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NBC Reporter Reveals He’s Been Contaminated by Radiation in Japan

NBC reporter Lester Holt — who’s in Japan covering the earthquake and tsunami — made a semi-startling revelation on Wednesday’s “Today” show: he’s tested positive for increased levels of radiation.

Holt had been covering the disaster at the country’s Fukushima nuclear power plant when he was ordered to leave amid growing concerns over radiation levels. He, and his team, did. When they got to a safe location they were screened with a Geiger counter, which measures radiation levels. No increased levels were reported on Holt — that is until the screener got to his shoes:

Despite testing positive, Holt admitted the levels were not catastrophic, and he wasn’t quarantined. However, after his shoes repeatedly tested for high amounts despite multiple washings, the shoes were confiscated.

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  • jacobstroubles
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:52pm

    And he went there why? was he unaware of the potential of this danger?
    Whatever..this is pure unadulterated BS…This guy is/was looking to make a mark in the
    garbage disposal of the so called news media spew.

    Anybody here willing to say that not only was he aware of the danger but his line producers didnt know. What a huge, huge load of crap!

    No I dont wish any bad things on this idiot, but his is total BS.
    And really why the hell did Shep Smith go there?
    What a load of spin crap..
    yes even FOX News is so full of thier breath stinks.

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  • restorehope
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:49pm

    Man up, Holt. You chose to go there knowing full well what the risks were. Those brave reporters during WWII who actually went into battle would not have made such a big issue about their shoes. It was your shoes that got contaminated, not your poor little footsies. Play to the audience for sympathy and increase your ratings at the same time. No heroism here.

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    • Cdmfl
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:02pm

      I’m with you on that one. Reporters were brave during WW. II. Their not like the ones we have now.

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  • drattastic
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:46pm

    NBC reporter huh..Is there anyway we can get all of NBC reporters over there

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  • matt708
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:42pm

    hey your boss immelt made the reactor ,blame him

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  • Salamander
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:42pm

    Hmmm, no women reporters? Kind of reminds me of Barbara Walters asking a group of Iraqui woment why, after liberation, they still walked behind the men? Their answer: Roadside Bombs!

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  • HTuttle
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:41pm

    God rest his sole!

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  • Salamander
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:40pm

    Gosh, I hope you weren’t trying to re-heat a greasy cheeseburger in a foil wrap–that can start a hell of a fire in a microwave!!! Don’t ask me how I know–trust me!

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  • rightwinglefty
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:27pm

    Pass the gieger counter over the dial of a glow in the dark analog watch and you get the same result.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:24pm

    Poor baby, Lester! Sounds like he’s angling for a big payday from Messs-NBC or, at the very least, VICTIMHOOD and sympathy….. Next time, big fella, stay home in bed under your pillow!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:38pm

      He already had my symapthy, born with no upper lip and all.

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  • Jezreel
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:22pm

    There is a rush on the West Coast for potassium iodide. People are being gripped by fear of the radiation that is coming in the air currents from Japan. I am sure the Lord has been merciful thus far by allowing this huge wet front to rain most of it down into the ocean as it travelled across towards us. We should thank and praise God.
    I would not be surprised that if by this weekend, the 16th, that the Bay area has a good earthquake too because we are in the seismic window for that. Dead fish that floated up on the shore happened before just before the quake of 1989 in the bay area. The conditions are the same. It us up to God to allow things to happen. The important thing is that in this country, we need to be ready to meet God. Just as there is a panic and a rush for that potatssium iodide, it would be better if people had a rush on to get right with God and repent because we don’t have to stand in a waiting line for that. People will scoff and laugh and poke fun until their very foundation is shaken and crushed and removed. The man who built his house upon the rock, the winds and rain and floods came and the house stood because he was a doer of the word of God and not just a hearer. The hearer of the word and he who didn’t prepare is like the man who built his house upon the sand. When the floods and quake and winds come, the ruin of his house was very great. Doers of the word are justified before God, Not hearers.
    Japan was or is a country who would not go along with the NWO currency that they wanted them to have, so, they used high tech technology to put them into a position of surrender. I hope that they stay strong and that they do not surrender to the new world order elites plans.
    God is going to destroy them who destroy the earth.

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    • saviorammo
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:55pm

      Thank you, Thank you.

      Dead fish equal a huge release of gas under the ocean. This comes from heavy tides, due to the moon and other astrological movements. We get large amounts of water to ones side from whirbling, and the weight causes the plates to shift. All normal and not due to human life whatsoever. Cyclical. They call it Earthquake weather!

      I have left Cali due to the know coming of events. But it wont be the natural disaster, it will be the calamity of the folks in our inner cities that panic, sluaghter, rob, rape, loot, etc. that will really piss god off. These folks were termed heathens in the day and we have become a breeding ground for them. To not call a spade a spade is our own demise.

