CNN Airs Anchor's Potty Break Live

[Haole Girl]

Let me just say--Aaron Brown would have never done this!


CNN Airs Anchor's Potty Break Live

POSTED: 11:37 am CDT August 30, 2006

NEW YORK -- Kyra Phillips, anchor of CNN's "Live From...," unwittingly upstaged President George W. Bush's speech in New Orleans with on-the-air analysis of her husband and the marriage of her brother -- all live from a CNN ladies room.
Video: YouTube Video Of Incident

Unaware that her wireless microphone was "live" during her break, Phillips could be heard overriding Bush's prepared address Tuesday as he was seen marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

The Atlanta-based Phillips, in conversation with an unidentified woman in an echoey room, dismissed most men with a vulgar term, but called herself "very lucky in that regard. My husband is handsome and he is genuinely a loving - you know, no ego - you know what I'm saying? Just a really passionate, compassionate, great, great human being. And they exist. They do exist. They're hard to find. Yup. But they are out there."

A few moments later, she observed that "brothers have to be, you know, protective. Except for mine. I've got to be protective of him."

Why? "His wife is just a control freak."

At that point, another voice cut in: "Kyra."

"Yeah, baby?" replied Phillips on hearing her name.

"Your mike is on. Turn it off. It's been on the air."

CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, looking flustered, then broke into the telecast with a recap of what Bush had been saying.

Phillips later apologized to viewers "for an issue we had with our mikes" and "for a little bit of an interruption there during the president."

CNN issued its own official statement, explaining the network had "experienced audio difficulties during the president's speech today in New Orleans. We apologize to our viewers and the president for the disruption."

The network also apologized to the White House.

[idgiehkt]

1. ROFLMAO!!!!

:rofl:

man, this just made my day....her sister in law is now a nationally famous control freak.

Hysterical...couldn't have happened to a better person.

[Haole Girl]

4. Yeah, I take it they won't be going to their house for Thanksgiving

:rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

2. And yet...

why do I think that Kyra Phillips potty break had more meaningful content than Preznit Dumbshit's speech? :shrug:

[Haole Girl]

5. lol

:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

3. You mean they were streaming live????

[Haole Girl]

6. Yup

That's what they get when they trade in experience for cuteness!

[Radical Activist]

7. Do you think someone is trying to sink the network?

Ever since they fired their news director and replaced him with a Republican they have focused on crappy coverage of celebrity scandals and missing white girls. Plus a series of embarrassing stories like this. Either a moron is in charge or right wing moles are trying to take down CNN from the inside.

[Haole Girl]

9. More likely the moron theory..

or, should I say "moran" theory?

[Radical Activist]

10. Probably so.

Sad to see a once good news network go to hell.

[Haole Girl]

11. Yeah, they were great when they started

But, as so many business do, they grew too big for their britches! (HA! that's an expression you don't hear often!).

[Radical Activist]

8. What was the vulgar term?

Anyone know?
I saw part of this on Jimmy Kimmel's show.

[Haole Girl]

12. I sent you a pm

:)

[Katina]

13. wouldn't you love to be a fly on rhe wall at the next

family 'get together"?

[Haole Girl]

18. Yeah, I know

:rofl: :popcorn:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. At least she wasn't spewing lies.

[Katina]

15. good point

but do you think her sister in law will see it that way? Control freak?
:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. She'll definitely have some 'splainin' to do....

:rofl:

[u4ic]

16. Oops...

:rofl:

[Haole Girl]

19. I can't help but wonder if Kyra Phillips's career was just flushed

...down the toilet, as well! That would be impossible to live down.

:eyes:

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Bush gave a speech on the one year anniv of Katrina? What did he say --

that he was a complete dumbass for ignoring the hurricane and appointing who he had, that he was a total failure as a leader, and that he had just challenged himself to a duel with a loaded pistol in each hand?

*twing* oh . . . sorry, i was sleeping . . . i had the most lovely dream.

[Haole Girl]

21. I don't know, I didn't hear what he wanted to say...but I would have

tuned in if I'd known I could listen to the most intimate secrets of a major news network's personal life, while she took a potty break! ;)