More Media Flood Hyping

No, not in New Orleans. New Jersey.

Mark Finkelstein has the video goods on Today show reporter, Michelle Kosinski's, on camera unfrocking this morning.

Kosinski's segment, running immediately prior to a piece on the dubious claim the Administration recently stage-manipulated a Q&A session with American soldiers, revealed Today working a little stagecraft of their own.

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!

An embarrassed Kosinski claimed the water was deeper down the street but that her producers didn't want to let her go there for fear she'd drift away.

Check out the video at the link above. Short and hilarious, in a wonderfully absurd Airplane! sort of way.

posted by Dr. Reo Symes at 01:42 PM

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