"We "defeated" the Soviets? That's funny...I thought they dismantled the Iron Curtain for socio-ecomonic reasons. And that through diplomacy we reached a middle ground."

Uhh..no, not exactly. We "defeated" (so-to-speak) the soviets through shear economic power. The arms race between the U.S. and the Soviets was won by the U.S. when the Soviet's communist economic model collapsed under its own weight when the country went bankrupt and could no longer compete.

The Iron Curtain (i.e. The Berlin Wall) was not dismantled through diplomacy. Communists do not give up that kind of power willingly. It came down as the result of a bureaucratic snafu when the East German Minister of Propaganda announced what he thought was the immediate easing of travel restrictions to West Germany. The ensuing rush of citizens to the boarder quickly resulted in the famous news footage of the wall comming down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_wall#The_fall.2C_1989

Wonkette's partial transcription:
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/cnn/cnn-live-mic-snafu-the-video-197383.php

Highlights: The clip starts with what sounds like “ASSHOLES.” Then Kyra talks about, presumably, a boy of some sort: “No ego… you don’t understand., just a really passionate, compassionate human being. And they exist! They do exist. They’re hard to find—”

COWORKER: “Yep.”
KYRA: “But they… are out there.”

Thankfully, “Mom” seems to approve (“good vibe”)

Then, Kyra again: “Of course brothers hafta be, you know, protective. [ZIP] Except for mine. I gotta be protective of him. Ugh, yeah. He’s married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak.”

Then the best part:

WOMAN: Kyra—
KYRA: Yeah baby—
WOMAN: Your mic is on.
ANCHOR: All right, we’ve been listening in to…

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Quite an amazing video. And wow - what a monumental SNAFU.