Dallas says:

She certainly has all it takes to run as Vice President on the Mitt Romney ticket.

Rob Leather says:

Looks (sounds) like a TIA. Transient Ischemic Attack, aka mini-stroke.

ubiquitous talking head says:

Hopefully somebody will be around to take a video of hhopper if he has a heart attack. I bet it would be a laff riot.

Micromike says:

Doesn’t seem a bit funny to me. If a person in obvious distress like this makes you laugh you must not have any empathy at all.

Carney Lentz says:

Maybe, hhopper, you were laughing at an uncomfortable situation (which is a natural though hard to understand response). Who hasn’t felt like laughing at a funeral/in church/etc.? But your note below the video implies that we should all find this to be funny.

senkmajer says:

If my wife had an aphasic attack like that, “humored,” I would not be. “Scared as h3ll” is more like it. I would have her at the hospital ASAP.

foobar says:

Medical. I’d bet migraine or seizure.

Heinrich Moltke says:

Boy, I’ve really seen the comments section on DU deterioriate. Witness the “Retard Humping” poll imbroglio.

Half of you are unreconstructed morons. The other half of you are the same guy: bobbo, the part-time troll whose longer than average nicknames tend to give him away.

I’ll give 2-to-1 that “ubiquitous talking head”, “God, Allah, and other monikers” and the next two lengthy nicknames are the same guy.

Here’s a news flash for you brainiacs: humor is a sense for the incongruous. It has nothing to do with morality. When I saw the above clip, I laughed my ass off. Know why? It’s because seeing a trained reporter whose sole job is as a talking head turn mushmouth and start uttering syllables never before spoken by a human being — is incongruous. It isn’t the norm. And so we laugh.

It used to be seeing a dignified person slip on a banana peel produced laughter. We aren’t dignified anymore, so seeing someone slip doesn’t do as much for us — though we still laugh at supermodels falling.

When I read about the guy who got nuked first in Hiroshima, then hopped on a train and three days later got nuked in Nagasaki — I laughed my ass off. Want to know why? Because the incongruity of getting nuked twice is enough to provoke my brain into producing an outburst.

Now, the people that got nuked once don’t cause such laughter — though the guy that dove into the swimming pool when the city was intact, and came up after the city was vaporized does provoke something between awe and laughter. But there again: it’s because it’s such a stretch imagining what it must be like to go into the pool fine and come up with your whole city nuked.

For those of you accusing hhopper of being immoral, some sort of fiend whose reaction is to laugh at this kind of thing: do you really think that if he were present when someone was having a stroke that he wouldn’t help or call an ambulance? Of course, he would. You know that. And he wouldn’t be “laughing”. That’s because — at that moment — what’s happening would really be happening and not at the several step remove of some internet clip.

The mind and all its processes can’t be under constant indictment by you prudes and moralists. What if I’m standing beside my dying grandfather in his hospital bed and suddenly have to take a dump? Should I throw myself out a window because my body is behaving like a body? What if I’m watching Monty Python’s The Holy Grail and I’m laughing during “Bring out your dead!” Am I a bastard because “the plague was a real phenomenon that ruined a lot of families in which good people died, including children…” Please.

Stop the War Against Humor. You latter-day schoolmarms should take yourselves off this board, and go do something more appropriate — like join MADD. I remind you that this blog is called Dvorak *Uncensored*.

LotsaLuck says:

Let’s face it, we are ALL bobbo…

God, Allah and other monikers says:

Heinrich, I made you laugh.

ubiquitous talking head says:

This is the first thing I ever remember criticizing a DU moderator for. FWIW.

Hindlick, I have other handles/nicks/aliases, etc, but not on here. UTH is one that I’ve been using off and on since the BBS days back in the early 80’s. I don’t use it anywhere except here at the moment.

In general my posts have one thing in common, which is that nobody ever says anything in response to them, so for that, I thank you.

Heinrich Moltke says:

hhopper: That YouTube clip is in excessively bad taste.

DLee says:

UNLIKE

jbenson2 says:

From the station’s website:
“Serene Branson was examined by paramedics on scene immediately after her broadcast. Her vital signs were normal. She was not hospitalized. As a precautionary measure, a colleague gave her a ride home and she says that she is feeling fine this morning.”