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It's times like this that Dan Rather really misses his old life. A reader reports:

This morning on the Today show. Al Roker reporting from Florida on the hurricane. The camera pans out to show how Al is being held in place by a cameraman who has literally wrapped himself around Roker's leg to weigh him down. The camera stays on this odd lovefest, and a few seconds later Al proceeds to topple into the ground, more or less on top of the cameraman still strapped to his leg. They cut to Matt and Katie, and Katie says, "Wouldn't it have been easier to just hold onto the rail fence behind him?"

Even easier: Stop going outside in the fucking hurricanes. (Or, at least, skip the gastric bypass.)

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Today [MSNBC.com]