Video: Priorities, MSM style
posted at 12:39 pm on June 9, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Jay Leno made fun of this clip last night on the Tonight Show. It deserves to be preserved for posterity.
Update: Can’t tell for sure, but the guy heard screaming here must be the same freak Shep Smith was goofing on yesterday.
Update: Yup, it’s him.
Update: Jim Treacher e-mails with the mystery man’s identity.
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“Paris Hilton, blah-blah-blah…Oh by the way, JCS chairman is being replaced…Paris Hilton, blah-blah-blah…”
We’re doomed.
flipflop on June 9, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Jimmy Kimmel played it too, funny stuff.
V15J on June 9, 2007 at 1:02 PM
We are looking at this all wrong. Green light thinking people!
Option 1: We need to appoint Paris as our special envoy to Iran. She would be the perfect one to negotiate the threat of atomic weapons in the hands of Islamic wackos.
Option 2: Offer to trade Paris to Mexico for 12 million hard-working immigrants. I understand shallow blondes are popular on Mexican TV.
Option 3: Create a third party to run in ‘08… Rosie/Paris ‘08. All the tinfoil in the world…. I know Paris isn’t 35 but we can make an exception in times of crisis. Just picture the debate questions from Chris Matthews.
mkstach on June 9, 2007 at 1:08 PM
They had clips of that dude on RedEye. Meh, I kinda feel bad for focusing on this crap, Ace sorta shamed me into it. I kinda feel bad that Allah’s Iraq updates got ignored…sorry about that.
Bad Candy on June 9, 2007 at 1:16 PM
They were good posts…
Bad Candy on June 9, 2007 at 1:18 PM
Yes American MSM is bonkers, but the reaction to the thread yesterday was blowing off steam. It was a long week with the Shamnesty war and I think it provided some needed relief. Sorta like humping robots and Knut!
Limerick on June 9, 2007 at 1:19 PM
lol!
“NOOOOOOOOO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!!”
That guy is a comic genius.
JinxMcHue on June 9, 2007 at 1:19 PM
Yeah, that same guy ends up even closer behind the guy and makes funny faces, including at one point trying to look like (thanks to camera perspective) he’s kissing the speaker on the cheek. He stands with mouth-agape for a while, and then screams that she looked totally hot (or something to that effect).
Silly. Shep. Smith was probably right in saying that he was a plant, perhaps for some planned TV show.
eforhan on June 9, 2007 at 1:24 PM
Argh… missed the link in the head post which points to that very video. Mea culpa.
eforhan on June 9, 2007 at 1:26 PM
The guy was a plant from Jimmy Kimmel. I thought it was hilarious, this needs to be seen for the joke that it is, not hard news.
bmac on June 9, 2007 at 1:58 PM
AP, and others… I’m disappointed that no one seems to know that “that guy” acting like a nutty fan or whatever, is from Kimmel. I haven’t watched that show in probably a year or two, but that guy used to do the same stuff at Michael Jackson court appearances, etc. and was always on Kimmel talking about it and showing the footage.
Now, I can even understand AP and commenters here not being familiar with the guy… but how can the media, with all their resources, be so out to lunch? I wanted to punch Shep in the face (more than usual) yesterday while he talked about the guy, acting like he was some sort of genius for figuring out the guy wasn’t “real”. Anyway, it’s just really strange that this guy has been out there doing this for Kimmel for at least a couple years, and somehow now they’re acknowledging seeing him, and none of them know who he is?
RightWinged on June 9, 2007 at 2:11 PM
Speaks volumes for parts of our society, doesn’t it.
It’s all about the priorities. Popcorn please, and a large root beer!
Kini on June 9, 2007 at 2:15 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Barbieri
Jim Treacher on June 9, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Man this whole episode needs to go down in the guiness book as the biggest waste of perfectly good electrons in recorded history!
sonnyspats1 on June 9, 2007 at 2:27 PM
We get closer and closer to “Idiocracy” all the time.
hadsil on June 9, 2007 at 2:28 PM
OT—well, it IS about video.
FOX just ran about 2 minutes of terrorist propaganda video (of humvees, etc. being blown up–you remember them) during a discussion of the replacement for Gen. Pace.
Sent them an email complaining, but I’m wondering what the hell gives.
IrishEi on June 9, 2007 at 2:30 PM
Jimmy Kimmel has a show?
Buzzy on June 9, 2007 at 2:33 PM
…and a national
rootbrain canal…Entelechy on June 9, 2007 at 2:47 PM
Yeah, and it has it’s moments too… Something about it has caused me to stop being a regular viewer (I like Conan), but I did watch it semi-regularly a couple years ago… You don’t get much funnier than “This week in unnecessary censorship” (example)
RightWinged on June 9, 2007 at 3:33 PM
He is. I wish I had thought of that.
AtomicAmish on June 9, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Ratings mania, huh?
Well, Allah, I counted 5 Paris Hilton posts all on a single Hotair webpage. Are you sure you’re not doing to increase ratings here on HA?
;-)
Kokonut on June 9, 2007 at 8:37 PM
“Everyone in the world is dead”
……Details after Paris applies her makeup …..
fogw on June 9, 2007 at 10:22 PM