WLOS dailies WED 1102

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Charu again
Cherub Charu’s garb tonight was a bit more appropriate – it actually was cold enough for a hat and coat. The gloves were a little much. But what a nice hat is was – a bright red number that totally distracted us from the useless bird flu report she did. She failed to mention that there has not been a single recorded case of the bird flu appearing in a human (in the U.S. as commenter Edgy Mama notes). Nope, just a lot of scare-mongering.

Sex offender update
Michelle Boudin had the Sex Offender Report of the Day tonight, this time reporting from Woodfin. Seems the town of Woodfin is going to fight a lawsuit filed by the ACLU challenging the town’s law banning sex offenders from local parks.

The town put up big signs and everything. Michelle stood beside one. It may have been the same sign that WLOSers showed a town worker putting up months ago, a town worker who was – guess what – a registered sex offender. No lie.

Le on all fours
Jon “Punnyman” Le got down on all fours and squealed like a cat Wednesday night during a report on the musical “Cats” coming to the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.

Le was all over the place, first interviewing a couple of smart-ass 10-year-olds hanging out behind the Civic Center.
Le: “So what do you think ‘Cats’ is about?”
Smart-ass kid: “Uh, cats.”

Then Le slinks around to the front of the Civic Center, and finds a sign that says, “Will Call for Cats.” So he thinks that’s funny and asks a couple of women passing by, “How do you call a cat?” And one of the gullible women goes, “meow, meow. meow, meow.”

Finally, Le gets inside and talks to a cast member, a guy dressed up in his cat costume who is waaay into being a pussy and all, and he makes Le get down on all fours and – quick – react to a sound. Follow it over there! Then jump up! Then hisssssssssss. Le pussies out and follows everything, even throwing out a little claw action.

Then Le goes back outside to talk to an old lady with a confused little dog she says thought it was a cat when it was hanging out with cats. “She went in the litter box and ate cat food,” she says. Le adds, “but can she sing?”

Ugh.

When we mercifully end up back at the anchor desk, Diva Darcel and Larry Blunt sit, silent. Totally silent. The diva finally breaks it by asking the Bluntman if he’s left speechless, and Blunt just tells us to send a Le-mail if we’ve got a story idea for the Punnyman.

Here’s an idea – stop doing dumbass stories.