Breaking the News - Week 50, Year 2009

Posted on December 18th, 2009

Clearly, I’ve already begun my holly jolly holidays. But the news must not go unbroken.

Better late than never!

Breaking the News - Week 50, Year 2009 is also available on Vimeo.

Please stay happy and healthy over the holidays! I’ll be back to bust up more headlines in 2010.

For the actual stories:

Everyone hates bills

I gotcher emissions right here

Please forward for good luck

Circle of safety?

The real thing

Celebs are so predictable

Nothing new under the tanning bed

Transcript:

Happy belated Friday! Here are some headlines from this week. (hiccup) Sort of.

As the Christmas and New Year holidays approach, along with the deadline for passing a health care reform bill, it appears that everyone in the Senate hates the current iteration of the bill on the floor. Constituents across America unite saying, “See, we told you bills for health care

The climate change summit in Copenhagen will wrap up at the end of this week. Experts say that while it is not likely that any actual agreement on how to reduce carbon emissions will be made, all delegates will still receive their commemorative Curb Your Emissions…Just Say No to Beans t-shirts and Do You Have Change for a Climate coffee mugs.

On Monday, computer technicians recovered 22 million missing email messages from the recent former Bush administration. An inside source who wished to remain anonymous said that obviously someone felt very strongly about superstitious chain emails and all messages will be forwarded to 10 people before the next new moon.

Reports surfaced this week that a pair of tourists from Georgia, who showed up one day early for a tour of the White House on Veterans’ Day, unintentionally found themselves at an invitation-only breakfast with the President …without an invitation. (laughs) I don’t even have to do anything to th

Pepsi announced on Thursday that it will not be advertising during the upcoming Super Bowl. Said the soda giant in a statement, quote “We’re just going to save our money, because if you haven’t heard of Pepsi by now, you probably don’t know what football is

And finally, pop culture headlines continue shock and astound the American public this week. Jon & Kate got divorced. The Duggars had another kid. Tiger Woods’ wife and sponsors won’t have anything to do with him. And Sarah Jessica Parker made a stinker of a movie. Hollywood insiders are flabbergasted and can only say that sometimes the truth is just stranger than fiction.

That’s it. I’m Kathy. Please stay safe over the holidays. And if the news is broken, (hiccup) I dropped it.

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