Connie Chung, what did she say

[OUHOMER]

When she was here after the bombing. I know she was asked to leave, but i can not remember exactly what she said.

[hurricane'bone]

A few months later, in the wake of the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Chung asked an Oklahoma City Fire Department spokesman, “Can the Oklahoma City Fire Department handle this?” Many viewers, particularly those in Oklahoma City, felt the question was insensitive to the situation. Thousands of viewers in Oklahoma and elsewhere called and wrote letters of protest over the tone of the questions. Moreover, co-anchor Dan Rather was irate that Chung was sent from New York to the assignment while he was already in nearby Texas. Consequently, after public outcry, and Rather's complaints, Chung was laid off as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News and was offered a demotion to weekend anchor or morning anchor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Chung#Oklahoma_City_Bombing_interview_sinks _anchor

[Dio]

seems to me it was more like "Can Oklahoma City handle this?"

[OUTromBoNado]

I thought she also said something along the lines of, "Oklahomans are nothing but a bunch of beer drinking, pickup driving hicks."

I could be wrong about that, but that quote sticks in my mind.

[goingoneight]

Are people really that retarded to believe we're still cowboys and indians?

[Dio]

...then she put on a Walter Cronkite mask and yelled "Hook Em Whorns!"

Bitch!

[olevetonahill]

Are people really that retarded to believe we're still cowboys and indians?
We`re Not ? :eek:

[silverwheels]

Are people really that retarded to believe we're still cowboys and indians?

Well, this is America...

[Soonerus]

She said that and it was very inappropriate, I had kind of forgotten about it...I now dislike her again...

[Zbird]

I thought she also said something along the lines of, "Oklahomans are nothing but a bunch of beer drinking, pickup driving hicks."

I could be wrong about that, but that quote sticks in my mind.


No, that was former governor Frank Bleating

[SicEmBaylor]

Are people really that retarded to believe we're still cowboys and indians?
I'm willing to bet they are. I have like a cousin who married this guy she met in college and moved to Hoboken, NJ. Well, my mother ordered flowers for her on some occasion and she was giving the woman our billing address and my hand to God (well according to my mother) the New Jersey florist asks her, "Is Oklahoma a state?"

[King Crimson]

when i was in college we used to have a TV religion based on Connie Chung, James Tiberious Kirk and Wheatsworth crackers.

[royalfan5]

I'm willing to bet they are. I have like a cousin who married this guy she met in college and moved to Hoboken, NJ. Well, my mother ordered flowers for her on some occasion and she was giving the woman our billing address and my hand to God (well according to my mother) the New Jersey florist asks her, "Is Oklahoma a state?"
Hell, I had an rural Oklahoman ask me if we had indoor plumbing in Nebraska.

[OU Adonis]

when i was in college we used to have a TV religion based on Connie Chung, James Tiberious Kirk and Wheatsworth crackers.

Didn't get laid much in college did ya?

[olevetonahill]

I aint wasting anymore Of my Comedy on this thread:eek:

[King Crimson]

Didn't get laid much in college did ya?

i did pretty good for myself. thanks for yer concern, though.

[SicEmBaylor]

Hell, I had an rural Oklahoman ask me if we had indoor plumbing in Nebraska.
Do you? :confused: :confused:

[royalfan5]

Do you? :confused: :confused:
Of Course. Nebraska isn't a poor state.

[SanJoaquinSooner]

back in the day, Connie Chung was hot

http://images.salon.com/people/rewind/1999/07/10/chung/cov_chung.jpg

[BigRedJed]

Uh...

[SicEmBaylor]

Out.
But, I bet GHP digs her.

[OUHOMER]

I thought she also said something along the lines of, "Oklahomans are nothing but a bunch of beer drinking, pickup driving hicks."

I could be wrong about that, but that quote sticks in my mind.

I was also thinking she said something a long these lines.

[OU4LIFE]

Of Course. Nebraska isn't a poor state.

so now you're saying only the rich people get plumbing??

