Watch This Kid Hijack CNN’s Important Kim Kardashian Live On-Location Report

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by Frances Martel | 4:47 pm, August 20th, 2011

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A CNN reporter unfortunate enough to have been sent to report live on location at some sort of street relevant to the wedding of sex tape/reality TV character Kim Kardashian probably already had it bad enough when prompted to deliver exciting news about this momentous affair. Her coverage became viral video material, however, as a child played the cruel but classic television trick of standing behind her for almost a minute, waving, making faces and generally distracting from the solemn news that the middle Kardashian child will officially be off the market today.

You really have to feel for Kareen Wynter, the reporter sent out to explain how Kardashian will go by “Mrs. Humphries” at home (apparently this is her husband’s name) and People magazine paid more than a million dollars for exclusive rights to wedding photos in this economy. And for those of you worried about poor Bruce Jenner, yes, he will get the dubious privilege of being the first to walk Kardashian down the aisle.

Thanks to the perils of live news shots, however, the otherwise Tim Pawlenty-level excitement factor of this story was eclipsed by the breakout star of the live shot circuit this year, this young child we estimate to be about 12 years old, who looks like he could star in a Little Rascals remake and has the patience of a praying mantis. He stands there for a good minute or so, sticking his tongue out, cheering, and just plain looking happy to be there. Wynter is completely oblivious to what is happening behind her, and it is never spoken of or acknowledged by the network afterwards (though we can assume off-camera that some parent out there is getting an earful).

The bizarre live TV moment via CNN below:

CNN, Kareen Wynter, Kid, Kim Kardashian, People Magazine

Nature Freak

The 12 years old is certainly more talented than Kim Kardashian. By far.

“Kardashian child will officially be off the market today.”

Kim will still be “prostituting” herself. Trust me.
Nature Freak

The 12 years old is certainly more talented than Kim Kardashian. By far.

“Kardashian child will officially be off the market today.”

Kim will still be “prostituting” herself. Trust me.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

It’s probably okay that while promoting Time-Warner’s People cover, the reporter mistakenly mentioned NBCU’s E! because in the clip, she doesn’t mention when the special episode will air and it will be after the magazine is released.

Of course that brings around the question of whether the kid was sent by Time-Warner to make the People plug viral, if he was paid by NBCU to throw the reporter off his game, or if he’s just a bored shopper from the strip mall by which she’s standing.
Anonymous

Worked with Kareen Wynter. My favorite question: Now there’s Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell- which one is Secretary of Defense, and which one is Secretary of State?
Anonymous

Did O’.J. Simpson get an invitation ?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

Hijack CNN ? no one watches CNN. Theirs nothing to hijack..
Anonymous

I’ve never understood. Why exactly is this pampered socialite twit famous ?
Did she cure cancer or something …?
The Real Royal Emperor

I’m only surprised Grea O’Van Susteren is not covering this. An interview with Ms. Kardashian was one of Greta’s big surprise, breaking news treats that went bust. Seems like most Americans don’t even know who Kim Kardashian is.
Nature Freak

I sometimes wish I did not know who Kim Kardashian is.

Damn you OJ Simpson! Damn you to hell! I blame you!
Nature Freak

I was 5 years old when Bruce Jenner won the Gold. He is in my earliest memories (my parents loved the Olympics).

So this is what it comes to. (Yes, I am melodramatic tonight)
Anonymous

She made an interracial sex tape. By modern values, to distinguish from that which would have happened in times past, it was decided she was to be rewarded in some fashion.

Consider this whole exercise of her fostered fame some sort of weird experiment in white guilt on a grand scale.
Susandownunder

Not a strip mall! Biltmore four seasons on Butterfly Beach in Montecito. A local hangout, despite the Four Seasons,
cdnhawk

I don’t know which is funnier, the kid or the fact that CNN thinks that this wedding is something its viewers need to know about.
Moderate

Without the benefit of editors filtering out the stupid, media people are just as stupid as the people they criticize.
Anonymous

Lindsay Lohan was invited? Is anyone missing any jewelry? Did they pass out little bottles of hand sanitizer to the guests? Was anyone forced to kiss the bride (ugh). Is she giving away copies of her sex tape with that black guy if you buy some of her Klothes from the Kardashian Kollection? You probably would have had a better time if you went to the NFL game, unless you got beat up in the stands or shot outside in the parking lot. I thought the Libs in Kalifornia only fired blanks at pre-season games, bada bing, rim shot.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SI5NXALBPMGH5A7BLRV6GWW3BM Jim

That was one of the funniest things I’ve seen lately. Good for that little kid! Doing for CNN what needs to be done to CNN.
Ccrazyhorz

This is an expensive PUBLICITY stunt. And the couple will only be MARRIED for a short time, WATCH/WAIT and see…. What a way to get ATTENTION…. & then Ryan Seacrest with all his FEMININE charm.
Anonymous

Does anyone REALLY care about these people? OK.
Jadd

Wow. I’d sure prefer to watch that little kid than that nasty looking reporter. Kim something? Yuck!
Anonymous

I didn’t see anything that funny or unusual. Just a little ill-mannered jerk of a kid nearly in the street with some nowhere to be found, poor excuse for a parent letting their offspring run amock.
LibelFreeZone

Ever notice how media’s favorite word is “bizarre?” Retire it, already, and find another word to represent the unusual.

Um, mayhem? The youngster was in his own neighborhood. The reporter was the interloper.
Anonymous

Too bad the kid was so short…we missed some funny moves because the CNN banner at the bottom of the screen blocked it…
Fern Cohen

I think he’s where he’s supposed to be — in jail!!
Fern Cohen

Tell me you’re kidding……..A kid very humorously hijacks a report of something that shouldn’t even be news……so another Hollywood ho is having a farce of a wedding [she got famous from a sex tape and because her father defended OJ], and you call the kid “ill-mannered”? Most of the people in that mansion attending the wedding were ill-mannered [to put it politely]
Fern Cohen

Does anyone remember Andrew Giuliani’s hijinks standing behind his father while the elder Giuliani was making a speech. Also a great moment!! Giuliani’s another one who deserves to be “hjacked”. yay for those kids!!
Anonymous

How absolutely marvelous – the two insipid, churlish and silly events (the who-cares wedding and child-in-background) cancel each other out, and the screen simply goes blissfully blank. Wonderful!
Hagen619dj

All the hype over this family is really amazing. Not sure why they have received all this attention. Their daddy was well known but the rest…………….bah humbug. Total waste of time.
Michael T.

Mediaite would have been well served to let the video run long enough for us to hear the comments from the show’s anchor when she tossed it back to her/him. It had to be pretty embarrassing even though the young kid’s facial expressions speak precisely to what many of us feel about the Kardashian’s … especially Kim – the most unlikable IMO.
expatpatriot

I read “Kardashian” and “important” in the same headline and nearly choked on a bagel.
TruDat

The kid made more sense.
Anonymous

I love that kid. Instinctively he knows this is fake news for the stupid and the brain dead, so he had fun. He should get an Emmy.

He was far and away the most interesting part of this mindless and unnecessary report.