"Oh my, he's going to lose."

NOW YOU ADMIT IT.

Hey, I cringed at that too. But I don't recall you saying that on the blog!

My god...this weatherman is awful. Unbelievable. It hurts. IT BURNS!!! AAAAH THE AWKWARDNESS!!!

What is this, The Shyest Weatherman of them All?

By the way, is everyone dead in NYC yet? We're facing an apocalypse here in Washington with the snow, but I guess maybe you all are more used to it.

My god, I'm watching it as I post, and it keeps getting worse. This can't be a real broadcast. This has to be an audition tape or something.

Mucho gracias.

Yup, I immediately thought of "Radio Ace" when I watched this. And then I realized that you kicked ass compared to this guy, who-- I'm not kidding-- must be mildly retarded.

Or, perhaps, massively retarded.

It's a toss-up.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Oh yeah, I said things very close to that, Jeff. I had a lot of people telling me to not be such a defeatist pussy.

When Right Wing News asked for predictions, I said I predicted Bush would lose, and said I was one of the few who believed that here, on this site.

Thankfully, I was wrong, and those who called me a Nervous Nancy were right.

Oh my, that was hilarious. Did they just pull some schmoe off the sidewalk and ask him if he wanted to do the weather, or what?

If it makes you feel any better, Ace, I predicted the same to my friends. In fact, I was convinced he would lose long before the debates. I was at a Hoke Malokey level of pessimism, despite the brave face I occasionally put up in blog comment sections.

I think there's a certain personality type that some of us share. It's the one that conditions us to believe that if we really, really, really want something to happen badly, then that automatically means it will never happen: because the world is a cruel and perverse place designed to foil our deepest wishes.

And I thought I was a bad public speaker.

Some people need to stick to researching.

Ohio U., huh?

So, what kind of grade do you suppose he'll get for that performance?

Looks like that's a student-run program from Ohio U.'s TV station, which means it's time for that dude to change his major.

Ah, student run.

By the way, the best part is the reaction of the anchorwomen at the end.

"Gee, I wish it wasn't going to snow!!"

They're so stunned by the guy's incompetence that their fund of mindless TV News chit-chat has been drained dry.

Kickin' it with incompetence.

Is that guy not stoned out of his mind? Why else would he find it so hard to read his script? And the way he garbles the word "sattelite" . . .

Gotta be fake.

And uh...

Looks down at paper

And uh fake.

Who would fake it, you ask?

A real weatherman wanting to prove that being a weatherman aint as easy as everyone thinks it is and that any stupid idiot could do it.

He really should have just thrown in the towel and started singing "She Bangs"

What's funny is that the weather report is called Louis' Forecast, so either this is his first day or he's a regular.

This reminds me of a bad movie where two guys trade identities and all kinds of embarrassing hijinks ensue.

I feel marginally vindicated.

This is definitely a college production. (I did a search and found their web site. ...and I was a Radio/TV concentration Communications major so I've been in a similar situation.)

Maybe it was aired, maybe not. Although he was no smooth operator, it's also clear that he was not given adequate opportunity to practice with the video effects, and the girls comments are so obviously scripted and fake that I found them more painful to watch than him. It's no more incompetent than the student run radio station at JMU here in Harrisonburg. They can't read the weather either, and they're not even having to deal with the video issues.
Aren't we getting a great value for the ever increasing investment of our tax dollars in our institutions of higher learning?

No, the beauty part of this is that this guy will get his crap together and go on to a relatively successful career in broadcasting. And then in about 10 or 15 years this clip will be unearthed and he'll have to live with the mockery for the rest of his life.

Don't believe me? Go find some of Letterman's old air-checks - painful.

sdfds

This was an Ohio University Campus Update news program. This guy is getting attention all over the web. I get a kick out of the two blondes who remain stoned face.