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I hope this doesn’t come across as disrespectful to Jim Vance, because I think that guy is a pimp. He’s been doing the news here in DC since before I was born. Every significant news event that I can remember while growing up was related to me by Jim Vance. Reagan getting shot. Prison riots at Lorton. Mayor Barry and the crack pipe. I also remember that during the 80s when the news was day after day of yet another young black kid in DC getting gunned down, his face got progressively sadder and sadder as the months went by. My old man had Walter Cronkite. I had Jim Vance. He is synonymous with DC News.
Having said that, this clip floors me every time I see it. If anything, I think its living proof that Vance is an institution around here, because if a rookie reporter lost it like this on the air, he’d end up sitting next to the “Boom Goes The Dynamite” kid on East Butthole County’s action news.