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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Some Incredible Unintentional Comedy.

I could not locate a link to this videos, so you will have to take my word for it.
On Wednesday December 17th I sat down to watch the news. I love Chuck Scarborough and I always thought he was the consummate news anchor so I flipped on NBC Newschannel 4. Scarborough was off for some unknown reason and a black man was his replacement. This guy was a good filler, he was professional, loquacious, and had flair. He was on a roll until we got to the end of the broadcast. He introduced a story like this.
"Some startling new news about cancer, here is so and so with the new study." At this point I am thinking that we will be hearing about how drinking tea or lemonade will reduce the risk of cancer in men. But I got a whole lot more than I bargained for. This reporter, who is caucasian, broke us a story about how African-Americans are 50% more likely to get cancer than white people. She went on for about 3-4 minutes about this story. At the end of the story the camera immediately panned to the black news anchor. He took it in stride and delivered the next story about a 65 year old woman with glaucoma who smokes weed. I loved every second of it.

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