MSNBC Finds Penguins at North Pole... But Penguins Don't LIVE at North Pole

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By Warner Todd Huston | May 6, 2008 - 14:02 ET

**Video added below the fold**

**UPDATE: Penguins Edited Out of Report!**

A 15-year-old British girl named Camilla Hempleman-Adams is being hailed as a "hero" for trekking across the ice floes of the North Pole to become one of the youngest women to explore the frozen world of the penguin... well, at least as far as MSNBC is concerned. In their report on the feat of endurance, MSNBC had a shot (about a minute into the video) of penguins on an ice floe. Only one little problem: penguins don't live at the North Pole. Oopsie.

So, the question remains; if these people can't even get a simple fact like that correct, how can we believe them that global warming is destroying the world? If they don't even know where the penguin lives, how can we believe their "science" that states the world is doomed with global warming?

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Miss Hempleman-Adams' goal was to see the supposedly disappearing frozen wilderness before it's gone the way of the buffalo. So, she and her affluent, famous explorer father trekked across the ice to see the effects of global warming. "I want people to understand that we mustn't let it be destroyed," she said, "I haven't thought about breaking a record, it's much more about climate change for me."

Well, it's all heartwarming and all, but "hero"? What she did took guts, it was bold and it was not an easy task to accomplish. But, "hero"? I am always seriously annoyed when the word hero is so casually used. Sports people are NOT heroes. Explorers are not heroes. This girl is not a hero. We do not have to elevate her to hero status to celebrate her feat.

Anyway, the silly thing is that MSNBC had to embellish the story of this girl by adding fake footage of penguins even though penguins do not live at the North Pole.

Well, I hope Miss Hempleman-Adams wasn't too annoyed by the mosquitoes and jungle snakes after she was accosted by those North Pole penguins!

**UPDATE 5PM, 5/6/08**

News flash.... MSNBC edited out the scenes with the penguins in it in their report! Ed Morrissey over at Hot-Air has the story. As Cap'n Ed says, "Something got exposed in this broadcast -- scientific illiteracy at MS-NBC."

**UPDATE 8:00 PM, 5/6/08**

Someone did capture the original, so if you want to see it with the penguins uncut go to:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5bz6h_penguins_news

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She must have been deprived

She must have been deprived of proper cartoons as a young child. I remember well a "Chilly Willy" cartoon where Chilly was trying to get back home, and whatever animal was trying to help him took him to the North Pole. When they arrive, after many trials and tribulations, Chilly presents him with a written message stating that penguins are from the South Pole. At that point his companion goes bonkers.

Strange- even a cartoonist from the 50's knew something that so-called "experts" don't! God help this poor country of ours!

 

I think that was Bugs Bunny

I think that was Bugs Bunny and his Pen-gu-in.  and he tried to get him home to the South pole....but apon arriving in the south pole the Pen-gu-in takes out a flyer stating he was the only Hoboken born Pen-gu-in.

 

 

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
 -Thomas Jefferson

rofpmsl

Can't have facts getting in the way of the overall gist. After all, whatever it takes to get the message out....

Did MSNBC capture any

Did MSNBC capture any glimpses of Santa Claus?

Chris,

 Santa heads to the South Pole in the summer, to escape all the migrating penguins! Water doesn't stay in it's liquid state long enough at the North Pole to wash the penguin poop off the sleigh. All these facts are clearly reported by the MSM.

 

"It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face."

NO, NO Warner and NB

you have it all wrong. Those were POLAR BEARS in disguise because they feared being shot by this fearsome riflewoman.

Maybe GW is causing them to

Maybe GW is causing them to breed like rabbits, and they are spreading like wild fire, ever think of that smarty pants ?

 

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

HA!

I love it general! And maybe GW is causing oceanic predators to stop eating them, causing free food to lap up onto their feet from the high tides, and causing their little ice rafts to float them ever farther away, then they're bored so far from home so they do a little spooning to pass the time, only to show up in the North Pole months later with a few additions to the family.

I'm disappointed in WTH that he didn't connect these dots properly before posting an article with so many assumptions.

You owe MSNBC an apology for your near-sighted reporting Warner!

MMMMMMMM.... Penguin

MMMMMMMM....

