CNN's Kyra Phillips Unloads on Joe the Plumber

NewsBusters.org ^ | 1/7/2009 | Mike Bates

[Mike Bates]

On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips let viewers know exactly what she thinks of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber. On the 2:00 PM (ET) segment she teased the story:

PHILLIPS: Oh, Lord, Joe The Plumber's got a new gig. It's got nothing to do with the pipes, it's got everything to do with Gaza.

And later again:

PHILLIPS: You've seen the last of this guy? Not. Now Joe The Plumber wants to flush out the truth as a war correspondent. I know, there are just no words. Stay here for details on his Middle East trip.

Minutes later she reported:

Hey, Joe, what do you know? No, seriously, what do you know? Since that whole plumbing thing didn't work out, I mean. Now, Joe Wurzelbacher is decamping to the Middle East. That's right, the plumber slash author slash singer.

His latest career gambit? War correspondent. He's going spend ten days in Israel reporting for the conservative Web site pjtv.com. And he says he hopes to air Israelis' views on the Gaza offensive. Lord, help us.

[conservative cat]

She’s an insult to female dogs.

[Texas Eagle]

Sounds like somebody’s askeered of a little competition.

[valkyry1]

Joe will probably be a better war correspondent than 90% of them

[Texas Eagle]

That Kyra. She’s funny. With all the plumbing related quips. That she didn’t write a damn one of.

[Rome2000]

But if Joe was an ugly communist lesbian, then all would be well.

Greetings Comrade, welcome to the USSA!

We have 1 TRILLION dollar deficit and POTUS MUZZIE HUSSEIN.

More Vodka please.

[sionnsar]

CNN?

[Sarah Barracuda]

She’s just another CBS 2 has been that we threw in trash. Kyra, Rick Sanchez, Keith Olbermann, all those rejects started here, and were AWFUL

[DieHard the Hunter]

“Catty” is the only polite term I can think of to describe this. What’s the matter with Joe the Plumber leveraging his new-and-unwanted fame into something a little more exciting than plumbing?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder how many years she spent in “college” learning how to read a teleprompter. I guess teleprompter reader is a good gig if you can get it.

[Mike Bates]

No, but she read them darn well. Must have learned that in journalism school.

[sionnsar]

Where’s that piccie of SENATOR Al Franken in Depends...?

[Huntress]

Bingo. Joe’s a natural speaker and he looks great on camera. The folks with the journalism degrees are vexed that a mere tradesman can ask smarter and more courageous questions than they can. He exposes them for the phonies they are.

[sionnsar]

CNN?

[Political Junkie Too]

I wonder what Phillips thinks about CNN's Michael Ware's "journalism" with CBS' Lara Logan.

-PJ

[healy61]

I can imagine Joe’s expletive two-word comment response.

[clintonh8r]

Sounds like Kyra needs her plumbing checked....

[KarlInOhio]

A simpler version of "Where's Waldo?" for CNN viewers - "Where's Switzerland?"

[Thumper1960]

The media "made" Joe the Plumber...now, they are upset he's going on their turf?

She may be a little more upset that ole Joe gets better looking women than she does.

Who knows.

Kyra, honey....better put some ice on that.

[ConservativeMind]

Maybe she’s better in bed than working on television.

She’s got to be good at something, because she sure isn’t good at being a news anchor, and that is just reading a prompter.