MSNBC Struck By Howard Stern Prankster

Perhaps the best ever, complete with follow up
questions from the MSNBC reporter:
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/prankster-poses-as-ukraine-eyewitness-calls-msnbc-host-1606767078?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Krystal Ball a true talking head.

 

The one and only Captain Janks.

Good to see the networks have really tightened up their standards when it comes to putting breaking news witnesses on the air.

 

You would think after 20 years of being "Bababooeyed" every news outlet would employ one curmudgeon to walk around in a breaking news scenario and bark, "Verify these calls. We don't want to be Sterned."

 

Oh, there have been ones that are much, much better than that one.

If the OJ chase call was a 10, that one was a 4.

 

Props for getting on the air, but he had to string her along for a few minutes for it to rank with the best.

 

MSNBC is a fucking clown show. Shut its 'news' operation down and make it all Lockup Channel all the time.

 

Her dumbfounding cluelessness reminded me a bit of this moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO0t9M6jS4M

"A little secret, Krystal Ball will straight-faced believe anything an interviewee says. ANYTHING. A...NY...THING"

 

So dumfounding that it had a SNL quality to it

 

Apparently, they teach the talking heads not to react when something like this happens, but I don't think that was the case with her. She had no clue what was going on.

 

LOL. Krystal Ball is hot, but dumber than a box of rocks.

And, what MSNBC producer thought he was talking to someone in Ukraine, and/or thought this area was anywhere near our embassy in Kiev?

 

Why does any news outlet risk a live phone interview with someone they don't know? Hell, tape the thing and put it on when it's done. Problem solved.

 

Oh, wow. Krystal Ball is really her moniker. All references to her here were more amusing before I read the article. Now I'm just sad.