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Classic Joe

WMC’s Joe Birch needs to have a serious heart to heart with his scriptwriter. Or maybe high camp is what Action News 5 is going for these days. 

Here’s a Birch sample from Tuesday’s newscast: “A fight. People run over. Crashes… a video so shocking WMC Action News 5’s Jerry Askin searched for some answers.”

By “searching for answers” the famously helmet-haired anchor meant that the reporter asked random people what they thought about a thinly-sourced YouTube video. The clip in question seemed to show a fight and people being intentionally hit by cars. You can watch the weird reaction vid here. 

Classic camp

Or you can just hang out here and marvel at the headline.