Real estate reporter’s faux pas

Barbara Corcoran, who reports at the real estate market for the “Today” show, told one consumer, in a segment earlier this week, to get a gun and kill a neighbor who wasn’t keeping up their property.

Matt Chaban of the New York Observer writes, “This morning, the show got a call from a person in New Hampshire complaining about a run-down home across the street, which the caller complained was ruining values in the neighborhood. To this, Corcoran, tough New Yorker that she is, responded, ‘get a gun and kill the guy.’ As The Wrap noted, the video was removed by NBC, but Snohomish broker Gilbert Peralta had his trusty DVR ready and caught the segment. Al Roker’s shocked expression alone is priceless.

“Now, of course, Corcoran was kidding, but that was not enough for angry viewers, as an NBC rep explained to The Observer. ‘We removed the video on our website in response to the viewers’ comments, and we posted this: ‘We agree it was inappropriate and have taken the segment off the site,” Meghan Kopf wrote in an email. In the age of Fort Hood and Gabrielle Giffords, such ‘jokes’ are no longer funny.

“This is not the first time Corcoran has made a mistake on the Today show, even if she did not realize it at the time. Back when she joined the show, Corcoran insisted on numerous occasions that there was no bubble or that the worst was behind us.”

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