CNN's Kyra Phillips Laughs It Off
Anchor Caught By Open Mic Pokes Fun At Herself On Letterman
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Phillips' Top 10 Goof Excuses
Harry Smith reports on CNN anchor Kyra Phillips' appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman." They joked about her on-air goof during a presidential speech.
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In this photo released by CBS, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips presents the "Top Ten List" on the set of the "Late Show with David Letterman," in New York, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. (AP Photo/CBS, JP Filo)
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Tuesday, Phillips apologized to viewers by calling her the snafu during Mr. Bush's Hurricane Katrina anniversary speech "an issue we had with our mikes" and "a little bit of an interruption there during the president."
CNN, in its own statement, also referred to "audio difficulties" and apologized to "viewers and the president." Calling the mishap "a technical malfunction with the audio board," the network said it is "addressing how this happened and why it was not more promptly corrected on air."
Thursday night, the explanations were a lot less formal and considerably more humorous, as Phillips gamely read the "Top Ten Kyra Phillips Excuses" for a sympathetic and obviously pleased David Letterman:
10. "I still haven't mastered complicated on-off switch."No argument there from the many viewers of CNN's "Live From..." who heard Phillips – first live, and then later on web sites including YouTube - unwittingly upstaging President Bush's Tuesday speech with an on-the-air analysis of her husband and her brother's wife.
9. "Larry King told me he does this all the time!"
8. "How was I supposed to know we had a reporter embedded in the bathroom?"
7. "I honestly never knew this sort of thing was frowned upon."
6. "I couldn't resist the chance to win $10,000 on America's Funniest Home Videos."
5. "I was set up by those b------s at Fox News."
4. "Like you've never gone to the bathroom and had it broadcast on national television?"
3. "I just wanted that hunky Lou Dobbs to notice me."
2. "OK, so I was drunk and I couldn't think straight."
1. "You have to admit it made the speech a lot more interesting!"
Unaware that her wireless microphone was live while she was chatting in the ladies room at the network's broadcast center in Atlanta, Phillips' voice came in loud and clear over the sound of the Bush speech in New Orleans.
Viewers were left scratching their heads, wondering exactly who was speaking and why, and soon realized from the nature of the woman's comments that there was no way they were intended to be overheard, let alone be a second soundtrack for the presidential speech.
The voice that would later be revealed as Phillips, chatting with another woman – still unidentified - in an echo-filled room dismissed most men with a vulgar term but called herself "very lucky in that regard. My husband is handsome and he is genuinely a loving - you know, no ego - you know what I'm saying? Just a really passionate, compassionate, great, great human being. And they exist. They do exist. They're hard to find. Yup. But they are out there."
A few moments later, she observed that "brothers have to be, you know, protective. Except for mine. I've got to be protective of him."
Why? "His wife is just a control freak."
At that point, another voice cut in: "Kyra."
"Yeah, baby?" replied Phillips on hearing her name.
"Your mic is on. Turn it off. It's been on the air."
CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, looking flustered, then broke into the telecast with a recap of what President Bush had been saying.
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Remember Weapons of Mass Destruction?
There's also those nagging little problems of starting wars of agression (recall Hitler), torture, wiretapping (Watergate), stealing elections with fake voting machines, lying to Congress and ignoring the Constitution ("that scrap of paper").
Everybody knows it takes a *** to get impeached in America, and no doubt CNN will happily report that also, if it's newsworthy.
Anyone who spinelessly protects these pretend-leaders and their plans deserves a free trip to peaceful and democratized Ramadi.
;-)
Calm down sir.
Sincerely,
America
Another terrorist threat?
think anybody taped it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIIrPvLn3Xg
it is there
To Prelgovisk: she didn't do the recap. Daryn Kagan did it.
Yes, it was funny and yes The President's speach is sometimes funny.
But for a good laugh let's look at the last one, who left his DNA on a blue dress. Now that's hilarious.
Translated into English- somebody's BUTT is on the line and probably on another line today- the unemployment one.
Bush is a moron anyway and spews lies and BS, so the bathroom chatter WAS far more lively and real, at least honest!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIIrPvLn3Xg
Thanks iglooo101.
I'll bet swbradley1 is probably ruing the comment about spelling and grammar. Hope you don't have to make a speach [sic] in front of anyone soon. Also, definite articles (The President) needn't be capitalized unless they're in a title, and only then if they're the first word.
Live long and prosper fellow prison-planet inmates.
The truth will probably get you arrested.
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by DJN
September 2, 2006 8:32 PM PDT
- Nice to see that someone can make an innocent mistake, but not take themselves too seriously and even poke fun at themselves. How can you not like someone like that?
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