Video: They must be polar bears in disguise Update: MS-NBC edits video
posted at 11:20 am on May 6, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Update: MS-NBC edited out the penguins. I’m checking to see if I can find another source.
MS-NBC had to go around the world to get its story on global warming yesterday. In fact, they had to substitute the North Pole for the South Pole. At the 45-second mark in this story about the disappearing ice at the top of the world, take a look at the critters they show on an ice floe:
Those, folks, are penguins — which live at the bottom of the earth, as Nigel points out. The “expanses of water that weren’t there before” were actually never there at the North Pole. All 17 species of penguins live in the southern hemisphere.
Why would penguins make the long and rather warm journey across the equator to appear in an MS-NBC story about global warming?
- Escaping the expanding ice cap at the South Pole
- Conducting their own investigation into polar-bear migration
- MS-NBC’s editors don’t know one pole from another
Something got exposed in this broadcast — scientific illiteracy at MS-NBC.
Update: Via Lawhawk, here’s another example of Michelle Kosinski’s expert reporting on climate extremes:
Note the depth of the water, as measured by the ankles of men walking past Kosinski during this flood in New Jersey.
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Maybe they were polar bears in disguise.
Slublog on May 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM
It could be the Gallup Pole for all they know.
mymanpotsandpans on May 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Heh. Didn’t mean to copy the headline there.
Bad commenter…bad, bad commenter…
Slublog on May 6, 2008 at 11:25 AM
OMFG, LMFAO, HAHHAHHAHAHAAAA!
I swear to God I NOW know why people ASK me where the damn Penguins are. THANKS NBC!
I am about to pee my pants!
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Also at the 11 second mark.
wise_man on May 6, 2008 at 11:28 AM
Was that a Friday stupid video…oh, uh, never mind.
Big John on May 6, 2008 at 11:28 AM
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that those penguins are a new breed of polar bear, and anyone who does not agree is a racist who thinks the earth is flat.
John the Libertarian on May 6, 2008 at 11:28 AM
If we allow facts to derail the Global Warming movement we will all be cannibals by 2010.
Limerick on May 6, 2008 at 11:29 AM
lol - pass that tabasco sauce.
John the Libertarian on May 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM
I hate the Penguins, especially Malkin and Crosby….plus, they were offside on that overtime goal.
kcluva on May 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM
snorting here LOL
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Was watching a “7 wonders of America” special today.
Imagine my surprise when they showed Anwar. hahahaha
faraway on May 6, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Hmmm and isn’t that cut of ice falling from a glacier been debunked as a piece from a disaster movie( no not an Inconvenient Fabrication) movie?. Oh and -40 degrees darn that global warming.
MNDavenotPC on May 6, 2008 at 11:32 AM
How exactly do you spell ANWR?
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 11:32 AM
You mean she carried a gun in case she had to shoot a defenseless polar bear? The nerve…
As for the penguins (that is too funny) maybe they were just a couple of guys in tuxedos, heard in the distance saying “I’m not your buddy, guy!”
JetBoy on May 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM
Kosinski, the “reporter” in this piece, is the same woman who famously had to use a canoe to cover a flood in Wayne, New Jersey only to watch a couple of guys wade through the same water in front of her as it was ankle high.
lawhawk on May 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM
shhhhh, don’t let the rest of the world know they are being had!
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM
The MSM is trying to relive their glory days before bloggers could challenge them. They are failing.
Just last week, ABC News did a similar thing. On a story about Anwar, they used a clip of a massive oil refinery to document how an oil rig would would spoil the arctic environment.
Corky Boyd on May 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM
and weren’t ALL of the rainforests supposed to be gone by now?
kirkill on May 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM
ANWR, A ‘Nother Worthless Reserve
kirkill on May 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM
“I’m not you’re guy, friend.”
Esthier on May 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM
That was a good one! I am actually chuckling!
Wow, why people can’t figure out ANWR (there isn’t a War up here people) is beyond me!
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Polar Bears look like penguins when their disgusted by their melting ice.
ninjapirate on May 6, 2008 at 11:41 AM
To get to the other side.
I always had a feeling there was truth in that answer!
Shy Guy on May 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM
Thanks for watching MS-NBC, so I don’t have to…
Right_of_Attila on May 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM
whoa
take a look at Camilla, the 15 yr old featured in the story
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=118218&in_page_id=34
windansea on May 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM
“I’m not your friend, buddy!”
heh…remember, at the end of that episode they did float the two guys off on an iceberg…
JetBoy on May 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM
They’re clearly on vacation.
