Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
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Scott sighting
There was a Kathy Scott sighting over the weekend. Although it was pre-WLOS footage, Kathy was featured in one of those Dick Clark “Bloopers” shows that aired during the rain delay in Sunday’s Braves game.
Scott was in an outtake demonstrating a story on how thieves break into cars, trying to crack the passenger side window of a car with a crowbar. But she wasn’t strong enough to make it happen. They ran about 6 takes of Scott using a crowbar, a baseball bat and, finally, a metal pipe before she was able to break the window.
A real pro, she never changed expression and her lines never varied a bit. And it goes without saying she was cute as hell doing it. Makes you wish she was still around, working with Candice – love to see that on-air cat fight.
A victim’s story
Here’s today’s installment of “My Low-Grade Rage,” courtesy of ABC’s “Good Morning Liberal America.”
Robin Roberts interviewed yet another in the never-ended GMLA series of “victims,” this one named Kathy Trant of New York. Trant’s story is heartbreaking: Her husband was killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and she was forced to get on with her life with $5 million in settlement from the U.S. government (read: your taxes) and private donations.
So to cope with “her grief” (her words), she has spent most of it. She dropped $1.5 million to remodel her Long Island home, $300,000 for a basketball court and $500,000 (half a million) for designer shoes.
Now she has “only” half a million left, and she’s going on national TV as a sniveling “victim” of a “shopping addiction” to tell her story “to help other victims and addicts.” ABC even trotted out a pyschologist to add credibility to this incredible sham.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I never knew you spelled “grief” as G-R-E-E-D.
One other thing. Is BULLSHIT one or two words?
I don’t want to seem crass, but how does someone have the nerve to come on tv and tell such a story about their greed and outlandish spending habits? I bet people will feel sorry for her and send her more money.
I stand corrected. Somehow they all seem to run together after a while. My apologies to Ms. Scott.
That’s not Kathy Scott in the Bloopers video. It’s Amy Davis, another former WLOS reporter, in a clip from her previous reporting assignment in Texas.