He may have been first, but Maximum Security didn’t win, after all.
Let’s recall a few other times when things didn’t turn out as expected.
Nobody saw THAT president coming
The infamous Chicago Tribune headline that predicted Thomas Dewey, the Republican governor of New York would defeat Democrat Harry Truman is no fond memory for many journalists.
At the time, media and political elites dismissed Truman’s chances and held such a high level of certainty, many newspapers wrote their headline before election day.
When Truman saw the headline, he posed alongside it and said, „This is one for the books.“
And last night, people remembered:
It was Brown, then Rihanna. Then, it was Brown again.
That’s kind of what the 2011 BET Awards sounded like.
A fan, tasked with announcing the winner of the Coca-Cola Viewers‘ Choice Award, had two names in front of her.
On the tablet she was holding was singer Chris Brown’s name. So she said that.
On the teleprompter, as the fan squinted, she saw Rihanna’s name. So she then announced the female icon as the actual winner.
Brown’s name was correctly on the tablet the fan was holding, but show producers mistakenly put Rihanna’s name on the teleprompter, BET’s programming president Stephen Hill said.