Tanya on May 6, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Another take on NBC this morning was the reporter in ANWR saying that the debate over drilling the ‘tiny’ amount of oil there continues. I guess there are just 1/2 pints of oil instead of barrels.
Limerick on May 6, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Honest to God, I just thought of that “reporter in a canoe” bit about an hour ago before I noticed this post. Before then, I haven’t even thought of it since way back when it actually happened. You Hot Air folk have some voodoo doodoo goin’ on there. :)
Coronagold on May 6, 2008 at 11:46 AM
The story is just to good (as in politically correct) not to be true. Those penguins? Artistic license. Ignore them. They distract from the
propagandastory.Lawrence on May 6, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Yeah. Good episode. I love how Canadians have flip top heads.
Esthier on May 6, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Well these are what people think are “Arctic Penguins”
Only problems is they fly.. and swim.. and like to poop on you.
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Well, since I got taken to task yesterday by a parent for being “political” by denying AGW, this is quite timely for me. I should send her the link.
Bob's Kid on May 6, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Dude (?!)
Simonsez on May 6, 2008 at 11:55 AM
“Camilla Hempleman-Adams with an ice clock in Parliament Square - highlighting how time is running out to save the ice caps”
Reminds me of the “Doomsday Clock,” currently stands at five minutes to midnight. The analogy originally represented the threat of global nuclear war, but has since evolved to include nuclear weapons, climate-changing technologies and “new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm.”
The clock, just moments from running out of time are symbols that the left uses that is meant to scare, based on faulty logic that has never come to pass. No worldwide destruction happened from nuclear weapons, and no worldwide destruction of the planet from driving cars.
wise_man on May 6, 2008 at 11:57 AM
… And in addition to this ridiculous use of stock footage of ice purportedly to show the north pole - it’s also similar to what MoveOn PAC and the DNC website used stock footage of Canadians to supposedly show Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
LOL.
wise_man on May 6, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Is Kosinski the designated deceiver for NBC or what?
drjohn on May 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Just more prep work for the upcoming election. “Truth? we don’t need no stinking truth”
Activist journalism in action!
dmann on May 6, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Irony: Getting frost bite on your ass while doing a story on global warming!
redshirt on May 6, 2008 at 12:05 PM
I used to have respect for Lester. Guess he needs the money.
easy on May 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM
I for one love penguins. They taste a lot like spotted owl.
rbj on May 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM
“
ParsonsKosinki was Winston’s fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth.HeShe was a fattish but activemanwoman of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.”- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2
wccawa on May 6, 2008 at 12:11 PM
in a canoe?
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Maybe they brought the penguins to the north pole in order to feed the starving polar bears?
MarkTheGreat on May 6, 2008 at 12:16 PM
God help us, PLEASE!
winemkr on May 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Operation Chaos goes global!
profitsbeard on May 6, 2008 at 12:23 PM
The Penguin???
It was Opus… looking for his Mom again… and lost, as usual…
My favorite part was when she had to Ski 60 whole MILES to get to the North Pole… gee… I thought the Arctic was a bit bigger than that…
Romeo13 on May 6, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Excuse me…. that should have been 80 whole miles.
Romeo13 on May 6, 2008 at 12:25 PM
My God things are going to Heck! The poor Penguins are getting stuck on ice flows and floating from pole to pole!
TheBigOldDog on May 6, 2008 at 12:27 PM
She will be joined by her renowned explorer father, David, who has scaled the highest mountain on every continent and been to the North Pole nine times.
striper1 on May 6, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Regarding Michelle Kosinski’s report: if there’s flooding in Wayne, New Jersey, that’s nothing new. I’m from New Jersey, and the Wayne area is well-known by Jerseyites as a notorious, repeatedly flood-prone area, ever since greedy real-estate developers half-drained the swamps around the Passaic River in the 1960’s to put up “cheap” houses on “cheap”, flat land, that residents have had a hard time selling ever since. Every time there’s a heavy rain, Wayne is the first place to flood in New Jersey.
This has nothing to do with climate change. Scientific revelation to NBC: Water runs downhill. Always has, always will.
Steve Z on May 6, 2008 at 12:29 PM
OMG…OMG…Global warming is causing polar bears to convert into penguins!! This is way worse than Gore told us!
ihasurnominashun on May 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM
The real danger to Planet Earth: SELF-DESTRUCTIVE GLOBAL WARMISM IDIOCY!!
landlines on May 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM
So did she actually make it to the North Pole or is she the Wrong-Way Corrigan of her generation and went to the South Pole?
On the other hand, if it was MSNBC’s shoddy use of stock footage, that would explain a lot.
