Caption Pic of Kyra Phillips ,CNN Blooper Queen

To: AmericanMade1776

No Kyra, I don't think it made the President's speech more interesting. It showed you to be an airhead.

41 posted on 09/01/2006 5:35:45 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)

To: AmericanMade1776

Actually I think it shows a lot of spunk that she'd go on Letterman and read that. That's funny!

It won't get her out of hot water with the bother and his wife, but I can respect her moxie :~)

42 posted on 09/01/2006 5:51:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)

To: AmericanMade1776

43 posted on 09/01/2006 5:52:20 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)

To: AmericanMade1776

44 posted on 09/01/2006 5:52:30 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)

To: AmericanMade1776

"..and I just got good at "you want fries with that?"..and here I am" *blink blink*

Doogle

45 posted on 09/01/2006 5:53:22 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF 69-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")

To: AmericanMade1776

I think Leslie Nielsen did it better!

46 posted on 09/01/2006 5:55:44 PM PDT by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)

To: AmericanMade1776

It's thingls like that which explain why we haven't watched Letterman in years. He was so much better when he was dropping things off of buildings...

47 posted on 09/01/2006 5:58:45 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout hearts!!)

48 posted on 09/01/2006 6:03:33 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower I(t was greatTraffic Keep Right)

49 posted on 09/01/2006 6:10:47 PM PDT by MarMema

I saw this the other night. She genuinely looked embarrassed. She also looks normal to me. So many of those anchorettes are are plastic and silicone.

50 posted on 09/01/2006 6:10:52 PM PDT by chadwimc

To: AmericanMade1776

This is copied from a post of mine on another Kyra-CNN thread.

She did absolutely nothing wrong, it was the sound engineer at the board in the control room who messed up. That's the guy who decides what channel to bring up and which outgoing bus to mix it into, and he chose to bring up her mic. Sending it to the live bus was probably a mistake, the intent was most likely to eavesdrop for a little fun- with his headphones on he missed the fact that he was live nationally!

If it was up to the talking heads to turn their own wireless sets off and on, you'd hear them switch in and out for every segment- it would go like this: Producer says it's time for the weather, so the weather guy switches on and the two behind the desk reach for their transmitters and switch off. You don't see that, it's seamless because it's done from the sound board.

All of the wireless units are on all the time, and the sound man selects which channels to feed to the main output. Like a Broadway musical that uses fifteen mics, the talent does not do the switching (or you'd hear dressing-room noise when Ado Annie goes offstage to change if she forgot).

Most of the time, the transmitter is hard for the talent to reach, especially for women who don't wear a jacket- it'll be behind them at waist level where they can't get to it.

If you listen to the Bush speech, he is talking along, then suddenly there's Kyra in the bathroom. No sound of her walking down the corridor or opening the door, because the sound crew had the slider down. Then, suddenly, her voice is there, the sound guy turned her up! Listen to the clip a few times and you'll hear the levels change, meaning that someone was actively working the controls. Note that KP's voice goes up at one point, then Bush's voice goes down- sound guy twiddling knobs.

They keep the wireless mics on, because if the talent turned them off then forgot to turn it back ON, then walked onstage and started talking into a dead mike, you'd have dead air and you'd see the talking head rush to flip the switch back on. It is much easier for the sound crew to have the talent leave them on all the time, and control the mix from the sound board- no dead air. This requires the sound crew to be decent and respectful and professional.

Kyra is taking one for the team rather than have CNN be forced to admit whose fault it is, and maybe have to discipline someone.

51 posted on 09/01/2006 6:11:10 PM PDT by DBrow

The person she most needs to apologize to is her sister-in-law...or maybe this will be an opportunity to tell her exactly what she thinks...oops, that already happened!

52 posted on 09/01/2006 6:13:51 PM PDT by Hildy

To: AmericanMade1776

Saw the show, she is a little bottom heavy as Hillary would say

53 posted on 09/01/2006 6:13:57 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower I(t was greatTraffic Keep Right)

To: PajamaTruthMafia

She looks a little ( :-) ) Maureen Dowdish.

54 posted on 09/01/2006 6:15:42 PM PDT by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)

yes, but not embarrassed enough not to be on the letterman show... i guess that's the way it is the days, make a dern fool out of your self then sell it for a buck

55 posted on 09/01/2006 6:16:32 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (What I do (sin) is proof of what I am (sinful).)

To: the invisib1e hand

I'm thinking she needs to cover her knees.

56 posted on 09/01/2006 6:16:52 PM PDT by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM !")

To: AmericanMade1776

"Sure I said my sister-in-law is a control freak, but I didn't mean for the whole world to know what I thought."
Anyway, sorry sis. Oh, and get over it.

57 posted on 09/01/2006 6:21:54 PM PDT by vox_freedom (Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)

I'm ok with her knees.

58 posted on 09/01/2006 6:25:34 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (*speechless*)

To: AmericanMade1776; aculeus; dighton; flaglady47; seenenuf

BEGIN THE BIDET

When I be-gan the bi-det
I was wired and I was a sender
It sure was a night of publicity splendor
Please pour me some more...Chardonnay

When I began the bidet
I was just there to refresh my tush-ie
But there I was...chatting along with Bush-ie!
Please pour me some more...Beaujolais

Oh yes, let me begin the bidet, let it spray
My job was once a spark, but now it's an em-ber
My freak sister-in-law will soon dis-remember
And I suddenly know...what heaven I'm in
Since I began the bidet
Since I began the bidet
Please pass the...Tokay
OKAY!

Leni

59 posted on 09/01/2006 7:11:43 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Israel, Hold Firm !................No Retreat means No Repeat !)

To: MinuteGal; AmericanMade1776

"Scooper Pooper Blooper"

60 posted on 09/01/2006 8:56:10 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)

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