Friday, January 30, 2009

News At Its Finest

Thank you, Stephen Colbert, once again. Earlier today I was watching a recent episode of The Colbert Report on the beloved hulu.com, where Colbert brings up an article titled "Massive Buffalo wing sauce spill shuts down Fairfield Street" from newstimes.com. I have but two questions:
  1. Does the guy who wrote this article get made fun of for writing articles like this? I can just imagine his co-workers making little quips about buffalo wing sauce, or how they prefer A1, or maybe expressing their condolensces that the spill didn't happen in front of Hooters.
  2. How do Stephen Colbert and his interns find this stuff???! I mean seriously, articles like this are SO ambiguous, it's amazing that they can find actual up-to-date articles that happen to go along with current topics and inside jokes on the show. It makes one wonder if there's some kind of conspiracy going on.
Anyway, here are a couple of quotes from the article that are my personal favorites:

"The street was closed several hours after the 1:30 p.m. spill as the state Haz-mat team was dispatched to the scene."

"Meanwhile, four patrons of San Tropez restaurant, next to Archie Moore's, couldn't get to their car, which was engulfed by sauce."

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