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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
His yo-yo skills were apparently fake but accurate.
I loved the one reply. This really describes Zero.
It’s like the SCTV network
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! :)
K-Strass meet O-Bam.
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.
That guy pulled off an epic prank! I’d pay to get him on the Today Show.
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.
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
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
A blogger would have uncovered the fraud in seconds with a google search
The good news is fewer and fewer people are watching...
yep
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TV News Shows Easily Duped by Incredibly Lame Yo-Yo ‘Champion’
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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.
K-Strass deserves a Nobel Prize and an Academy award. If he has a birth certificate, he could possibly make it to Copenhagen.
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