James on May 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM
If you look closely at about the 1:17 mark, you can just make out the insta-frozen RAF helicopters falling to earth.
Bishop on May 6, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Um, it’s May. Isn’t the South Pole covered in darkness now? And the North Pole having midnight sun?
They would have had to bring their lights with them.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 6, 2008 at 12:39 PM
With respect, the footage at :45 was clearly archive footage, and not from what this girl has been filming. The screenshot they use for the headline in the piece is a still of the same footage.
I’ll agree it’s stupid, but not necessarily as nefarious as some might be making it out to be
Reaps on May 6, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Blammo.
Need to read these comments more thoroughly before I post..
Reaps on May 6, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Those penquins were laughing. Laughing at MSNBC.
Travis1 on May 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM
And what was the size of their carbon footprint to do it?
ToddonCapeCod on May 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Make-Up, boys, and the effect of global warming? Kinda put in in perspective, dunnit?
- The Cat
P.S. I’m going to the north pole to help the polar bears . . cept when I’m shootin em.
MirCat on May 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM
On top of the wuld, mum.
Cute, cute, warm and fuzzy blather.
RobCon on May 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM
natural selection. the penguins bloodthirst for polar bears and longing for the smaller floating ice cubes in the north is just another piece of darwinian proof. were next.
palefaced on May 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Yes it is stupid, but that is what is passing as scientific reporting today which it appears a hell of a lot of people are accepting. All of this crap reporting adds up to a great narrative that the unthinking masses take as absolute proof that we are hurting the planet.
redshirt on May 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Great catch Ed.
Please follow up on this. Maybe we can get an apology from MSLSD.
RobCon on May 6, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Hmmm…. my guess is they FLEW to within 80 miles of the Pole, and then “ski’d” the rest of the way…
Personel, supplies, any idea how much CARBON that put into the atmosphere? So a 15 year old British Valley Girl could make a statement about Global “Climate Change”?
I mean, it aint like there are commercial flights to the North Pole…. or did they hitch a ride with Santa?
Romeo13 on May 6, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 6, 2008 at 12:39 PM
The Sun isn’t at it’s Zenith as of yet… it is early May.. there is still darkness. But when you gain 20-30 minutes a day, it adds up fast!
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Please post a recipe.
RushBaby on May 6, 2008 at 1:14 PM
How about Roasted Penguin…
It is an actual recipe… LMFAO
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Fake but accurate
RobCon on May 6, 2008 at 1:19 PM
whoa
take a look at Camilla, the 15 yr old featured in the story
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=118218&in_page_id=34
windansea on May 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM
PROPHET! I say. You should show some due respect.
Otherwise known as the best pupil (for the next thouroughly brainwashed generation).
Sir Napsalot on May 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM
When asked to comment, Nobel Laureate Al Gore said “North pole, South pole whats the big deal, just flip the tele up-side-down and your good to go”
Activist journalism in action!
dmann on May 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Isn’t it time for people to start going to jail? We need to call for a Congressional investigation into the fraud of global warming. These propagandist are defrauding American taxpayers out of billions of dollars every year, we are approaching a trillion dollars that has been spent on this crap since the early 1980’s!
Here’s the latest news story of NASA cooking the books in favor of global warming. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THEY HAVE BEEN CAUGHT. This new scam is a little different than the last, this time they are slowly changing the temperature data, moving the older numbers down and the newer numbers up. Look at the before and after graphs on this page, what could be more obvious? This is all under the direction of one James E. Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute, a bought and paid for global warming advocate.
The global warmers have been caught red handed in one enormous lie after another, where is the FBI on this? Aren’t there laws against defrauding the U.S. government? Why isn’t congress doing its job to protect the American taxpayer? How is it that congress can turn a blind eye to all of this obvious and blatant fraud that is costing American taxpayers an arm and a leg?
Maxx on May 6, 2008 at 1:28 PM
I’m not your buddy, pal.
As for Michelle, I’d be happy to be pals with her, and I suspect that is what is driving production values at NBC. The pants monsters like the way she looks on camera, so the fact that she’s an idiot makes no difference. And make no mistake: she is an idiot.
Jaibones on May 6, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Polar bears are normally flatulent from gorging on seals, and their CO2 emissions cause ice caps to melt. Penguins build them back up. That’s why Earth has so many penguins.
Every thousand years or so polar bears and penguins trade poles to keep the ice caps in balance. That’s why polar bears are migrating and penguins are showing up at the North Pole. Too much ice on one pole, and the planet would fall off into space. — TIME Magazine
petefrt on May 6, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Reminds me of that group last year that tried to go to the North Pole to raise global warmongering awareness, but they didn’t make it due to severe weather! Good times!
