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Raccoon that 'attacked' news crews on White House lawn sparks viral jokes
The Hill ^
| 09 28 2020
| BROOKE SEIPEL
Posted on 09/28/2020 1:29:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
White House reporters are used to getting attacked as "fake news" these days, but on Monday several were reportedly "attacked" in a whole new way: by an angry raccoon.
In an incident that sparked viral jokes on Twitter, CBS's Paula Reid said a raccoon on the White House lawn had "attacked multiple news crews."
"Strong Pawnee vibes at White House this morning as a raccoon attacked multiple news crews on North Lawn. allegedly grabbed pant leg of a photographer & then a corespondent [sic] before being fended off," she tweeted, referring to the fictional town of Pawnee, Ind. from the sitcom "Parks and Recreation," where raccoons are a frequent nuisance.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; media; newscrew; paulareid; raccoon; seebs; twitter; twitterjail; whitehouse
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They were wearing masks:
"Strong Pawnee vibes at White House this morning as a raccoon attacked multiple news crews on North Lawn. Raccoon allegedly grabbed pant leg of a photographer & then a corespondent before being fended off. (WH RaccoonRaccoon Raccoon pictured here in more peaceful times.)"
Paula Reid CBS
To: yesthatjallen
I hope the raccoon didn’t catch anything from coming into contact with the rabid press animals.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:31:13 PM PDT
by
euram
To: yesthatjallen
Smart raccoon.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:31:33 PM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(America has a DemocRat and RINO problem.)
To: yesthatjallen
No one worries about rabies?
To: yesthatjallen
Wondering how the press was going to spin Trump having coons at the White house.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:32:26 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: yesthatjallen
Raccoons are pretty smart and appear to be a damn good judge of character too!!
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:33:06 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: yesthatjallen
Just trash pandas going after trash!
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:33:27 PM PDT
by
kaktuskid
To: Pearls Before Swine
The press is already rabid.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:33:45 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Was gonna say, when you see raccoons out in broad daylight acting weird it is almost always rabies.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:33:49 PM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: yesthatjallen
Raccoons know road kill when they see it
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:34:23 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
To: yesthatjallen
"There is a racoon outside my door..... and it is an alpha!"
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:34:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: yesthatjallen
Raccoons always vote Conservative...
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:34:51 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
To: yesthatjallen
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:34:59 PM PDT
by
Bratch
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: yesthatjallen
Raccoons for notorious for stealing mail-in ballots.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:35:46 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
To: yesthatjallen
That raccoon is darn lucky It encountered leftists near the White House and not at one of these Black Lives Matter rallies. There was a video a couple months ago of some hapless raccoon that wandered in to one of these Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and the leftists ran over it twice with cars and crippled it so the thing couldn’t run (Broke its back I think) and then gleefully be the thing to death with a baseball bat to the cheers of the crowd.
I know raccoons are considered to be vermin, but there was something joyful in the way they dispatched it, as if it was blood sport.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:36:20 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
To: yesthatjallen
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:37:01 PM PDT
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: yesthatjallen
Seen earlier dropping from Jerry Nadler’s pant leg.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:37:02 PM PDT
by
coaster123
(Hate has a home here.)
To: Bratch
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:37:03 PM PDT
by
Bratch
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: yesthatjallen
Rumor has it, Raccoons have Biden’s marbles in a lock box.
They sold off his testicles to the squirrels.
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posted on
09/28/2020 1:37:04 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
To: yesthatjallen
All those reporters and no current pictures? Fake news.
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