The Tapes Of Wrath

[Chief]

The Tapes Of Wrath part one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwAirML6Ia4&mode=related&search=) is a collection of network bloopers from the early 1980's. Put together for the Washington Press Corps banquet. Yeah, its old but some of these are pretty funny, especially if your old enough to remember Reagan.

This is part two (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjH2hYz8dXg&mode=related&search=) and contains more bloopers than part one.

[facts]

God, I have this on 3/4".

[Michigan J. Frog]

Whoever thought this tape would still be around by now?

[facts]

Whoever would have thought that by clicking a mouse (of course, back then we didn't know what THAT was) you could see it any time you wanted? How strange the world has become.

[Chief]

I hadn't seen this since the mid 80's, so I thought I'd share when I found it on youtube.

There's a Tapes of Wrath part II on there from the same user as well.

[The Fedora]

Originally posted by facts:
God, I have this on 3/4".ha... so do I.

[a shooter]

so do i....

[2:30]

Likewise.

Medialine trivia:

Part 1: How many of the individuals in the shots can you name. (If you can handle most of them, you're a serious old timer.)

Part 2: (Bonus question:) How many medialine posters, and how many ex-spouses of medialine posters can you spot. Hint: if you're not above three...

[Lazlo Toth]

Originally posted by facts:
God, I have this on 3/4".Me, too. I feel old.

[SpxGrunt]

Wow, Water Skiing squirrels were crapping it up on TV in the early 80s. The more things change...

[Clubbeat]

I got this on 3/4 and a 2-inch reel. I can't even find any of those machines to play them on.

Forget about feeling old...I'm feeling ancient :D

[mountain guru]

This was great in 1982! The tape I have has all those parts on it. Excellent hilarious stuff.
Some of those prime time players were:

Irving R Levine and his trademark bow tie...

Jessica "prime time" Savitch.. who paved the way for many women in news today!

as well as..
Bob "pizazz in the standup" Schieffer....
Robert "I once had thin DARK hair" Hager...
Bob "that's it, NO MORE" Plante..
Ted "the rug" Koppel...
Sander "froggy voice" Vanocur
Bettina "take take two" Gregory
Chris "Baby Face" Wallace
Ike "I'm outta work and in the park now" Pappas
Sam "I haven't written the close yet mothers" Donaldson
David "shades" Brinkley :cool:
Carole "airbag" Simpson

Others were:
Gloria Hillard
Bernie Shaw
George Strait
Cokie Roberts
Lesley Stahl

and the local news finale..
Rose Ann "the real rosanadana" Scamardella
Mara "the finger" Wolynski

And a salute to the late greats..
Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel... graemlins/icon_pray.gif

"as Mara Wolinsky would say...WE'RE NUMBER ONE"

By far the best closing line ever delivered on a TV NEWSCAST to this day!

How I miss those great heydays of TV news! :(

[Tripe Face]

It is still funny a quarter of a century later.

A couple of questions:

Who was the dark haired woman from part 1 in the white suit who was involved in a scandal in the first Reagan term?

Who was the blonde guy who needed 22 takes for his stand up?

About the same time, there was a tape made in Cincinnati to the tune of a song called "Bus Full of Nuns Holding Babies" Anybody have a link to THAT? I used to work with some of the folks in that video. I have it on 3/4 tape but nowhere to dub it.

[2:30]

The blonde guy was Mike Boettcher, then of CNN, later NBC.

Can't remember the name of the woman...I'm assuming you mean the one at 3:44, testifying before Congress.

[Fargin Icehole]

Bunch of non-forward-thinking old farts!

I dubbed it over to VHS and it still lives today. Better get to searching for a decent 3/4" deck, dust it off and make a dub.

I have both parts on VHS as well as a nice collection of CNN bloopers when they were in thier infancy.

Still funny every time I see it. :D

[Laughing Angel]

Geez, I haven't seen that thing since the earth cooled, and I also own it on 3/4". Yikes!

