CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Forced to Explain Her Name to Roger Ailes

Um. I wasn’t named after a prison. [Fox News chairman Roger] Ailes is mistaken. I was named after the Virgin Mary.” — A tweet from CNN’s Soledad O’Brien correcting Ailes, who, at a North Carolina journalism seminar (profiled by New York’s Gabriel Sherman), referred to her as “that girl that’s named after a prison.” [Mediaite]

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Forced to Explain Her Name to Roger Ailes