US anchorwoman rips up Paris script in live TV protest
By Karen Bale
AN AMERICAN news presenter shredded her script in protest at being made to lead her bulletin with a story about Paris Hilton.
Mika Brzezinski was so incensed that news of the party girl's release was considered the day's most important development that she refused to read it out.
After repeated on-air arguments with her co-presenters, she ripped the script up before trying to set fire to it.
Brzezinski, who presents MSNBC's Morning Joe programme, is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former adviser to ex-US president Jimmy Carter.
She argued that stories about Iraq and the White House were far more important than an update on the publicity-hungry socialite.
She told viewers: "I hate it and I don't think it should be our lead.
"I just don't believe in covering that story, at least not as the lead story on the newscast, when we have a day like today."
On the first bulletin, she looked at her script - which was topped by Hilton's release from jail after violating probation over a drinkdriving conviction - screwed it up and refused to read it.
Later, she refused to read it again, took a co-presenter's cigarette lighter, and tried to burn it.
She then refused to read the script for a third time and took it straight to the shredder in the studio, where she fed it into the machine.
When producers played images of Hilton leaving jail, Brzezinski was shown with her head in her hands as the cameras returned to the studio.
A three-minute clip showing the presenter's stand has been viewed more than 250,000 times on YouTube.
And viewers have left hundreds of comments on the video website backing her. One wrote: "Someone should give her a medal."
A third said: "This lady has some serious balls and some serious morals. People like her make me proud to be an American."
Others questioned whether the entire incident was scripted.
Hilton, 26, was freed on Tuesday and gave her first interview to veteran broadcaster Larry King.
She told how she wanted to help inmates, do more work for charities, and said that partying would no longer be the "mainstay" of her life.
She was spotted yesterday in a white dress, black wig and straw hat as she arrived on holiday in Hawaii.
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Fuck her, send her to jail for life for endangering the public. Drunk driving is serious business, I dont give a shit who you are, you do it you should be punished excessivly...of course the way I think it should be done would be considered "inhuman" and "crual and unusual."
Zwinmar wrote:Fuck her, send her to jail for life for endangering the public. Drunk driving is serious business, I dont give a shit who you are, you do it you should be punished excessivly...of course the way I think it should be done would be considered "inhuman" and "crual and unusual."
Of course, then people would whine that their children and friends endangering lives of everybody they pass should not be punished like that, and then drunk drivers will be spending a night or two in a somewhat clean jail cell with a pillow, blanket, and hot meals.
I just vote: Lower conditions, but think more before putting the guy in. If we end up tossing a perfectly innocent man into Hell....well, I don't want to be around his mother.
Its pretty easy to tell if someone is drunk while driving. Breathalizer, and if there is any doubt in that, just take em to the hospital and give them a blood/alcohal test.
Of course thats not counting the 'suspicious" sobriety field tests. Which dispite was some of these 'tards say, actually does work. Yeah I have had minimal training in giving them (when I say minimal assume the absolute barest of training) im no expert on them. But I do know that you can tell when someones drunk.
There is no excuse for drunk driving. Of course on that note, I dont believe that 'I was drunk" is ever an excuse anyways. You did it, own up to it and bare the consiquences.
