CBS News | Exclusive: Ashlee Snafu On Tape (AKA 'I Declare Journalistic Shennanigans' or 'Damn My Faulty Esophagus')

(click pic to see image of what was said as dummy rushed off-stage)

(CBS) When Ashlee Simpson ran off like a putz from the 'Saturday Night Live' stage last week after her lip-sync gone awry, 60 Minutes cameras were there to record her embarrassing, humiliating, and utterly satisfying exit, and the reaction from show creator Lorne Michaels and other shocked (but bemused) SNL staff members.

The exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the dork parade will be part of a Lesley Stahl report about the (cough... staging of a fake 'incident' for the cameras...cough..) making of the venerable comedy program, to be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. ET/PT." (full article after link)

Whatever. I'm sorry, but I smell rat poop all over this 'story'. Maybe that is too harsh, let's call it 'manufactured news' of the Janet Jackson boobie variety. What are the odds that a 'tape malfunction' would happen the same night 60 Minutes is there filming for an upcoming show? Bullshit flag on this one, move along citizens, nothing to see here but the record industry finding new ways of cleverly making waves to try to sell albums.