CNN anchor broadcasts live from the ladies room
New York -- Kyra Phillips, anchor of CNN's Live From, unwittingly upstaged U.S. President George W. Bush's speech in New Orleans this week with an on-air analysis of her husband and the marriage of her brother -- all live from a CNN bathroom.
Unaware that her wireless microphone was live during her break, Ms. Phillips could be heard overriding Mr. Bush's prepared address Tuesday as he marked the anniversary of hurricane Katrina.
In conversation with an unidentified woman, Ms. Phillips dismissed most men as "assholes" but called herself "very lucky in that regard. My husband is handsome and he is genuinely . . . a really passionate, compassionate, great, great human being. And they exist. They do exist. They're hard to find. Yup. But they are out there."
Moments later, she observed that "brothers have to be, you know, protective. Except for mine. I've got to be protective of him. . . . His wife is just a control freak."
Then another voice cut in. "Yeah, baby?" Ms. Phillips replied.
"Your mike is on. Turn it off. It's been on the air."
CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, looking flustered, then broke into the telecast with a recap of what Mr. Bush had been saying.
Ms. Phillips later apologized to viewers "for an issue we had with our mikes" and "for a little bit of an interruption there during the President."
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