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An "oops" from NBC's Ann Curry


Mr. Scot

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Curry forgets to fact check her graduation address

We're pretty sure that the "Today" show fact-checks its news stories. The NBC morning show's news anchor, Ann Curry, could've used a little help in that department over the weekend.

Curry delivered a commencement address at Wheaton College in Massachussetts over the weekend, and she listed some of the school's famous alumni: Billy Graham, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl, film director Wes Craven and Todd Beamer, one of the heroes of United Flight 93 on 9/11. Standard graduation stuff, right?

Yeah, there was just one problem: Except for Stahl, all those people graduated from a different Wheaton College. In Illinois.

To her credit, Curry quickly apologized to the Massachussetts Wheaton in a letter.

Perhaps she could get the "Wolf Blitzer" award :lol:

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Ahh graduation speech fugups.

At one of my graduations, Senator Dale Bumpers was the speaker. While he didn't confuse my school with another (he was way too busy ranting about politics and his fabulous life), he sounded like a confused, senile old man. A few of the more conservative students actually walked out.

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Well, one's a evangelical school and one's a typical liberal arts school so there's a decent sized gap, but it's not the first time someone showed up to collect a paycheck at one of these things.

We just took hits off of pipes being passed around and slugs of whiskey during our commencement so if it were anything like C of C, I doubt anyone but the parents noticed.

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