rawstory.com — nterrupting his interview with CNN's Miles O'Brien and looking toward backstage, Black demanded, CNN to take down the banner from the bottome of the screen. CNN promptly removed the banner and the ticker from the screen for the remainder of Black's interview.
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everdrknJul 13, 2006
This is not the first time Lewis Black told CNN, over the air, to take off that stupid ticker. I think it was about two years ago around 2 or 3 in the afternoon where Kyra Phillips was interviewing him about something, I think it was another book. When he told CNN, shortly into the interview, to take off the ticker and S&P crap. He said, along the lines, that no one cares what the S&P number is.I'll try to find the video of that interview...
everdrknJul 13, 2006
Hmm I couldn't find the video however I found the transcript of the interview...<a class="user" href="http://robots.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/21/lol.01.html">http://robots.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/21/lol.01.html</a> (Scroll down 3/4 of the page down to read interview)(COMMERCIAL BREAK)PHILLIPS: Well, you think you have problems. Well, you think you're sick of cell phones, and politics and stupidity of all stripes? Well, we've got your man. You've seen him on the "Daily Show," on HBO, on Broadway, and now in print with the brand-new book "Nothing's Sacred," and now America's foremost commentator on everything. He's very opinionated, shall we say? Lewis Black joins us live in the flesh.Nothing sacred, really?LEWIS BLACK, COMEDIAN/AUTHOR: Well, no, that means everything is sacred. That's what nothing sacred means, but if you wrote a book called "Everything's Sacred," who is going to buy it?PHILLIPS: That's true. People would want to read about nothing is sacred.BLACK: Well, the secret, but -- look patriotism, religion, when they get a little too full of themselves, things get out of control. So you kind of have to...PHILLIPS: Are you full of yourself?BLACK: Probably. I'm disturbingly so.PHILLIPS: People say you're disturbingly a very angry man, but you don't cross me as a very angry man.BLACK: If I was like the way I am on television all the time, I'd be dead, OK?PHILLIPS: Are you behaving yourself right now?BLACK: I'm being really good.PHILLIPS: You're being really good.BLACK: Yes.PHILLIPS: And we're not going to use any bad four-letter words.BLACK: No.PHILLIPS: It's a challenge for both of us.BLACK: I know. They're watching you, and they're thinking, oh, she's so sweet. I've been here a while, don't even think about it, OK? She's literally, two seconds away from a complete meltdown, all right? These story comes in, she acts like she's in control...PHILLIPS: And I've meditated for two minutes, you know. You mediate that's how you relax, right?BLACK: No, no, I do a different form of meditation, we can't discuss that, can we?PHILLIPS: Do you ever relax?BLACK: What's that mean? What's relax?Yes, I do, I play golf. That isn't relaxing.PHILLIPS: Oh, hello. That's probably the most stressful sport. I mean, I can't get through 18 holes without throwing a few clubs.BLACK: Well, no, I've gotten pretty good at it. But really all that is, it's a game for obsessive compulsives.PHILLIPS: That's true.BLACK: It really is.PHILLIPS: That would definitely be. I can relate to that.BLACK: It distracts me.PHILLIPS: Speaking of obsessive and compulsive, let's talk a few issue here. Do you watch CNN?BLACK: Yes.PHILLIPS: You do?BLACK: I do.PHILLIPS: What do you think of us?BLACK: I like you.PHILLIPS: You do?BLACK: OK, here's something...PHILLIPS: You like me or you like CNN?BLACK: I love you, And Wolf is...PHILLIPS: Oh, Wolf loves you. Don't even get me...BLACK: I think Wolf's gay for me.PHILLIPS: Really, I thought it was a I Jewish thing.BLACK: And we're thinking of adopting.PHILLIPS: Really?BLACK: I'm only saying it here for the first time.PHILLIPS: Wolf, I need you to call in. BLACK: This is what's got to be stopped and this is my opportunity to say it. See this thing at the bottom of the screen -- stop it!PHILLIPS: In a black mood?BLACK: New York City, 60, nobody cares. You're supposed to be looking at me, not San Francisco 70 -- where do you live who are you, huh, you're in Des Moines, do you care? No. Get rid of the scroll...PHILLIPS: We lost the ticker.BLACK: Thank you. Get rid it.And do we need the Nasdaq, or whatever that is, Standard & Poor's? Why don't you remind me that we're broke?PHILLIPS: You know what, we're losing that. Anything else we want to lose here?BLACK: OK, I feel better now.PHILLIPS: Do you feel all right?BLACK: Yes, I do.PHILLIPS: You want to lose in a black mood too? You want to lose that?BLACK: No, that I can live with.PHILLIPS: You can handle that.BLACK: Yes, because obviously the audience needs to be told.PHILLIPS: You told me you're ADD, your overly compulsive, and you don't want all the added -- we've got to take a break -- can we come back...BLACK: How, what?PHILLIPS: We got to make money, pal. You know what that means.BLACK: Well, buy something.PHILLIPS: We're going to a quick break.We promise Wolf Blitzer is not gay.We'll be right back.(COMMERCIAL BREAK)PHILLIPS: Still having fun with Lewis Black, he's still here, he doesn't hate me, we haven't killed each other; we're talking about his book "Nothing is Sacred." We have about two minutes. Can we get deep, and in depth, and down in your soul and find out what really makes you tick in two minutes?BLACK: Yes, sure, why not.PHILLIPS: You went to Yale. That was pretty interesting.BLACK: I went to the drama school, which is different. Yale is hard. The drama school is sissy, OK?PHILLIPS: Why drama school?BLACK: I guess I was this far away from being kind of fruity. I wanted to see what I was like -- I was a playwright...PHILLIPS: Forty plays, right?BLACK: Forty plays, and I guess I wanted to have the same sense of what it would be like if I made what a migrant worker makes in a year.PHILLIPS: Am I ever going to see anything on Broadway?BLACK: If I keep getting a name as comedian, maybe then they'll do one of my plays on Broadway. Right now -- they did one in Los Angeles last year. And doing a play in Los Angeles is much like standing around in Soviet Russia during the '30s and talking about freedom.PHILLIPS: Speaking of freedom. You watch CNN.BLACK: I watch CNN.PHILLIPS: You were mentioning you were a great fan.BLACK: I am.PHILLIPS: What do you think of Fox News?BLACK: I think Fox News -- you know, I am surprised, to be honest with you when -- Fox News is so much about being everything is OK, don't worry, it's like 1984, everything is all right, don't worry, keep moving, keep moving, don't look around. When the pope died, I actually thought they were going to come out with an announcement he was going to be alive again in three days. It's not a problem, he'll be back, we promise you. We're Fox, we never lie.PHILLIPS: You would have been an interesting pope.BLACK: I would have been a perfect pope. They need a Jewish pope, you know? Because basically...PHILLIPS: Why is that?BLACK: Well, because All of these people coming, complaining, and I would go, you think you had a bad day, live my life. PHILLIPS: Oy vey."Nothing Sacred" is the book. Obviously you and I could keep going and going.BLACK: That would disturb the whole network.PHILLIPS: That's right, and we don't want to do that. OK, no Wolf. Bummer. I tried to get Wolf on the line, but he says he's reading your book so he didn't have time.BLACK: Very good.PHILLIPS: Will you come back?BLACK: I will, absolutely, whenever I'm back -- you guy can get me on a feed. You've got this new big building.PHILLIPS: This is for you. I got you a special autographed edition. That's just for you.More LIVE FROM...BLACK: Excellent. I need this. He wouldn't give me a picture. He didn't want any evidence.PHILLIPS: More LIVE FROM. I don't blame the guy. We'll be right back.
jbenson2Jul 13, 2006
Sounds like he is drunk and angry about something.
timdorrJul 13, 2006
This is the 2nd time they've removed it. This was recorded just today or yesterday (based on the Haliburton thing).
dignonJul 13, 2006
I hate the way they use the tag at the bottom of the screen to take some quote from the guest, completely out of context, that frames the way that the viewer is going to perceive the guest. They do it constantly - usually attempting to make anyone that is in the least bit liberal to look stupid - its so obvious and infuriating. Even in this rather benign interview they use "Lewis Black - "Nothing's sacred" ", for example. Seriously, is that valuable?!? Lose it. Permanently.
david76Jul 15, 2006
@spadderI wasn't talking about the stock ticker, tard. Above the ticker during some news stories they have a "lozenge" with text inside it, and they have these rings that pulse back and forth across the "lozenge".