Posted on 07/19/2008 7:17:56 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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WAFB TV Channel 9, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana pulled out all the stops for this ridiculous report claiming that "some women" in the Pelican State are resorting to working in strip clubs because gasoline is so expensive. To prove it, WAFB found one woman that said so. I'd say that clinches this as "fact," then, wouldn't you?
In typical sensationalistic news fashion, WAFB TV assumes that because gas is more expensive, women across the state are throwing away their morals to work as strippers.
During these tough economic times, many people are struggling to make ends meet. The city's housing market is in a slump, gas and food prices are rising, and some say it's either sink or swim. Now, some women are going to great lengths to make some extra cash right in Baton Rouge.
Really? "Great lengths," eh? So, to believe this report we have to assume that strip clubs are doing well enough that a great influx of new employees is possible. But here is the question: if the economy is so bad, how is it that strip clubs are going so strong? That doesn't make much sense, WAFB.
Still, the sensationalism continues....
See the rest at Publius' Forum...
I think the pole dancers should reduce their rates to help out their starving customers...
I think, I mean feel, that Katie Couric is insensitive to the needs of pole dancers because she’s not crotriubuting to them from her vast fortune.
And in other news, the economy continues to roll along as more and more demand for strippers is creating opportunity.
Yeah, enough with the Polish jokes already!
Your assessment is on target.
Next you’ll see women at gas stations offering to have sex if you will pay to fill up their tank.
Most of the people who are responsible for these are very egotistical. They have an idea of what would make them look good and away they go.
I have seen them get back in the station from interviewing the relative of a murder victim and high-five each other when they finally got the person to break down and cry.
If you look carefully most reports you will see that the video really does nothing to enhance the story. It's what a long time ago radio station program director I worked with call ‘picture radio’. At least with radio news the person doing the story knows, or should know, that their audio will have to present whatever image or understanding the listener is going to take away from the story.
I never cease to cringe when they start a report about an airplane crash. It's just so obvious the person doing the report has absolutely no understanding of what they are supposed to be explaining. We had a crash here yesterday, 3 fatalities, and the early reports are terrible. It would be so much better if they would just show the scene and say they have no details but they are following the story and will have more when they become available. Instead they talk to people at the scene who, while eye-witnesses sometime, also have no understanding of what happened.
The state of newscasts in markets like ours, Tampa-St. Pete-Clearwater is pathetic. It seems like over the years they've come to think that we tune in their news just to enjoy them, that the actual news is just something they have to do.
LOL
Actually the majority of strippers (I’ve known quite a few and I refuse to call them “dancers”) take the job because they like quick, easy money and don’t want to get real jobs. People can save their anectdotal stories about “strippers with hearts of gold” cause that’s the exception, not the rule. If the single mom’s that populate the industry want to do the right thing, get your ass to church, find a decent man and make a family for you and your kids...
Katie’s friends dance on their knees....
What nonsense!
They have no dignity or self respect. Why not just be hookers on the street and get it over with?
For many, that or porn is the next stop...
Maybe we should have a pole tax.
Actually, I suspect Warner Todd Huston just wanted an excuse to visit strip clubs on company time and on the expense account to research is “story.”
And damned if he didn’t succeed!
The average Louisiana pole dancer makes about $10 an hour.
Makes you wonder what some women will do if gas ever hits $10...
Wasn’t LA one of the fattest States in another story this week? Better poles?
This thread is worthless without pics.
Not sure but i am planing for just such an occasion.
The Democrat’s true motive for wanting higher gas prices is revealed at last: Drive honest women into a life of stripping
And this ties in with Obama’s comment that he’s OK with higher prices but wishes they’d gone up slower. That’s simply the shameless desire for more ‘teasing’ in the drive to make our women striptease for the Dem’s viewing pleasure.
I suppose cleaning houses was out of the question?
So is this a bad thing?
Yea, I wanted to see the pic. I can only imagine. I did catch a news story last week that business is down in strip clubs. Regulars are not coming in as often and spending less. I dont know if they are asking for change. Also, story stated due to unemployment rate, there are more strippers. Great!
“I suspect Warner Todd Huston just wanted an excuse to visit strip clubs on company time and on the expense account to research is “story.””
I wonder how much he put in his expense account for lap dances.
Funny thing, because of the high price per barrel of oil, Louisiana is running a 1.2 billion dollar surplus. Maybe if California wants to do something about their horrendous deficit they should start to DRILL.
Democrats’ fault!
Today must be Heineken Man’s day off!
[throwing away their morals]
You can’t throw away what you don’t possess.
I bet the gas crises is persuading some women to begin the ‘exotic dancer’ career path. Not because they are desperate, but because in places like LA, there are a lot more horny roughnecks and reckless oil men with pockets bulging with cash a little free time to spend it all. That’s the way it works in West Texas. Supply and demand isn’t limited to the oil.
Although the Poles have a great tradition of dance, I am particularly fond of the Sampi folk dances from the Lapland region of Finland.
LOL! Buy a gas station and become the "luckiest" man in town.
Ha! - I loved the comments ...
“I mean just remember that you are worth the highest octane available.”
Yes sir!
Yes, to those of lucky enough to have seen Poles dancing, it’s an experience akin to going to a seafood restaurant and witnessing a man eating lobster.
Does this mean Mary Landrieu’s voting block just got bigger (sarcasm)?
That pole must be made of solid neutronium.
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