What a kooky mistake! Good thing for this diminishing last-place news channel that such things often go “viral” here on the Internets, and will make this CNN show more popular! Except it’s pretty obvious they meant to do this, and it proves Obama is morally weak.
Yes, CNN, if you’re trying to fake a viral “FAIL” video, don’t play the clip for its entirety and put the “NEW LINE CINEMA” title up on the screen. Because then it’s obvious you planned to cut in with the video and nobody in the production room is actually scrambling to take it off the screen.
And look, other people on the Internet noticed this! Mediaite has the clip with a bit more context. It turns out to be an introduction to a medical segment on ulcerative colitis.
So CNN is not only desperate for viral-ness, it likes to make poop jokes. Not that there’s anything wrong with poop jokes. Some people think CNN should be a serious news source. But Larry King Live would be a much better show if King just made constant remarks about his bowel movements, which you can tell is what he actually wants to do. [YouTube via Splitsider/Mediaite]
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Calling BS on this. How do you accidently loop that in?
Don't you mean 'poop' that in?
This post is dripping with comedy.
I'm Depend-ing on it. It's been a crappy week.
I love any chance of taking a sWIPE at CNN. ….I STINK at puns.
Apparently nobody at CNN watches CNN either.
Almost any show on CNN qualifies as a viral blooper segment.
They should just change their motto from "the most trusted name in news" to "just watch for a while and you're sure to see something stupid happen"
Fox will probably condemn this as too highbrow for Real America.
Thanks, edgy, I just laughed so hard at that that I unloaded about 6 pints of the watery brown stuff into my trousers.
Why should they? The only difference is that on Fox News it comes out of their mouths instead.
Now THAT'S a Wikileak!
Seems like that particular scene is an apt metaphor for what is happening to CNN.
Getting dumb and dumber and then Time Warner's bottom line gets explosive diarrhea.
Shouldn't there be some way to make cable companies die faster and more painfully, kinda like newspapers are doing?
Larry could just interview his poop since his show is already boring as shit.
This blog post is wrong. It is a FACT that Larry King has not had a bowel movement since 1981.
And I thought it was all Larry King talked about.
As one who once suffered terribly from ulcerative colitis, I have to say that the clip shown is completely apropos. Hell, it could've been from a documentary on UC.
Well, the townhall.com graphic seems appropriate.
CNN: Watch Shit Happen
CNN grabs a clip from a movie with Jeff Daniels taking a dump edits it into a phony CNN news program with some guy who looks like Mr. Clean's bastard offspring. How are viewers supposed to tell the difference between that and any random 40 seconds on CNN?
the most profound political allegory ever aired on cnn.
They were probably saving this for their end of the year analogy piece.
CNN, you have goddamn holograms. Use them.
I expect to see Wolfie poppin' a squat in 3D next time.
Townhall tipsheet? What – always bring your own tp? AirGlade? Portopotty?
If only Obamar would produce the birf certificate this would not happen. People would not be getting chronic bloody foamy diarrhea.
Or: Guy with lots of hair takes a shit, while guy with no hair spouts a lot of shit. I'm not sure which is more offensive to my sensibilities.
We are a "Leaking Nation…."
What comes out of Jeff Daniels there is a lot more refined and pleasant to listen to than the shit that comes out of Erik Erikson's mouth.
Oh, now you've done it. We should expect a visit from pauletteanne any second now.
I'm a little afraid she might have realized that we actually want her to write that stuff.
I would have gone with the "Chocolate Rain" clip myself.
Parker Shitzer
Less shitting, more fucking. For America.
Butt the business of America is shit, and getting shittier.
For some reason, that reminds me, I need to make my room reservations for the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Singles Weekend in the Catskills this spring. I'd better hurry, I hear spaces are going fast. Thanks CNN!
I had a friend who recently ran in a half Marathon in Vegas benefitting Ulcerative Colitis. When I asked if it was called The Run for the Runs, I died a little inside.
Hey, is this him?
And what about that guy with the ascot? Did Jon Stewart get him fired, like he did those assholes on X-fire?
"Not that there’s anything wrong with poop jokes."
Yeah, cause Wonkette is living in a glass house on this issue.
Ha. It's funny, 'cause it's poo.
CNN = bowelderdash
Cheap ploy to get video to go viral – or serious test to see if anyone is still watching? YOU DECIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!1!1!!!!
Why don't they just get one of the hotties to flash her tits? Not only would that be just as valid as a test, it would also be a compelling reason to keep watching CNN – just to see if it happens again.
I wonder if "strained" was the best adjective in your headline for this video…
To be fair and balanced, FOX News will show 30 minutes of Bill Hemmer and the after effects of "America's Newsroom's Salute to Cheese."
I was wondering how content got uploaded to the "tipsheet." This is pretty much what I figured.
Does Larry King even have (let alone remember his last) bowel movements any more? I would assume it's just a teaspoon or so of sand-like substance that has to be dust-busted by whomever was brave enough to sign a prenup with him.
I heard that CNN had become a crappy news network, but I had assumed the term was descriptive, not literal.
The fart heard round the world….
Wouldn't that be the Shart heard round the world?
This is ShartNN
Just spotted on the CNN Political Ticker:
Santorum "showing up" in early states
updated 2 hours, 14mins ago
It's all about the bodily fluids at CNN these days
Way, way OT, like miles and miles but Ron Paul became the first congressman to say hooray for Wikileaks. Also, writing miles and miles reminded me, Miley Cyrus caught on a cell phone camera smoking a big, fat bong.
I know the world is going to hell in a handbasket but those two items made me smile.
I thought you were going to say "caught on cell phone camera smoking a big, fat boner." But, surely, that wouldn't have been news, even if it was her dad's.
So between the Krauthammer diatribe and this CNN clip, I can pretty much conclude that today is going to be a truly shitty day.
Was disappeared.
God did they really air that? Lame. Kids want to see things that are dope. Next time have the bald guy with the vest (Ali Velshi?) come back from the video segment sporting a Dirty Sanchez or something like that. Kids aren't going to make your video go viral by showing segments from a movie their grandparents enjoyed, CNN.
Oh I don't know. Dumb And Dumber seems to stand the test of time.
How is a video of someone spewing poo any different than what CNN usually airs?
Honestly, it's got more fiber in it than any of the crap Sanchez used to spew on air, though in his absence I don't know if there are any diarrhea-bots capable of stepping in. (I refuse to watch and find out)
Looks like that clip was from a great first-date movie.
I'm pretty sure this very same gag was done on SNL about 15 years ago. Jeff Daniels is on a talk show promoting Dumb and Dumber, but when the host tries to show a clip it always comes up with this scene.
I think the Rick Roll just met its match.
Putting "Dumb and Dumber" on the regular CNN schedule would at least make them up front about it for a change.
Morally weak
Morally weak
Dumb poop jokes and Wikileaks
Hillary Clinton's doublespeak
More drugs now for this sad freak.
It's only viral if it's actually viral. And you know that after the fact, not before. This is on a par with the feebs who refer to their pathetic fappage as "robust."
The revenge of Rick Sanchez?
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