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October 14, 2005

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

Comments

"Finkelstein specializes in exposing liberal bias
at NBC's Today Show."

A noble calling, may his tribe increase.

Posted by: erp on October 14, 2005 02:02 PM

Darn poetic justice!

I've been shaking my head over the "Bush staged a meeting with soldiers" story from the moment I heard it. Aren't all those things "staged"? Haven't they always been? Was someone expecting a madcap, spontaneous romp caught on camera? Commander-in-Chiefs Gone Wild?

Posted by: S. Weasel on October 14, 2005 02:03 PM

To us, a silly story about something every White House does.

To them, it's PLASTIC TURKEY REDUX

Posted by: Slublog on October 14, 2005 02:13 PM

The water is really 5' deep.

We've all just witnessed the second coming of the Christ(s). Apparently we have two now.

The biggest story of the last 2,000 years and these morons ran it as a story about some rain?

*shakes head in disbelief*

Posted by: Purple Avenger on October 14, 2005 02:13 PM

Oh this was good to read. Thanks for the post!

It will give me some verbal ammo tonight as my Bush-bashing friends will be all over the Bush staged the interview story. They will reject the truth that this is a normal procedure and that the people were not told what to say, but they will giggle and be distracted by this canoe story.

This&That

Posted by: This&That on October 14, 2005 02:19 PM

Bush owns a timber company.

Posted by: on October 14, 2005 02:27 PM

"Afraid she'd drift away"????

She has a PADDLE! How much of a bimbo is she?!?!

Posted by: Chilly Willy on October 14, 2005 02:36 PM

row, row, row, your boat, gently down the puddle

Posted by: Dave in Texas on October 14, 2005 02:44 PM

I'm with Purple. The water really is deep. I've got friends whose houses are under 5' of water.

But, as has been said before, it's no big deal to stage a TV piece so you get the intended effect without the randomness.
So give the president a break, would you? Caesar was probably hand-picking the troops he interacted with publicly too. The military doesn't leave anything to chance.

Purple, when did Jesus come back? And where is He?
I swear, if He's in Salt Lake City, I'm in deep shit.

Posted by: Zorachus on October 14, 2005 02:44 PM

merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, her big mis-take ain't subtle

Posted by: compos mentis on October 14, 2005 02:47 PM

I'm guessing this was one of those Spinal Tap screw-ups, where she was warned that the water was 5" deep and thought that meant 5'. The perfect ending for that video clip would have been a little tiny styrofoam Stonehenge drifting by in the background...

Posted by: utron on October 14, 2005 02:47 PM

This is beyond funny.

I better get to confession if Jesus and his younger brother Jose are here, walking on water and all.

LOL.

Posted by: Sean on October 14, 2005 02:58 PM

compos, I sense a Lennon-McCartney thing happenin here

Posted by: Dave in Texas on October 14, 2005 03:16 PM

compos, I sense a Lennon-McCartney thing happenin here

So which one of you gets to marry Yoko?

Posted by: Jack M. on October 14, 2005 03:34 PM

he does.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on October 14, 2005 04:19 PM

Well, I sure as hell can see this partnership is disolving already!

Posted by: compos mentis on October 14, 2005 04:31 PM

She says, "it's really tough to control a canoe..."

Yeah, especially when you're not actually floating on water and have, in effect, run aground.

Posted by: Rob@L&R on October 14, 2005 06:08 PM

compos,

let it be

Posted by: Dave in Texas on October 14, 2005 06:16 PM

Off Topic: I hear South Park this Wednesday will do what it can to Raise Awareness! of global warming and that flood in New Orleans you may have heard about.

It's going to be AWE-some!

(Please, God...let it be awesome.)

Posted by: mary on October 15, 2005 02:41 AM

Looks like the NBC peacock is still a dirty liar just like back in 1993 when they tried to ruin GM in a incedent where it was found out that NBCs program DATELINE had rigged the whole thing to get what they wanted they had over filled the tank used the wrong sized gas cap and rigged it with a incterary device to get what they wanted but it did,nt work the news media just cant be trusted their bare faced liars everyone

Posted by: spurwing plover on October 15, 2005 08:34 PM

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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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Reform are basically wiping Labour out in the North. It's not a defeat. It's not even a rout. Labour are simply ceasing to exist.

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Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party

STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years.
Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
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