      I pray for the masses of good that are left in the left coast. Especially for the women I love! It will be ironic that I have prepared at 11,000ft to be ready, and yet I will be at sea level for what life is truly about.

      Don’t fear death, just fear not doing enough in life!

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    • Jezreel
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:58pm

      Yes. I agree. We used to live in California and we even moved away from southern Washington between Longview and Vancouver. The Lord told us to get away from the cities and populated areas. “The tares will be gathered into bundles to be burned”. Cities are like bundles and you don’t want to be in the city when it happens. We didn’t know how we were going to be able to move and God used a negative event to fulfill our desire to move way up here next to the Canadian border on Mt. Sumas. My husband was a building official for ten years and would not go along with the corrupton and so they got rid of him. For his age being 61 and the economy, that is a very brutal time to loose your job. God opened the door and I typed my husband a resume and he got a job with a very good city up here in Washington, that is a very rural right wing city that is flourishing in our bad economy! There is all kinds of building going on. Because of him loosing his job and getting a new one, we were able to get that house in the country we always wanted. I raise chickens and eggs and we are plenty stocked up for food. We intend on helping others who are in need and the rest of our family may end up joining us. I am just remembering to pray that my husband will be at home when in the event of an earthquake and that my children and grandchildren are safe. All we can do is trust God.

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  • saviorammo
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:19pm

    U r melting down media!

    I love it. What drama queens. Do they even know how much radiation, we are exposed to daily? I guess the really won’t like the Atomic Ray gun I am building in my backyard.

    Great way to start the day.

    Army got out of Pakiland. Maybe our agents should start confronting their opportives in the U.S.? They have both diplomatic immunity and religious freedom. Folks, the rags are laughing at us.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:16pm

    Poor Lester, contaminated with radiation and liberal bias both! He has a good chance of surviving the radiation, the liberal bias leaves you completely brain dead though.

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  • donh2
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:16pm

    Will Jesse Jackson and Reverand Wright accuse NBC of being racist to send their only black anchor into a radioative dead zone ….or will they blame the Koch brothers ?

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:40pm

      In horror flicks, the black guy is always the one to die first. That’s just wrong.

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    • donh2
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:10pm

      In “Night of the Living Dead” the lead role “Ben” is the most heroic , level headed of the living. Killed mistakenly in finale by a possy of white men… A brutal twist of the knife in a movie were everything just kept going from bad to worse…. a merciless plot that pulls you down deeper at the end…Kind of like Japan.

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  • Whostolemypig
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:13pm

    NBC reporter? Not to worry, the radiation will never penetrate the thick coating of Obama crap.

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  • Jackie Rogers, Jr.
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:13pm

    Wow, Japan, atomic radiation, shoes. Why do I see a monster movie on the horizon?

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:11pm

    NBC has been contaminated by more than radiation. Same goes for ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, etc.

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  • Sinista MACE
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:11pm

    That’s what he gets for his feet being so fast to flee in the direction of trouble..

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 2:07pm

      He was given an assignment. He would not have gone there otherwise.

      Have liberals never heard of an assignment desk? Or is it just more convenient to point their fingers and cackle?

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 4:44pm

      Common sense tells you you don’t undertake assignments that put your life in danger such as entering an area of radioactive contamination.

      BTW, I’m a Conservative Libertarian, a traditional liberal, not a media-programming-redefined “liberal”.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:10pm

    well im glad it was just his shoes

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    • WHITE LOTUS2x
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 3:11pm

      Lillianrose: A few years ago I would believe that without any doubt. Today, seeing with my own eyes and hearing with my own ears how the media can slant everything to do with a story, I wonder very strongly if it was true. There were so many protests against nucleur power that they could sway the media., especialy if the protesters were what we call now progressive liberals. My area has know nucleur power sights here and we have all tha same problems that Three Mile Island had.

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  • TheLascone
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:09pm

    that is I hope your shoes get better … lol

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  • Beware of Romans
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:09pm

    I opened my microwave this morning and was also exposed to radiation.

    I turned on my television and was exposed to radiation.

    I ate a banana and was exposed to carbon 14 which has known traces of radiation.

    My porcelain teeth gives me small doses of radiation.

    I went to the beach which has high levels of thorium in local sands that are radioactive.

    Don’t believe the fear and hype about radiation. No One died from Three Mile Island, and no one will die from Japans accident. Fear sells newspapers and allows big government to push tighter regulaions in your life using the false pretense of safety.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:15pm

      Have you effectively ended my life?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:16pm

      If what you say is true, I may go out like a Roman candle!

