AUDIO: Howard Stern prank phone call proved Peter Jennings an empty suit

[yurbud]

After the low speed chase of OJ, a Howard Stern listener made a prank phone caller to Peter Jennings pretending to be OJ's neighbor, using a painfully obvious Amos-n-Andy black voice. Jennings talked to the guy for several minutes, and didn't know it was fake until a sportscaster (who Mike Royko referred to as the retarded cousins of journalists) explained it to him.

Don't mourn this sack of shit. He was an empty suit who was very well paid for reading a teleprompter.

mp3:

http://mcraeclan.com/Graeme/ISeeOJ.mp3

real audio:

http://mcraeclan.com/w/Ojstern.ram


TRANSCRIPT:

http://mcraeclan.com/Graeme/PhonyPhoneCalls.htm

Jennings: We have on the phone with us as well Robert Higgins, who lives in the neighborhood and is on the ground and can see inside the van. Mr. Higgins.

Caller: Ah, yeass, ah, how are you?

Jennings: Ah, just about as tense as you are, sir.

Caller: Oh, my Lord, this is quite tenses.

Jennings: What can you see?

Caller: Ah, what I'm lookin' at ri' now is I'm lookin' at the van, and I see OJ kinna' slouchin' down lookin' very very upset. Now lookee here, he look very upset. I don' know what gon' be doin'.

Jennings: Can you... can you... can you see him doing anything specific? Is he merely sitting there?

Caller: He is just a-sittin' 'round, you know, just a-lookin' like he be very nervous

Jennings: Can you hear anything, Mr. Higgins?

Caller: It's just too much commotion, I here in the back of a news van, so I can' really hear that goo' but I can see it all. An' I see OJ. I see OJ, man, and he looks scared. An' I would be scared 'cause there's cops all deep in this.

Jennings: Thank you, Mr. Higgins.

Caller: An' Bobba Bouey to y'all!

Jennings: The driveway of O. J. Simpson's home in Brentwood... Clearly an effort being made to have him come out of the vehicle... In the doorway of the house: his friend, Al Cowlings...

Michaels: Peter, by the way, just for the record, this is Al Michaels. That was a totally farsical call.

Caller: Ah!

Jennings: Ahm.

Michaels: Lest anybody think that that was somebody who was truly across the street that was not. He said something in code at the end that's indicitave of the mentioning of the name of a certain radio talk show host.

caller: Ah!

Jennings: OK, thanks.

Michaels: He was not there.

Jennings: OK, we have them on every coast. Thank you very much.

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Blog:

[JI7]

1. you can't be serious

[Syrinx]

2. why do you want to mock a guy that just died

Because he was pranked by an idiot like Howard Stern? Big deal.

And I guess you don't remember the reporting that "empty suit" did from Vietnam?

[LincolnMcGrath]

4. Stern did not prank him.

[Syrinx]

10. oh yeah

It was Cap'n Janks wasn't it?

[Caleb]

3. Come on...

He just died. I greatly respected Mr. Jennings and will mourn his death.

[Hello_Kitty]

5. I, for one, won't mourn Stern's death too deeply.

But I won't bring up all the disagreeable things he's said/done right after it happens.

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. See post # four

[Dickie Flatt]

7. Jennings is prank called, doesn't get it. Thus: piss on grave

What the fuck?

[Name removed]

8. Deleted message

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[shawmut]

13. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1685112#1685128

[Teaser]

9. The call was funny...

at the time I head it on the still-nascent internet. Couldn't stop laughing.

I'm not sure I'd bring it up now though, and use it to slam the guy, even though I never liked him.

Ah well, everyone makes different decisions.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. I've heard that thing many times, and ALWAYS laugh

it was Al Micheals who wised Jennings up

and the voice was SO obviously a bad bad bad impersonation of even Amos/Andy that it was simply astonishing that Jennings didn't catch on, even though the call was VERY lengthy

the only thing along those lines I've heard that was better was when the same guy (Capt. Jenks; sp?) called Brian Williams and claimed to be the Paris Bureau Chief of Newsweek, when Lady Di crashed

he kept Williams on the air for quite awhile, with bogus details of the crash, and then got to say TWO times that the reason they were driving so fast was that they were rushing to the video store to get the newly released Private Parts, by Howard Stern

Williams kept uhhing, and ahhing, and uhhing throughout...totally bumfoozled, and had to be made aware by somebody in his earpiece

I have to rate that one as more entertaining than the OJ bit, mainly cause I REALLY could never stand Williams, and to see his veneer of cool so totally smashed was most gratifying

[LincolnMcGrath]

16. I heard the Captain Jenks / Lady Di call live!

[Swamp Rat]

11. .

:popcorn:

[Gabi Hayes]

14. hey swamp rat.....do you have a collection of your myriad

pictures?

that would be swell

thx

[LincolnMcGrath]

15. Get your a** to bed Truthseeker!

The next Malloy Show starts in 18+ hours!

[Swamp Rat]

17. LOL! I'm a vampire!

:hi: It's noon for me! :D

[VolcanoJen]

18. I watched that, I remember that, and I think your post is weak.

Dancing on Peter Jenning's grave because he was pranked by some idiot Howard Stern listener during a live broadcast?

For that, we shouldn't mourn his death?

Screw you.

[The Magistrate]

19. Locking

Imflammatory.