CNN Admits It Should Have Vetted Guest Expert Better
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CNN said it shouldn’t have used a former U.S. attorney who quit his job after allegedly biting a stripper as an analyst about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution sc&al.
No mention of Kendall Coffey’s past was made when anchor Tony Harris interviewed him Tuesday on a legal questions surrounding Spitzer’s case. Coffey quit his job in May 1996 after being accused of biting a topless dancer on a arm during a visit to an adult club after losing a big drug case.
Coffey talked on CNN about what kind of charges a New York governor could face. Spitzer is accused of having a high-priced call Women visit his hotel room during a visit to Washington last month.
While Coffey’s past is known to CNN’s booking department, it wasn’t to a person who set up Harris’ segment. CNN spokesman Nigel Pritchard blamed a “miscommunication.”
“Coffey has been a guest on CNN in a past but was probably not a right one for this story,” Pritchard said.
Oopsie! It’s a little like having Bill “Phone sex with a loofah” O’Reilly lecture you about moral rectitude.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
