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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Daddy! Aunt Connie's on the piano again! She scares me when she does that, cause then she always tries to give me a big kiss and she smells like the medicine cabinet.
When I got cable 3 years ago, MSNBC was just in the process of bringing Phil Donahue out of retirement. I thought, my gosh, why are they digging up the oldies?
They seem so bent on keeping their leftist agenda that the only way they know how is to bring on those oldies. They were hoping name recognition would bring audiences. It didn't work.
Maybe they should try some real programming toward what a majority of the public would view --- but then, that wouldn't further their left-leaning agenda. Decisions, decisions: agenda or audience. At the rate MSNBC (and CNN) seem to have been losing audiences, they may not even have to decide, as the marketplace is doing it for them.
I have NEVER seen anything so BAD in all my advanced years. What could she have been thinking? Gawd.
I think this was her form of revenge on MSNBC for cancelling the show...she's just guaranteed that no one of normal sensibilities will ever watch MSNBC again....
Really out there.....not unique, not impressive, unbelievable, almost sickening. Makes a person wonder just how much slant she slathered on her news reporting through all the years..
Connie who?
He says the show was "horrible". He says if people complain about "the money" DON'T take the job!!! He played the song..
I think he's going to play it again...
This is just very sad. I remember Connie as a kid doing the local CBS news in Los Angeles. She seemed to be very professional and going places which she did.
However to have her career come to this seeems to me like Whitney Houston after she married Bobby Brown.
Ugh! My husband caught this while surfing around for news on Sunday afternoon. It was such a train wreck that he rewound it on the DVR and then had me watch it. Connie is a bitter, talentless never-been. It was painful to watch - but she dug her own grave with her relentless ego. Hopefully we've seen the last of her and her stupid husband.
Sounds absolutely bizarre. Ever see the "Mad TV" lampoons of the Connie and Maury show? Pretty funny, and makes the two of them come across as oddballs.
I've never seen the MSN show but the funny entertainment show 'The Soup' has showed clips of some of the more offbeat moments and it shows Connie and Maury usually acting silly or stupid. I don't think anyone will miss this show, except maybe the people who profit from denigrating it.
ROTFLOL. Politics aside, it seems that connie and I share the same sense of humor. I really got a kick out of her awful performance.
Ha, yeah it seems it.
Then pack them off to "boot camp" after they misbehave, where muscular black men yell at them and make them be nice to their mothers.
Chung and Povich pretty much deserve each other.
I'm glad she's of the air . . . . . AGAIN!!
Hopefully, this time it will stick and NOT shtick!
Wowsers!! There's Mad TV and Bad TV - That weird little performance takes the Oscar for the latter category!!!
Fortunately not to many people saw it.
[edit-should be been:]
such as ...
Chunging the ivories
Chung Tanks for the Memories
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