[Scotch On The Rocks]

That thing's so old, I thought I was gonna see Wayne Freedman pop up on it.

[Tripe Face]

Originally posted by Scotch On The Rocks:
That thing's so old, I thought I was gonna see Wayne Freedman pop up on it.Ouch... that hurt.

[Ferrycrossthemersey]

The woman with the short dark hair is Anne Gorsuch Burford...RR's head of the EPA til she resigned amidst scandal. Can't recall what the scandal was, mind you, but I do remember it dominating headlines for weeks.

[Paper Trail]

Anne Gorsuch Burford, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3418-2004Jul21.html) 62, Dies; Reagan EPA Director

By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 22, 2004; Page B06

Anne M. Gorsuch Burford, 62, the Environmental Protection Agency director who resigned under fire in 1983 during a scandal over mismanagement of a $1.6 billion program to clean up hazardous waste dumps, died of cancer July 18 at Aurora Medical Center in Colorado.



Her 22-month tenure was one of the most controversial of the early Reagan administration. A firm believer that the federal government, and specifically the EPA, was too big, too wasteful and too restrictive of business, Ms. Burford cut her agency's budget by 22 percent. She boasted that she reduced the thickness of the book of clean water regulations from six inches to a half-inch.

Republicans and Democrats alike accused Ms. Burford of dismantling her agency rather than directing it to aggressively protect the environment. They pointed to budgets cuts for research and enforcement, to steep declines in the number of cases filed against polluters, to efforts to relax portions of the Clean Air Act, to an acceleration of federal approvals for the spraying of restricted pesticides and more. Her agency tried to set aside a 30-by-40-mile rectangle of ocean due east of the Delaware-Maryland coast where incinerator ships would burn toxic wastes at 1,200 degrees centigrade.

Ms. Burford was forced to resign after she was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over Superfund records, arguing that they were protected by executive privilege. Ms. Burford acted under President Ronald Reagan's orders, with the advice of the Justice Department and against her own recommendation, her colleagues told the press at the time. A few months later, in what one of her aides called a "cold-blooded, treacherous act of political callousness," the Justice Department announced it would no longer represent her because it was involved in investigations into corruption at the EPA.

In her 1986 book, "Are You Tough Enough?" Ms. Burford called the episode her "expensive mid-life education."

"When congressional criticism about the EPA began to touch the presidency, Mr. Reagan solved his problem by jettisoning me and my people, people whose only 'crime' was loyal service, following orders. I was not the first to receive his special brand of benevolent neglect, a form of conveniently looking the other way, while his staff continues to do some very dirty work," she wrote.

A striking woman with jet-black hair, she was described as having television-star looks and perfect manicures. She wore fur coats and smoked two packs of Marlboros a day; her government-issued car got about 15 miles per gallon of gasoline.

She could charm opponents, but she also did not shy away from political combat. Denver's Rocky Mountain News once said, "She could kick a bear to death with her bare feet."

Born Anne McGill in Casper, Wyo., she graduated from the University of Colorado in 1961 and the University of Colorado Law School in 1964. She married David Gorsuch after law school, and they traveled together to India after she won a Fulbright Scholarship. Upon her return to Colorado, she was a deputy district attorney and a lawyer for the regional Bell telephone company. She was elected to the Colorado legislature in 1976 and became known as one of the "House Crazies," conservative lawmakers intent on permanently changing government. She and Gorsuch divorced in 1979.

Reagan was her political hero, and she was thrilled to win an appointment in his administration. She said she considered the EPA director's job the "second-toughest" in government, after the directorship of the Office of Management and Budget.

More than half of the federal regulations targeted for an early review by the Reagan administration's regulatory reform team were EPA rules. Virtually all of her subordinates at the EPA came from the ranks of the industries they were charged with overseeing. Her tenure enraged environmentalists, who tied her to the equally controversial policies of her friend and fellow Coloradan, then-Secretary of the Interior James Watt. Ms. Burford was known as Anne Gorsuch until she married Robert Burford, director of the Bureau of Land Management, just a month before she resigned in March 1983.