[VeeJay]

Rather got her demoted?

Then went on to claim forged documents as the Real McCoy in an attempt to sway the election to Kerry.

Oh, the humanity!

[BU BEAR]

VeeJay,

That was Mike Nifong's plan all along. To show such careless disregard for the truth that he would be a candidate to be the next SEE-BS anchor.

[CobraKai]

I'm willing to bet they are. I have like a cousin who married this guy she met in college and moved to Hoboken, NJ. Well, my mother ordered flowers for her on some occasion and she was giving the woman our billing address and my hand to God (well according to my mother) the New Jersey florist asks her, "Is Oklahoma a state?"

I was calling our company's VP of sales (in NYC) once and got his secretary. She was making small talk and asked "what do you guys do for fun in Oklahoma? Go to the beach?" I said "no, we don't have any nearby." She said "you ain't got no oceans in Oklahoma?" I responded, "No. You ain't got no globes in New York?"

It is typical big city mentality though. I worked for a consulting firm out of college. I literally traveled the world and worked for some of the premium A-list companies you've ever heard of. I visited my old OU roommate in Chicago, when I was there on a business trip. We went out with his friends and one of them bragged about the fact that he was born in Chicago and in his entire life has never ventured more than 20 miles from the spot he was born. He then made several snide remarks through the evening about him being more worldly and cultured, me being from Oklahoma and all. I was like..."20 miles huh."

[r5TPsooner]

Are people really that retarded to believe we're still cowboys and indians?


Having just moved here from the north and having offered several people a job in Oklahoma with the move being paid for... the answer is a resounding YES! Out of the nine people that were offered, four made the move and the other five wouldn't even make the all expense paid visit. Not to mention that they were going to be making nearly $20k more and the cost of living is like 14% cheaper in Oklahoma. Not to mention that you get much more house for the money in Oklahoma that you do in most parts of the country. The wife and I just laughed at there stupid asses.

Reasons & excuses we received were quite interesting:

No ice fishing for the spouse
Oklahoma is too flat
No trees or vegetation
Nothing to do there
No main attractions for entertainment
No decent restaurants and/or shopping
Tornados
Heat

I can understand a few, but some of these people thought that Oklahomans were still using horse and buggies to get from point A to point B. Plus, they were semi-educated as well.

[Petro-Sooner]

[QUOTE=r5TPsooner]
No decent restaurants and/or shopping
[QUOTE]

What? We have Ryan's steakhouse and Wal-Mart.

:twinkies:

[Boomer_Sooner_sax]

I still like when Connie Chugn grunted to get off of the piano when she was singing!! CLASSIC!

[CobraKai]

That reminds me of my old roommate at the time. After the Chung fiasco he used to always say he had to go take a Connie and wipe his Chung. :)

[OUTromBoNado]

Are people really that retarded to believe we're still cowboys and indians?

Absolutely. The worst thing you can ever do in the Northeast is ask for a Dr. Pepper or say, "Y'all." I did that in NYC when I was there 1997. Suddenly, I became a bigger tourist attraction than the Empire State Building, Broadway, and Times Square combined. They thought that I had to carry a six-shooter when I went to school just in case of an Indian raid.

Until I made that trip to NYC, no one had ever told me that I had an accent. I found out then, especially when I'm tired, just how bad my accent is.:texan:

[SicEmBaylor]

Here's the first mistake you people made, you went north of the Mason-Dixon line. Absolutely, NOTHING positive comes from our northern brethren. Sometimes I wish we had our very own country.......hmmmmmmm.

[Frozen Sooner]

Are people really that retarded to believe we're still cowboys and indians?

Do you have any idea how many times in college I was asked in seriousness whether my family lived in an iglu or we used dogsled to get around?

[Frozen Sooner]

Here's the first mistake you people made, you went north of the Mason-Dixon line. Absolutely, NOTHING positive comes from our northern brethren. Sometimes I wish we had our very own country.......hmmmmmmm.

