If Michelle Kosinski’s canoe had sprung a leak on NBC’s “Today” show Friday, she didn’t have much to worry about.

In one of television’s inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera _ making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep.

Well, of course she was trying to make it worse than it was. Why tell the truth? Devastating floodwaters requiring a canoe are much better for ratings!

Of course, the tools over at NBC rushed to defend the sensationalistic nature of paddling a canoe down a residential street:

Later, an NBC News spokeswoman explained that Kosinski had been riding in deeper water near an overflowing river down the street, but there were concerns that the current was too strong for her.

“It’s not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn’t,” spokeswoman Lauren Kapp said.

Oh yeah. No attempt to deceive at all. Ankle deep is way too deep to walk in.

And they wonder why no one watches them anymore.

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Oh, and lest ye, my wonderful readers, think I would just leave you hanging, here’s the actual video:

Click here to watch her struggle to navigate the deep waters of Wayne.

Video thanks to News Busters