Her resignation did not end the political fight. Reagan, seeking to reward a loyalist, appointed her a year later to the chairmanship of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and the Atmosphere. The Republican-controlled Senate, by a vote of 74 to 19, called on him to withdraw the appointment.

She told a meeting of Colorado woolgrowers that the panel was a "nothingburger" and a "joke" that met three times a year. "They don't do anything," she said. The nation's capital, she added, was "too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged."

Those remarks further inflamed her opponents, so she withdrew from the advisory panel before she was sworn in.

She focused on her private law practice in Colorado, specializing in child advocacy law. Her son, Neil Gorsuch, said that as a young district attorney, she had pursued "deadbeat dads" long before that cause was popular, and she returned to those kinds of issues in her later work. She was still working at the time of her death.

Her marriage to Robert Burford also ended in divorce.

Survivors include three children from her first marriage, Neil Gorsuch of Washington and Stephanie Gorsuch and J.J. Gorsuch of Denver; her mother, Dorothy O'Grady McGill of Denver; a brother; and five sisters.

© 2004 The Washington Post Company

[ November 18, 2006, 10:53 AM: Message edited by: Paper Trail ]

[2:30]

Ouch. Can't believe I couldn't remember her.

That thing's so old NYC Street had hair in it.

[the original buttongod]

The last copy of that I saw was about an eighth generation 3/4 dub to VHS. ... graemlins/eusa_whistle.gif "Ican see clearly now....."

[Fargin Icehole]

OK...that does it. I'm knocking it over to a DVD tonight in case the VHS copy bites the big one.

[Soul Doubt]

Originally posted by Tripe Face:
It is still funny a quarter of a century later.

A couple of questions:

Who was the dark haired woman from part 1 in the white suit who was involved in a scandal in the first Reagan term?

Who was the blonde guy who needed 22 takes for his stand up?

About the same time, there was a tape made in Cincinnati to the tune of a song called "Bus Full of Nuns Holding Babies" Anybody have a link to THAT? I used to work with some of the folks in that video. I have it on 3/4 tape but nowhere to dub it.I'm curious too. 22 takes??? Wow.

[The Fedora]

24 takes.

felt sorry for the guy.

[Mom]

Wasn't the 24 take guy NBC's Mike Boettcher?

[2:30]

Yes, but at the time he was working for CNN.

Here's my list so far...feel free to fill in the blanks.

