When interviewing a gold medal winner, you should probably know who they are first.
Posted Feb 18, 2010, 4:46 PM UTC
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Are you stupid? I'm a famous speed skater bitch! Don't you know my name!!! Everyone knows me!!!
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Except me.
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I dont think she didn't know who he was, I think he was just being a dick.
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I find it hard to believe that an NBC reporter didn't know who he was. The broadcast talked at length about what a superstar Kramer is in Holland and how high the expectations are for him.
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She said she wanted his name for tape identification. This is more of an example of a douche being a douche.
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Are you stupid? I'm not arrogant enough to say my name and what I won, I'm actually just a dick.
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Not Canadian? Not surprised.
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The reporter asked it in a bitchy way.
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I'm thinking she just wanted him to identify himself for the viewers... not for her own knowledge. She probably knew who he was and what he just did.
He seemed like a pretty big dick about it.
Yeah. It's for the benefit of the people in the truck who have to put the graphics on the screen when the interview airs.
True. I've been around for several TV interviews, and they always ask you to say and then spell your name so that the editing guys spell it right.
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