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CNN: Asking the "tough" questions

Published Monday, June 19, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

I saw back-to-back ads this morning for CNN programming that, well, let me just describe it: The first ad was for tonight's Larry King Live, in which Charlie Rose supposedly talks openly about his recent brush with death and then answers "the tough questions." Um, but he's going to be on Larry King, right? There are no tough questions on Larry King? Unless, by tough, you mean Charlie Rose has to keep up with King's doddering, meandering stream of consciousness. Let's hope King remembers who Rose is. Then, the second ad, this one for Anderson Cooper's exclusive interview, previewing tonight and airing Tuesday, with Angelina Jolie. But it was the clip they decided to show this morning that really took the cake and shoved it down my throat to the point at which I vomited it back up in my mouth. Cooper's question to Angelina: What was it like to give birth for the first time? If only we knew what it was like for Angelina to give birth. It must be so different from the way mere mortal mothers give birth. Let's imagine, shall we?