So today I broke my long time boycott of CNN because I wanted to see if the press was talking about
Rep. Slaughter's news that day traders have been working out of Bill Frist and Tom DeLay's offices. They haven't.
But the half hour period that I watched gave me a chance to stare goggle-eyed at the staggering inanity and witless braindead mass of wasted organic matter that is Kyra Phillips.
Really, how does someone this dumb get on TV? Here's a sample of the wit and weeniedom of Kyra Phillips from today (I don't have a transcript, so I'm paraphrasing):
While talking about the new Bin Laden tape:
"A lot of journalists who have talked to Bin Laden, interviewed him, have talked of how bright he is, how smart he is... listening to the new tape, would you say he really is a coward?"
Uh.. what?
"Obviously there are differences between a video tape and an audio tape, it's said that an audio tape is easier to get out there... but would you say that perhaps he just looks so pathetic that he doesn't want pictures going out?"
Do you remember anything from journalism school, Kyra? Like, maybe, being objective?
Do you think it's also a factor that, you guys at the CIA would be able to analyze the dust, the rocks and that kind of thing in the background, and be able to figure out where they are?"
Oh. My. God. "GET ME A CLOSE-UP OF THAT PEBBLE, STAT! I THINK I'VE SEEN THAT PEBBLE!"
While talking about the kidnapped Christian Science monitor reporter being held at gunpoint in Iraq:
What would your advice be to her, what should she be doing right now?"
Uh... She should sit still? She should maybe not die? She should resist the urge to tapdance or break into song?
Then there's this beauty, when she was told that the Pluto launch yesterday had been cancelled because the control center in Maryland had suffered a power outage:
Oh, was that the center we saw pictures of yesterday, where all the screens were fuzzy?"
It was left to her CNN compadre to inform her that, no Kyra, the TV screens have a different refresh rate than the camera filming them.
She works in TELE-FUCKING-VISION and she doesn't understand that cameras and TV screens have a different frame rate? What do they teach these people at the Liberty Right-Wing Journalism Day Camp, anyway?
Seriously, is this the best person that CNN can find to bring daytime news to the masses? I mean, we know she'a right wing ideologue and takes every possible chance to smear Democrats, but to think she's also this stupid, this unthinking, this unaware of the world around her and sheer common logic, I honestly think they could put Carrot Top on camera and get a smarter show out of it.
Then again, at least she doesn't have sex with Rush Limbaugh, like the douchebag to the left.
Glen Beck starts on CNN Headline News, when?
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