Posted on 06/19/2006 3:33:31 AM PDT by jimbo123
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:
We came to do a show for very little dough
By little, I mean I could make more working on skid row
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Laura Ingraham played it over and over on her radio show, so almost the whole world will hear it.
It was sooooooo! awful hearing her sing, but so funny having Laura play it. :-)
Unbelievable! Have never been a fan of her or her husband. She made a total a$$ of herself.
That is funny.
Why didn't MSNBC just yank her and show some footage of something else, until they could fill a seat with a talking head... thus, diminishing this fiasco? Not only does Connie look like she is into self-sabotage, but the network has only proved how much it is crumbling apart.
And the SADDEST parody of Connie has now been done by Connie.
If this were a comedy parody I think most performers would have thought that doing it that badly would have been so ridiculous and cruel as to detract from it's humor value.
Sometimes reality really IS stranger than fiction.
Utterly worthless...
Yes, it is weird. The guy playing the piano has this smile and look on his face like he cannot believe she is doing this.
I think she must really be angry at the networks, former co-anchors, cable, her husband (maybe he is fooling around) and the whole world. She needs help.
Maybe she can cry on Mrs Gingrich's sholder. I am sure she would whisper sweet words of comfort.
painful, pitiful and hilarious.
Why should they bother? She did for them what they didn't have to do or get anyone else to do. Destroy her career. I, too, remember that interview w/Gingrich's mother. That was a really cheap shot Connie took. It just goes to show you. What goes around, comes around.
And did you see her shaking her a$$ at the camera? Auugghhh!
Pardon me while I scratch out my mind's eye...
Why didn't she just do a Nixon and tell MSNBC that "you won't have me to kick around anymore"?
the guy at the piano looked like he had a gun to his head and was told to smile and look like you are playing.
Connie got back at all of us for not watching her show. She knew we could not stop watching this "car-wreck" good-bye. This sick, awful video will be part of our memories until the day we die. I beg you, Connie, please don't make another video.
"I wonder what combination of substances she was under the influence of."
I'd say an overdose of Hubris with a speedball of tone deafness.
That picture says it all!! I just heard this on Rush. Ugh!
I want to see Dan Rather do the same song.
On the same piano.
In the same dress.
As long as he doesn't do that Sharon Stone thing with his legs.
Probably because MSNBC seems determined to go down in as many flames as they can. After all, they just replaced their GM with a reporter.
They'd be well advised just to shut the network down and go with the website only. I'd actually tune in (for the first time in years) to watch Chrissy's fit.
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