I would like to think I recover better than that from accidentally embarrassing responses to questions, but I do not. I feel for you, awkward TV news lady.
Well, fucketty. I hate American politics and/or American political news-casting so much...and probably far too much to even say.
I want to suggest that this once-great republic has long since descended into sheer idiocy...but geez, I'd hate to sound angry or strident or anything.
It didn't help to have that guffawing goober on her right. What an ass. Then again, if you work for Fox News (national or otherwise)...
That dude is a braying jackass. I surely don't mean that as an analogy.
WTF is with asking that question to begin with though? Let me guess that she is lying in bed awake right now fuming about just that.
This isn't Fox News, it's a local broadcast station.
I got the feeling that she responded instinctively in a flirtatious way, and then thought "oops, this is not the time to be flirtatious". I could totally see that happening, since I imagine that these people sometimes want desperately to actually be experiencing the positive emotions they fake during these banter sequences.
Are you in the right thread, IA?
My comment covers a multitude of sins, both mortal and venial. God.
She wasn't being flirtatious; people often answer questions by repeating part of the question first, but in this case it sounded like it was affecting her answer, which it almost surely wasn't.
She didn't seem flirtatious to me either. In fact, her behavior was a lot like someone who works every day with a braying, sexually harassing jackass and doesn't want to give him the pleasure of playing along.
13: and then Hee HAAAAW hee HAAAW god let's punch that dude together. Everybody! Together!
Russell hates his job. Russell has a blog.
I assume this question will be included in this weekend's debates.
Russell appears to post only on Fridays.
17: holy shit. I've never felt so much rage.
22 and 23 make some good points.
25: I saw that and thought, what the fuck was he trying to say? "They're more likely to give her a curvejob than a blowjob... I mean block party" doesn't make sense either way.
26: "Curb job", I think is what he was trying to say.
27: Ah. Not a phrase I'm familiar with. "Kick her to the curb," &c.?
That's a little harsh for Miss Lo.
#26: I think he got the idea of a block party from her song "Jenny from the block", and then picked "curb job" as a street-related activity at the opposite end of the niceness spectrum. In other words, his goal was to say, "Residents are more likely to give her [something bad] than [something good]."
But once he said "curb job", his subconscious desire to receive oral sex from J-lo make the phrases rhyme took over.
Pwned above and all, but what a jackass that guy is. Her initial slip is funny but the guy's followup is so awful that by the end she's miserable instead of merely embarrassed.
She didn't seem flirtatious to me either. In fact, her behavior was a lot like someone who works every day with a braying, sexually harassing jackass and doesn't want to give him the pleasure of playing along.
This is how it came across to me as well.
35: Britney and her sister just make me feel so sad. Poor kids.
Agree with the consensus. That dude is an asshole supreme.
From the story in 35:
Aerial video provided by local television station helicopters showed Spears on a stretcher . . .
The local TV station devotes fucking helicopters to this shit? Why don't they just go through her trash and creepily peer through her windows like God intended?
It's bizarre - the GF and I had just settled into our place in (cliche alert) West Hollywood when the whole Paris Hilton thing was coming to a head. As it turns out, she lives on the same street as we do, but about a mile or so up, in the hills. EVERY DAY and EVERY NIGHT there would be helicopters over her house.
That's the one thing I've never gotten used to in LA - well, that and the collagen-injected lips - is the proliferation of helicopters hovering over celebrities' homes.
He's such an obvious asshole I was surprised she took his question straight, rather than just giving him the fisheye and saying "what did you just ask me?" I guess being the local lady newscaster must suck.
the proliferation of helicopters hovering over celebrities' homes.
I would like to see the locals get fed up and start taking shots at the damn things.
Morbo demands spankings! Puny earthlings do not yet know the meaning of the words, "corporal punishment."