That sound you hear?

[docwebster]

That's sphincters tightening over at CNN. The following occured after John Kerry's speech, and was apparently broadcast worldwide, with no one at CNN the wiser (insert joke here).



'Go balloons, go balloons! Go balloons! I don't see anything happening. Go balloons! Go balloons! Go balloons! Standby confetti. Keep coming, balloons. More balloons. Bring it- balloons, balloons, balloons! We want balloons, tons of them. Bring them down. Let them all come. No confetti. No confetti yet.

'No confetti. All right, go balloons, go balloons. We need more balloons. All balloons! All balloons! Keep going! Come on, guys, lets move it. Jesus! We need more balloons. I want all balloons to go, goddammit. Go confetti. Go confetti. More confetti. I want more balloons. What's happening to the balloons? We need more balloons.

'We need all of them coming down. Go balloons- balloons? What's happening balloons? There's not enough coming down! All balloons, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the fuck are you guys doing up there? We want more balloons coming down, more balloons. More balloons. More balloons'...

EDIT: I have audio of the last few seconds of this, right up to "What the fuck are you guys doing up there?"

Comments

[yobadself.livejournal.com]

I'm lost.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

The guy's mic was *live*, and he didn't know it, and that's what went out over the air.

[yobadself.livejournal.com]

OOoh! I thought you were making up a joke...that's hilarious!

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

The director, I mean. His mic.

[bludfeast.livejournal.com]

I have a vision...

It's me... logging into mIRC and getting that soundbyte....

And then...

The Boritom Mix of 99 Red Balloons!

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Not tonight you won't, as I'm off to bed. Don't worry, I'll try emailing it. It's way small.

[bludfeast.livejournal.com]

Use boritom@cox.net

More space

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Whoopsie. See my other reply just prior to this.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

This definitely wins the George Takei "Oh my!" award of the week.

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

fucking classic... would love a copy

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Give me an email address and I'll send in the morning. Like I said, it's only a couple lines from it but the poor bastard sounds about ready to snap like a dry twig.

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/29/politics2346EDT0875.DTL


McDee@ex-deliveryboy.com

no rush, Im heading out for the weekend.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Emailed to your boritom at boritom dot com email addy.

[weekendwench.livejournal.com]

can i have a copy too? you already have my email

I Smell an ADVERT!

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

You've GOT to load that up onto Radio Nosferatu as those nifty Blurps you have!


AND .... you need to tell me how I can pay you for the banner. You still don't have a paypal link on the WebPage (^_^)

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

I suspect that director's going to be in deep shit for a couple of reasons.

In addition to the whole "FCC gonna whoop his and CNN's ass" problem, this morning more people are talking about the "fucking balloons" than about Kerry's speech that preceeded them.

Way to go off-message at the climax of the convention.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Classic!

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

Lord please don't let my 15 mins of fame be like that...

[ladysmith.livejournal.com]

According to friend of mine who works for a news service and was there to hear this all, fifteen minutes later, they still had no balloons.

It took them three days to get those balloons set up!

[beanrua.livejournal.com]

I'm DYING to hear that!!! Where did you get it??

Oh my God, that's so damn funny!!!

[beki.livejournal.com]

*snorfle*

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

Oh yes. I am amused. XD

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

A copy, if you please. darthgeek at livejournal.com should work. If not, jeff at flambe dot o-r-g