Bill "Ken Doll" Hemmer leaving CNN?!

[Atman]

Wow, he must have a hot offer from Entertainment Tonight! All the cast of cable's other popular fake news channel, CNN, are saying good-byes and gushing over his wonderfulness...I never heard he was leaving until today, when he's on his way out the door. Wonder what's up? Whatever, Bill "Ken" Hemmer can proudly place at the top of his resume the fact that he lasted 10 years on CNN without ever having to ask anyone a tougher question than "How's the weather?"

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. This asshole was apparently a lawyer.

Which only further confirms my belief that some of the dumbest fucking people in this country are lawyers. I don't buy for one second that law school is as hard as they say.

[Atman]

5. If an idiot like Frist can make it through med school,

even a Ken Doll should be able to handle law. Then again, how good could his grades have been? He wound up reading pre-scripted fake news bits on basic cable, next to the only "anchor" more vacuous than he in all of television, Sosobad O'Brian.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Don't get me started on Soledad.

A few weeks ago, she interviewed the poor guy in Florida who's little daughter was raped and killed. Mind you, he was a single father because his wife died. Soledad, the most souless, sorry excuse for humanity this side of Dick Cheney, kept asking questions asking specifically how he felt about his daughter getting brutally killed. The questions were so disgraceful that I had to change the channel, and I'm not one with a weak stomach by ANY means.

[kittenpants]

19. Sosobad O'Brian...that's beautiful. I also love Judy Woofwoof...

I know, it's immature, but I need something to laugh about.

[thebigidea]

2. he's the living incarnation of the word "lightweight"

I have the frightening image of Hemmer at retirement age, still with that vaccuous grin, still without a single thought in his head, asking folks in the nursing home what they think about the Michael Jackson trial... all the while chatting amiably to a Soledad who hasn't been next to him for decades.

[Atman]

7. "You know, sonny, that Soledad, she wanted me!"

"Sittin' there, I could see right down her her top, I could! She was always shakin' those boobies at me...I knew she wanted me. It was so obvious. But then, that Gupta fella was kinda cute, too..."

[ugarte]

3. Agree totally

Now if Soledad would only follow him out.

[seemslikeadream]

4. Hey Ken is so much more!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. A White House Press Liason in the making if I ever saw one n/t

[asjr]

11. He certainly sucked up enough to be one. I have never

liked him. My daughter said he looked like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Unfortunately he is the typical "news" commentator we now have on cable.

[Edgewater_Joe]

9. They're Fleeing Like Rats At CNN

Once again, I invoke my prayer to the gods of Progressive Money to have George Soros and Teresa Heinz and Mark Cuban and whomever else call Ted Turner and offer to back him so he can rebuy CNN and turn it into a REAL news network.

God knows one could make lots of $$$ as well as being good for America.

[Kansas Wyatt]

18. I thought Soros or someone else did buy CNN.

Not sure, but there was an announcement about two months ago.

[Career Prole]

10. Woodruff, Cafferty, Hemmer...

...the shake-up continues?

[kittenpants]

13. is cafferty gone? n/t

[mtnsnake]

14. I think he got moved to another time slot later in the day.

[Career Prole]

15. Yup...last week, I believe it was. Not long after Woodruff. n/t

[Career Prole]

16. All he has left at CNN is "In The Money"

on Saturday afternoons, and if you check the showpage for "In The Money" they've got a video named "Au Revoir, Jack"...
:shrug:

[mtnsnake]

12. CNN was getting ready to demote Hemmer, plain and simple,

and replace him with someone more likeable.

So he's deciding to "move on to bigger and better things". Yeah, right, Bill. What exactly is it, then that you're moving on to?

I think it's all just part of a big shake-up in their morning shows.

[VaYallaDawg]

17. He's getting replaced by Bob Coston (formerly ESPN). n/t

[sundancekid]

20. please do not insult Ken Doll that way ...hemmer ... hmm ... hemmerhoids

yes, that's the first word association that comes to mind ...
:applause:
:applause:
thank you, very much (please use elvis voice)

[arwalden]

21. He's Still Better Than Sheppard (My Eyes Are Too Far Apart) Smith

[LunaC]

22. They wanted to make him a WH correspondent

but he considered it a demotion and said "See 'ya!"

There was a blurb about this in the local paper a few weeks ago. Sorry, no link.

[kittenpants]

23. I remember when he was reporting from Iraq at the beginning

of the invasion and all he could do was whine about how unpleasant it was to be there and how tired he was.... boo fucking hoo!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

24. I'd trade Hemmer for Candy Crowley. I can't stand that witch, especially

during the election "coverage."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Bill Hemorrhoid will not be missed.

What a brainless lightweight.

[WatchWhatISay]

26. Am I the only one who see's Truman

of The Truman Show when I look at Bill Hemmer.

I can't believe nobody else has said that yet. I thought it was the most obvious thing I'd ever seen from the first time I saw him on CNN.

[kittenpants]

27. dear God you're right--I always knew he reminded me of someone!!!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. He interviewed his parents

when they went to the pope's coronation.

THAT is good journalism, baby :)