Gay, Blind Mountain Climbers

One of the all-time best news bloopers, in my stunningly humble opinion.



The best part of this video, of course, is the authority with which she blurts out 'gay'. She says it with so much authority, in fact, that I'm almost tempted to believe that she actually had an inside scoop on the story, and accidentally let it slip out. That, somehow, she knew a male friend of a friend who had sexed up a gay, blind Mt. Everest climber but had demanded a promise from the anchor to keep their tryst secret for the time being. That could have happened, right? Right?
The look on her co-anchor's face is priceless as well. I almost get the sense that he knew something bad was going to happen - watching him twirl his pencil and steadfastly refuse to look at her gives a hint of the 'I know something bad is going to happen, but I don't quite know what exactly it will be, and I will exist awkwardly until it does happen' strategy, most popularly employed by Mike Myers when Kanye West noted, on live TV, that George W. Bush may not care as much about black people as he does about, say, um, white people. The co-anchor's reaction when she does eventually blurt out 'gay', though not quite as great as Mike Myers' Kanye reaction, certainly occupies the same rarified, life-affirming air of Internet video greatness.