Or the eco-cruise that went to the Antarctic, and the ship crashed into the ice and sank. Sweet irony revenge!
kirkill on May 6, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Obviously the penguins were fleeing the brutal Seal Rape Gangs terrorizing the Antarctic.
ronsfi on May 6, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Here’s a story from January of this year.
First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad
Maxx on May 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM
With these endless tons of ice melting I’m still trying to figure where the resulting water is going. I’ve lived next to the the Pacific Ocean during some of the worst times of global warming. But high tide still ends up at the same place. Is Al Gore putting the excess water in a lock box?
snaggletoothie on May 6, 2008 at 2:06 PM
displacement. there isnt really “resulting water” from melting ice. then again im not a scientist.
palefaced on May 6, 2008 at 2:10 PM
I’ve melted ice. Always ended up with water.
snaggletoothie on May 6, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Liberals have to have a cause. If there isn’t a real one easily available, they invent one.
docdave on May 6, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Liberals? Hell Conservatives and Independents can’t figure it out. I am going to spread it out because I think it is a general ignorance.
Yeah I have been there, I have seen it. Walked around Kaktovik (the village at the top of ANWR) and on the Tundra and Pingo’s in the area. But when people start saying things about ANWR I ask where they got their information from. As for them mispelling an acronym, I know they don’t know much about it and just correct them and go on with life.
upinak on May 6, 2008 at 2:27 PM
It just amazes me how low NBC and MSNBC have sunk when it comes to journalistic quality. I mean, NBC was once the home of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. They both have to be mutually spinning in their graves to see what has happened to that network.
pilamaye on May 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Attention MS-NBC editors…
Excrement / Shinola
Pick one and polish your wingtips.
whitetop on May 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM
http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/archimedesprinciple.html
ronsfi on May 6, 2008 at 3:04 PM
ronsfi thanks for the link. But I don’t see that it addresses a question such as, “If many land borne glacers melt significantly, won’t sea level rise?”
snaggletoothie on May 6, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Question: Recent polls have shown a fifth of American reporters can’t locate the North Pole on a world map. Why do you think this is?
Dusty on May 6, 2008 at 3:20 PM
When I was in the US Coast Guard, I was stationed aboard the USCGC Polar Sea WAGB-11, an ice breaker. I went to the North Pole twice, and the South Pole once.
Another thing I noticed about their contrived video report, was the fact that at about 30 seconds in, they show a barren cliff-like LAND MASS. There is NO LAND in the North Pole. There is land mass ONLY at the South Pole.
Anyway, more MSM suckage and shenanigans of the highest order to be sure.
SilverStar830 on May 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Those hacks at MSNBC have changed the video. No Penquins now. Not that I noticed in watching twice, anyhow.
Dusty on May 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM
I didn’t see any penguins at the 45 second mark. Am I just missing them or did MSNBC change the footage?
Spolitics on May 6, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Well I’ll be damned.
In the time it took me to upload my linked picture to Photobucket and type up my previousd comment, they edited the original video and DELETED the penguins on the ice flow.
BUT THE BARREN CLIFF-LIKE LAND MASS FROM THE SOUTH POLE IS STILL THERE.
What a bunch of agenda driven media scum bags!
SilverStar830 on May 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM
no penguins. Ed, did you save the original?
Ropera on May 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Um, I don’t see any penguins, just people on the ice, from a distance, pulling sleds, that sort of look like penguins. I think someone’s been pwned.
Over30 on May 6, 2008 at 3:44 PM
HERE IS THE ORIGINAL VIDEO, INCLUDING THE PENGUINS, and the original video border etc.
They edited it and replaced the penguins with a sunset, and applied a new plain black border, BUT TOO LATE.
SilverStar830 on May 6, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Thanks. Although, that was at 30 sec. mark, so I still wonder what the hell. Either way… “Officer Barbrady, I call Shenanigans!”
Spolitics on May 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM
I’m glad to know I haven’t gone blind…..no penguins in this video. I do believe the media would alter the video so they wouldn’t get caught in a fake story though.
(Like the so called “stranded” polar bears that were simply playing on the ice formations.)
libhater on May 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Good Job SilverStar830! I saw the penguins while the narrator was talking about the NORTH POLE. The propaganda being pushed by the main stream media on this bogus issue is massive, I guess Al Gore has cut them in for some of the “action.”
Maxx on May 6, 2008 at 4:06 PM
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