Sometimes I wish you had your very own country also. Not the South. I like a lot about the South. Just you.

[Taxman71]

I was in Vegas 15 years ago and the other people at the blackjack table asked if we had bars and restaurants in Oklahoma and if coyotes ever steal small children like they had heard...seriously, they weren't kidding. Some think nothing has changed since The Grapes of Wrath.

[Taxman71]

And back on topic, I think Connie asked the old OKC FD Chief (Jennifer Reynolds' ex) how he felt about finally having "competent" help after FEMA and other national groups came to OKC to help. He said OKC FD et al. were more than competent and Mrs. Povich actually repeated the "competent" word again.

[BigRedJed]

I can't remember the exact wording, but it was obvious at the time that she was really marginalizing the local effort and expressing disdain for the idea that OKC could respond to the tragedy. The comments were made at the very moment of the OCFD's finest hour, a moment in which they set a national standard for emergency/disaster response that is used as lesson material for emergency responders around the world to this day.

The other thing that privately didn't set well with a lot of folks is that she refused to get out of her limousine except to do live shots.

[OSUAggie]

http://www.bookrags.com/Connie_Chung#br_1

".... few months later, in the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Chung asked a city official, “Can you people in Oklahoma handle something this big and disastrous?” Many Oklahomans responded in protest over the statement, which they viewed as patronizing, and Chung was let go as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News in response."

[BigRedJed]

I don't think that got the essence of the complaint. Read straight from the page, it seems like a pretty neutral statement. If I remember right, the tone in which it was uttered was not open to much interpretation.

[NYSooner1355]

I'm willing to bet they are. I have like a cousin who married this guy she met in college and moved to Hoboken, NJ. Well, my mother ordered flowers for her on some occasion and she was giving the woman our billing address and my hand to God (well according to my mother) the New Jersey florist asks her, "Is Oklahoma a state?"

please, I've heard some mighty-*** ignorant things coming from Okies upon learning I'm from NY...ignorance knows no borders...

[CobraKai]

Do you have any idea how many times in college I was asked in seriousness whether my family lived in an iglu or we used dogsled to get around?

Well, do you? ;)

[Scott D]

Having just moved here from the north and having offered several people a job in Oklahoma with the move being paid for... the answer is a resounding YES! Out of the nine people that were offered, four made the move and the other five wouldn't even make the all expense paid visit. Not to mention that they were going to be making nearly $20k more and the cost of living is like 14% cheaper in Oklahoma. Not to mention that you get much more house for the money in Oklahoma that you do in most parts of the country. The wife and I just laughed at there stupid asses.

Reasons & excuses we received were quite interesting:

No ice fishing for the spouse
Oklahoma is too flat
No trees or vegetation
Nothing to do there
No main attractions for entertainment
No decent restaurants and/or shopping
Tornados
Heat

I can understand a few, but some of these people thought that Oklahomans were still using horse and buggies to get from point A to point B. Plus, they were semi-educated as well.

so how come jaux offered me a job in PA. but you never offered me a job. I hate Michigan. :mad:

[OSUAggie]

I don't think that got the essence of the complaint. Read straight from the page, it seems like a pretty neutral statement. If I remember right, the tone in which it was uttered was not open to much interpretation.

It was a condescending tone laced with doubt about the ability of anybody in Oklahoma to handle any sort of disastrous situation due to the fact that we're ****ing retarded little pieces of white trash that eat mayonnaise sandwiches and **** our sisters while listening John Cougar Mellencamp records. Or something of the like.

[CobraKai]

It was a condescending tone laced with doubt about the ability of anybody in Oklahoma to handle any sort of disastrous situation due to the fact that we're ****ing retarded little pieces of white trash that eat mayonnaise sandwiches and **** our sisters while listening John Cougar Mellencamp records. Or something of the like.

Classic... :)

All the while the joke is on her. After all, she was the one married to Maurie Povich.