Posted on 10/19/2005 9:16:33 AM PDT by Quaker
On Oct. 14, Michelle Kosinski, an intrepid new NBC News correspondent who made her name this summer chasing Natalee Holloway’s ghost through Aruba, found herself up a creek without a paddle in the middle of the Today show.
Only, she had a paddle. What she didn’t have was a creek.
In what would have been a beautifully choreographed segment, Ms. Kosinski was reporting live about flooding in Wayne, N.J., in a canoe that was floating down a submerged suburban thoroughfare.
“Eight days of rain, and some neighborhoods don’t even look like neighborhoods anymore,” she told Today viewers at the top of the 7 o’clock hour. “Little rivers with their own strong currents have taken over the streets, and people are getting out, any way they can.”
And it would have worked, too—the artful image of a correspondent Huck Finn–ing her way through a Jersey subdivision—had two guys in hip-waders not walked through the shot moments later, at 7:02 a.m., as if on cue. Water sloshed around their ankles. Ms. Kosinski looked like a grown woman in a nice outfit paddling her way around the kiddie pool.
“When it happened, it was funny and embarrassing, and I just thought, ‘O.K., this probably looks a little bad, or it looks unusual at least, to the people who are watching,’” Ms. Kosinski told The Observer four days after the segment aired.
By then, the clip had made the rounds in e-mail forwards and on cable news shows.
That afternoon, Don Imus went wild over the gaffe. Tucker Carlson picked it up later, and on Saturday the hosts of Fox and Friends discussed what they were calling the “Flood Faux Pas.”
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LOL!
thanx. what a hoot!
"Idiotic" pretty well sums her up!
What does Rush call 'em?
"Info Babes"
Nothing whatsoever between the headphones...
I like this question from Curic "Is your oars hitting ground?"
Even though perky annoys me, the question was hillarious.
Brit's program on Tuesday evening showed a clip of what happened next--her canoe went over the falls.
You know things are bad when the likes of Matt Lauer calls you on a media distortion. It is akin to Michael Jackson telling someone they are a bad parent. Pic at post #72
Another blonde with brown eyebrows.
Where do those genes come from?
Well, that explains everything.
Hey! Watch it! ;-)
It's the old "Do the cuffs match the collar?" question asked by James Bond.
Those of us with experience know that brown eyebrows don't necessarily give away a blond-brunette.
But brown in the "cuffs" (if you know what I mean) makes a prima facie case for a blondy hoax up top.
DA740
The guffaw for me was when she was talking about how hard it was to steer the canoe because the current was running so fast - NOT!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
It just goes to show you what a Bachelor's degree from Northwestern Univ. (value around $120,000) gets. Throw in another $40,000 for the Masters???? and you get Blonde Canoe Girl!!!!!!!
"FAKE BUT TRUE" is a perfect cliche to be uttered by the feminized male.
Anchoman Dan Rather listening to Mary Mapes and her girls for the truth is sort of like Oddyseus listening the the Sirens to find his way home.
DA740
Her one lingering concern: “That it might have looked to some people like we were trying to put something over on viewers,” she said. “That would just be idiotic.”
Indeed.
How about this for her last line - "That would just be blonde".
It's funny as hell, but more importantly, it's a godsend that will do more to damage media credibility than all the liberal propaganda of the last ten years combined.
She's going to go places. Brand new national hire, and she's already learned how to spin, spin, spin on at least two stories. I don't care what she looks like, she and her ilk make me want to vomit. "Trust me, we don't set up stories on a regular basis." Right. And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling pedestrians.
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