CNN Caught Live With FNC Showing on Navy Carrier's TVs

MRC ^ | 11:55am EDT, Thursday May 1, 2003 | BrentBaker

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A bit of a humorous moment on CNN on Wednesday afternoon when Kyra Phillips, their reporter aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, realized, "I hate to say it," that the TVs in the pilots' ready-room were tuned to the Fox News Channel. Phillips quickly dismissed it as part of the Navy system in which "you've got to get a little bit of every network."

MRC analyst Ken Shepherd caught this candid moment which occurred at 1:13pm EDT as Phillips relayed a question from anchor Miles O'Brien, about how the pilots watch landings, to a Navy pilot who explained that the TVs in their ready-room can show the flight deck.

Phillips pointed out the TVs hanging from the ceilings in the corner of the room, though they were too distant to really see what they were showing: "Up here on these screens, you're going to see the screens up there on the right, I hate to say it, they're showing Fox News. But, you know, that's the Navy system. You've got to get a little bit of every network..."

Just getting a little bit more of FNC.

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Hillary is short and squatty, but I don't think she'd sink a military aircraft. However, I sleep well with President Bush and Rumsfeld in charge. If socialist Hillary were elected President (God forbid, but I'm in New York State and I never thought she'd make Senator), it would certainly be a whole new ball game. A terribly frightening scenario. More nightmares - Bill Clinton would be First Man.