Contessa Brewer vs. Tommy Chong…
I missed this Friday. YouTube has the video of Contessa Brewer and Tommy Chong going at it over Paris Hilton. This segment is getting a lot of play on the internet with bloggers (closet Cheech and Chong fans?) being upset with Brewer.
I’ve never been able to figure out why Contessa Brewer has a job on TV? She’s so awful.
Comment by jules — June 10, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
It really is amazing that Brewer still has a job, especially considering the number of superior anchors that have come and gone in the time she’s been there. The only thing I can think of is that she must have pictures of Zucker in a compromising position with a goat.
Comment by Steve — June 10, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
My word, Tommy Chong gets the bad rap of being the stoner and yet he sounded smarter then Contessa.
BWT: When did Contessa become a talk show host giving her opinion?
Comment by Richard W. — June 10, 2007 @ 10:55 pm
Contessa said she “was caught off guard.”..Hard to imagine isn’t it?
Comment by strider — June 10, 2007 @ 11:02 pm
Hmm, that “have you smoked anything today?” crack seemed close to the line considering she’s an anchor of a news broadcast. Sounded awfully arrogant and disrespectful to me.
Comment by lightswitch — June 10, 2007 @ 11:12 pm
This woman is a major disaster many people are amazed that she still has a job.
She should have been off the air long ago.
What excuse do they have to keep her on.
Comment by margaret t — June 10, 2007 @ 11:44 pm
Are you guys sure you’re not just piling on? I know she’s no Edward R. Olbermann, but she isn’t that bad, is she? Lots of anchors come up with ditzy statements, but she seems to be a favorite target.
BTW, I actually did see part of that segment. She just seemed very surprised that Chong was of that opinion; maybe her producers should have prepped her better for the position he was going to take.
Comment by Missy — June 11, 2007 @ 12:47 am
I usually skip the comments on posts like this, but no longer. Piling on? You bet they are Missy. I am no Contessa Brewer fan, but anyone who objectively looks at this clip has to acknowledge that Brewer holds her own and puts Chong in his place. I can see that those of you who already hate this woman can draw any conclusion you want; but next time you pile on, you may want to find something she actually does badly at.
Comment by erljr — June 11, 2007 @ 1:18 am
Poor Contessa Imus was so tough on her.
Comment by ChannelXRFR — June 11, 2007 @ 7:24 am
It is hard to figure out why she still has a job because she’s been consistently awful for years now, not just lately. She doesn’t have half the talent of, for instance, Alex Witt. Why are there no men news anchors on MSNBC? I loved Lester Holt. I get so sick of all the women.
Comment by mel — June 11, 2007 @ 9:20 am
You all know me and thereby know “I pulleth no puncheth” when it comes to sucker punching the anchor babes, but come on. Tessa did OK for Tessa. It ain’t easy communicating with “stoners”. Ever watch “COPS”? The WEED impairs the FEED to the brain thus starving the thought process. I agree that Tommy probably hadn’t smoked a thing….he probably just ATE a half pound of Maui Wowy, however.
Comment by Roger C. — June 11, 2007 @ 9:24 am
I rarely ever watch MSNBC, or CB for that matter. I could not even finish watching that clip. It was that bad.
That being said, I don’t think all the fault can be placed on CB. First of all, who had the brilliant idea of having Chong, of all people, there to commentate on Paris? He has NO CLUE what was going on in the situation or even the reasons why she was being called back to court and having to serve time. What a bad choice for a guest. HE was the moron here. Granted, the “have you smoked something today?” question was out of line, but I understand her frustration in just having to continue with the “conversation”.
While it may not have been her finest moment, it was hardly her fault.
Comment by jerziegrl — June 11, 2007 @ 10:26 am
Tommy thinks it is basically a vast right wing conspiracy that controls the media that is sending Paris to jail so to distract people from the problems of the Bush Administration and people are criticizing Brewer??
Comment by malone — June 11, 2007 @ 10:44 am
If you think that interview was bad, I saw one with I think her name is Alix on MSNBC, it was Friday afternoon. She had on Michael Musto and he said that ” When Paris got out, she could sign a used tampon with an X and sell it.” He said other crude things, and the host said nothing. I wish this woman would have atleast asked him to not talk like that on afternoon tv. It’s like MSNBC will never stand up for what is right.
Comment by shannon20 — June 11, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
I hardly ever watch MSNBC so I don’t know what other people’s previous problems with Contessa are, but I hardly think finding fault with this interview is “piling it on”. Are you folks honestly telling me that a reporter sarcastically asking a guest if he smoked anything today because his answer to a question “caught her off guard” isn’t extremely poor journalism style? I know the most popular cable news personalities are of the opinionated variety but that’s still not how proper straight journalists are supposed to treat guests, especially with such little provocation (she seemed to go from friendly to sour awfully quick). If you guys a few posts up are fans of hers and want to defend her that’s fine but people who critisize this interview are perfectly justified in doing so.
Comment by lightswitch — June 11, 2007 @ 2:15 pm
Why do you think Imus ran her a** off his show. He said she was the stupidest human he had ever been around. She is an idiot and needs to go back to some local broadcast selling cars.
Comment by bill — June 12, 2007 @ 3:28 am
I’ve always placed Contessa in the same league as Courtney Friel. Why is she always center stage when people like Milissa Rehberger and Alex Witt are relegated to weekends and late nights? Is it any wonder no one watches MSNBC? After all this time, Contessa is still like a deer in the headlights.
Comment by spiffo — June 12, 2007 @ 6:11 pm
Finally an MSNBC person is fair & balanced and doesn’t bash Republicans.. thank God
Comment by Chet — June 13, 2007 @ 11:03 am
Well, don’t get me wrong, I like Tommy Chong and all that, but you can’t exactly say that he offered up any persuasive or even cogent arguments. He just kind of trotted out some conspiracy theories, rambled a bit, and didn’t really score any points.
Comment by JS — June 14, 2007 @ 8:56 am
Honestly people, my read on the situation goes like so :
Chong goes into the interview knowing what he’ll be asked about, and sarcastically asks “what has she done?” e.g. : why they hell are we spending so much airtime on a rich girl with a DUI when there are so many actual items of news out there?
Did she kill someone? - Nope, obviously. More emphasis on the sensationalistic and useless airtime waste that this funbagless rich girl.
News anchor pulls out all the stops to divert him from poking fun at her network ON AIR. She’s not cool and collected, but she knows you can’t just let somebody point out how ridiculous this story is, as the network directive is to keep pumping it for ratings until it deflates…
Honestly… i have to ask. WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE CARE ABOUT PARIS HILTON?
Honestly. I can see hotter attention whores any night down at the bar. And likely, take them home.
Meanwhile, the news networks, supposed to be **TELLING US ACTUAL NEWS** arent.
Chong says “I can’t understand why this is”
then flops into a stupid st0ner conversation topic… right wing conspiracy.
News networks owned by republicans don’t conspire…
If you worked at a TV network owned by… (picking out of a hat…)
A Beef Baron (person with a kabillion dollars invested in cow meat) you would downplay the anti-cow stories, if your company is owned by a big businessman who profits from the current government, you aren’t gonna badmouth them. Not because a memo goes out, but because people all along the line instinctively brown-nose without being asked.
Honestly…
Comment by Joe X — June 14, 2007 @ 9:15 am