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TV News Shows Easily Duped by Incredibly Lame Yo-Yo 'Champion'
NewsBusters ^ | May 15, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 05/15/2010 6:08:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Your humble correspondent is not exactly going out on a limb here by claiming he has better yo-yo skills than self-proclaimed "champion" K-Strass aka Ken Strasser. After a pair of real yo-yo champions from the Phillipines put on a performance for our third grade class in Puerto Rico, I was inspired to learn a series of basic yo-yo tricks such as "walk the dog," "around the world," and "rock the cradle."

If you don't believe that I am more skilled than "champion" Strasser, then I invite you to watch this very painful video of K-Strass in action on one of the five news shows that he appeared on in the Midwest. So how did someone with such horrible performance skills get on all those news shows? Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel attempts to explain:

Kenny Strasser, who either lives in Antigo or Neenah, Wis., or maybe somewhere else, says he a yo-yo champion, loves talking to schoolchildren and wants to save the Earth.

He has been divorced twice, doesn't have any kids and has personal issues with members of his family. He also says he has had drug and alcohol problems.

Or so he says.

It's not entirely clear who Strasser is. What is clear is that a person who called himself Kenny Strasser, Kenny Strassburg, or K-Strass managed to persuade at least five television stations — four of which are in Wisconsin — to put him on live television in recent weeks.

Two other stations — both in La Crosse — came close to putting him on, but were warned ahead of time that Strasser was not who he says he is.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ericholder; holder; tvnews; yoyo
The real yo-yos were the TV news staff, not the things hanging off the fingers of "K-Strass."
1 posted on 05/15/2010 6:08:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

His yo-yo skills were apparently fake but accurate.


2 posted on 05/15/2010 6:14:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: PJ-Comix
This guy is a comedic genius. His timing and delivery is great.
3 posted on 05/15/2010 6:15:04 AM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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To: PJ-Comix

I loved the one reply. This really describes Zero.


4 posted on 05/15/2010 6:15:58 AM PDT by TStro
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It’s like the SCTV network


5 posted on 05/15/2010 6:21:21 AM PDT by Tribune7 (It is immoral to claim the tea parties to be racist)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nicely done! You snuck a Dan Rather reference into a post about a Yo-Yo faker. You must have already had your second cup of coffee this morning! :)


6 posted on 05/15/2010 6:21:57 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: TStro

K-Strass meet O-Bam.


7 posted on 05/15/2010 6:39:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix ( Redundancy Can Be Quite Catchy As Well As Contagious)
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I heard this on the radio this last week. I went home and watched some of his clips on Youtube and could not stop laughing. I loved it when he starts talking about his personal problems and his loss of muscle memory.


8 posted on 05/15/2010 6:42:58 AM PDT by Sawdring
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Kenny Strasser
9 posted on 05/15/2010 6:45:16 AM PDT by Sawdring
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That guy pulled off an epic prank! I’d pay to get him on the Today Show.


10 posted on 05/15/2010 6:52:38 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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Maybe so, but they’re professionals, and act as an all-important filtering mechanism to make sure that the public sees only information that has been properly vetted. This, in turn, helps to make sure that the public can make informed decisions about important topics.

In this way, they’re fulfilling their mandate under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Ya know.


11 posted on 05/15/2010 6:56:39 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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Just mention you are going to talk about saving the planet or going green and any local tv station will put you on the air. This clip is hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPtH6PflX70&feature=related


12 posted on 05/15/2010 7:11:57 AM PDT by OCC
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Remember PJ, those are real journalists with editors and “gate keepers”. They can be trusted to present the real news in a factual and unbiased way....

...Not like those bloggers which would have done a simple google search and outed the fraud in less than 30 seconds.

hahaha


13 posted on 05/15/2010 7:37:11 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: Steely Tom

A blogger would have uncovered the fraud in seconds with a google search


14 posted on 05/15/2010 7:38:34 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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To: GeronL; PJ-Comix

The good news is fewer and fewer people are watching...


15 posted on 05/15/2010 7:43:07 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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yep


16 posted on 05/15/2010 7:43:34 AM PDT by GeronL (Political Correctness Kills)
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TV News Shows Easily Duped by Incredibly Lame Yo-Yo ‘Champion’

And the Attorney General of The United State of America said that
rather than read the Arizona bill...
he depended on media sources.

Eric Holder...the gift that keeps on giving.


17 posted on 05/15/2010 8:01:36 AM PDT by VOA
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K-Strass deserves a Nobel Prize and an Academy award. If he has a birth certificate, he could possibly make it to Copenhagen.


18 posted on 05/15/2010 8:14:41 AM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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