:58 CNN DC?
:59 Scott Barret CNN
1:00 Lem Tucker ABC
1:01 Richard Roth, CBS
1:02 Brit Hume ABC
1:04 ABC DC?
1:05 Ann Compton ABC
1:07 PBS? Male
1:09 Woman on Hill?
1:11 John Palmer NBC
1:13 Phil Jones CBS
1:23 Susan Spencer CBS
1:24 Carl Bernstein ABC Bureau Chief (then)
1:27 John DeLorean (in jail)
1:30 probably not but looks like John Miller? Now FBI spokesman
1:31 still : Rita Jenrette?
1L35 Sam Donaldson
1:39 CBS Morning News (team?)
1:41 State Dept standup?
1:42 Diane Sawyer then ABC
1:43 Max Robinson ABC
1:45 three at bar?
1:46 Mike von Fremd & Ann Compton, ABC
1:51 Strom Thurmond & ?
1:55 Nancy Reagan & ?
1:56 Ronald Reagan
1:57 Conyers
1:59 Mondale
1:59 guy hits water
2:01 Moynihan
2:06 Kennedy
2:07 Carter
2:13 Tip O'Neill
2:15 guy with hat?
2:16 Tim O'Brien ABC
2:17 Kirstin Lindquist CNN
2:19 Jessica Savitch NBC
2:23 Lesley Stahl CBS
2:30 woman hitting with mic?
2:37 Ayatollah Khomeini
2:40 CBS bureau staff?
2:45 >?
2:48 SNL
2:52 Ann Gorsuch EPA
2:56 Shadow interview
2:57 ? Black guy with moustache?
3:00 Senator picking nose?
3:04 Ray Donovan Reagan Labor secy?
3:06 ?Old white guy with glasses?
3:08 David Gergen
3:11 blonde sticking out tongue?
3:13 Faith Fancher CNN
3:14 White guy on set with glasses?
3:15 white guy with glasses at mic
3:16 Susan Spencer CBS
3:18 NBC Correspondent?
319 Bob Michel? and Jim Wright
332 Dan Schorr then CNN
333 Menachem Begin
334 Yasser Arafat
335 Di & Charles
336 Liz Taylor
337 David Stockman, Reagan OMB
338 old white guy
340 old white guy with glasses
341 fat white guy at UN? Or trial?
342 John Glenn
344 Ann Gorsuch
345 Old guy with glasses at white house? Phil Habib?
346 Old white guy, black reporter in background
347 Jim Wooten ABC
410 Reagan movie clip
418 Jim McManus, CBS
439 James Watt, Reagan Interior Secy
458 Reagan
505 James Baker
524 Frank Reynolds
546 name the kid or the event!
6:06 name the Austrian leader
6:58 Watt
7:13 Nancy Reagan trip and falls
723 Mike Wallace
7:25 Gorsuch
737 George Bush Sr
747 Lonnie Anderson on Candid Camera
825 Allen Funt
tip O'Neill & Jim Wright anchovies
Don Rickles
Part 2
:07 George Lewis NBC at Pentagon - who's the shooter with the hairspray?
:18 Bettina Gregory ABC
:27 Bill Plante CBS
:33 Bob Hager NBC
:38 Blonde?
:40 Ted Koppel ABC
:43 woman on set?
:46 Sander Vanocur ABC
:48 Mike von Fremd
:49 Susan Spencer
:51 Bernstein ABC
:54 Irving R. Levine NBC
1:33 Vanocur
1:35 Jed Duval? CBS
1:38 Bob Schieffer 1:38
1:48 George Lewis
1:52 George Strait ABC
1:55 Lisa Meyer NBC
2:04 Plante
2:07 Donaldson
2:15 Leslie Stahl CBS (nice dress!)
2:20 Donaldson & Secret Service agent (name?)
2:28 Savitch
2:32 Plante
2:47 Bernie Shaw CNN (see if you can spot Katie Couric or Sandy Kenyon in background!)
2:48 CNN flasher?
2:49 Gordon Barnes then CNN
2:50 Lindquist
2:52 David Brinkley
2:54 >>?
2:56 Carole Simpson ABC
3:15 SNC reporter? On tracks
3:26 Amanda Davis SNC
3:32 Chris Wallace the NBC
3:39 Roy O'Neill NBC
4:09 Linquist/CNN - Reagan assasination attempt aftermath - background: with Scott Barrett, (in background Cissy Baker, daughter of Sen. Majority Leader, John Holloman, Dave Browde
4:30 Brent Mussberger with Jim Harrick
4:39 Mike Boettcher CNN
5:05 Ike Pappas in Socolow Park
5:42 Bill Lynch on hill (then NBC News)
6:08 Boettcher
6:22 Levine
6:39 ? I should know this one at ABC DC, and the brunette in the w/s
646 Schieffer
651 Cokie Roberts (at PBS) with ???
7:04 ? And camerman?
7:09 Boettcher
7:13 Gregory with flowers - who gave them to her?
7:23 Richard Sherr of Baltimore Station? with Anchor?
8:08 Roseanne Scamardella tosses to Mara Wolynski to Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel
ends with Boettcher

Yes, we had a slow night last night.

