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‘Jaw-Droppingly Awkward’: CNN’s John Roberts Scolds Co-Anchor Live On-Air
- Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:30pm by
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This happened a few days ago but Mediaite is just bringing it to light:
A few people have asked us why no one’s written about this jaw-droppingly awkward interaction between American Morning co-anchors John Roberts and Kiran Chetry last week.
After some searching, we found what they were talking about. Wednesday morning, right before Roberts was set to interview David Axelrod, he sternly reprimanded her for some off-screen distraction.
The unanswered question — what the heck was Kiran Chetry doing that was so distracting that John Roberts couldn’t handle it?
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Comments (114)
Lutheran
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:09pmI bet she was on “The Blaze” website trying to do some research.
Report Post »“Please don’t do that…”
Renee0120
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:08pmNow, that’s a thought….good reason for the all of a “sudden” urge. So unprofessional though. I have never seen that happen before. It is sort of weird how many people think it has nothing to do with anything. Amazing….
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:06pmWhat is this… CNN?… thing you speek of?…
Report Post »jb77
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:05pmSeriously? That was the most ridiculous story…The anchor was even polite when he asked whoever it was to stop…Stop posting crap stories…
Report Post »JWChancey
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:05pmGlad to have you on Fox again Kiran……. get on back there !!
Report Post »JeffersonSmith
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:01pmIt was not jaw-dropping, it wasn’t stern, it wasn’t anything but polite. I don’t see how he could have been more polite. What’s the big deal?
Report Post »Renee0120
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:01pmHave you ever seen anything like that on live TV before this. ever? I know I haven’t but look at who it is, not what it is. Very interesting! Glenn got it. You bethcha…..sorry I couldn’t resist. Guess that may have not been necessary either….
Report Post »PITMASTER
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:57pmUntil it was posted here, only the folks at CNN saw it to begin with. CNN is a dinosaur in search of it’s asteroid.
Report Post »SoulSearcher
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:53pmI love Glenn, but this “news” site is becoming increasingly sensationalistic. That was hardly a “scolding” let alone “jaw-dropping.”
If this nonsense keeps up, I’m going to have to write off The Blaze as a failed experiment. Maybe I need to email Glenn directly and express my concerns. All this does is give the left ammo to “prove” how conservatives blow things out of proportion. I was hoping this site would take a common sense, fair and balanced approach to things, but this kind of exaggeration is just pettiness.
Report Post »Laura
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 9:10pmCome on, Soul. Relax. As a political junkie, I needed this fun break. And I LOVE this website. Don’t you dare tell Glenn to change a thing…party pooper. :-)
Report Post »Truncheon
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:08pmCan I have your stuff?
Report Post »Renee0120
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 11:18pmHi Soulsearcher:
You must remember the word; “subtlety”…..what did she do that warranted that? Someone with no reply had mentioned (Plunderpower) etiquette, and said she was rude. How was she rude? What did she do? Did you notice the little smirk that Axelrod gave the reporter?
Report Post »I can not think of anything that would have warranted that. Can you? He was rude for doing it in my opinion, unless there was a reason at that “particular” time.
DJR
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:45pmHe asked politely, but he shouldn’t have done it on live tv. It was unprofessional and I’m sure it embarrassed her to be berated on national tv.
Report Post »Lynard
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:36pmI remember when Gretchen Carlson ripped her azz too on Fox and Friends for being a uneducated idiot about kids. No one shouldbe suprised at this!
Report Post »cat48
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:34pmdoes anyone really watch CNN anymore?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:31pmThe unanswered question — what the heck was Kiran Chetry doing that was so distracting that John Roberts couldn’t handle it?
Answer : Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct
:-)
Report Post »Joseph
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:26pmAhhh…. Profesionalism!!!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:20pmSome people just get easily distracted when someone else is picking their nose. Lighten up guy! It’s her nose and she can stick her finger up it if she wants to. Now if she was eating what she finds then I guess you have a good reason to be upset.
Report Post »dressseller
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:15pmMaybe he was too easily distracted.. but I think the headline is a bit overstated here. ..”jaw-droppingly awkard”?? ..I expected to see a rude or much grouchier exchange. It was mildly awkward at best. DON’T EXAGGERATE!!! ..lol.
Report Post »p5y60r9
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:39pm“…I think the headline is a bit overstated here. ..”jaw-droppingly awkard”?? ..I expected to see a rude or much grouchier exchange. It was mildly awkward at best. DON’T EXAGGERATE!!! ..lol.”
Indeed. It’s not that interesting to begin with and it was oversold to boot.
Sorry, bot this is a fail.
Report Post »goddess72400
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:01pmPlease be politically correct!!! He is a PENIS! UGH! (:-)
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:29pmI think you’ve had a KEYBOARD MALFUNCTION ;)
Report Post »goddess72400
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:01pmPlease be politically correct!!! He is a PENIS! UGH!
Report Post »gw76
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:57pmKiran, don’t stand for this uptight moron embarrassing you like that. Come on back to Fox. You are a fox, and you belong on Fox. You should never have left Fox.
Report Post »dressseller
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:21pmI think she is a pinch too liberal to enjoy working at Fox News.
Report Post »Jeetman
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:16pm@GW76 Apparently you didn‘t read about WHY she’s no longer with Fox. She was fired. According to the reports I read, in 2007 she was nearing the end of her contract and was in re-negotiations. Fox intended to re-up her contract until they read the new details of her contract. Fox said that she had a clause in her new contract that would be detrimental to another talent (allegedly a clause to fire Gretchen Carlson according to Fox). Chetry‘s agent alleges that the contract didn’t say the wanted to have anyone fired. They allegedly wanted clarity of Chetry’s position (if she’d stay on Fox & Friends). Fox told her that they were not renewing her contract and that she could leave at any time.
