Erin Burnett is an idiot

[riverwalker]

she said the NRA ad is o.k. because politicians "use" their kids all the time.
Her examples were:
Video of Clintons holding Chelsea's hand walking to the helicopter after the Lewinsky affair. (WTF?!)
Photo of President on the couch with his girls watching Michelle speak at the convention.

She actually compared these to the NRA's repulsive ad.
CNN seems to think if they spray her with enough phoney FeBreeze we won't smell the stench of her RW core. I can't stand her.

[LittleBlue]

1. She's only on TV because she's hot

Every time I watch her, she looks completely out of her depth.

[holdencaufield]

2. Apparently ...

... you are using a definition of "hot" that with which I'm not familiar.

[Kingwithnothrone]

3. she's a Wall Street bootlicker and always has been

Of course,they're all bootlickers in the main stream media,in their own little way.They have to look good,but not actually say anything.Of course that is their greatest talent and what they get paid to do by their corporate masters,but when enough people don't have jobs,houses,or food, they won't give a crap how good of a show these elitist puppets are presenting anyway.Many already don't think very much of it.

[Sedona]

27. she licks more than boots

Her husband is David Thomas Rubulotta, managing director in high-yield sales at Citibank

[BlueMTexpat]

16. I hate to say that my own husband also thinks she's hot.

So apparently other males do too.

But, IMO, she certainly does rank among the most stupid of the Talking Heads - and that is indeed saying something

[Bake]

41. No sh*t. Hot?

Not.



Bake

[Jamaal510]

44. Erin Burnett is hot with regards to outer beauty.

Inner beauty, not so much.

[Bake]

46. Different strokes, I suppose.

She's not my cup o' tea on the outside either. But then it's hard to separate the outer and the inner when you know the inner is ugly.



Bake

[Eddie Haskell]

39. Funny

I watched her the other night and thought she looked so much older.

[JNelson6563]

4. She greatly admires Rush.

Wistfully states "he's a very smart man". Sickening.

Julie

[Jamaal510]

45. She's correct. Rush is smart--

--smart at lying to millions of Americans and stoking fear.

[JI7]

5. she is a fucking idiot, yesterday she compared the Lance Armstrong thing

to Tiger Woods cheating on his wife.

[Summer Hathaway]

6. Which means

all things considered, she's probably on her way to a brilliant career in what passes for today's 'journalism'.

[JI7]

7. it's typical of the lazy ignorant reporting you see, same during the campaign

reporting where they would make stupid ass comparisons . if a republican did something negative they would have to report on something negative on democrats even if it was some stupid shit like Michelle Obama not wearing sleeves.

[Summer Hathaway]

9. Yes, it's lazy and ignorant

and yet it is accepted as 'journalism'.

That's because "both parties do it", and "both parties are the same."

I know that's true because I heard it on FOX-News - or read it on DU - well, one or the other. Getting hard to tell the difference between the two.

[Politicalboi]

15. Ain't that the truth

Old Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace are spinning big time in their graves.

[harmonicon]

22. Mike Wallace was a hack. Don't kid yourself. (nt)

[deutsey]

24. Yeah...Edward R. Murrow is a better example, imo

[appacom]

25. Not always

He had many good years.

[Walk away]

30. But he spawned Chris so he's starting in the negative. nt

[harmonicon]

34. Maybe.

I mean, I agree that his old shows seem to have been really good, but by the time I was paying attention (I was born in the 70's), he was a pretty crazy old man.

I so clearly remember watching back-to-back his interview with Jiang Zemin, unedited, and as CBS presented it. He/CBS might as well have been the propaganda arm of US government and industry with the hatchet job they carried out.

[moondust]

8. Relevant bio.

From Wikipedia:

She is the youngest daughter of corporate attorney Kenneth King...

She attended St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware...

...attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she studied political science and economics, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in political economy.

She is married to Citigroup executive David Rubulotta.

Burnett began her career as a financial analyst for Goldman Sachs in its investment banking division, where she worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.

With a BA?

[JI7]

10. well, look At Luke Russert

[SunSeeker]

11. LOL. Good catch. nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. Shouldn't her husband's name be

David Robulotta from the the Citigroup law firm Cash, Steele, and Robulotta?

[Politicalboi]

17. Already rich and doesn't belong at the job

These news stations would do better to hire average people who prove themselves worthy and pay them half of what these bimbo's get. As they get ratings, and improve, they get a raise.

