Listen to the man talking
Humorous open-mic moment on CNN (and I hope you read that in James Earl Jones' voice: "See-En-En") that of course none of us saw, but was well reported in the press. If you want to watch the clip it's here. During live coverage of President Bush's comforting remarks from New Orleans one year on from Katrina, a fruity-seeming anchor called Kyra Phillips (where was Wolf Blitzer?) went to the "bathroom" with her lapel microphone still on, and while Bush droned pointlessly on, her conversation with a female co-worker went out live at 12:49pm EDT, whatever that is.

Phillips: "... assholes. Yeah, I'm very lucky in that regard with my husband. My husband is handsome and he is genuinely a loving, you know, no ego [unintelligible], you know what I'm saying. Just 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."
Unidentified woman: "We'll see. He's going to come, you know, he's set for an extended visit [unintelligible]"
Phillips: "I mean, that's, that's how you figure it all out, those extended visits. [laughter] ... Brother, of course, brothers have to be, you know, protective. Except for mine. I've got to be protective of him ... Yeah. He's married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak."
Unidentified woman: "Kyra!"
Phillips: "Yeah, baby!"

Another newsreader, Daryn Kagan, jumped in to rescue the situtation:

Kagan: "Alright, we've been listening in to President Bush as he speaks in, uh, New Orleans today [Oh no we haven't!]. This is the one year anniversary of Katrina making land shore there. President Bush saying if another natural disaster hits, our country, we must, uh, react better than that. Let's listen in once again to President Bush."

Boo! Put the gossipy ladies back on! I found a transcript of this, by accident, on a right-wing US forum, which prides itself on "exposing and combating liberal media bias." (Yeah, there's too much of that in America.) Not much for the right wing nutcases to chew on here, other than the misfortune of a woman on an apparently liberal news channel, so they say. This gentleman had a go, though:

"For crying out loud, that is an awful lot of conversation before someone reacted. And these people pick on Bush for waiting for the all clear before he left the school on 9/11 and they can't even turn off a mike in a reasonable amount of time?"

Yeah, baby! Exposed. And combated.