FOX News Correspondent Caught Sleeping During Live Interview
- Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:06pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Television news can be stressful and exhausting, especially considering its fluid nature and the unpredictable hours that some reporters are asked to appear on-air. These factors become increasingly problematic when there’s a noteworthy event going on — for instance: Super Tuesday.
This morning, FOX News correspondent Doug Luzader fell victim to a bout of tiredness during a scheduled appearance on Austin, Texas’ KTBC. When anchor Joe Bickett attempted to toss over to Luzader, who was appearing via satellite from Washington, D.C., the correspondent was fast asleep.
Watch the awkward incident, below:
As TVSpy noted, Luzader may have been unable to hear Bickett’s attempts to speak with him, as he was unresponsive in the split-screen shots above. An hour after the incident, the two connected and discussed GOP primary results without incident.
Luzader shouldn’t be embarrassed, though. He’s not the first individual to be caught sleeping on the job. Yesterday, The Blaze reported about Newt Gingrich’s on-air nap while addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) audience.
And in October, singer and actor Harry Belafonte fell asleep during an appearance on the KBAK-KBFX morning show (Bakersfield, California).
(H/T: TVSpy)
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Lugnut30263
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:41amI can see it now, the latest craze on the internet. Tired of Tebowing? Sick of planking? Not even trying the broom? Catch your friends Gingriching! Reporter was just getting ahead of the curve.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:04pmOk. Human being. Poor guy. :D
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:27pmWhy didn’t anyone wake him up? Camera man? Director? Make up? Interns for god sake! They’re just gonna let him go on the air asleep?
Report Post »Mrs. Bowers
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:57pmYou would think that would have been the decent thing to do.
Report Post »cdcats8
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:19pmMaybe he is diabetic and needed food.
Report Post »Archstone
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:20pmHe was in D.C. – did anyone check to see if he had been shot?
Report Post »goldmind
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:19pmI can have forty eight hours of sleep, and the slightest dose of politics puts me in the same state. The poor lad is comatose.
Report Post »Kitkarr
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:38pmMaybe he was playing Words with Friends with Alec Baldwin. If so, whether he was asleep or not, he was probably winning.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:36pmI do not know how some of these reporters do it, even Glenn. They are up all night and then up way too early to have gotten 6-8 hours sleep. They had all better start taking care of themselves or more will pass away like Breitbart.
Report Post »I Love Howie Carr
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:12pmit looks like he was looking down at something, reading something maybe
Report Post »he doesn’t look asleep.
Kisses6350
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:34pmAsleep? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Fox needs to hush the fuss anyways………..
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:27pmHe wasn’t sleeping…he was playing a game on his I-pod.
Report Post »83plus
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:07pmHahahahahaha
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:41pmJoe Bickett is a total freaking, flaming liberal. Can’t blame anyone for falling to sleep waiting for him, or talking to him.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:38pmwell jeez how long do they make the offsite guy sit still under the hot lights and wait?!
Report Post »kspatriot
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:37pmLike most of the rest of the country, some at FOX News are asleep, but News Corp and many at FOX and other media outlets are UNDER SIEGE. Everyone in America needs to see this video. It’s time to wake up folks. http://youtu.be/ZyefXVZ7rZc
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:51pmJeeeez. Another Alex Jones’er providing INFOWARS.COM conspiracy nonsense… telling everyone in America to WAKE UP! You woudn’t happen to be a Ron Paul supporter would you? Of course you are. The words WAKE UP gave you away. Oh, and INFOWARS.COM is another tell.
Report Post »thegreyghost
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:01pmTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12, too bad you have no brains to see what is happening in front of your face… You are complacent with a socialist take-over I’m guessing. Typical of flaming liberals, nothing to offer and no vision of the future.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:19pmGREYGOOSE. Does that mean I’m out of your loop now? Damn! Guess I burned my bridges huh?
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:32pmIt’s funny and everything – but – if I wanted funny – I’d switch web sites.
Oh – I got a good one…. Guess who said ALL of these statements…… (Answer at bottom)
- Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket
- So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted
- Our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation.
All those were OBAMA
Now something else…. How about these….
- It’s time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals.
Report Post »- We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good
- I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe
- I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people
- I certainly think the free-market has failed
- (We) can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.
- The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.
- The unfettered free market has been the most radically destructive force in American life in the last generation
— All those were… Hillary Clinton
txblaze
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:30pmMy husband would say he was just resting his eyes.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:25pmProbably best, because when they’re awake, they’re lying. ;^)
Report Post »TxSon
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:34pmName one or STFU
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:57pmWell, let’s start with this week. Every time you hear that the Obama administration set this Fluke thing as a trap for Rush ( ie.3/6 on The5~EricBolling,) any time anyone promotes the lie that Flukes testimony was about wanting to get birth control free for recreational sexual activity purposes (ie. Father Morris on F&F, 3/4) Admittedly this has been an especially big week with FoxFiends carrying water for Rush’s lies. But thanx for playing :^)
Report Post »thegreyghost
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:06pmi’ll name one or two, Bill O’Reily, Sean Hannity… you should stop believing everything Faux News tells you. This is exactly why Romney is doing well. The MMM has sold you the lie that he is not an establishment candidate… Newt also. Neither gives a crap about the constitution. Neither does Faux knews… why are you so defensive of them anyway? you should try alt news for a change…
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:22pmhttp://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-28-2012/i-can-t-believe-it-got-better-
Report Post »People know Fox is a joke. Well, except the listeners who BELIEVE the rhetoric from the “pundit prepped.”
AvengerK
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 2:49pmLOL…yes of course TIFOSA…
Report Post »Then there’s this “story” from MSNBC:
“On Tuesday MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: “A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.” Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/08/18/msnbc-no-mention-black-gun-owner-among-racist-protesters
Sucks to be you TIFOSA.
tifosa
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:10pmYou lose when you accuse me of defending any particular network as a whole Aven. Find such a comment?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:28pmNo TIFOSA…YOU lose when you offer the same tired blather your keepers have told you constantly repeat about Fox while your keepers are guilty of exactly what they accuse others of. Yeah right TIFOSA..like you‘ll rail against MSNBC for doing the same things you’re accusing Fox of. Don’t insult my intelligence you cur.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:16pmI‘m having a tough time deciding what’s funnier: “your keepers” or “you cur” LOL!!! Relax dude…. :^)
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:22pmAsleep at the helm? I would think they was talking about Joe Bison!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:21pmFOX is asleep… and much too Progressive!
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:20pmThat damn Obama…!
Report Post »AzSage
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:19pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, oh, uh,,,,, back to you Joe. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:19pmShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…… Don’t wake him…..
Report Post »jim
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:18pmGet the man an expresso… he probably got 2 hours sleep in 48, covering all this stuff.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 1:17pmPoor guy!
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