Soledad O'Brien needs a job. Oh yes, I know that the CNN "American Morning" host technically has one. And that job--wearing great clothes on a show that lags so far behind Fox News' "Fox and Friends" that it's practically in another solar system--has got to be strenuous full-time work. Keeping your head above that kind of water has got to be real exercise, you know?
What I mean is that Soledad O'Brien needs a job that doesn't hinge on ambushing celebrities with sleazy questions in the guise of interviewing them about their new movie, and then denying, with a straight face, that you ambushed them. Because that's what's passing for journalism in Soledad's world these days. TMZ.com reports:
David Hasselhoff responded Thursday morning to his wife's charges of abuse while on CNN's "American Morning." Hasselhoff told Soledad O'Brien, "The only person who broke my wife's nose was a plastic surgeon, darling."
Hasselhoff appeared upset when O'Brien brought up the allegations while he was on the show to promote the new movie, "Click," starring Adam Sandler.
"That's not what I'm here to talk about," Hasselhoff said.The two also had a contentious exchange when O'Brien brought up his kids:
O'BRIEN: And you've got little kids.
HASSELHOFF: Right. And you conned me into this, because you said you weren't going to talk about this.
O'BRIEN: No. Oh gosh, I never agree on conditions before I do any interview.
Watch the video, which has got to be seen to be believed. Hasselhoff's body language makes it very clear that the vibe on set screamed "Duck!" Sucker-punching celebs with the kind of he-said she-said verbiage that gets flung around all the time in divorce proceedings, during agreed-upon softball interviews, is not respectable journalism and it doesn't take talent, ability or intelligence. To paraphrase P.J. O'Rourke, what Soledad did is kind of like hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope.
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