Emmy Parodies Planecrash Hours After Kentucky Accident
Posted on August 27, 2006
Drudge is headlining and linking to Hot Air on this who have the video.
WLEX’s president and general manager, Tim Gilbert, who was home watching the telecast with his family, was “stunned” by the intro; if station managers had known about the intro before the broadcast, Lexington viewers wouldn’t have seen it, he said.
“It was a live telecast — we were completely helpless,” Gilbert said of the Emmys. “By the time we began to react, it was over. At the station, we were as horrified as they were at home.”
Gilbert said he’ll complain to NBC, but he said an apology won’t make up for insensitivity. Lexington’s NBC affiliate.
Is it a case of bad timing or bad taste? Most likely just bad timing. See the video at Hot Air and decide for yourself. I would think there should have been plenty of time to change the intro. The crash happened at 6 a.m. But hey, thats just my opinion.
In other Emmy news: The Political Pitbull has video of Conan bashing FOX News.
And a little hoorah for me that 24 won a good bit of awards.
Gay Patriot liveblogged the whole thing.
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I knew there was more than one reason I did not watch the Emmys broadcast last night.
Conan the Crass (un)Comic was only one. Nor do I buy the “time lapse” alibi given by producers. Even Conan should have “sensed” the appropriateness of an airplane crash sketch.