Penguin stew....

 

At least they had the sense

At least they had the sense to not use THIS 'breaking news' penguin footage:

http://www.peculiarosities.com/2008/05/04/penguin-raped-by-violent-seal/ 

Nonsense WTH... It's a

Nonsense WTH...

It's a well-known tabloid fact that penguins migrate to the North Pole, where they "swarm" Polar Bears...

Causing the bears to drown, so they can devour sweet Polar Bear meat at their leisure.

Just a thought, but maybe the Photo Editor is a conservative with a twisted sense of humor. 

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

 but maybe the Photo

 but maybe the Photo Editor is a conservative with a twisted sense of humor.

 Probably grounds for termination at msnbc

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

on the lighter side - polar

on the lighter side - polar bears are at the north pole, and I saw polar bears and penguins being friends over a coke on TV last december (not being eaten by the way), and I am PRETTY SURE that the Coca Cola Company would not lie to me

 

I would however say that explorers can be called heroes, maybe not some of today;s, but explorers that brave the elements so that mankind may benefit from their risk, I would call them heroes

Did you ever think that

Did you ever think that maybe the polar bears went south to have that Coke with their penguin buddies?

Hm, smart guy?

Typical narrow-minded right-winger.

 

you are right

you are right

Penquins - what a joke. But what about the polar bears?

Penguins - what a joke. But what about the polar bears?  Thanks for picking up on this, Warner. As I watched it, other than the penguins on the wrong end of the earth, I thought, the end result of her trip (and all that accompanied her) would seem to be:

- that the main impact of such a treck was that a heck of a lot of additional CO2 was pumped to the atmosphere.

- that while they say they are worried about the plight of polar bears, they actually put the bears (and themselves) at risk. Had they needed to protect themselves, they would have shot and killed a polar bear.

And, even from the reporter's point of view, nothing was presented by the teenager which documented shrinking ice or global warming. What a worthless piece of digital tape. gary

Way of the buffalo?

Did they get ANYTHING right in this story?  They said "... before it's gone the way of the buffalo."  First, they're BISON, not buffalo, Second, there are about 150,000 head of bison running around the US.  Talk about lazy journalism, wow!

Just to be clear...

Just to be clear, I am the one that said "gone the way of the buffalo" and I only did that as a sort of snarky comment. They didn't bring the buffalo into the TV piece.

WHAT!!!???

Global warming has ALREDY killed off all the penguins at the North Pole?!! That's horrible! First it was the Wooley Mammoth, then the North Pole penguins, and now maybe the Polar bears? What's next? My GOD! Soo you'll be telling me that there are no Salmon in the Great Lakes.

;-)

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

Perhaps this is Al Gore and

Perhaps this is Al Gore and Danny deVito attending a formal Global Warming benefit cocktail party at the North Pole?

Those Aren't Penguins....

Just Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann in their tuxes getting ready to party at the Obama Inaugal Ball.

No doubt about it

I think the penguins got sucked out of the ozone hole in the Antarctic and by the time they fell back down the earth had revolved 180 degrees. It's clearly man's fault.

The Hyphen

I just love the hyphen.  How long does it go on for?  When Hempleman-Adams gets married to some treehugger in about 10 years, does she just add-on?  Something like Hempleman-Adams-Livingston?  And then her kids, should she (God forbid) decide to bring any into this overpopulated, CO2 clogged world.  What do they do?  Continue the tradition and add a fourth name?

Well,

don't you think as Hempleman-Adams, she would lean towards someone else with a hyphenated name? So using your example of Livingston...whose parents were really Livingston-Nursultanqyzy....I guess the child would be Allessandro Hempleman-Adams-Livingston-Nursultanqyzy? What do you think. LOL

Liberal world.

Anyone surprised that Up is Down and North is South in the liberal world. More proof that liberalism is truly a mental illness.

 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

WTH Looks like PMSnbc has "fixed' their clip!

The Penguins are gone..

Wow i didn't know it was only 80 miles to the north pole.

Pooping on all that white snow, along the way.

She will NEVER pay off those carbon credits ever.

The POPE says, GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

IranianUranium<sleep>New/Infrastructure/repair?/ROFLMAO

 

I can clear this whole thing

I can clear this whole thing up.

