Friday, February 13, 2009

Meet Kyra Phillips………..

NewsBusters:

Kyra Phillips works at CNN. We can’t say she’s a journalist or reporter because she doesn’t seem to report, rather she spews.

She could be called a “news reader” or “presenter” because she can use a teleprompter, but she seems to completely lack understanding of what she’s reading.

She can be amusing though, as in her Lincoln observations:
"[I]t’s not just not talk about Lincoln. It’s talk about Lincoln and the Obama connection. For example, this campaign flag [from Lincoln’s presidential campaign]. Look at this -- ‘Abram Lincoln.’ They even spelled his name wrong. So it wasn’t just Obama that’s been having issues with his name -- also, Abraham Lincoln. Just one of the parallels that we found as we’ve been spending time here….

“And it was here in the Old Capitol that Abraham Lincoln gave his famous ‘House Divided’ speech. A house divided against itself cannot stand, he proclaimed. Sound familiar? Fast-forward -- February 10th, 2007, Lincoln came to life here as if it were 1858.”
I wonder if she knows Lincoln was a Republican. In more Kyra fun:
"On August 29, 2006, during a CNN broadcast of President George W. Bush's speech on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, Phillips' microphone was left on while she was in the bathroom. Portions of a personal conversation were broadcast live for over a minute and a half, during which Phillips offered advice on men, criticized her sister-in-law for being a 'control freak,' and praised her husband. The conversation audio was mixed with the President's audio feed and both were discernible."
-- Wikipedia

Kind of like Frank Drebin in Police Squad. Oh, and the aforementioned, praise-worthy husband?
"Phillips was married to A. John Assad (presumably the husband she praised in her famous open-mic incident of August 2006). In April 2008, she stated she is not married, indicating a divorce sometime in between." --Wikipedia
Wait! There’s more!
"On January 30, 2008, Phillips joked about making a 'reverse oreo' with black co-host Don Lemon and white female colleague Gerri Willis. Phillips used the term with sexual overtones (stating, 'yeah, good time'), much to the 'visual embarrassment' of Willis." -- Wikipedia
We don’t think this is someone to get information from. Some have suggested she’s good for only one thing, but you need duct tape.

2 comments:

  1. Kyra Phillips - "control freak"?

    Kyra Phillips interrupts and interjects her comments and opinions without giving the interviewed person time to complete a statement or comment. She does this to fellow correspondents and guests alike. It’s infuriating not to hear a guest’s complete comment with Phillips constantly interrupting more than most reporters.

    Can you imagine being married to Phillips? Anyone know what ex-husband John Assad thinks? John Roberts her current love must be whipped! Remember her microphone was left on while in the bathroom at the 2006 Presidents speech “criticized her sister-in-law for being a "control freak"” - Wiki. Maybe the pot calling the cattle black …!

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  2. Fast Forward to 2013 and she lost her own show Raising America With Kyra Phillips on HLN and she goes back to CNN as fill in Anchor and now in 2014 she is nothing more than an Investigative Reporter for CNN. She never was able to stop her gaffes calling a disabled toddler Grace Anna Mr. Magoo on air, sending an email to disabled man that battles depression and calls him CRAZY, and then makes fun of him for being hospitalized for treatment for his depression. NOW KYRA CAN ENJOY HER MOMSQUAD SHOW ON PODCAST!!!!

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