How many more years do we have to put up with Andrea Greenspan on MSNBC. Doesn't she also have enough money to last her 20 lives over. They need new blood every few years, and they are missing out and we are missing out.

[RandiFan1290]

29. It's more about the propaganda than anything else.

They are all 1%ers spreading their propaganda to bovine America.
They talked this country into Bush's bullshit with very little little resistance.

[trublu992]

13. Its amazing what you can accomplish in this country if youre willing to serve the corporate power.

It burns me up that she and Maria Bartiromo are thought of as financial experts and journalists when they both couldn't comprehend an credit card statement.

[indie9197]

20. I think Maria is hotter, personally

but if you turn to TV news for facts you are looking in the wrong place. As with politicians, journalists are bought and paid for.

[Bucky]

23. thank you

[Jim Lane]

28. Here's Bartiromo's commentary on the song

http://vimeo.com/2396112

[Le Taz Hot]

14. Erin Burnett?

Whose in-depth analysis of the Occupy Movement consisted of the following: <giggle> "Seriously?"

[AngryOldDem]

18. That's low, even for her.

Whenever I see her I wonder how she's managed to get so far with so little talent or brains.

[ReRe]

19. Seriously!!!!!

....CNN is one step up from FOX if you ask me. She is one of the main reasons I don't watch CNN much anymore. And of course I didn't hear her give this foolish false equivalency. I'm with you, riverwalker. She makes me sick.

[harmonicon]

21. You watched CNN? Oh, geez.

I don't know who this person you mentioned is, but I know they're a lost cause, simply because they are on CNN. Did you turn it on, mistakenly thinking that it might contain news? It hasn't done that in over a decade. You're better off just ignoring it.

[Chathamization]

36. This.

Chances are, if news is on TV, it's going to be horrible, with ignorant people who've been hired by other ignorant people saying nonsense in a serious way, expecting others to take it as the truth while being too lazy to actually research what's happening.

[CE5]

26. She IS an idiot

[HughBeaumont]

31. Beijing Burnett: A Blueblood Bombshell Putting a Sexy Face on a Toxic Narrative.

One who's seen her "work" on the right-wing outhouse CNBC knows where she's coming from.

[CE5]

32. This is weird though

just googled Burnett and she is apparently hated by two far right wing teabaggers, Debbie Schulssel and Pamela Gellar.

If you can stomach it:

#!

[HughBeaumont]

33. I think it's relative.

After all, how fine is the line between "corporate-stroking right wing" (Burnett) and flat-out batshit insane (Geller and Schlussel)?

[CE5]

35. True, Burnett gave Gellar a platform

The contrarian viewpoint Burnett takes may be an act.

[ecstatic]

37. my understanding is that Soledad O'Brien is the only

person worth watching on CNN, but her show comes on really early! I've never seen Erin cover any topic with any credibility, and on top of that, she's boring as hell, so I've never watched more than a couple of minutes at a time (usually due to being too busy with other tasks). Piers' recent debates with gun morons has been interesting too, but he's a tool on most other issues.

[sheshe2]

38. I left CNN for good in 2005...

That was when they ran the story, on Natalee Holloway, ad nauseum! CNN acted like it was Breaking News 24/7.

[indepat]

40. Why not tell us what you really think of Erin with the bark on?

[jillan]

42. I think it's time for me to send off a little email to CNN. Anyone care to join me?

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/show/?s=generalcomments&hdln=4

[fadedrose]

43. I can't stand her either...

I used to think she was beautiful, but the more I see of her, the less atttractive she is. She has some sort of smirky grin when she interviews a Dem when she thinks she "caught" them... I already sent an email to CNN and told them to pack her bag and send her to Fox...

[Fire Walk With Me]

47. Erin Burnett is married to a Citigroup managing director.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12525029

Are media and banking in bed together? Yes, literally.

Breaking news: CNN'S Erin Burnett is a married woman!

The 36-year-old anchor married David Rubulotta, 42, a managing director at Citigroup, in a ceremony at City Hall on Friday that was officiated by a Justice of the Peace.

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CNN also took money from Bahrain to say "everything is fine" regarding the situation there, while it is NOT. Amber Lyon called them out. Bet you haven't heard about this on CNN.

[uppityperson]

49. bzzzzt!