She didnt mean to say monkey, she meant to say Chimpy McHitler.

What doesn’t kill you, only makes you pissed off. -Children of Bodom  

Another example of a cute newreader letting us all know why she is only a cute newsreader.  What a lack of intellect and class.

How mature and professional of your reporter Erin Burnett to refer to The President of the US as a "monkey" while reading a story about France and China's financial talks.

Do you have any on-air conduct standards or is it left to be like the cafeteeria at a high school?

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back!  Fred08.com

The next check she is collecting should be from the unemployment office.

If Burnett said this on the air in the US, what did she say with the cameras off when she was abroad?

Could the moonbats please remind me why the "world" supposedly hates America again?  (sarc on) I'm sure it couldn't possibly be based on idiots like Burnett jetsetting around spewing this kind of derisive language (sarc off).

(More sarc) Maybe Burnett was just caught up in the new spirit of bipartisanship and civility the dems promised us in '06 (more sarc off).

Or perhaps Burnett is swallowing the Ambien with Kool-Aid.

What a partisan moron.  No wonder Chris Matthews drools over Burnett.

This was an innappropriate on-air comment.  I may not be a Bill Clinton fan but I would not go on-air and call him "Leg Humper" even though he has groped, squeezed and humped a variety of women since marrying Hilary.  It would be disrespectful to the office of the president and to our nation. 

As I recall, sportscaster Howard Cosell was fired for calling someone a "little monkey" while calling a football play.  Those that knew Cosell did not think he was making a racial epithet, but he was fired none the less.  Should his estate now be given back wages because "monkey" is OK to say now?

I think it would be a hard sell to alledge that Burnett was not using "monkey" as an overt reference to the Left's moniker for Bush:  Chimpy McHitler.  Burnett is a financial reporter/analyst, a position that infers a level of intelligence that should be able to discern blatent partisanship, offensive rhetoric and the ability to keep that type of bile out of on-air dialogue.  Maybe her psychological need to be noticed and liked, or the Left's recent emboldened behaviours, culminated in her innappropriate comment.  It certainly should be approached as a type of Rorschach test into the psyche and or political leanings of Burnett.  This does not burnish her stature or trustworthiness as financial reporter/analyst.

To those who contrive that this was just playful banter, if Hilary Clinton were to become president, would it be acceptable to refer to her as a "bitch" on-air in a similar situation?  Some things are never appropriate no matter how others care to spin.

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

Another classic example of our left-wing media casually insulting (sophomoronically sic) our Commander-in-Chief and our allies in a time of war. What a scumbag. The best part is how unaware she is, she has no clue she is even doing anything wrong. And she has no worry of any possible repercussions because she knows her fellow lefties will never cover it. Besides, this is how we talk in the newsroom...no bias though.

...can you imagine the outrage if someone at FOX had called Hillary or Pelosi a monkey?

Reading the transcript and seeing the picture, I'm left to ponder how the lovely Ms. Burnett got her big time network gig. It must be her obviously unbiased, objective ability to read the news and not editoralize, right? :-)

That's all i have to say.  Anybody remember him and how he got fired.

Here was a guy who had done more in the world of sports broadcasting to further race relations at a time when it really was a problem.

Where's her headscarf?