Some asshole Howard Stern fan punks CNN...

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Shows just how stupid both CNN and Howard Stern's fans are, guy claims to be a San Francisco cop, then says the rumble came from Stern's butt crack.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/cnn-gets-punked-fake-cop-quake-was

[ChisolmTrailDem]

1. And typically blamed the caller instead of themselves for not verifying who they

were speaking to.

[NightWatcher]

2. Don't vet your sources, get bit in the ass.

It would take 3 minutes to check the SFPD web page and find the real contact info for their PIO office, but CNN wanted to be first and fast.

[sufrommich]

3. "asshole Howard Stern fan"

Is there another kind?

[justhanginon]

4. My sentiments too. n/t

[DesMoinesDem]

5. LOL. Sounds like the same guy that pranked Krystal Ball.

He called into the Stern Show to explain how he got on the air. MSNBC actually had some military person question the guy and he just bsed his way through the questions. The guy asked the pranker what kind of rocket was used to shoot down the plane and he told him it was an m1911a1, which is a pistol. LOL.

[calimary]

6. The comments are PRICELESS!!!!

Especially this one:


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Different Anonymous • 28 minutes ago
More importantly, who is Howard Stern?
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OUCH!!!



There's another comment on there that recalls the punking of Peter Jennings on OJ day - during that maudlin slow-speed freeway chase. I was at the AP at the time and we were all glued to every TV monitor in the room while we were writing new writethrus (the print folks) and recording a steady stream of updates (us on the broadcast side). The infamous white Bronco had reached OJ's driveway and the news choppers were all hovering, and Peter Jennings was live on ABC doing a play-by-play and they took a call - from someone purportedly near enough, in OJ's neighborhood, actually to see what was going on in that driveway. And the caller described seeing OJ "and he's scared." And we in the newsroom were breathless, watching and listening as Peter Jennings did his Q-&-A, live, with this caller. And it continued for about another minute, seemingly credible enough, and then the caller signed off - "well, thank you Mr. Jennings, and Baba Booey to y'all!" And I about spit my tea! I was in the broadcast booth at the time, but I think out in the newsroom, a bunch of the younger people (who were familiar with the Howard Stern show) did, too.

And then, right away, Al Michaels broke in (his voice-over, anyway, from elsewhere in the studio - since the visuals were all just one constant over-head from the hovering news chopper) - "uh, Peter, um, we have it on pretty good authority that that was a bogus call..."

It sure broke the tension in the newsroom, though... DAYUM!

[spanone]

7. sounds more like an incompetent 'news' service than an asshole fan