See all that melted ice around the penguins (AKA "water")? That was caused by mankind, who melted all the ice in the south pole.

What you're looking at are the last two penguins left. They were on a HUGE iceberg, that floated all the way to the opposite pole (the North Pole). Of course, by the time they made it, this is what's left of the iceberg.

Ummm... I don't see any

Ummm...

I don't see any penguins.

Ya, show me the penguins..I

Ya, show me the penguins..I won't be able to sleep without penguins! 

How 'bout...

The Galapagos penguins? They're "close"! 
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

I do think I saw a

I do think I saw a manbearpig in the video clip.

Me too...

And Bigfoot, too!!

I didn't see Rosie in that.

I didn't see Rosie in that. Where was she?

They got this on good

They got this on good authority from Walter Lance. 

Here

It's beyond question.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

Penguins at the North Pole???

LOL!!! This is too funny! Remember a couple of years ago, NBC did a now infamous piece of journalism about flooding somewhere in the US? During the piece, the camera shows the reporter canoeing through the floodwaters, supposedly indicating how deep they were, when maybe ten feet behind her, a couple of men wade through the water, which was only halfway up their boots? Well folks, this 'penguin' story is the latest in journalistic "excellence" from our friends at MSNBC.

Maybe penguins do live at the North Pole

Why not? What's so crazy about penguins living at the North Pole?

Always been there...

It's obvious that Penquins have always been at the North Pole. The reduced threat from the dwindling Polar Bear population (climate change) has allowed them to emerge from hiding.  

No it was the Antartic Polar Bears

They chased the Penquins up there. 

 

Carbon Credits Smoke'em if you got'em!

→ BiPolar bears

Just doing the jobs penguins won't do

♣ a seal

That's enough pun-ishment

That's enough pun-ishment for one day! ;-)

→ Anchor cubs

MSNBC is doing a documentart on BiPolar bears who migrate on giant icebergs to Antarctica to give birth to anchor cubs.

Build the %&&)^# Equator fence.

♣ a seal

My apologies...

My apologies... I just had to do this....

Announcer's Voice

That was episode two of 'The Death of Mary, Queen of
Scots', adapted for radio by Bernard Hollowood and Brian London. And
now, Radio Four will explode. (the radio explodes)

First Pepperpot


We'll have to watch the telly then.

Second Pepperpot

Yes

 

The pepperpots swivel round to look at the TV set in the corner of the room.

First Pepperpot

What's that on the tellevision then?

Second Pepperpot

Looks like a penguin.

 

On the TV set there is indeed a penguin. It sits contendedly looking
at them in a stuffed sort of way. There is nothing on the screen.

First Pepperpot

No, no, no, I didn't mean what's on the television set, I meant what programme.

Second Pepperpot

Oh.

 

The second pepperpot goes to the TV, switches it on and returns to
her chair. The set takes a long time to warm up and produce a picture.
During this pause the following conversation takes place:

Second Pepperpot

It's funny that penguin being there innit? What's it doing there?

First Pepperpot

Standing.

Second Pepperpot

I can see that!

First Pepperpot

If it lays an egg, it will fall down the back of the television set.

Second Pepperpot

We'll have to watch that. Unless it's a male.

First Pepperpot

Ooh, I never thought of that.

Second Pepperpot

Yes, looks fairly butch.

First Pepperpot

Per'aps it's from next door.

Second Pepperpot

Penguins don't come from next door, they come from the Antarctic.

First Pepperpot

Burma.

Second Pepperpot

Why did say Burma?

First Pepperpot

I panicked.

Second Pepperpot

Oh. Perhaps it's from the zoo.

First Pepperpot

Which zoo?

Second Pepperpot

How should I know which zoo? I'm not Doctor bloody Bernowski.

First Pepperpot

How does Doctor Bernowski know which zoo it came from?

Second Pepperpot

He knows everything.

First Pepperpot

Oooh, I wouldn't like that, that'd take all the
mystery out of life. Anyway, if it came from the zoo, it would have
'property of the zoo' stamped on it.

Second Pepperpot

No it wouldn't. They don't stamp animals 'property of the zoo'. You can't stamp a huge lion.

First Pepperpot

They stamp them when they're small.

