North Pole fables

Voice of the Times ^ | 4 May 08 | The Editors

[GATOR NAVY]

ON THE NBC nightly news there was a heart-throb report of an attractive British teen-ager who had skied across the North Pole with her father to demonstrate how the Arctic ice pack is receding in the face of global warming. Oh, horror. Oh, how terrible.

The pictures were beautiful: Her pretty face, her gentle smile, her soft voice, her snow-crusted parka, the blue skies, the brilliant white ice, the cascading chunks of ice calving from glaciers, the two penguins standing on an ice flow.

Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?

Not that we ever heard of.

So much for science, as reported by NBC News.

[GATOR NAVY]

The video is here here in the "Our Planet" section. The penguins are at about 00:50. I guess at NBC when you have a story about the North Pole any footage with some ice will do.

[GATOR NAVY]

For your ping list.

[Fiddlstix]

Penguins at the North Pole
Ping

[Fox_Mulder77]

Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?

This is yet another example of climate change: penguins are now migrating from the south pole to the north pole.

[Richard Kimball]

I checked to see if there were any penguins in the northern hemisphere and found this:

[SandRat]

NBC & GoreGoones on skis wouldn’t lie... nah,...

[TheWasteLand]

Those aren’t penguins, they’re poor climate scientists who got badly burned thanks to the ozone hole.

[GATOR NAVY]

Yeah... that’s the ticket!

[PA Engineer]

Eastern Conference Finals bound!

[aShepard]

And, at the lead-in, it appears to be a penguin in the foreground, human in the background!

[nuconvert]

They show penguins twice.

[eggman]

Either the editors at NBC are ignorant or they think their viewers are and just wouldn’t notice.

[GATOR NAVY]

You’re right. I missed the penguins in the lead-in too.

[Bender2]

Simple explanation, campers. When NBC stick their heads... up their arses, they see penguins!

[Eagles6]

That is just too much.

[pyrless]

We’re back to “fake but true” being OK — somebody let Dan Rather know.

[nuconvert]

“Either the editors at NBC are ignorant or they think their viewers are and just wouldn’t notice.”

Yes on both counts

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Further in the sappy video, it says she had to learn to shoot a gun in case of a polar bear attach. How could they even consider shooting a poor polar bear when they are endangered? They should simply sacrifice themselves — for the sake of the bears.

[wastedyears]

=o

Wow

[irishtenor]

I love it in the commercials when the polar bears and the penguins share a coke. It gives me a warm feeling all over. Hey, maybe THAT’S the Global Warming everybody is talking about.

[USMA '71]

Personally, I would have enjoyed the clip a lot more if the young lady had a chance to “give a polar bear a hug” as she said after learning how to shoot a rifle. That would surely have made for some “documentary” quality film.

[teacherwoes]

We're just here for the dance

[WarEagle]

Maybe she’s auditioning to replace Grizzly Man!

[davisfh]

"Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole?"

Truth is relative.

[ConservativeMind]

Now that is pretty funny!

NBC just took their footage and ran with it, never doubting the source?

[MIT-Elephant]

No worry. THey’ll just label this “fake but accurate” and say it reflects the truth even if it isn’t the actual truth. Assistant producer: Rigoberta Menchu.

[Young Werther]

Is that a window of opportunity Richard?

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOLOL! Thanks for the ping!

[tomkat]

[xone]

Now there’s a Penguin I could get behind.

[irishtenor]

Ha!

[doug from upland]

I think most FReeper males would be southern conference bound.

[dead]

Actual photo from my journey to the lowland rainforests of Nepal, where the penguins have all been killed for their ivory tusks:

[GATOR NAVY]

where the penguins have all been killed for their ivory tusks

OMG! Where can I send my hard earned cash to help stop this holocaust?

[Swordmaker]

Are those Hillary’s hugely Hippos in the lower right corner?

[dr_lew]

“Very well! suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal
ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour,
and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be
a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd,
but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams’ of war,
whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.
Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over
and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced;
which is just within the bounds of possibility.”

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[PA Engineer]

Never heard of it. ;-)

[paristwelve]

I’ve had people call me an idiot, and get very indignant after I informed them that there aren’t penguins at the North Pole. One person told me that they had seen penguins there, in Movies!! LoL

[saganite]

The World Turned Upside Down.

[ops33]

They also have a video link showing Hillary and Obama with the title “Down to the wire in Indiana and S.C.” I think they mean Indiana and N.C.

[investigateworld]

LOL !!!

Even got the Oldsmobile in.

[BluH2o]

I guess at NBC when you have a story about the North Pole any footage with some ice will do.

As they say in the news business ... 'don't let facts get in the way of a good news story.'

[ConservativeDude]

that’ll definitely threaten the ice cap