That’s how she ended up on CNN.
gw76
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 1:49amThanks Jeetman, I hadn’t heard any of that. Nothing against Gretchen, but I’d sure rather spend my mornings with Kiran than her. I‘m sure there’s probably lots more to the story than even this, stuff we’ll never know. I just wish she’d come back, cuz I can’t stand to watch CNN, even with her on it.
Hellpig
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:57pmHe didnt want to mess up the softballs he was going to lob to the propaganda minister
Report Post »w4jle
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:57pmTo the editor:
Report Post »Come on! If this is the journalism that Glen is paying for he should get a refund. This pap is not why we come to Blaze. You are being intellectually lazy, get your butts back to work and get a real story!
independentvoteril
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:48pmHave to agree what next dancing with the stars bloopers
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:04pmEither many of you have never held a job that paid well and involved professional courtesy. In case you don’t know it, you can be canned for being disrespectful and insubordinate…which is what lacking professional etiquette is. She was rude. In the background you can hear the noise…twice. If she cannot follow professional ethics, with a live mic, it is news.
Report Post »Truncheon
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:20pmHey now, I’ve been keeping an eye on things, and this Scott Baker fellow has been *exceedingly* productive. He posts stories at 2:00am, and he posts a boatload every day.
He gives us all *something* to respond to all the time, around the clock, and as near as I can tell more than any of the other guys…..who also provide a lot, I’m just saying.
I’m inclined to be quite tolerant to Scott Baker in his selections.
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:22pmOr you‘ve only worked an hourly job where you think you’re getting away with a smart mouth or attitude. Every job has its unspoken rules. The people that find them out and follow them usually get promoted and go on to bigger and better things including paychecks.
Report Post »tisherself
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:51pmTypically rude Liberal democrat. If he’s so easily distracted, maybe he shouldn’t be on live TV.
Report Post »MSP22
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:43pmBig reason is because no one watches that channel. Easy to miss in the morning when the viewing numbers are like 10.
Report Post »nester
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:38pmI don’t get it, he politely asked someone to stop doing something that was distracting to him. Why is this news?
Report Post »goddess72400
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:54pmThat’s what I thought too! I watched it and I thought he was being polite. She may have been doing something as simple as typing on her laptop and it was a distraction and he asked her nicely to not do it while he was interviewing. I don’t get the big hoop dee doo
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:25pmYep, gotta agree. King seemed polite and brief enough in his request. I always liked Kiran when she was on Fox years. Never understood why she and her weatherman hubby left Fox at the same time before she reappeared at CNN.
Report Post »Leslie_Benedict
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:35pmAsked politely…ON LIVE NATIONAL TV!!!! Rude.
Report Post »car01038
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:48pmThat wasn’t nice either.. that was condescending. Notice how he felt he needed to add the ‘if you don’t mind’ at the end. What a tool – guess that why FNC blows CNN out of the water!
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:56pmYea, polite enough. I am no John King fan and rarely ever watch CNN, but we don’t know what Kiran was doing. Maybe she was banging away at her keyboard and it was so loud to him he knew he was about to blow his interview (even if the viewer could not hear it) … don’t know, but he was not so out of line that he needs a headline-grilling. I’m sure though he and Kiran discussed the problem during the commercial, and I’d like to think he apologized to her.
Report Post »LadyPatriot
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:14pmgotta fill that information slot 24/7 -
Report Post »TWA
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:43pmPolite? He certainly could have waited for Axelrod to begin answering his question, at which point the producer could have muted the mics, allowing him to ask in a more professional manner. I suppose you are numb to this type of boorish behavior because it’s so prevalent in our society today. This was unprofessional, immature, and illustrative of the type of person this man must be. This was an intentional effort to make her look bad. But with public discourse continuing to move toward the gutter, I guess it’s not a surprise.
Report Post »balute2
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 1:54amHe sounded a little petulant and childish. As a professional, he surely understands that things aren’t always perfect when you do your job. If he was reporting at a ball game, would he ask the crowd to shush, HE’s talking? Maybe, but that would be wrong also. Grow up John or get another job. And apologize to Chetry.
Report Post »Fort Mill Joe
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 3:38pmTWA – Exactly!
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:38pmShe was off camera holding up the talking points memo that had been sent by Rahm. I guess she did not realize he already got them off the red fax machine.
Report Post »w4jle
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:36pmAnd we should care because?
Report Post »timenow
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:21pmGreat point…
Report Post »Debrabate
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:04pmThat’s what she gets for leave FoxNews years ago and going to CNN.
Report Post »Buck Bagaw
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:22pmThis article is a waste of time, from any angle.
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 10:06pm***FIXED*** Meant to say John Roberts, not John King***
Report Post »jeffdubya
Posted on September 19, 2010 at 2:13pmAmen. I don‘t watch this network and I don’t give a flying crap. I think the Blaze needs to drop these fluff stories and concentrate on REAL news…
Report Post »COjohngalt
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:36pmProgressives…always know more than you, even if you are one of them!
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 6:54pmProfessional etiquette is always written in the invisible job requirements. Lacking professional etiquette is deemed disrespectful and in some caes insubordinate. Some aspects of professional etiquette are well known to those needing to keep them in mind. They are simply understood. If you would like to receive it, you need to follow it yourself. In terms of professional etiquette, she was rude.
Report Post »FrankSpeak
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 7:38pmMaybe she is a covert political operative still secretly working for Fox, and her job is to annoy CNN. Ha!
msnbciscomedy
Posted on September 17, 2010 at 11:48amI bet he cries himself to sleep at night if he doesnt get a chance to belittle someone at least once a day……typical acedemic, ruling class, douche bag.