Great news for those of us who cannot stand Bill Hummer....

[truebrit71]

....According to news reports Bill Hummer ;-) is GONE from CNN.

I hated that miserable little * apologist and his pathetic lightweight presentation....he is being replaced by Miles OBrien....

CNN still suck, but slightly less now....

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Now they need to get rid of Limbaugh's squeeze

every time I see her I think God, this woman does....with RUSH....Oh God. Horrible thoughts.

[SpiralHawk]

28. Are you not imagining kinky sex activities with loofahs and felafel?

Because if that's what you don't have in mind, it's Bill O'Reilly that you don't want. That's his speciality.

But then again, you probably did mean that you don't wish to think of Daryl doing the (CENSORED TERM REFERENCING ADULT MARITAL BEHAVIOR) with Rush Limbaugh and the Oxcontin/Anal-cyst deferrment Chicken-Hawk Kinky Thing. Right?

Don't mind me, I'm just trying to keep the sexual perversions of the right-wing extremist Republican Media Stars straight. You can be certain that I will not bring up, or refer to the sexcapades of White House gay prostitute/journalist "Jeff Gannon"/ James Guckert. That could very well qualify as a breach of propriety.

[kittenpants]

2. but how will I get through my mornings without Bill dumbing it down for me

[Lex]

3. Where's that weasel going? Fox News?

He's got the low IQ to fit 'right' in over there.

[UTUSN]

6. A Few Weeks Ago the Buzz Was

that he was going to be assigned as the White House Correspondent, but that they wanted to make this transition without its seeming to be a demotion.

[Lex]

8. So he's being let go completely?

Or he'll be the White House Correspondent for CNN?

God, the thought of that makes me cringe.

[UTUSN]

9. Looking for a Link

Saw something that said producers for Chucky ZAHN and others were being shifted around AND that next, a big-name anchor was going to be whacked (totally).

[UTUSN]

14. This Was the Closest I Could Find

The reference to "look for a top anchor" (to be whacked) is not here. Swear I saw it somewhere. Is HUMMER a "top anchor"?

*******QUOTE*******

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA606222.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP

Expect more changes out of CNN in the coming days.

Longtime Washington anchor Judy Woodruff signed off Friday and Klein is expected to unveil his new afternoon lineup. Veteran afternoon show, Crossfire, signed off on Friday.



Crossfire Hosts Paul Begala, James Carville and Robert Novak said they weren't going anywhere, continuing to appear daily on Inside Politics, Woodruff's old stomping grounds.

Carville also said that a new political show anchored by Wolf Blitzer would debut sometime in the summer.


********UNQUOTE*******

[Pithy Cherub]

4. More time for blah blah blitzer....

mebbe he will go to Faux his intellectual home or MSRNC to straighten Tucker's bowtie...

At least today there was an hour of real news from cnn international. Let's see how long that lasts.

[Coexist]

5. Oops, I thought this was a thread about Clinton's *ahem* again!

just kidding!!!!!

[goclark]

7. He can take Solodad and Rushie's Scum

with him.

They are all enablers for Bush andgive the appearance of being innocent.

Oh, Don't forget Paula Zahn and Crowley -all are scum.

[roguevalley]

10. Go to Mediabistro.com and read about what happens behind the

scenes with the news. Bill Hummer is considered a dimwitted goombah who couldn't do ANYTHING by himself and was totally reliant on his producers. I believe he was forced to go to New York and be 'bureau chief' with Miles taking his place.

[Bluebear]

13. "a dimwitted goombah"

Perfect summation. Totally vapid spokesmodel.

[Neecy]

16. thanks for the link

According to MediaBistro, Hummer is gone completely from CNN.

Also, this blurb is interesting - and here I thought the administration was all pissed off at Newsweek?

"Rosanna Maietta has been named vice president of the White House's anti-drug campaign at Fleishman-Hillard. She was previously the Washington media relations manager at Newsweek."

Stuff that makes you go - huh.

[Sparkle]

11. Don't care about him, as long as they keep John King and Anderson Cooper.

Yummy! :-)

[blm]

12. Miles O'Brien is a bigger freeper than Hemmer, even.

O'Brien is more open about being a freeper. Hemmer tries to act like he's a fair reporter, which can be even more evil than O'Brien being openly antiDem.

[Lex]

15. Yeah, I heard him once refer to Clinton supporters as "Clintonistas"

on the air! Not kidding.

I mean, WTF? I'm thinking the guy is a real freeper.

Too bad because I usually enjoy his space reporting stories.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Here's some news on Hummer, from another DU thread .....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3796890#3798681

[johnfunk]

21. Bwahahaha -- that made my afternoon!

I love the shot of Candy "Candy" Crowley with her body double...

[LizW]

18. Is Miles O'Brien the one that looks like he has false eyelashes on?

[johnfunk]

19. Why couldn't they have canned idiots Heidi Collins and Paula Zahn too?

From RADAR, Summer 2005 (this article print only):

TV'S DUMBEST ANCHORS
Network news is in more trouble than you think. Our exclusive industry poll names the stupidest, meanest, and vainest desk jockeys in the business.

Heidi Collins
Anchor, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN
Collins is a total pro when it comes to reading copy—as long as it's not published in the New York Times. According to one insider, Jack Cafferty, a co-anchor on CNN, is fond of hiding a quarter in the pages of her morning paper to see if the University of Maryland grad ever cracks it open. "The quarters are always untouched," the source reports. One colleage says of Collins, who got married in 1992, "She probably had a teleprompter at the altar, or she wouldn't have been able to remember to say, 'I do.'"

Paula Zahn
Host, Paula Zahn Now, CNN
Is Zahn, 49, the sharpest tool in CNN's shed? Not according to a third of the network's staffers polled . "Everything has to be scripted for her," says one former highly placed Fox News source who worked with Zahn during her tenure there before she jumped to CNN in 2001. "She has to be produced to a T; she's the dumbest person I've ever met." When Zahn joined CNN the network aired a promo describing her as "provocative, super-smart, and — oh, yeah — just a little sexy," accompanied by the sound of a dress being unzipped. The network promptly pulled the promo when critics accused top brass of hiring her for her Teutonic beauty . "Anybody who actually believes her looks at are incidental to the success she's had in her career should be hospitalized immediately," John Podhoretz wrote in The Weekly Standard.

[fob]

20. I hope no one pukes but there was an article here in SF that tied

Mayor Gavin Newsome's ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle and Bill Hummer. The spot quoted Kim's friends as saying it was nothing, but we'll see, I guess.

If there is something afoot, I say good choice on the splittage there Mr Newsome!

[Walt Starr]

22. Between him and Cafferty, I'm happier he is leaving

He's more rightwing than Cafferty, and that says a lot!

[johnfunk]

23. Cafferty's a proto-righty at times, but he's just what I need in the AM...

Ornery, snarky and often hilarious -- some of his "asnides" are worthy of Lewis Blackk and Jon Stewart.

[Walt Starr]

24. He's leaving the morning show

and will be on during Wolfie's crapfest.

At lest Hemmer is leaving CNN altogether.

I'm betting he shows up on Faux.

[johnfunk]

25. Hopefully Cafferty will be leaving the occasional rhetorical turd...

... in Leslie "Dig the beard, I have gravitas" Blitzer's punchbowl of a GOP grovelfest...

[Lex]

26. LOL! Post of the day!

:toast:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Good riddance to Bll Hemorrhoid.

Haven't watched CNN in quite awhile, but it's good to know that smarmy twerp is leaving. Where is he going -- off to do the early morning livestock reports in South Bumfuque, Kansas?