'Good Day Philadelphia' Says Video of Dumpster in a Flood is Ben Simmons Leaving Town
Good Day Philadelphia airs every day on FOX 29. This morning co-host Mike Jerrick roasted Ben Simmons during the sports segment by running video of a dumpster floating through flood water and saying it was Simmons "leaving hastily out of Philadelphia."
Philadelphia news is really different ?
— ProCity Hoops (@ProCityHoops) September 3, 2021
“We just got in footage of Ben Simmons hastily fleeing Philadelphia.” pic.twitter.com/vGduW4DEeo
Now there are many layers to this. First, it's a pretty mean-spirited joke that feels like it should be out of place on a morning news program, but Philly is just built different I guess. Simmons hasn't even been traded yet!
Maybe the most amazing part is that they credited the person who originally made the joke on Twitter instead of the person who actually took the video. So they used someone's video without properly crediting them and Jerrick basically passed off a tweet as their own joke on-air.
Footage of Ben Simmons leaving Philly pic.twitter.com/6KxAMM9aUo
— Anthony Moore (@AllThatandMoore) September 2, 2021
If you go look at the original video, it's not even in Philadelphia! It's in Wilmington, Delaware.
Brandywine Park in Wilmington, De pic.twitter.com/fR9Vr8nHvP
— Coby Owens (@CobyJOwens) September 2, 2021
No wonder Ben Simmons is over this jawn.