Oops! CNN Airs Anchor's Girl Talk Over Bush Speech?

Oops! CNN Airs Anchor's Girl Talk Over Bush Speech

By Megan McCormack | August 29, 2006 - 14:38 ET

Looking for a ';passionate, compassionate, great, great'; man? Well, according to CNN Kyra Phillips, they do indeed exist.

During CNN live coverage of President Bush remarks from New Orleans, Phillips was unaware that her microphone was on and picked up portions of a conversation she was having with another woman, apparently in a CNN restroom. At 12:49pm EDT, those listening carefully could hear Phillips praise her husband:

Phillips: ';Yeah, I鈥檓 very lucky in that regard with my husband. My husband is handsome and he is genuinely a loving, you know, no ego鈥搚ou know what I鈥檓 saying. Just a really passionate, compassionate great, great human being. And they exist. They do exist. They鈥檙e hard to find. Yup. But they are out there.';

Phillips also inadvertently revealed how she feels about her sister-in-law:

Phillips: ';..Brothers have to be, you know, protective. Except for mine. I鈥檝e got to be protective of him...Yeah. He married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak.';

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The full transcript is behind the cut [including one vulgarity]:

The audio of Phillips鈥?conversation could be heard overriding President Bush remarks approximately ten minutes into the President speech. While the President could be heard during the exchange, Phillips鈥?gaffe was very distracting:

Kyra Phillips: ';鈥揳ssholes鈥揧eah, I鈥檓 very lucky in that regard with my husband. My husband is handsome and he is genuinely a loving, you know, no ego鈥揫unintelligible] you know what I鈥檓 saying. Just a really passionate, compassionate great, great human being. And they exist. They do exist. They鈥檙e hard to find. Yup. But they are out there.';

[unidentified woman]: 鈥榃e鈥檒l see. He going to come, you know, he set for an extended visit鈥揫unintelligible]';

Phillips: ';I mean, that, that how you figure it all out, those extended visits. [laughter]';

[unidentified woman]: ';Yeah, but my mom, I think she really likes him.';

Phillips: ';Mom got a good vibe? Good.';

[unidentified woman]: ';Yeah, my brother the one that鈥揫unintelligible]';

Phillips: ';Brother鈥搊f course, brothers have to be, you know, protective. Except for mine. I鈥檝e got to be protective of him.';

[unidentified woman鈥搖nintelligible]

Phillips: ';Yeah. He married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak.';

[unidentified woman #2]: ';Kyra.';

Phillips: ';Yeah, baby?';

[unidentified woman #2]: ';Your mic is on. Turn it off. It been on the air.';

Seconds later, Daryn Kagan stumbled through this awkward transition:

Daryn Kagan: ';Alright, we鈥檝e been listening in to President Bush as he speaks in, uh, New Orleans today. This is the one year anniversary of Katrina making land shore there. President Bush saying if another natural disaster hits, our country鈥搘e must, uh, react better than that. Let listen in once again to President Bush.';

UPDATE: Newsbusters readers may recall Kyra's 2005 on-air mix-up of John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and 鈥?0s pop singer Michael Bolton.

UPDATE: Some media observers are beginning to wonder why it took so long for Phillips's mic to get cut. Was it deliberate? The official line: technical malfunction.

UPDATE: FNC hosts at ';Fox and Friends'; had a little fun mocking CNN's snafu.Oops! CNN Airs Anchor's Girl Talk Over Bush Speech?
Sounds like an awfully long chat to not have an engineer or someone immediately tell them that their mic's were on. So I am inclined to believe it was deliberate.Oops! CNN Airs Anchor's Girl Talk Over Bush Speech?
And the point of this obvious screw up is???????



Peace



Jim



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Are you looking for a Jeopardy-type response or something? You certainly aren't asking a question.
first time it wasnt painful to watch bush speak
And this has what to with anything?