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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:33 AM
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Connie Chung bids bizarre adieu, from atop grand piano, to MSNBC
NY Post: CONNIE CROAKS ADIEU
By MICHAEL SHAIN

June 19, 2006 -- THE ratings-starved Maury Povich and Connie Chung weekend show on MSNBC ended its short, six-month run with a bizarre send-off - sure to live on as a tone-deaf stunt Chung will not soon be allowed to forget.
Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown, the former CBS and CNN anchorwoman warbled a farewell song that put down Dan Rather (with whom she co-anchored the CBS news in the early 1990s), her husband and cable TV - all at the same time.

"Thanks for the memories," she sang to the tune of the old standard....

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/connie_croaks_adieu_entertainment_michael_shain.htm

VIDEO: &t=OEgsToPDskKzK-Ww8LFKVOIZGaako2Jc
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:38 AM
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1. my question is has anybody watched this thru to the end
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:40 AM
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3. I only got through 30 seconds
The woman should NOT be allowed to sing.
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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:05 AM
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15. No, no, you have to see the part
where she rolls slowly off the piano, grunting, and then holds out a long note that is so flat I thought the piano player was going to pass out!

Chung just knocked Paula Abdul off the "drunk on tv" throne!

:wow:
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:43 AM
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6. it is a train wreck...
I am not sure what the hell to make of it all...
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:58 AM
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13. Yes, but then I managed to watch Titanic through to the end.
Her grunting as she pulled herself down and off the piano did add a certain touch of burlesque humor.

She acts and sounds drunk out of her mind. Pathetic.

Oh well, it's a fitting exit for the former co-anchor of the CBS Evening News.

I'm looking forward to Couric's final bow in the near future.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:39 AM
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2. *gasp*
There are no words. :wow:
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larrysh Donating Member (181 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:41 AM
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4. Karaoke singers do it better! (EOM)
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Steepler0t Donating Member (348 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:42 AM
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5. That is frightening
What a horrible tune she keeps, this is for real?

*shakes head* Just bizzare.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:47 AM
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7. How did that show make it 6 months?
Edited on Mon Jun-19-06 09:53 AM by tridim
I never saw it and I still know it sucked.

The best part is some pissed off sound guy at MSNBC cut out the piano accompaniment and released just the feed of her voice. Good work pal, and thanks for boosting the audio when she grunts. :)
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mohinoaklawnillinois Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:47 AM
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8. How pathetic is that?
Is Connie Chung on medication and forgot to take it on Saturday??

:crazy:
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:49 AM
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9. I saw part of this yesterday and it was both bizarre and ghastly! I
didn't know that they were quitting the show, but IMO it might have been sooner if she had performed like this earlier!
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:52 AM
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10. Oh. My. God.
Words fail me....
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:55 AM
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11. I'd say she was drunk, but she wouldn't have been able to read the words
off the teleprompter. It was like a bad SNL skit. Wow.
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dancingme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:10 AM
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17. Sadly she was NOT drunk
I think she was fully aware of what she was doing which is very strange.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 01:17 PM
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31. She certainly appeared to be drunk.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:58 AM
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12. I was all over that "event" like a cheap octopus & got crickets
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1441985
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951-Riverside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:59 AM
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14. ...I'd DO her
and by DO I mean have consentual sexual relations, there is something hot about a SOBER women who doesnt give a damn.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:09 AM
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16. Her career is so over. And so is her marriage from the sound of it.
Talk about burning your bridges!

Gotta admit I love seeing reTHUGS go down in flames. :evilgrin:
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:16 AM
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18. MSNBC set this up to fail before the ink was dry on the contracts
They picked a bizarre time of Saturdays and gave them 30 minutes. Contrast that to oh, say, Hardball, Scarborough, Abrams Report, Tucker Carlson, Rita Cosby, and even Countdown (starting at 3pm through to 10pm, 60 minutes, many airing twice in the day, single host) to the obscure "team" of Chung/Povich at the bizarre time of Saturdays for 30 minutes. :crazy:

I guess now they can say, "Well, we tried :cry:!" :eyes:

Doomed from the start.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:18 AM
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19. BaBwah WahWah is showing the clip on TheView
Joy, "Do you think after this performance she can get back doing the news?"

BaBwah, "(morning show people do all sorts of wacky stuff)."
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:19 AM
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20. May it be preserved for future generations
Edited on Mon Jun-19-06 10:21 AM by Anarcho-Socialist
So that they be reminded of how it encapsulates how fucked-up this decade was.
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:21 AM
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21. Wow.
A bit bitter, are we?
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:33 AM
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22. You know, it might have been tacky but it was honest.
Wish more of the clowns they have pasted on our screens and are trying to pass off as journalists of substance would just have an honest moment or two like that.
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Southsideirish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:36 AM
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23. I think she thought it would be so bad it would be "campy" - that's why
there was no accompaniment, even though there was a pianist sitting there. I think she wanted it to be excruciatingly awful - maybe to get her name back in the headlines and it worked. SHe may become a "hot" guest for the talk shows now.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:41 AM
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24. Headed for a car wreck? Hit the gas!
Man is she pissed @ the world.
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watercolors Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 11:27 AM
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25. Had me laughing
I thought it very much a comedy and she was ever so funny. Don't be so hard on her, she has a good sense of humor. Something lacking around here lately!
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rniel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 11:51 AM
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26. connie speaks for me
Edited on Mon Jun-19-06 11:57 AM by rniel
This world is really f**ed up.

I'm going to have to save that video to play again right after Bush nukes Iran.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 12:37 PM
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27. Shirley Povich was one of the great sportswriter in history...
And his son Maury is one of the worst purveyors of sleazy tabloid television...and he has dragged his wife down with him...

Apple sure has fallen far from the tree!!!
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 12:42 PM
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28. I believe she knows she can't sing and...
just doesn't give a damn, She knows everyone was talking about her and her husband so she probably wanted to end the show with a bang and to give you all something to remember
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 01:03 PM
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29. That's One Of The Most Bizarre Things I've Ever Seen!!! Why Did MSNBC...
Edited on Mon Jun-19-06 01:16 PM by arwalden
... permit her musical "fuck-you" farewell to be aired?

Was this live? Or did they not care?
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 01:09 PM
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30. There was cranberry juice all over my white bedspread
in the wee hours of Saturday morning when i woke up. It was the first thing I saw when turned on the TV while drinking my juice. Connie owes me a new bedspread. But that had me laughing very hard with a mouthful of juice. I thought I would never catch my breath. But hey what a way to end a journalism career as a trampy media coquette - Go Connie! :rofl:
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