With each new season of American Idol, Paula Abdul seems to lose a little more of her ability to communicate. The woman hasn't spoken in a complete sentence for years. If she makes it to season 10 of American Idol, she'll be communicating by waving her arms and grunting.

This year, I think we're in for a doozy on Paula's part. She was on a Seattle FOX affiliate this morning to promote the next season and, well, and there's no doubt about it: the girl was slurring her speech. Like, drunk-off-her-ass slurring. And she was leaning back and forth a lot, like Stevie Wonder at the piano. A rep for Abdul told People that there were "technical difficulties" with the sound dropping out, presumably of her ear piece.

Judge for yourself after the jump:

This is pretty funny. Seems that The CBS Evening News had some technical difficulties the other night. Not only did the video not work on a story, but they actually had to end the show a couple of minutes early.

First we see Katie draaaaaaag onnnnnn her tease for tomorrow and her goodbye (seriously, she seems to be talking in slow motion, trying to stretch things out), and then we see the typical camera shot of her standing in front of her desk shuffling papers in her hand. But this time, after the credits end, we see her stand there. And stand there. And stand there. And stand there. And then there's a weird commercial that seems to be a tech glitch too, and after that it goes back to Katie standing there for a really long time, with the camera sweeping in and out majestically. It's very odd. I would have loved to have heard the conversation between Katie and the people behind the scenes when the show ended.

If there's one good thing to come out of this is that we finally get to hear the full version of James Horner's new theme song for the show. Video after the jump.

[via Gawker]