[imported_Mr. Vengeance]

Although it seems like it was recorded just yesterday, "Tapes of Wrath" needs to be preserved for viewing by broadcast journalism students, not to mention anyone curious about the days when TV network news still had relevance.

[Roy Hobbs]

As a certified CBS News Geek,my version of Tapes of Wrath, since dubbed to VHS and about to be dubbed to DVD (I still have two working lightly used 3/4 decks complete with spare parts and manuals thanks to a community college audio visual guy at my church who reconditioned them and then destroyed and disposed of them according to state regulations...OOPS...well two out of three ain't bad)includes a series of CBS Evening News Western Edtion opening screwups by Rather, Kuralt and Kurtis that I taped in '82 and 83 that are hilarious.

NOBODY has those. There is also a classic of Gov. later Senator Robb of Virginia falling down stairs like a goof and yours truly dropping a battery on um, a very sensitive place during a standup. I quoted Shakespeare...a little lesson for you kids that you don't have to resort to swearing in painful or stressful situations :D

[Chief]

Love to have a DVD copy of all of the above Roy. What are the odds you'd consent to mail a copy?

[CKMD]

Originally posted by Fargin Icehole:
OK...that does it. I'm knocking it over to a DVD tonight in case the VHS copy bites the big one.Oddly enough, I did it two months ago.

I remember Paul Stueber talking to me about Roger Grimsby...ohhh, the stories Paul had.

[ November 19, 2006, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: Can't Keep Me Down ]

[Tlknghd]

This reminds me...about the same time this tape came out...anothe one came out too. It was a music video done by some newsies called "A Bus Full of Nuns Holding Babies."
I kept a 3/4" copy for years...but have long since misplaced it.
Anyone remember it? Or even better...got a copy??

[a shooter]

Originally posted by 2:30:
Yes, but at the time he was working for CNN.
yep - that was mike working for cnn - on his first tour through there.

[The Fedora]

Originally posted by Tlknghd:
This reminds me...about the same time this tape came out...anothe one came out too. It was a music video done by some newsies called "A Bus Full of Nuns Holding Babies."
I kept a 3/4" copy for years...but have long since misplaced it.
Anyone remember it? Or even better...got a copy??yes, on VHS. I also have some great stuff from KHOU.

[Radiofreewill]

Is that all? Seems like there should be a little more to that.

[ZuZu's Petals]

Wow! Part three... photographers wearing ties. Imagine that!

sheesh... and the graphics. To think that was cutting edge.

It's quite funny though. Imagine how long THAT took to edit in the day!

[Tlknghd]

Hey Fedora...check your e-mail.

[Roy Hobbs]

Originally posted by Chief:
Love to have a DVD copy of all of the above Roy. What are the odds you'd consent to mail a copy?Count on it. Saved your earlier request. Been up to my ears in projects...and I have to dig it out from four moves and one ex ago. I might even bring it out to you on my next east coast junket first week of January. Free Tapes of Wrath for anyone who gives me a nickel tour of their shop!

Be the first on your block with a piece of Roy history!

I think I have an interesting little snippet of CBS News affiliates promotion and Meredith Vieira on there from 1983 as well. Sigh.

With apologies to Hal Moore we were soldiers AND single once...and young.

[ November 19, 2006, 10:01 PM: Message edited by: Roy Hobbs ]

[Zero]

The real Grapes Of Wrath (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVX1muRH5bA&mode=related&search=).

[Paper Trail]

Yes, we laugh at these videos even when someone really gets hurt. Take the Grape Stomp Lady. (http://www.620wtmj.com/_content/news/story_3089.asp) TV weather gal Melissa Sander was caught live falling from a platform while stomping grapes. It was a tumble that broke several of her ribs. Sanders has moved on from the Atlanta station she was working for at the time. She has had at least two other jobs since then, but as far as we know, is out of the business.

[Laughing Angel]

(Sigh) I am so old.