairOfTheDog
Ha, you said "Lost". Which, I believe was the very point. That is a great show and snubbed by the Emmys.
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posted on
08/27/2006 6:49:57 PM PDT
by
WV Mountain Mama
(Good luck Andre! I hope you go out with a win, you're a great tennis player & even greater man.)
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