Another Weekend Update Thursday clip! But Fred Armisen knows how to channel his inner befuddled John King in trying to work one of those giant "magic" maps.

CNN talent and Etch-a-Sketch master John King finally gets sent up for his interactive touch screen skillz. [23/6]

TOUCH SCREEN BACKLASH "CNN is giving one-quarter of its screen to the actual primary-night coverage and three-quarters to John King randomly doodling on the touch-screen. For, like, the last half-hour. Anderson Cooper and some talking head are doing the talking-head thing, tucked over on the left side of the screen, and King is randomly doing his Tom-Cruise-in-Minority-Report shtick, scrunching the map down with his thumb and forefinger, shifting county maps back and forth, scribbling with the Glowing Green Finger. On most of the screen. A month after CNN put the touch-screen on the map (and vice versa), they have now fetishized it past irrelevance and into annoyance." [Macleans]

Perhaps it'd be a little unfair to compare CNN's John King to Vanna White, even if he's been reduced to running his fingers across a giant screen, zooming in on maps of Iraq or scrolling through America's red and blue states. These big interactive TVs he always has his hands on are THE FUTURE!, and King is on board. "The technology has also helped him solve a problem with which he has occasionally wrestled in his career at CNN: adapting his just-the-facts-ma’am approach to a visual medium. 'Nothing against white guys, but I’m a white guy talking in a box,' he said, stripping his broadcast performance to its essence. 'If all I’m doing is saying, ‘6 percent, 8 percent, 10 percent, 12 percent,’ there’s that glaze-over factor at home. You’ve lost them.'"

Just don't go putting his personal life up on that monitor.

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CNN national correspondent John King is converting to Judaism to marry Dana Bash, a congressional reporter who also works for CNN. He already sort of looks the part. Just FYI: a CNN-themed Bar Mitvah would be a bit tacky.

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