Second Pepperpot

What happens when they moult?

First Pepperpot

Lions don't moult.

Second Pepperpot

No, but penguins do. There, I've run rings around you logically.

First Pepperpot

Oh, intercourse the penguin.

 

On the TV screen there now appears an announcer.

TV Announcer

It's just gone 8 o'clock and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode.

 

The penguin on top of the set now explodes.

First Pepperpot

How did he know that was going to happen?!

TV Announcer

It was an inspired guess.

 

→ Mrs "who?" exploded?

People don't just explode.

♣ a seal

Couldn't be penguins

Penguins all drowned the last time all the arctic ice melted and the Boreal Forest reached the edge of the Acrtic Ocean. I wouldn't expect people knew that ...

LOL

LOL Penguins, A.K.A. Amphibious Birds, all drowned! LOL

The penguins must be BiPolar

The penguins must be BiPolar

truth..

Well then, the increase of lithium in the atmosphere as the lithium battery powered automobiles become more popular should solve the problem with the penguins with bipolar disorder.

Darwinism - rushing to the solution, naturally.

I too was once fooled...

but no more! I no longer believe it's AGW!

I now know it's ALIENS! They're the ones transporting these little critters to the North Pole. They're using the hole in the ozone layer that dbo mentioned ealier. To what end I wonder?

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080503/NEWS02/632676687

The ET Commission will prove it!

I sure hope they bought algore's carbon offsets.

Hey Warner - Rocks, at 30 seconds into the tape..

Hey Warner - at 30 seconds into the tape.. the voice is talking about .."vast expanses of water which weren't there only few years ago." Looks like it's the 3rd shot - do I not see rock outcroppings, with the snow melthing around the rocks, in the top of the frame?

There are no rocks on the Arctic ice sheet. Well, the picture could be from Anartica, or Greenland, or perhaps my favorite old mountain lake high in the Colorado Rockies. (;~> gary

Ha...

ANOTHER lie caught! Thanks.

Just curious...

when a story like this comes out, where it's obvious that the reporter/media outlet is trying to push their own agenda and they use bad video/false information, does NB confront them directly (call/email) to let them know they're incorrect? Or does someone at MSNBC read NB and run to their editor for correction?

Has there been any MSM retraction of a bad/flase story due to NB staff intervention, or that of NB fans?

 

Not often...

Not often do we take the case to the news outlet before we publish our reaction.

In the past, trying to deal with the news outlet first rarely, if ever, got anywhere. Usually a defensive email is returned if they acknowledge it at all.

It has become clear that single messages do little to make them mend their errors but notice by hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet, however, often forces them to respond.

That's what I was thinking...

but wasn't sure of what happens behind the scene.

It seems that the voices of the good citizens of a republic do indeed enact real change! (sorry Obama).

Long live NB!

So anyway........

..............I was talkin to this guy at my usual watering hole, and he was telling me he just returned from Oklahoma, where he claims he saw, with his own eyes, grizzley bears. He sez it's true, so therefore, it must be.

An alternative title for this piece will tell the real story.

"Camilla the making of a liberal intellectual with a frozen bum" 

We should all be grateful for this young member of the future ruling class.

 

Carbon Credits Smoke'em if you got'em!

I also

I also thought that talk of her frozen bum detracted from her status as the "hero" of global warming, too. It shows how classless and crass our western societies are becoming these days.

THIS IS THE INFAMOUS CANOE REPORTER!!!

Remember the Today show blooper with the live update from a reporter in a canoe during flooding....except that two guys in boots WALKED in between the canoe and the camera, showing the water was about a foot deep?

This penguin blooper is reported by that same reporter, Michelle Kosinski!!

 

Looks like this lady needs

Looks like this lady needs a career change. 

"Abstain from McCain"

Talk show wars

I suspect it was the crew of Good Morning America who sent those guys into the shot. ;)

Call of the Wild

There is a reasonable explanation for how the Penguins ended up in the Artic. They were out on Juneau Ice Field taking vacation photographs during their Royal Caribbean: Call of the Wild cruise and got lost.

Beakman's world?

Those two penguins look familiar. Aren't they the two from Beakman's World? Guess they're looking for a new gig.