inthebluelot

April 21st, 2013 at 9:07 PM ^

I think the worst on-air meltdown I've seen has to be either the first debate between Romney and Obama this past year when Barack seemed to be only able to say the word "ummm" or any public speech given by Sarah Palin. - I'm hopeful that someone doesn't complain about this being a political post or that I favor either party. That is all.

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MGoneBlue

April 22nd, 2013 at 2:45 PM ^

OMG you said Politician I Like is a terrible speaker!  This offends me to very core of my being and I will now engage in nasty, sophomoric ad hominem attacks until this thread is entirely hijacked and devolves into a total flame war!!!!!111!!!!

We have the no politics rule for a reason.

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Blazefire

April 21st, 2013 at 9:18 PM ^

I can't help but wonder if something wasn't deeply screwed up with their on air countdown signals. Nobody, even an amature, should be THAT unaware that they're about to go live.

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snoopblue

April 21st, 2013 at 9:37 PM ^

Ahhhh the internet...making a random North Dakota station temporarily relevant. Awesome for us, sucks for that guy. He does have his own little hashtag now. #KEEPAJ

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Swayze Howell Sheen

April 22nd, 2013 at 11:40 AM ^

this was the funniest thing i've seen in a while.

spoiler alert - here is the transcript::

<newscaster voice> what really happened on that thursday here at augusta high school that lead to Chris Woods' death? </newscaster voice>

[weird spitting sound as bug flys into his mouth]

<othervoice>

what the fuck is that? [spits again] shit!

i'm dying in this fucking country-assed fucked up town.

shit flying in my mouth! the fuck?

I can't see! pile of...

let's get the fuck out of this country motherfucker. I can't see... [wipes mouth]

</othervoice>

 

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M-Dog

April 22nd, 2013 at 8:56 AM ^

The scary part is that his "fucking shit" line was the most professional part of his whole broadcast.  It actually got worse from there.

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Skunkeye

April 22nd, 2013 at 11:56 AM ^

That's nothing.  I grew up in a small market town and the News / Weather / Sports anchors were always new.  If after a year they could somehow manage to string two coherent sentences together, they would get hired by some slightly bigger market and the next newbie would be rolled out.  It wasn't unusually for a debut to consist of completely freezing up like a deer in the headlights and not being able to speak a single word.  You get 30 seconds of that and then you're talking about awkward.  Get two frozen ones at once and you have a contest of which one is going to faint first with a cameraman bouncing back and forth clearly enjoying the situation and likely having a bet on which would wet themselves, swear, or pass out first. After a while you realize that it makes for a more entertaining show than the news anyway.

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MGoBrewMom

April 22nd, 2013 at 12:05 PM ^

Sounds like he is gone from that gig. So...while I laughed pretty hard, I kinda see what happened. Dude was trying to pronounce an unusual name as he was preparing, and was having difficulty...thus the "fucking shit" comment..and the Mic was on....and then...there ya have it. Now he is out of a job. Good thing I haven't been fired for saying that when i was frustrated at work.

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