Does Rita Cosby Suffer From Vocal Nodes?

[stopbush]

It's an ailment that afflicts people who have to talk or sing for a living. Forcing too much air
over the vocal cords causes them to flap around and rub against each other, forming callouses
across from each other. The usual treatment is to shut up for 6 months or so and to avoid the
behaviour that caused the problem to begin with.

Maybe Rita hurt herself a long time ago and has never had the chance to zip it long enough to
cure the problem. A pink slip from NBC could be just the ticket.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. Every time I hear her talk I get the urge to offer her a cough drop

[AlCzervik]

2. Too much dairy imo.

[kysrsoze]

3. She suffers more from being stupid. God, she's unwatchable

I don't know who thought it was a good idea to give her a show. I cringe everytime she comes on.

[havocmom]

4. Not sure. She does suffer from irrelevance though (n/t)

[SoCalDem]

5. We reach for the remote the instant her face pops up

even though she apparently graduated for the Kermit the Frod School of Broadcsting./

[TerdlowSmedley]

6. No, I believe the raspiness is a lump of bullshit which has been

inextricably lodged there for years.

[BonnieJW]

10. OMG!

I am laughing so hard at my desk! I need to go to the ladies'.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Rumor is she's about to suffer from unemployment

No big surprise there.

[PCIntern]

8. She just said:

the Prez of Iran is "rebuffing his nose".

WTF is that?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

9. How do some of these people get these "competitive" jobs? I don't get it.

There is so much competition out there yet we see people like Kyra Phillips, Rita Cosby, etc. The two biggest mysteries are Larry King and Wolf Blitzer - how are THEY supposed to be two of the most respected "journalists?"

[StellaBlue]

12. Nepotism

I am smarter than just about every one of these idiots on TV and maiing $12 an hour. But whatever. I haven't compromised my values, and I don't have to tease my hair every day.

:D

[Historic NY]

11. I think its from her playing tie up games..............

she gets tied up and someone sticks a sock in her mouth. She just never took the sock out.

[Quantess]

13. YES!!!

Her voice is abnormal and her vocal folds are most likely seriously bad condition. I suspect that she has been using an artifically low voice, which is unfortunately a common bad habit for female journalists. Habitually speaking in a too-low voice is abusive to the vocal folds. She should not be working as a newscaster while her voice is sounding this bad, IMO.

I had a bit of training as a speech pathologist. Thank you for bringing this up.