So here’s the genteel city of Charleston, S.C. being featured in The Weather Channel’s live coverage of Winter Storm Leon … which hasn’t packed anything resembling the wallop it was supposed to.
Oh well, if you’re sufficiently irate about missed forecasts to attempt a bum rush of TWC host Jim Cantore, consider yourself warned … dude is ready for you.
In fact not only will Cantore deflect your aggression with an expertly timed knee jab, he won’t miss a beat in delivering his forecast (whether it is accurate or not).
UPDATE: Here’s the incident on YouTube.
(Vine via Kara Hope Hanson)
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What?! A weather system shamelessly over-hyped by a media service that makes it’s money on ad rates and website click-throughs? I don’t get it…why would they puff these things up. Hey, wait a just a minute!
Listening to an interview with Marilyn Manson once, he noted that the media is trained to sensationalize everything because it gets viewers, but also because it gets them to consume more. “Be afraid of this, fear that, buy this, buy that.”
And, what do you know, people flood the stores to buy a bunch of shit over a few inches of snow.
“Be afraid of this, fear that, buy this, buy that.”
I thought you were talking about Republicans.
Ha! He kicked his ass with a knee and Peter Pan went skipping off pretending not to be in pain and look stupid.
Hopefully this moment will be captured by his friends so they can all re-live the humiliation forever.
“Winter Storm Leon?” What gives you the impression this snow storm had a name? Since when have snow events EVER had names? Hurricanes and typhoons have names, given to them by the appropriate government agency. Snow storms do NOT have names. The National Weather Service (NWS) hasn’t named the snow, nor has the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Neither the NWS, NOAA, nor anyone I know is referring to this weather system as “Leon.”
Oh, WAIT A MINUTE. You must be referring to The Weather Channel. Yes, in what can only be described as a shameless, pretentious publicity stunt, they have taken it upon themselves to start naming every snow event that comes along, and in the process they have become a bit of a laughingstock. Who knows? Maybe this summer, when things have started quieting down, they’ll start naming HEAT WAVES!
It makes you wonder how we ever survived the old days when snow was just called SNOW, not given a cute name by The Weather Channel, which is owned by NBC and not the government. Is it REALLY necessary to pander to their sense of self-importance?
I’m looking forward to tropical storm “Shaniqua” myself.
Should I be surprised a storm named “Leon” did half as much as expected?
Ha! He just needed a helping hand from government.
The Weather Channel was top of the class until Comcast/NBC took over. Wake up with Al? Al is not even a meteorologist. What a disappointment they have turned into since NBC’s takedown especially, overall, along MSNBC’s and NBC Nightly News’ shift away from all rational thought.
The knee landed just to the left of the punks nuts. Anyway, this all looks staged to me. But it does bring light to Charleston’s very bad crime problem, which the City of Charleston and Mayor Riley try to cover up.
Oh the humanity! Good thing that dude didn’t yell “Baba-booey”