WTF CNN's British Accented "Expert" Richard Quest???

[NYC_SKP]

I loathe him, they call him and aviation expert but I think they call him a different kind of expert with each passing week.

I guess it's the accent that gives him such a tone of authority.

So I Googled him, couldn't get past this story from a couple years back, "a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals":

Richard Quest, CNN Reporter, Arrested On Drug Charges



CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park early yesterday with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot, law-enforcement sources said.[...]

Quest was initially busted for loitering, the source said. Aside from the oddly configured rope, the search also turned up a sex toy inside of his boot, and a small bag of methamphetamine in his left jacket pocket.

It wasn't immediately clear what the rope was for.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/richard-quest-cnn-reporte_n_97466.html

I repeat...

Expert, yes or no???

[DetlefK]

1. I assumed, it takes a degree in aircraft-engineering to be an aviation-expert.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Good grief!

[okaawhatever]

3. Oh, I remember that guy. Wow. Didn't know what happened to him. nt

[spanone]

4. a tabloid reporter at best...or worse

[Tom Ripley]

8. And a tabloid story. He's a renaissance man, I tell ya!

[Tom Ripley]

5. Superfreak

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. He's from Liverpool. Is he supposed to have a German accent?

[Blue_Tires]

11. He's talking in Scouse?

[yuiyoshida]

7. Maybe he is an expert in Aviation Knots?

NY Skip

[Enrique]

9. what does that story have to do with his expertise?

i'm speaking as someone who has never seen him nor heard of him until now.

But I wonder, what does his arrest have to do with his qualifications regarding stories about airplanes?

[Blue_Tires]

12. +1...Just seems like true-but-embarrassing stuff

[Bluenorthwest]

24. It's supposed to make him seem very gay and 'otherish'

Lots of that sort of sentiment has come to the fore on DU recently. 'Look, he does not have missionary position wife sex, he must be without human value'.

[enlightenment]

27. Apparently.

And apparently Quest deserves extra "ick" points for having a British accent - the fact that he is British notwithstanding.

The OP says more about the poster than the subject of the post.

[Jesus Malverde]

31. So true.

It's partially the LGBTQ movements fault for focusing on and idealizing marriage, while ignoring the persecution of those who cruise or are otherwise not "mainstream".

[840high]

26. Nothing.

[Octafish]

10. Future Head of Fox News

This guy is a right fit to the culture where Roger Ailes is said to have offered hundreds extra each month to one comely staffer in exchange for sex.

[itsrobert]

13. Looks like he went to the Peirs Morgan School of Broadcasting

Just talk with a British accent and the American Dumb Dumbs will eat it up.

[ecstatic]

37. lol! nt

[sabrina 1]

14. I never took him seriously, always thought he was a tabloid 'journalist', more entertainment

than any kind of expert on anything.

Didn't know about that arrest though. Does CNN I wonder?

[monmouth3]

15. This is from April of 2008..just sayin'.....n/t

[Catherina]

16. I could never stand him but why, why did I click on this?

Now I'll never get that image out of my head.

[Nye Bevan]

17. Call me an old stick-in-the-mud

but I really have no curiosity whatsoever in experimenting with tying a rope around my neck and attaching it to my genitals. And if I did, I would not want to try it outdoors in a public park. But if I did, I would not pick Central Park in NYC. Let alone bring meth with me.

[pinboy3niner]

18. You had me at "attaching it to my genitals"

[dipsydoodle]

19. Richard Quest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Quest

[Marr]

20. Dick Quest was on some sort of dick quest. /nt

[Whisp]

22. LOL!

[Cali_Democrat]

21. Oh come on, NYC_SKP

Who doesn't frolic around in the park with drugs in your pocket and a rope around your neck tied to your genitals?

Give the guy a break!!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

38. Sounds like a pretty good weekend in Vegas.

[pinboy3niner]

23. Quest actually has some experience reporting aviation stories

Including spending time with the junior pilot in this case.

[KoKo]

33. oh...his creds are relationship with junior pilot of the plane that disappeared?

Well...I guess that could make sense..but with his background ...how do we know what he is making up just to get the CNN Gig to talk about relationship with jr. pilot.

Whatever... We know that CNN often finds folks who spout propaganda for the MIC...so who knows.

[pinboy3niner]

34. He's done more than that

And from what I've seen of him on CNN, he's been sticking to what little is known and avoiding all the wild speculation.

[Whisp]

25. didn't a Carradine die that way?

the choking during ejaculation is supposed to be a special kind of climax for some, unless you choke to death before I guess.

I'm not sure but I am not going to google it.

[dipsydoodle]

28. Out of curiouisty

is he on the US edition or the World edition ?

[NYC_SKP]

29. I don't know, it was this morning at about 9:30 Pacific, Comcast.

Between him and the dude they got to replace Larry King, I'm just flipped out by the accents.

Maybe he does know about aviation, and his sexual proclivities are only amusing to me in that so many of the rest of us would never have found work after that.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

30. Saw him expounding on the MH370 story yesterday and all he ever does is ramble out

shit we already knew.

He's a hack.

[KoKo]

32. This seems very BIZZARE........I have no idea....

[surrealAmerican]

35. When they say "in his boot" ...

... is that a euphemism?

... or do they mean footwear?

... I'm not sure I want to know.

[ecstatic]

36. WTF is right. Wow, what a freak! lol nt

[Hekate]

39. Um. What I chiefly remember him for was his hysterical reaction to the Stock Mkt Crash...

Hysterical and hysterically funny, all at once.

I happened to be awake in the wee small hours so turned on CNN just before tottering off to bed. I was only going to peep at the world for a moment, but that particular moment was when the stock exchanges around the world tanked. My jaw dropped. Nikkei. Hong Kong. The rolling disaster report as the dawn came to other parts of the world than mine.

With Richard Quest reporting. He came unglued. It was like watching the clown car at the circus. My absolutely favorite line was: "This is the end of capitalism!!!!!!!" I laughed out loud at the sheer presumptuousness of such a statement -- and answered back, "No it's not, you fool." The end of a lot of poor souls' life savings, which was no laughing matter -- but not the end of capitalism, ever.

Without ever know the piece of salacious gossip you just posted, I have never looked at Quest the same since. I just keep waiting to see if he will ever again rise to the level of his Stock Market Crash performance.

[HipChick]

40. I have a British accent...I'm pretty much an expert on everything

Seriously there is not one job I have ever interviewed for, and not been given a job offer....well, there was just the one, where they said they could not understand what I was saying....pillocks and bloody bollocks to them..

[Hekate]

41. Try out for The Daily Show. Jon Stewart totally gets it & you'll be an "expert" in no time at all.

[HipChick]

42. The new guy they have there now kinda sucks

[ThomasCosmo]

43. Sick of the British loudmouths!

CNN iReport about bitter British assholes...
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1136810