It’s been at the top of the viral video charts since early this morning, when I first saw it. And vowed that I’d never be so desperate for content, that I’d never stoop so low, as to post crap like this.

But it’s Friday night and the pickings are slim. And so here we are. Inevitably.

One simple question, to which I’m already 99% sure I know the answer: There’s no way this is real, right? I’ve spent idle moments all day long googling for “7 action news” and “canadian brown finches” but I can’t get a smoking-gun, foolproof, ironclad yes or no answer and it’s starting to bug me. The anchorman seems way over the top and the graphics are just a bit too amateurish, but the phony(?) Tivo bar at the beginning is a nice touch. Also, the news ticker items at the bottom would seem to place the clip at the end of December, which makes it strange that it was only uploaded to YouTube a few days ago.

Total fake, right?