Wonkette
The guy who made that video last week about John Gibson’s obsession with the color of the Attorney General’s scrotum has been fired, for being hilarious. John Sanders worked as a producer-reporter for WBAL-TV, an NBC affiliate in Baltimore. He allegedly used company equipment to make his little doctored video and then he put it up on YouTube for larfs.
Then the Huffington Post ruined his life by actually running the video and forcing other Web sites such as your own credulous Wonkette to run it, too. It just seemed so perfect, this clip that confirmed every libtard’s worst suspicion about what the awful Republicans say in private, on their private radio shows. But the joke was on us, because of course John Gibson has never seen, and has no interest in, scrota of any sort.
Anyway, sorry John Sanders! You made a funny, and this is what you get.
WBAL-TV fires reporter over prank [Baltimore Sun]
Can we send him some TruckNutz?
Always be careful when firing creative people. All you do is give them more time and motive to be creative.
Who on earth would use company time and company equipment toward such a pursuit? And with such tepid results? Forgive me, but what an asshat.
So did they catch that monkey, or…?
Thanks, John for making ‘bright blue scrotum’ acceptable lunch/dinner time conversation!
Mr Blifil: Maybe he was drunk. In my short career in television I witnessed a phenomenal amount of people getting pasted between the 5 and 10, often with hilarious results.
I don’t quite understand. Did the you tube video contain anything that John Gibson didn’t actually say on TV?
Mr Blifil: I would.
This is a victory for righteous, pink, American scrota everywhere!
I heard that he also doctored the caption in that Post cartoon showing the cops shooting the monkey to make it seem racist.
Huffington has since run a retraction and an apology, but Gibson is still angry. “This was done for the purpose of getting me fired,” the Fox anchorman said on his radio show Monday.
Gibson, if Fox wanted to fire you and your bright blue scrotum, they could’ve done so a long time ago — general idiocy would be a sufficient reason.
Oops,must read article 1st and comment after. So much work, though.
And in other news, Gibson’s 5% pay increase was rescinded when Fox mangement learned this was all a hoax.
Oh come on, he worked for WBAL-TV. Am I the only one who noticed this?
NY Post, I’ve got a great cartoon idea for you: the Sun reporter shot dead on the sidewalk with two monkeys standing over him with smoking guns, and the one monkey says to the other monkey, “now that were done vindicating our scrotums, lets go write another stimulus package.”
BillyClubb: this is the same station that FIRED OPRAH when she was a young newscaster.
(yea, she used to be my homey)
Rumor was management thought she was too fat/ugly for the station.
WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, GODAMMIT!
WadISay:
Ha! But not going to happen. Not racist enough for the cartoonist’s tastes.
SayItWithWookies: Hey, they didn’t fire him for yelling at white people to have more babies before the browns take over the country.
My question is why they allow a classic paranoid boozebag any airtime at all.
WadISay: No. It should be the NY Post cartoonist, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The two cops stand over him and say, “Hmm, how can we blame this on AL Sharpton?”
Satire.
Another guy who makes jokes about bright blue nuts for the lulz.
We do not have red scrota or blue scrota. We only have the United Scrota of America. This TV man deserves to be fired for making Barack Obama cry.
sati demise: Oprah worked for WJZ and left to do a Chicago morning show.
Cape Clod: If Fox started firing commentators for having no grip on reality, where would it end? After the bloodbath, the only people left would be a couple of key grips and the guy who mops the floors.
Bright blue scrotums are the black man of the love sack world.
The guy is a racist asshat. He could have mocked Rahm Emmanuel and his bright blue scrotum or hey, even Hillary Clinton for hers, but he picked a black guy and used a monkey reference. This is just not witty or funny. I am surprised FAUX fired him, though. But maybe this dude can go get a job doing song parodies for Republicans?
I was happy when my local Home Depot was able to match Monkey Scrotum Blue perfectly, but when I got it on the walls it just wasn’t the same.
joezoo: Rainbow Scrota!
liquiddaddy: don’t you hate that? It always looks so good in the store. But I guess multiple square feet of Blue Scrota might be a bit overwhelming. Maybe you could add some Paleface Honkey trim to lighten it up a bit?
John Sanders’ jokey is funny because…..????
Mark my words, he will burn the building down.
Lebo in exile: What? Baltimore has wBAL and wJZ? That is so dirty, no wonder John Waters lives there.
…you can get fired for using company property for personal use?!?! Errrrrrr, I’m gonna need to talk to you guys later, I need to off-load some stuff from my trunk real quick!
Today, we are all blue-scrotumed monkeys.
I heard Gibson uses bag balm on his hair.
Doglessliberal: genius!
We can now compete with Trucknutz, and go on to create…TruckScrotumz®
Doglessliberal: Er, no. Fired from WBAL not Fox, for making fun of Fox.
Cesar Px: doh. And I even READ the article, so I am even stoooopider.
Blue Balls, .. there are no weiners, er winners.
Strongy O’: Yeah but you’re a Wonketeer. Which means yours would have at least been funny, like John Gibson’s head rotoscoped onto the head of some dude in an extreme anal fisting video.
Doglessliberal: What’s next? Barack the Magic Scrotum?
sux2bu: Oh yes. Complete with puppets to sing the song, as they used when presenting Puff to us at assembly at my hippie summer camp.
Lebo in exile: ahhh, well, word was she got fired … she wrote about it in one of her books!?
(not that I’ve read any of Oprahs books)
Aww, the video has been pulled by the user. Now I feel bad that he got fired and i didnt even get to hear his funny.
BTW - are there any zoologists or primatologists around who can explain how mammalian skin gets to be such a lovely shade of blue? I thought warm-blooded animals didn’t work like that.