Stupid Things TV News Anchors say.

National Guard

I was flipping back and forth between several stations broadcasting the Republican Convention. I finally decided on NBC. Right before Bush's daughters got ready to speek;

"Even though they don't look alike, they are very close" --- Tom Brokaw.

Hmmm - I guess only people that look similar are allowed to be close? Do they have to be attractive too? or have any other physical attributes to be close? :-?

I think everyone else can come up with their favorite(memorable) quotes from the Republican convention, please add your own.

Parabeagle

Not from a news anchor, but I can't believe that the Gropenfuhrer used the "girly-men" comment again.

One of my favorites is from Dan Rather's book, The Camera Never Blinks: He narrated a whole news story mispronouncing "heroin" as "HER-oyn" until one of the producers passed him a note on camera saying "it's Her-O-in, you idiot!"

safety

Aw come on, I nearly rolled off the couch in uncontrollable laughter at the girly-man comment, and, by the way, what a great speech he made.

ray a

Here is what Arnold said:
"There is another way you can tell you're a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people ... and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: '"Don't be economic girlie men!'"

I still think it's a hoot when people criticize Arnold using the "girly-men" when the phrase came from SNL, which has a slight liberal bias.

DeidreFR5

Slight?

SMace

I was watching a football game in which a terrible thing (don't remember what) happened to one of the teams. The look on the coach's face was utter digust and dismay. As the camera was panning in on the coach all the way to a close-up of his face, Brent Musberger retorted, "If a face could talk." I nearly fell of the couch. Last time I checked, faces could talk.

LarryC

SMace, I've spent years wondering how in the world Brent Musberger got where he did. He must have some incriminating pictures in a lockbox somewhere.

SMace

I could not agree more. He is the worst sports announcer I have ever heard. He is so bad I almost get angry when I hear his voice. If he announcing something I'm watching, I'll mute it and turn on the radio.

They say that even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. He bumped into an acorn tree.

LarryC

Face first.

SMace

Boy, do you make me chuckle. Have a great weekend.

National Guard

I've allways called him Brent Mushmouth.

Don D

Anything Brokaw says! I've heard that his goal is to be able to speak as elequently as the President. Talk about a goal! x:-)

sonny

Just before we lost power

Newscaster to weather person: "So, can we expect conditions to worsen as Frances gets closer?"#-o

National Guard

ANYONE who reported on Frances from Florida!

As one reporter had the camera man show destroyed buildings he said this is why we beg you to evacuate. Question - So, why is he there?:-?

Also at about that time I was watching the O'Reilly Factor and thinking how ARE the reporters any different from the ones, that did not evacuate, that they were calling stupid? When O'Reilly showed an email asking the same question. His response "Were not dumb - we are trained professionals" Yeah Right!

That was my response all weekend long as I watched other reporters have near misses with flying debris - - "They're trained professionals."

Don D

I couldn't help laughing at Fox's Heraldo Rivera's drama. He was trying to give the impression that the wind was about to blow him away. His knees were bent and he was holding his hands up against his hat and leaning toward the wind. While he was doing that, another guy was standing perfectly calm and upright, right behind him.

LarryC

It wasn't Al Capone was it?

Whatever

Does anyone, beside Fox (and Geraldo Rivera) really believe that Geraldo Rivera is a reporter.

Getting back to the original topic (sort of). Did anyone notice that the delegates at both conventions responded seriously to the questions posed by the reporters x;-) from the Daily Show on the comedy network? Maybe, the answer is they couldn't tell the difference.

Don D

I had faith that 'Whatever' and I would find common ground! x:-) I will flip one of two things when he comes on. The bird or the channel, one or the other. He has inched slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton in the category of 'how fast can I change the channel?' I don't know if it's true, but I've read and heard that his name is really Jerry Rivers and he's a Jewish guy who decided to change his name to appear Spanish. Any truth to that? Come to think of it, that body in the background DID resemble Al Capone or Jimmy Hoffa one.

Whatever

The story here is that he was gang member in the Bronx. Turned his life around, became an attorney (sarcastically, I ask, "This is an improvement." ).
I remember when he started in NY and broke the Willowbrook story (treatment of patients at a state institution). He was brilliant.

Parabeagle

"Jerry Rivers and he's a Jewish guy who decided to change his name to appear Spanish. Any truth to that?"

In the book, Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter (can't remember the author), that was promoted as a standard tactic for setting yourself apart from the crowd. Your basic WASP-ish candidate would change his surname to a Spanish one in order to attract the large employers who had affirmative action plans to satisfy. Of course that was back when the EEOC's criteria for counting heads was "Hispanic or Spanish-surnamed."

Whatever

>"Jerry Rivers and he's a Jewish guy who decided
>to change his name to appear Spanish. Any truth
>to that?"
>
> Your basic WASP-ish candidate
>would change his surname to a Spanish one

So, how does a Jewish guy become Waspish? #-o

Don D

Buy a Christmas tree, ditch the pimp suits and cook some ribs. x:D

Whatever

Darn it.. I always though a Wasp was someone who went into Neiman-Marcus or Bergdorf Goodman and paid full price.

Leslie

I had read that the Rivers thing was an urban legend. Can't find it now...

AnneHa

Try here, Leslie.

[url]http://www.snopes.com/media/celebrity/geraldo.asp[/url]

Anne in Ohio

Don D

"while covering American military activity in Afghanistan in 2001 he was criticized for taking a gun into a war zone and derided for misplacing the scene of a "friendly fire" incident by 300 miles (which he later blamed on his confusing two different incidents, although the other incident didn't take place until three days after his report), and while covering the war in Iraq in 2003 he was censured by the U.S. military (and reportedly booted out of Iraq) for carelessly broadcasting details which revealed tactical information about an upcoming U.S. attack."

Regardless, the man has no principles, scruples or credibility. His given name was indeed Gerald and his father's name was Riviera, a Cuban. His name for certain is not Geraldo or Heraldo. His mother is indeed Jewish, and there's not certain proof one was or the other about who he was or is. He's a boob who will do anything for the camera.