Posted on 08/24/2006 11:22:46 AM PDT by CedarDave
NEW YORK -- A notorious prank caller and Howard Stern fan from North Wales, Pa., managed to get onto CNN's "The Situation Room" and was interviewed about the Ramsey case.
In a live phone interview Tuesday with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Thomas Cipriano pretended to be Wendy Hutchens, a California woman claiming that five years ago she had detailed chats about the death of JonBenet Ramsey with murder suspect John Mark Karr, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
"Wendy Hutchens is joining us on the phone right now," Blitzer told viewers. "Wendy, thanks very much for doing this. Tell our viewers how you got involved with John Mark Karr." The fake Wendy then proceeded to explain that she met Karr through a relative.
"So then what happened after that?" Blitzer pressed. "When did the e-mail, when did the talk of JonBenet Ramsey begin?" The fake Wendy replied, "It started around September of 2001, when he told me that he knew more about the JonBenet Ramsey case than what anybody else had known -- and that he was instructed to kill JonBenet by Howard Stern."
At which point Blitzer ended the interview, saying, "All right. Well, that sounds like we've just been Howard Sterned, as they say."
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If Wendy had been bashing Bush the interview would have continued.
CNN and Stern....they deserve each other.
LOL, but I have to believe if she substituted Limbaugh for Stern, Wolf would have believed it.
Actually, something similar happened on Fox hears ago. When the Egyptian man killed someone at El Al terminal at LAX over July 4th weekend, IIRC. (Not sure I have event detail right above.) Someone called in as a consultant and it was totally a crank call. The anchor said something similar to what Wolf did. It happens.
Baba booey to ya all!
It was the first Gulf war and "Wuff" was standing by the runway at a Saudi Arabian airbase. USAF figters were taking off. Wuff stated that the fighters were acceleerating with their "...thruster burners aglow..."
Wuffie the Wookie forgot to announce "warp speed!" and we USAFers knew that Wuffie was an Air Farce force to be recounded with!
Since when does the MSM require credible 'experts' on anything when 'making' the news?
I believe it is called Captain Jacked
That was so damn funny! "Da man looky pretty scared!"
Context please. Don't understand the phrase or reference.
A classic
Jennings: We have on the phone with us as well Robert Higgins, who lives in the neighborhood and is on the ground and can see inside the van. Mr. Higgins.
Caller: Ah, yeass, ah, how are you?
Jennings: Ah, just about as tense as you are, sir.
Caller: Oh, my Lord, this is quite tenses.
Jennings: What can you see?
Caller: Ah, what I'm lookin' at ri' now is I'm lookin' at the van, and I see OJ kinna' slouchin' down lookin' very very upset. Now lookee here, he look very upset. I don' know what gon' be doin'.
Jennings: Can you... can you... can you see him doing anything specific? Is he merely sitting there?
Caller: He is just a-sittin' 'round, you know, just a-lookin' like he be very nervous
Jennings: Can you hear anything, Mr. Higgins?
Caller: It's just too much commotion, I here in the back of a news van, so I can' really hear that goo' but I can see it all. An' I see OJ. I see OJ, man, and he looks scared. An' I would be scared 'cause there's cops all deep in this.
Jennings: Thank you, Mr. Higgins.
Caller: An' Bobba Bouey to y'all!
Jennings: The driveway of O. J. Simpson's home in Brentwood... Clearly an effort being made to have him come out of the vehicle... In the doorway of the house: his friend, Al Cowlings...
Michaels: Peter, by the way, just for the record, this is Al Michaels. That was a totally farsical call.
Caller: Ah!
Jennings: Ahm.
Michaels: Lest anybody think that that was somebody who was truly across the street that was not. He said something in code at the end that's indicitave of the mentioning of the name of a certain radio talk show host.
caller: Ah!
Jennings: OK, thanks.
Michaels: He was not there.
Jennings: OK, we have them on every coast. Thank you very much.
No, that's a Billy Joel song!
Context please. Don't understand the phrase or reference.
Ah, Peter, he is referring to a crank caller during the OJ Simpson chase with Peter Jennings and Al Michaels
Good Memories.
Thanks
I'm no fan of CNN but I certainly don't think these little childish pranks are funny at all.
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Back when that guy (Ferguson?) shot up the Long Island commuter train, someone called CNN and stated that Ferguson was shouting "Baba Booey!" between shots...
Jack Hausman:Can you imagine whoever this monkey is, that wants to make monkey love to Howard Stern, has already made love to the Devil!
There's some value, however, in forcing these smug news networks to publicly advertise their amateurish standards for screening sources. The lesson is, we can't tell how many other witness/insider call-in interviews are totally fake, because the networks never seem to catch on until (IOW unless) the caller hollers something about "Howard Stern" or "Babba Booey". Callers who actually want to foist disinformation on the public won't do that.
And a bababooey to you all.
Gee, you know, I've always wondered about my screen name..
I see OJ and he's look'in mighty scared.
A few years before that, there was a private boat burning off the East cost, with people in the water.
CNN received a call from a "US Navy Admrial", who explained that The Navy had intercepted the distress call and was pulling 13 people out of the water.
The CNN talking head began to ask questions and received a very detailled, five-minute explanation about what was going on. Finally, Talking Head asked why the people jumped into the water and the "Admiral" responded,
"Because Howard Stern told them to."
Talking Head sat there and hung his head for about five seconds ;)
Anybody stupid enough to air live interviews with unverified sources DESERVES to get "Sterned".
I can't stand that news story. I think it's a sick story. When will we have bigger news - so that this one story will be over?
Are you an accountant who has had his funny bone removed? It is a national requirement to be a CPA.
Are Stern fans just all brain-damaged or what? I thought he was interesting for about 6 months, then realized he had nothing new to say about anything.
I'm not a Howard Stern listener, but I have to admit, the prank phone calls to news networks are hilarious. There's one on ebaumsworld where a caller tells a CNN anchor after a two minute interview that a forest fire was started by Howard Stern's intestinal gas. She gets really angry. It's classic.
You called that right. Anytime there's Bush bashing, they get front row seat.
There is a difference between good natured pranks and ridiculing someone...and this was simply a way to make fun of me, my company and my small town. Laughter at my expense.
Needless to say, ever since then, I can not STAND that kind of thing if people don't give permission for it to be broadcast. Imo, it is morally reprehensible if the entire point is to humiliate others intentionally and without their knowledge.
Please note: I will personally shoot anyone who says "That was you?" in response to this post. Please, leave me with a glimmer of hope that he was just pervert and no one else heard it. LOL
LOL
No I'm one of those Vietnam combat veteran types. However, you are trying, unsuccessfully, to compare two very different events.
Cap'n Janks is GREAT! His best stunt was when he scammed Peter Jennings just following the OJ Bronco chase.
More proff..msm just goes with stories and fake photos....... Sensational fly by media.
proff= proof
There's a YouTube clip too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uecHipD0nPY
Oh, no!
We've been BaBaStooey'd!!!
About 10 years ago on the local Steve and DC Radio Show, there was a gentleman named Dave Esposito that did a spot-on voice impersonation of Tom Brokaw. He would call a celebrity from time to time; I know he fooled at least a couple of them.
He actually managed to get through to Oprah and was having a conversation with her, and after awhile she said something to the effect of "I'm told that there's an impersonator of you calling around, so what's your wife's name?"
He got the answer right, pleading with her that it was really him. She then asked for his children's names. He got those right, too. She then said, "What are their ages?"
"Tom" then quickly said, "Well, it's been good talking with you, but I gotta go." I was crying from laughing so hard.
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