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After yesterday’s battle royale between Al Roker, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, Speidi gave what seemed like dozens of post-battle interviews. They made a video for US Weekly, complaining about “The Weatherman”. Heidi even said that Roker had been abusive towards her, saying “Please do not be rude to women in the future. Please do not be rude to me. Please watch your tone, especially if you have a mother or a wife or a daughter. I don’t think that they would appreciate you talking to them like that.”
This morning, Al Roker defended the interview in all of its glory. Roker told Meredith Vieira that he believed he asked “what a lot people wanted to know.” Roker also defended himself against Heidi’s accusation that Roker treated her poorly, and that it was some kind of larger thing about Roker hating women. Roker said, “I’ve interviewed hundreds of women; never had a complaint… They are so unused to people actually asking them a real question. They don’t know how to handle it.” So true, Weatherman. Roker also gets a really good cut in about Spencer, saying that if Spencer had gotten physical, Roker would have dropped him “like a bag of dirt.” I would have gone with “like a bag of d-cks” but I approve:
Yesterday, when The Today Show’s Al Roker dared to ask reality TV loudmouths Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag some honest questions about their bratty behavior on the set of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, it was unlikely that the TV vet had any intention of making the newlyweds any more famous than they already are. But both the interview — and Speidi’s comments about it afterward — have pushed the reality stars even further into the spotlight.
On this morning’s edition of Today, Al defended himself against the allegations that he “persecuted” Spence and Heidi by not lobbing softball questions at them.
“I believe I asked what a lot people wanted to know,” Al told co-host Meredith Vieira. And as for Spencer’s statement that it was only by the grace of God that he didn’t physically attack the Today host, Roker commented, “If he had tried to come across, I would have dropped him like a bag of dirt.”
Regarding Heidi’s charge that Al has a problem with women, he countered, “I’ve interviewed hundreds of women; never had a complaint… They are so unused to people actually asking them a real question. They don’t know how to handle it.”
In the end, Roker seemed dumbfounded that two people of such meager accomplishments could cause such a stink. “There are a lot of celebrities who come on the show,” he said by comparison. “Who’ve actually done something, who act civil.”
[From OK! Magazine]
So who won the battle in the long run? I’d say Al Roker, but I’m uncomfortable with all of the added publicity those professional douches got with this controversy. Spencer Pratt is overcome with his own smug, inane, douchetastic self that he’s even talking anew about his plans to run for political office. Back in April, Spencer declared that he would want to start his political career by running for mayor of Los Angeles, then governor of California, and then he would move on to another state and run for governor there. I’m not even joking - and my guess for the second governorship was Wyoming, by the way.
With this new publicity, Spencer is now talking about running for President. Of the United States, not the Republic of Douchistan. Spencer told OK!: “When I’m in the White House as the President of the United States, this beautiful amazing, country… Then I’ll be like, ‘Okay, I’ve done what I’ve dreamt my whole life to be.’ That was the game plan to become the most famous person on the planet, so when I’m campaigning, people will know who I am. No one knew who Obama was and now he’s the President. Just imagine what I’m capable of… I plan to be the President of the United States in the next 20 years.” If Spencer is president in 20 years, I’m going to take my chances in Douchistan. I’ll marry an authentic Douche and get a Douchistan green card. Because nothing could be worse than a Pratt Administration.
Written by Kaiser
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32 Responses to “Al Roker says he would have dropped Spencer ‘like a bag of dirt’”
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oh shit. IT’S ON!
yeah, I agree, I hate to give them anything– I wish they’d dry up and blow away.
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Al Roker is the best!
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I wish Spencer would run for office…and get dropped like a bag of dirt. And, I never thought I would say something like this, but Team Roker!
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Montag and Pratt: Much ado about two nothings.
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CAGE FIGHT!!!
I would love to see that douche Spencer put his money where his sh*t-spewing mouth is and just TRY to take a swing at Al.
truth be told, the BEST thing that could happen to Spencer and Heidi (that is, what would hurt them the most) is people stop paying attention to them. Don’t have them on any talk shows, any reality shows or any “celebrity” blogs. they’d DIE without all the attention.
but I would love to see Al give Spencer just one good punch and knock those pubes he calls a beard right off his chin.
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Words fail.
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I’d love to see Al Roker drop Spencer like a bag of dirt. And then I would want to vote for Al Roker for president.
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Al and Spencer….BRING IT ON!!!
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I think we are at 13 minutes of the last 15 minutes of twat and twit.
Al Roker deserves a UN Humanitarian Award for his honesty and candor. And the Republic is Douchistan is priceless.
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Okay, Al, you won the “battle”. Now sit down before you have a heart attack or something.
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Wow! Fat Albert is all badass with a couple of kids. What exactly has he accomplished other than getting his stomach stapled cause he couldn’t stop eating everything in sight?
