Comments on: Puppets re-enact no-cameras-allowed corruption trial on the nightly news

By: tinyinkling

tinyinkling — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:35:00 +0000

Yikes! Can we get some training for the puppeteers? You move your thumb, not your fingers!

By: grima

grima — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:51:00 +0000

The cut to the jury box was priceless.

By: optuser

optuser — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:02:00 +0000

Thank you, BB for taking care of my to-do list item of tracking this down. My friend told me about it earlier in the week and I was in disbelief that it was on the news.

Here’s a direct link to the news station including other installments of PUPPET’S COURT.

http://www.woio.com/category/211979/video-landing-page?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6652751

By: John Hudgens

John Hudgens — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:54:00 +0000

Clevelanders must have a thing about puppet re-enactments… Tim Conway told us a story about how he and Ernie Anderson tried to do a puppet re-enactment of The Tonight Show on a local Cleveland TV show they had in the early 60s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDgvDllSkAQ

By: Henry Goodwin

Henry Goodwin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:24:00 +0000

“When life gives you SARS, make sarsaparilla.”

Am I the only one thinking “No, when life gives you SARS, make life, TAKE THE SARS BACK! Get mad!”?

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:12:00 +0000

Perhaps all news, especially regarding politics and finance, should be reported via puppets?

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:11:00 +0000

Careful, that could be considered pedophilia in some places.

By: taghag

taghag — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:11:00 +0000

hah, me too!

By: Palomino

Palomino — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:33:00 +0000

I was born in ’64. For years, all anyone ever saw of a trial was an artist’s sketch of the proceedings. Now that would be a fascinating read….”I Drew Bundy”.

By: solid_ekans

solid_ekans — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:22:00 +0000

It sounds like the puppets were at the end of the newscast. So it wasn’t like this was their main coverage of the story.
However, I’ll paraphrase Mcluhan, The muppet is the message

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:52:00 +0000

…they had sex or something along those lines (*edit*a la Clinton)… I said, are you nuts, why did you tell her that?

Harvard writers can’t tap these gems.

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:14:00 +0000

Now we just need the services of Statler and Waldorf.

By: joshs

joshs — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:54:00 +0000

This restored my faith in humanity today.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:21:00 +0000

I think there used to be a TV show in France that did re enactments of news stories. There was even a version of the show in the US back in the 80s that totally failed.

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:10:00 +0000

when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla

YES

By: Miss Demeanor

Miss Demeanor — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:42:00 +0000

the man on trial is County Commissioner but I suspect it’s really a puppet government behind all this

By: Ken Ambler

Ken Ambler — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:32:00 +0000

Channel 19 in Cleveland isn’t exactly the most high brow station. They started out as the Fox affiliate, then swapped with Channel 8 when they dropped CBS.

Akron had much better stations, but they died off because we’re part of their TV market, and the Cleveland stations dominate our area. And we get puppet theatre! yah!

By: millie fink

millie fink — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:08:00 +0000

Friggin awesome.

Can’t wait to see the Rod Blagojevich puppet!

By: failquail

failquail — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:49:00 +0000

The other option would be to recruit some animators from Taiwan to do CG animation versions :D

http://www.nma.tv

By: irksome

irksome — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Upon further reflection, and considering the current make up of the Supremes, I believe Interpretive Dance would be most appropriate.

By: surreality

surreality — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:34:00 +0000

Yeah, I can respect the idea of not allowing cameras for every court case. Plus, this is hilarious, and I’m glad they are giving it attention.

By: Bubba73

Bubba73 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Not only must justice be done, it must also be seen to be done…..by puppets

By: woid

woid — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:25:00 +0000

I’ll betcha they took this idea from Keith Olbermann, who started doing Puppet Theatre on his MSNBC show 4 or 5 years ago. Who he took it from, I don’t know.

“If this is anybody but Steve Allen, you’re stealing my joke!” — Krusty the Clown

By: taras

taras — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:58:00 +0000

Puppets’

By: pyster

pyster — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:19:00 +0000

btw; this is a cleveland ohio station. chan 19 is stationed in downtown cleveland and serves the surrounding areas.

By: amazonite

amazonite — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0000

and by ‘boner’, you mean ‘beanie baby stuffed down your pants’.

By: Snig

Snig — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:49:00 +0000

They have to do it this way, to allow cameras in would detract from the dignity of the court.

By: ocatagon

ocatagon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Finally a reason to watch the news.

By: Mantissa128

Mantissa128 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:34:00 +0000

A muppet prostitute tossing its head back in pleasure as money is stuffed down its top.

I have the weirdest boner right now.

By: semiotix

semiotix — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:30:00 +0000

There are compelling cases to be made on due process grounds for banning television coverage of criminal trials (which is to say, banning 12-second summaries interrupted three times by 3-second sound bites). Defendants have every right to avoid being tried in the media, and you can’t sequester every single jury. Then again, a lot of those reasons fall apart by the time you’re talking about appellate courts or the Supreme Court.

That said, it’s nice to see a local news show taking the trouble to, well, do any fucking thing at all related to the news. Most local news programs would be ten times better if they put in a tenth the effort it must have taken just to round up the puppets for this segment.