He was chatting to weatherman Nick Gregory, who laughed with him throughout the exchange, but their colleague Dari Alexander was left with the best bug-eyed expression ever after the comment:
"I guess it takes a tough man to make a tender forecast," Anastos said to Gregory. Mimicking the old Frank Perdue chicken commercials.
"I guess that's me," Gregory replied.
Then Anastos adds: "Keep fucking that chicken."
It was a mistake but it may tell us what is on Ernie Anastos' mind. LOL... At first I thought he was insulting the other guy for his crappy forecast and I am sure that guy thought so too. "We are disappointed with Ernie's comment on the air Thursday night," Lew Leone, Channel 5 vice president and general manager, said in a statement. Anastos, Leone said, was going to apologize for "his use of inappropriate language" on Thursday night's 10 o'clock news. Anyway, "Keep fucking that chicken" will go down as the funniest quote of 2009. Click to play video:
Ernie Anastos (born July 12, 1943) is an American Emmy-award winning New York City television news anchor. He has worked for several television stations in New York City during his career. www.GutterUncensored.com