By TOM LEONARD
Last updated at 12:03 AM on 2nd April 2011
A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the U.S. military could be to blame.
In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge Judy, the presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended into undecipherable nonsense - looking confused and unstable.
The frequency of the 'attacks' - and the fact that recorded examples of the mental meltdowns have been popular on websites - has led to conspiracy theorists pointing the finger at shadowy government experiments.
Latest victim: Judge Judy Sheindlin had to stop her courtroom TV show on Wednesday after descending into nonsensical language
A popular theory being circulated online blames the U.S. Military’s supposed research into using microwaves as a mind control weapon.
America has never admitted conducting such research but proponents say the effects - produced by microwave signals stimulating the brain with fake images and voices - exactly mimic those displayed in the recent on-air breakdowns.
As to why the Pentagon might be targeting U.S. television presenters, the microwave theorists are less clear.
The phenomenon, which has provided internet video sites with some of the oddest footage for months, has now claimed one of America’s most highly paid broadcasters.
Targeted? Serene Branson's garbled Grammys report became an internet sensation, while WISCTV's Sarah Carlson suffered a similar meltdown in January
Judith Sheindlin, the fast-talking judge on Judge Judy, was taken to hospital on Wednesday after she began speaking a nonsensical string of words during a live recording of her courtroom TV show.
Studio insiders said Sheindlin, who earns £28 million a year for a show that is the most watched programme on American daytime TV, was sitting on camera and 'started saying things that didn’t make any sense'.
Sheindlin then announced she needed to stop as she didn’t feel well and asked a crew member to call an ambulance.
The 68-year-old lawyer was released from hospital the following day but a spokesman said medical tests had not revealed what caused her garbled speech and double vision.
Over the border: Mark McAllister, of Canadian Global Toronto News, soldiered on with his report on Libya, despite his words being unintelligible
Her verbal breakdown is the fourth such recent case and the odd coincidence has prompted feverish speculation over the cause.
No video has been released of the Judge Judy incident but footage of the other three has rapidly gone viral on the internet.
The first victim was Serene Branson, a Los Angeles reporter for CBS, who delivered a completely incoherent piece to camera on the Grammy music awards last month.
The presenter was unable to get out her words and continued to struggle to speak for around 10 seconds outside the Staples Centre before producers cut to a video.
She said later: 'My head was definitely pounding and I was very uncomfortable, and I knew something wasn’t right. I was terrified and confused.'
'My head was definitely pounding and I was very uncomfortable, and I knew something wasn’t right. I was terrified and confused'
Her doctor later said she had suffered a complex migraine whose symptoms mimic a stroke.
Her case was followed by a Canadian news reporter whose report on his country’s contribution to the military campaign in Libya suddenly collapsed into gibberish.
Mark McAllister of Global Toronto News told viewers that the Canadian defence minister had confirmed that 'more than sifty four 18 fighter jets are spending about as much as 20 and ready to assist 600 hundred, hundred deployed over the an-amount needed'.
His piece-to-camera went on to become even more odd before he signed off.
His employers later confirmed there had been no problem with the autocue but McAllister had also suffered from a migraine.
In January, Sarah Carlson of WISC-TV in Wisconsin was also struck. She started out fine in her report on Wisconsin’s challenge to Barack Obama’s health care reforms, but it soon became apparent that she was having trouble forming words and the camera switched to a startled-looking co-presenter.
Unlike the others, Carlson, 35, has a history of seizures, but America’s army of conspiracy theorists are unconvinced by the medical explanations.
11 comments:
(had to stop her courtroom TV show on Wednesday after descending into nonsensical language)
Hmm, I think that woman is nonsensical to begin with. Anyway, back to business. We don't have buckets, but we have boxes. 10 legs and thighs only $5.99 at your local Church's fried chicken outlet.
The Chicken Genius.
Some of these people are jumping on the band wagon for a little extra notarity. Microwave signals can carry words, images, etc, but to decode the message there must be a electronic device. The brain is an organic structure consisting of mostly water and fat. The subjecting of a persons brain to enough microwave enegery to disrupt the thinking process would do structural damage to the brain, other wise start to cook it like a piece of bacon in a microwave oven. This type of damage would show up on an ekg. Sorry, go look for space aliens in Area 54.
OK DAD!
Do a search on mind control patents and that will clear up any skepticism.
Sure! There are patents for lots of things that don't work or were never produced - like anti-gravity, time travel, fuel line magnets to improve gas mileage and electro-bone healing. I guess every time you hear a sharp tone inside one of your ears you think the government is erasing some profound thought you just had and now can't remember. Stay away from light sockets - voices may emanate from them and instruct you to do violent things.
Yes, tv,radio ,lasers,airplanes and the like were thought to be unattainable but look at us now. You forget that it costs thousands to obtain a patent. Who would invest into something that does not work? Oh, and by the way. Those chemtrails over Harlingen are just figments of our imagination ,right?
If you are buying into chemtrails you will buy into anything. I know a guy that drew a design on paper with a ballpoint pen and got a patent for a tidal energy concept. He invested about $500 total, and he did it just to say he holds a patent.The concept will not work effeciently but that does not matter to him, he has bragging rights to holding a patent. Chemtrails, next you will be talking about the Masons and the Holy Grail.
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You need to get back on your medication before you harm yourself or someone else. I guess Proctor & Gamble are putting chemicals in their soap to make us strip our clothing off and howl at the moon.
I know the world is round and I know it is difficult for more than three people to keep a secret. I do not believe in government conspiracies, especially ones involving mind control through microwaves, chemtrails, or fluoridated water is poisoning our precious bodily fluids. The government may have given some Native American tribes smallpox infested blankets in the eighteenth century, but I do not know if it was deliberately done as genocide or out of stupidity. I have noticed that a lot of the people that go berserk and start killing people at random are or send out mail bombs are often found to be paranoid and believe there are conspirators everywhere, including people in the government. Oh yes, I do not believe Elvis and Jack Kennedy are still alive.
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