Top Five Scandals Of 2009
5. Pilots Miss Minneapolis On Northwest Flight 188
On October 21, 2009, Northwest Airline flight 188 overshot the destination by over 150 miles. Just as fighter aircraft were being prepared to be scrambled out of fear of foul play, the plane, flying from San Diego to Minneapolis–St. Paul, re-established contact. Its pilots, Timothy Cheney and Richard Cole, had been so absorbed in what they were doing on their laptops, apparently they were looking into the new monthly flight-crew-scheduling procedures, that they simply lost track of time. The aviators agreed that in the midst of their discussion, they were caught by surprise when a flight attendant contacted them on the intercom to ask when the plane was scheduled to land. At that point, the jet was some 100 miles past the Minneapolis airport.
This is an old clip from Monty Python’s Flying Circus that some people think explains what really happened on Northwest Flight 188.
4. Tiger Wood Cheats On His Wife – A Lot
Tiger Woods’ squeaky-clean image changed when a small car crash became a train wreck of infidelity allegations from several women, backed up by a damning voice-mail message and finally an “I have let my family down” statement. As the story continues to evolve and escalate, more and more and more (and more) women who aren’t named Mrs. Woods have come into the fray claiming they’ve had affairs with the golf great. The Tiger Wood scandal actually might be the most important single event in sports to happen in maybe this decade. Sure, in sports a lot of great things, and bad things have happened this past decade, but the Tiger Woods scandal may transcend all of those things. Why? Because unlike the steroid scandal in baseball, unlike Michael Jordan’s issues in the 1990’s, Tiger is a single player, a single entity that controlled, and still in a way controls, a lot of money and therefore a lot of jobs.
A ton of parodies have been done on this subject but my favorite is “Billy Dee Williams Tiger Woods Collectible Plates”.
3. White House Party Crashers
Tareq and Michaele Salahi, aspiring members of the cast of a reality show called “The Real Houswives of DC, crashed the first state dinner at the White House. Facebook photos of the couple posing with Vice President Joe Biden and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel indicate that the couple had up-close access to some of Washington’s elite, without actually being on the guest list. President Obama and his wife Michelle also had had a face-to-face encounter with the couple, White House officials acknowledged. The revelation underscored the seriousness of the security breach and prompted an abject apology from the Secret Service.
Here is the Saturday Night Live take on the Salahi scandal.
2. It Turns Out The Governor Wasn’t On The Appalachian Trail
After telling his staff he was hiking the Appalachian Trail for four days in June, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford turned up instead at the international airport terminal in Atlanta. In a long, rambling press conference on June 24, Sanford confessed to having an affair with an Argentine woman and resigned his position as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. A series of detailed and emotional love letters between the two was leaked to the press. It was later discovered that Sanford had used taxpayer-funded planes to fly to Argentina. The governor escaped impeachment by state legislators, but the storm isn’t over. Sanford’s wife, Jenny, moved out of the South Carolina governor’s mansion this summer. On Dec. 11, she announced she is filing for divorce, calling the ordeal a “sad and painful process.” Sanford has not resigned and says he will finish out his term.
Recently Saturday Night Live opened the show with a skit on Sanford called “Adulterers Press Conference”.
1. Balloon Boy
On October 15, 2009 I spent my day watching a silver balloon floating around Colorado. I first heard the term “Ballon Boy” on Twitter where it seemed like everyone was watching the drama unfold while Tweeting about it at the same time. The story then was that a little boy was trapped inside a flimsy Mylar balloon. Turns out that Falcon Heene wasn’t in the balloon and it was all a media stunt for the Heene family to get publicity in hopes of getting their own reality show. They appeared twice on Wife Swap, the second time as “fan favorites.” The irony of it all was that Lifetime was going to air one of their episodes later in October and decided to pull it. Falcon, the boy who innocently gave the game away when asked on Larry King why he hid (“You guys said we did this for the show,” he told his dad), then proceeded to accompany his family on a full round of media interviews. In a way, the Heenes got their wish of making a splash on TV: Falcon threw up on the Today show.
This is the actual clip where Falcon Hene admitts, “We did this for the show.”
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