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    • lillianrose
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:49pm

      The infant mortality rate immediately rose after the 3 mile accident, animals had to be put down, major increase in cancers, birth defects in humans and animals, dead birds and even bees.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:01pm

      @lillianrose: You forgot to tell everyone that there was once and animal called a caribou but they are all gone because they built the Alaskan oil pipeline. Have you seen any birds lately? No they are all dead. Make sure you take you iodide pills because a giant radiation cloud is coming straight to your house from Japan.

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:36pm

      @LILLIANROSE
      Its thats whats making all the fish, birds and animals die in the past few months? Before JAPAN???
      I think they have been committing mass suicide over Obamas Presidency. Both arguments have little merit.

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    • skimmer57
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:32pm

      Finally! At least one of the posters on here have teeth! Even if they are fake.

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    • lillianrose
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 11:05pm

      Looks like there are people who have failed to do their homework and signs that some are just plain ignorant.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:09pm

    I hope he will be okay; I truly do.

    I just saw this headline at Fox Nation and felt compelled to share:

    “Japan Melts, Libya Burns, Deficit Grows … and Obama Fills Out NCAA Bracket?”

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:29pm

      @show

      Thanks and there is a “snippy Jerk” following you.

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    • 912828Buckeye
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Just another typical day of Non-leadership from the
      Bamster administration Show.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 2:03pm

      @sissykatz
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:29pm
      @show

      Thanks and there is a “snippy Jerk” following you.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Thanks, SissyKatz. I smelled him.

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    • Tusker
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 4:12pm

      Yep, nice of him to take 30 seconds from filling out his bracket to tell everyone to go to usaid.gov to donate to Japan! Ohhh the humanity.

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  • Deb C
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:06pm

    Japan could have been well on their way to recovery by now. Instead, we have this man-made complication to deal with.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:13pm

      “Man-made complication”
      roflmao!

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    • drbage
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:27pm

      I certainly hope that he recovers, but from what I know, he is not in serious danger and he is certainly not the story. If you put yourself in harm’s way, harm may very well come your way–think of the reporters on beaches in the midst of a hurricane, etc.
      The majority of reporters in this disaster have shown me one thing–how ignorant they are of Japan, her people, and her culture. The idiot (being polite here) going around trying to get someone to complain about the government response, talk about looting, or comment on Obama, etc. How ridiculous! Japan was and is still a very closed society and to talk publicly about a complaint about government would be unseemly. Looting or committing any sort of crime would be to diminish the whole society. When the serin incident happened in Japan, it was a national tragedy. Here in the US, someone is killed and unless they are some sort of national or cult figure, we all basically sit back and say “Oh, well.” Diane Sawyer, visiting an evacuee center, gushing on about how the Japanese are still recycling–give me a break–this is news?!
      Japan will recover and the country will be better than it was before( look at Nagasaki and Hiroshima). As Rush said, the affected area will be back on its feet faster than the WTC will be built here in the USA. Further, any money (that we don’t have) that we lend to Japan will be repaid and we will see the results unlike Haiti that has had billions and billions of dollars poured in and the country is not any different today than it was 10, 20, or 30 years ago.

       
    • 3rd Eye
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:28pm

      tsunami’s are man made?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:53pm

      @ 3rd eye

      Whooooooooosh.

      Open two of your 3 eyes and maybe you will figure it out.

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    • chips1
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:41pm

      I made a tsamami in the tub when I was 6 or 7.

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  • nacilbuper
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:06pm

    Chris Matthews got a tingle up his leg.

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  • quarter horseman
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:04pm

    Maybe his shoes were madde in China.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 4:53pm

      Maybe today they should send him out there barefoot then his shoes won’t be contaminated! LMAO!

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  • 8jrts
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:02pm

    He probably left his shoes in the airport scanners too long.

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    • watchmany2k
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:15pm

      Sensationalism.
      There’s a difference between YOU being “contaminated”
      and your shoes having ground-in radioactive dust particles.

      The gamma particles it emits remain the same however…

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    • 912828Buckeye
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:16pm

      His shoes NOT him. Crying WOLF.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:55pm

      Umm, as far as contamination is concerned, radiation should be the least of an NBC reporter’s concerns.

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:02pm

      I think they should bring him home and send over Matt and Katie, Tingles, Special Ed, Commie O’Donnell,Mika, Joe and that little Maddow guy.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:23pm

      Will his feet now mutate? Are we looing at the next “Running Man?“ ”With great power, comes great responsibility.”

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    • wjeisworth
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:27pm

      You mean “both” of his left shoes as he is ALL left, just building the story for the Dems

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    • uzi4u2
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:52pm

      why is this news? They were in an area were radiation was, duh. So this year he shouldn’t get more that 5 more x-rays. I wish people that don’t know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to radiation and such would shut the hell up and stop scaring people needlessly.

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    • SandyfromChesterfield
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 8:02pm

      8JRTS That is too funny!

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    • Tom in Toronto
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 11:51pm

      Maybe he stepped in some bananas?

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