I started writing this post this morning, when I heard about it on Imus. I held back posting it because I wasn't sure we were going to take it in the humorous direction, which is so obviously the direction it should take. Now I feel a little more confident ... or something.
San Francisco TV Station Reads Fake Names Of Asiana Flight Pilots
While looking for a filler, a complimentary filler. I found this...
Asiana to sue San Fransisco TV Station over names.
SEOUL, South Korea — Asiana announced Monday that it will sue a San Francisco TV station that it said damaged the airline's reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots on a plane that crashed earlier this month in San Francisco.
An anchor for KTVU-TV read the names on the air Friday and then apologized after a break. The report was accompanied by a graphic with the phony names listed alongside a photo of the burned-out plane that had crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, killing three and injuring dozens.
Video of the report has spread widely across the Internet since it was broadcast.
The National Transportation Safety Board has also apologized, saying a summer intern erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew.
Asiana has decided to sue KTVU-TV to "strongly respond to its racially discriminatory report" that disparaged Asians, Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin said. She said the airline will likely file suit in U.S. courts.Althouse has not posted anything on this particular crash, or if she did I didn't find it. Other than a post about how crashes are more survivable now days. So, I'm going to go into Althouse's mind, like she asked us to do, more than a few times, and predict that this story would get a 'Law Suits I hope Will Fail' tag.
Deborah was suggesting tags in a previous thread and I remembered not being much of a tags directed commenter. Wile Commenter, an attitude which got me off track a few times, because I wandered off the tag reservation. Targeting my own thoughts with less strict scrutiny.
35 comments:
Lack of cultural memory.
Oh Nooooo, Neil Diamond.
Oh, it's because of the bombing... must be it.
The media types think they're sooo much smarter than the crowd in Flyover country, yet they fall for something like this.
Or Choom and his Awesomeness.
Clay Buchholz, a Boston pitcher was shaking his head. that told the story.
That was very funny SG... I hadn't seen that.
If MO doesn't blow it, the Red Sox are opening the World Series at home in Fenway.
Oops, its not over.
I rarely ever actually laugh out loud, but the Asiana pilot name thing was damned funny.
If only grown-ups were more like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, and accept mocking everyone equally, the world would be fine.
As it is, I want to protest all comments that make me feel a little mad. My inner child is weeping.
Or incontinent.
Hard to tell, really.
Can we have a show of hands for the people who really, really believe that this whole thing started with an intern at the NTSB?
Yeah, like that's who the NTSB puts on the phone to speak to reporters about a grievous matter like this --- an intern with a twisted sense of humor.
My guess? It started as gallows humor from the NTSB Press Office, and the TV station staff wanted to use it to punk the on-air talent, thinking that it would be caught long before air time.
Apparently, it wasn't.
Best thing is that the news folks thought it was real.
Seriously, Ho Lee Fuk???
Now come on. Really? Really?
I know I should be a better person than this, but I laugh ever time I read the name Bang Ding Ow.
And remember, folks, these names slipped through a newsroom in San Francisco! Shouldn't a news staff in S.F. have some familiarity with East Asian names, as opposed to a TV station in, let's say, Fargo, N.D.?
I was just a small town rural Pennsylvania hick, but that would not have got past me even at the age of 12. Isn't her entire career about reading news? Imagine what you could get her to say if you worked there.
Bubble machine.
Apologies for sideways video, but it goes up.
So just lay on the floor to watch it then you'll be even. Akshully, it doesn't matter because it's irrelevant and unimportant with little to nearly no meaning and devoid of sense, even a solid dead cat is nonplussed. That's why it's so important to keep these things in our lives, it cracks us up.
The cat was practicing the stand your ground law.
Or observing the stand your ground law... a moment of silence.
Google search:
observe a moment I
observe a moment of silence
let's observe a moment of silence
please observe a moment of silence
why do we observe a moment of silence
Google bubbles too.
Recent contents saved to my hard drive and my Google drive:
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Hey there.
Your indexing software actually has an audible signiture.
It's funky.
Hardware is a bitch.
File name: nsa.info.txt
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Said signature disappeared within two minutes.
I'm a geek. I turn local indexing off for a reason. I know the sound of a hard drive cross-indexing.
I very well may be wrong, but you may want to dig into what's going on inside your devices.
Agree with Young Hegelians analysis--of there is some evidence that interns can be salacious.
I think more than anything this shows the absolute shallowness of news readers who have no brains and are only required to read copy--of course good hair, big tits and overly glossed lips help.
Recall the late Peter Jennings did not even graduate from high school. Yet some section of America hung on his every word.
damn--change "of" to "but" in the first para
I assumed they were offended by Chinese names for upstanding Koreans.
Notable dates in May includes Quang Phuc Dong captured by the Japanese (May 18) here
Quang Phuc Dong is McCawley's pseudonym for irreputable essays ("Sentences without overt grammatical subject," on Fuck You)
I hope at some point someone made a joke about terrible Asian drivers.
I just got the best compliment ever that I noticed in a string of emails where people go reply reply reply and the whole thing is there. One person said to another person way down there, "I was always amazed how Chip saw things and life."
I think that was a compliment. Come to think of it, maybe it wasn't. Never mind.
I should take my camera over to Federal and Alameda and walk around and shop for seafood or Asian products or just poke around. It used to be like Little Mexico, a few people I knew lived right in there, and now it is Little Saigon. If you pick a condensed place to park on the West side of Federal and walk straight along you will notice some very amusing signs some with names so amusing vulgar they certainly must be made up, things that must be a joke, like "long dik fuc fish shop" that sort of thing.
I remember the Fu King Smoke Shop in Gallup, NM.
I would think it was KTVU-TV's reputation that got damaged - that is, if they had one that could be further damaged.
Maybe it was a fan of Wayne's World.
I wonder if the Daily Show will mock San Fran's imbecile talking heads or are they members of the same farternities?
I hope at some point someone made a joke about terrible Asian drivers.
Nancy Grace will get right on that, once she's done with the GD churro-eating spics and the effing coons.
And of course certain well-tailored, hirsute gentlemen were once known to eat at Lee Ho Fook's in London.
That was hysterical. After they fire the guy someone with a sense of humor should hire him.
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