Today Show reporter caught "staging" video stunt.

NewsBusters ^ | 10-14-2005 | MRC

[Minnesocold]

Up the Creek: Out to Embarrass Bush Over Alleged Video Stunt, Today Gets Caught in Stunt of Its Own

In a deliciously ironic twist of fate, shortly before airing a segment aimed at embarrassing the Bush administration by suggesting that it had staged a video conversation between the president and soldiers in Iraq, the Today show was caught staging . . . a video stunt.

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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!

[Minnesocold]

The Today Show is the epitome of staged events and photo ops.

[dead]

I hope somebody comes up with a better screen capture. I really want to laugh at her expression.

[TChris]

ROFLOL!

[LongElegantLegs]

Ha ha ha! Idiot.

[JamesP81]

Makes you wonder for how long they've been doing things like this and getting away with it before there was the internet, blogs, and FR to call them on it.

[OldFriend]

Shades of albore in his canoe on the Connecticut River during a drought emergency. He convinced the powers that be to release desperately needed water for the photo op.

[Minnesocold]

Hopefully Political Teen will post the video. In the meantime, here's a better (and dryer) shot of Michelle:

[ocr1]

Funny ping

[eddiemunster]

This has got Ebaumsworld written all over it. Awesome!

[houeto]

Here's a laugh back to ya!

[pillut48]

Bwahahaha!! I really needed that! :-)
I've been arguing with some 'stuck on stupid'
moonbats on a newsgroup and it's really like
beating my head against a brick wall.
Thanks for the laugh.

[evets]

[Logical me]

So, whats new. If you are aware of the industry, timelines, etc., almost all news broadcast are staged. It's just the way it is. Even reporters are basically selected to ask questions on most all interviews. Watch the hands and what is in them, a script of questions. Damn! Even the Democrats stage events on the Senate floor. Both sides do, but the CRATS are so predictable it is a joke.

[DoctorRansom]

Cursed members of the Religious Right -- always walking on water and forcing the media members to use other means.

Dr. Ransom
FaithFusion.net
Independent-sighted, yet Right-minded

[eddiemunster]

Go to newsbusters.org and click on video link.

[elhombrelibre]

Outstanding, really. The MSM stages the news.

[MizSterious]

I can tell you that during a hurricane watch in Corpus Christi (the hurricane actually hit far to the south, in Mexico), some newsies were taping while being "rained" on with a water hose off-camera. It was cloudy that day, but dry.

[Bacon Man]

It doesn't get much funnier than this.

[johnmecainrino]

The best reaction is one of the guys walking by is laughing. Her he is walking in very shallow water and she is in a canoe.

[DoctorRansom]

The "mainstream" of these outmoded media is just as deep.

Dr. Ransom
FaithFusion.net
Independent-sighted, yet Right-minded

[Rebelbase]

ROTF Bump! Someone please ping me to the video when it's posted.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Thanks for the laugh...

[Charles Henrickson]

Uh . . . uh. . . . There must be a deep drop-off just behind those guys. Yeah, that's it!

[linkinpunk]

Didn't something similiar happen in Al Gore's campaign?

[Charles Henrickson]

Watery tart alert?

[JoJo Gunn]

I'd like to break that story.

[SwinneySwitch]

Michelle, ma belle
These are words that go together well
My Michelle

[Charles Henrickson]

Get Mary Mapes on this right away!

[dead]

Thanks! I didn't realize they had the video.

The funniest thing is that the dingbat just plows on ahead, talking about how it's difficult to control a canoe, even after the guys walk by her!

[evets]

Can someone get this to Rush Limbaugh? He's on the Bush 'staged' event now.

[tumblindice]

Stone Phillips: "As you can see, this Chevrolet pick-up burst into a fireball after a negligible side-impact . . . Wanna see it again?"

Bystander: "Hey, what're those things taped to the gas tank? Are those fireworks?"

Stone Phillips: "Next week we take on music downloaders."

[Charles Henrickson]

Main Stream Media, right! LOL!

[cgk]

Priceless. Also the top story on Michelle Malkin's website currently. :)

Malkin ping! (laugh break!)

[Jhensy]

Her she is with her staff.

[bray]

When did she get back from New Orleans?? Canoe w/o paddle!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[truthandlife]

I saw this today also. Actually the Today Show made fun of themselves this morning by showing the footage again. They had just finished an interview with the mother of 17 kids and Al Roucker came on and Couric was standing there with him with the weather map in the background. Katie was acting like the weatherman and said she had not done that before and then they showed the video in the background of the canoe with the 2 men walking by and everyone laughed. It was pretty funny.

[RogerWilko]

Send that to Rush right NOW! He would probably like that, and he's talking about the "staging" right NOW!

[RobFromGa]

at least someone could ping the FReeper that wrote this whole thing for NewsBuster-- governsleastgovernsbest aka Mark Finkelstein

[elhombrelibre]

Watch the clip on www.newsbusters.org

She doesn't even think to change her script and goes into how hard it is to paddle a canoe in waters like this.

[A message]

Makes you wonder for how long they've been doing things like this and getting away with it before there was the internet, blogs, and FR to call them on it.

It has been a long time, a long time.

I'll never forget catching CNN in a hotel room around 3/22/04 and the talking head was grilling Gov. Murkowski about off shore drilling he had just opened off of ANWR. All the while the grilling was going on CNN was showing pictures of bambi and beautiful Alaskan valleys and what not.

Only thing is, these pictures had to be several hundred miles south of ANWR. They sure were not pictures of ANWR which is arctic Alaska and its biome is tundra.

The propaganda emanating from our TV sets requires eternal vigilance to watch it and find any real truth from what is seen.

[Minnesocold]

Send that to Rush right NOW! He would probably like that, and he's talking about the "staging" right NOW!

I emailed to rush@eibnet.com. I'm not a 24/7 member currently, so any members are encouraged to send to his private address.

[CodeToad]

BUSTED! Reporters are nothing buy liars, trained to do so in "journalism" schools.

[elhombrelibre]

Hey, looks like you did ping him.

[Clemenza]

That b-tch interviewed me a few years back at an anti-Clinton rally.

[RogerWilko]

I sent Rush a link to this thread, let's see if he checks it out!

[fhlh]

haha... great movie!

NBC can stick it where the sun don't shine.... actually... it shines there allot since they are always showing their a$$...

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I'm glad to see the story getting play, but please note that I posted the story this morning when I originally wrote it for NewsBusters:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502290/posts

PS: it is so frustrating to hear Rush just this minute say he'd like to find examples of the media staging events. As others have mentioned, it would be great if someone could get the story to Ruh.

[Romish_Papist]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[uncitizen]

What was their excuse? Did they say she was just protecting her $400 shoes? I think not.

[UB355]

Too funny