CNN's Kyra Phillips Jokes About Making "Reverse Oreo" With Black Cohost Don Lemon

This afternoon, CNN "Open House" host Gerri Willis came by CNN Newsroom to discuss the economy. Willis joked with anchor Kyra Phillips that if she could predict the stock market, she and Phillips could run off to an island, prompting Phillips' co-anchor, Don Lemon, to ask not to be left out of the girls' getaway. This resulted in the following exchange:

Gerri: Alright Don, you come too.
Kyra: We could bring him along with the girls.
Gerri: Come on!
Kyra: He's paying! Thanks, Gerri.
Don: A little sandwich!
Kyra: Ooh!
Gerri: Whoa, I have to go now!
Kyra: Yeah, good time. You don't want to talk about the reverse oreo!

Willis was visibly embarrassed by Phillips' joke, though Lemon seemed to enjoy it, laughing out loud and announcing, "Oh, she said it! I'm glad she said it."

Watch:

Kyra Phillips and Gerri Willis transformed a segment on the economy into a racially tinged, awkward moment by joking about making a "reverse oreo" with black co-host Don Lemon. Watch! http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1396519189http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1178199204

From CNN, 1/30

Previously: Kyra Phillips' microphone remains on, streaming her bathroom conversation (about her brother and sister-in-law) over a Bush speech.

Comments

[puunjab]

She's talking about a 3 way. Not the racist implication of OREO Cookie. That would involve two people normally.

For her to say reverse oreo must mean White Woman On Top of Black Man on Top of White Woman.

As far as I can tell that description has no racial specific implications on her part. I think she was making a bad sex joke and the racial implications are more of an accident.

[ArtCarnage]

Pretty funny. And a complete NON-STORY.

Move on. Nothing to see here.

[musselmanm]

Many of you should have that stick removed from your ass!

[SNS]

SanFran1 wrote: "If a conservative said it. The shit would have hit he fan. "
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That's true. That's because conservatives are notoriously documented as being anti black. Liberals, for the most part, have a good track record in regards to looking out for black interests, although that has changed in recent years with so many liberals unknowingly being pulled to the right on race issues (being sold on Sharpton and Jackson being more racist than Imus, Richards, or Chapman, which is absurd.)

Double standards are part of reality. The kid who gets good grades gets away with playing hooky while the D student gets nailed. That's life. Surely your parents taught you this?

[ebowles603]

"OREO" HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED BY BLACKS TO MEAN A PERSON WHO IS BLACK ON THE OUTSIDE BUT WHITE ON THE INSIDE, I.E., CONFUSED. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE'S SEX PARTNERS OR PREFERENCES. AND KYRA PHILLIPS TAKES TOO MANY LIBERTIES.

[maniswil1]

Perhaps we all should laugh, and afterall, CNN is just an entertainment channel. Or well a news network but either way it was better then another britney shaves her nanni out in public... Huffpost... Please something with content, or maybe with an injection with a mild comical portion. I was already high but you left me dry.

[Fernando]

I for one thought that was funny.

[mooph]

And no one's up in arms over the sexually laden "sandwich" comment?

[tgood]

Excuse me but before the "racists are here tirade begins", OREO is a slur the black community uses when referring to biracial relationships between men and women or if a person has mixed heritage.

[NorthernCross]

If two white women ever said that to me, I'd be pissed. Or flattered. I dunno, maybe in between the two. Like a sandwich.

Woowoowoooo

[Advocate123]

Can everyone just laugh please. This is funny. Please. Do yourself a favor and just laugh.

[LoRiseAntlers]

Kyra and Don see to be really hitting it off lately.I watched a Robin Meade podcast recently where th two of them wee all over one another.

[SanFran1]

If a conservative said it. The shit would have hit he fan. Typical Libtard hypocrites at the Cornhole Nitwit Network.

[rh654]

That was pretty funny stuff.

[helonias]

I don't get it.

Does he have 2 peckers?