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what has he accomplished?
oh, I don’t know…just a VERY LONG career on TV. (you know, one that isn’t limited to a very fake “reality” show)
Before the national recognition, Roker worked as a weather anchor for the CBS affliate WTVH based in Syracuse, New York in 1974–1976, for Washington, D.C.’s Metromedia affiliate WTTG in 1976–1978, and for the Cleveland area NBC affiliate WKYC-TV in 1978–1983. He was also the weather anchor for WNBC in New York City for several years starting in 1983.
In 1995, he became the host of The Al Roker Show, a weekend talk show on CNBC. In 1996–1997, he hosted a game show on MSNBC called Remember This?.
Roker started getting more exposure, especially when David Letterman asked him to do an elevator race with him in one episode of his talk show Late Night with David Letterman, which taped across the hall from WNBC’s news studio in the GE Building. That led Roker to getting a job as the forecaster for Weekend Today, where he did the weather for nine years. He also substituted on the weekday edition of Today when Willard Scott was ill or away. In 1996, Scott announced his semi-retirement from the show, and Roker received the weekday weather position on Today, where he has been since. He officially joined Today on January 26, 1996. Roker became popular for doing his forecasts outside of the studio, interviewing audience members and giving some of them camera time. Roker also began doing more interviews and segments on the show as time progressed.
In 2005, Roker reported from inside Hurricane Wilma. A popular viral video exists on the internet of Roker being swept off his feet by the force of the hurricane and holding on to his cameraman.
Roker is a game show fan, and hosted a week-long segment on Today in honor of five game shows and their hosts. He also appeared as a celebrity player on both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!. In 2008, Roker hosted NBC’s Celebrity Family Feud.[3][4] Roker also replaced Meredith Vieira for a week of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire shows on March 5-9, 2007.
Roker also hosts various programs on The Food Network, namely, Roker on the Road, and, Tricked-Out Tailgating. He is also the author of several non-fiction books, and an avid barbecue enthusiast.
Roker was also the forecaster for several radio stations, including the New York smooth jazz radio station WQCD (101.9 FM) and for Cleveland smooth jazz station WNWV (107.3 FM). The service was called the “Al Roker Radio Weather Network,” it was provided by United Stations Radio Networks. He has since been replaced on those networks by John Wetherbee.
and they’re not “kids”. They’re in their mid-20s.
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I am laughing so hard at these comments - twat and twit!!!
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I don’t think expecting them to answer questions like adults was too much of Al to expect. They seem to believe their own PR and somehow got the impression that they are royalty. You rarely see “real” celebrities acting that way.
I am somewhat surprised that Meredith didn’t seem to side with Al.
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I’m Team ANYTHING-BUT PRATT! Heidi doesn’t nauseate me on her own-at least not like she does with spencer.
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Skins is Clueless: That was awesome. That comment should be preserved in an internet museum as a prime sample of blog comments.
I think Al Roker’s exposure is a lot more valuable than Speidi’s. Not exactly being Today’s target audience, and not subscribing to any US news media, I had only a vague idea of who Roker was and what he did. Now, I’m familiar with his entire career (thanks to Skins is Clueless), and I can’t be the only one.
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I have a feeling Spencer suffers from some type of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, like Octomom. Bipolars also have this high self actualization of themselves. That Pratt guy is a fool if he thinks he’s so self important. No one gives a hoot about him and his wife.
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taken from Wiki…but I’m sure there are other bios of him out there.
apologies for not giving credit.
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Gigohead, I also wonder about that. I’ve definitely seen evidence for bipolar in him and he could also have Narcisstic Personality Disorder, too. Something’s definitely wrong in his attic.
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ugh, this whole show is a publicity stunt on steroids. It’s turning me off a lot.
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I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again- Al has easily one of the hardest jobs in all of television. While a glib Matt Lauer and campy Merideth Viera discuss the news topics of the day ranging from nukes, to mass death, destruction, tsunami’s, pervert baby killers and arsen, they then just as quickly give it the old “an now to Al for the weather”. Seriously, try and watch the Today show, on any given day, Al will have the batton passed to him after the most soul crushing of stories….at least twice!
I don’t think he was in anyway over the top in his interview of Mr & Mrs. Douchenozzle. He asked questions that reflected what people wanted to know.
Kudos to Roker!
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fans of heidi and spencer twat are such losers..
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gossip-ho
its making a huge leap to assume there are any… -
lmao i always liked al roker- now i LOVE him
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“in all their Aryan-ness” rofl,too true.
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You go big Al. Bof of em need to be drop kicked.
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Al, I think I love you!
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I’m glad Al responded to the insane claims by these two idiots. Spencer Pratt as president? Yeah, freaking, right.
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I can think of a handful or more of A list celebs and def some politicians that would need this hard hitting journalism, not these two. I just do not understand all these Roker high fives over this. So what….let’s ask Jolie why so many kids so fast. Let’s ask Barry WTF happened to all his campaign promises, but hard hitting w/these two, come f**king on.
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Are you sure that’s what he said? I would have thought it was “…dropped Spencer BECAUSE HE IS a bag of dirt.”
That is, of course, quite an insult to bags of dirt worldwide.
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“The Republic of Douchistan.” LOLOL
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