I used to think CNN's Rick Sanchez was all teeth and smooth metrosexual complexion. But judging by a cute and self-deprecating comment he made on CNN's "On The Story" this past Saturday about his own hurricane coverage, he's made the "charming and funny" cut:
HENRY: Hey, Rick, this is Ed Henry. I wonder, you were also featured on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show." He poked a little fun at you. What's it like to also be part of the story and there are folks out there who think that maybe news coverage is hyped during a storm. You've seen the other side of it. Talk about that a little.
SANCHEZ: Well, I think it's sometimes bound to happen by the nature of the fact that you're being whipped around in winds and to be honest with you, sometimes Ed, you just look downright silly when you're covering a hurricane and it's hard not to. I mean I wish I could be -- look exactly the way I look right now in this beautiful studio here at the CNN Center in Atlanta. [see? Smooth, vain metrosexual. --CG] But when you got winds whipping across at 110 miles an hour and you're trying to explain what's going on in a specific town, it's difficult not to do that. So one of the reasons I cover hurricanes is to be on Jon Stewart, because I know that he's going to take any piece of video -- I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But I know that he's going to take any piece of video that looks like that and he's going to turn it around and put it on the air.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/16/tt.01.html
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