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  More FUBAR

  Posted: August 29th, 2008, 9:51am CDT by Ted Brockman

  span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Speaking of mannish features, an alert reader sends us this, regarding KETVNewswatchSeven's professional screw-up specialist, /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"FUBAR Fazal/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;":/spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial;"blockquotespan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Don't know if you noticed or not, but last night (August 28) at the 10:00 news cast on Channel 7, Fubar was doing a story about that boat that burned and was sent floating down the river.  Fubar explained to us all that arson investigators were investigating the fire to see if somebody deliberately set it.  Thank you, Captain Obvious!  At least she only fumbled her words about 5 or 6 times, instead of the usual 10 or 12./span/blockquote/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Arial;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, that's so FUBAR. It would be like her to tell viewers that a cake decorator planned to decorate cakes./span/span/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Why does this witless wonder continue to work for Channel 7? Their recent hires show they can do much better./span/divdivbr //div
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  Ewww

  Posted: August 28th, 2008, 5:26pm CDT by Ted Brockman

  So we're watching SuxNews Thursday at 10 and on pops Maladroit Maddox to give us allegedly vital information about the same street closings they mention every night. It's near the end of the report when we notice it: Maladroit has man-hands!
  That's right. The hands of a man.
  So, not only does she have that ridiculous nasally voice and pronunciation defect, she's sporting a couple of paws that, to appropriate a quote from Jerry Seinfeld, look "like something out of Greek mythology."
  How we've missed those masculine mitts all this time is a mystery to us. Now that we've spotted them, however, we understand why she spent her first year in Omaha wearing cheap-looking fake fingernails: she was trying to create a distraction.
  Our suggestion: how 'bout a pair of gloves?
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  Wee Wee, MAD-dam

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 12:19pm CDT by Ted Brockman

  span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Are we the only ones who watched /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Maladroit Maddox/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"'s "Sux on Your Side" spot in which she pronounced the name of the restaurant, Le Voltaire, as "/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Lay/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" Voltaire"?/spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"It was a nice match of her partner /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Jimmy "Gomer" Thiedlecki/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"'s "Serk DAY So-lay" promo of 2006. /span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Omaha viewers really owe Joplin, Missouri, a punch square in the face for sending us these two rubes./span/div
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  Letter

  Posted: August 6th, 2008, 5:25pm CDT by Ted Brockman

  span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Here's a nice letter to WOWT that an alert reader cc'd us on.../spandivdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:-webkit-monospace;"/span/span/divblockquotedivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Thanks so much for the showing of your toddler program, "The Omaha Buzz" @ 11:35PM On Aug 3, 2008.../span/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"I was riveted to my set as I watched your children stumble through, and announce the coming events for mid-May and early June 2008.../span/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Keep up the good work!/span/span/div/blockquotedivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"pre style="white-space: normal; "/prespan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:12px;"divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"It's good to see we're not the only ones who notice the institutional ineptitude of that mistake of a station.br //span/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia;font-size:14px;"br //span/div/span/span/div/div
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  Misc.

  Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:05pm CDT by Ted Brockman

  span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"• KETVNewswatch7's /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Brandi Peterson/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" and /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Rob McCartney /span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"did a live shot from somewhere or other on Saturday morning. It's hard to remember /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"where/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" because it didn't take long for the camera to pull back and reveal that Peterson was wearing shorts—shorts that showcased some startlingly Hillary Clintonesque calves. It didn't help that she was standing next to uber-thin McCartney, but these would've been noticeable even if she'd been in a shot with /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Gary Kerr/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"./spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"• An alert reader has posted a question that we've heard more than once over the past decade or so: Does WOWT anchormatron /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"John Knicely/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" wear a hairpiece? /span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"• Several folks, posting both on this blog and the one attached to City Weekly's MediaNotes, have echoed our opinion that SuxNews should show J-Pa the door. The only problem is that there's absolutely no one on staff to replace him with. /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Jimmy "Gomer" Thiedlecki/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"? /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Brian "BM" Mastre/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"? Neither of those knobjobs is a sensible option. Might they look to snatch someone from Channel 7? It wouldn't be the first time./span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"• Could someone please tell Channel Sux Ejacuweatherguesserauthorities /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Jim Flowers/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" and /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Rusty Lord/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" to get their pants hemmed to the proper length? From the looks of these guys' cuffs, you'd think they'd had their trousers tailored to allow for a growth spurt./span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"• Has /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Fubar Fazal/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" been taken off Saturday evening anchor duty on KETV? We've tuned in two of the past three Saturdays and been relieved to find /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Todd Andrews/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" in her place./span/div
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  Stuck

  Posted: August 1st, 2008, 12:56pm CDT by Ted Brockman

  span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Poor Channel Sux. Every now and then, they try doing something that they think is hip or cutting edge, and it almost always ends up looking like really uptight adults trying to be cool around the neighbor kids./spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Such was the case when someone at SuxNews decided to have morning anchor /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Jimmy Thiedleck/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"i/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" interview comedian /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Bill Bellamy/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" and then post the interview on their "web channel" (or as the rest of the world calls it, "website"). In front of four or five oddly positioned cameras, not only does Jimmy pepper the segment with references to "Dice Clay" and "Stephen Wright," he also spends about 40 percent of the interview looking back at the camera and talking over Bellamy./span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"br //span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Jimmy, if you're reading, a few tips: (1) 1992 called, and it wants its comic reference points back. (2) Stop mugging for the camera; we can listen without your supervision. And (3) keep in mind that the idea of an interview is to find out what /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"guest/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" has to say, not how impressive you are (or /spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"think/span/spanspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" you are).  /span/div